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tillthenexttimedoctor

Thoughts on “What’s in a Name? — Time Lord vs. Time Lady”

I have never been so certain that I want the Doctor to call herself a “time lady” ever before. It doesn’t happen that often that an argument is so convincing of the opposite view.

I am unsurprised to see that this is the same author who wrote “5 reasons why we need a female Doctor”, i.e. possibly the worst argument I’ve ever seen for that, which disregarded inspiring female narratives left and right.

I actually don’t think this one deserves the same level of derision, but something about it really rubs me the wrong way, so here I am.

The argument for ambiguity in canon seems to be built around two instances which just read like default male language to me (”Time Lords of Gallifrey!”, Time Lord Academy”). Particularly in plural, that tends to happen in many languages, unless feminists have insisted otheriwse.

I do not find canon to be particular helpful in any case. Doctor Who doesn’t have a canon. New Who has deliberately muddled through the “Time Lord/Lady” (I’d suggest “time gentry” as a gender neutral version) vs. Gallifreyan issue. This is a decision about the future.

If the “the phrase Time Lady makes [your] skin crawl” and comes across as subservient to you, it seems time to challenge that perception, instead of banning female equivalents from the language we use.

It had never occurred to me before that people with native languages which do not include a lot of gendered language might consider it a feminist move to reject female terms, because the dominant school of thought here is to fight to include them.

I found a new appreciation for the way in which Missy’s character brings that to the forefront. She never let’s the viewer forget she’s a woman, she not only claims “the Mistress” but a diminutive for herself and, yes, she asserts that she is a “Time Lady”.

For both Missy and the Doctor, that is and would be the opposite of demeaning. There is nothing subserving in that. Neither of them is ladylike. Nothing about this reasserts negative connotations. (Having only Missy call herself that, however, might.)

There is power in claiming an identity. There is power in her name. But that name is the Doctor. And I fully expect Jody Whittaker to lay claim to that. And look forward to it.

“Time Lord” has never had that meaning for them. The Doctor is only ever going to stay long enough on Gallifrey to steal a TARDIS.

We’re already changing what the Doctor can look like, who she can be. We’re already challenging what a female character can be like. She won’t be a Time Lady. She will be the Time Lady, the Doctor herself. And I, for one, am ready for that.

