The key to the success of River's and the Doctor's relationship.

[elisi]

Well, the Doctor and River don't exactly have an easy time of it, what with the timey-wimey-ness and her being in prison etc. And then this popped into my head. The quote comes from India Knight's My Life on a Plate. (My eclectic reading finally pays off!) Although just because this is very silly, doesn't mean it isn't true!




And hey, I can even add a little meta, courtesy of betawho:

I find it amazing that I’m enjoying the River relationship because I’ve always been a strong proponent of the asexual club too. I liked that he was different that way, and I always just figured he either didn’t have the same drive because he was alien, old, or just because he’d realized that for the life he wanted to lead it wasn’t going to work, so he just pushed it to the side to the point where he more or less forgot it. It just wasn’t on his radar.

On the other hand, I’ve also always thought that if he did decide to go there, he’d be a fantastic lover. He’s got all the traits for it, gentle, passionate, enthusiastic attention to detail, and absolutely nowhere else he has to be right now.

And that’s when it hit me. For years we’ve been watching this gorgeous, confident, sensuous, obviously sexually satisfied woman striding around, and all that time she’s been his wife. He’s the one who’s been satisfying her!

When I realized that, my poor little geek brain practically exploded. Doctor, you dog! :D

Can we say QED? *g*

Comments

[calapine.livejournal.com]

:D:D

EXCELLENT MACRO. May have loled.

(And true, obv.)

[elisi]

The perfection of quote + image was irresistible. Plus, as you say, true. :D

[promethia_tenk]

I'll just leave this here, shall I?:



And that's how he treats a cabinet!

[elisi]

*shivers*

It's a good thing that I'm run off my feet, or I'd probably do nothing but read River/Eleven pr0n...

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Wibble.

[lonewytch.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! *fans self*

[girlpire.livejournal.com]

i just watched this for like three whole minutes straight. O.O

[owlboy]

O, that I were a cupboard door... @_@

[cinderbella333.livejournal.com]

O.O

[betawho.livejournal.com]

Hah! Cool! Someone is actually reading what I write.

I love the macros on here. So true.

[elisi]

Hah! Cool! Someone is actually reading what I write.
Well it was AWESOME. I was v. pleased to have an excuse to post it. (And I'm glad you didn't mind...) Anyway, re what you wrote, then the first part is very much along my own thoughts, esp after watching TIA/DotM for the first time. Because the flirting between them is off the scale, yet he is genuinely shocked when she kisses him. It's like there's this invisible line over which he does not step, and it's not so much the kiss as the fact that this is normal for them. Because he doesn't go there. And seeing him slowly get to grips with who/what she is is wonderful. (He doesn't get it until AGMGTW of course, and then he's all 'Yay! We do kissing and stuff!' because she's his equal and that makes it OK. I love it. (And am apparently incapable of being short or concise. But I love the progression. (Esp the way he's totally come round to the kissing thing come LKH and it proves his downfall...)

I love the macros on here. So true.
*beams*

[tiburons.livejournal.com]

Is there a link to this post you wrote betawho? I would love to read it. :)

[lonewytch.livejournal.com]

*nods* this is so right. He is the one who has made her this sexually confident tigress. His eye for attention to detail...mmmm. ;)

[elisi]

IKR? It's just... mmmm. And, of course, it works both ways. *loves the timey-wimey*

(That said, I think she was always pretty confident. I think she left behind a string of half-petrified Leadworth boys, who were unable to brag about their 'conquest' because it was so clearly her who had decided that they were her current booty call. I rather have a thing for Mels. *g*)

[cinderbella333.livejournal.com]

Haha! Agree with this in many ways. And I got a good chuckle out of it too.

[elisi]

I had to share... *pets OTP*

[kaffy_r]

This is true. I say it three times.

[elisi]

Mmmmm, Riverrrrr.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Well, all this was certainly a great way to wake up this rainy morning *chortles with glee*

[elisi]

All my pleasure, my dear. :)

[a_blackpanther]

I like this idea a lot, and it matches my view as well.

For years we’ve been watching this gorgeous, confident, sensuous, obviously sexually satisfied woman striding around, and all that time she’s been his wife. He’s the one who’s been satisfying her!
I have a few issues with this sentence though. It seems to imply that only way a woman can be gorgeous, confident, sensuous is if she's sexually satisfied. And well... that's not okay at all. Or I'm tired and reading it wrong.

[elisi]

I like this idea a lot, and it matches my view as well.
:)

I have a few issues with this sentence though. It seems to imply that only way a woman can be gorgeous, confident, sensuous is if she's sexually satisfied. And well... that's not okay at all. Or I'm tired and reading it wrong.
I see where you're coming from, but I guess what betawho meant (at least what I took from it), is that River/Mels was always a very sensual person (also see this very silly follow-up post, and that that particular kind of person would probably not cope very well with being locked up for a very long time... Except she never seemed in any way sexually frustrated, and that's all down to her husband. It's more about it being a reflection on the Doctor's bedroom skills than a judgment on women, basically. :)

[betawho.livejournal.com]

Actually, that comment about an "obviously sexually satisfied woman striding around" came from an article I was reading about how doctors can diagnose certain things from the way a person walks, and interestingly, one of the things mentioned was that a sexually satisfied woman has a particular kind of relaxed, open, free, stride.

And when I looked at River Song, that's what I saw.

I didn't mean it in any deprecating way at all. I just thought, like afterglow, sexual satisfaction gives a glow to a woman who is already gorgeous, confident, and sensuous.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

A++ lovely, lol!!

And I don't even ship it *grins*

[elisi]

It is merely a truth to be acknowledged, no need to ship! :)