#I've seen better Jesus allegories out of Japan and they're not even culturally Christian like the UK is so idk what the fcking deal is

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One of the last whotubers who still had my respect lost my subscription today after they said that 12 and Clara would canonically make a bad paring but 10 and Clara would make a good pairing. Of course they had to use an awkward gif of 12 and Clara and the hand kissing gif of 10 and Clara from the 50th; as if there aren’t tons of romantic and affectionate gif moments of 12 and Clara. Also the implication comes across kind of ageist if you ask me. Sometimes I just can’t.

Greyscale, I hate to break it to you, but that's kind of what you get for trusting a Whotuber.

'Cause here's the breaks: a vast number of vocal people online don't understand the relationship between Twelve and Clara that you and I see. Some people can't see it for whatever reason (examples: the characters reminding them of two people decidedly not in love in their in-person lives; literally not having the comprehension levels to understand the relationship), while some people flat-out refuse to see it (examples: ageism; anti-Clara rhetoric, not watching the show (either any non-RTD or just Moffat's run)). There's a lot more vocal people in that latter category, which absolutely sucks. It's part of why I feel like although there's a significant portion of the actual fanbase who ship Whouffaldi, we're all off in our own little corners and not interacting with the main core of the base because we know they'll pull stupid stunts like that.

How is the Doctor worse for Clara as Twelve than Ten in canon? Is it the bland younger looks*? Is it the accent**? Is it the fact that Twelve allowed and encouraged her to grow her own character, for better or worse, which was apparently bad to some people***? Is it that under Ten, Clara could have not become as Doctor-like as she did, instead being in starry-eyed awe of him like Ten's other companions****? There is literally nothing that one can say that will make me agree that, as a whole, Clara is better off with Ten than with Twelve. Why would she settle for sandshoes and a piss-poor God-complex-Jesus-allegory when she can have a grouchy silver fox that just wants to be left alone with exception of his aggro ray of sunshine? Wose settled, and look where that got her. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Whouffaldi will for always and forever be a comfort ship for me, so I know I have a bias. That being said, I only ship Ten/Clara (Allonswin) pretty much to irritate Ten/Wose people*****, because at least those are two functioning adults within the context of the show's canon. I've shipped in other fandoms with less to go by, so this is nothing new to me, but yeah... if you think Allonswin is a better ship than Whouffaldi, then chances are you're ageist, or not a Peter Capaldi fan (how??? why???), or both. Or you're a Tennant fan to the point your shipping goggles have malfunctioned to ludicrous degrees******.

All in all, I'm so glad I'm not on YouTube, let alone a bunch of other sites where fandom congregates, because I wouldn't be able to handle it ahahahaha orz just let me exist in my curated existence here and on FFN/AO3/Twitter

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*David Tennant is probably at his least attractive as Ten for me, so this is definitely a ymmv and that's okay we're allowed to disagree on this

**we're not allowed to disagree on this; David should have been allowed to be Scottish his entire run too, but in the absence of, I think, the only way it could have been more boring is if the accent he used was actual RP and not middle-of-the-road Estuary

***any growth Mickey, Martha, and Donna had was to spite Ten, not bc he encouraged anything, I'm not getting out of this chair

****actually, Clara wouldn't have any of Ten's shit and would just drag him for filth for days and, if she didn't get bored with him, she would have somehow been able to get Companions Past in on the action and it would be a veritable roast that Twelve would have admitted he deserved

*****honestly, I do things that irritate plenty of other people... like I ship Ten/Donna both as idkbffs and as a romantic couple, because they have a better, healthier relationship than Ten does with... certain others... almost in a Whouffaldi-esque vein since she doesn’t take a lot of his shit lol

******no shade here, honest, bc I do understand how that is when you enjoy a really talented actor's body of work, one who seems to have a lot of effortless chemistry with coworkers, and... just... yeah... (PCap is one of the sexiest parts of the 2014 Musketeers show, but that don't mean I ship his interpretation of the Cardinal Richelieu with anything other than The Good of France, yo)