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[spindle_ella]

Name: Dibs, Ella, whatever
Age: 37
Location: UK
Social Media: spindle-ella on Ravelry, if you ever catch me there; inkbandits.etsy on instagram, but that's mostly business stuff

Describe yourself in five sentences or less: I make things; all the things; did I mention I make things? I have chronic pain issues but try not to bitch about them too much. Just got married in January (although we got hitched for our twentieth anniversary, so I'm not sure how 'new' that is). I like to read, and am trying to get my finger out and do some original writing. Also I have an etsy shop, which can take up a lot of time when it's busy.

Top 5 fandoms: I'm not fannish in the sense of creating fanworks, but I'll always love Leverage, Diana Wynne Jones, Classic Who, Trek, and many other things that have completely left my head because I've been asked for a list. I'm also very into folklore and mythology, and gardening and tea and stationery, if they count as fandoms.

I mostly post about: Crafts and real-life.

My last three posts were about: Two bingo cards and pokemon hunting in Newcastle.

How often do you post? Not often enough; I'm going to renew my attempts at once a week.

How about commenting? Could be better, but again, I'm trying to be better about it. I just feel awkward sometimes. Okay, all the time.

Comments

[spindle_ella]

This is true XD

Troughton ♥ . Peter Davison is my doctor; I tried with the new one but something just didn't click right.

[solarbird]

I love Christopher Eccleston's doctor. I like early Tennant, though he stayed well too long; his first series was brilliant, and Martha is one of the underrated/mistreated companions. Matt Smith wasn't bad but I've really disliked Moffat as a showrunner, which was a huge letdown because I loved his RTD-era scripts.

(RTD, for all his many faults, could write an evocative character in three lines of dialogue; Moffat can't mange it across three years, mostly because he yanks his characters around at whim like little action figures to do whatever random-ass thing he's decided his oh-so-clever-but-not-half-as-clever-as-he-thinks scripts require. Hate it.)

And then there's Peter Capaldi, who is the most wasted, most misused, most ill-served-by-script doctor since Colin Baker. At least his most recent series improved - I couldn't make it through the previous. ("Kill the Moon," from the previous series... ugh. about 80% through the episode, I just went, "Why am I sitting here letting myself be insulted like this?" and never went back all series. Just wretched.)

I'm so glad Moffat is moving on. Can't happen soon enough for me.

[spindle_ella]

I like Eccleston in retrospect; I think at the time I couldn't invest because we knew almost straightaway that he was going. I really liked Martha and hated what the show did with her - tbh, I think a part of what put me off the new Who is the 'my companion is the most special to the Doctor ever' that both the new showrunners had going on; it was so off-putting when I've loved so many of the previous companions.

I did try again when Capaldi took over, because he seemed like what it needed, but it just didn't take. Moffat going might actually get me to try again. I just wish Capaldi was staying with a new show-runner, so we'd have a chance at seeing what his doctor should be.