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20 Twelve/Clara + 13 misc icons

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Here's my entry for

somein30 round 8: Relationships. Ok so I'm a HUGE shipper and a huge romantic. Shipping is literally my entire love life and the surest way to piss me off is to judge people for shipping something. So this round was definitely one I had to enter. I was tempted to do a Top 20 for Hard mode, but then I realized it would have a lot of overlap with this entry where I showcased my fandom history (because my ships change very slowly, I watch so few shows). So I chose Extra hard instead, I loved the idea of taking a closer look at just one ship in all its glory, but it wasn't easy to pick which one! My criteria was: 1. they need to have a lot of shared screentime/a lot of shippy interactions, and to maximize screencap choices they'd preferably both be main characters; 2. despite the fact that none of my ships are ever canon, I wanted some cuddling/physical tenderness here; 3. I wanted to do one of my less controversial ships, because most of my ships are considered gross/wrong/problematic etc etc (because I'm a fan of angsty starcrossed lovers and that usually means some sort of a taboo/unhealthy element), and I really don't want to get into any fights with this set, I'm just seriously NOT in the mood. So, the only ship that seems to fill all these criteria is the only Doctor/companion ship I love: 12/Clara from Doctor Who!

I thought it would be difficult to fill 20 icons with different aspects of a relationship but I was wrong, their story is so deep and complex that I could easily have done another 20 despite the fact that they only spend two short seasons together. More explanations for icons under the spoiler cut, which will obviously spoil everything about DW S8-9. As do the icons. But I assume anyone who wants to watch, which should be everyone, has already.

Stylistically, I wanted this set to be very shiny, since this last one was completely matte. And this was bound to have tons of text, since shippy quotes are great. So shiny, textful and vibrant it is!

SOMEIN30 ROUND 8
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1. The 12/Clara relationship has a rough start. When this young-looking crush suddenly regenerates into this older-looking guy, and is a dinstinctly different person too, Clara finds this change very hard to accept. She doesn't really know who the Doctor is anymore, but at the end of the 8x01 she's finally willing to see the new Doctor, and accept him into her life ♥
2. The simple part of their relastionship that even those who don't watch DW probably know: the entire show is just Doctor and a companion traveling through space and time together. This was the last icon I made, but I realized that the basics were needed as well.
3. This icon represents the thing that actually initially made me ship them; all the fun jabs and banter and teasing and playful insults. It never feels malicious, its just how they flirt.
4. ...Ok, that's not ALWAYS how they flirt, since they also have these extremely blatantly flirty lines, like this little blink or you miss it line ("mood lighting? The accent's enough").
5. Time to talk about Danny, Clara's canon love interest. So the first time I watched s8 I just couldn't stand this romance cause I found it boring, but now I really like that s8 plays like a love triangle where she's stuck between these two guys and these two lives.
6. The 12/Clara relationship gets very rocky in 8x07 when the Doctor leaves Clara alone with a huge decision, seemingly abandoning her. Clara is deeply shaken by this, and wants to break it up with the Doctor :(
7. She does however go on what is supposed to be their last adventure together. 8x08 is a lovely, sad, shippy episode. It has this interesting symbolism of trying to break an addiction.
8. ...It's not their last adventure, of course. At the end of the episode she chooses to stay, yay!
9. But then Danny dies, and Clara goes DARK. She threatens the Doctor and would have gone through with it too. This is a huge betrayal of the Doctor's trust, but that never stopped me from shipping something, in fact the more angst and drama the more fuel for the fire!
10. And in this very chills-inducing moment the Doctor immediately forgives her, with this gorgeous line of "do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?". I also love the exchange of "I don't deserve you"/"I'm afraid I'm exactly what you deserve", because it's both dark and self-deprecating from the Doctor.
11. The ending of s8 is so goddamn tragically romantic, they're both leaving each other and lying to each other because they think they're the setting the other one free to be more happy without them. ;__; Their goodbye scene with this untrustworthy hug is absolutely amazing.
(then there's a silly-ish Christmas episode where they briefly meet again, kind of, and I wanted to icon the very small, but still cute kiss, but the cap is literally just darkness.)
12. At the start of s9 they meet again for real, and it starts with this super cute reunion and this extra flirty line.
13. Having lost each other once they're NOT letting go again. Seriously, they have a whole new level of interdependency and clinginess in s9, so that is what I tried to portray with this icon (also I just wanted to use this adorable hug from 9x06).
14. ...;_; BUT THEN, it has to come to an end. Clara dies. Their goodbyes are again just so lovely and emotional that I couldn't pick one cap, I had to icon 4 and then include this actual death scene too to sort of try to tie the composition together, idk. And it had to be the only B&W icon here because it is the saddest moment.
15. The grieving Doctor is COMPLETELY INSANE now. 9x11 is my favorite episode, it gives me chills every time, just the sheer epic scale of it is... just... wow. In short, the Doctor will die again and again just to get the chance to maybe get to save her. The repetition in this icon is supposed to represent that.
16. IT WORKS! He finally gets to extract her just the moment before she dies, but she can never truly escape that moment, the raven is waiting, but at least they're together for now.
17. The whole mystery of S9 is about this Hybrid we hear about, it's supposed to be this epic, dangerous thing. The final theory we get for that is that the hybrid was the combination of the Doctor and Clara, and they are dangerous because of how far they go for each other (and also, they are both equally reckless at this point; the way Clara grows to be more like the Doctor all the time is another really interesting theme that spans both seasons).
18. Anyway, they realize that they must separate before things get even more out of control. And THIS is why they're different from other Doctor/companion ships: they love each other SO much, too much, that it ultimately makes them bad for each other and maybe for the world. This is why the TARDIS has been opposed to her presence, and why Missy as a lover of chaos ships them so much. All the other Doctor/companion couples have been presented as this perfect friendship where opposites complement each other; but Doctor and Clara aren't different enough, and they're too intensely into each other, so it's a very fascinating twist on that dynamic!
19. ...So he intends to wipe Clara's memory of him ;__; but Clara won't let him, and he ends up with erased memories instead. In this tragic series of scenes the Doctor knows he's lost someone and doesn't know she's right in front of him the whole time. When he plays the Clara theme on his guitar I just can't, it's too beautiful.
20. I had to end the set with the Doctor finally getting his memories back right when 12's story is coming to an end. This is the least perfect part of their relationship, this reunion(?) is very short and not as emotional as I'd like (Clara is sort of just joking around), but it's better than nothing, at least he remembers now.

