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hownot2doit · 3 years ago

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… references (or: “a few books I read”) …

Andersen, Arnold, MD, with Leigh Cohn “Stories I tell my patients: 101 myths, metaphors, fables and tall tales for eating disorders recovery” Anderson, Laurie Halse “Wintergirls” Antieau, Kim “Mercy, unbound” Apostolides, Marianne “Inner hunger: a young woman’s struggle through anorexia and bulimia“ Ballard, Alexandra “What I lost” Beard, Amanda “In the water they can’t see you cry: a memoir” Brown, Harriet “Brave girl eating: a family’s struggle with anorexia” Bruch, Hilde “Eating disorders: obesity, anorexia nervosa, and the person within” Bruch, Hilde “The golden cage: the enigma of anorexia nervosa” Brumberg, Joan Jacobs “Fasting girls: the history of anorexia nervosa” Chepaitis, Barbara “Feeding Christine” Claude-Pierre, Peggy “The secret language of eating disorders: how you can understand and work to cure anorexia and bulimia“ Cohn, Leigh “Eating disorders: a reference sourcebook” Daniels, Lucy “With a woman’s voice: a writer’s struggle for emotional freedom” de Rossi, Portia “Unbearable lightness: a story of loss and gain” Eliot, Eve “Insatiable: the compelling story of four teens, food and its power” Forrest, Emma “Your voice in my head” Garfinkel, Paul, and David Garner “Handbook of treatment for eating disorders” Gold, Tracey “Room to grow: an appetite for life” Gottlieb, Lori “Stick figure” Greenfield, Lauren “Thin” Gura, Trisha “Lying in weight: the hidden epidemic of eating disorders in adult women” Hanauer, Cathi “My sister’s bones” Hautzig, Deborah “Second star to the right” Henke, Roxanne “Becoming Olivia” Hollis, Judi “Fat is a family affair” Hornbacher, Marya “Wasted, updated edition: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia” Johns, Nicole J. “Purge: rehab diaries” Kaslik, Ibi “Skinny” Kinoy, Barbara P. “Eating disorders: new directions in treatment and recovery” Kirkland, Kelsey “Dancing on my grave” Klein, Stephanie “Moose: a memoir of fat camp” Lerner, Betsy “Food and loathing: a lament” Levenkron, Steven “Anatomy of anorexia“ Levenkron, Steven “The best little girl in the world” Levenkron, Steven “Kessa” Levenkron, Steven “Treating and overcoming anorexia nervosa“ Liu, Aimee “Solitaire: the compelling story of a young woman growing up in America and her triumph over anorexia” Liu, Aimee “Gaining: the truth about life after eating disorders” Lott, Deborah A. “In session: the bond between women and their therapists” McClure, Cynthia Rowland “The monster within: overcoming bulimia” Medoff, Jillian “Hunger point” Miller, Caroline Adams “My name is Caroline” Moisin, Laura “Kid rex: the inspiring true account of a life salvaged from despair, anorexia and dark days in New York City” O’Neill, Cherry Boone “Starving for attention: a young woman’s struggle with and triumph over anorexia nervosa” O’Neill, Cherry Boone “Dear Cherry: questions and answers on eating disorders” Orbach, Susie “Fat is a feminist issue” Osgood, Kelsey “How to disappear completely: on modern anorexia” Palmer, Catherine “The happy room” Pershall, Stacy “Loud in the house of myself: memoir of a strange girl” Pierce, Bethany “Feeling for bones” Price, Nora “Zoe letting go” Rabinor, Judith Ruskay “A starving madness: tales of hunger, hope, and healing in psychotherapy” Raviv, Shani “Being Ana” Reindl, Sheila M. “Sensing the self: women’s recovery from bulimia” Rio, Linda “The anorexia diaries: a mother and daughter’s triumph over teenage eating disorders” Ronen, Tammie “In and out of anorexia: the story of the client, the therapist and the process of recovery” Ryan, Joan “Little girls in pretty boxes: the making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters” Sacker, Ira M. “Regaining your self: breaking free from the eating disorder identity: a bold new approach” Sacker, Ira M. “Dying to be thin: understanding and defeating anorexia nervosa and bulimia — a practical, lifesaving guide” Sargent, Judy Tam “The long road back: a survivor’s guide to anorexia” Schmidt, Randy L. “Little girl blue: the life of Karen Carpenter” Sey, Jennifer “Chalked up: inside elite gymnastics’ merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and

elusive olympic dreams” Sigler, Jamie-Lynn “Wise girl: what I’ve learned about life, love, and loss” Smith, Chelsea “Diary of an eating disorder: a mother and daughter share their healing journey” Snyder, Anne “Goodbye, paper doll” Spechler, Diana “Skinny” Taylor, Kate M. “Going hungry: writers on desire, self-denial, and overcoming anorexia” Valette, Brett “A parent’s guide to eating disorders: prevention and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia” Wheeler, Kathleen (Editor) “Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse” White, Kate “So pretty it hurts” Woolf, Emma “An apple a day: a memoir of love and recovery from anorexia” Yalom, Irvin D. “The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients” Yalom, Irvin D. “Love’s Executioner” Zgheib, Yara “The girls at 17 Swann Street”

#binge eating disorder #eating disorder #eating disorders #eating disorder treatment #eating disorder recovery #anorexia #bulimia #osfed #arfid #ed treatment #ed therapy #ed recovery #River Centre Clinic #Toledo Center for Eating Disorders #anorexia recovery #bulimia recovery #osfed recovery #binge eating disorder recovery #arfid recovery

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malicerewatchesdoctorwho · 3 years ago

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The Dominators - Episode Two

Written by - Norman Ashby Director - Morris Barry Producer - Peter Bryant

Episode Two

("I've got to make them believe me, before it's too late!" - Cully to Zoe about saving the Dulcians before they're all either taken as slaves or killed.)

Likes

- Ooh, I like that the Dominators have a wall that can slide down and become a medical bay. That's nice. At least they have the equipment to actually pull off the looking at alien genetic makeup.

- I can't remember if he dies or not, but I sure hope not. I am loving Cully in this, just so much. Sass your way through life, my dude.

- Jamie agreeing to act stupid, when the Doctor told him to and saying that acting that way is easy. I love these two and the way they act around each other. Jamie's face after he had said it would be easy XD

- The fun of the Doctor and Jamie pretending to be Dulcians and bumbling their way around everything. But I especially liked the part with the gun. The Doctor used what little he knows of the Dulcians from this time period to use it against the Dominator. Nice.

- Zoe complaining about how the female uniform on Dulkis is impractical and doesn't feel right on her. I am just imagining what would happen if she was Polly instead. She loved playing with clothes and dressing up. Zoe prefers full body suits and practicality. Nice.

Dislikes

- Uh, maybe not mention very loudly that the Quarks need to save their power. It's like giving away your secrets to enemies who will use it against you.

- ...What kind of plan is this? "Oh yes, we nuked the site, the radiation's all gone now even though the area is still pretty much dead, let's make this shit site a holiday spot. People will love the nothingness going on of this historical event."

- Umm, the Dulcians are supposed to be an advanced race, yes? Why do they seem anything but?

- Did that Dominator at the end (I can never remember their names...) have the order to blow up and destroy the research station? I thought he was told to investigate not destroy. He's a bit more bloodthirsty than the leader.

Awesome

- Oooooh, my god, the props in this are so utterly silly and ridiculous I can't help but love them. Look at the silly as scanner glasses the Dominators use. Just...look at them.

- Look at that sideways view of the capsule. From that angle, they look like miniature rockets and nice to look at. Front view they look more like bullets with feathering on the sides. Like the Dulcians merged together arrows and bullets.

Shitty

- Don't really like the Quarks too much. They just seem....harmless, for a lack of a better word. They don't come across as intimidating. This may be a thing though about age and how I wasn't around in the 60's to watch this in real time. Maybe back then it was different? All my older whovians out there who were kids in the 60's, do you remember?

- Ooh, shadow of a boom mic got in there! Several times! Haven't seen that in a while XD

- This is likely to be on all of them, because just gyeh. Those shoulders on the Dominators. They go all around the back too. Those things must have been so horrible to wear.

In Conclusion

Not as boring as last episode, but not all that great either in places. Like that council meeting. What exactly was the point of that, except to see how annoying a bunch of people all in a room together can get while trying to talk over each other. Still, this one had a bit of fun in it, so I am happy with that.

The Doctor and Jamie shine in this, so much. Just pretending to be completely ignorant of everything. Zoe and Cully are also great to watch. Those two bounce off each other nicely. I also liked, as was up in my likes list, Zoe complaining of how impractical the clothes there are. Zoe, look, it could be worse. You could be wearing the Dominator outfit.

I also like Keel and Kando beginning to think and question things.

Much better than last episode but still on the meh side of the scale for Doctor Who episodes.

Body count - 0. No one but Zoe and Cully were in the station when it got blown up, and they were both very much alive in the last frame as the credits began to roll. Everyone else was definitely alive last we saw them.

#classic doctor who #doctor who #the dominators #episode two #epic rewatch #second doctor #jamie mccrimmon #zoe heriot #dominators #quarks

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roseofithaca · 4 years ago

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Defrosting Grumpy Three (a Season 8 meta)

I keep thinking about how Season 8 of Classic Who is almost like the first one the show has to a ‘season long arc’ that I don’t feel gets talked about enough. Obviously everyone knows it as “the one where the Master is in every story” but I feel like there is a subtle character arc for the Doctor in this season as well which is tied to the two main characters introduced in the first episode; the Master and Jo Grant.

I’m not the first one to point out that out of Three’s five seasons; this is the one where he’s at his most grumpy and short-tempered. I know a lot of people point to this season as reasons for why they don’t like Three and I totally get that, he’s a real git sometimes, in particular the first and last stories. There are moments where he’s asking for a slap and, no, I’m not talking about him claiming to be buddies with Chairman Mao and a Tory MP. Because I would’ve thought it was obvious that he drops those names purely to gain trust of these people who don’t trust him (at least that’s my headcanon because it doesn’t fit with the anti-capitalist, anti-pollution, anti-imperialist writing). Just him being constantly ungrateful to the Brigadier, snapping at Jo, or just being childish in the most ‘kid throwing a tantrum’ way possible.

But it’s easy to get why. By Season 8 he’s been trapped on Earth for we can assume at least a year. New Who fans who’ve seen the Power of Three and saw how crazy Eleven went when he tried to stay on Earth to study the cubes just for a few days/weeks know the Doctor can’t stand staying still, especially in one time and place. In his first season he could be short-tempered but slightly less so. In Spearhead he’s quite polite and motivated, though that could be the most pleasant form of Post Regeneration Trauma he’s been through. Plus he had Liz, who you can see he immediately clicked with. A fellow genius who finds herself out of place or treated a little unfairly as a female scientist surrounded by men, both of them willing to sass the Brigadier when he deserves it. He also still keeps trying to fix the TARDIS, as if convinced this won’t be as permanent as the Time Lords intended.

But by Season 8 (or you could say even before that, in Inferno) his attempts clearly haven’t succeeded past slipping into a terrifying parallel universe, and now cabin fever is setting in. And Liz, his science bud, has gone off and left. And while it’s sad we didn’t get a goodbye between the two of them, her passing remark towards the Brigadier about the Doctor just needing someone to pass him test tubes and fill his praise kink maybe implies that, at least from Liz’ POV, they weren’t as equals as Three thought, or she didn’t feel that fulfilled working with him, even if she did appreciate him as a friend.

So enter Jo to replace Liz, who is everything Liz wasn’t. Liz had to study and work her way to her position; Jo is a spoiled girl who got to play spy by sheer nepotism. She failed A level science and doesn’t have the same sharp-wit he and Liz shared. Three is mean to her even before she introduces herself as his assistant when she only tries to help, and doesn’t hide his disappointment when she tells him. Perhaps it might also be that she reminds him of his companions before Liz; she’s cute and perky like Zoe and also loyal and determined like Jamie, even though she lacks Jamie’s physical strength and Zoe’s genius. Still, she’s young and he might not want to put her in danger the same way he nearly lost his previous young companions many times in the War Games.

