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[sapote]

::sigh:: I think I've finally decided to give up all but carefully-chosen and cheerful Who meta and discussion. Because really, is there anything more buzzkill than having to defend all your character preferences like it's your doctoral thesis? Your doctoral thesis about killing puppies, to a roomful of professors endowed by PETA?*

Is it the het? Does het really bring the wank to the yard? Is there some meta reason for this that has to do with the patriarchy or overidentification or accessibility? Luckily, Who still produces good fic, great vids, funny macros, and, you know, episodes, so I think I'll get by.

Clearly, I have been both spoiled and sheltered by my other fandoms, which: hi, I love you all the more right now.

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*This is not about the race/class/religion meta. I like that.

Comments

[lazulus]

A good friend of mine [both RL and LJ] has dipped her toes a number of times in Who fandom and written some really very good fic. She says they are all batshit crazy, cliquey, rude and unwelcoming which - being that she is the nicest, most innocuous person on the planet - I think says it all!

So it's not just you!

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

It's like when you're at a party that you really don't want to be at or turns out to be not what you expected. The only solution is to find, or more usually, it's create a subparty. So here, right here in this entry, a mini Who subparty for you! um, topic, hmm, Rose as Little Red Riding Hood in Tooth and Claw. She subverts the paradigm but not entirely! Doctor=friendly woodsman, Queen Victoria=grandmother that manages to get saved. Maybe? I am so off tonight.