#malorie blackman writer

[thebeesareback]

I sometimes think of fictional characters who just seem to have the worst luck possible. They act with agency, but the author is out to get them and everything which could go wrong does. They just never have a good moment. For example, Tess Durbeyfield from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, or Catlyn Stark from A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. At some point it becomes almost funny, because it's so ridiculous that this could happen. My number one unlucky girly is Sephy Hadley from the Noughts and Crosses series. Across five books my good bitch:

1- deals with her alcoholic mother

2- is nearly killed in a terrorist attack

3- gets kidnapped

4- is raped (she and the narrative don't consider it rape, but I have reservations)

5- watches her kidnapper/rapist/boyfriend die

6- sees her sister get stabbed

7- receives a letter from her dead kidnapper/rapist/boyfriend telling her how much he hates her, right after she had his baby (Callie)

8- develops post-natal depression

9- nearly kills Callie after a mental breakdown (unsurprising, really)

10- Callie is groomed by a terrorist

11- Sephy's mother gets breast cancer

12- Sephy's mother takes the material intended for Callie to use as a suicide bomb and instead blows herself up

13- Sephy's daughter Callie is shot and spends several weeks unconscious and in hospital

14- Sephy is blackmailed an extorted by a gang member from the gang who shot Callie

15- Sephy's husband is killed in a hit-and-run orchestrated by her ex-boyfriend

16- Sephy's son (with her dead husband) is abducted by her daughter's ex-boyfriend's baby mama

17- Sephy's daughter's ex-boyfriend (falsely) accuses Sephy of murder

18- Sephy tries to rescue her son from a car bomb but is shot and killed

anyway poor Sephy :(

[scriptscribbles]

Quick Doctor Who women fact check

I know I replied to this shit a while back but I'm gonna make my own post to avoid giving it more notes.

It is factually true that Doctor Who did not have any women write between 2008 and 2015. It sucks.

This is not, however, solely a Moffat problem. It's an industry problem where women are underrepresented in genre media, including across Doctor Who.

So, numbers. In Russell T Davies' era, ONLY ONE WOMAN wrote for Doctor Who, Helen Raynor (lately a TERF who stands with Rowling and campaigns against trans kids going to the bathroom, too, before you decide to stan). She wrote four episodes, two part stories for the third and fourth series.

Moffat went around asking for women to write the show but has talked about having a hard time finding people who he wanted and were interested. When he did finally get Catherine Tregenna and Sarah Dollard in for the ninth series, he even mentioned Tregenna had been asked before, having "turned us down in the past, but I talked her into it with an idea she really liked." Dollard for her part ended up contributing two episodes for the ninth and tenth series, and was joined in the latter by Rona Munro, who became the only person to write both the classic and new series.

Chris Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who foregrounded giving a break to new talent unlike RTD and Moffat who tended to get established writers. That meant getting the first poc to write Who as well as seven women in Malorie Blackman, Joy Wilkinson, Nina Metivier, Charlene James, Maxine Alderton, and Ella Road. That said unlike Davies and Moffat he cowrote with most of them, with only three episodes in his run credited solely to women.

Directors fare better, with series 1 and 2 under Davies and series 6 and 7 under Moffat being the only series of Doctor Who not having episodes directed by women. Rachel Talalay of course deserves a special shout-out for being the definitive Moffat/Capaldi director and being the only woman to direct finales (for series 8, 9, and 10!) or Christmas specials for the series!

Hiring people from marginalized groups is always a struggle we can all do better on, especially in industries that are overwhelmingly dominated by white dudes. To put it on the shoulders of one man for failing when he put work in to fix that because Tumblr has a hate boner is deeply silly.

[evviejo]

it cracks me up how in The Post About No Women Writers in Doctor Who Between 2008-2015 people try to defend rtd and moffat and bash on chibnall by saying "at least rtd and moffat had queer writers, so there was diversity" and by "queer writers" they mean rtd himself (how generous of him to give himself the opportunity!) and mark gatiss (a.k.a. close collaborator of notoriously misogynistic moffat).

and then they completely leave out the fact that the first time there was a person of colour with a writing credit was in chibnall era (malorie blackman co-writing rosa) and that there indeed was a queer writer involved (ella road co-writing legend of the sea devils). and sure, they both collaborated on those with chibnall, but he still had a black woman involved to write about racism and a queer woman to write a sapphic relationship focused episode.

and chibnall managed to do much better in 31 episodes than either rtd or moffat did in 60 and 84 episodes respectively. was this perfect and no further work is required? sure not. but he at least tried instead of throwing a hissy fit over how "young writers are so angry and their scripts are sooo bad". he actually got them on board, collaborated with them, and gave them a platform. this is the way forward.