When Three goes to the Brigadier to try to get rid of Jo, the Brig is far more smug than in the previous season, as he seems to have worked the Doctor out by this point. Their little moment at the end of Inferno where Three insults him and tries to escape only to then come back with his tail between his legs acting all buddy has shown him who Three really is; that this whole grumpy shtick of this is just a defence mechanism while he’s so out of his depth. I like to think the Brig hoped Jo would soften him up, to bring out the compassion that was more overt in his previous incarnation, as well as just pass him test tubes and keep tabs on him. His knowing smile when he watches Three try and fail miserably to fire her seems to prove his point.

In the same story we also have the Master showing up for the very first time. He was created to be the ‘Moriarty to the Doctor’s Holmes’. These kind of ‘foil enemies’ that pop up in so many stories, where you have a villain who is supposed to be a perfect match in intelligence or skill to the hero, are more often than not presented as ‘what the hero could have been’ if they chose to be evil rather than good; the Master is no different. And even though it’s not established until the next season that the Doctor and Master used to be friends, there’s clearly an underlining fondness in their banter which hints at past feelings as well as mutual respect. It says quite a lot that Three is more relaxed and friendly during his conversations with the Master half the time they talk than he is with the humans he’s meant to be saving, or even his own close friends. Because, for all their moral disagreements, the Master is his own kind and his only link - other than his broken TARDIS - to the rest of the Universe.

In almost every story of S8, after the Master has revealed his evil scheme only for the Doctor to point out how it will backfire on him, they have to work together or form some kind of alliance of convenience. In Claws of Axos, the Doctor outright pretends to betray his friends and elope join forces with the Master to escape, only for it to be a trick in order to defeat the Axons. But considering Three’s attitude in this season, it’s a very convincing act as much to the audience as to the humans. And then in Colony in Space, the Master offers the Doctor half-ownership of the Universe....and the Doctor clearly hesitates! Yes, the Master tempts him with the persuasion of ruling ‘in the name of good’ but Three has to take a moment to remember what a slippery slope that line of thinking is. He’s so tired of being trapped, sick of being leashed by the Time Lords, that the Master comes along as a devil on his shoulder at his most vulnerable point. Considering the last story involves the Master summoning the actual Devil (or close enough) and is also where Three’s temper seems to be at its peak seems all too fitting.

It’s also interesting that the Master’s greatest fear that appears in the Mind of Evil is an image of the Doctor laughing maniacally over him. It’s the closest we get to an image of Dark!Three in the show. To contrast; the Doctor’s greatest fear isn’t the Master, it’s the eruption from Inferno. Seeing the Earth swallowed by flame - not because of an outside force like the Daleks or Cybermen, but by humans themselves. It’s easy to imagine him wondering why he even bothers with them when they’re their own worst enemy.

(Side note; apparently the Evil Overlord in the Inferno parallel world IS the Third Doctor, according to the Expanded Universe, though I haven’t read up on this. We were robbed of seeing Pertwee play an evil Doctor.)

So while this is going on and the Master is playing his games with the Doctor while also tempting him, intentionally or not, to the ‘dark side’, we also have Jo at his side. And Jo takes all of the Doctor’s snapping and mood swings like a pro, and is very quickly overwhelmed with a lot of the stuff she’s faced which that she didn’t know she was signing up for - being hypnotised, captured by aliens, taken to alien worlds in the far future etc. She screams as most companions did at that time, but because it is what you would expect from a girl fresh out of school and throwing herself into something she clearly didn’t properly prepare for. The Doctor has to save her a lot, more than often because she tried to help only to get herself captured. As much as he does warm to her - because he’s not immune to how adorable she is - it serves to prove his point. Even when he finally gets to leave Earth for a day, she’s too frightened to want to leave the TARDIS. What good is she to him?

Now she continues to prove she has her uses. She has her escapology skills which get them out of a few tight spots. Depending on the writer, she can turn into an Emma Peel-esque agent capable of self-defence and subterfuge. And she’s always patient with the Doctor, no matter what mood he’s in, and extremely loyal. She’s also kind and compassionate with every side character she comes across. There seems to have been a backlash to these kinds of qualities in female characters in the past twenty years or so, what I like to call the Cinderella critique, where if a woman is kind and generous more so than smart, sassy and sword-wielding she’s seen as ‘weak’. Jo is always there at the Doctor’s side when he’s managed to get hurt or knocked out (Three took a lot of naps, anyone else notice this?). Even after he does whisk her away to another planet and nearly don’t make it back, she could easily throw her job away if it was too much, but she sticks with it because you can see that she wants more than anything to be useful and do good for her world - it would be another two season until she found what her own passion was with being an environmental activist but this is where she wants to start.

But it’s not until the end of S8 that we see Jo’s greatest strength and how it saves Three when every other defence he had was gone. He’s spent most of that story chastising her for believing in magic and superstition, as well as anything else he can find to snap at her for like criticising the Brigadier even though he does the same thing all the damn time (this could be seen as a ‘I can insult my bro but you can’t’ moment but it’s still not pleasant). But when he learns the Master is preparing to sacrifice her, he runs in to save her despite knowing it’s a suicide mission. He also gives a cold exchange to the Master when told he’s a ‘doomed man’.

Oh I’m a dead man! I knew that as soon as I walked through those doors so you better watch out! I have nothing to lose, do I?

It’s a telling line that, behind all his patronising and abruptness, he’s reached a point he doesn’t feel he has anything left to keep going. He’s lost his freedom and his knowledge of time travel; but he’ll die before letting Jo die or letting the Earth burn again. When Azal claims the daemons gave humans knowledge, Three responds: Finally he’s turning his anger on the one who deserves it to save the one who has been his friend, even at his lowest points, for the past several months, while still showing his disappointment in what he’s seen of humans living amongst them:

You gave them knowledge to blow up the world and they most certainly will. They can poison the water and the very air they breathe.

When Azal appears, he nearly makes the Master’s greatest fear come true by offering his power to the Doctor instead. And the Doctor looks horrified, immediately doing a Jon Snow and refusing it. Unlike when the Master offered him power before, he doesn’t hesitate for a moment, even though Azal’s powers could probably get his TARDIS working again in a snap. He looks almost scared at the thought of possessing something like that. Perhaps his dark persona in that other world became that way because he did take such an offer?

Azal prepares to kill the Doctor for refusing his offer, which is where Jo saves the day by offering her life for his. A lot of people dislike this ending for the idea of the villain being destroyed ‘by the power of love’ more or less, but this was a lot less common a deus ex machina as it is in New Who. The Doctor explains how it works when they’re free as:

Azal could not accept a fact as irrational and illogical as Jo being prepared to give up her life for me.

Three says it as he’s just as baffled, if also amused, by it as Azal was. Why would Jo give up her life for him? Compare that with when Ten has to give up his incarnation to save Wilf, how he rants that Wilf isn’t important but he has ‘so much more’ to give. Even the Doctor wrestles when it comes to sacrificing himself for others sometimes but Jo did it without a seconds thought, made even more illogical given Three’s often harsh treatment of her. But one thing that is obvious is that Three’s grumpy face is gone; he’s smiling for the rest of the episode, looking at Jo with quiet heart eyes, and letting her drag him into the maypole dance, conceding that she was right and there is ‘magic’ in the world.

Much like Rose was the companion Nine needed after the Time War to enjoy seeing the Universe again and appreciating life, Jo serves a similar purpose in S8 in that she gradually reminds the Doctor through her actions of the strengths in being brave, kind and selfless. She and the rest of the UNIT family are there to remind him of the goodness in humanity and that we’re always learning and trying to improve; as Three says to Azal that ‘they need a chance to grow up’. Jo is the angel on his shoulder to contrast the Master as his personal devil; right down to having her dressed in the sacrificial ‘virgin’ garb opposite the Satanic Master to cap the season off.

Three still has his sour moments after this but he’s far less cantankerous going forward and sweeter towards Jo especially, praising her bravery and learning in future, just as Jo also grows more confident in her abilities and enjoys her adventures with him. He seems far more relaxed on Earth and less desperate to get away because of the people he has around him that make it worth staying around for. Three’s morals and loyalty to humanity might not have been so firm had Jo not been there to ground him, especially with the Master constantly there almost holding out a hand to him offering freedom and excitement. Like all good companions, she saves the Doctor as much as he has to save her, in more ways than one, which she doesn’t get nearly enough credit for. And it’s what adds to the heartbreak of her eventual exit because of the effect she had on his life.

It’s just one of my favorite tropes when a character gets better and softens or becomes kinder not because they had to ‘change for someone else’ but because they were inspired by them, especially if it’s the person they underestimated the most.

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multimetaverse · 5 years ago

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Jamie Johnson 5x10 Review

Tonight was a surprisingly busy ep that did a good job balancing angst and levity. Let’s dig in!

Dillon finally went home tonight after what was probably a couple of weeks. The show continues to do great work with Dillon’s sexuality. Graham begins to make amends by coming of his own accord to the Walker-Cotton house and apologizing to Dillon but he hasn’t magically become a good person. He wants Dillon to keep his sexuality a secret which Dillon pushes back against but as loathsome as Graham can be he does have a point that being openly gay could very well derail Dillon’s football career; after all it’s the same conclusion that all the gay professional players in Britain have reached. This whole story line has been surprisingly nuanced especially for a kids show. Shaun Duggan mentioned that Graham would have a journey of his own and I would assume we see more of it in the final eps

One thing I do think the show has failed to do is include Dillon’s mom. Presumably they don’t have the actress this season but we really needed to see her support Dillon on screen when his dad and brother are homophobes. Hopefully they bring her back in S6 (and bring back Elliot)

It’s a minor detail but I really liked that when Alba comes into the living room to share her news that through the window we can see Graham walking towards the front door; it shows a real attention to detail on the part of the production team. Also the ‘’We Are Family’’ poster with the rainbow on the kitchen wall while Dillon and Graham talked was an inspired touch

The small moment when Dillon asked Becky and Dawn what he should do was really cool; seeing adult lgbtq people give advice to kids dealing with their sexualities is rare on tv in general, on kids tv it’s virtually unheard of; Cami and her gf trying to help Bobby on Doafp being the only example that comes to mind. The show did a great job normalizing lgbtq parents and families and there was an excellent implicit contrast drawn between the loving and supportive ‘non-traditional’ Walker-Cotton family and the cold and strained ‘traditional nuclear’ Simmonds family

I’m so glad that Ruby and Alba have finally been adopted and the photo album Becky and Dawn made was very sweet. I wonder if they stick with Osborne as their surnames or start using Walker-Cotton

Dillon being second in the credits? We love to see it folks

Zoe gets a recruitment montage for a heist soccer game so her and Kat can have one last chance to impress Geri Seddon who apparently doesn’t work very hard at her scouting job if she’s missed all these players. In the first good deed Jamie has done in weeks he calls up Jack and she gets Archfield to play against Zoe’s ragtag team. To the show’s credit Archfield pretty easily wins the day at Goodfield as they realistically should. Zoe and Kat get into Hawkstone though and Alba gets flagged as a future talent so all’s well that ends well

Zoe vaguely apologized for being an ass to Jack and she finally did the right thing with Kat and returned the pendant which which Kat promptly lost again. Zoe treating other girls as the enemy has been a core part of her story since she joined the show back in S3 and it looks like that’s behind now as her and Kat are real friends

I think Mike calling for girl power was the funniest line of the night

This Eric/Aisha/Freddie love triangle is a right mess but I’m finding myself invested regardless. Freddie and Aisha have good chemistry and their commentating was cute. Freddie not knowing Kat’s last name was funny as was Aisha’s observation about Mike’s yelling. Aisha was also right about peanut butter and honey being a delicious combo

We got a refresher on Eric’s sad backstory, brutal that he hasn’t seen his mom in 2 years. Well I’m sure that Eric’s issues with abandonment won’t come into play as Aisha and Freddie grow closer! Imagine tuning into a livestream for a football match only to hear two 13 year olds get into a pissing contest over a girl they both fancy

Also nice to see the kids be kids and go to the cinema

This show has really done a good job with diversity especially since the series isn’t set in or around London (S1 was filmed in Nottingham and recent seasons have been filmed in Wales). In particular, JJ has avoided having their two black male characters, Eric and Freddie, fall into stereotypes. As much as I can’t fathom why the show needs this love triangle, it is refreshing to see two black kids shown as the closest thing this show has to romantic leads. American kids shows have done a great job with female black characters but when it comes to black male characters things are much worse. Zay on GMW largely fell into the sassy black friend stereotype. As for Walker on Andi Mack, the less said the better about how he was romantically involved with two girls of colour only to lose out to two white boys before being written off as a shoe gifting player in a way that played into harmful stereotypes about black men being promiscuous

Another ep where Jamie basically just makes a cameo but because the show has such a wide bench it doesn’t hurt the ep at all. Boggy is basically Jamie’s housewife at this point and it’s sad as hell to watch

I think this is the first time Jack has been back where she hasn’t had a scene with Jamie. The official insta account reposted someone asking the show to make Jamie and Jack a couple, we’ll one day learn if that was straight baiting

Interesting to think about how different the show would be if Jack was still a main, would Dillon’s story be getting nearly so much focus?

