Hat!

[drakyndra]

I won the Shiny Hat, hurrah! Of course, I did get some competition, and ending up sniping someone for it at the very last minute. Mwahaha.

Now I just need to work out payment, since PayPal doesn't like me for some odd reason.

In other news, the Americanos just saw PotW. And so there is much wailing of the loss of Nine. I find it all really very funny, actually.

Of course, this is most likely because when I saw that episode I had no idea there was a regeneration at all, not being involved in fandom then, and so my response had been more along the lines of, "...WHAT?" (Though I was familiar with the concept of regeneration). But I didn't find it at all upsetting or anything, and so all the wailinga nd flailing and all just strikes me as slightly silly.

And I find silly so highly mockable.

Still, it's entertainment.

Comments

[van.livejournal.com]

where is all this wailing going on? I watched the finale, just because it was on, and then I reloaded my communities to see the fan reaction, but saw very little. I guess there's an American Doctor Who community or something?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

There is an American comm around somewhere, but I wasn't thinking of it. I was thinking more about the TwoP forums, which I watch mainly because of the pretention and laughable value. And there was something on time_and_chips, but I think it got deleted.

fan reaction

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

The noobs always crack me up. I was BROKEN when Four/Baker left. Now I am an old, bitter fangirl, who likes Ten better, anyway.

There is gnashing of teeth in fanville tonight.

Does this make me cool hanging with the Brits and all?

Re: fan reaction

[van.livejournal.com]

If either drakyndra or I was British, it'd probably make you cool, but since we're not, it's mostly just sort of silly.

But I love teeth gnashing. I want to see the wailing, hahaha.

And I hope more Nine-fic ensues. Because I love Ten but Nine is my Doctor. XD

Re: fan reaction

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I am still technically a n00b to this fandom, but I have the bonus of having seen some of the classic series before I actually became a fan, and having come from the crazy that is the Harry Potter fandom, which tends to develop an immunity to a lot of fandom crazy. Or at least teaches you to laugh at it.

And I always hang with the Brits. Possibly just because the whole Australia thing. And the fact that I have British family.

Re: fan reaction

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Actually, I remembered how I found some more of the wailing - when I'm bored, I tend to do a bit of flist surfing (I pick out someone on my flist, and read though their flist). I was reading the flist of an American sci-fi fan, so their flist also had a lot of American sci-fi fans, including people who had been watching Doctor Who. Hence, wailing.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Aww, you're so mean, teehee. I think it's quite sweet, really. They're exactly where I was 8 months or so ago.

Congrats on the hat! Looks like a Melbourne Cup Day hat if ever I saw one. ;)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It might be mean, but it's because I never had that reaction, and so it boggles me somewhat. I don't understand it on an emotional level, so I find it difficult to sympathise.

And you aren't the first to say so. And I have that red and black silk skirt, too... *ponders*

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Well, not mean mean, just fun giggly mean. If you know what I mean. Snerk. And also I've not gone looking for reactions beyond a couple of posts in dw_america, so I've not seen anything that was really overblown. TWoP forums are bad, are they?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Ah, the good kind of mean. And TWoP is more fangirl type reactions covered in insufferable pretention. Though I think I find them more amusing than the really are, since their shipper thread is the greatest case of missing the point of the series I have ever seen. (They all firmly believe Rose is going to have some great grand destiny, and hate on TGitF and Ten for not worshipping at the Altar Of Rose) Since I am so amused by that forum as a whole, I find even the smallest things their amusing now.

Though as I pointed out to someone else, the best reactions I have found were from randomly looking through other people's flists, and just finding reactions from people I had never heard of before.

[tencrush]

YAY for the shiny hat!!!!!!!
Also for recently deaded Nine.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

There is lots of yay in the world right now.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Dude! Shiny like woah, yes!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I think I win at hats.

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

I vaguely think I may have read a spoiler in there. But, since I didn't understand it, I'll let it go this time. :)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't make sense, it doesn't count as a spoiler. *nods firmly*