[leikeliscomet]

Flop and Bubble - Part 3/End - The Writers Room

When I recommended I May Destroy You, Mood, Dreaming Whilst Black and Champion it wasn’t just because they were Black British shows, even though that’s part of it. It was because they all represented similar themes to Dot and Bubble with more tact, nuance and depth than that episode could ever dream of. Arabella’s social media dependency became her outlet because she thought it was the only way to reclaim power after her assault. Sasha’s obsession with social media is because she knows social currency can turn financial and in her dire situation, she needs the reach. Kwabena’s outbursts take place inside his head because even though he knows he’s right, he knows what the consequences are if he speaks out and he walks the tightrope of validation and authenticity. Vita’s musical image is under control by her white manager because her roles as a dark-skinned Black woman in the music industry are limited. I also recommended them because they all reflect the dissonance between Black British media and creatives and white British media like Doctor Who. Every show essentially is the story of a Black British creative struggling to ‘make it’ in their respective industry. Arabella’s book. Sasha’s EP. Kwabena’s short film. Vita’s music career. Each of these reflects the struggle of the Black British creative in real life from lack of funds, the right imagery and ultimately what the white British consumer wants.

Again, by giving Black people our creative agency, there’s a place for Black experiences that Doctor Who can’t provide, or at least could but hasn’t. In Doctor Who, Adjani Salmon was just that guy with the ‘weird hair’ from that Eve of the Daleks episode. In Dreaming Whilst Black, he’s the creator and lead actor of a critically acclaimed show, BAFTA nominated alongside David Tennant. In Doctor Who, Malorie Blackman was just that Black woman that made Rosa. In Noughts and Crosses, she’s a critically acclaimed author, the first Black Children’s Laureate and to me, a massive inspiration that showed me Black girls can be book protagonists too. In Doctor Who, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair is the ‘worst companion of the whole show’, a bad actor and a cardboard cutout. In Supacell, he’s the leading man and a breakout star of 2024. Where Doctor Who fails in Black representation, Black British media gets it right. In a bittersweet sense, I know the true representation I’d want from the show won’t come (or not at least for a very long time) but I know where it could be outside it. To repeat from previous essays, I don’t expect the perfect Black representation to come from Doctor Who as it's a predominantly white show intended for a white audience. I only expect the bare minimum of living up to its promise (which it made all by itself by the way) of having ‘space for all’, in this case providing Black representation both in and behind the screen. If it can’t do that, then at least be honest and say you just don’t want us here. It saves a lot of time. We can make our own spaces where we’re actually wanted.

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The tone drastically changes when you shift from performing for white validity to defending yourself and essentially, stop chasing after the boat. It’s harsh and cold. It even exists in the show. When Martha defended herself she was ‘aggressive’. When Mickey and Danny called out their mistreatment they became ‘abusive’. When the Fugitive held a gun she never fired she was ‘violent’. The price you pay for not chasing after the boat is that you become the Bogeyman. It’s very clear from the responses I got from my OG thread, many white fans and non-Black fans of colour wanted me to stay in my place and be grateful for the steaming dump I was given. How dare I not bow before RTD? He wrote about racism and he’s got a Black guy what else can you want? Isn’t that enough? Didn’t he try his best? Isn’t RTD’s best good enough? 

