And now it's time for some Doctor Who fandom love

[misscam]

So, Doctor Who fandom sometimes can drive quite a few to headdesk/ARGH/despair/RAGE/go into wanky fits. (Pick those appplicable.) And lately it's been ARGH for me, particulary when fandom pretty much managed to drive away someone I really like.

So, a challenge - make me excited about Doctor Who fandom again. (And yourself in the process?) Spam this post with everything you like about it. (More than one post is not only totally okay, but encouraged. Surely you love more than one thing?) It can be stuff from the show, Daleks, memories of amusing discussions, pictures of your rat on a TARDIS, fanfic, hot-men-lusting, hot-women-lusting, Daleks, hand!porn, just!porn, Doctor Who cat macros, friends you've met in fandom, great experiences you've had here, fab icons, lines that make you LOL etc etc etc.

Maybe we'll all remember why we got into it. I'm going to spam myself too, as inspiration hits.

UNLEASH THE LOVE. SPAMINATE SPAMINATE SPAMINATE.

Non-flist people can also play - anyone can play. But non-love and ARGH will be deleted.

Comments

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

WHERE DO I START?



My Romana ragdoll, made by cesario aka doll_shop.

More to come, no doubt, but truly, the doll is magnificent.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

She looks quite imposing towering over this thread. ROMANA RULES YOU?

[cedara]

- The Doctor can be slashed/shipped with anyone, even the TARDIS.

- The thought of two gorgeous people getting it on is yummy.

- The BBC needed to say 'no hanky panky in the TARDIS' back when the Fifth Doctor episodes were screened which of course implies that said 'hanky panky' was happening outside the TARDIS. ;-)

- The Tenth Doctor will lick anything.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

ZOMG, that icon! It is also love!

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

This icon. It is love.

Oh, and you are love. :D *pats plushie kitty*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Norwegian mail sure moved fast this time. I wanted to get you a Dalek plushie, but those aren't released yet. WOE.

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

Its total originality. There is no hero like the Doctor - just none. There's no programme that is so ever-changing and fresh. And, as far as I have found, there is no freaking children's show that manages to squeeze in so much poignance, wisdom, awesomeness and general flail like Doctor Who can.

It's multiple layers of brilliance you can watch with your kids, your parents, and your too-cool-for-this-shit teenage brother, and for a forty-year-old kiddy show about someone's granddad travelling around space in a telephone booth, that ain't freaking bad.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

My brother likes the show too. This pleases me on many, many levels.

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Let's see...

I striped in the feed of "Boom Town" today at work. Two more episodes to go!! :) We won't get "Christmas Invasion" until the second season is fed, whenever that will be. We're running promos now letting folks know that Doctor Who is coming back to UNC-TV. Yay!! :)

Daleks and Cybermen are cool baddies. :) Always did like them. And The Master! Loved The Master! :)

And Ten with little kittens! Ten and kittens!! :) Ten!! Kittens!! Mew Mew Mew!!!! :) :) :)

What would make me even happier? Getting more DW over here soon. And more Ten with wee little kittens. Ten + kittens = Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

More Ten with kittens might implode the world.

BRING IT BBC.

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

1) The Doctor. Best TV character ever? If not, he's close to it. Just amazing - doesn't matter which incarnation.

2) The Bisexual Agenda. Because sharing is caring.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

One doesn't get enough love.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

A Doctor who Licks Things.

'nuff said.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Lick me, Time Lord?

[canadian-kazz.livejournal.com]

I got into it because I fell in love with the Doctor at first sight. I love a clever man who takes charge. ;)

My first ep was 'The Unquiet Dead.' And I didn't even know it was Doctor Who until the very end because I started watching it about 10 minutes in. Then I decided at watch the next one to give the show a chance, that that was a two parter... well, by the time I got to 'Dalek' I was hitched. I didn't know why Daleks were supposed to be scary until then either.

Did you squee as loudly as I did when the Daleks kicked serious Cyberman ass in 'Doomsday'?

I have also fallen in love with the TARDIS and the concept that that ship is alive and aware and has a personality all her own.

I'd love to come on board the TARDIS and travel with the Doctor. If you could become a companion, where and when would you go?

(Oh, and happy birthday to me today!)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I always squee when Daleks kick ass. But the pwning of the Cybermen was awesome. Bwhahaha.

