Headcannon Asks :)

damn it looks like my inklings have all run dry

does anyone have the foggiest

Hear me out: this good omens quote but with the Doctor and the Master...

The Doctor: "You can't leave! There isn't anywhere to go."

The Master: "It's a big universe - even if this all ends up in a puddle of burning goo, we can go off together!"

The Doctor: "...Go off together?"

The Doctor: "...Listen to yourself."

The Master: "How long have we been friends? Six thousand years!

The Doctor: "Friends? We're not friends! We are a hero and a villain...we have nothing whatsoever in common - I don't even like you!" The Master: "You do!"

The Doctor: "We're on opposite sides - "

The Master: "We're on our side!"

The Doctor: "There is no our side...not anymore."

shoutout to Ncuti Gatwa, gotta be one of my favourite genders

doctor who is a show about putting ncuti gatwa in outfits

this is so cute omg

Retired Timelords 😃

I wanna talk about The Angel Who Would Be Crowley.

Because I had a certain set of expectations, which got thoroughly trashed in the first five minutes of S2, and my genuine response is, "Oh, fuck, yup. You're right. That's WAY better."

Looking around at GO fandom, I'm not alone in this. So let's talk about it.

Basically, a lot of people (myself included) believed that he was a high-ranking angel, and therefore as chilly and remote as every other powerful angel we'd seen at that point. We pictured Crowley-To-Be as long-haired, regal and imposing --and the fanart at the time reflected this. I'd link some if Tumblr didn't hate links.

Something like this:

We were collectively drawing on a few things --mostly, Crawly's appearance and general bearing in the Biblical scenes of S1--

--But also scattered hints of his importance, backed up by conspicuous absences in Heaven and a few profound displays of power. That's all better covered elsewhere, so I won't reiterate the arguments here. All I'm saying is: I think our headcanons were justified.

But it turns out he was this:

!!!

With his curly little--!!

And his neat white--!!

IT TURNS OUT, he was an angel who squeaked and squealed when he was happy; who flailed his arms around and made explosion noises with his mouth to explain nebulas; who preened when told his stars were pretty. Furfur, who knew him before the Fall, says:

"You used to jump on me back, little monkey in a waistcoat..."

(The use of a diminutive there, 'little'...oh, that fascinates me.)

In a pretty huge subversion of expectations, we're given these glimpses of an angel who was sweet, and joyful, and heart-meltingly silly.

In sum...an innocent.

(Perhaps innocent to a troubling degree.

We see how he troubles Aziraphale, during their first conversation. He starts looking around and behind them, checking to make sure that no one can HEAR the blithe and reckless things coming out of this angel's mouth. This angel who talks like he's never been reprimanded in his life; like it's never occurred to him that anyone would want to hurt him.

Before the Beginning, Aziraphale understood Heaven better than he did. The danger is plainly occurring to Aziraphale.)

So now, we the viewers are in on a cruel joke that Aziraphale has known all along, which is that this --THIS-- is the angel who--

*checks notes*

--did a million lightyear freestyle dive into a boiling pool of sulphur. For asking questions.

...Imagine you are Aziraphale, and everything inside you wants to believe Heaven are the Good Guys, and God is Good and Everything She does is capital-R Right...and now try to reconcile that. Keep trying. I don't think he ever totally managed it in 6000 years.

All this gets further complicated when we learn that, despite all of the above, we were still right. That sweet excitable babby up there?

He WAS a powerful and high-ranking angel.

That much is explicitly confirmed, with significant evidence that he could have been among the mightiest of archangels...

...Who apparently accosted his fellow angels for piggyback rides. And was remembered millennia later by those (now fallen) angels as something 'little.'

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

Hell, Aziraphale has known to be wary of the archangels (and the judgements of Heaven in general) since before the Fall even happened. He chooses to believe they are Good; he can't fool himself into thinking they are Safe.

Yet he's absolutely certain that Crowley won't hurt Job's children. Enough to stand in a burning building and say to them, "I can't save you, but don't be afraid. I won't need to."

And what reason does he give?

("I know you."

"You do not know me."

"I know the angel you were.")

What does that tell us about who he was? Is?

("The angel you knew is not me."

But how is Aziraphale supposed to believe that, when he can see him all the time?)

tl;dr --yes, this is better. I love the tragedy of it.

'Innocence died screaming' and all that.

good omens headcannon:

a customer was browsing in the bookshop (much to Aziraphale's displeasure) when they overheard the lovely Mr. Fell using a pickup line on his partner?? friend?? with the sunglasses - the classic "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?" (except he said it in a far more serious manner than it warranted)

given Sunglasses's...vibes, they were expecting him to say something along the line of "Actually, I clawed my way up from hell" or another equally cheesy phrase

what they weren't prepared for, however, was for Sunglasses to take a shuddering breath and whisper "yeah...yeah, angel, it did."

15 is so real for this

When you're trapped on same spot and about to die vs When you're trapped on same spot and about to die, but there's also a cute guy there

I just realized something:

OKAY so in one of my headcannons I mentioned how Aziraphale and Crowley danced in the rain together...

Crowley: "A sudden rainstorm forces them beneath a canopy - they look into each others eyes and realize they were made for each other."

Aziraphale: "People would gather and do some formal dancing and then realize they had misunderstood each other and were actually deeply in love."

dancing in the rain is literally both of their ideas of falling in love combined T_T

14th doctor headcannons: FLUFF EDITION

most of these take place after the events of the giggle

the Nobel fam soon discover what it's like to live with a (semi) retired time-lord with a sonic screwdriver and far FAR too much spare time on his hands

Donna will come downstairs for a glass of water in the middle of the night, and he'll just be sitting there with the disassembled parts of what she's pretty sure is her new microwave spred out of the floor in front of him

the term "I don't want to know" becomes a common household phrase very quickly

Rose and him become partners in crime almost immediately, of course

one time Shaun introduced him to power tools in an effort to 'bond'

ask any of the Noble family what happened in the days that followed and you'll be met with a face that looks like it's reliving war-time memories (it is)

Rose takes him out thrift shopping and is delighted to realise that the doctor has the exact same reaction that she once did to seeing all the gorgeous tops and skirts and dresses that are available for under £9

he also loves all the antique shops dotted around London

he once found an old map of 'the known universe' complete with star charts and the Earth, right in the centre

"It's practically primitive, of course, no offence Rose, it just is, but it's rather charming in its own, unintelligent way."

after talking with Wilfred one day, he decided to try his hand at gardening (it's meant to be rather therapeutic, apparently)

he planted a bunch of wildflowers in the garden beds without rhyme or reason to them

Donna thought it was lovely but secretly doubted that they would take seed properly and make it through the winter

come springtime, however, the whole garden was blooming with wildflowers <3

ooooooh I love this concept

Headcannon:

Tolkien describes many of the elves in LOTR as ‘beautiful and perilous’ or some other combination to the same effect. What if Elves created uncanny valley effects towards the other races of Middle-earth?

The elves keep a little too still.

They blink, but hardly enough to be ‘normal’.

Their skin is a little too perfect.

Elves’ grace feels more predatory.

They can be completely silent.

In conclusion, give me more unsettling Tolkien elves. Please, fanfic writers I beg you.