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Captain Martin Crieff has only one picture of his great-grandfather who died in 1941, missing in action.
Is….is that….is that Captain Jack?
What.
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IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR WHO/TORCHWOOD FAN, YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS
AND I MEAN MUST
IT IS REQUIRED MATERIAL.
Doctor Who: The Musical!
Starring John Barrowman as everyone.
I don’t even like Wicked and this is the best thing. John Barrowman, how are you so wonderful.
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i’ve left my heart where i should have stayed instead
HEADCANON MOTHERFUCKING ACCEPTED
FUCKING HELL THIS IS THE BEST!
Dylan, I feel like they made this for us.
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THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS IS THAT HE CAN STILL KEEP THIS SEXY SEXY DATE.
SOMEONE MAKE THAT GIF. WHERE IS THAT GIF?
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DRAGON*CON – Photo OPs pre-sales are now available. Find them here. Including photos “FLING” (Starring: John Barrowman & James Marsters)
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Reply to an Ask: Moffat, Bisexuality, Visibility, Intentionality
Tumblr is being a butt and not letting me publish the answer to an anon response to my post on Moffat hating Bisexuals. So I am going to do it like this. Here is the Anon:
you dont need to be visibly seen with a woman and a man to be bisexual, a character is bisexual if the person who made the character says they are, just like someone is bisexual if they SAY they are, not whether other people have observed them acting like their own personal definition of what being bisexual means. Im a woman who has only ever had relationships with women, doesnt make me any less bisexual just because i dont fit societies expectations of it.
And here is my long response to you, Anon:
You are confusing visibility with identity, and television with reality. Of course River Song, if she were a real person, could be bisexual and only have relationships with men. I am bisexual and really don’t have much relationships to speak of to prove it.
But, she is not a real person. She is a character on television, whose sexuality has NEVER been brought up. Saying she “fancies the whole crew” doesn’t count as bringing it up. “Fancies” is 1) one of those words that could be read multiple ways, 2) makes her sound like a flirt, not actually someone who is into people 3) is about, if anything, crushes, not romantic or sexual relations.
Torchwood has an actual conversation about Ianto’s sexuality. He says he’s not gay, only gay for Jack. This is an identity. Because the show actually deals with this, and shows him in both a straight and gay (with Jack) relationship, I would say this is a kind of visibility.
Saying behind the scenes that River is Bi is a cop-out. She’s not. Not unless you deal with that in the show. She is not VISIBLY bisexual, it does not put bisexuality on screen, unless it is IN THE SHOW. Saying “my brother and his husband” does. A woman talking about her wife, does. A woman talking about herself as a boy, does.
I am not saying that a real person cannot identify as bi without having relationships with both sexes. If that were true, I would not be bi/pan. For all I know, the actress thinks of River Song as bi. But that doesn’t make the CHARACTER bisexual, because the character is composed only of what is present in the works they are part of. Jack Harkness is the sum of all of Jack Harknesses canonical appearances. Those make him bisexual/omnisexual. River, as the total of hers, is straight. Flirty, and straight. If she even SAID she was bisexual, I would give it to you. But she doesn’t.
If you want to bring it to a question of intentionality, you can look at it that way. Perhaps, maybe, possibily, Moffat intended, as the writer, for her to be bisexual. Does that make her bisexual? If you believe that, you have to believe that Sherlock is straight, that Watson is straight, that any subtext explicitly denied as intentional is not there. (while we are talking about Moffat.)
Matt Smith, during season 5, said the Doctor was asexual and would never get with River. Oops. Where does that fall? Is he ace and she’s an acceptation? Or do we look at evidence and say the Doctor is straight? Can we call Amy straight? She has never SAID so. We’ve SEEN her with a bunch of dudes and no ladies, but Moffat has never commented on her sexuality explicitly.
See why intentionally is a bit complicated? Most academic theorists about this stuff will tell you that intentionality is bunk. That once a form of media is out there, intentionally doesn’t matter worth a damn. This is especially popular in queer studies. I actually hold a more moderate view, that says intentionality is INTERESTING, and should be considered, but not taken as a be all and end all.
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I’ll just leave this here
Let it be known that Steven Moffat has no interest in bisexual visibility, and anybody who says anything else is clearly wrong. He says so himself.
also, look at how rude I’m being. how dare I question the great steven moffat.
w o w
moffat go sit the fuck down
Oh, and in case anyone’s wondering, the exchange got worse:
And people wonder why I don’t worship him. I cannot.