If I was a companion, I'd drive the Doctor mad wanting to go to all sorts of historical events to see what really happened and where history books got it wrong so I could write better ones.. And I would do a lot of Scots.

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Because it's the closest to infinity you can get without actually violating laws of physics? THIRTEEN doctors, all ineffably the same and yet entirely different, and people travelling with him who span time, history and species but yet are still so much like -us- that it makes you think the impossible isn't! And at bottom, it all comes back to one man and his living, pretty-much sentient home, rattling around the universe trying to make things a little bit better.

As a woefully slim offering, have two recent drabbles - here and here.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Very nicely written second drabble :)

The BBC is sure to find a way to cheat thirteen incarnations so it can go on forever. *bribes the BBC* infinity or bust!

[tearcreek.livejournal.com]

Whooo, you said friends you met?

The fact is that I became a fangirl because of Doctor Who, and because of *points up* canadian_kazz, got to know the person that is actually now my *boyfriend* because of Doctor Who (yes, I know, I'm a geek) and met one of my first international fangirl friends through Doctor Who (eeveekitty85)

The fact that a 900 year old alien is teh sex, and that you can swap and change the major characters.

The fact that the spaceship has its own personality and never ending possibilities.

The fact that truly, this show could go on forever. Not many shows can claim that, and if you sit on a show (say like Prison Break) you know it's going to come to an end, while Doctor Who could go on for at *least* another three years, if we keep whipping through Doctors at the rate we are.

Feel the love, Cam, feel the love.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I did say friends you'd met.

So the Doctor got you a sexlife, huh? :P I hope you thanked him.

I am beginning to feel the love again, yes.

[lookingforwater.livejournal.com]

1. David Tennant
2. Daleks
3. David Tennant
4. TARDIS
5. David Tennant

Also, how the damn show can have me going "AIEEE ARGH YOU BASTARDS ARGH ARGH ARGH" and yet I never think for a second that it will be less than Awesomecakes.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I sense a repeated theme there.

[werewolflemming.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who helped me make two friends at uni :D For little antisocial me that is saying something :P. And Daleks. Daleks rule, especially when they triumph over Cybermen. Woo! And the proof that science can so be cool. The fact that anyone can enjoy the show, on whatever level they like-be it in depth analysis of the Doctor's character, or just staring at the pretty eye candy :D

[misscam.livejournal.com]

If Daleks ran for elected office, they'd so win on awesomeness and then they would slaughter us all.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

Why is Doctor Who love? Well there's the Doctor, tumbling through the universe like the ultimate rebellious galactic policman. There's the TARDIS, as temperamental sentient ships go she is the original and best. The two of them spinning along without any long term plan, exploring, helping, making a mess, in some epic platonic romance across the aeons.

And why is Doctor Who fandom love? Other than because it's ridiculous at times? Fighting the virus of mushed ship names with laughter (your 'Onose' icon is win). Because it's reminded me why I love to write and given me the confidence to share that with people in real life. Because you get to have the silliest conversations about random things (*cough* Jack meets up with Zoe and Jamie, travelling together through time and space in search of their memories. They fight crime! *cough*). Oh and crack!fic, the sweet, the surreal and the downright silly!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

That T&C post that first used Drose lead to a comment madness filled with LOL and win. I miss those days :( But I do indeed have this icon to remember them by.

There is never enough crack!fic.

LOVE IN THE FORM OF YOUTUBE SPAM

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

The following things are love:

Re: LOVE IN THE FORM OF YOUTUBE SPAM

[misscam.livejournal.com]

YouTube has everything. Hurrah!

I need to watch more classic episodes:(

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

What I've long loved about Doctor Who is its compassionate heart. It's been an anomaly - a show where kids saw a brave, intelligent adventurer who decried weapons and (most) violence, and who always came down on the side of the oppressed.

I can still remember that moment in Resurrection of the Daleks where the Doctor faced down Davros - what other kid's show at the time tackled issues like that?

Even now, it's continuing to espouse many of those themes - equality, compassion, individuality, that knowledge is good, intelligence is to be desired, no matter where you come from, that self-worth shouldn't be fixed in your background, that war is terrible, that there are always new things to learn, no matter how much you already know. :)

It's why I watched as an adult even with shaky sets and really bad masks - because underneath the budget effects was a serious storyline.