No. It’s not good enough. I don’t care who cries about me saying this. As I’ve already addressed in my Fugitive Doctor essay, I’m not crediting Black stories to RTD. Simply enjoying his work is fine. I enjoy his work myself, specifically the Sarah Jane Adventures, It’s a Sin and Years & Years. But when the Doctor Who fandom claims RTD, a white writer, is the reason for progress in Black representation and Black art over the countless Black creatives who’ve worked before him, the same time as him and after him, I will always, always push back on that as a Black person. I had no reason to gas this episode because it disappointed me from the initial watch and rewatch. From the disgusting antiblackness I experienced from this fandom for critiquing Dot and Bubble, I have zero reason to ever call it a good story about my own experience as a Black person. If you’re looking for a Black user to gas this episode to make your interest in this episode and season look morally superior and woke, it’s not happening. I don’t need to consider your disagreements, your interpretations, your opinions or your permission to dislike Dot and Bubble as a Black person. I will also push back on the bold comments made by RTD himself. You have a Black character and racism plot. Cool. How this is written and how this plays out is what actually matters to me than it just simply existing. Allyship isn’t the state of going from racist to anti-racist overnight. It’s not clinging onto the nearest Black person for dear life. It’s through consistent actions and support that someone becomes an ally. For once, you aren’t instantly rewarded for just showing up, you have to do more than the bare minimum. And that’s the closest to the Black British experience this fandom will ever get.

In a renaissance of Black British media, if Doctor Who’s getting any accolades from me, it needs to keep up. The idea I have to praise an episode just because ‘it's the racism one’, with shallow messages meant to soothe the ego of its audience instead of challenge it, with no Black writers in the creation process, no original theme of racism to begin with and that dozens of pieces of Black media have done a hell of a lot better, to sum it up, is a fucking joke. Black creatives don’t have to ask permission to create and represent ourselves. We just have to get on with it because it’s not gonna create itself. I’m not asking for permission to hate this dutty episode. I’m not chasing after that boat.

<- Part 2

[13thdoctorposts]

has anyone else noticed how reactions and consensus on 13 has been RETROACTIVELY negative? I know there's been an intensely misogynistic hate campaign since Jodie was announced but I also noticed that when you look at old posts from when s11 especially was freshly aired, there was a lot more good faith engagement with the show and genuine excitement in fandom. It seems like covid gave the bad faith actors the opportunity to take over fandom and force their narratives on everyone.

Yeah a really great example of this is if you look back to tweets from the night Rosa aired the praise was very very high, now if you bring it up in the fandom you would think it was terrible and racist.

On YouTube I was told the writers, both of them Chibs and Malorie Blackman were incompetent because they doesn’t show how bad the racism really was, yet the episode starts with one of our companions being physically assaulted and told to be careful so not to end up like Emmett Till, some one who had just been murdered acting as if the show was sugar coating what life was like back then. Oh and of course with the Chibs slander that he’s racist because he may have hired a woman of colour to write the script, but she is English not American and he should have made sure it was an American or not done the episode at all

Malorie Blackman is an award winning author claiming she’s an incompetent writer is pretty incredible accusation.

Here’s some of the tweets from articles praising the episode.

I think 2 things hurt 13 era who and they weren’t Chibs and Jodie. It was the unhinged toxicity the fandom constantly spewed and then even after things got praised as you said people would go back and nitpick to a level they never ever do with any other era and 2nd not having a big enough marketing budget and brand manger series 12 and 13 suffered most from this because the BBC did put the marketing money into series 11 even if they didn’t have a brand manager, and Chibs mentions this in the Radio Free Skaro podcast from last year that the BBC put a huge marking budget into series 11 but series 12 and 13 basically the budget was… you can only advertise on the BBC because there’s no money for anything else.

Rosa is just one example but there was a lot of praise for the work at the time of release and it’s quite possible general public viewers may have just stoped engaging on social after series 11 because they would then be piled on, and people in the online fandom knew they couldn’t go to social saying they loved an episode so they started picking it apart before putting their thoughts out there so they could be on trend with the haters who were gonna pile on if they didn’t fall in line.

Seriously if there’s ever a down fall to doctor who the ‘fans’ will be it because they would rather hate on the thing they supposedly love than love it. And ever era has its super questionable moments but if you bring them up for any other era you just being petty, or it isn’t that big of a deal, or ‘it’s of the time’ it’s just excuse after excuse.

I’ve seen people upset about the fact that RTD dead named Rose in the star beast, something very legitimate because now all the right wing idiots of the fandom use that name and the people who were upset get piled on if they say anything because they should be happy that RTD is trying to give them representation… but these same people when Chibs tried to give rep though a female doctor, or an episode like Rosa or Ryans disability, say Chibs is a right wing capitalist, sexist, racist, ablest, you don’t hear them saying hey he was really trying by getting people of colour to write their stories, by getting directors with the same heritage to direct episodes, he work with a dyspraxia organisation to help write Ryan, brought in the first 2 female Doctors and the 1st Doctor of colour who was also a woman, the 1st master of colour, the first Doctor who admitted to having feeling for a companion of the same sex and the episode where the doctor admits those feeling is co written with a queer woman, oh no Chibs gets no grace for tryi neg he did everything wrong but RTD everyone should be thankful for.