Looking Ahead:

Liam thinks Aisha is Eric’s soulmate? I wouldn’t have pegged him for a romantic at heart. I love that he keeps bouncing around the friend trio trying his chances with a new member every week, at the beach he tried with Freddie and now he’s trying with Eric

It seems likely that Eric is denying that he likes Aisha because of his abandonment issues and it looks like he skirmishes with Freddie on the field. I wonder if he’ll be honest with anyone about his feelings

Boggy’s breakdown is upcoming, I really don’t think he’s Jetpac11. Looks like 5x12 is the video game tournament with the Jetpac11 reveal, I still think it’s Archie Royle, but Jethro Stevenson would be a great twist

I lean more and more towards Dillon signing with the Northport Rovers as a way to forge his own path and because he trusts our problematic fave Duncan Jones to stand firm against homophobia. It would also bring Duncan’s S5 story full circle, he was so focused on trying to bamboozle Jamie into signing for Northport that he overlooked the other very talented player he had right in front of him. It seems like Dillon’s story line is trending towards him wrestling with coming out publicly as a professional player in S6 and proving to himself, his father, and the world that an out gay man can be a professional footballer

Until next week Jamie Johnsoners

#Jamie Johnson #Dillon Simmonds #Alba Osborne #Zoe Moore #Jack Marshall #Ruby Osborne #Graham Simmonds #Eric Atlee #Freddie Seo #Jamie Johnson Reviews

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superidiotics · 4 years ago

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AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF CHARACTERS 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

This time with plot summaries.

STORY: SUPERIDIOTS

OVERVIEW: Lone wolf Nana Thindrel expects nothing good to come out of her superpowers, and she’s gotten used to being alone. That is, until she’s pulled into the lives of a super powered group of friends who might just be the one thing she’s always wanted, but never been able to have—a family.

Nana Thindrel. Jamie Abbott. Jules Lister. Cecil Grigg. Lilea Greene. Vincent Irvine. Cassian Pruitt. Analia Herring. Elska Clemonte. Felicity Walker. Emery Mcvay. Dawn Clarke. Lavender Andrews. Skye Lynn. Roni Lodge.

STORY: FALLEN KINGDOMS

OVERVIEW: In the not-so-distant future, after most of the world has been rendered uninhabitable, a city filled with androids, cyborgs, and the remaining humans is one of the few places where people continue to live. Follow an android, a cyborg, and a human as they navigate life on a destroyed earth.

Jessie. Vivi. Charlotte. Chrys. Prim. Narci. Finn. Nimh. Erin. Hayden. Star. Layton. Jodie. Diya. Ruth. Beau. Alexi. Selene. Ryder. Willow.

STORY: MERLIN MALLOR

OVERVIEW: this is pretty much just a Harry Potter rewrite.

Merlin Mallor. Aspen Hallewell. Cressida Morgan. Keary Vexx. Juniper Hallewell. Artie Park. Beau Hallewell. Beck Hallewell.

STORY: DANGANRONPA RETRIBUTION

OVERVIEW: A group of teenagers, thrown into a killing game—where the only options are redemption or ruin.

Anya Lowery. Calantha Bernard. Dante Kane. Quinn Everett. Lex Levine. Valentine. Mimi Morris. Ripley Flynn.

STORY: DARKMOORE

OVERVIEW: A magical amnesiac who literally just wants to garden instead becomes the protagonist of some Dating Sim Nonsense.

Lian. Cosmos. Seren. Bryn. Eowyn. Avalon. Killian.

STORY: NOTES FROM A VAMPIRE

OVERVIEW: Rowan, raised in captivity because of his magic, begins receiving letters from a vampire named Leon who seems to know more about Rowan than he does.

Leon Argent. Aster Trevils. Rowan. Violeta Dupree. Cleo Sharpe.

STORY: UNNAMED SUPERVILLAIN’S KIDS ONE.

OVERVIEW: Nature vs nurture takes a new twist as the children of famed supervillains realize that they don’t want to be like their parents—they want to be heroes.

Marlie Gardner. Ayden Fox. Evie Herring. Rhys Lynch. Phoenix Chandler-Fox.

STORY: LGBT FAIRTYALES

OVERVIEW: This is pretty self explanatory. A bunch of fairytales with queer twists—a princess falling in love with the daughter of the witch who cursed her to sleep until woken by true love’s kiss, a knight saving a prince from a tower guarded by a dragon, etc.

Gwen Irvi. Elodie Cetmir. Cyne Marshwood. Illis Lawsey. Ashe Estcox. Storm Hartledge. Darya Whitewater. Landon Carsey. Liri Vounna. Poppy Locklow. Frissea.

STORY: OLD UNNAMED ONE

OVERVIEW: A human fell in love with a demon—with the rising threat of demon hunters, they were forced to send their infant children away to be raised as though they were human. Years later, after their mother goes missing, they’re brought back into the world they never knew they were part of.

Ben. Jeff. Etan. Melody. Adrian. Jaxson. Elena. Maria. Annie. Maggie. Ari. Penny. Trixie.

WIZARD101 OCS

Roslyn Silverstone. Fallon Shadowthorn.

MARVEL OCS

Cybel. Lucinda McBride. River Hart. Maxie White. Nova Little. Dimitri. Tonka. Noctis. Lennox. Lillian Medi. Roman Medi. Rori Clark. Zoe Nixon. Solstice Meadows. Friday Kirk. Atali.

STORY: UNNAMED SUPERPOWER KIDS ONE

OVERVIEW: A bunch of teenagers, with superpowers and no one left except each other, try to find their place in the world.

Milo Porter. Teylie Eide. Lexi Monroe. Manyon Porter. Nikita Antonov. Renna Wright.

STORY: YOURS TRULY

OVERVIEW: princess and the pauper but everyone’s gay

Percy Wickes. Maisie Evans. Jazmin Edison. Dorian Edison.

STORY: CHILDREN OF FEATHERS AND HORNS

OVERVIEW: A half demon, half human, destined to bring about the apocalypse. A half angel, half human, destined to represent all things good and follow orders. A demon-angel hybrid, destined to be something bigger than herself. When none of them are particularly interested in following destiny, what can they do except run away together?

Acacia. Dominick White. Elvira Sumner.

STORY: WELCOME TO ERYSA

OVERVIEW: After dying and being brought back to life with the condition that she uses her newfound superpowers to do good—lest she die again—Taylor Sparks is determined to create a team that can help her protect the world… even if it means breaking a few laws in the process.

Valentine Hart. Landry Jarvis. Nathaniel Hood. Saniya Pierce. Taylor Sparks. Eira Medina. Landon Stone. Cyrus Hayden. Zaria Bates. Zander Ray. Oryn. Lyric. Ruby Friel. Arlo Caroll. Ciana Biondi.

STORY: NIGHTTIME ANTEROGRADE

OVERVIEW: Gillian was raised with the knowledge that she was supposed to kill the Impius Nocte—creatures created from fear that quickly got out of hand, eating away at their host bodies—but, as it turns out, she isn’t exactly interested in killing them. Instead, to the exasperation of her mentor, she wants to save them.

Gillian Rowe. Emlyn Grimm. Xandria Ashurst. Moshe Lowery. Lex Carven. Iris Swanson.

STORY: TDSD

OVERVIEW: So, there’s zombies now. Nadia wants nothing more than to protect her young daughter, Irina, from the horrors of the world. But when horrors seem to be all that’s left, what can a stressed out single mother do?

Nadia Petrov. Irina Petrov. Rory Ellison. Leila Stone. Lyric Joyce. Roman Joyce. Jean Briggs. Donovan Archer. Aspen Archer. Eric Herring. Esther Berry. Brynn Villarreal. Valerie Madden. Cora Wilcox. Lara Young. Cyrus Young. Nick. Narcissa Padilla. Noel Blair. Nico Love. Aristotle Lowell. Blake Baker. Bruno Stark. Rosette. Bea Faye.

STORY: UNNAMED MAGIC KIDS ONE

OVERVIEW: There is, supposedly, a magical school somewhere. It’s meant for kids like them, but they got overlooked. Whether it be because their powers were locked away, developed late, or simply weren’t strong enough to catch attention, they’re on their own. Well, on their own except for each other.

Nevada Griffin. Cypress Willow. Ettie Aves. Val Knotts.

STORY: ZIX

OVERVIEW: An oft-overlooked dimension, filled with vampiric, superpowered creatures called Zix. Esmea is destined to lead. If her mother doesn’t kill her first.

Esmea Aidana. Ainsley Aidana. Matisse Maris. Camille West.

STORY: UNTITLED PEOPLE

OVERVIEW: Lukas Brooks’ only motivation after his family’s death is hunting down their killer—with a retired hitman and the daughter of the person he’s hunting at his side, he’ll get revenge. Even if he dies in the process.

Quinn Price. Marlene ‘Lena’ Lynn. Lukas Brooks.

STORY: NIGHT COURT

OVERVIEW: A powerful family who operates on the wrong side of the law, and the hitman hired to kill one of them. It doesn’t sound like a love story, but that’s how it ends up.

Bernadette Brandt. Alois Brandt. Renly Sinclair. Nadia Voronin.

STORY: SAD OLD ONE

OVERVIEW: A school for talented youth, and the tragedies that fill it.

Madeline Knight. Kiyo Ross. Kai. Eli.

STORY: YET ANOTHER UNTITLED FOUND FAMILY

OVERVIEW: After their parents died in one accident that changed their lives forever, three kids stick together even as they hide away from the rest of the world. That is, until they’re found by someone who just wants to help them—even if none of them believe it.

Elliot Stokes. Lewis Stokes. Scott Stokes. Briar Parker-Stokes.

STORY: UNTITLED THING

OVERVIEW: A reaper, a fallen angel, and the complicated relationship between them.

Tristin Joy. Leza Orus. Haven Roth.

STORY: WESLEY’S FAULT

OVERVIEW: Just your basic found family about a man who grew up taking care of himself because no one else would learning to care for a kid.

Mitchell Watson. Journey ‘Jo’ Watson. Viola Lyons.

STORY: SOCIETY OF THE NOT REALLY DEAD

OVERVIEW: Turned not-quite-human by dying, this group of revived people—led by an otherworldly being named Darsh—spends their time hunting down people who’ve gone through a similar experience, but ended up being dangerous.

Josie. Ayla. Quinn. Darsh. Sawyer.

STORY: UNTITLED LMAO

OVERVIEW: A secretive, close-knit town, the rich family at the head, and a mysterious party that reveals more than it should.

Serafina Vexx, Kaine Vexx, Eiran Vexx, Maddock Knotley, Elias, Lila, Ruby, Odeta, Isolde

STORY: ONLY HUMAN

OVERVIEW: TBA

Agnes (Aggie) Knotley. Casper Raith. Jax Marth. Theodora Killoran. El Cromwell. Mars Perea. Marea Hook. Rose Murik. Lucian Wright.