Though it doesn't hurt that Ten licks stuff all the time, either. ;)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You forgot the gay agenda :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

One thing I love:

DALEK PLUSHIE DALEK PLUSHIE

[myhobbitpippin.livejournal.com]

I WANT! I WANT! :D

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

LICK!PORN and discussions therof. (See also: icon.)

<3

[marcasite.livejournal.com]

--Spec!Porn

--Tongue!Porn

--Dark, leather coats *yum*

--Cat people! Seriously!

--The fact that everything is impossible

--Tight, brown blue suit...hmmm, I'm pervy, really

--There's a love story in there somewhere

Yay!!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Pervs have more fun.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Spam this post with everything you like about it.

That after all these years and all these plots, Doctor Who can be ANYTHING. It can be horror, or hope, or action, or cheese souffle, and is often all four at once. It can be smut (tentacle porn! ON SCREEN!) It is the living embodiment of "infinite diversity in infinite combination" because of all the variations of canon and the number of people involved. It loves its fans, although it occasionally pokes them.

And because it is such a huge fandom with such a long history, every kerfluffle and proposed war will squib out in a matter of weeks.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the same fandom fights come back again, like slightly mutated bacteria that manufactures new colds every year.

*smacks self for argh*

But the show can be brilliant antibiotica, mind you.

[cincoflex.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who! I saw my first Ep back in '72 and it was being broadcast out of Hong Kong--a late Pertwee ep on PBS, and man did I love that funky music!

It took me about oh, seven years before I saw it again--Leisure Hive, it was, and I thought the fourth doctor and Romana were a terrific couple. Stayed on through the fifith and sixth doctors, adored the seventh and eighth, and then the show was cancelled, sob!

I was right there, RIGHT there for the ninth and tenth and life is GOOD!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Life IS good, you're right.

Let's hope for no stupid cancellation this time. Sniff.

Sort of a ficletette

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Some people called him the Lonely God, or the Oncoming Storm, or the Bringer of Darkness. Some of them cursed his name, and an equal number whispered for him in the darkness.

His parents gave him one name each, and he hid these names in case they said too much. He jokingly claimed that his mother named him "Stop That Right Now" and no one could prove that he was lying.

He never really talked about the people who called him "dad" or "grandfather," save for occasional admissions that such people ever existed.

Sometime people called him "darling," sometimes they called him a bastard. Often the same people, sometimes in the same breath.

His hearts were heavy with names he'd lost, mislaid, tried to forget. He recited them when he was scared, and used them against other people's nightmares.

He called himself "Doctor," and tried to heal the universe.

Re: Sort of a ficletette

[velvet-midnight.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's really pretty.

Sometime people called him "darling," sometimes they called him a bastard. Often the same people, sometimes in the same breath.

That made me giggle. =)

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

[misscam.livejournal.com]

K-9/Rat onna TARDIS OTP?

I had a rat for a few years. He was wee and cute.

[miss-andromache.livejournal.com]

I like that the show makes me want to buy the 1.2 metre high inflatable TARDIS from the ABC shop. I'm 24 and Dr Who gives me an excuse to buy toys!

But I also like the fact that this is a tv show that has lived on for so long... it's really the only show with an infinite amount of stories that can be written about it, limited only by the scope of people's imagination.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

They have 1.2 metre inflatable TARDIS? OMGWANT.

I love my wee DW toys.

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

I love how weird and wonderful fandom is. Like when Jack cradled the Doctor's severed hand in "Day One" and all the world went "ewwwww!" and fandom went "OTP!!!Eleventy" and three Jack/Hand comms went up within minutes.

(Okay, that's a Torchwood example but it was Jack/Doctor's Hand so it totally counts.)

I also love how the new series has exposed so many new fans to old skool Who, myself included. How can you not love a show with such dense backstory, wacky history and tinfoil monsters?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the time the master villain was a cactus.

[velvet-midnight.livejournal.com]

DOCTOR WHO FTW!!

SPAMINATING IN CAPSLOCK IS FUN

THE DOCTOR RULES THE EARTH(US ALL), WE JUST DON'T KNOW IT.

=D