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This blog has apparently been taken over by Amanda Tapping. I will not apologize. Doctor Who. Ten+Donna. Just Ten. Just Donna. Eleven+River. The x-Files was my first fandom. I watched it when it aired... yes I am that old.

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My father doesn't know it yet but he just bought me a ticket for Audra McDonald's concert in Madrid as a Wise Men Day gift. 7th row! So excited!!! :D

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the dark side and the light. 

VII

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came back to a dash full of amanda and complaints on the new sizes. I don't give a shit about new sizes but all the amanda was inspiring. also, something happened with river song while i was gone? there were like 300 reblogs of one of my old things and i don't know why. O_o

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Jonathon Young in BBC America’s Intruders

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I’m so glad we finally got to see him on our screens again. It’s been too damn long!

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Doctor Who keeps making me uncomfortable and I am not even sure why. Ok no, I do know why. Here's why:

This doesn't sit well with me.

Feels like a big "let's give women what they want, let them make the CHOICE. But we make sure they are on their own and then they're gonna try to be rational and democratic and of course in the last minute they're gonna be emotional and instinct will kick in and it will be a good choice cause you must always choose life. Look, now you have a new moon. And then of course they will get angry cause they were left alone and they don't want that, they want a wise man to tell them stuff."

So in the end, they didn't choose anything, they agreed on something, asked everyone else and then Clara did what she wanted anyway. Cause women don't make choices, they act on impulses and emotions.

Nope, I didn't like that at all.

How about you have the same story but instead of having the Doctor wander off as not to interfere (hello, you took them there in the first place?!) you have Clara convince him with rational thinking that what she believes is the right choice for humanity is in fact the right choice? He was clearly already on that boat so why have her go against everyone else on a whimp? Women can make rational choices you know? We can THINK by ourselves.

Also, if you're gonna go for this pro-life thing (and you're already worrying me with all that heaven thing you have going on this season) maybe you should reconsider how pro-choice women might see this: Lets imagine, instead of a random space egg, the Doctor gets Clara pregnant. And his saying in all this is "oops. Sorry yes, but you knew there were risks when you joined me on this adventure but i'm an alien so it's your thing. Your responsibility, your choice. Whatever you choose is fine with me cause I don't really care much. Go, make a choice and I'll come back when you're done to tell you if it was the right one or not."

That's not just patronizing, that's down right cruel.

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[skeptikhaleesi]

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Life, The Universe, and Everything - by Douglas Adams (via hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy)

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whenever a tv show or a movie does the going straight from “finally passionately kissing” to “tumbling into a bed in a different location” i’m like but what about the time in between?

show me:

separating long enough to decide to relocate

hailing a cab but still holding hands

deciding whose place they’re going to

trying to unlock a car while making out

hand on knee/thigh the whole drive back

silently comfortable journey, awkwardly giggly journey

whispering dirty things into each other’s ears to make each other blush while the cabbie has no idea

making out in the back of a cab, swatting roaming hands when they go too far

shyly asking if they’re really going to do this

unlocking front doors while making out

shaky hands barely handling the keys

finally alone, after the intial momentary passion has worn off, not knowing how to proceed

nervous laughter while standing in front of each other

shyly reaching for each other and finding that passion again

apologising for the mess

giving a tour of the apartment because awkward

grabbing for each other again and leading the way to the bedroom

not making it to the bedroom

relocating to the bedroom while naked after not having made it there

pls show me all of this show me these things

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True. But yes, it gets better. And then each season has one more memorable episode than the previous one and then season 5 happens and season 6 and nothing else matters cause there's some excellent stuff there. And then you stop understanding anything but you're too invested to let go. *shrugs* Totally worth it tho. :D

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THE SANCTUARY NETWORK Old City, Mumbai, London, New Tokyo, Hollow Earth

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Could Doctor Who get any more patronizing? Oh sure, why would any girl want to travel through space and time when she can cuddle and watch the TV with a guy? Clearly Clara has been brainwashed.

Oh, fuck off.

Also, what's with all her sudden need for approval? I need my boyfriend to approve of the Doctor, I need the Doctor to approve of my boyfriend... WAKE UP CLARA, YOU DON'T NEED ANY OF THOSE THINGS. She ought to have a talk with Martha. And Donna too. If only she could remember.

Oh great, now I just gave myself Donna feels.

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SG-1 + The Wizard of Oz 

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Mary Crawley in Series 5 Episode 3

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Historian and Feminist Scholar Gerda Lerner