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rosa_acicularis) wrote2007-08-28 05:15 pm
rosa_acicularis) wrote2007-08-28 05:15 pm
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I like fishsticks, but I love you.
I have become fiercely discerning in my fan fic reading of late. When I first started in the DW fandom all those many months ago (I had never seen a episode of Doctor Who until this past January. This is almost inconceivable to me now.) I read almost anything I could get my grubby little hands on. Now, one reference to someone's "chocolate brown orbs" (meaning, ahem, eyes) and I am out of there.
Which is harsh and terribly judgmental of me (and maybe just the teeniest bit hypocritical) but sometimes life is just too precious and fleeting to read something in which Rose has the vocabulary of a particularly slow nine-year-old and has to constantly ask the Doctor what that big ol' word means, because any word in the English language of more than two syllables won't fit inside her gorgeous, goddess-like little head.
Which is harsh and terribly judgmental of me (and maybe just the teeniest bit hypocritical) but sometimes life is just too precious and fleeting to read something in which Rose has the vocabulary of a particularly slow nine-year-old and has to constantly ask the Doctor what that big ol' word means, because any word in the English language of more than two syllables won't fit inside her gorgeous, goddess-like little head.
Whoa. Sorry 'bout that. Slightly more pent up anger on that issue than I was expecting. It's just...well, with the weird ass shipping politics in this fandom, sometimes it disturbs me to realize who's on "my side". Not that I knew I had a side until long after I started writing fic, but there you are. My only other real experience writing in a fandom was in West Wing, and while Josh/Donna shippers were often gently mocked by those who were not giggly teenage girls, I never felt the least bit defensive about my shipping preferences.
But it must be said that even at the tender age of 15 I had some worries about my taste. Josh/Donna, much like Doctor/Rose, was marked by a troublingly unequal distribution of power within the relationship. Now, obviously, both Donna and Rose could kick their respective fellas' asses any time they so chose, but they were both spunky, uneducated blondes who played student to an arrogant, older, emotionally-inaccessible male teacher-figure.
And you know what may be the only fandom I have ever loved as much as Doctor Who and West Wing? Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series. About the spunky, over-educated blonde who played student to an arrogant, older, emotionally-inaccessible male teacher-figure.
I have such ISSUES. This would be less shameful it they weren't so damn obvious.
Sorry, what was I talking about? Ah yes. Fandom politics. Yipee.
Actually, forget that. I was never really a part of that mess anyway, and I see no reason to reflect on it now. A lot of writers whose work I adore write Doctor/Martha, and you know what? I've read it, I've loved it, and I've yet to be consumed by the unholy flames of Bad Wolf-inflicted torment. I understand that the show itself set up a lot of this tension, but I've decided that bitching about RTD is so terribly two months ago as to be almost unspeakably uncouth. The man isn't perfect, but he has given us many shiny, pretty things to play with. I shall stand by him until the bitter end - or until he really pisses me off, whichever comes first.
Oh dear. I just did that thing where I said I wasn't going to talk about something and then I did. Cicero would be so proud. (Actually, he would kick my ass and call me a whore because I can't remember the proper School of Rhetoric term for it. Correction: he could try to kick my ass.)
But it must be said that even at the tender age of 15 I had some worries about my taste. Josh/Donna, much like Doctor/Rose, was marked by a troublingly unequal distribution of power within the relationship. Now, obviously, both Donna and Rose could kick their respective fellas' asses any time they so chose, but they were both spunky, uneducated blondes who played student to an arrogant, older, emotionally-inaccessible male teacher-figure.
And you know what may be the only fandom I have ever loved as much as Doctor Who and West Wing? Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series. About the spunky, over-educated blonde who played student to an arrogant, older, emotionally-inaccessible male teacher-figure.
I have such ISSUES. This would be less shameful it they weren't so damn obvious.
Sorry, what was I talking about? Ah yes. Fandom politics. Yipee.
Actually, forget that. I was never really a part of that mess anyway, and I see no reason to reflect on it now. A lot of writers whose work I adore write Doctor/Martha, and you know what? I've read it, I've loved it, and I've yet to be consumed by the unholy flames of Bad Wolf-inflicted torment. I understand that the show itself set up a lot of this tension, but I've decided that bitching about RTD is so terribly two months ago as to be almost unspeakably uncouth. The man isn't perfect, but he has given us many shiny, pretty things to play with. I shall stand by him until the bitter end - or until he really pisses me off, whichever comes first.
Oh dear. I just did that thing where I said I wasn't going to talk about something and then I did. Cicero would be so proud. (Actually, he would kick my ass and call me a whore because I can't remember the proper School of Rhetoric term for it. Correction: he could try to kick my ass.)