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you who love thebes,
sitting with your face to the north wind,
and your eyes seeing happiness.
-- the wishing cup of tutankhamun
“And the programme was a Pozzitive production for the BBCCCCCCCC!!!”
Doctor Who Cares? - A spinoff in which all is right with the ladies’ storylines and they take custody of the TARDIS every weekend to explore the universe together
(via frumpysweaters)
doctor who meme: six companions[5/6] → River Song
there’s this unspoken law in britain that you’re not to phone anyone while doctor who’s on, and it was on and the phone rang and my brother was the one that had to pick it up, and he didn’t even say ‘hello’ or anything, he just picked it up and went, “WHO THE [HECK] IS RINGING WHILE DOCTOR WHO’S ON?” and the person on the other end went, “DOCTOR WHO’S ON? I’LL CALL YOU BACK!”, and hung up.
We don’t even know who it was, I just—
(via raggedybearcat)
Um.. sorry to disappoint you, boys. But ordinary girls, no women, like Clara are better than you’re ever gonna get. Because they’re real. They’re the women who actually exist. Who eat and sleep and shit and breathe.
Oswin Oswald was cute but a bit ridiculous—and fake. She didn’t feel real to me—and that’s partly because she was a cookie-cutter Moffat girl. Woman. No—girl.
All of that legitimate criticism of Cold War immediately washes from my mind when I read bullshit like this. Bullshit that makes me HATE fanboys.
She’s not your damn manic pixie girl, fellas.
You know why I love Clara? Because for the first time in years, it feels like we’ve got someone any of us could be.
AND THAT’S THE POINT. She is an ordinary woman. WOMAN. She’s 26-years-old. She’s a grown ass woman. Fuck you and your sexism, fandom. I hope you get herpes.
(via omfgcate)
(via raggedybearcat)
“Now here’s Amy Pond, standing in the freezing ocean, holding the body of her imaginary friend, and shouting at the sea to make him better.
Yeah. If only my therapists could see me now.”
― James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
(via raggedybearcat)
“What’s a Zero Room anyway? The Doctor said something about null interfaces…”
“I suppose it’s a sort of neutral environment, an isolated space cut off from the rest of the universe.”
“He should’ve told me that’s what he wanted. I could’ve shown him Brisbane.”
Classic Who Ladies Are Awesome → Barbara Wright
(via raggedybearcat)
Didn’t really need you in the end, did we?
#this is why i don’t understand that people dislike martha #because she tried so hard to be there for ten she tried so hard to make him feel like he was not alone #like he had someone to talk to someone to confide in and he just looked right through her #she was never enough for him never the person he wanted to share his stories with and she stayed with him anyway #she stayed with him because she knew he couldn’t be alone and she fought for him and she saved his life #and she did it all knowing he thought she wasn’t good enough #and then before it was too late before she got in too deep she actually had to courage to say ‘no’ #to the man she loved and fuck you if that isn’t brave and strong and amazing #martha jones is better than you (via ohroes)
(via laurelwreath)
the ultimate question of doctor who isn’t “doctor who?”
it’s “how the hell do daleks build anything”
SERIOUSLY THEY HAVE A WHISK AND A PLUNGER
(via mistakenreality)
So it’s probably fair to say I’m no longer as big a Doctor Who fan as I’ve been in recent years.
Here are some of my thoughts on The Snowmen.
“Stop it.”
“No.”
I’m glad everyone thinks unwanted sexual advances are funny as long as it’s a girl doing it to a guy.
Ugh. (I didn’t watch this, obviously. I am ugh-ing purely at this gifset, and also … everything I’ve bothered to read about it since it aired.)
*nods* (I’ve barely bothered to read anything about it because all of it seems to make me ‘blergh’.)
Ew.
The uncomfortable look on his face, too.
Oh, yey. Well, that’s put this episode down from “must watch this at some point” to “really don’t want to watch this”.
About 25% of Why I Don’t Watch Current Who Any More is this sort of thing. And it’s the 25% that’s very… personal, really, which means I don’t talk about it much even to my friends who share the other 75% of reasons, and the one time I tried to explain it to someone I couldn’t articulate why it upset me, not in a way that she could understand.