So that's it, that's my love letter to this glorious ship that is closer to canon than almost any other ship I have. It's a deep, funny, angsty, romantic, EPIC rollercoaster ride, super recommended.
Also, some misc icons for other challenges:

MISC
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Take any you want, no need to credit but a comment would honestly make my day!

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This whole batch is outstanding! Love the vibrancy!

Thank you so much! :>

Those all look so beautiful & amazing, the coloring & designs are fantastic! Twelfth Doctor is so cute & perfect! ❤❤❤

Aww thank you! :3 He really is! ♥

You're welcome, I'm so glad you agree! ~~I'd d-i-e for his l-o-v-e.~~ 😍

I stopped watching Doctor Who before 12 came around, BUT just by reading your explanations I felt all the feels! WOW!
I absolutely adore what you did with this set. It looks very cohesive and I think the style matches the overall vibe of Doctor Who perfectly: shiny, colorful, complex, full of lights but also very dark shadows.
And the text work, oh the text work! You're THE text wizard.
And now, for the saving icons, picking favs: the family business! part xD
... ALL OF THEM. Oh god, no really, how do I pick favs.
Ok, ok. Lets' go with: 4 (looove the composition and color scheme), 6 & 7 (stunning crop and text work!), 11 (my fav of all favs, perfect crop, perfect text, perfect lighting & contrast, perfect purple coloring), 12 (amazing composition, coloring and lighting), 17 (the color scheme is so beautiful it makes me mad as in I'm actually angry at you because how can you be this good at picking colors that shouldn't work so well together but look they do???!!! because of magic???!!!), 18 (BE STILL MY HEART, this would have been my fav of favs if I wasn't such a sucker for purple coloring).

Omg thank you so much for the wonderful feedback, I'm so glad you liked the set! ♥
I'm so flattered every time you like my text work, it's so basic compared to many other makers out there, but I try a lot so thanks for appreciating it :3
Haha omg your comments for 17 made my day especially :D :D I knooow that neon pink/orange/cyan/purple/yellow combo probably shouldn't be a thing but here it is and I'm not sorry xD

The light, and compositions...ugh *dead*
I love these so much. The colors and compositions are to die for — 1, 7, 8, 20 are just perfect <3

Aww thank you so much!! :D ♥

I've been very remiss by not commenting on your past (beautiful) icon posts so I will be showering this one with love!

