#but i'm just. god. ppl do not care enough abt female characters

[yardsards]

also a few people in the notes brought up:

it seems (from rough observation, not any surveys yet) that in general fandom culrure:

-a lot of characters that are commonly headcanoned as trans men are male in canon (ie the character transitioned years before canon)

-a lot of characters that are commonly headcanoned as trans women are... also male in canon (ie the character is still an egg/closeted)

and i think that raises a lot about 1: fandom's seeming inability to connect to characters that are female in canon 2: the differences in how people view trans men vs trans women and our transition processes

"he's a girl to me" isn't a substitution for ever giving a shit about female characters

[mclwcc]

why did i think u were british this whole time. i just now noticed the romanian and i have been following u for an embarrassingly long time. omg i'm so sorry.

i was going to ask u if the UK is really this puritanical bc like. i was raised by some right-wingers who taught me that if i even danced with someone i was not married to, i would spend eternity burning in hell, and i still couldn't rlly bring myself to care abt a guy in his mid-20s making sex jokes enough to be offended abt it. but i mean u are not british so that doesn't matter now.

this also begs the question why are ppl getting moral/life advice from multimillionaires. like if lando gets a STD, he just goes and gets treatment. if an american gets a STD, they go bankrupt. u rlly have to put how promiscuous u can be in perspective of ur circumstances unless u want gangrenous genitals from chlamydia. also like if ur george russell or lance stroll or max verstappen or— and u physically harm someone, all u have to do is issue an apology. if ur quite literally a normal person, ur going to jail for that shit like u cannot behave like a multimillionaire under any circumstances unless u are also a multimillionaire bc one of three things will happen: 1) jail, 2) bankruptcy, 3) the end.

sorry for making u read my incoherent thoughts again but i know u appreciate a good landogate. i just don't really get this one. like wow local man in his twenties cracks nsfw jokes w his friends and experiences horniness. did these people never become traumatized by omegle. bc this isn't abnormal behavior for a man in his 20s spotted in the wild online. it's actually quite tame.

hi anon! so like first off ur not entirely wrong abt the british thing - i am romanian but ive been living in the uk for like 4 years now, u mightve seen a reference to that and assumed i was english. but bc ive been living there for a while i can quite confidently say that no, english people are not generally puritanical at all, much less than in america anyways. maybe theres more value put on decorum and politeness but i generally associate religiously-fuelled prudishness with american protestantism lmao. anyways

my thing is ive just come back from a vacation where i had no roaming so i genuinely have no idea whether ive missed smth major lmao. from what i could tell the thing ur talking abt is lando making dirty jokes on stream and ppl allegedly getting upset at that (??) which unless thats all been happening on twitter and i just havent seen it bc i deleted the app (god bless) (likely), the whole 'drama' seems to stem from one clickbait article by a clickbait sports news publication that seems to b based in india rather than the uk. was this abt the way landos (british) friends responded to him on stream? bc from what i could tell they were also participating in the moaning and calling themselves daddy activities. otherwise like what predominantly british public did u see upset? its quite odd as a thing to happen

not saying this isnt a pattern w lando tho - back in 2020 idk if u were around but if u were, u should rmbr how dire the situation was. basically anyone who'd make a sex joke around lando was essentially corrupting god's most darlingest little baby boy, how dare they. theres a certain amount of infantilisation around lando that thank god isnt happening as much anymore but maybe its reared its ugly head again. or, if ppl r getting mad at him for Corrupting His Audience (if theyre getting mad at all - again ive only seen ppl saying it was totally fine and funny), then this just represents his full flip into the whore part of the madonna whore dichotomy. the same reason miley cyrus twerking at the 2013 vmas wouldve been so much more scandalous than another female singer that hadnt previously had a child-friendly teen star image.