I don’t understand the level of hate. Not liking something is one thing but a part of this fandom has made 13 era who seem like the anti christ of Doctor Who, when really it tried a lot harder to involve more people in it then ever before.

[spiced-wine-fic]

“It’s not about finding your voice,” he says. “It’s about guarding it and keeping it real and authentic. It’s about keeping it yours.”

“Read lots of poems,” she says. “I believe it probably isn’t possible to write a good poem unless you’ve read some good poetry.”

Moore, whose work includes the graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta, says: “It is probably fair to say that a person will be precisely as good a writer as they are a reader.” 

the old adage that you should write what you know is “dreadful advice”. He says there are “very few people in the world who know enough to make a story genuinely exciting”.

Instead, he says, “what you must do is write what you feel. Analyse your feelings. Then take those feelings and blow them up huge.”

“Read terrible books, because they can be more inspiring than good books,” says Moore. “If you’re inspired by a good book, there is always the danger of plagiarism, of writing something too close to it. Whereas a genuinely helpful reaction to a piece of work that you’re reading is: ‘Jesus Christ, I could write this shit.’

[thealogie]

ah forgot to include in my ask, but the episode is written by malorie blackman (with chibnall i believe), who is a black woman (but british), and i don’t remember the name of the guy who directed it, but hes also black. which is why i originally did try to read it more positively or at least try to get what they were thinking. but i can’t understand how they arrived at that plot ultimately. chibnall also cowrote the episode with pro-life vibes (which i also do think it more accidental than malicious but what the hell??)

That’s pretty unfortunate. I didn’t check because it wouldn’t occur to me that a black writer would make white doctor do All That. I mean who knows if the writers came up with the plot, no blame. Just. Why

[wizardysseus]

anyone who says only one era of dr who is misogynistic is selling something: by the numbers

series 1: 0 female writers or directors

series 2: 0 female writers or directors

series 3: 1 female writer (helen raynor, "daleks in manhattan/evolution of the daleks"), 1 female director (hettie macdonald, "blink")

series 4: 1 female writer (helen raynor again, "the sontaran stratagem/the poison sky"), 1 female director (alice troughton, "the doctor's daughter," "midnight")

no specials written or directed by women.

total: 1 female writer across 4 episodes, 2 female directors across 3 episodes, out of 4 seasons (60 episodes and specials)

series 5: 0 female writers, 1 female director (catherine morshead, "amy's choice," "the lodger")

series 6: 0 female writers or directors

series 7: 0 female writers or directors

series 8: 0 female writers, 2 female directors (sheree folkson, "in the forests of the night"; rachel talalay, "dark water/death in heaven")

series 9: 2 female writers (catherine tregenna, "the woman who lived"; sarah dollard, "face the raven"), 2 female directors (hettie macdonald, "the magician's apprentice/the witch's familiar", rachel talalay again, "heaven sent/hell bent")

series 10: 2 female writers (sarah dollard again, "thin ice"; rona munro, "eaters of light"), 1 female director (rachel talalay back at it again, "world enough and time/the doctor falls")

1 special directed by a woman ("twice upon a time," rachel talalay again).

total: 3 female writers across 4 episodes, 4 female directors across 12 episodes, out of 6 seasons (84 episodes and specials)

series 11: 2 female writers (malorie blackman, co-writing with chris chibnall on "rosa"; joy wilkinson, "the witchfinders"), 2 female directors (sallie aprahamian, "arachnids in the uk," "the witchfinders"; jennifer perrott, "the tsuranga conundrum," "kerblam!")

series 12: 3 female writers (nina metivier, "nikola tesla's night of terror"; charlene james, co-writing with chris chibnall on "can you hear me?"; maxine alderton, "the haunting of villa diodati"), 2 female directors (nida manzoor, "nikola tesla's night of terror," "fugitive of the judoon"; emma sullivan ("can you hear me?" "the haunting of villa diodati")

series 13: 1 female writer (maxine alderton again, co-writing with chris chibnall on "village of the angels"), 0 female directors