MISC OCS

Navonni Dulcinea. Cosma Witenor. Sonya Valentine. Dina. Cascadia. Ria Petrov. Atti Solis. Darion Harding. Skylar Parks. Mordra Anderson. Fiona Wright. Liza. Ro Daughtry. Shala Hart. Hayden Patel. Devyn Vance. Ryder Flores. Loina. Crowlie Cleary. Marnie. Pyter. Krila. Araxie Ceto. Anya Florence Day. Eden Wolfe. Rea. Jasper Prince. Angelo Santiago. Camille Haley. Riya Cox. Arcadia Wolfe. Maeve.

#writing #writblr #writeblr #writerblr #original character #original story #story: superidiots #story: merlin mallor #story: fallen kingdoms #story: impius nocte #story: untitled people #story: untitled

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tabloidtoc · 5 years ago

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Life & Style, February 24

Cover: Jessica Simpson’s exes tell-all -- kinky sex, insane demands and crying fits -- she’s a really good liar

Page 1: Photo Flash -- date night for Demi Lovato and Machine Gun Kelly leaving Soho House

Page 2: Contents

Page 4: The top 10 BAFTA looks -- Charlize Theron, Emilia Clarke, Renee Zellweger, Zoe Kravitz, Saoirse Ronan

Page 5: Margot Robbie, Ella Balinska, Laura Dern, Naomi Harris

Page 6: Twinning -- Amber Valletta vs. Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian vs. Hailey Baldwin, Kaia Gerber vs. Gigi Hadid

Page 8: Nearly three years after going into remission Shannen Doherty revealed she has stage IV breast cancer

Page 9: Princess Beatrice is set to wed Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on May 29 at Buckingham Palace, Throwback -- Will Smith, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Michelle Williams, Kelly Dodd, Jennifer Lopez, Donnie Wahlberg, Hailey Baldwin

Page 10: Reese Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth got into a nasty sideline spat at their 7-year-old son Tennessee’s soccer practice, Kim Richards is releasing a tell-all memoir

Page 12: Fears for scary-skinny Duchess Kate Middleton

Page 13: Ellen DeGeneres is rude to fans at her talk show, Jim Edmonds’ girlfriend Kortnie O’Connor was set to move into his St. Louis home but Jim’s estranged wife Meghan King Edmonds scared her off, VIP Style -- Alec Baldwin (pictured), Jason Tartick and Kaitlyn Bristowe, Luke Bryan (pictured), Jeremy Renner and Eiza Gonzalez, Jamie Foxx, Tiffani Thiessen

Page 14: The Week in Photos -- American Idol’s Katy Perry and Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan and Ryan Seacrest and Bobby Bones in Hawaii

Page 16: Christie Brinkley celebrated turning 66, Prince William and Duchess Kate inspected a local steel plant in South Wales

Page 18: Eva Longoria and son Santiago on the playground, Pete Davidson at a NY Rangers game

Page 19: Elizabeth Banks is named Woman of the Year by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals

Page 22: Claire Danes drops son Cyrus at school, Liev Schreiber and son Samuel on a bike, Jennifer Garner goes for coffee, Hilary Duff with kids Luca and Banks

Page 24: Stars Behaving Badly -- Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin pack on the PDA, Noah Centineo threw a pitcher of water at Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Smith pretends to pick his nose

Page 26: Say What?! Kristen Doute on Stassi Schroeder’s wedding, Taylor Swift on Cats, Brad Pitt on Leonardo DiCaprio, Blake Lively on having three kids, Margot Robbie on her beloved childhood toy

Page 30: Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli headed for divorce

Page 31: Nikki Bella wants to walk down the aisle in the wedding dress she picked out for her doomed wedding with John Cena and new fiance Artem Chigvintsev isn’t happy about it, Nicole Richie has caught baby fever from Cameron Diaz’s new daughter Raddix

Page 32: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez wedding of the year

Page 36: The Bachelor Peter Weber’s hometown dates from hell

Page 38: After years of physical and mental and emotional struggles Lady Gaga is hopeful for her future with new beau Michael Polansky

Page 40: Cover Story -- Jessica Simpson’s nightmare -- revenge of the exes

Page 42: Who Lives Here? Darren Criss

Page 44: Entertainment

Page 45: Star Review -- Alyson Hannigan

Page 48: Beauty Beat -- grown-up glitter -- January Jones, Gigi Hadid

Page 52: Diva or Down-to-Earth? Down-to-earth Dove Cameron helped clean up Santa Monica beach, diva Kate Middleton has a door opener, diva Joaquin Phoenix gets a touch-up on the Louisiana set of his new move C’mon C’mon

Page 53: Down-to-earth Colton Underwood carts his own boxes moving himself into his new LA digs

Page 54: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Chloe Sevigny, John Stamos and wife Caitlin McHugh, Zooey Deschanel

Page 55: Kylie Jenner and daughter Stormi, Sofia Vergara, Arie Luyendyk Jr. and daughter Alessi

Page 56: Horoscope -- Pisces Rihanna, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Gemini Colin Farrell and Aries Kourtney Kardashian

Page 58: Made Ya Look -- Lisa Vanderpump and Lance Bass after lunch at Villa Bianca

Page 60: What I’m Into -- Maggie Q

#tabloid #tabloid toc #Jessica Simpson #John Mayer #nick lachey #tony roma #johnny knoxville #jennifer lopez #Alex Rodriguez #j.lo and a-rod #reese witherspoon #jim toth #lady gaga #the bachelor #peter weber #kate middleton #colin farrell #maggie q

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Name Game Pt. 2

Yeah I have more thoughts since writing this post. But also, for now, until I settle on something, I’ve decided to go by Jamie.

(I also meant to post this yesterday on my birthday because that was appropriate, but because I’m me...! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not 100% happy with it, but I do like the sound of it, it does have some resonance to me, and because my parents always called me J, it lets me keep that for anyone who isn’t sure what to call me, or wants to address me in spaces where I’m not out.

And the rest, I shall slap under Ye Olde Cutte...

I DO have a shortlist of names I like;

Jamie Nicole Caitlin Zoe

I’m sure there are others, but I am brainfarting right now.

AND HA HA! I actually remembered! There IS a female name associated with healers! And get this, it’s Brigid! So if I went with that, A) I get to keep the same associations with my old name, 2) it’s largely Irish, and C) She is also associated with fire! That name popped into my head and reminded me of the associations two days after my first post, of course.

So that sounds like a pretty perfect name, but I’m not sure if it ‘sounds’ right to me/for me, or if that’s just ‘need time to get used to it’ weirdness.

I’m gonna stick with Jamie for the time being though, because I don’t want to get too annoying with “And TODAY my name is...!” plus to just give things a good trial period.

Also, and I admit this is silly, I am really invested in Killer Frost this season on the Flash, as she is on a quest to find her own identity, find out who she is now that she is becoming an actual person, and part of that is picking an actual name for herself besides “Killer”. So I kindasorta wanna wait to see what she picks, and if I like it. ;) But since that plot thread got dropped HARD and hasn’t been mentioned in almost eight episodes (Okay fine, Crisis, but c’mon) and they’ve all just been calling her “Frost” it might be a non issue.

Also also, there’s a trans kid showing up in X-Factor’s relaunch whom I am also really curious to learn more about.

Also also also, just because she’s coming out at the same time, I am interested to see what this new female Cyclops inspired character’s name is.

Like I said, those are all mostly silly curiosities (Although I am more serious about KF) that I just wanna see what happens there, more than anything else. If I’m in a holding pattern and see stuff coming, might as well take a peek.

But for now, Jamie is a good placeholder, so yeah, hi, I’m Jamie.

AND THAT FEELS REALLY WEIRD TO TYPE

#Foenix rambles #Foe's transventure

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My Favourite TARDIS Teams

Yesterday on Twitter, Doctor Who Online asked the fandom which was the greatest Doctor/Companion pairing ever. This got me thinking. In the same way that I could never pin down a favourite Doctor, I doubt I could pin down a favourite TARDIS team, out of all of the TARDIS teams. But perhaps I could pin down my favourite team per Doctor! It seemed like a nice excuse to talk about some of the characters my reviews hadn’t touched upon yet. You may notice, I left out the War Doctor. While I do love the War Doctor, I’m not sure if any of the people he interacted with in the audios were what you could consider a full companion. That being said, I decided to dip into anything from the comics to the audios in some spots. Please note, this is not a list of who is best, merely, who are my favourites!

First Doctor: Susan, Ian, and Barbara

This one seemed like an obvious choice. It’s hard to argue with the original lineup. However, beyond this trio being the original crew, there’s a lot more to love than seniority. When we meet Ian and Barbara, they’re initially at odds with the Doctor. They’re more captives than companions, which makes their reluctant heroism a story of character development. We watch them become a tight-knit family through shared experience. This is something we see less and less throughout the First Doctor’s tenure, and it’s sad to see. We got characters like Dodo who was clearly added in to be a strand-in for Susan. By the time Ben and Polly show up, it’s as if companions are simply there to witness the Doctor and call him "far out." Giving the Doctor a familial link and two intelligent adults to answer to, added gravity to the situation. His actions had consequences. The Doctor wasn’t just magnificent with this team, he grew as a person.

Second Doctor: Zoe and Jamie

For this one, I could have easily just said Jamie and left it at that. Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. All-day, Jamie. But then our sparkle-butted whiz kid from the year 2000 shows up, and she’s wonderful. Why so much love for Jamie? I think most of the fandom would agree he’s the essential Second Doctor companion. Not only do Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton mesh so well together, so do their characters. I'm not a person that usually ship's characters, but I easily ship Two and Jamie. There’s a certain magic when you pair the Second Doctor’s bumbling eccentric with Jamie’s rough and tumble man out of time. You get two characters who are most dangerous when they’re underestimated. As Terry Pratchett said of his character Carrot Ironfounderson- "Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid." However, this is not to say that the pair weren't in need of a bit of direction. Zoe brought a grounding presence to the team with her headstrong confidence. One of my favourite Zoe moments is when the Doctor defers to her math skills. Before this era, the Doctor hadn't really been one to ask his companions for advice. A lot of the framework for future companion relationships was forged in the Second Doctor era. There's also something sad about the way the relationship ends between the three of them. Zoe and Jamie's minds were wiped of all memory of the Doctor and returned to their original timelines. Barring future retcons, they would never know of the brave adventures they had with their cosmic hobo friend.

Third Doctor: Sarah Jane

This one was hard. I could have easily picked Jo Grant. But I went with Sarah Jane for the same reason I didn't go with Sarah Jane for the Fourth Doctor. When Jo Grant had entered the show, it was after the rather unceremonious departure of Liz Shaw. Part of the reason Caroline John left Doctor Who was mirrored in the reason Liz left UNIT. She took issue with a strong woman being sidelined in her job by a male. Not very "women's lib," of them. Enter Jo Grant, who was basically there to be an assistant. This is why I love Sarah Jane for the Third Doctor. She comes in with her business lady suits and her fast-talking gumption. There's a wonderful way that she balances out the Doctor's ego while losing none of her sensitivity. Sarah Jane brings a certain realness to the companions in a way we hadn't seen since Barbara Wright. I also really admire the way she reacts to danger. There's a complete lack of vanity in her performance. Sadly, I feel Sarah loses a bit of her edge when she joins the Fourth Doctor. She trades her lady suits for Andy Pandy overalls. While Elisabeth Sladen will forever be one of the greats, I simply feel she worked best with the Third Doctor.

Fourth Doctor: Leela and K9

I may have lied when I said I can't pick a favourite TARDIS team out of all of them. This may be the closest to what I would call "favourite." It's always surprised me to discover that many fans rate Leela quite low. The most common reasons people usually give me are along the lines of why Tom Baker disliked the character- she was too violent, too one-note. I couldn't disagree more. In my mind, Leela's one of the few classic companions with a clear character arc. Essentially, Leela's story is one of rediscovering her roots. But on a simple level, it's a story of atheism. Leela's people weren't meant to be the Sevateem, worshipping technology like relics. They were a survey team, a group of scientists. As the Doctor teaches Leela about science, she learns more of what she was always supposed to be. However, I would be lying if I said I didn't also love that she's a murderous badass. There's something delightful about seeing this jungle warrior stalking down a corridor with her robot dog friend. It's a wonderful juxtaposition of anachronisms that screams Doctor Who. This is easily one of the most dangerous TARDIS teams, with Leela's knives and Janis thorns, and K9's death rays. Not only is the Doctor forced to teach Leela restraint, but is also forced to use it himself. Wouldn't it be easier to just let his friends do the dirty work? But at what cost? Interesting stuff.

