promethia

Warnings: Includes spoilers for Pyramid at the End of the World and the next time trailer for Lie of the Land. So long. So very long. Not properly edited. Seven years of accumulated symbolism is such an unwieldily thing, guys, I'm sorry.

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Bill started out on this show, I thought, remarkably devoid of symbolism. Clara and River and even Amy, to an extent, all entered the show dripping in symbolism. With names that begged to be analyzed and new veins of metaphoric imagery flowing from them.

Amy was about fairy tales and growing up. Apples and stories. She and the Doctor were lost children, running away together, learning how to grow up.

River was about life and the power of grace and the flow of time. She was associated with water and forests and music, life and death and renewal. Her appearance told us the Doctor was going to grow and heal and and again be a force for life and wellbeing.

Clara was about clarity and power and rules, and about mirroring the Doctor. She brought with her flowers and eggs and birds: symbols of fruitfulness, rebirth, and freedom. On her first appearance she symbolically healed the Time War by severing the Doctor’s connection to the Daleks.

Missy came in and co-opted all the symbolic threads the others had established and made them evil: a twisted mother figure. Queen of no natural forces, but of the undead. And her influence twisted up Twelve and Clara and spread over their whole era, as they gripped tighter and tighter to each other, unwilling to let time and nature run their course.

To see even an episode or two of any of these women was to understand, quite quickly, major things about what they would mean.

This did not happen with Bill. Bill was remarkably, intriguingly, and somewhat reassuringly . . . flat.

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*deep breath* Ok, if you're gonna play at guessing at Moffat Who, sooner or later you have to put your cards on the table. So here's how I see this whole thing going. It's a question of . . . aesthetics. Let me show you:

( Narrative seeking order . . . )

(If you leave a comment and I've disappeared, I'm sorry. I have today off and then life goes sideways for awhile. I will do my best.)

And just like that, apparently, I'm thinking about Doctor Who again . . .

Warning: complete and total ramble below. Unforgivably unedited. Sloppily-defined literary terminology. Off the top of my head. But either I give you my thoughts like this, or you're not getting them at all, so. This has been your disclaimer.

Been thinking a bit more about why the case of Amy this season is so troublesome:

( Ten points if you can follow this . . . )

This is one of those fics you finish and realize you've been waiting around for:

The Moon Rises Over and Over Again by quidly (Doctor/River, Amy/Rory, the TARDIS, 11500 words, R)

A 'this is why I read fic" fic. A "this is why I watch this show" fic. An "oops, didn't realize I'd stopped breathing there for a moment but I don't really care" fic. It's about . . . people being bigger on the inside. And how those spaces relate.

Give yourself a good hour to read, but please, read!

So, awhile back cinderbella333  asked me for some vid recs . . .

And awhile back before that elisi  taught me all about RTD-Who and Torchwood, and good luck getting her to express anything without throwing in a vid or two or twenty ; )

And back even before that, I asked a fairly facetious question because I felt like making fun of the Tenth Doctor (like you do) and ended up getting a lot more than I'd bargained for (and if that's not an argument for always asking the facetious question, I don't know what is).

So here is this thing that I have put together.  Of vids.  Lot of vids of Torchwood and of NuWho that I have watched and with some words about why I like them.  You might think of this as A Thing I Have Put Together for Cinderbella (and anyone else who might like to watch some vids, and also for myself since I quite wanted a list of my own for reference).  Or you might think of this as Vids and What I Have Learned About Them, in the manner of some end-of-the-semester project for Fandom104: Introduction to Audiovisual Modes of Critique and Expression.  Or you might think of this as Things I Think and Feel about the Whoniverse because, while this is a very long list, I make absolutely no claims to either comprehensiveness or objectivity.  This is simply a list of vids that happened to grab me and that I watched a lot because they seemed important to me in my own little corner over here.

I have tried to be very organized with different sections and descriptions so that anyone looking for something specific might find it.  And if you happen to know a real LJ or Dreamwidth link for anything I only have a YouTube link for, do please share.  Obviously this has been a very long time in the making, both in collecting materials and in the choosing and typing up and organizing, so here's hoping somebody besides myself will find it of some use.

( And there's a My Little Pony vid at the bottom, if you make it that far . . . )

Ummmm . . . I think I'm addicted to cropping icons.  It must engage the same part of the brain as Tetris.  And architectural drafting.  I can't stop.  I'm not sure I want to.

Also, somehow the only way I can really see what needs changing is by posting things publicly.  So here's a bunch of what I assume to be works in progress.  Man . . . look at that!  Yeah, that was a mistake.  What was she thinking?  =D


      
       

Three RIDICULOUS HAPPY FLUFFY CHRISTMAS DRABBLES set in the Leadworth AU.  BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT, OK?  And because everybody else is posting happy fluffy Christmas drabbles, and I wanted to be included.  No previous knowledge of the Leadworth AU necessary (Amy wakes up after Big Bang 2 and discovers that Eleven and River are her parents--domestic fluff ensues).

Probably I shall write more of these as the spirit hits me.


( Did I mention fluff? )