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...mostly classic who stuff

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bobbie...they/he...23...classic who, spinoffs and blake's 7...there'll be all sorts of reblogs on here...main is @bobbiethepunkkid

why is ian's shirt so obscenely, ridiculously open? like who decided he needed to be showing his whole bare chest here

doctor who is so fucking funny the guy with the highest kill count in the universe, the genocide guy yeah him, is a pacifist. and the main character

I’ve had a bad first week of 2026 and wanted to go back to something that brought me happiness at one point, while practicing the sketchy style I wanted to do more of this year.

Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough, and Adric

I saw someone call Doctor Who (2005-) “lost media” because it got removed from streaming in the US, and no. Absolutely it is not.

It is inaccessible via streaming in that specific region. We still have it. It exists. On DVDs. On Blu rays. In digital libraries. In archives. On streaming in other countries. In the hands of thousands of people who own physical copies. Nothing about that is lost.

This is especially baffling coming from the Doctor Who fandom, a fandom that contains one of the most well known and well documented cases of actual lost media. There are episodes of Doctor Who that genuinely do not survive. No master tapes. No home recordings. No official copies. Entire stories that exist only as audio, telesnaps, or reconstruction efforts because the video is gone.

That is what lost media means.

Calling New Who lost media because it is not currently available on a streaming service in your country muddies that distinction and makes the term meaningless. It erases the reality of material that is truly gone and cannot be recovered in full.

There is a real conversation to be had about accessibility, regional licensing, and the increasing fragility of streaming based media access. But that is a different conversation. Inconvenient to access is not the same thing as lost.

Please do not flatten those concepts into the same thing.

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