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There are Tennant/Piper RP shippers at the OG. Yes, really. The world is quite possibly doomed.

Actually, I reckon that's the first sign of the apocalypse.

The next ones are as follows:

- The Passive-Aggressive Pink Icon Brigade is one the move.

- The last paragraph of Jacob's latest recap actually made me tear up. Oh, Mickey...

That's three signs. How many is it generally before the world actually ends?

I'd like to forwarned, you see.

And that's one more rec up. Or down. Or whatever. Four more to go.

Ah yes, on the Shipper Apocalypse. Oddly enough, over at the TWoP GitF thread, it's pretty much non-existant. As in, verging on near universal love for the ep. Which was... unexpected.

Kudos, Americanos.

That said, I suspect that the UK (or downloading) shipper/Rosefen lot are mostly staying out of the that thread. And Jacob has a pinned "Do not make me have to pull Mod on you" notice.

Surprisingly large proportion of "This was my first Doctor Who ep ever, and I loved it" posts. What else was on before/after that meant people were watching?

In any case, happy to see something I adore get the love I think it's earnt. Even if I was kinda looking for some LOLworthy wank.

The only bitching I have seen so far is certain LJ types. Note to the uninformed: You can't use "It was just an excuse for Tennant to get his girlfriend on the show" as a criticism. Before filming, they had only met once. They only hooked up during/after. Sorry, your argument is a failure!

Next rec up at crack_van! (You really think I could go all month without at least one Ten/Reinette fic?)

In other fandomly news:

Jacob's TCI recap is up. It's as pretentious and tl;dr as ever, but as far as I could tell the word "intimacy" did not show up at all. (If it did I blocked it from my memory). But, I am glad to note, it touches on the "Rose losing her self/humanity" theme multiple times - nostalgia_lj might be interested to hear that. And there's a Peter Pan metaphor used in there at one point. You can kinda tell he's seen all of S2, really.

In fact, Mr Jacob himself went and showed up at the OG TWOP thread. And I was interested at his logic behind this strategy: "Plus, I have to conquer the shippers, don't you see? Or else S3 will be a bitch, and I'm ever so lazy."

Iiinteresting.

On another fandom note, does anyone else find that when people they know and whose opinions they respect find something about their canon rageworthy, you feel vaguely... guilty for just liking the show, and not noticing these things? As in, you can see their point, and you know there are some deep issues in the writing, and yet when you are watching, you love it so much you really don't care? I feel like I'm a bad person for liking things, sometime.

And away from fandom, and onto Uni.

We used Clag in my Astronomy prac today. Clag! At Uni! It made me giggle wildly, it was just so strange. Oh, and Astronomy test results are back. I got 17 out of 20, which I was happy with, considering it's the test out evil teachers sprung on us unexpectedly, and I hadn't studied for.

Wardrobe notes: Hot pink fishnets over purple opaque tights looks really quite funky.

And, some amusing non-fandom wankiness: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal spell-checker?

ETA: People who list their address in public posts worry me a little. No, it isn't anyone on my flist. Which is sort of the point.

And dw_hate has been deleted while I went and slept. I find this patently unfair, especially 'cos half my flist is on about what sounds like some really, really interesting hate, and I can't even read it now. *emos*

However, there are still a lot of other things which retain their point and laugh value in fandom. Like the shipper thread at TwoP, which is hilarious. I've never seen so many people for whom the entire damn theme of the series has just flown completely over their heads. So busy rationalising away things, and being so damn delusional... It's great entertainment. And unlike LJ, instead of being netspeaking teenage girls, for whom this sort of thing is forgivable, it's all pretentious thirty-somethings.

In RL, I got my eBay parcel today. Hurrah for my lovely new Miss Sixty t-shirt. It's all green with blue and pink printing and silver beads, and it's just so prettiful!

ETA: You know you are obsessed when your friends turn up on MSN just so they can tell you that they saw an ad for Doctor Who. Hehe.