Fandom meme

[auroracloud]

A meme via thisbluespirit, because I'd like to produce random fannish content without putting too much effort in it.

Give me a fandom and I'll tell you

Favorite Male Character
Favorite Female Character
Least Favorite Character
Favorite Ship
Favorite Friendship
Favorite Quote
Worst Character Death (if any)
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment
Saddest Moment
Favorite Location

Hint If you're struggling to think of fandoms I know besides The Big Obvious One You Can't Miss, any books you know I like (including ones I've requested/received in exchanges or written fanfic about) are game even if I haven't been actively rambling about them here. I'll tell you if I don't know something well enough to answer. If you're not sure if I know a thing, feel free to ask. (No, I don't know any superhero fandoms.)

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[thisbluespirit]

Doctor Who!

[auroracloud]

This one has to be, of course. :-)

Favorite Male Character: The Second Doctor. Jamie's very close, though. I'm surprising myself by being able to name one character, and by actually naming a Doctor rather than a companion, as I've been very companion-focused most of the time.

Favorite Female Character: Bill, Zoë, Nyssa. Also Barbara, Leela, Romana (both of her), Ace, Vicki, Donna... If I'm totally forced to choose just one, I'll probably say Bill.

Least Favorite Character: Jo Grant. Just thinking about her puts me in a foul mood, and I can't enjoy watching her stories/scenes at all. I even tried to give her new chances when the second Twitch marathon rolled around, but I hated it so much I had to stop trying. I guess it's a good thing that the Third Doctor is my second least favourite, since those two mostly come together and I can avoid them both. It would be awful if she was paired with someone I like to watch! (I do enjoy Delgado's Master and would like to see more of him, not sure yet how to deal with that.)

(I need to add that I don't wish to hurt the feelings of any Jo fans, because I feel guilty if I don't point that out, but this is how I feel and frankly, I don't think it's my fault.)

Favorite Ship: Seconding you, the TARDIS all the way!!! :-D

In terms of the ships that fandom tends to mean when it talks about ships, well, I'm besotted with Two/Jamie even if I also adore them as a gen friendship pair; I also particularly love Ben/Polly, Zoë/Isobel, Ian/Barbara, Eight/Charley, and various iterations of the Doctor/Jack. Quite fond of Tegan/Nyssa as well. In New Who, I like shipping female companions together even if they never met in canon.

Favorite Friendship: Two & Jamie, the gen friendship edition. Two & Jamie & Zoë. Twelve & Bill. Eleven & Amy & Rory. Tegan & Nyssa, the gen friendship edition. And I just generally love the friendship focus of canon (especially Classic Who) and most of the Doctor & Companion friendship, as well as friendships between companions.

Favorite Quote: When I get asked these things, I always forget every single quote I've ever known. But I'm particularly fond of these, at least: "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one." and "900 years of time and space, I've never met anybody who wasn't important." Also: "There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."

Worst Character Death (if any): Bill's death and Cyberman transformation in the Season 10 two-part finale. Even if the ending sort of resurrected her and gave her a happy ending. Not only was it really painful (especially as I can't deal with body horror), it was really evil to do that to the first lesbian companion and one of the few companions of colour - and it was sloppily executed on screen! It made no actual goddamn sense! I still haven't been able to rewatch that story, even though I found the rest of it great.

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: When Jack flirted with the Doctor and I realized that was actually happening in canon on screen, rather than only in fanfic. Most of the times when people join the Doctor in the TARDIS. When I started watching the Eleventh Doctor and realized the Doctor could actually be a character who brings relief, happiness and healing. When I started watching the Second Doctor era and things just clicked. All the times Two and Jamie were being clingy/cuddly or touching just because it's what they do. Thirteen making her own sonic screwdriver.

Saddest Moment: Jamie and Zoë's departure in the end of War Games, and the subsequent events that I recently complained about. I also found Nyssa's goodbye scene really sad (and sad that it was too short).

Favorite Location: The TARDIS! I'm endlessly fascinated by it/her, and I particularly love it whenever we see, or even hear about, other places inside the TARDIS than the console room. As far as I'm concerned, they could spend a lot more stories just exploring the insides of the TARDIS and I'd be happy.

Also, I really love that set in The Snowmen where Clara discovers the stairways leading up above the clouds where the TARDIS is. ♥

[thisbluespirit]

I felt someone needed to ask the obvious! :-D

Also, I really love that set in The Snowmen where Clara discovers the stairways leading up above the clouds where the TARDIS is.

It's a very pretty scene!

[auroracloud]

It would be very disappointing if nobody asked it! :-)

That scene is one of my favourite visuals from the series. Aside from all the TARDIS interiors, of course. :-D