Doctor Who companions hanging out together is just my FAVOURITE THING
karen gillan
jumperpheasants:
Matt interviews Karen for his video diary
Can we just talk about the fact that Karen thinks ‘the guy from Twilight’ might be called Bill
Think Matt/Karen would be a nice couple? That’s fine. But they’re not, and on the offchance they are they obviously don’t want us to know.
So many people seem to think they’re entitled to a Matt/Karen relationship- it really crosses the line into creepy a lot of the time. Taking everything they’ve shared with the public- their tastes, their other relationships, their close friendship with Arthur- and making it all about you-
-it isn’t cool.
Thoughts on ‘Smillian’/RPF in general
(Because of stuff on Tumblr, and a conversation I was having earlier. Also posted at my tumblr…)
I’m getting more and more uncomfortable with Smillian/RPF in general by the day. I know a lot of Smillian-ers are kids, but some of them act downright entitled– bashing Daisy Lowe, bashing Andrew Brooke (that guy Karen snogged in Spain), saying Arthur’s ‘cockblocking’ Matt/Karen, etc… it’s really put me off. Matt and Karen aren’t characters, they’re people– if at some point they get together and there’s an official announcement, great! If not…it’s none of our business.
I know I’ve joked about Alex/Arthur in the past, but I even sort of regret that now. I guess it’s fine when you’re not taking it seriously, but: the Doctor Who cast aren’t toys and we don’t own them. Maybe Matt geniunely, really doesn’t like Karen that way– he’s known her for three years and there’s nothing stopping them from dating, after all. Heck, the production team would probably welcome it, extra publicity!
Actors often seem to bind together a lot faster and deeper than a lot of ‘regular’ friendships do…David Tennant and Billie Piper had a similar sort of relationship and now they’re both happily married to other people. Matt’s already kissed Jenna (and not acting!). Actors are usually just more touchy-feely, I guess, I honestly don’t think the Matt/Karen ‘fondling’ and so on really means anything, anymore than Matt kissing Jenna or Alex does.
tl;dr = We don’t own these people and we shouldn’t go all tabloid-y on them, it’s not nice. I know if I were Karen, and I was in a relationship, and I constantly saw people saying I should be with my best friend, or clearly preferred my best friend to whoever I was with and just didn’t realise it…it’d make me pretty uncomfortable. And cross.
I made LiveJournal icons. Unfortunately, no-one uses them anymore. Or uses LiveJournal anymore, I suspect. This makes me sad.
64 shiny icons
FEATURING!
-Doctor Who (lots of Amy and Amy/Rory)
-The Hunger Games
-Misfits
-Sherlock
-Doctor Who cast (Karen, Arthur, Matt and Freema)
Textures are by planets-bend-between-us at Tumblr. Number 1 is from this bit of not-quite-art here, and Number 6 from this one.
Take, enjoy, credit, y’all!
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As usual I arrive several months late to the party, but I was thinking about that thing Karen Gillan said about feminism…
“Feminism is not the issue any more, not for me, anyway. It’s just never occurred to me that a woman wouldn’t be equal, in any sphere, to a man.”
This was from a 2010 interview, but recently I gather people were angry about it. But…and I’m honestly trying to work this out in my head…surely that’s a win, if a girl grew up really truly thinking she and all women were equal to men. That’s gotta mean that the people around her were doing something right…right? And she did say feminism wasn’t the issue for her rather than everyone in general. I don’t know. I think it’s a good thing for her if she really grew up like that…
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.