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FMM, last post. <3
So Troy won FMM, and I'm feeling:
But - I thought I'd share one of my 'campaigning' comments, because it highlights one of the reasons I got so caught up:
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This is one of those personal comments about why Eleven is important to me.
The thing is, I have three young daughters. And they're too young for Veronica Mars and Buffy and Scully and all the other awesome ladies. I'll introduce them in time, but for now they're nothing but abstracts. But, what my daughters do have, is Doctor Who. And Doctor Who has given them role models in abundance.
I can tell them:
- Stand up for yourselves, and what you believe, like Amy.
- Be good and loyal and decent like Rory.
- Always remember that women can be just as brilliant as men, if not better - just look at River!
- And be kind, like the Doctor.
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And here's where I turn into Unashamed Proud Mother. Yesterday The Cherub (who's 5) got a special, handwritten sticker in school, which said this:
I was very kind and let somebody have a prize because I already had one.
Letting someone else having a prize was her own idea, btw, and she clearly impressed her teacher. *is too pleased for words*
So although I came home to find that Eleven had come second (which - DW fans, can you remember a year ago? And now he came second in FMM! Our boy did good!) - I couldn't care less, cause when it comes to what really matters I think I'm somehow getting it right. I have a little girl who is kind. ♥
But - I thought I'd share one of my 'campaigning' comments, because it highlights one of the reasons I got so caught up:
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This is one of those personal comments about why Eleven is important to me.
The thing is, I have three young daughters. And they're too young for Veronica Mars and Buffy and Scully and all the other awesome ladies. I'll introduce them in time, but for now they're nothing but abstracts. But, what my daughters do have, is Doctor Who. And Doctor Who has given them role models in abundance.
I can tell them:
- Stand up for yourselves, and what you believe, like Amy.
- Be good and loyal and decent like Rory.
- Always remember that women can be just as brilliant as men, if not better - just look at River!
- And be kind, like the Doctor.
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And here's where I turn into Unashamed Proud Mother. Yesterday The Cherub (who's 5) got a special, handwritten sticker in school, which said this:
I was very kind and let somebody have a prize because I already had one.
Letting someone else having a prize was her own idea, btw, and she clearly impressed her teacher. *is too pleased for words*
So although I came home to find that Eleven had come second (which - DW fans, can you remember a year ago? And now he came second in FMM! Our boy did good!) - I couldn't care less, cause when it comes to what really matters I think I'm somehow getting it right. I have a little girl who is kind. ♥
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As I said my Troy celebration post, it's the marvelous and touching campaigning by you and many other Who fans that have convinced me to watch series 5. I kind of fell away from DW after Ten entered the picture, but Eleven sounds just like the sort of fellow I want to get to know better. :)
Also this vid, which was reposted several times during campaigning, made me cry and sealed the deal.
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She is very adorable indeed. :)
As I said my Troy celebration post, it's the marvelous and touching campaigning by you and many other Who fans that have convinced me to watch series 5. I kind of fell away from DW after Ten entered the picture, but Eleven sounds just like the sort of fellow I want to get to know better. :)
\o/ \o/ \o/ Eleven really is very, very different from Ten (something which in many cases was a problem for the Ten-fans), and I've fallen for him to a ridiculous degree. (I even have a meta post brewing, trying to work out why...)
Also this vid, which was reposted several times during campaigning, made me cry and sealed the deal.
Oh that's lovely, and not one I'd seen before! (Once you've watched all of S5, I can recommend one that will turn you into a complete and utter wreck. But in a happy way, not angsty.)
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And your campaign comment for the Doctor in FMM was eloquent and spot-on. I, too, was chuffed about the Doctor's showing.
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It's something I try encourage a lot. Often the girls will do or say something that isn't *wrong* per se, but I will point out that is wasn't kind, and to think more carefully. (Being snarky is usually fine though. As long as it's not a personal comment...)
