Birthdays and Doctor Who and Plans and PROMPT
So my birthday is tomorrow. Happy 23rd birthday to me! This promises to be a happy event if just for the fact that for the first time in the past four years, I won't have to brush it off due to impending year-end projects and upcoming finals studying? I mean, one year I was in class for the entirety of the 14th, and then immediately after classes holed myself up in Koffenya until the wee hours of the morning and didn't even have anyone acknowledge my birthday except for Nora (dear, dear Nora). So there's that. On the other hand, it also reminds me that I still need to get Silvia's birthday present sent off to her, since it is phenomenally overdue, and getting my present from her made me feel extra-guilty that I hadn't gotten it to her yet (it's coming, luv! After my trip, I swear!) And I need to call Nora tomorrow.
Anyway! I have been rewatching nuWho after seeing the trailer for the new season, and I am reminded of just how much I prefer Nine!Rose to Ten!Rose. The way her character changes after the Doctor's regeneration is... well, almost painful, for me at least. With Nine, she was what a companion needed to be: she had a sense of adventure (jeopardy-friendly, yeah?), a bit of snark, a bit of fear, and wasn't afraid to stand up to the Doctor and call him out when she thought he was wrong. The episode Dalek especially. She also had flaws, and not the Mary-Sue perfect-despite-the-problems flaws (see: Father's Day). And the Doctor eventually grew to hold her as something unique in his heart, this first companion after the Time War (I'm not going to debate love/platonicness lest I start a ship war). But when Nine regenerated into Ten, suddenly all we have is this lovey-dovieness between them, and any actual romantic moments that may have happened were buried under the smothering clinginess - not just Rose, who has apparently come to regard the Doctor as her entire world, and not bothered to expand her character beyond that, but also the Doctor, who clings to Rose nearly as much. Don't get me wrong, I like Tennant/Ten, but the Ten/Rose interaction became almost unbearable the further one went through the series - no longer a romantic love but an obsessive love - on both sides, and we somehow lost Rose as a true character. Where did the snarky back-and-forths go? When did Rose lose the balls to call the Doctor out on bullshit? I just... augh. Anyway. Mrrr.
Plans! Plans plans plans. Plaaaaaaaaaans. Planning. Yes. I am going to Washington DC with a friend next weekend! Whoohoo! We have managed to secure a hotel (I found it, she actually secured it) for a fantastic price. The original impetus for going was actually to see the Video Game Art exhibit that the Smithsonian is putting on, and everything else was extraneous. But we will find stuff to do, I'm certain. I've been getting tips from co-workers, and we're just going to walk everywhere and use the metro when needed. Hopefully we'll have good weather! *crosses fingers* And I shall make sure to charge my phone and take pictures.
Okay, okay, one last thing. Fic-prompt. I'm hoping to do it, and I'm hoping that anyone who wants to also takes up the prompt, 'cause it's kinda the best thing ever, and with such potential that I doubt anyone's version will turn out remotely like anyone else's. So, here we go: Eleventh Doctor. Isaac and Miria. Hat shop. GO.
Anyway! I have been rewatching nuWho after seeing the trailer for the new season, and I am reminded of just how much I prefer Nine!Rose to Ten!Rose. The way her character changes after the Doctor's regeneration is... well, almost painful, for me at least. With Nine, she was what a companion needed to be: she had a sense of adventure (jeopardy-friendly, yeah?), a bit of snark, a bit of fear, and wasn't afraid to stand up to the Doctor and call him out when she thought he was wrong. The episode Dalek especially. She also had flaws, and not the Mary-Sue perfect-despite-the-problems flaws (see: Father's Day). And the Doctor eventually grew to hold her as something unique in his heart, this first companion after the Time War (I'm not going to debate love/platonicness lest I start a ship war). But when Nine regenerated into Ten, suddenly all we have is this lovey-dovieness between them, and any actual romantic moments that may have happened were buried under the smothering clinginess - not just Rose, who has apparently come to regard the Doctor as her entire world, and not bothered to expand her character beyond that, but also the Doctor, who clings to Rose nearly as much. Don't get me wrong, I like Tennant/Ten, but the Ten/Rose interaction became almost unbearable the further one went through the series - no longer a romantic love but an obsessive love - on both sides, and we somehow lost Rose as a true character. Where did the snarky back-and-forths go? When did Rose lose the balls to call the Doctor out on bullshit? I just... augh. Anyway. Mrrr.
Plans! Plans plans plans. Plaaaaaaaaaans. Planning. Yes. I am going to Washington DC with a friend next weekend! Whoohoo! We have managed to secure a hotel (I found it, she actually secured it) for a fantastic price. The original impetus for going was actually to see the Video Game Art exhibit that the Smithsonian is putting on, and everything else was extraneous. But we will find stuff to do, I'm certain. I've been getting tips from co-workers, and we're just going to walk everywhere and use the metro when needed. Hopefully we'll have good weather! *crosses fingers* And I shall make sure to charge my phone and take pictures.
Okay, okay, one last thing. Fic-prompt. I'm hoping to do it, and I'm hoping that anyone who wants to also takes up the prompt, 'cause it's kinda the best thing ever, and with such potential that I doubt anyone's version will turn out remotely like anyone else's. So, here we go: Eleventh Doctor. Isaac and Miria. Hat shop. GO.