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[neadods]

I am very glad of the "post to" button at the bottom of the page, because without that, I would have just posted the contents of soniclipstick to screwdoctor.

Wherefore the icon.


Also begging use of the icon is a comment that I am simply going to throw out there rather than aim at any single post. Y'know what makes me most crazy about the argument that "Miss Evangelista is proof that Moffat thinks women are either beautiful *or* smart but can't be both!"? It's not just that it ignores every other Moffat female character (hello, Reinette?). It's not that it ignores the last few minutes, wherein we meet a smart *and* pretty Evangelista. It's that it pretty much states that River Song, Donna Noble, *and* Anita in the very same episode are all either brain-damaged or dogs.


I have joined Team TARDIS on Ravelry for the Ravelympics, for which I shall knit a scarf. It may be my own stitch pattern; I'll see how a sample knits up on Wednesday. Any idea how to capture one of those nifty Ravelympics icons for use here on LJ?


I seem to be addicted to fandomsecrets and I don't even know 3/4 of the fandoms involved.

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[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Sally Sparrow, yo! Beautiful AND smart!

[evil_plotbunny]

Most of them are LJ standard sizes, so you have two options. Right click and save to your hard drive and then upload or right click, copy the link address, and then past it in the "add from web"

I should do that with the one I'm using on ravelry, but I'm resisting until it starts. :)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I've seen a couple I love, but I don't know how to credit them either. "Stolen from Ravelry"?

[evil_plotbunny]

If you look at the icon page here, it has a list of all the icons up for grabs with their creators.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[drho.livejournal.com]

fandomsecrets is interesting, mostly because I don't know most of the fandoms involved. Viewing fandom as an outsider is a bit entertaining, if not also a bit disturbing.

[bizarra.livejournal.com]

I toyed with doing the Rasvelympics.. but I dunno.. LOL I'm stilla knitting knewbie so I kinda decided to sit this one out.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I think there's a small project event - you could always sign up and do a washcloth just to be part of it all. Come join Team TARDIS! It's bigger on the inside.

[fyrdrakken]

I'm basically just taking one project already on my "to do" list and another I'd been wanting to finish as soon as I finish this one pair of socks I'm on, and designating them as Ravelympics projects. I get to participate, but it's not going to be majorly affecting my knitting queue.

[bizarra.livejournal.com]

I might knit along unofficially. :)

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

That... could have been embarrassing.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

More action than that comm's seen in a while!

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Yipe.. I don't know whether to laugh or grimace.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Nah, only if it was the other way around. ;-)

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

(Snerk!)

[lt-kitty.livejournal.com]

the argument that "Miss Evangelista is proof that Moffat thinks women are either beautiful *or* smart but can't be both!"

I think those who put forth this argument, plain and simply, cannot grasp that characters and the writers who write them don't share the same opinions. All of the attractive & intelligent women Moffat writes in Who (or anywhere else) won't hold a candle to the stated opinion of one character providing important exposition in one episode because, clearly, that character is only there to be a mouthpiece and must be what he actually thinks.

That convoluted thinking makes me want to *headdesk*, too.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

All of the attractive & intelligent women Moffat writes in Who (or anywhere else) won't hold a candle to the stated opinion of one character providing important exposition

What gets me is how comments at conventions are suddenly proof that he can't and won't write what we've already seen on screen. That is such a world of *headdesk* that I don't even know how to rebut it.

[lt-kitty.livejournal.com]

Sarcasm?

"Clearly, Moffat has been stealth writing all this time to get the job, so that he can now advance the sexist white male agenda through Doctor Who. The evil bastard. Your brilliance and insight at discerning this fact astounds me."

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Didn't RTD, of all people, make a comment a while back that he didn't understand why sci-fi fans always assumed that anything a character said was true?

'Cos, seriously, there's a distinct failure at understanding the concept of unreliable narrator here.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Esp. when the unreliable narrator is someone speaking "off the record" in the Confidential or the conventions.

For all I know, he really is a dickweed. For all I know, he doesn't like women. But I certainly know what he writes, and what he writes are some of the strongest women in Who.