various rants and a little bit of funtime

[kattahj]

You know, I get a bit growly whenever people complain about the librarian stereotype and go, ”We're not all frumpy bespectacled women in comfortable shoes, honestly!” But I remind myself, hey, they're not frumpy bespectacled women in comfortable shoes, they want people to know that, fair enough.

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[wee_warrior]

Especially since she uses buzzwords like ”unsexy” and indeed ”robust shoes”, and complains that and complains that the librarians in question have no personality and look like ”old dustbunnies”.

Because high heels make so much sense when you're working a job where you're standing a lot, walking a lot, and have to be able to reach the highest and lowest shelves, often by using one of these little plastic footstool thingies. And of course, every work performance of any woman is defined by her level of sexiness. After all, the first requirement I have of a librarian is being able to stare at her. Not knowledge about books or the library, or anything pointless like that.

(Also, why the hostility against dustbunnies? Cats love them! Geez.)

He goes beyond what anyone else ever has in so many ways (for one thing, he has a lesbian couple without it being a gay show)Wow, ER will be astonished to hear that. Or NYPD Blue. Or The Wire. Or Babylon 5. Or even bloody Northern Exposure.(She does nowhere say that it is about doing it the earliest,

[kattahj]

Because high heels make so much sense when you're working a job where you're standing a lot, walking a lot, and have to be able to reach the highest and lowest shelves, often by using one of these little plastic footstool thingies.

At one of my jobs, I have to wear indoor shoes, which happens to be wooden slippers because that's what I had at hand. They're good for reaching shelves but SCARY when I have to walk down the cellar stairs. I can't imagine having high heels.

Of course, I'm one of the people who thinks that Joss is good, but also seriously overrated, so I guess I'm just not seeing how his lesbian couple(s) is/are just specialer?

Everything Joss does is specialer always. That's #1 on the list.

Rose: did you by any chance have any exposure to rabid Rose/Doctor shippers during Season 2?Yeah, he was called Russell T. Davies. *g* Mainly, it was just the way Rose became more and more this Special Person to the Doctor (which was carried on in season 3). In season 1, I had the feeling that as much as he liked her, she could have

[wee_warrior]

They're good for reaching shelves but SCARY when I have to walk down the cellar stairs.

O.O Being a legendary klutz - and not in the adorable Mary Sue sense, more in the Whoops, was that a Ming vase? sense - I feel and fear for you.

Everything Joss does is specialer always. That's #1 on the list.

Speaking of #1, one part that made me raise my eyebrows in somewhat amused resignation - when he writes about rabid Whedonites, there is that passage about crazy shippers, who are described as "shawl-wearing, cat-owning knitting enthusiasts." Of course, I don't wear shawls, but should I ever meet the man, I have to enlighten him on my thoughts on shipping. Preferably with the help of a cat and/or knitting needle.

Yeah, he was called Russell T. Davies. *g*You know, I so managed to ignore that. My default thinking was simply: Oh, well, she's a companion, she'll leave at some point like all the others. It seems I even managed to overhear text passages? In Season 3, I was annoyed that Martha was hung up on Ten, mostly because I felt that such

[kattahj]

Speaking of #1, one part that made me raise my eyebrows in somewhat amused resignation - when he writes about rabid Whedonites, there is that passage about crazy shippers, who are described as "shawl-wearing, cat-owning knitting enthusiasts."

Yeah, that bit did have me rolling my eyes.

But I never clued in that the text was trying to tell me Ten didn't notice her because he was hung up on dear Rosita.

Wow, really? I felt there was a "Rose!" every other episode... or maybe I was just put off by "The Shakespeare Code" with its Rose-would-have and Rose-as-the-magic-word.

And I agree, Nine needed Rose and possibly Jack, and Ten needed Martha, but most of all he needed Donna.

Ten needed Donna like whoah.

It's kind of interesting, that, which companions work well in a transfer to the next Doctors and which don't.

[wee_warrior]

Wow, really?

It's my anti-shipping goggles. They are like slash goggles, only they filter out shipping tendencies (apparently even those of creators). It's really quite astonishing.

It's kind of interesting, that, which companions work well in a transfer to the next Doctors and which don't.

Unfortunately, I have little material to compare, since I've not really seen many companions cross over. Ten and Rose had a decidedly different dynamic than her and Nine, though, and I felt they were often annoying together, like schoolchildren playing pranks (Tooth and Claw is a good example for that, although I love it otherwise). Comparing Sarah Jane with Three vs. her with Ten is very difficult since her age is so different, and that does alter the dynamic as much as the differing Doctor personalities and 70s vs. 00s.

[kattahj]

It's my anti-shipping goggles. They are like slash goggles, only they filter out shipping tendencies (apparently even those of creators). It's really quite astonishing.

I envy you - well at least in this particular case. :-)

Unfortunately, I have little material to compare, since I've not really seen many companions cross over.

I haven't seen it all either, but Sarah Jane seems to have worked with Four, Nyssa and Tegan did well with Five, while Mel jarred quite a bit with Seven... but then again, maybe she jarred with Six too, I don't know.

And that's it exactly with Ten and Rose.