Elsewhere on the Internet: Ace and Domesticity at Doctor Her
Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.
I don’t want to keep putting my own stuff in my Friday Links posts because, you know, it’s all about linking to other people! So I’ll be making occasional ‘elsewhere on the internet’ posts to point towards me doing the blog post thing in places other than here, for those who aren’t on Twitter or missed the tweets/facebook announcements.
This week it’s all about Doctor Her, my new shiny thing, though you can also expect a post all about my Pinterest experience Quite Soon I think.
My Doctor Who watching has been all about Ace and the Seventh Doctor recently because Raeli has fallen in love with that era (but mostly with Ace) and actually asks to watch classic Who with me. Shock!
So I wrote a review about the interesting depiction of Female Power in the Curse of Fenric, then followed it up with a coda about The Many Futures of Ace McShane. I also wrote a sequel to my Classic Who Domesticating the Doctor post from the other week: Domesticating the Doctor II: The Missus, The Ex and the Mothers-in-Law. I’m not sure why it is that reading so much about feminism & Doctor Who is making me think so much about the companions’ Mums, maybe it’s that I am actually realising how much closer I am to Jackie Tyler’s age than Rose’s?
Mostly I’ve been loving the vibe over on the Doctor Her blog - we don’t always agree, especially when it comes to controversies like ‘is River Song a feminist character’ but we have some amazing conversations in the comments, and it’s feeling like a really nice community.