1 special co-written by a woman ("legend of the sea devils," ella road with chris chibnall). 2 specials directed by women ("eve of the daleks," annetta laufer; "legend of the sea devils," haolu wang).

total: 6 female writers or co-writers across 7 episodes, 6 female directors across 10 episodes, out of 3 seasons (31 episodes and specials)

i did all this basic math just so that i would know, for my own personal databanks, but since it's done i may as well post it. just some food for thought. chibnall's era is the only one where the numbers or percentages increase anything like significantly, and even so, i don't think anyone wins here.

if you were to run this for writers and directors of color, it would also very quickly become depressing.

[krill-joy]

"Let him go out of print,” the author of His Dark Materials said on Monday. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that people should instead explore writers such as Malorie Blackman, Michael Morpurgo and Beverley Naidoo. “Read all of these wonderful authors who are writing today, who don’t get as much of a look-in because of the massive commercial gravity of people like Roald Dahl.”

Yes!

[doctorwhoisadhd]

[ID: reply reading "I'm sorry but no, the Chibnal era was just bad. Nothing good about it." /end ID]

nothing good about his era is a stretch considering chibnall era had the first ever

south asian TV companion (yaz) (also first asian woman companion. and first muslim companion.)

asian actor to play an incarnation of the master (sacha dhawan)

writer of color to work on doctor who (malorie blackman)

black woman to write an episode of a dwu show (malorie blackman)

asian person to write for TV (vinay patel)

composer of color to work on the show (segun akinola)

black director (mark tonderai)

asian woman to direct an episode (nida manzoor)

black woman to direct an episode (annette laufer)

chinese person to direct an episode (haolu wang - also, she directed legend of the sea devils, which had to have been on purpose)

also of the 12 female writers who have written for dw so far (not counting lesley scott who was credited but didnt actually write it) literally half of them were during chibnall era and 6/10 of the writers during his era were women which is twice as many female writers as either the entire classic era or moffat era.

like. im not saying chibnalls era was perfect or anything but. this is a LOT of things that just did not happen under previous showrunners.

"doctor who is good now" umm doctor who has always been good and more importantly it has always been bad. from bad doctor who we come and to bad doctor who we shall return (never left in the first place)

[missamyshay]

Tst: who is your favorite writer? Have they influenced your writing style? 💞

Ooo good question! I’m not sure 😂

I grew up on Malorie Blackman and Jacqueline Wilson and I think one thing I’ve carried from that period of my life is the writing of distinct character voices. Especially with Blackman—her characters have such a distinct sound, an individual sense of humour, their own specific metaphors for seeing the world, and that’s something that’s definitely influenced me. I also grew up on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, and there’s a lot I took from that too. Mainly, the mundane, simplicity of how she describes love. There’s something so grounded about it that is so convincing to me.

As an adult, some of the authors I’ve been drawn to include—

James Baldwin: Baldwin’s way with words is something I’ll always be in awe of. The way he can stretch a moment, and make his characters so 3D is inspiring. Another Country was one of those books that changed my brain chemistry for the better and his work has definitely inspired the way I write.

Haruki Murakami: I’m not quite sure what, if anything, has influenced me from his wonderfully weird writing, but I’ve never been bored reading a Murakami book. Perhaps that’s the influence, actually—not to be boring!

And lastly, the poetry of Warsan Shire—the lyricism is something I strive for in my own writing.

Sorry for the yapping! x

[qudachuk]

Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good onesThe key to being a good writer? It’s...

[13thdoctorposts]

Oh the disrespect to Malorie Blackman from fandom proves the backlash is bigoted. As a millennial Brit I've always known her to be immensely respected as an author and social activist, Pig Heart Boy and the Noughts and Crosses books were big back in the day. It's amazing Chibs got her to write and a fitting one for her to write. If you're familiar with her books you'll recognise just how her the episode is. But also because she was wanting a female Doctor since 2013 so it's so cool she got to write for the first.

