#the fact that RTD went back and fixed Donna’s ending is a response TO MOFFAT making Clara have agency over her ending
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derrygirlstrash · 2 months ago
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Skill issue.
I’d love to be allowed to be as flawed and clever and mad and wonderful and nuanced as a Moffat Woman. I’d love to reclaim my narrative against fate itself and find myself a happy ending even after death. I’d love to still be sexy when women are past the age of being allowed to be in media.
I’d love not having to be perfect to be a victim and be able to stick it to the people who made me one with their so-called “harmless” thoughts and actions. I’d love to be able to look a man who betrayed me in the face and tell him that he is the problem and his jokes aren’t harmless.
I’d love to find my fairytale. I’d love to be a sapphic given immortality to travel with my lover and I’d love to do all of this with insanely good banter and character moments.
This is a skill issue on your part, being a Moffat Woman would be fucking awesome.
If there’s one fictional thing I’d never want to be, it would be a Woman Written By Steven Moffat. I’m not sure what this guy’s deal is, but he has an awful habit of creating badass yet sexualised female characters and then killing them tragically before they can be properly developed, then having them mourned by a sopping wet cat of a man. Now, some of these characters are my absolute favourite parts of the show - Clara Oswald, River Song and Missy for example, and there are a few exceptions such as Bill Potts, but I just think it would be a terrifying fate. I mean, can you even imagine? You’re wandering around a very dodgy London/space location in a short skirt with a thousand witty quips on the tip of your tongue, being trailed by a skinny guy in an unusual outfit, then you get shot or something and it’s very sad and tragic. I would just hate it.
#steven moffat#not derry girls#doctor who#Of course no show beats Derry Girls for being the best at portraying womanhood#but I maintain the likes of Douglas is Cancelled and Doctor Who and Press Gang are good as well#I don’t normally do responses but this was in the tag and I just want cool gifsets and analysis#also what the fuck /respectfully do you mean ‘and then you get shot or something?’#the point is that death doesn’t have to be the end for the Doctor Who women#they died AND THEN they live on somehow#and live full lives#like the Doctor!!!#why should he be the only one to live past death#it’s!!! building up to Thirteen thematically!!!#if anyone got the fridging treatment it was Rory but that doesn’t fit him as a sexist writer now does it#amazing how the companions and River Song reclaiming themselves after a death of sorts is dismissed#they quite literally have some of the most blatant agency any male writer has given their women#or have we forgotten Donna was mindwiped and Rose was given a clone of her love to pacify her loss#the fact that RTD went back and fixed Donna’s ending is a response TO MOFFAT making Clara have agency over her ending#I WILL BITE THINGS ACTUALLY I DO NOT CARE#Autism and ADHD walk into a bar and someone insults Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who writing: 👀😤😡🤬#I would actually go so far as to say as far as straight white make writers go Moffat is S-tier at writing women#“oh but he writes sex comedy! respectfully - fucking so what?#most of the bad Matt Smith moments were ad-libbed by the actors anyway so#and one written by Neil Gaiman#so#there’s that#also why CANT older women do sex comedy?#they should it is subversive actually#Bill Potts is me a black sapphic but Amy Pond is also me: neurodivergent and an outsider#and Clara is me: lowkey a control freak and River is me: curly hair and sex jokes
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