Fifth Doctor: Tegan, Nyssa, and Turlough

This one was a bit more difficult than others. Not because I couldn't decide, but because I've never exactly been all that enamoured with the Fifth Doctor's companions. Kamelion and Adric definitely weren't making the list (sorry not sorry). I wasn't going to include Peri either as there wasn't much to go off with her. I'm also slightly averse to any further adventures for Peri and the Fifth Doctor via audios and books, as I feel it undercuts the Fifth Doctor's sacrifice in "The Caves of Androzani." Which leaves us with these three. As companions, I would say they're all just sort of... fine. Despite the fact that the three of them are on screen for only two stories (seriously, finding a picture of all them together with the Doctor was very hard), I couldn’t discount any of them. Nyssa sadly has the least bit to do out of all of them. They usually relegate her to the TARDIS with a headache she needs to sleep off. That being said, I really like her gentle nature and the fact that she can somewhat make heads or tails of the TARDIS. She's an alien with a big heart, I can get down with that. Turlough I actually rather enjoy. I like that he's a bit of a coward and a bit of an opportunist. I even named one of my cats Turlough because of his orange fur. He's also got a great character arc with his Black Guardian storyline. Tegan is the rogue element out of the three because I can't really fault her. She's got some genuine moments of showing her brave heart, but she's never really excited me. She just wants to go to Heathrow. Would that be too hard, Doctor?

Sixth Doctor: Evelyn

Poor Peri, she's getting all kinds of sidelined today. Really, the girl deserves a medal for all of the Doctor's shit she puts up with. I'm a bit of a Peri fan in all reality, but she's not my fave. That distinction goes to Evelyn Smythe. I spoke a little in my article about older companions about my love for Evelyn. Working as a history lecturer for Sheffield Hallam University, she was an older, learned woman. Because of this, the Sixth Doctor seemed to always want to impress her, as opposed to just always assuming he was impressive. She had a way of calming his more abrasive tendencies which really allowed him to shine. This isn't to say that she was some stuffy buzzkill, however. In a story like "Doctor Who and the Pirates," we learn that Evelyn likes a good laugh, even if she's a rather rubbish storyteller. Had she ever travelled with Frobisher, I would have added him as well, as he was a close second. Sadly, Maggie Stables has passed away, so further Evelyn stories are no longer possible, but we were able to say goodbye to her character in "A Death in the Family."

Seventh Doctor: Ace

As I mentioned in my article "The Doctor with 1000 Faces," Ace was a clear case of course correction. A few years ago in Newcastle, I got to meet Bonnie Langford. While she seemed like a nice person, I had a really hard time saying something I liked about Mel. I literally defaulted by saying "I liked you in Doctor Who," which was basically a lie. I didn't. It just wasn't her fault. And while I've revisited Mel and rather liked her in stories like "Paradise Towers," the introduction of Ace was an automatic improvement. Not only does Ace elevate Sylvester McCoy's performance, but she also breathed new life into the companion archetype. Ace didn't react to danger with mindless screaming, she was brooding and mysterious. There are moments where I laugh at just how much a delinquent she is. The girl carries explosives around like it's something everyone does. I told Sophie Aldred that Ace and Leela were my two favourite companions. I don't know what it says about me that I really like the smashy-smashy, stabby-stabby companions, but I do. There's just something really fun about the dangerous action girl with the mythic space nerd dynamic that I really love.

Eighth Doctor: Izzy and Feyde

This was another one that was difficult for me. I could have easily said Lucie "Bleedin'" Miller, or maybe even Fitz. I also have a somewhat incomplete knowledge of the 8th Doctor's companions. I've not yet listened to his audios with Mary Shelley, Tamsin, or Molly. I ended on Izzy and Feyde however because of their obvious impact on the show. Taking place in the comics, during the wilderness years between the TV movie and the 2005 series, this was some of the best Doctor Who available. Not only were Izzy and Feyde one of the first LGBT depictions in Doctor Who, they were also highly enjoyable characters. With Izzy we got to see some of the groundwork for characters like Rose Tyler and Lucie Miller. She was a modern girl who was a bit of a geek. I found her very relatable, even during her time as a fish. Feyde was an easy choice to include, and I do mean Feyde and not Fey. While being a secret agent from 1933 is cool, being a secret agent from 1933 merged with a sentient Time Lord weapon is way cooler. I could have gone with Shayde for the Fifth Doctor (hell, I should have gone with Shayde), but I wanted to save him for his time as Feyde. Having one companion who body swaps with a fish, and another that shares a body with an alien weapon, who also have lesbian feelings for one another is a recipe for some very interesting storytelling. Russell T Davies is a notable fan of this era of Doctor Who, so much so that he offered to let them show the 9th Doctor regenerate within its pages. If you've not read the Doctor Who Magazine comics, you should be. If for no other reason than for the Eighth Doctor's sublime era.

Ninth Doctor: Rose, Mickey, and Jack

Rose is a very divisive companion in the fandom. I know because I've taken part in the mud flinging until I realised that such endeavours were stupid. Seriously, if you're a hater of other people's tastes, you should stop. Let people like stuff. That's not to say I am a fan of what they did with her when David Tennant came into the TARDIS. For me, Rose Tyler will always work best with the Ninth Doctor. Having both met at a time when neither of them knew particularly what they wanted from life, they both seemed to have a healing quality toward one another. I was willing and able to believe that the two of them genuinely cared about one another, and the relationship blossomed because of this. It was a great way to reintroduce fans to the show after such an extended hiatus. The Doctor was this unknown figure who we got to discover and learn to trust through Rose Tyler's eyes. When the family grew with characters like the flirty Captain Jack or the goofy but earnest Mickey Smith, it only added to the dynamic. It was an exciting group to watch, and one that hooked countless new viewers.

Tenth Doctor: Donna

I will go up to bat for Donna Noble. I once had a roommate who brought a guy home who didn't like Donna Noble. When I asked why, he said she was ugly and annoying. When he left our house, I told her to dump his ass for his bad opinions about women (she agreed). Donna is a goddess. Much like Evelyn, she has the ability to temper the Doctor's shittier qualities. I mentioned I dislike how the Tenth Doctor interacted with Rose, and he definitely didn't appreciate Martha for the MVP she was. Donna was funny, she was nurturing, and she didn't let people push her around. There is nothing I don't like about her character. She gave the Tenth Doctor an accountability like Ian and Barbara gave the First Doctor. Seeing him interact with someone as an equal developed his character in ways we hadn't seen before. It was also really nice, after so much puppy love mooning over the Doctor, to see a companion who was literally just a friend. I've always preferred the Doctor's relationships to be platonic. I know some people like the idea of love in the TARDIS, but I'm old fashioned. Donna was so perfect for the Doctor that her ending could only be tragic. They say you never forget your first Doctor, but in the case of Jamie, Zoe, and Donna, it's sadly not true!

Eleventh Doctor: Amy and Rory

This one seems like a no-brainer to me. I would say the golden age for Matt Smith are his early adventures with Amy and Rory. I've heard people complain about Amy because of her lack of development outside of an obsession with the Doctor. While Rose Tyler had a job and a family, Amy had the raggedy man and years of therapy. But I can forgive all of this because of Karen Gillan's fiery personality. She kills every line of dialogue and sells every dramatic moment. I absolutely love her. Rory is more of a slow burn, but he achieves something I think they've tried with many other male companions and failed. He's able to question the Doctor's actions in a way that doesn't make him come off like a cocky prick (Adric) or horribly misguided (Danny Pink). His lack of hero worship toward the Doctor is a sober counterpoint to Amy's undying adoration. (If you remember correctly, I also named my other cat Rory after him). By the time the three gel into a team, they're like a family, and not just because of River connecting them in a familial way. You'll notice that I didn't include River, and this is simply because I have a lot of issues with the way her story was written. The whole meeting from opposite directions thing led to a lot of implied chemistry. It broke the rule of "show, don't tell," in a way I felt was detrimental to her character development. Despite a really lousy final episode, Amy and Rory are some of my favourite modern companions. Seriously, their goodbye in "The God Complex," should have been their actual goodbye.

Twelfth Doctor: Clara

Oh, Clara... I could write an entire article on my feelings about Clara Oswald. I would title it "The Many Faces of Clara," but it wouldn't be any of the split time stream versions, it would be about the ever-fluctuating character type of the companion Clara Oswald. She's all over the place, and it's a mess. Sometimes she's goofy, other times she's a stern killjoy, then she's a careless daredevil. I don't believe the writers knew what to do with her for most of her run. The impossible girl thing was, in my mind, a total misfire. But I can't help but feel like when she's with Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor, she's given the most to work with. I went back and rewatched a lot of her episodes, and her stuff with Capaldi is some truly great Doctor Who. I didn't include Danny because he had so many issues as well, but I couldn't reconcile them. He spends the entire time barking at the Doctor in what was becoming a really sad trend of the Doctor not being able to get along with male companions and competing for the attentions of the female companion. I really tried to come away with a new appreciation for Danny, but his reluctance to stop a Cyberman invasion to prove a point that the Doctor is a general, was so stupid. "I'm going to let the world burn to win an argument." The worst part is, he wasn't even right about the Doctor, and we as the audience knew it. Clara, on the other hand, when she's outside the influence of the "impossible girl" storyline and Danny Pink, she's actually pretty damn compelling. It took her three seasons, but she gets there. This was just barely enough to edge Bill out of running. I'd also love to see Bill come back in an audio, as I feel she never got a proper shake. Make it so!

Thirteenth Doctor: Ryan, Yaz, and Graham

What other choices were there? That being said, I rather like all three of these companions. I've covered, rather extensively, the pros and cons of all three companions in my reviews for season eleven. I find it humorous that most of my friends were least excited by Graham, considering what a darling he's become in the fandom. I love the guy. It's no secret in this blog that I have been a big Graham fan from the start. Yaz is a character I think all of us can agree needs way more development. With that being said, I think we get a pretty good idea of her moral compass. I also really love Mandip Gill in the role. She's a great actress and not at all hard on the eyes. Tosin Cole as Ryan is a really interesting character because I keep fluctuating in between not being able to tell if he's a good actor or not. Either way, the scenes between him and his dad were some of the best of the season. I love the way the group defers to the Doctor. They really do seem like a team with a belief in the good they're doing. People can talk about the spotty nature of season eleven, but the fact remains, the characters are there to make me want to see what's in store for season twelve. Chibnall has given us three distinct individuals that we want to watch develop, and at the end of the day, isn't that what it's all about?

Well, friends, that's it for now! I hope you enjoyed this article! Did any of these match your picks? Was I totally wrong? Who are your favourites? I like to think there are no wrong answers because this fandom is vast and there's so much to love! I'll see you all soon!

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facemypast · 5 years ago

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How many kids does Bucky have in your verses/ships? Tell us about his babies plz!

Hello! Thank you for asking, I love that someone wants to hear about them haha. For future reference, I also list out his kids/marriages/etc on my relationships page!

He has a daughter with @mxndwitch, named Ella Katerina! We actually haven’t done much with her, mostly the pregnancy stuff, but all you need to know is that she’s fucking adorable and Bucky dotes on her the most. I feel like she takes after Wanda in looks but Bucky in attitude, and can be a handful (if the amount of time she spent kicking Wanda’s insides was any indicator).

He has an adopted son Connor (who has his own blog @bloodmoonphased FOLLOW) with @battlesthatmatter (wolf!rogers) in his vampire verse. Connor showed up at the Farm one day as a wolf pup, though they realized he was a true-born werewolf. He’s a little tyrant sometimes and has learned many bad habits from his parents, but he’s a total sweetheart and Bucky would kill for him.

