postcard: OH GOD
postcard: IF HE DID THIS
postcard: TO WHO
postcard: WHAT ABOUT SHERLOCK?
gyzym: OH MY GOD
gyzym: OH MY GOD
gyzym POSTCARD
gyzym: THEY FILMED REICHENBACH
postcard: ASDLAKDJGFSDUI
gyzym: WE SAW THE STILLS
postcard: I KNOW
gyzym: FROM THEM FILMING OH MY FUCKING GOD
postcard: I THINK I’M GOING TO BE SICK
OOOH THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION HMMM.
So, I don’t actually know what debate is going on in Who fandom, because Doctor Who and True Blood are the two shows I watch that I’m so invested in that I can’t actually manage to fandom? Which, I know, is totally nonsensical but like. I CARE TOO MUCH TO FANDOM PROPERLY. So obvs none of this is any kind of, er, anything at anyone in Who fandom because I actually do not even know where to locate Who fandom! It’s just me answering because I have been asked, I am not an authority on anything ever (except possibly how to use a running headband as a scrunchie, which I taught myself to do today, it’s very attractive lemme tell you).
BUT! So as a general rule I think Steven Moffat is that terrifying kind of sexist ass who thinks things to himself like “I cannot be sexist, I write stories involving women holding guns! So all these totally misogynistic things I am thinking/saying in interviews/writing into Doctor Who and Sherlock are obviously not misogynistic at all. See look! There’s a woman with a gun! I NEED NOT EVER EXAMINE THE THINGS I AM THINKING AND SAYING AND WRITING AT ALL.” And I think that Doctor Who (or, at least, New Who, as I am A Bad Fan and have not watched Classic Who yet) also has a tendency to be kind of terribly sexist sometimes (hi Martha “Obviously The Only Way To Demonstrate That I Was Over The Doctor Was To Say I Was Engaged To Another Man Because That’s How Women Move On From Things (And Then Suddenly Mickey We Don’t Need To Explain That La La LA)” Jones, hi Rose “Oh Of COURSE I Won’t Have Anything Beyond Basic Token Protests At All About How I Am Supposed To Just Take This Human Clone Doctor/Donna Hybrid Man And Be Madly In Love With Him BECAUSE THAT MAKES TOTAL SENSE AND SHIT” Tyler, hi last night’s “well she’s a WOMAN that’s why she’s CRAZY” joke fuck you so much Moffat).
BUT. All that being said. If I were in a situation where my husband and my male best friend were asking and granting permission to touch me like I was, you know, a joint they were passing or something? Yeah, that shit would not fly. But if a friend of mine was in that situation and she was comfortable with it or, hell, even liked it, would I judge her or call her a bad feminist or anything? Noooooope, because that’s her body and the way she handles it and the reactions/discussions/whatever people have in response to it are her call. And in this case, as far as we’ve been shown (and yes I recognize that Moffat is in charge of the writing, but nonetheless, as fans we kind of have to take the canon characterization given to us as the baseline characterization to build off of) Amy doesn’t have a problem with it. And if Amy doesn’t have a problem with it—in relation to her, personally, her personal feelings about them in relation to her—if Amy doesn’t have a problem with it, I don’t have a problem with it. Because that’s not my call, you know?
Tl;dr: Steven Moffat is kind of a dick in general and there are lots of sexist things he (and RTD before him) did/does and yeah this is totally one of those things that has some seriously problematic under and overtones to it, BUT at the end of the day I am very very unwilling to put my own judgement on how another lady interacts with the people in her life. ALSO I AM VERY TIRED AND SLAP-HAPPY THIS MAYBE MADE NO SENSE but there you go anon, that is my answer <3
And Whovians are just sitting there like,
“Let me tell you about a man named Steven Moffat…”
Like, waaaay more successfully too. Doesn’t Moffat actually send out fake plot points into the internet as decoys? I’m pretty sure I saw that somewhere.
Moffat is the Chuck Norris of motherfuckers on the internet; if you can think of it, he’s done it. Twice. And more viciously than you ever could have imagined.
what. just. happened.
