The Life and Times of a Wrench Wench

acceber74:

Doctor Who appreciation post:  Martha Jones

Better than ALL of your faves…

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lightspeedsound:

lesserjoke:

alderaantimesalderaanplaces:

>Did you really believe that?

#MY ACTUAL FAVE SCENE #SHE’S JUST LIKE #REALYL? #YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE MASTER? #AND YOU’RE GENRE SAVVY ENOUGH TO MAKE SURE THE DOCTOR IS DISABLED ASAP #BUT YOU LEGIT BELIEVE THAT THE KEY TO DEFEATING YOU WAS A GAME OF HUNT THE MACGUFFIN?

This scene is about so much more than that, though. Just before this gifset starts, the Master is looking past Martha to address the Doctor. “Such a disappointment, this one,” he says. “Days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the time vortex.  This one’s useless!” He’s insulting Martha twice over — once with the literal insults he’s saying, and once by addressing his words to the Doctor rather than Martha herself. He’s completely dismissing her as worthless.

This is important — is critical to understanding her character’s arc, I would say — because it’s exactly the sentiment that Martha has been struggling with all season-long. The whole time she’s traveled with the Doctor, she’s felt as though she doesn’t measure up. The Doctor talks about how great Rose was, he keeps secrets from Martha, and then as John Smith he falls in love with Joan Redfern, rather than her. When she meets Captain Jack Harkness, he too enthuses about how amazing Rose was. And when he does, you can tell: Martha Jones doesn’t feel like she can even hope to equal Rose.

That’s what Martha’s journey is all about: struggling to find her own worth as the successor to someone who accomplished great things (not the least of which was winning the Doctor’s hearts). When the Master dismisses her from his consideration and insults her abilities to the Doctor, he’s externalizing Martha’s biggest fears.

And what does she do then? She laughs. She laughs in the face of her tormentor, of her own personal fears personified, and then proceeds to calmly and with a smile explain how she’s foiled his plans. She’s outsmarted and tricked the Master, one of the cleverest minds in the universe. In the process, she shows just how wrong his opinion of her was — which in a way was also the Doctor’s opinion of her and her own opinion of herself. It’s an incredibly powerful moment, and I think it’s the real climax of her dramatic arc that season.

It’s so much more than just being more “genre-savvy” than the Master.

also this is yet another case of white ppl believing fucking any mystical shit ever as long as it is spouted by a POC they think is super ignorant

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tamsindennis:

#’shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ yeah. that was me.’

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sourcedumal:

hndwrttn:

sourcedumal:

Doctor? It’s Martha and I’m bringing you back to earth. 

AND HIS ASS CAME BACK ON THE DOUBLE TOO

HIS OWN FUCKIN WIFE HAD TO CARVE INTO A DAMN MOUNTAIN TO GET HIS ATTENTION

MARTHA FUCKIN JONES MADE ONE PHONE CALL

CUZ MARTHA FUCKIN JONES AIN’T THE ONE TO FUCK WITH

Rory & Amy had to deface a field with their car.

Donna had to go on solo mystery adventures to maybe run into him.

And Jack had to set up an alarm system designed around the Doctor’s detached hand.

Even Winston Churchill can’t just ring up the TARDIS any old day, he gets forwarded to River.

Martha HBIC Jones is the only person who’s got a direct line to the Doctor.

Bringing this back because BITCHES NOT EVEN HIS FUCKING WIFE COULD GET A DIRECT LINE.

Martha. Fuckin. JONES.

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sourcedumal:

lokiintheskywithdiamonds:

Doctor Who Meme ✖ [1/9] Scenes

Sonnet 18

I love the look on Martha’s face.

Because I bet she read that Sonnet when she was in school.

And the realization that that fucking sonnet is going to be about HER RADIANT BLACK BEAUTY!!!

Martha Fucking Jones gets POETRY written for her that lasts through the ages.

YAAASSSS

doctor who meme

→ one/six companions: Martha Jones

Oh Martha, you’re a star.

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mostlycreepy:

note-a-bear:

sourcedumal:

Can we talk about how much shit in this frickin scene that was probably lost on majority of the audience?

Because here is this Black woman who has been working her ass of for this man, while he’s been treating her like shit.

And Jack finally tells her about Rose, the BLOND Rose, and it just straight up reveals to her that she’s been unfairly compared to a white woman.

And in both this society and the world of Doctor who, when a Black woman tries to be amazing in the face of a white woman? The world will shut her down and tell her how worthless she is.

Yes, and it is perhaps more galling that the message was lost on the showrunners themselves.

Just saying.

B O O M

spookyandthethief:

duessa:

sourcedumal:

lokiintheskywithdiamonds:

Doctor Who Meme ✖ [1/9] Scenes

Sonnet 18

I love the look on Martha’s face.

Because I bet she read that Sonnet when she was in school.

And the realization that that fucking sonnet is going to be about HER RADIANT BLACK BEAUTY!!!

Martha Fucking Jones gets POETRY written for her that lasts through the ages.

YAAASSSS

The Doctor’s faces are killing me!

oodlyenough:

Martha Jones had the patience of a saint, and used it not only to put up with the Doctor at his worst, but to save the whole damn world. She’s clever, rational and quick-thinking — when Martha Jones’ workplace suddenly winds up on the moon, her first thought is “how are we breathing?” Martha puts her brains to work in order to help people, both as a doctor and as a companion. She walks the Earth alone to single-handedly save the world, then laughs in the face of death and a genocidal maniac. She pulls the Doctor back from the ledge time and again throughout series 3, then has the sense and the self-awareness and the strength to leave. I recently saw her described as the only companion who helps the Doctor more than he helps her, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that; she is absolutely vital to his mental health and survival. But I think her time with the Doctor teaches Martha to be just a little bit more selfish — she spends so much of series 3 suffering quietly, swallowing down her own feelings in favour of helping others. By the end of series 3, though, Martha has learned to do what’s right for her.

A lot of people didn’t like Martha’s unrequited love story, and I can accept that, but for me it only serves to emphasize her strength. For me, Martha’s exit scene and her “getting out” speech are some of the strongest scenes in the series. She spends so long suffering quietly, and I love that at first she sticks to the “safe” explanation — her family needs her — but ultimately decides “no, screw that” and goes back in to clarify precisely how she feels. She finally realizes she doesn’t need the Doctor’s validation, and she leaves the TARDIS confident in herself and with the Doctor on speed-dial. Get it, Martha.

And then when we next see her she’s doing precisely that: arguing with the Doctor, telling him off when he treats her hypocritically, giving the Daleks an ultimatum, helping out an alien species and picking up an alien companion who dies tragically. I’m sad we didn’t get to see more of her fabulous self on Torchwood, but I think the world is probably a safer place with Martha Jones defending it freelance. Dr Jones, you’re a star.

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