[ SECRET POST #2240 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2240 ⌋

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

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Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

*chokes on coffee AGAIN* Oh man, Doctor Who. "What was that episode? The one with the mindrape and the people trapped on a ship with homicidal sunlight?" "I'm sorry, sir, you're going to have to be more specific." But yeah, okay, the Rose wank makes more sense now. And I am baffled but not surprised that the fans could turn that into a Rose v Martha flamewar--I was always a Martha girl and am still lukewarm on Rose, but Christ, the fact that he can admit he's scared and ask Martha to save him has nothing to do with Rose and everything to do with Martha's weird shifting role as his assistant/caretaker/person who keeps his stupid ass from succumbing to a death wish all the time. She's his protector as much as he is hers, and he rather abuses the privilege at times.

Heh, so all the fluffy domestic shippy fic is the Who fandom's take on writing something they'll never get on the show itself? Makes sense. And there's less thrill in doing weird for weird's sake when the show tops you every other week. The fic authors can't keep up long enough to plumb the depths of the crack they've got, as evidenced by the fact that as far as I know I'm the only person to ever write Jack Harkness/Weeping Angel.

As vicious as the internecine nastiness can be, Who fandom is unnervingly tame in some ways. There's the fic, and there's also a surprisingly healthy relationship with the actors: no batshit tinhatting except as a joke, pervy Tennant fanciers squeeing over how cute he and Georgia Moffett are and how ridiculous their multi-Time-Lord family is, general lack of entitlement over actors' personal lives. I just got back from Gallifrey One, where half the guests usually spend their downtime in the lobby/bar of the con hotel, chatting and letting fans buy them drinks and having a grand old time. Just imagine the trainwreck that would ensue if that happened in Sherlock or Supernatural fandom.

[intrigueing]

Psssh! What! Analyze a character and her role all on her own? Without using her as an excuse to tear down or glorify another character/push your own agenda/reduce her to commentary? Blasphemy I say!

(I find Rose vs Martha flamewars incredibly entertaining and near-incapable of being annoying, since Donna's my favorite and I have the rather unique position of liking Rose and Martha in almost exactly equal measure).

Also, um, link to the Jack/Angel fic? I've read Angel/Angel fic, but no humanoid/Angel...

You are so right about the fandom! I guess with all the character wank and showrunner-bashing, the chill-ness when it comes to the actors escaped my attention, but that's very true. I mean, you get people perving like mad in little private conversations, but no fandomwide creepiness that makes me embarrassed to be part of it.

And ooh, you were at Gallifrey One? Cool! How was it?

[tenlittlebullets]

*g* I've relaxed a bit about Rose v Martha flamewars now that I've realized the segment of Tumblr that's perpetually stuck in 2007 has an average age of about fourteen and a half. And also now that Martha has been superseded by Ace and Romana on my "best companions EVAR" list. Romana is everything my geeky heart wanted Martha to be, Ace is the fucking best and actually helps me understand Rose better, so it's all good.

Jack/Angel fic is here. I've seen a couple Doctor/Angel fics--on the kink meme, I think--but I am shocked that nobody's tried this with Jack. Because he totally would.

I mean, I don't think I'd want to be there to witness the stampede if David Tennant or Matt Smith tried to get into Sylvester McCoy's habit of descending into the audience during Q&A panels and crawling over everyone else in the row to stick his mic in people's faces, but on the whole? Remarkably chill. I don't think the actors who were at Gally had anything worse to fear than (a) people being awkward overenthusiastic Labrador puppies of adoration, and (b) the occasional rude and unsolicited opinion about the show itself.

Gallifrey One was awesome. It's a cozy friendly medium-sized con that manages to draw cosplay and guest lists that'd make DragonCon green with envy. And you get elaborate cosplay from random Classic Who serials and dubiously-canonical spinoffs that you'd never see anywhere else. (Curse of Fatal Death! There was Curse of Fatal Death cosplay! And Scream of the Shalka!)