[ SECRET POST #2221 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2221 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You've been around DW fandom for longer than most. What matters to Classic fandom now (AFAIK) is that you're respectful enough to the show to give several eras a try. I get the impression that you have, so I doubt you'll have much of a problem.

Personally, I started in ~2007 with the 2005 series, then went back a couple years later to watch the older series. Five is my Doctor now. It sometimes takes me a few minutes to convince people who've been in fandom since before I was born that I know what I'm talking about, but once I've proven myself I've never had a problem.

Really, so long as you don't go around saying that you believe the Doctor is half human, or that the Master being American was a good idea, or that you love Eight but don't know what Big Finish is, I don't think liking the movie is such a bad thing.

tl;dr: Classic Who fandom is pretty cool, so long as you're nice to them. It's New Who fandom that's wanky and awful sometimes (but, amazing other times).

[(Anonymous)]

Classic Who fandom is pretty cool, so long as you're nice to them.

*sporfle*

You are really lucky to be in whatever Classic Who fandom circles you are in to give you that impression.

The worst of the Classic Who fans can be the most childish, rigid, stuck-up, stuffy, inflexible, whiny, negative, vicious, dismissive, egotistical, snobbish, rude, derogatory, ultra-purist, puritan, allergic-to-emotions, allergic-to-change, misogynistic, homophobic, closed-minded, leave-it-to-beaver-idolizing, nasty, crude, hate-filled snot-nosed brats I have ever come across in my life.

The worst of the New Who fans are just wanky, immature, ignorant, and character-bash too much, too quickly, based too much on shipping. Their awfulness has never, EVER risen to the suffocating disgustingness of Old Who fans in my experience.

/age-appropriate Old Who fan here.

[tenlittlebullets]

The Tumblr Classic Who fandom is shockingly nice and consists of 95% squee by volume. It's about as far from Gallifrey Base--and from the cesspits of poorly-capitalized knee-jerk drama that characterize some Tumblr fandoms--as it's possible to get.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oh, thanks for the rec! Any good blogs you recommend I follow?

[tenlittlebullets]

It mostly turns up on my dashboard via friends reblogging stuff, but if you want a starting point, check out doctorwhogifs or textsfromtheoldtardis. After you've finished laughing your ass off at the latter, maybe poke around the notes to see who consistently reblogs stuff from there.

[(Anonymous)]

(anon who posted the comment that the anon you replied to replied to)

yep, it's Tumblr I was mostly thinking of when I said that (well, them and some people I've met at a series of theatre screenings of Tom Baker serials near where I used to live). Most friendly and sane fandom I've ever come across on Tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the "so long as you're nice to them" is really telling here. Old Who fans tend to be so touchy and so convinced of their native superiority to New Who fans that they WILL take so many things to be a slight. Any hint of disregard for Old Who (which is usually just benign disinterest) is seen as a personal affront.