i mean i knew it was going to happen about five minutes into the episode but I THOUGHT I WAS WRONG oh god what just happened
(note: not tagged as a spoiler because this is pretty much my reaction to everything moffat ever touches. the man could make toast and it would manage to blow my mind ughhhhh what just happenedddddd)
Season Five:
1. Rory Williams and That Time My Girlfriend’s Imaginary Friend Turned Out to Be Real
2. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
3. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
4. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
5. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
6. Rory Williams and That Time My Girlfriend’s Imaginary Friend Jumped Out of a Cake That Was Supposed To Have a Stripper In It
7. Rory Williams and That Time I Cut Off My Ponytail and Died
8. Rory Williams and That Time The Ground Ate My Girlfriend
9. Rory Williams and That Time I Was Erased From History
10. Rory Williams and That Time I Didn’t Exist
11. Rory Williams and That Time I Didn’t Exist
12. Rory Williams and That Time I Was Made Out of Plastic
13. Rory Williams and That Time I Guarded a Box for 2,000 Years and Then Got Married
Season Six:
1. Rory Williams and That Time My Wife Made Me Fly Across The Atlantic Ocean Because of Instructions In An Unsigned Envelope
2. Rory Williams and That Time “Fell Out of the Sky” Was a Figure of Speech, Which Was Misleading Since There’s This Other Dude That Did Literally Fall Out of the Literal Sky So It’s Not Like You Can Blame Me For Being Freaked Out
3. Rory Williams and That Time I Drowned
4. Rory Williams and That Time My Wife and I Were Terrorized by Corridors
So I’m still kind of wondering why Amy was the only one who suffered from the mental attacks from House, while Rory was just fucking fine. Was it because that lady touched her?
HER MYSTERY BABY OF MYSTERY IS GIVING HER VISIONS INSTEAD OF MORNING SICKNESS. OBVIOUSLY.
OF COURSE. WHAT WAS I THINKING.
ON THAT NOTE, AMY AND RORY STILL TOTALLY THINK SHE’S PREGNANT RIGHT? HOW IS RORY NOT 8Q2937532984709 TIMES MORE PROTECTIVE THAN USUAL.
Naw dude. Rory and Amy think that she THOUGHT she was preggers, remember? She had that whole conversation with the Doctor (and then Rory, because he had the recordy chip) about how she thought she was pregnant, she was wrong. And the Doctor, at least on screen, hasn’t told her about the scanner and its non-result results.
I have some like, THAT IS AMY’S BODY AND I DON’T CARE THAT THE DOCTOR IS A TIME LORD HE IS PLAYED BY A DUDE AND THE SUBTEXT THERE IS “THIS DUDE KNOWS ABOUT THIS LADY’S POSSIBLE PREGNANCY AND HAS MADE THE EXECUTIVE NOT TO TELL HER WHAT HE KNOWS AND WE SHOULD JUST GO ALONG WITH THAT” AND THAT IS NOT COOL feelings about that whole plotline, but I’m trying to swallow them down until we see where it is going. But that’s how things stand ATM as far as I recall.
Right, right. Okay. hnnn.
Also the Doctor is always like this isn’t he? He has knowledge and he’s not going to share it until he’s sure it’s okay for the younglings or if he has no other choice.
He totally is! Always, about everything! Which is why I’m not like, up in arms about it at all, because it’s obviously just the Doctor being the Doctor, I don’t think there’s any intentional subtext or anything. But it bums me out on a visual representation level—oh, here’s a guy making decisions about a lady’s pregnancy on a TV show that’s technically for children, I don’t like that so much.
So I’m still kind of wondering why Amy was the only one who suffered from the mental attacks from House, while Rory was just fucking fine. Was it because that lady touched her?
HER MYSTERY BABY OF MYSTERY IS GIVING HER VISIONS INSTEAD OF MORNING SICKNESS. OBVIOUSLY.
OF COURSE. WHAT WAS I THINKING.
ON THAT NOTE, AMY AND RORY STILL TOTALLY THINK SHE’S PREGNANT RIGHT? HOW IS RORY NOT 8Q2937532984709 TIMES MORE PROTECTIVE THAN USUAL.
Naw dude. Rory and Amy think that she THOUGHT she was preggers, remember? She had that whole conversation with the Doctor (and then Rory, because he had the recordy chip) about how she thought she was pregnant, she was wrong. And the Doctor, at least on screen, hasn’t told her about the scanner and its non-result results.
I have some like, THAT IS AMY’S BODY AND I DON’T CARE THAT THE DOCTOR IS A TIME LORD HE IS PLAYED BY A DUDE AND THE SUBTEXT THERE IS “THIS DUDE KNOWS ABOUT THIS LADY’S POSSIBLE PREGNANCY AND HAS MADE THE EXECUTIVE NOT TO TELL HER WHAT HE KNOWS AND WE SHOULD JUST GO ALONG WITH THAT” AND THAT IS NOT COOL feelings about that whole plotline, but I’m trying to swallow them down until we see where it is going. But that’s how things stand ATM as far as I recall.
So I’m still kind of wondering why Amy was the only one who suffered from the mental attacks from House, while Rory was just fucking fine. Was it because that lady touched her?
HER MYSTERY BABY OF MYSTERY IS GIVING HER VISIONS INSTEAD OF MORNING SICKNESS. OBVIOUSLY.
The truth is, I'll probably be rumbling and stumbling for the rest of my days, rocking to voicemail while the chaos around me rages on. It's nothing compared to to chaos within me, after all--I write stories.
And, look, I'm quite out of my mind, actually, but people tend to find me amusing? I can't imagine why, unless it's morbid fascination.