He has a son with @heartvaulted, named Jamie! He was unplanned and tbh Bucky is freaking out a little, but he’s already fallen in love with Maggie’s daughter Zoe so he’s there to stay. Parenting is super scary but between him and Maggie Jamie is gonna be just fine

He has a daughter with @ofgunsandlipstick named Abigail Michael, after his younger sister and Peggy’s brother. Her nickname is The Human Tornado because she’s so energetic and exciteable, and she often exhausts her parents to no end. But she’s the light of Bucky’s life and he adores indulging in her every crazy whim.

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surveys-r-us · 6 years ago

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it’s 2019 and i still do these

Do you know people with these names? For each name, say if you know someone with that name and how you know them.

Aaron: I know multiple Aaron’s. Two of them are former coworkers. The other one is someone I know of but haven’t really talked to much. Adam: A jerk face. Aisha Alanna Alex: Off the top of my mind, I think of someone I matched with on bumble a few months ago. Alexa Alexandria: A girl from elementary school Allegra Allie: Someone from high school who had a baby. Allison: A girl from my sorority (that I quit)

Alondra

Amanda: One of my early college friends who transferred. I don’t even follow her on social media anymore.

Amber Amie Ana: Another girl from my old sorority lol. Anaïs Andreas Andrew: I know a few. Angela: A girl I used to play soccer with in middle school. Angelica Anna: Someone from high school. Think she moved after graduating college. Annie Ari Ashley: Not the biggest fan of because she gets involved in other people’s business (including mine) but we’ve had some fun memories. Ashna Audrey Austin: cute guy from my hometown who I talked for like a week senior year of high school Becky Ben: A friend I’ve never actually met in person but we talk every few months.

Berkeley: Someone who studied abroad in Ireland with me. She might’ve spelled it differently. Beth: One of my first friends in college. She’s one of the nicest people I’ve met. Bobby: Another person from college. He can kinda be a dick. Bolor Brendan: My friend who plays guitar and sings. Super talented. We bonded over our music tastes being relatively similar. Bridgid Britney: I think it was spelled Brittany but a girl in the grade below me in high school. Brooke: My little cousin. Cal Callie Cam Cameron: I had a brief crush on him back in high school. Camille: One of my old roommates’ close friends. I’ve only talked to her like twice. Camryn Carmen: A distance cousin. Caro Caroline: I know like 5 Caroline’s. My old roommate is one of them. Casilda Cecile Cecily Chanel Chloe: The first person I thought of was a friend’s little sister. Chris: Super liberal, obsessed with Game of Thrones and listens to Talking Heads Christina: One of my sister’s friends. Christopher: Someone from high school. I’ve known him since kindergarten. Claire: One of my best friends. Claudia Claudine Cole: Was just wondering about him the other day since he deleted all his social media. Wonder what he’s up to. I know he’s a pilot. Connie Connor: He plays football and writes for our student newspaper. Courtney: She’s hilarious. Cyrus Daisy Dakota Dana Danielle: Someone from my high school who also went to my college. She was older than me though. David: This cool guy from the Netherlands I met my last night in Ireland. He was apparently super into me according to my sister. He deleted me on snapchat though so now I don’t know how to communicate with him. Delilah Diane: My aunt. Diego Donald Doug: A family friend Duncan Dylan: My best friend’s ex. Pretty sure he got busted for selling drugs lol Eleanor Elijah Elise: My sister Eliza Elizabeth: One of my sister’s friends. Ella Elle: Another girl from my sorority. She tags her boyfriend in things a lot on facebook. Ellie: Another person from high school. She’s like me and got the fuck out of this town. Elliot Emerson Emily: Man I know a ton. One that comes to mind is my friend who we can go months without talking and pick things up like no time passed. Emma: Someone from college who deleted her social media recently. I applaud her for it. Eric Erika: Erica. Went to middle school with her. She’s had two kids. Ethan: Dude I knew of in college but never really talked to. Faith: One of my old coworkers. I would see her out at parties and be surprised since she didn’t seem like someone who drank. Fiona Francesca: Franz George: This short kid who’s sorta friends with one of my old roommates. I had class with him and didn’t even realize it until 3 weeks before the semester ended haha. Ginny Giselle Grace: My beautiful cousin Graham Hadley Hailey: One of the few people from high school I’d still hang out with.

Hannah: Wasn't a big fan of her. Havana Helen Henry: Someone else from high school. He’s super smart. Hugo Huma Ilana Indra Isabel: One of my favorite coworkers from this past year. Such a sweetheart. However, she can talk too much which was especially annoying at our mandatory meetings at 9 PM (college jobs suck) when I just wanted to go home and go to bed. Isabella Itza Ivy Izzy: Think there was a girl with that name on my floor freshman year Jackie Jacob: Old neighbor. He got busted buying weed before it was legal here. Not sure what he’s doing now James: My uncle Jamie Jason: A family friend. Actually saw him the other day. Jennifer: My former aunt. Jenny: see above Jess: One of my closest friends. Jhadha Joe: My old manager at work. I miss him. He’s so funny. John: My music soulmate. Jonathan: He plays football. He and his girlfriend are super cute together. Joseph: An asshole. Joyce J.P. Jude Julia Julie Justin: A distant relative. Kaan Kai Karina Kat Kate: One of my cousins. Katherine Kinaya Kira Kristie Lanie Laura: She’s from Hungary. She’s low key insane. Lauren: Aye that’s me. Also one of my best friends. Leah: My old supervisor. She’s hilarious. León Lexxi Liberty Lisette Louisa Luca Luis Lynette MacKenzie: Spelled differently but this girl who’s somehow a Trump supporter lol. Maddie: A really complicated friendship but think we’re good now. Maggie: Actually one of the funniest people you could meet. She uses tinder just to send stupid messages. Makena Manlio Margaret Margo Maria: My old roommate. Marianna Mariely Martha Martin Mayuri McKinley Megan: The person I think of is a friend from college. Meredith Mia: One of my really close friends. Michael: My ex boyfriend lol Michelle: One of my oldest friends. I’ve known her since 1st grade. Mike: This dude who gets insanely drunk at the bars and does stupid things. I don’t know how he hasn’t been arrested. Minah Miranda: This artsy girl from high school. Molly: Another old neighbor. She lives in Chicago I think. Morgan: One of my close high school friends. I don’t really see her often. Nadia Nancy Natalie: A mutual friend with different people. She studied abroad in Ireland when i did. Nathan Nathanael Neoma Nichole: She was my camp counselor. Nico Nikki Noah Noelle: Pretty sure there’s a girl from my hometown with that name. Octavio Olivia: My locker buddy throughout high school. Would see her every day. Orion Owen: Went to college with him for a bit. He transferred and then dropped out. No idea what he’s been up to. He’s really into theatre. Paige: My little cousin Pam Pat Patrick: My old high school crush. He unfollowed me on instagram a few months ago which sucks because we were actually decently close friends at one point. Paul: A family friend. Paula Pauline Peter: I definitely know a Peter but can’t think of one. Phoebe Phong Price Quinn Rachel: Another person from high school I’d actually still hang out with. Rai Railey Raquel Ray Rayne Rebecca: Known her since 2nd grade. Rebkah Regina Reilly Remy Ren Rhianna Robert: My friend’s brother. Rohini Roither Rose Ruby Ruilin Sabrina Sakura Salim Sally Sam: This super buff guy from high school. Literally could be a bodybuilder for all I care. Sapna Sarah: This really religious girl I went to high school with. I don’t think she ever left our hometown. Savanah Sebastian Shani Shannon: One of my good friends from middle school. I haven’t seen her in years. Siena Snigdha Sofia Sophie Soren Spencer: Think a guy from my high school has a younger brother with this name. Summers Sydney: She just got married and had like a two week honeymoon at Disney. Taran Taylor: Talked to one for like two weeks. His current girlfriend hates me but we kinda mutually ended things so I don’t get why. Tessa: One of the nicest people from the nicest family in my entire town. Thea Theo Theresa: I’ve met a couple in college. Tim: My uncle Tom: I’m not really a fan of him. He likes to show up to things uninvited. Tori Ural Victoria: Someone from my floor freshman year. She’s vegan and is getting married in like a month. I can’t wait to see her wedding photos. Her dress will probably be really beautiful. Viviane Walter Will: Some kid from elementary school Willa William Yujin Yuta Zac Zoe Which names do you prefer?

Alice or Allana? Alice Allie or Andie? Andie Alexandra or Anastasia? Alexandra Anna or Angela? Anna Annie or Angelica? Angelica Ana or Ashna? Ana Audrey or Ashley? Audrey Ansel or Annika? Ansel Brooke or Britney? Brooke Berkeley or Bella? Bella Bo Chao or Beatrix? Beatrix Camille or Camryn? Camryn Cristina or Casilda? Cristina Chloe or Courtney? Courtney Charlotte or Carol? Charlotte Cleo or Chanel? Chanel Davin or Dillon? Dillon Delilah or Dutra? Delilah Erin or Elina? Erin Emin or Emerson? Emerson Emily or Emma? Emma Erika or Estelle? Estelle Faith or Frannie? Faith Fernanda or Francesca? Francesca Georgina or Gracie? Gracie Gabriela or Gina? Gina Hailey or Hannah? Hailey Hadley or Havana? Hadley Indra or Isabel? Isabel Indiana or Ivy? Indiana Jenny or Jessie? Jessie Julia or Joyce? Joyce Jasmine or Jackie? Jasmine Jamie or Jennifer? Jamie Kimia or Karina? Karina Katerina or Kate? Kate Kira or Kristie? Kira Lia or Lily? Lia Lauren or Lynette? Lauren Liberty or Leila? Liberty Margaret or Martha? Martha Michelle or Mackenzie? Michelle Mia or Michaela? Mia Morgan or Maddie? Morgan Maya or Mayuri? Maya Megan or Makena? Makena McKinley or Margo? Margo Nikki or Natalie? Natalie Nadia or Nancy? Nancy Nicole or Olivia? Olivia Rachel or Rebecca? Rachel Remi or Rosie? Remi Ruby or Reine? Ruby Ren or Sakura? Sakura Sapna or Snigdha? Sapna Sally or Stella? Sally Sophie or Sydney? Sophie Sophia or Solana? Sophia Skye or Sierra? Sierra Serena or Savanah? Savannah Sarah or Sabrina? Sabrina Tara or Taylor? Tara Vittoria or Yahs? Vittoria Yoonju or Yukine? Yukine Aidan or Austin? Austin Alan or Andrew? Alan Aldo or Alexx? Alexx Ben or Brian? Ben Billy or Brodie? Brodie Corey or Carlos? Carlos Coleman or Connor? Connor David or Dylan? David Eli or Eric? Eric Franz or Fernando? Franz Gabe or Graham? Gabe Holden or Hudson? Hudson Jacob or Justin? Justin Jack or JP? Jack Jimmy or Jared? Jared James or John? John Karm or Kian? Kian Lou or Lenny? Lenny Michael or Mickey? Michael Nick or Nathan? Nick Peter or Pierson? Peter Rai or Rafael? Rafael Sanjay or Supawat? Sanjay Will or Wynn? Will Zachary or Zack? Zack

#survey

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mirandashadowborn · 6 years ago

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NEW SSO WILD WEST AU CHARACTER SHEET for Miranda

Name: Madam Miranda ?

Age: 37

Occupation/Role: Is working on transforming the brothel into a boarding house and place of learning. Still operates a ranch with cows/sheep/olive and orange orchards.

Team Good or Team Evil?: She’s def team good now. But she can do bad if she needs to.

APPEARANCE: Slimmed down a bit as she’s working on the ranch more these days.

Hair/eye/skin: Long wavy brown hair. Braids it when working, but otherwise wears it down. Dark brown eyes/Keeps out of the sun enough to have fair skin. She’s still kind of vain about her pale skin.

Build: Heavy set, stronger than she looks as she still does stable chores at her ranch.

Defining Characteristics: Small scars under one eye and over another, a few others that aren’t immediately visible from bar fights where she had to defend a girls honor. Tattoo of an angel on her back.