And your campaign comment for the Doctor in FMM was eloquent and spot-on. I, too, was chuffed about the Doctor's showing.
:) The new kid beat his whole bracket!
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>>I think I'm somehow getting it right. I have a little girl who is kind.
(hugs) I don't even know how to express how I feel about this. I have tears in my eyes, honestly. I get so run down seeing all these abused and neglected kids going out into the world and inflicting their damage on other people. So run down. But it's you. The kind ones. Who actually care about what kind of influence their kids will have on the rest of the world. You make it worth it. Thankyou.
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I couldn't wish for a better show for my children to watch, I really couldn't. And it's very obvious that the Moff thinks about it all from childrens point of view.
But it's you. The kind ones. Who actually care about what kind of influence their kids will have on the rest of the world. You make it worth it. Thankyou.
Awww. And now *I* am all choked up. And honestly, fandom has been such a gateway to the world that I can't even begin to explain it. Of course I knew about all the issues that are out there before, but fandom - and the people in it - have made it personal. One woman on my flist had a daughter in New Orleans when Katrina struck, and it took her a month before she found out that her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren were OK. She'd go to the library every day to check for news and to update her LJ, and I still remember the overwhelming joy when she finally reported that she had found them alive and well.
Plus, race and gender and sexuality issues and so forth, which fandom often argues about of course, but just by being in fandom you learn so much. F.ex. I have an OC character in one of my fics who is gender neutral, and I've rarely been more nervous about writing anyone because I know all the levels of fail I've probably managed to get tangled up in, even though I've tried my best to educate myself...
All of which is a VERY rambly and longwinded way of saying that I want to help install that kind of mindset into my children - that everyone out there is people just like them, no matter what they look like. John Barrowman, f.ex. has been a wonderful example of how gay people can be awesome (and be married), because they love Capt Jack to pieces. Like I said - best show ever for kids! (This is actually relevant since two of Darcy's cousins have same-sex partners, and the fact that this has never been an issue for my family in-law is something that makes me too happy for words!)
Just... ♥
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I know exactly what you mean.
Before Doctor Who I was only vaguely aware of fandom as "a strange passtime for damaged people". But participating in DW fandom has changed the way I see things so much. I've actually torn down a lot of my worldview and re-built it because of the influence of the people I have met. It's forced me to become less judgemental and more thoughtful in my approach to people.
I've also become passionate again about things I had kind of lost my zeal for [like feminism- thanks River!] not because I had stopped caring about these things, but because I needed new approaches, and fandom gave me that.
So the Doctor can be a good influence on adults too, I guess. Stories are how we learn to live...
>>I've rarely been more nervous about writing anyone because I know all the levels of fail I've probably managed to get tangled up in, even though I've tried my best to educate myself...
If you want, I can help out with that? Being neutrois myself and all.
>>All of which is a VERY rambly and longwinded way of saying that I want to help install that kind of mindset into my children
I wish my parents had cared so much :) <3
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*nodnodnod*
I've also become passionate again about things I had kind of lost my zeal for [like feminism- thanks River!] not because I had stopped caring about these things, but because I needed new approaches, and fandom gave me that.
This. It's far too easy to get jaded about stuff. Fandom creates a whole different platform.
So the Doctor can be a good influence on adults too, I guess. Stories are how we learn to live...
Very very true. (My brain is too tired to do something more meta. But yes.)
If you want, I can help out with that? Being neutrois myself and all.
*does a Doctor-y finger-wavy thing* I would love that, but... Well, it's a character in my Not the Last 'verse (AU about the Master's son), which I don't feel I can ask someone to start reading unless they're really interested in that kinda thing. OK, so all the different stories can stand alone, more or less, but the story in which this particular character shows up is by far the longest (34,000 words - and it's still a WIP!), and said character doesn't turn up until chapter 6 (and was a bit of a surprise to me, to be honest. But from what was supposed to be a one-line cameo a proper, fully former character just appeared - and then demanded to be written. Writing is a STRANGE thing). Also, sie's only a supporting character, and it's a bit more complicated than 'gender neutral', which is just me trying to aim for the best description I can find. But if you want to have a look at some point, it's the story called 'Dating the Cleverest Boy in the World'.