YOU TAG ME FOR MOFFAT HATE?!
I feel so honored.
All hail Rena, Great Queen of Moffat Hate!
In other news, River song is bisexual because…..Moffat says so? Jeez, if being vaguely flirtatious with ladies makes people bisexual….I have to go question my sexuality again…and I’m probably dating Kyra. Crap.
(I can’t help but wonder if he thought that making her sound/act sexually liberal was his idea of “making her bisexual” even if she only ever did anything with men. How easy would it have been to make the guard in the Storm Cage female? Come on. We aren’t telepathic - if you didn’t write it in, even as a decent hint, we cannot know that she is bisexual. If we see a ton of a character in a romantic/sexual context and still have no idea that she’s bisexual even though you concieved of her as bi? YOU HAVE NOT WRITTEN YOUR CHARACTER WELL. GO HOME, SIR, GO HOME.)
Please, whatever deity is listening, cure RTD’s partner’s cancer so that we might once again be graced with decent writing [of characters with sexuality and gender diversity] in television.
I just got minorly nauseated by his statements there. She “fancies the whole team” THAT IS YOUR CLAIM TO VISIBILITY OF MY SEXUALITY?
FUCK YOU.
FUCK YOU SO HARD MOFFAT.
He is so unaware of how disgusting he sounds sometimes it makes me sick. River is bisexual be is your because you said so and she is your precious little mary sue/dream girlfriend, and you want your dream girlfriend to have a threesome with you.
Guess what, bisexual people really exist. We aren’t toys for your fucking fantasy.
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Not angry version:
Bisexuality is a minority within minorities as far as sexual visibility goes. Bisexuals suffer from a lot of stereotypes of just being insufferable flirts, having no commitment, and not being able to “choose a side.” Actually, a lot of bisexuals/pansexuals/omnisexuals on TV end up being from science fiction, using things like “sexualities are so passe” as an excuse. When Jack Harkenss did this, it was awesome, and the kind of visibility Jack gave the Bi/Pan part of the Sexual minority group, showing him in loving, commited relationships with both men and women, was amazing. Even still, he was from a time when everyone was just kind of omnisexual. His power came from maintaining that stance in times when that wasn’t the norm. RTD (himself gay, coming off Queer as Folk) sprinkled his episodes with LGBT characters, just as normal characters. This is visibility. A woman saying “me and my wife” in Midnight. A man saying “My brother and his husband” in Waters of Mars. In passing. Cassandra mentioning, in passing, that she was a boy growing up. Small things. LGBT as normal parts of conversation.
Showing River as an overly flirtatious woman, who makes a possible joke once about fancying everyone? Not visibility. Not even something about sexuality. River loves the Doctor, or so the show writing seems to want to make us accept, and the Doctor is Male. This shows her as Straight. Maybe, if the doctor changes sex/gender under your watch, Moffat, we can talk. (PLEASE DON’T - YOU DON’T HAVE THE SKILL FOR THAT) Even then, it is love for an individual, not so much a sexuality.
River is never shown, for all her insufferable flirtation, actually with a woman.
Even if she were, you re doing tons to promote stereotypes by making her the insufferable flirt who uses flirtation to get what she wants and is bisexual. This is not the visibility we wanted, that we liked under RTD. This is negative and harmful stereotyping. And, as mentioned with Jack - being nominally bisexual in a future time when it is the norm and ever acting on it, does little. But it would be a starting point if, you know, she was nominally bisexual on the show. She isn’t. Her sexuality has never been a topic of conversation.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m481frq7E01qaq2ago1_1280.png)
I’ll just leave this here
Let it be known that Steven Moffat has no interest in bisexual visibility, and anybody who says anything else is clearly wrong. He says so himself.
also, look at how rude I’m being. how dare I question the great steven moffat.
w o w
moffat go sit the fuck down
Oh, and in case anyone’s wondering, the exchange got worse:
And people wonder why I don’t worship him. I cannot.
YOU TAG ME FOR MOFFAT HATE?!
I feel so honored.
All hail Rena, Great Queen of Moffat Hate!
In other news, River song is bisexual because…..Moffat says so? Jeez, if being vaguely flirtatious with ladies makes people bisexual….I have to go question my sexuality again…and I’m probably dating Kyra. Crap.