lovemakesyouwonder

#( ☆ ) ─── ( ISMS. )#:|

littlelovelymemes

✰ * º ❛ you’re the worst sentence starters. ❜

‘ who knows their own address? ’ ‘ are we feminists? is this feminism? ’ ‘ i’m not a sidekick! i’m beyonce, not kelly rowland. ’ ‘ your cockaholism may just be about the least important thing in the world to me right now. ’ ‘ i wouldn’t call 10 a.m. ‘really early’. ’ ‘ cool! let’s add cocaine to the butt stuff. ’ ‘ you can’t leave! i love you! ’ ‘ do you even know what love means? ’ ‘ now go make me some bagel bites. ’ ‘ love isn’t about having somebody get you things. love is putting someone else’s feelings above your own. do you think you could ever do that? honestly? ’ ‘ do i look like a fitbit? i don’t give a shit about your sleep. ’ ‘ why are you yelling at me? what are you doing in my house? ’ ‘ i need you to act like a human person and pick up your damn phone when i call your skank ass! ’ ‘ you know, after i cleaned the fries off your face and put you to bed, you said something to me that was pretty dark. ’ ‘ did you wear your booby shirt? ’ ‘ if i don’t get a night off soon, i think my liver is gonna slide out of my body. ’ ‘ i’m peeing blood and i briefly forgot the word for telephone. ’ ‘ you’re right. she’s gonna hate me. ’ ‘ you think i’m an unfriendly treacherous mountain? ’ ‘ we’re adults! we can do this ourselves. ’ ‘ you’re losing your hair. ’ ‘ practicing what? dying alone? ’ ‘ i told the spice girls i was dying in order to get free concert tickets. ’ ‘ i learned blue balls were a myth when i was 12. ’ ‘ i’m not much of a cleaner. ’ ‘ you’re not much of a human! ’ ‘ did you slither out of your mothers cooch yesterday? ’ ‘ i can’t believe i finally made a new friend and i tried to bang her the first time we hung out. ’ ‘ no offense, but you’re kind of making my skin crawl. ’ ‘ i’m not comfortable about feelings. ’ ‘ aren’t we lucky we’re both in professions where we can day drink? ’ ‘ i’m glad this is a one-night thing so we can reveal all this awful shit about ourselves. ’ ‘ what do you mean you watch tv on your computer? ’ ‘ i don’t know what i’m doing here. i’m not even attracted to you. ’ ‘ you two are poison people. this is gonna end so badly. ’ ‘ if you wanna go, just go. ’ ‘ why can’t you just let this be over? ’ ‘ you and i, we’re inevitable. ’ ‘ move in with me. ’ ‘ i just humiliated myself by accepting your non-marriage proposal, i cannot now move in with you. ’ ‘ you’re just doing this as a hail mary because you know you’re about to lose me for good. ’ ‘ what i have finally realized is that the worst possible draft of my life is the one without you in it. i hate it, but you goddamn floor me. ’ ‘ oh shit… we’re gonna do this even though we know there is only one way this ends. whether in a week or twenty years, there is horrible sadness and pain coming in and we’re inviting it. ’ ‘ she stayed! you say she forced you, but we both know there’s not a person on this planet who’s ever had a good outcome trying to force you to do anything. she stayed and that means something whether you wanna admit it or not. ’ ‘ i’m not doing anything… i’m crying in my car. ’ ‘ don’t start keeping secrets now. ’ ‘ the only thing i need from you is to not make a big deal with it and be okay with how i am and the fact that you can’t fix me. ’ ‘ no, i’m mad at you because you think you can fix me! you can’t fix me! i don’t need to be fixed! ’ ‘ it’s like you have amnesia. every day you think things are gonna be different. ’ ‘ maybe you can understand this: i feel nothing. ’ ‘ i’ll be back in a couple of days. ’ ‘ you stayed? …you stayed! ’ ‘ you just said ‘boyfriend.’ ’ ‘ i understand that my actions could lead you to feel a bit unwelcome and i’ll work on not being such a control freak. ’ ‘ i’m done comparing this to what normal people do. ’ ‘ normal people are terrible. ’ ‘ when i look at you, i swear i can see years years into the future with you. ’ ‘ …i love you too. ’ ‘ i’ve just heard that you’re the worst. ’ ‘ i tricked him into giving me back rubs, saying it made me horny. ’ ‘ obviously, i thought it was, like, boring as shit. ’ ‘ clearly you used to jack off to hemingway in high school. ’ ‘ i’m an irresponsible monster who burned down her apartment with a vibrator. ’ ‘ if there is even a remote possibility of breakfast and you don’t wake me up, i will never touch your dick again with any part of my body. ’ ‘ jokes on you, dummy, i’m already horny. ’ ‘ oh my god! that is so sexist and mansplain-y. ’ ‘ if ‘i love you’ is like a promise, it’s just a promise to try real hard. doesn’t mean you can’t fail. ’ ‘ i shit myself earlier and that is only the second most embarrassing thing that has happened to me today. ’ ‘ you knew who i was, you don’t get to act surprised now. ’ ‘ bam! carpe those diems! ’ ‘ i have to gone girl myself and start over where nobody knows me. ’ ‘ i’m going to have a baby. ’ ‘ i just want my kids to be sad when i die. ’ ‘ i didn’t want to kill him. i just snapped! ’ ‘ i feel guilty because of how much he suffered… and because you stabbed him on purpose. ’ ‘ you’re so getting murdered. ’ ‘ i can’t tell him my brain is broken. ’ ‘ don’t stalk me again because you suck at it. ’ ‘ back off, bitch. ’ ‘ don’t go. ’ ‘ i got your back, always. ’ ‘ you might not be useful in the radish sense, but you’re a good friend and you make people happy. ’ ‘ when i get back, you’re going to take me to a real bar and feed me cheap whiskey until i forget about that time i stopped being able to have sex with my boyfriend ever again because he took me to a bar that only served water! ’ ‘ so, would you say it’s a… problem-free philosophy? it’s like… no worries for the rest of your days? ’ ‘ did you just quote the lion king to me? ’ ‘ hey, um, so listen… i think you’re funny and cute and i’d like to take you on a date with me for a date. ’ ‘ why did you put a murder tour on your list? ’ ‘ you even quit a rewards club because you couldn’t handle the commitment. ’ ‘ wear your stains on the outsides of your clothes. ’ ‘ see? dogs eat nachos. ’ ‘ hey, that’s your best garbage bag. you going somewhere? ’ ‘ i’ll be out by the time you get back. have fun, you deserve it… whoever she is. ’ ‘ red licorice vodka? ’ ‘ send money, loser! ’ ‘ and you date him… willingly. ’ ‘ my heart is a dumb dumb. ’ ‘ i’ve always been able to flip myself back over eventually, but… i ran out of times. this is how i am now and it’s not okay with you, nor should it be. ’ ‘ i suppose it’s good that this happened now, instead of like, ten years down the line. ’ ‘ the world is absolutely lousy with people and i hate them all. i hate everyone but you. ’ ‘ what the hell is wrong with us? ’ ‘ let’s make a pact never to feel anything around each other ever again. ’ ‘ i’ve never eaten a blueberry. ’ ‘ i’ve always had one foot out the door. with everything. especially with us. ’ ‘ so, you might just suddenly bounce out of here? ’ ‘ can we just… bail? ’ ‘ you’ve had a little too much to drink, didn’t you, buddy? ’