Clothing Style: her clothes are more modest now. Her satin gowns are packed away, but she still sports some fine dresses when she does go into town. She still prefers more manly garments when she works or travels.

Signature Look: Lots of blue and gray shades. Wears a large coat to cover her gun belt. No makeup still. Prefers to let her long wavy hair loose (even if it would be considered inappropriate for a woman her age to wear her hair down). Generally wears a silver heart pendant and silver and gemstone jewelry.

Demeanor: Still prefers to stay quiet and let people talk. She’s a little more nervous after the war. Around her family she’s a chatterbox.

Mostly she’s kind to people, but she wants any potential enemies to think her coldhearted and capable of destroying them.

STORY

Origins: Family moved with a small group of other vaqueros when work was promised up north with a wealthy land owner from somewhere far across the sea. The land owner was good to his cowboys, who defended the land (sometimes with their lives) and the cattle and horses. Mother took care of the ailing matriarch of the land owners family, and the land was left to them and the two remaining vaqueros when the grand dame passed. Mother became a midwife and nurse for the town- But after so many battles, Father turned to drinking and fighting. They returned home, with a modest savings, but Miranda opted to stay and work the land they were left with. Several acres, a rather large herd of cows, a handful of horses, and a good fertile garden. She sold the cows and purchased the big empty boarding house in town… since the saloon sprang up and the drunken patrons got themselves into a lot of trouble after the gambling tables closed, she gave them a place to go entertain themselves.

Economic Status: She has SO MUCH money. Srsly she did real well with whorin’ and now makes an adequate amount from the store and boarding house.

Motivations: She still feels there needs to be a safe haven for young women without prospects of marriage, or travellers. Now she just wants to make sure people don’t come and destroy the town.

ALLIANCES

Horse Name/Breed/Color/Sex: Her personal horse is an Azteca Gelding, (whose parents were brought over from home) named Silvershade. (like this guy but more brown)

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(pretty sure aztecas aren’t period accurate but… shush)

Pets: a bunch of kitties at home. Jamie, her boyfriend, has brought poodles into her life so now they have large black poodles too.

Partner/Love Interest: James the assistant Blacksmith (not James who runs the Farroh table lol). He’s also an inventor, pf sorts. They live together now.

Stage of Relationship: He went to the brothel when it was opening, and was so nervous and shy and cute she, uh, took care of him personally. They’ve been (secretly) exclusive ever since. His parents back home are trying to get him to marry wealthy, lol, but not like this.

Other Alliances: Her girls were her best friends. A few stayed on to help her run the boarding house. The ones that were married off and traveled write and send gifts. Zoe the schoolmarm is a close confidant.

At home she has her daughter, Rose- whose existence would be a scandal and so she keeps her from the town, mostly. Also, the two ranch hands that stayed behind (and their wives- who care for the kid).

SKILLS

Level of Education: Likes to read, and when they came abroad language was a thing she immediately threw herself into. Though her formal education stopped at the 8th grade, she forced herself to study beyond that.

Fighting Skills/Style: Once a brawler like her father, now she only has to show her gun is unholstered… (she doesn’t fight nearly as often now, though she practices shooting to maintain her aim).

Trades and Talents: Languages, story telling. A good cook. She likes to sketch. Mostly she’s just good at finding peoples secrets and using them to her advantage. in business she shady af

MISCELLANEOUS: The madame all but disappeared after the war. Folks thought she died. This was cemented by the lonely grave marked “M” in the local cemetery, tucked away in a corner- almost off the property, the one her girls brought flowers to pretty frequently.

She had been trying to live a double life, but didn’t think it ever really caught on until she heard from a passerby that the Madame had been killed in the war and folks were vying to buy the brothel to turn it into something more respectable. She took it upon herself to transform the brothel herself.

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#ssowildwestau

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3monthsineurope · 4 years ago

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July 9, 2021

Friday we slept in! Well, I slept in until 11:30, Zoe until 11 I think, but Janell and Steve woke up earlier, but just lounged around in bed while we were snoozing. I woke up when Janell had just made breakfast. She made waffles, a scramble, and sausage, with a ton of fixings! I had two waffles with peanut butter and syrup and it was amazing! Janell told us her family grew up eating huge breakfasts every day, so she still likes to do that. Her family and Steve’s had just visited before us, so she was used to making a lot of food, haha. Janell grew up in a tiny town in Oregon, on a farm with cows and pigs. We had a really slow morning and it was so nice! I had some coffee and got ready with a little make up on.

Our first stop of the day was Janell’s neighbors. There is a couple that had four Galapagos Island tortoises! I don’t think I had ever seen one in real life? Sandy was one of the owners and came out to meet us in her yard, where two of the tortoises lived. The larger one was 350 pounds and named Horris. Her two large tortoises are 22 years old and aren’t even mature yet, so they don’t even know if they are male or female yet! We brought some Romain lettuce from Janell’s and Sandy gave us some zucchini and we got to feed them! They were such gentle creatures. They also really like getting their neck scratched, and their skin was such an interesting texture! Sandy and her husband also have about a third of their house as a parrot sanctuary with six parrots, but we didn’t go in there. Across the street, in a little lot, were the two smaller tortoises. They are six years old and one was named Seabiscuit! All four of them came when you visited—they probably knew we were coming with food. We got some fun pictures and videos and then headed back to Janell’s.

There was a rain, thunder, and lightening storm that afternoon, but it passed really quickly. We didn’t have a ton of plans, which was fine with me! Steve and Janell had a small motor boat called Big Bertha, and they were going to take us out for a ride and to the coolest place in Stuart, the Stuart Sandbar! We grabbed a cooler full of water and hard seltzers and beers, sun screened up, then headed out on the boat. Steve drove us everywhere—thanks Steve! Stuart is still “affordable” (not for me!) but the houses on the water were so nice and huge! Some of them were completely shuttered and unused, since their owners just lived there in the winter. Big Bertha didn’t go too fast, but that was fine with me. The houses got bigger and more extravagant the closer we got to the sandbar, including a huge mansion owned by the Walgreens family.

The sandbar was actually a pretty big area. It wasn’t too busy, but other people had their boats out with their friends, family, and dogs, too! Some of the sandbar even had mangroves growing on it. The four of us hung out in the water for a few hours, which was so fun! They had two floaters and we had some drinks while lounging around in the water. It was hot, but you almost didn’t notice when you were in the water for that long. I had a sneaking suspicion that I was getting burnt, and unfortunately, I found out I had gotten really burnt, later that night.

After being on the water all afternoon, we cruised to a restaurant across the water (the little bay is called Manatee Pocket, isn’t that cute?), called the Twisted Tuna. I had missed a call from an apartment complex that Ingvar and I were applying for, so I called them back and am happy to report that they have a one bedroom apartment available for us in late August! That was a real relief for me, because I had been really stressing about where to live in September.

We docked the boat at Twisted Tuna and got a table for 7 and a high chair. Their good friends Jamie, Kate, and their almost three year old Reevee joined us almost as soon as we got there. They are a really nice family! We all got some drinks and shared some appetizers of crab and spinach dip, calamari, and alligator bites! The alligator was actually pretty tasty and the spinach dip with crab was great! I do think I’ve had alligator once or twice before, but Zoe hadn’t. For dinner, I had coconut prawns and fries and the prawns were amazing! Janell and Steve left for a minute to drive the boat over to their place, because her friend Mackenzie had just drove down from Jacksonville! They came back with her, and she ordered the fish and chips. She seemed really nice, too!

After dinner, Jamie, Kate, and Reevee called it a night and went back to their place. The five of us wanted to go on a tiki boat tour around Manatee Pocket! We got picked up right at Twisted Tuna and it was only $10 a person to go on this big boat with a tiki bar and go around the harbor! We stayed on it for one hour, which was pretty fun! Janell and I were still in our bathing suits and coverups, so after that, we got back on Big Bertha and jetted across the bay to their place. I took a shower and got ready for bed, but we all stayed up pretty late after that. In the shower, I realized how burnt I really was. I think I put on aloe four times that night? I was so disappointed in myself, because I’m usually so good about wearing and reapplying sun screen! But, I am really not used to being in direct sun, for hours at a time, without realizing how hot it was, since I was in the ocean. I chatted with Mackenzie until about 1 am. She had two kids, a boy who is 9, and a girl who is 5. (I forgot to mention earlier, Zoe has a 17 year old boy, and 3 and 5 year old daughters.) Mackenzie is a gym trainer and has a really bubbly personality! We were the latest to stay up that night, haha. It was a great day, in Stuart, Florida!

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briarlovesclara · 4 years ago

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I Can’t...

Two-part one shot fic (Spoilers: Doctor Who Series 4-9, Classic Who companion spoilers for characters Jamie and Zoe). A little over 3k words

Whouffaldi if you really squint and turn your head

12/Donna and 10/Clara (both nonromantic)

...remember

It was very, very stupid.

The Doctor knew it. The TARDIS knew it. Heck, even the universe itself was probably screaming to get himself under control.

But he didn’t listen.

Because there was one person, only one, who could even begin to understand how he was feeling. Sure, maybe he could track down Jamie, or Zoe. But he needed something more dangerous than that. With the Time Lords gone, what would their punishment be? No, he needed to walk a terrifying line between life and death. Maybe he would finally lose his mind.

Maybe then he could remember Clara.

Donna looked out her window at the perfect time to see the man fall.

She had just finished lunch, and was tucking the rest of the sandwiches away, but she set them down nonetheless and raced out to the stranger on the sidewalk.

“Oi! You alright, mate?” She said as she approached, and the stranger looked up.

“Ah, yes. Sorry. Must have let my mind wander.”

“Nice accent. So not from around here, huh?”

Oh, his Donna hadn’t changed a bit. Smiling gently, the Doctor brushed himself off, accepting the hand up she extended. It was hard to fall, even if on purpose.

“Thank you.” He said when he was upright, but she didn’t let go of him immediately.

“You in a hurry? Or in need of some lunch? Because I’ve got too many leftovers, and Shaun will kill me if he sees them all. He doesn’t approve of the diet.”

The Doctor almost fell over again, this time from the staggering pain in his hearts. His Donna, his beautiful, smart, amazing Donna, back to her old ways. Dieting, never feeling good enough. Being ashamed of her secrets and her pain.

“I think you look beautiful.” He whispered, trying to keep composure. Donna dropped his hand and stepped away. “I just mean-- the dieting. You don’t have to. I think you look fine.” He saw the tension in her shoulders ease, though there was still a small hint of mistrust there. “And I would love a sandwich, if you’ll eat one with me.”

“Alright. But only because you’re old and you fell.” She said with a smile. “Come on in.”

“It must be hard to have lost your friend.”

Donna’s voice was quiet, contemplative, as she washed the dish in the sink. The Doctor (under the alias Jamie McCrimmon) was sitting at the dining table, staring up at her and clutching the glass of water that had been offered to him.

“Yes, I believe it was.”

“You believe?”

“Well, I-- I can’t quite remember.” Donna’s methodical strokes of the plate slowed.

“Whaddya mean, ‘you can’t remember’?” She said, a note of anger seeping into her tone.

“Well, I, uh, have some slight memory issues. I must have fallen again right after. I don’t know much… well, about her at all, really.” At that Donna stopped completely, setting the dish down and turning around to face him. Wiping her hands on a towel, she sunk into the chair opposite him.

“Well, that really sucks.” She said, tossing the towel back and attempting to crack a smile.

“It does.”

“I mean, that REALLY fucking sucks.”

“Language!”

And with that, the conversation started to flow; was he married? Yes, his wife Melody was at home. Any kids? One, who passed years ago. Was she married to this ‘Shaun’? Yes, she was. Any kids? None. Parents? Her mother. Her grandfather passed quite recently.

“It was weird, y’know.” She said, taking the Doctor by surprise. “When his time was ending, Gramps used to go on these long tangents. Something about needing a doctor, and then refusing to talk to one when they were brought in. We would ask him which doctor and he would say ‘The Doctor’, as if there was only one. Can you believe that? And well we asked him, right, ‘Doctor Who?’ And he had a right old laugh about that. Never did figure out who he was lookin’ for. You alright?”