i dont rly know how to address the whole life advice paragraph - i rly dont think lando talking abt a girl character in fortnite shooting cream out of her palms or propellers or smth is exactly life advice. lando specifically has quite a complicated relationship w his position as a role model and he often worries abt the 'advice' he gives ppl - smth thats also like, true, hes a v sheltered 23 year old who lacks a lot of normal life experiences bc his professional career basically started around age 7. idrk what to say abt the whole std thing bc like not only have i not heard lando talk actual details abt his potential promiscuity beyond a couple vague jokes, but also bc ive never had to think abt going into debt over chlamydia doamne pazeste. also like idk if i push someone nothing happens but if max verstappen does it on an international broadcast he has to do community service for it so 🤷🏻���♀️ u win some u lose some. not rly sure of the point u wanted to make if im totally frank lol

tldr like yeah f1 drivers r mainly irresponsible athletes in an extreme sport and u shouldnt model ur life after them. but also op ur life sounds terrifying like 'jail / bankrupcy / the end' sounds like either the way US capitalism works (big up the prison industrial complex) or oscar wilde's new years resolutions in january 1895 lmao

[ssaalexblake]

ngl I'm testy about ppl (few I've seen, I haven't looked very far) who ignore 13's development into grumpy passive aggressive closed off about trauma in this episode, when - as I much love them - 10 and 11 got meta for literally every inflection. (extra bitter cos my god is cold moody dealing relatable, and I adore her for it)

I gave up looking at other peoples opinions abt 13′s mood right about the time i found out a whole lot of men thought her smile at the dalek in resolutions was  Friendly.  Ok, that’s a lie, i didn’t care to do that Before i found that out, but it was the final nail in the coffin. 

Honestly, every member of team tardis is getting short changed by a lot of people, not just 13. The Lack of a That Age white man to obsess over Always displays fandom bias in the most obvious way doesn’t it? People said 13 lacked depth throughout all of S11, yet a whole bunch of people and myself managed to get enough of a grip on her character that we’ve managed to predict a number of things that have now actually happened in s12 and we’re only 3 episodes in (idk about anybody else, but i didn’t watch the season a million times either), and tbh, a few of my other predictions look to be pretty on the money for happening soon, too.

This doesn’t even go into the rest of the cast who’re also getting shortchanged, for various reasons, I could Also write missives on Yaz’s facial expressions tbh??? Like, the sheer difference between Yaz’s sappy look at 13 back in s11 when she called her the best person she’s ever met contrasted with the sharp, loud anger when she confronted 13 about if she was lying? Incredible. Not to mention the utter Terror on her face at some moments in orphan 55, not sure if anybody’s giffed it yet but i will if they haven’t, but she was utterly terrified. What a Change. 

Honestly, i’ve just found a bunch of people in the fandom who Do notice these things and talk about them and stick around them, tbh, but i’m never gonna be surprised that when a fandom is given a complex performance by a woman that they entirely miss all the subtleties because they Don’t Actually Care, no matter how much they falsely claim it’s that they dislike or don’t care about female characters because they’re written shallowly (or like, anybody But a white man in a certain age group, to be fair). I just sit there going ‘sure jan’. 

It’s ironic though, I think Jodie’s performance as the doctor is the one who most Needs dissecting by fandom, because her doctor is actively Trying to take a strong hold of their own loud obnoxiousness and negative feelings and responses and suppress them, so you have to look harder to see it. The doctors before her who got micro analysed (ten-eleven) were often blatant more than subtle, and yet are the ones that get frame by frame dissections. 

*shrug emoji* i just stick to the edit tag, maybe a ship tag or two, and stick around the people whose opinions i respect tbh, and ur never gonna totally block out the crap, but i’ve successfully limited it?? Like, i still get random men making snide comments on my posts that actually bother to analyse 13, saying it’s all crap and i’m making stuff up because she’s boring or flat or whatever, but eh. 

if you wanna be mr. rude boring mckilljoy whatever, i don’t have to deal with it. 

But her descent into moody grumpiness and not being able to deal with her feelings is so interesting!!! and it’s sad ppl ignore it. She’s still the doctor. Y’all loved stuff like this before when it was tennant doing it.