Doctor Who... well, commentary, I suppose.

Contains spoilers for oldskool.

This meta? idk if it counts as that, came about because I've been seeing some of the same thing said over and over again about River Song (and to a lesser extent, Amy). And it was said about Rose Tyler (rather a lot, in fact) and Martha Jones and Donna Noble at various times, too.

But the River Song stuff was what finally acted as a catalyst for my annoyance.

sigh. You know, there is this recurrent theme in newskool companion meta, wherein people talk about how companions before were young girls who needed training/needed the Doctor to be real people/were rather rubbish/had no lives before and after him/spent most of their time screaming or with twisted ankles, were useless and pointless, etc. And it is annoying. I am very well aware of the difficulties in the oldskool years (there is lots of fail), but that is no excuse not to acknowledge that most of the companions were perfectly capable human beings who were living their own lives merrily before he entered and saved the day (some stowed away, some joined accidentally, some were sweet-talked, some joined of their own volition), almost all of whom left and went off to have THEIR OWN adventures.
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speaking of Who - The Seeds of Death.

Which was entertaining, if somewhat long at times (and had foam! I love a good foam chase scene)
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So, um, apparently I am going to DragonCon.

Because greycoupon, frolicndetour, sabaceanbabe, havocthecat and ivanolix are wonderful people, who are also fabulously sneaky.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I'm still sort of in shock. Happy shock.

ficlet: St. Trinian's, Annabelle/Kelly, PG13

Title: Hanging Hopes on a Line
Fandom: St. Trinian's
Rating: PG13? | Length: 200 words
Pairing: Annabelle/Kelly
Prompt: 248 - 'Loyalty'
Notes: I just hit refresh and missed the deadline for the challenge at femslash100, so, posted here instead.
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