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Of course reading some of the other stories first would probably help, but I think it stands alone pretty well. I tried my best at any rate.
I wish my parents had cared so much :) <3
They probably do care, but these things aren't always easy... (I say, not knowing the first thing about your life. OK, I'm gonna go now.)
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>>Writing is a STRANGE thing
Oh, yes, I know @___@
>>They probably do care, but these things aren't always easy...
oh they really didn't, but I won't go into my life story here XD
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If you do read it I will LOVE YOU FOREVER btw. It's my tiny little pocket universe and I love it far too much... But it is Ten era, rather than Eleven. Well nearly - there's this little thing which features Eleven. (Since the whole verse goes AU at the end of S3, the Tenth Doctor lives a lot longer, and never goes off the rails etc.) This fic is very silly, though, and should make you smile. :) ETA: Oh, and in case it isn't obvious from that particular fic, the Master's son was born during The Year That Never Was, and because of him the Master agreed to be the Doctor's prisoner. So... a very different dynamic, you see?
[I don't think I've sat down and read yr fics yet. Shame on me.]
Oh no worries. I... write a lot, and I'm rubbish at doing short.
Oh, yes, I know @___@
*points to icon*
oh they really didn't, but I won't go into my life story here XD
:( *sends hugs to the other side of the world*
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I'm the total opposite! Everything I write is so short. I think 1000 words is my highest record [only achieved once]. My mind boggles at people who write novels and such.
(toddles off to read)
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I wish I knew how to so that. Everything I write just balloons. And eats my life. (If only I could turn this talent to original stories, I'd totally have a stab at being a novelist. So far it's all fic though.)
And I hope you enjoy. Eleventy is always fun. ;) Oh and the format is not typical of the 'verse btw. I was just being silly.
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I've noticed. It's very well suited to LJ! :)
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You have your priorities right. A child of that age who puts other people first is a treasure, as long as she also knows when to stand up for herself like Amy. I'm in little doubt of that.
I don't know Troy, though I approve in principle of a PoC winning, since Americans seem to make such a meal of such things. But having three splendid girls like you have is infinitely more important.
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I even have photos to prove it! :)
You have your priorities right. A child of that age who puts other people first is a treasure, as long as she also knows when to stand up for herself like Amy. I'm in little doubt of that.
Of course it helps that the school is lovely. :) (And, as the youngest of three, standing up for herself has never been a problem. *g*)
I don't know Troy, though I approve in principle of a PoC winning, since Americans seem to make such a meal of such things.
Also the fans totally deserved it. They campaigned tirelessly, and 100% positively, throughout, and have made a LOT of people interested in their show. Plus, it's a v. small show, so they're terribly excited about beating all the big names. :)
But having three splendid girls like you have is infinitely more important.
*is still Proud Mother*
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:) :) :)
The whole FMM was a pleasant experience because we got a final two who were kind and decent human and non-human beings who are good examples of doing the right thing.
I remember following last year (Donna was in the running!), and then Buffy won, but I'm pretty sure I didn't actually do any campaigning. This year has just been a pure delight. <3
Congratulate the Cherub for me, and be proud as a mother right now!
Will do! :)
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<3
At the end of the FMM, I didn't really care who won, because both characters are awesome and I adore both shows. It's nice to see some positivity shine through all the wankery and drama!
Word. The finale was just this giant love fest - I am *so* proud of fandom! :)
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What a neat story re: the Cherub. Aww!
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Clearly awesome characters produce awesome fans! ;)
What a neat story re: the Cherub. Aww!
*is Proud Mother*
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Warm fuzzies, all over this post <3
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