I read the Doctor as asexual, for a variety of reasons ranging from the general 50-year lack of interest to Eleven’s face in moments like these to the simple fact that explicitly asexual characters are rarer than fairy dust, so if I want to see People Like Me outside of a few fanfics I have to cling very tightly to interpretations and assumptions and vague possibilities. So when things like this happen - and they keep happening! - it makes me uncomfortable on a number of levels. The first one being, obviously, that regardless of the sexuality (or gender!) of anyone involved, making sexual comments/advances/etc towards someone when it clearly makes them uncomfortable, when they’ve asked for it to stop, is Never. Okay.
But then on top of that, there’s just… I watch Doctor Who for aliens and sci fi and wild ideas, for the thrill of not knowing where or when the TV screen is going to take me next time I tune in, for a world that’s better than the one I live in and where good always wins. And then there are these horrible, ugly moments. These moments that come out of nowhere to remind me that that disinterest in sex which lets me cling on to the comforting thought of having Someone Like Me on my TV screen, in the minds of the writers and most of the audience, is nothing more than the basis for a running joke. That it’s totally okay - and hilarious! - to make people feel this uncomfortable with repeated instances of unwanted sexual advances - even sexual assault, in Let’s Kill Hitler. And of course this is a general problem across a lot of media which applies to a lot of people, but I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that it keeps being directed at a character who’s known for his disinterest and often considered asexual. And that makes me very uncomfortable.
I’m supposed to daydream about finding the Doctor and running away on some exciting adventure, seeing alien worlds and being a great big hero right alongside him. I’m not supposed to daydream about giving him a hug and telling him that I know that feeling intimately, and he doesn’t need to worry because I’d never do that to him even if I weren’t asexual. But I end up thinking about the latter. And that’s not what Doctor Who’s about, and that’s 25% of the reason I can’t enjoy it any more.Seconded. All of this.
I personally read the Doctor as grey-A, with variations depending on regeneration. Eleven feels pretty strongly asexual to me, despite his sexual relationship with River. (There areother reasons to have sex than attraction, and they are in a pretty established relationship, and River clearly is not asexual. They’re also a highly dysfunctional and sometimes abusive couple, but that’s a topic for another post, though.)
Regardless of a person’s sexuality, unwanted sexual advances are not okay. It still wouldn’t be okay if he was, say, Jack, if the advances were unwanted. But for some mysterious reason I can’t begin to fathom, it’s supposed to be funny. As if he’s a five year old who thinks girls have cooties. Well, he might act like a cosmic five-year old, but he is old enough to know how he feels about things like that.
There’s also the time with Amy’s attempted rape - he said clearly NO and she didn’t back off, how is that not sexual assault? Why is it okay? Why are they showing kids this sick crap?
The number of times they’ve pulled shit like this with Eleven is ridiculous, and everyone else has already made good points about it, so I’m just going to go off on my own tangent (not to minimize what’s already been said): this doesn’t even make narrative sense. Neither does the kiss. What we have here is a Victorian woman who’s flirting up a storm with a man she just met. Earlier, she kissed him, despite his obvious unwillingness to participate. And now she’s staring at his ass. This is pretty damn typical for a Moffat-designed female character, but in this case he really should have stopped and thought about the era. I don’t mean to say there weren’t any sassy or flirtatious Victorian women, nor am I going to assert that I’m an expert on the period, but it seems to me that Moffat has taken a modern woman (or at least, his view of a modern woman) and stuck her into Victorian era while changing nothing but the clothes. (Literally, in this case, as not even the actor has changed.)
So essentially we have a highly improbable woman hitting on the Doctor for the sheer sake of laughs and actually detracting from the plot because of it. I’d complain about the kiss anyway, since even if it were set in modern times, there was literally no reason for it, but taking into account the era makes it even worse. None of this is to say that unwanted sexual advances would be okay if they had a narrative reason. It’s more to point out that they actually detract from the narrative of the episode as well as adding to the squick factor.
I have nothing to add other than the fact that I love you all for this commentary.
Flowers fade, the fruits of summer fade
They have their seasons, so do we
But please promise me that sometimes
You will think of me
(via blackradar)