(I can’t help but wonder if he thought that making her sound/act sexually liberal was his idea of “making her bisexual” even if she only ever did anything with men. How easy would it have been to make the guard in the Storm Cage female? Come on. We aren’t telepathic - if you didn’t write it in, even as a decent hint, we cannot know that she is bisexual. If we see a ton of a character in a romantic/sexual context and still have no idea that she’s bisexual even though you concieved of her as bi? YOU HAVE NOT WRITTEN YOUR CHARACTER WELL. GO HOME, SIR, GO HOME.)
Please, whatever deity is listening, cure RTD’s partner’s cancer so that we might once again be graced with decent writing [of characters with sexuality and gender diversity] in television.
I just got minorly nauseated by his statements there. She “fancies the whole team” THAT IS YOUR CLAIM TO VISIBILITY OF MY SEXUALITY?
FUCK YOU.
FUCK YOU SO HARD MOFFAT.
He is so unaware of how disgusting he sounds sometimes it makes me sick. River is bisexual be is your because you said so and she is your precious little mary sue/dream girlfriend, and you want your dream girlfriend to have a threesome with you.
Guess what, bisexual people really exist. We aren’t toys for your fucking fantasy.
____
Not angry version:
Bisexuality is a minority within minorities as far as sexual visibility goes. Bisexuals suffer from a lot of stereotypes of just being insufferable flirts, having no commitment, and not being able to “choose a side.” Actually, a lot of bisexuals/pansexuals/omnisexuals on TV end up being from science fiction, using things like “sexualities are so passe” as an excuse. When Jack Harkenss did this, it was awesome, and the kind of visibility Jack gave the Bi/Pan part of the Sexual minority group, showing him in loving, commited relationships with both men and women, was amazing. Even still, he was from a time when everyone was just kind of omnisexual. His power came from maintaining that stance in times when that wasn’t the norm. RTD (himself gay, coming off Queer as Folk) sprinkled his episodes with LGBT characters, just as normal characters. This is visibility. A woman saying “me and my wife” in Midnight. A man saying “My brother and his husband” in Waters of Mars. In passing. Cassandra mentioning, in passing, that she was a boy growing up. Small things. LGBT as normal parts of conversation.
Showing River as an overly flirtatious woman, who makes a possible joke once about fancying everyone? Not visibility. Not even something about sexuality. River loves the Doctor, or so the show writing seems to want to make us accept, and the Doctor is Male. This shows her as Straight. Maybe, if the doctor changes sex/gender under your watch, Moffat, we can talk. (PLEASE DON’T - YOU DON’T HAVE THE SKILL FOR THAT) Even then, it is love for an individual, not so much a sexuality.
River is never shown, for all her insufferable flirtation, actually with a woman.
Even if she were, you re doing tons to promote stereotypes by making her the insufferable flirt who uses flirtation to get what she wants and is bisexual. This is not the visibility we wanted, that we liked under RTD. This is negative and harmful stereotyping. And, as mentioned with Jack - being nominally bisexual in a future time when it is the norm and ever acting on it, does little. But it would be a starting point if, you know, she was nominally bisexual on the show. She isn’t. Her sexuality has never been a topic of conversation.
He just keeps popping in…
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Jack and Rex … coming back to life
I think I need to explain this for the internet because it was bloody obvious to me (puns not intentional) and most people seemed to not get it. Jack’s blood really has nothing to do with this. The fact that it was in Rex is not way Rex is now immortal. Also, he isn’t really. Hold on. Let me put it this way. The morphic field thing worked by balancing the two ends of the earth - all things they did in Buenos Aries had to be mirrored directly in Shanghai, right? Otherwise it didn’t work. So, Jack has to go back to being immortal, and that is mirrored on the other side of the planet in Rex. Rex is a fact as far as the morphic field of earth is concerned, not as far as Everything, the way Jack is. If Rex were to say, go travel with the doctor and get shot, he’d just die, more than likely. It was a mirroring thing.
And as far as Jack’s immortality, we have no evidence it was actually gone. Children of Earth shows us that Jack can be dead for a while without his fact-ness being violated. Being injured or even dead doesn’t violate what Bad Wolf did. It was just a morphic field basically stopping his regeneration. So yeah.
Hope that clarifies things…