#( ☆ ) ─── ( MEME. )

naragun-deactivated20161113

I highly recommend you follow the person I reblogged this from.

#tbh i bet you all already follow carrie #because like why would you follow me and NOT her #but if you aren't #she is amazing and i love her

Once the initial surprise had passed, her expression returned to an almost amicable neutral, dark eyes sparkling. ❝ Well, then. Some pleasant company at last. ❞

— @affordedupgrade

#( ☆ ) ─── ( CH: A LADY VAINGLORIOUS. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( CANON VERSE 0001. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( ARC: WHERE I FALL. )#affordedupgrade #sry this is short as hell i have.... no ideas in my brain #( ☆ ) ─── ( QUEUE. )

— @centuriesuntold

It was unlikely, in all of this, that the Doctor had a concise multi-step plan in place, but it was easy enough to follow his thought process to the point where such a plan began to emerge. Observation had gone well enough, and now came shadowing, following him around like one of his silly little cohorts. It had crossed her mind several times over that she’d never agreed to become a bargain basement version of the Doctor, only that she would be good, and undoubtedly that sentiment would make its way into the air between them at some point, but for the moment she held her tongue on it.

Still, she couldn’t resist a bit of an eye roll when he found a signal pinging around the stars and traced it back to its origin. An asteroid mining facility. No information contained in the distress call beyond a simple SOS, and that was enough for him.

❝ Really, Doctor? I thought the entire point of this was to find some heroic adventure. Not a pick-up job for miners with an equipment malfunction. ❞

#( ☆ ) ─── ( CH: SO FINE. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( CANON VERSE 0001. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( ARC: QUEEN OF EVIL. )#centuriesuntold

so i feel like i have to perform at a certain level or to people’s expectations to justify my existence lol... weird.

#( ☆ ) ─── ( TURNED GOOD. )

ravenfaced.

with a disabled chameleon circuit , her tardis is stuck as fifties diner. however clara loves it , it adds character. and most of the time , clara finds herself chatting with all sorts of people and aliens alike. with her back facing the door , she turns as the bell chimes , a friendly smile tugs upon rouged lips. ‘ —— missy. ’ with missy’s name leaving her lips , the smile drops.

‘ i suppose this isn’t a friendly visit. ’

Thin brows raised at the words, and Missy lifted her gaze from the children’s menu to fix Clara with a wide blue stare. ❝ Now why would you think that? I hope you’re not under the impression that I bear you any ill will simply because I tried to have you killed and you left me for dead. Sweetheart! How strong can a friendship really be if you don’t try to kill one another a few times? We may as well be polite acquaintances. ❞

#ravenfaced #( ☆ ) ─── ( CH: SO FINE. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( ARC: WHERE I STAND. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( CANON VERSE 0001. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( QUEUE. )#np! life can be hectic!

parrillalana-deactivated2019060

#( ☆ ) ─── ( CH: A LADY VAINGLORIOUS. )#( ☆ ) ─── ( QUEUE. )

today’s my day off so it’s time to tackle drafts and stuff

but also what if i binged something on hulu though

or played games on my phone

or napped

#have u ever seen someone avoid a hobby they enjoy #as much as i do #amazing #( ☆ ) ─── ( TURNED GOOD. )

scribefindegil

i have two approaches to canon

So if we extrapolate from this one-off line in episode fifteen, as well as this tweet by the creator and the answers given at this comic con panel from 2014, we can infer that this character’s relationship with salad is more complex than it first appears …

*pulls down sunglasses and points a flamethrower at the source material* Death of the author, baby.

#( ☆ ) ─── ( MUN. )#me lol