I don’t think I’ve ever been infuriated more than when I had someone supposedly attacking me from the left that Malorie and Chibs were incompetent writers on Rosa because it wasn’t horrible enough. Malorie is an award winning children’s writer and was brought on to write the first historical of the era with the whole point being that it was a story that would be accessible for children to understand. She is a perfect choice because of her professional status to do that. Also if you listen to in audio commentary she talks about the level of research she did for that episode, and it’s a lot. She even mentions that she made sure Frank Sinatra would be playing around that time period for the ‘reward’ 13 offers the other bus driver because she knew if she got it wrong fans would point it out. Like I don’t understand how you can say the episode is racist and the writer was incompetent and some how sit on some virtue pedestal when calling an award wining woman of colour writer incompetent.

Also people saying that Demons of the Punjab doesn’t vilify the British enough… generally the white lefty anti 13 types say this… Vinay wrote that story drawing on his family’s experience… who are these white lefty anti 13 types to say to a person who’s family lived through this situation that they didn’t write their story right??? Also it is pretty clear in the episode the British are to blame, it’s mentioned serval times we just don’t see the bad British white mans face who’s the villain and that’s because that’s a different story! This is a story focusing on how this broke families and tore loved ones apart, it’s not a story about the British it’s a story about the people who were affected.

[daxromana]

Hey! Let's look at some numbers.

During all of RTD's run, there were 4 episodes written by a woman, out of 60 episodes total. That means 6.7% of episodes were written by a woman. Of the 16 different credited writers who worked on RTD's run, there was 1 woman. That means that 6.3% of the writers were women.

During all of Moffat's run, there were 4 episodes written by a woman, out of 84 episodes total. That means 4.8% of episodes were written by a woman. Of the 20 different credited writers who worked on Moffat's run, there were 3 women. That means that 15% of the writers were women.

During all of Chibnall's run, there were 7 episodes written by a woman, out of 31 episodes total. That means 22.6% of episodes were written by a woman. Of the 10 different credited writers who worked on Chibnall's run, there were 6 women. That means that 60% of the writers were women.

(If you're wondering about the discrepancy between those two percentages, part of it is that Chibnall wrote (or co-wrote) 77.4% of the episodes from his era, compared to RTD's 48.3% or Moffat's 48.8%.)

Interesting! Let's look at directors too, just for more information.

During all of RTD's run, there were 3 episodes directed by a woman, out of 60 episodes total. That means that 5% of episodes were directed by a woman. Of the 15 different credited directors who worked on RTD's run, there were 2 women. That means that 13.3% of the directors were women.

During all of Moffat's run, there were 12 episodes directed by a woman, out of 84 episodes total. That means that 14.3% of episodes were directed by a woman. Of the 33 different credited directors who worked on Moffat's run, there were 4 women. That means that 12.1% of the directors were women.

During all of Chibnall's run, there were 10 episodes directed by a woman, out of 31 episodes total. That means that 32.3% of episodes were directed by a woman. Of the 12 different credited directors who worked on Chibnall's run, there were 6 women. That means that 50% of the directors were women.

So, from these numbers, it doesn't look like Moffat was unusually bad, so much as Chibnall was unusually good. Chibnall made it a point in his time as showrunner to commit to diversity both in front of and behind the camera.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Series 11, Chibnall's first, featured the first two Doctor Who episodes ever written by people of color - Demons of the Punjab by Vinay Patel and Rosa by Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall. And for directors, 6 out of 12 of them were people of colour.

I think that the numbers for RTD and Moffat indicate that they were not particularly committed to sharing women's voices. It indicates not malice but an industry situation that takes active effort to counter. And even given Chibnall's commitment, the numbers from his era are not ideal; there is still improvement to be seen.

I hope that the intentional inclusion of women's voices and the voices of people of colour continues into the future of Doctor Who. I hope that we get a female showrunner and more female writers. I think that all showrunners, not just for Doctor Who but for all shows, have the responsibility to make that active effort to include voices that have been historically marginalized.

you ever learn something you wish you didn't? I, for example, just learned that between 2008 and 2015 not a single episode of Doctor Who aired that was written by a woman. Between The Sontaran Stratagem, a story with David Tennant as the Doctor, and The Woman Who Lived, a Peter Capaldi story, not a single episode was written by a woman.

[plasticterrarium]

Just saw an angry (white) tiktok creator dragging the DrWhomst episode Rosa because “the writers were clearly racist”

Malorie Blackman wrote that episode so……….