Hold up, who gave Ms. Frizzle a gun?
in response to someone asking why i didn’t make the originally non-white characters other races (like why i made martha white instead of asian or something): yes, this was fun for me, but it’s also indicative of a really messed-up culture in which POC are either rendered completely invisible in the media or treated as token minorities. whites being constructed as the default and 99% of the role models/characters that we see being white are parts of such a ubiquitous pattern that sometimes we don’t even realize how whitewashed shows are. so if people go through this picspam and think, “damn, where are all the white people?” maybe it’ll prompt them to think about how underrepresented and marginalized POC are in the media. if i made the originally non-white characters another minority, that effect might be lost.
also, this was just fun to make.
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Eleven Days of River/Doctor | day eleven: your dream scene/storyline
Well, it’s isn’t so much a dream, as more of a hope. Just like Rose didn’t go after Nine regenerated into Ten, I dare hope that River will stay on after Eleven regenerates into Twelve. She did say she knows all his faces, so it’s safe to assume that while he most likely provided her with photos of his previous incarnations (so she’ll know him if they cross paths by any chance), she might also know future (from Eleven’s point of view) versions of him.
I wanted to write a few short fic-like paragraphs for this, but the paragraphs turned into real fic, and here it is, at my rather neglected writing journal, if anyone cares to read it: The Beat That My Hearts Skipped (PG).
