That is the most wonderful story. The cherub sounds like such a sweet girl.
As I said my Troy celebration post, it's the marvelous and touching campaigning by you and many other Who fans that have convinced me to watch series 5. I kind of fell away from DW after Ten entered the picture, but Eleven sounds just like the sort of fellow I want to get to know better. :)
Also this vid, which was reposted several times during campaigning, made me cry and sealed the deal.
That is the most wonderful story. The cherub sounds like such a sweet girl. She is very adorable indeed. :)
As I said my Troy celebration post, it's the marvelous and touching campaigning by you and many other Who fans that have convinced me to watch series 5. I kind of fell away from DW after Ten entered the picture, but Eleven sounds just like the sort of fellow I want to get to know better. :) \o/ \o/ \o/ Eleven really is very, very different from Ten (something which in many cases was a problem for the Ten-fans), and I've fallen for him to a ridiculous degree. (I even have a meta post brewing, trying to work out why...)
Also this vid, which was reposted several times during campaigning, made me cry and sealed the deal. Oh that's lovely, and not one I'd seen before! (Once you've watched all of S5, I can recommend one that will turn you into a complete and utter wreck. But in a happy way, not angsty.)
You are so right to be proud of your cherub. That's an important lesson she's learned! It's something I try encourage a lot. Often the girls will do or say something that isn't *wrong* per se, but I will point out that is wasn't kind, and to think more carefully. (Being snarky is usually fine though. As long as it's not a personal comment...)
And your campaign comment for the Doctor in FMM was eloquent and spot-on. I, too, was chuffed about the Doctor's showing. :) The new kid beat his whole bracket!
I love SM's writing because he so obviously cares about kids and the kinds of messages they take away from tv shows. I flail about Press Gang so much because I'm sure it influenced how I think from a young age.
>>I think I'm somehow getting it right. I have a little girl who is kind.
(hugs) I don't even know how to express how I feel about this. I have tears in my eyes, honestly. I get so run down seeing all these abused and neglected kids going out into the world and inflicting their damage on other people. So run down. But it's you. The kind ones. Who actually care about what kind of influence their kids will have on the rest of the world. You make it worth it. Thankyou.
I love SM's writing because he so obviously cares about kids and the kinds of messages they take away from tv shows. I flail about Press Gang so much because I'm sure it influenced how I think from a young age. I couldn't wish for a better show for my children to watch, I really couldn't. And it's very obvious that the Moff thinks about it all from childrens point of view.
But it's you. The kind ones. Who actually care about what kind of influence their kids will have on the rest of the world. You make it worth it. Thankyou. Awww. And now *I* am all choked up. And honestly, fandom has been such a gateway to the world that I can't even begin to explain it. Of course I knew about all the issues that are out there before, but fandom - and the people in it - have made it personal. One woman on my flist had a daughter in New Orleans when Katrina struck, and it took her a month before she found out that her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren were OK. She'd go to the library every day to check for news and to update her LJ, and I still
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But participating in DW fandom has changed the way I see things so much. I've actually torn down a lot of my worldview and re-built it because of the influence of the people I have met. It's forced me to become less judgemental and more thoughtful in my approach to people. *nodnodnod*
I've also become passionate again about things I had kind of lost my zeal for [like feminism- thanks River!] not because I had stopped caring about these things, but because I needed new approaches, and fandom gave me that. This. It's far too easy to get jaded about stuff. Fandom creates a whole different platform.
So the Doctor can be a good influence on adults too, I guess. Stories are how we learn to live... Very very true. (My brain is too tired to do something more meta. But yes.)
If you want, I can help out with that? Being neutrois myself and all. *does a Doctor-y finger-wavy thing* I would love that, but... Well, it's a character in my Not the Last 'verse (AU about the Master's son), which I don't feel I can ask someone to start reading unless
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As I said my Troy celebration post, it's the marvelous and touching campaigning by you and many other Who fans that have convinced me to watch series 5. I kind of fell away from DW after Ten entered the picture, but Eleven sounds just like the sort of fellow I want to get to know better. :)
Also this vid, which was reposted several times during campaigning, made me cry and sealed the deal.
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She is very adorable indeed. :)
As I said my Troy celebration post, it's the marvelous and touching campaigning by you and many other Who fans that have convinced me to watch series 5. I kind of fell away from DW after Ten entered the picture, but Eleven sounds just like the sort of fellow I want to get to know better. :)
\o/ \o/ \o/ Eleven really is very, very different from Ten (something which in many cases was a problem for the Ten-fans), and I've fallen for him to a ridiculous degree. (I even have a meta post brewing, trying to work out why...)
Also this vid, which was reposted several times during campaigning, made me cry and sealed the deal.
Oh that's lovely, and not one I'd seen before! (Once you've watched all of S5, I can recommend one that will turn you into a complete and utter wreck. But in a happy way, not angsty.)
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And your campaign comment for the Doctor in FMM was eloquent and spot-on. I, too, was chuffed about the Doctor's showing.
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It's something I try encourage a lot. Often the girls will do or say something that isn't *wrong* per se, but I will point out that is wasn't kind, and to think more carefully. (Being snarky is usually fine though. As long as it's not a personal comment...)
And your campaign comment for the Doctor in FMM was eloquent and spot-on. I, too, was chuffed about the Doctor's showing.
:) The new kid beat his whole bracket!
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>>I think I'm somehow getting it right. I have a little girl who is kind.
(hugs) I don't even know how to express how I feel about this. I have tears in my eyes, honestly. I get so run down seeing all these abused and neglected kids going out into the world and inflicting their damage on other people. So run down. But it's you. The kind ones. Who actually care about what kind of influence their kids will have on the rest of the world. You make it worth it. Thankyou.
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I couldn't wish for a better show for my children to watch, I really couldn't. And it's very obvious that the Moff thinks about it all from childrens point of view.
But it's you. The kind ones. Who actually care about what kind of influence their kids will have on the rest of the world. You make it worth it. Thankyou.
Awww. And now *I* am all choked up. And honestly, fandom has been such a gateway to the world that I can't even begin to explain it. Of course I knew about all the issues that are out there before, but fandom - and the people in it - have made it personal. One woman on my flist had a daughter in New Orleans when Katrina struck, and it took her a month before she found out that her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren were OK. She'd go to the library every day to check for news and to update her LJ, and I still ( ... )
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*nodnodnod*
I've also become passionate again about things I had kind of lost my zeal for [like feminism- thanks River!] not because I had stopped caring about these things, but because I needed new approaches, and fandom gave me that.
This. It's far too easy to get jaded about stuff. Fandom creates a whole different platform.
So the Doctor can be a good influence on adults too, I guess. Stories are how we learn to live...
Very very true. (My brain is too tired to do something more meta. But yes.)
If you want, I can help out with that? Being neutrois myself and all.
*does a Doctor-y finger-wavy thing* I would love that, but... Well, it's a character in my Not the Last 'verse (AU about the Master's son), which I don't feel I can ask someone to start reading unless ( ... )
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