“Yes! Yes. Fine.” The Doctor said, sitting up and setting forth a large smile that he hoped wasn’t too obviously fake. “I think I better get going. The wife will be wondering where I was-- I was only going for a walk.”

“Well, it was quite a riot talking to you, Mr. McCrimmon.”

“Please, Donna, call me Jamie.” He stood up and shook her hand before walking to the door. “It was lovely to see you.” Stepping out, he turned back before he could stop himself, and Donna paused closing the door. “Donna?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you ever feel like you’re missing someone? Or something?”

“Odd question. I used to.” She said, eyes glazing over for a moment. “About when I married Shaun, maybe ten years back? But I think it was just worry over what to do with my last name. Went the hypon-ed approach. Donna Temple-Noble. Why?” And her gaze was blank again, only marred by slight confusion. The Doctor’s stomach dropped, and he scolded himself for it. Of course she didn’t know. Of course she couldn’t know.

“No reason. Farewell, Mrs. Temple-Noble.” And with that, he left.

...forget

It was very, very stupid.

Clara knew it. Me knew it. Heck, even the universe itself was probably screaming at her to get it under control.

But she didn’t listen.

Because she had to see him, one more time. Crossing her own timeline would be too dangerous, so it couldn’t be either of her Doctors. She didn’t know the temperament of any others. So that only left one. And, by chance (or fate? She wasn’t sure what she believed anymore), it happened to be the one that might just be able to understand what she was going through.

The Doctor looked out to the ocean from his bench. The sun, about to set, cast long shadows across the rock-strewn beach below the cliff. From his high vantage point, he could see families screaming and splashing as the tide rolled them around. They were so fiercely brave, humans. Always throwing themselves into fun just to feel the rush. So breakable. On the sand below, a man in odd black clothing read a newspaper, hat down low over his face.

His musings were interrupted by the sound of footsteps coming near.

“Can I sit here?” He looked up to see a young woman, in a large jacket not unlike his own, smiling down at him.

“I’m not very great company, but you’re welcome to stay.” He said with a weak smile. Clara noticed the emptiness in his eyes, the fakeness of the cheer in his voice. Settling down, she noticed that he looked tired. Exhausted. As if he hadn’t slept in years.

“How long has it been since you slept?”

“Well, that’s rude.” He tried to scrape up a joking tone, but his mind was spinning. How long had it been? “I’m somewhat of an insomniac. Few days.” Not that a few days was long for him. More like a few months.

“And what do you do with all that time? Mope?”

“I’m not moping!”

“And I’m not human.” Clara said, and for a second she saw him tense before he relaxed back, faking nonchalance. He must be more tired than she thought.

“What is there, besides humans?” He softly mused, looking back at the water.

“A lot.” She whispered, and she reveled in the way his face froze in surprise. “There’s Zygons. Weeping Angels. Silence, but you wouldn’t know about them yet. Time Lords.” At the last two words, the Doctor jumped up, sonic pointed at her, and back away a few feet.

“Who are you?” He asked in a low voice, and even though Clara knew the Doctor wouldn’t hurt her, fear trickled down her spine. Her heart sank even lower as it came to her that this was not her Doctor, that he didn’t know her. It was ripped completely to shreds as she remembered that none of them knew her now. Before she knew what was happening, she was shaking with sobs.

The Doctor looked at the crying woman, startled. The sonic had read her as perfectly human, but she knew about other planets and species. Specifically, she knew about the Time Lords. And there was a… not a scent, exactly, but a very similar sense that his species had. She smelled of the Time Vortex with a hint of something weird that made his nose itch. He immediately thought of Jack, but it wasn’t him; the smell of wrongness wasn’t as pronounced. It was the smell of something uncomfortable, but not repulsive. Who was she travelling with?

Another sob broke his train of thought. Whoever she was, she was hurting, and he was the Doctor. Slowly he lowered the sonic and sat down next to her, surprised when she leaned into his touch instead of away from it. Softly, he wrapped his arms around the stranger, and her sobs became muffled as she twisted closer to him and buried her face in his jacket.

Clara knew it was stupid. This man, this Doctor, didn’t care about her any more than he would any other crying girl on a cliff. These arms were not the ones she craved to hug her again. This tenderness was a show over his confusion. But she didn’t care. For then, the Doctor was holding her again, stroking her hair softly and murmuring comfort, and she didn’t care.

Ten minutes later, the woman in his arms calmed and stilled. Bewildered, the Doctor gently pulled away, looking into her tearstained face. It shocked him, really, the way she looked at him. Obviously she knew him, but it seemed he didn’t know her. The image of Professor River Song’s face flashed before his eyes, but he tossed it aside. The Professor had obviously wanted him to know her. This person had the desperate look of someone who had lost hope.

“I’m sure you already know this, but it feels rude not to say it.” The Doctor carefully scooted to give her space on the bench and extended his hand. “I’m the Doctor.” The woman shook his hand, the glimmer of fresh tears in her eyes as she did so, but still smiling. Humans had an odd smile sometimes. Like they were sad. But then why would they smile?

“Clara Oswald.” She said, before a laugh escaped her. “Sorry for the weird first impression.” She took a deep breath, watching as his face tensed for a second, as if half remembering something.

“Have we--”

“--Met before, yes. Twice, once with this face. But don’t worry about that just yet.” She settled herself into a more comfortable position, facing him. “It was a really stupid idea to come here. I just needed to see you again, and I couldn’t cross my own timestream, so--”

“Clara.” Her name brought up another round of tears, which she quickly blinked away. The way he said it was so different, and not just the accent-- it was more like the way the Doctor had said it when they had first started travelling. Near the end of their adventures, though he threw it around often, her name had seemed to be something especially precious.

“Yeah?” She said, trying to sound casual. She couldn’t tell if it worked.

“How do you know me? In the future?” He swallowed hard. “Clara, did I die? I need to ask, even if you say you can’t tell me. Is that why you had to go backwards in time to see me again? Because you saw me really die?” His breathing all but stopped as the question hung between them, Clara looking more thoughtful then resigned.

“That’s not why, no, though you did die.” He felt like he had been punched in the gut, and he was surprised when she let out a little laugh. “Not for long, though. You never do.”

“That’s impossible.”

“That’s my job.” The Doctor stared at her a bit longer before breaking out into a huge grin that quickly slid off of his face.

“I’m not supposed to know this. How did I even manage--- no. You shouldn’t be telling me this. I should go.” He went to stand up.

“Please!”

Sometimes things happened in the wrong order. A premonition, remembering backwards. A ripple through time, a heartbeat ringing in the ears of its creator. Whatever you liked to call it. But when Clara cried out, his hearts seemed to rip in half, as if she was linked to them, as if the universe needed them to be here, at this point, together.

The Doctor sat back down.

Clara caught her breath, which had fled as soon as he got up, and offered him a small smile. Gently, she placed her right hand on his cheek, looking into those eyes that could tell her everything.

“Oh, my clever boy.” She sighed. “You never see yourself clearly. Of course you found a way. We worked it out. And yeah, you were a bit peeved that you’d wasted a regeneration to impress a girl--” The Doctor snorted, but didn’t deny it-- “but it was fine. You were… amazing.”

Gingerly, as if it were a live snake, the Doctor took her hand from his face and pressed a kiss to it. He had no idea who she was, but it was obvious that he would eventually. And she had saved him, at least for a while. He would travel! Travel, like he always did, before he died. Maybe he should see the Trojan War, or explore Pangea. He could check up on some people, some old friends. But that seemed too final. And how would he even see some of them? Sarah Jane, easy, and Martha. But Donna--

“Please.” He said, impulsivity charging through him. “What happens to Donna? Do I ever say?” Clara recoiled slightly, and he dropped her hand in case she wanted to pull back further, but she stayed still after her initial reaction.

“That’s actually why I came.” His hearts dropped. “Well, not Donna explicitly. Noble, correct? I don’t know too much about her. Things here and there. She gets married. You see Wilfred again, her grandfather, right? You have so many adventures left.” She watched his face turn from determination to hope, then resignation. She took a deep breath. “It hurts, doesn’t it? Having someone forget you?”

“It does.”

“And how do you cope with that? How can you possibly?” He felt like she was trying to say something through the intensity of her stare, but he couldn’t possibly see what she was getting at.

“I don’t know.” He answered. Her face dropped, and he felt compelled to explain a bit more. “Think about them, I guess. To make up for how they can’t think of you. It’s silly, really, but it works for me. The first few weeks were… rough. I was chasing ghosts. Talking to holograms and hallucinations.” He looked out at the sea, at the screaming and laughing families. “But life goes on, I guess.”

“Thank you.” Clara shifted, and the Doctor’s gaze swept back to her. She scratched her ear, thinking how weird the waves sounded without her heartbeat, and she saw his attention go to her hand. Then her ear. Then her neck. He waited for a moment, frozen, as she slowly put her hand down. “Doctor?”

He looked up at her, concern and fear written over his face, and she got it. Ah. Right. No pulse.

He leaned over to her as she jumped away, smoothing out her clothes.

“Thank you for the talk--”

“Clara, you don’t have a pulse--”

“--but I really must be going now.”

“--I need to make sure you’re--” Clara strode forward and placed a hand over his mouth. She was still warm, which confused the Doctor to no end, but explained how he hadn’t noticed it sooner. Listening now, he only heard his two hearts.

“I’m fine.” He nodded, and she took her hand off of his mouth. Swallowing, the Doctor reached out his arm (to hug her? to make her stay?), and she shook his hand firmly.

“Goodbye, Doctor.”

“Goodbye, Clara Oswald.” He felt her small hand fall from his grip, and she walked away towards a diner he hadn’t noticed. She placed her hand on the front door, moving as if to push in, before looking back with that curious smile.

“Oh, and check your pockets.” And with that, the door swung open and she disappeared inside. The Doctor looked in his pockets, searching through them thoroughly (they were, after all, bigger on the inside), when a noise took him off guard. It was very faint, as if muted, but distinctly there. As he looked up in shock, the diner faded from his view, taking the TARDIS brake noise with it, and his hand found a folded piece of paper. He read it and rushed to the cliffside again, scanning the beach below, but the man in the bulky dress with the newspaper had vanished.

The Doctor slammed the doors to the TARDIS shut, relieved to be done with his strange mission. Unzipping his black coat, he threw it onto one of the seats, taking off his hat in the process. He left the sunglasses on, though. They suited him.

He had left the newspaper in the trash, as he had long since gotten bored with it; it had taken him three minutes to read, even dragging it out. He had memorized it front to back and was starting to make a wordsearch out of the first sentences in his mind when he had gotten the signal.

Sighing, he took off his suit jacket, throwing it onto the TARDIS columns next to him, and looked at the strange note once more. He didn’t quite remember how he had gotten it, just that he had been told to find it in his pocket. He supposed he would always wonder.

Doctor,

I know this is going to be very confusing for you. It’s quite timey-wimey, to borrow a phrase of yours. But I need you to do something for me, and you can’t ask questions. Your entire future is at stake.

I just met up with you, and in our conversation I said a lot of things I should not have. If you know them before they happen, fixed points will fall apart. So, I have devised a plan.

Put on a strong disguise and go to the beach off of Ptósi Fýllon Avenue at 11:00 am on the 23rd of November, 1997. Go down the cliff and onto the sand, but don’t stray too far. I have included a special set of earplugs that will account for your good hearing. I need you to read a newspaper that will be waiting for you there and find a place to sit.

I will be having a conversation with past you up on the cliff face. You must cross your time stream to make sure you don’t remember this. You must not look for me. You must not turn around. You may leave when you hear the noise of a TARDIS taking flight-- the earplugs are designed to let you hear it. This doesn’t mean I have a TARDIS-- I just know you get distracted sometimes and need a signal you won’t forget.

I’m sorry, but this needs to happen. Soon, you’ll forget it even did. Get rid of this note before that happens. It will be like we never spoke.

Thank you.

Love,

A friend

P. S. Before you go, see Donna again. At least once.

FIN

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