First things first though, I am sorry you werent able to icon your first ships of choice. I completely understand not wanting to engage with angry and exhausting arguments. Fandom after all should be an escape from real life, not one where you have to deal with more nonsense. We are here to have fun. Not to police the enjoyment of other people! -_-

On to more uplifting things now, such as the beautiful shinyness of your icon set! I am completely in awe of how easily you switch styles and how well you do them too! The lighting and glow across the entire set is just *chef's kiss*!

My faves:

4 — Okay, a purple/blue combo is always great but I also love the smoothness of it as well as the text! Especially love the choice of quote, the font choice and the font contrasts!
7 — Oh my, what a lovely crop. The colouring and text are pixel-perfect! I also love the placement of the text. It's prominent but it does not crowd the icon and gives it such an elegant feel!
11 — The lighting and contrast are so lovely! And I love how the richness of the purple fades to a pale lavender!
15 — I love this style of blocking oh man! It feels so neat but also looks so complex! Love the colouring and the contrast!
16 — Love love love the purple and green combo! It gives a fairytale vibe to the icon cause I immediately thought of Maleficent for some reason! And love the font choice as well, which probably also contributed to me thinking — ahh fairytale!
17 — Perhaps my favouritest of the entire set! I really love when text rendered in contrasting neon colours. It always looks so visually appealing! I also love the font choice for 'hybrid'. Instant sci-fi when combined with the bright turquoise! And the addition of the orange, purple and pink is just even better. I like how theoretically, you arent supposed to be using such contrasting colours but sometimes things just work! I love how beautifully put your icon looks!
18 — I love the blending and combination of yellow-black! The text also looks great!
19 — I love the monotone colouring and the leaf texture!
32 — I love the simplicity of the icon and I love the slight addition of grunge. It looks so beautiful!

Great job all around! <3

Aaahhh what is this comment?! ;__; Thank you so much, I'm glad you had so many favourites!! ♥♥

OMG, these are amazing the colours on these are like a strong shot of coffee to wake you up!! They are so vibrant :) The composition and blending is also amazing as always :) There are so many good ones I can't pick my favourites :)

Aww thanks so much! :D

Wooow. I haven't seen those seasons of the doctor, but you tell a very compelling story with your icons. <3 (I loved extra hard mode. It was the best mode.)

I love how they're all extra vibrant and glowy, and then comes 14. Bam. I can't decide on pure imagery anymore now that I've read the story behind every single icon, but I'll try. I love 2 - so clean and full of a sense of adventure, 5 - with the literal triangle and one of my fave color combos, 6 - with the way the text stabs into her eye (so bold! so good!), 15 - the desperation is palpable in the chaotic blocking and fiery colors, 18 - great negative forms and just awesome composition, 19 - so sad!, and 20 - like a pastede on happy ending, glowy and romantic. :D (Okay I kinda slipped back into the meaning behind them in 19 and 20 again. It's impossible not to. <3)

I love 25 (beautiful flat coloring!), and 31 (how they meld into the background!), too.

Omg thank you so much! I'm surprised people who haven't seen these seasons actually bothered to read through my rambles, or that they affected how you view the icons, that's awesome! :D

5 HAD to have a literal trianlge, I'm so glad you appreciate my thinking there xD

What a stunning set! I love all the vibrant colors and color combinations, like on 5, 8, 13, or 17. The monochrome icons are also fantastic. There is so much going on in 18, even though it's just shades of yellow. Brilliant! ♥

Aw thanks so much, I'm glad you like the set! :D

AAAAAAAAAH. Okay I kinda guessed it? Or anyway I was hoping, when I read the comment you left on my latest set, that you would be iconning Twelve/Clara for this and I thought YES, PLEASE. <3 I still have all the feels and it's awesome that you're making a set for them even if the era has been over for a while.

So I may be a little biased bc the subject is everything but also this is definitely one of the prettiest sets I've ever seen??? The quality of the contrast and glossy lighting combined with the richness of the colours, omg.
#7 and #13 immediately caught my eye because of the depth of the reds/magentas, the lighting and the amazing text. I have a thing for #1 because you used one of my favourite scenes of all time AND one my favourite colour combinations, #3 has this amazing soft green/pink combo that is just gorgeous and #5 is a composition masterpiece. I don't know how you can pack so much story into one icon, but you always manage it, haha. #11 has such great lighting and text (batty vibe, too, and now I'm nostalgic, haha), #17 is so neon and fun, the blending and text work in #18 and #19 are so good, and the monochrome colourings just work. #2 I'm just going to snag and use, it's so pretty, and #4 wow, the colour scheme and lighting and I love the quote.

