happy international women’s day!!!!!Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day! We’ll be celebrating all day by reblogging the companions, friends, historical figures, and amazing women that have been featured on Doctor Who and who inspire us. Who are some of the women of Who that inspire you?
clara oswald
round-and-round-each-time: Amy pond and Clara Oswald for the meme?
AMY
What I like about them: She’s like me in that she’s not naturally strong but had to learn to be for the sake for her mental health. She’s loving and brave and very very clever.
What I dislike about them: She starts off very immature. Sexually immature, too. It’s like she genuinely didn’t realise that trying to kiss someone after they’ve said no is wrong, and that’s….a character flaw. To say the least.
Favourite moment: Oooh man. There’s too many! I love her fighting off the pirates. And I love that she totally, utterly went to pieces after seeing Rory die. Because I would. I think a lot of people would.
Least favourite moment: The incredibly icky aspects of the pregnancy arc. I mean, I don’t like that it was written like that. (That being said, I love AGMGTW as an episode. I just don’t like…well, my thoughts are summarised here really.)
A situation with this character that I want to see explored more: Er…see above I guess?
An interesting AU for this character: Recently I’ve wondered how she’d react to Twelve.
A crossover: Can you imagine Amy in the Game of Thrones verse? I can. I think her and Sansa would get along excellently.
OTP: Amy/Rory
Other ships: I dunno. I think Amy/Vincent might well have worked under very specific circumstances.
BROTP: Amy/Eleven
NOTP: Also Amy/Eleven. I think the show itself demonstrated why that wouldn’t work.
An assortment of headcanons:
- She’s bisexual
- Aunt Sharon was not a good guardian to her
- She saw River plenty after TATM. (Nothing ever said she couldn’t!) It was River who buried her parents and engraved their names on the gravestone exactly how she remembered it from all those years ago.
- All of this
CLARA
What I like about them: She’s confident (very confident!), clever, authoritative, brave, loving…and one hell of a liar.
What I dislike about them: She’s not a great girlfriend. But she admits that she isn’t!
Favourite moment: Again, there’s just so many! But probably: everything that happened in the volcano. Especially “I’d do it again.”
Least favourite moment: I actually don’t think I have one?
A situation with this character that I want to see explored more: Honestly, I would have LOVED to see a properly ‘dark’ Clara. Going up against the Doctor as a real opponent, whether to get Danny back or ‘just’ because the problems with him she outlined in Kill The Moon had become too much for her to ignore. Sort of a ‘Someone has to take you down, and I love you, so it will be me’ sort of thing. I think that could have been amazing.
An interesting AU for this character: See above!
A crossover: I absolutely love the idea that Connie (Bucky’s date in Captain America, as played by Jenna) was a Clara echo.
OTP: Clara/Danny, even though it probably wouldn’t have worked out even without the latter’s death.
Other ships: Clara/Journey, Clara/Maisie
BROTP: Clara/the Doctor.
NOTP: Clara/the Doctor (I don’t really do Doctor/Companion shipping.)
An assortment of headcanons:
- She’s bisexual (there’s a trend here)
- She kept in close contact with the Maitlands after she left their employment
- She gradually became a trusted confidant of Kate Stewart, who offered her a job with UNIT. Clara said she’d think about it.
- She tolerates Linda rather than really likes her.
- She was considering asking Danny if he wanted to marry her and start a family (she would have named a first daughter Ellie) before fate got in the way.
“Ultimately she’s just a young, hot schoolteacher, and those are not characteristics that generate plot so much as wet dreams. Look, I’m not saying I wouldn’t have sex with her, I’m saying she’s a bad character. […] Unlike the upcoming entries, where there are distinct characteristics of love, empathy, or competence, Clara is simply “plucky, cute girl.” She should star in a Nickelodeon show called She’s So Clara, not travel with The Doctor.”
there is this thing that fandom does, where fans who love female characters aren’t able to even discuss their flaws, to talk about the negative things they say or do, in a constructive way, because we’re too busy defending their right to fucking exist against people dumping all manner of hate on them
and it really sucks? i would love to have some nitty gritty conversations picking apart the ladies i love and viewing them as complex people
like wouldn’t it be nice if we could discuss sansa stark’s flaws without constantly having to sanctify her to people who think she deserves every single awful thing that’s happened in her life, but we are mired in a culture that only allows us to lavish nothing but positive attention on minority characters we love because everybody else is bound and determined to shit on them
we can’t even get a breath in to treat them as people because we’re too busy defending their right to exist
softtonys:
Well, so might you do, to protect everything you loved.
I think this quite nicely illustrates such a big difference between Amy and Clara:
On losing a loved one, Amy puts herself (and only herself, the Doctor didn’t have to get in the car with her) in danger to bring Rory back. But Clara? She’s going to drag the Doctor down with her, utterly destroy him if necessary, to get what she wants.
