I have literally just read this on Wikipedia and needed to blog it for reasons of prosperity. This is perhaps one of my favourite things i've ever read...ever.
The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the seemingly pansexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off Torchwood. Many fans see exchanges between the Doctor and the Master (played in the new series by John Simm, whose Life On Mars character Sam Tyler is also the subject of a lot of slash fiction) as indicative a previous relationship, or current attraction. At one point the Master says to the Doctor "I like it when you use my name.", and in a Children In Need special, the tenth Doctor tells the fifth, after being asked whether the Master still has "that rubbish beard", "no, no beard this time. Well, a wife. " - which fans point to as a reference to gay men marrying a woman for public respectability, the wife being referred to as "a beard".
Doctor/Master FTW!
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