Basically I could praise every single cap (#8, #10, perfect caps of Twelve) and quote choice because I know all the scenes by heart and looking at the icons just makes me relive them instantly and that's the greatest achievement of this set imo, perfect icon-storytelling as always! <33

Yepp I was definitely already planning this set back then and couldn't resist giving a small hint :D Thanks so much for this wonderful comment — your approval means a lot, since you've made SO many amazing icons of them, and also knowing that you know their story so well, so you'd see immediately if I represented them badly here! I have no problem iconing "older" eras/shows etc, all my faves are outdated by now :p, I don't think I have anything remoptely contemporary that I'm even a fan of, so I keep revisiting my old favorites instead, and DW 12 era is one of my biggest favorites to rewatch.

These are amazing! The vibrant colors are just amazing.
I love the texture use, especially in 2 and 3! The complexity of 5 is just??? So great. Your text placement is just perfect in your set, especially in 6, 8, 10, 11, 16 and 17! I also really like how you use contrasting colors but they don't clash, such as in 9, 12 and 16. And just the general glowiness in the icons is so pretty.

Aww thank you so much for the awesome comment! ♥ I'm super glad you liked so many of these! :D

I'm really excited that you chose extra hard mode!! I love the composition/balance this set, bright colors and the lighting are breathtaking! I love your story about this couple and their relationship seems dramatic and super cool. :) Its very hard ti pick favorite but I try :D

1 — I love the levels work, blending, colors and text. I saw few episode about this season and that quote is perfect for them
3 — Love the mirror blocking work and yellow/green coloring!
5 — marvelous! <3 I looove the triangle , blocking and the vibrant coloring/the lighting!! Everything here is glorious!! <3
6&10 — Stunning color and texts kill :)
8 — I love that Doctor is behind Clara, almost like the shadow. Text is perfect and the composition also
11 — Super cool coloring and text :)
14&15 — Very dramatic scene! Omg! I can feel the emotion there! It's powerful , dramatic, sad. I Adore the blocking work also.
17 — Stunning coloring!! Text is marvelous and I love different font
18 — Omg!! Love the blending!!! <3 Stunning, fantastic, glorious icon! The composition is perfect and I love the vibrant colors and text is fantastic. Perfect!

Magnificent set!!

Thanks so much for the lovely comment, I'm glad you liked so many of these! :)

LMAO!We're all free to like the ships we like and then there are people who actually have the time to trash other people's ships like,wow,please go do your homework or something. -__-

1 is so cool,I love the composition,the hug,the colours-ah!FANTASTIC!
Soooo,that love triangle icon is so creative!I LOVE IT! 6th icon-awww,her expression makes me sad for her. :( The 8th icon-haha!
in fact the more angst and drama the more fuel for the fire! LOOOL! Yes!
The boxes in 9 and the blending work in 10 with the violets-sooo good!
The 12th icon is wonderful-the yellow and blue, the hugs and the borders!
14th one-ouch,great cap choices and way to put Clara's dying in the center. The 15th icon is genius!
The colours in 17 are so cute though,haha,even though the idea is...oh no!
I haven't watched the Clara/12 episodes properly but oh,ooohhh,18 and 19th icons are making me want to watch them soon! Their dynamic sounds very different from the others so far.
20 is a lovely icon with their expressions and the soft colouring,it really has a farewell like look to it.

LOL excactly! :D I especially dislike those who really think that someone liking something in fiction is like ~corrupting the world~or something. If the entire moral framework really is so easy to break, just by shipping something??, then that whole concept was on pretty shaky ground to begin with if you ask me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But wow, thank you so much for the super lovely comment, I'm thrilled you liked so many of these!! ♥♥

As always a stunning batch ! The coloring and composition looks great in the set , enough variation without marring the harmony of the set . I really find the split from the middle with text placement in a pillar fashion gorgeous in 1, same for icons 5, 9 and 12 where the different space splitting techniques have been used so effectively and smartly , I also just love the text work in the entire set , variety of size , placement , orientation , font variety and coloring of the texts everything , particularly of 8, 11, 16 and 17. <3

Aww thank you so much!! I'm always so flattered when someone likes the text use, since it takes so much time and effort for me to get it even nearly right, so this made my day, thanks! :D

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