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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Because a whole parade of women who are almost all out to bone the Doctor is so much better in terms of representation than the wide variety of motivations, characterizations, and interests found in the female companions of Classic!Who...Uh huh.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a huge fan of everyone being in love with the Doctor. But the bits of Classic Who I've seen involved women who weren't actually much help, screamed a lot, and were mostly there to be eye candy. New Who has Donna and River, both older women. New Who has women who help the Doctor and are often vital to his success.

I'm not saying Classic Who is bad, because it isn't at all. I like Classic Who. I just prefer New Who.

And really, it is totally and completely subjective anyway. It is all Doctor Who and all awesome. We just happen to prefer different eras.

[(Anonymous)]

Vickie was one of the First Doctor's companions. She armed an entire fucking revolution and saved the TARDIS crew. Screaming, useless what now?

Zoe traveled with Two. She was brilliant and beautiful, and she saved the day more than once. More than that, though, she called out the bullshit of the men around her, and did so without being immediately smacked back into her place by the plot.

Liz was a brilliant scientist and a companion of the Third Doctor. Her departure, in part, marked what was probably the first time that the show itself acknowledged the way in which its premise limits the (overwhelmingly female) companions of the Doctor. She refused to just hold test tubes and tell the Doctor he was brilliant but knew that as long as she was working with this ludicrously advanced alien intelligence, that was the role she would be relegated to. She was succeeded by Jo, who might have been significantly better at the screaming and getting captured gig, but was also an escape artist whose skills helped the Doctor out of many, many jams.

That's just a few of the best companions of the first three Doctors. Shall I go on?

[(Anonymous)]

Why are you taking this so personally? There is nothing wrong with liking New Who better. Neither are objectively better than the other.

I will have to check those out, though. They do sound awesome. But I don't think anyone will surpass Donna for me. I'll always prefer New Who for her if nothing else.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not taking it personally. Just pointing out what bullshit it is when people claim that Classic!Who companions just screamed, got captured, and fainted in the Doctor's arms. That's a flat-out lie. A fabrication. An insult. And it seems to be one of the primary arguments New Who fans (ones who have generally only ever seen a handful of classic serials and thus are nowhere near familiar enough with the material to make a proper judgement) like to use to put their version above the Classic.

[(Anonymous)]

Did you miss the part where anon said "from the bits I've seen"...

They clearly haven't watched all of it, but watched enough to not bother.

Relax that anus of yours. It's no insult or lie for them to get a different impression to you