Doctor Who - Where's the kink?

[donnaimmaculata]

Hm. The reason why I hardly post anymore is that I just can't get back into the swing of HP and haven't found any adequate replacement fandom yet. I do watch Doctor Who and do moderately lust (after a short-lived period of passionate, fully-fledged I-want-to-shag-him-NOW lusting) after David Tennant, but I just can't take this show seriously enough to discuss it. I've tried. I read other people's posts but hardly ever comment, as my brain refuses to come up with any meta. I'm not passionate enough about Doctor Who to form an opinion on anything, really. Episode hate eludes me, because I find them all equally enjoyable, in a fun, 45-minutes kiddie telly sort of way. Doctor Who is like a superficial fling with a hot-yet-emotionally-and-intellectually-unfulfilling boy after having just come out of a long and meaningful relationship with a mature and interesting adult. Trust me, I would know.

Anyway. I might just mention that I miss the HP fandom and mourn the death of my deep love for it. All wankiness aside (which, BTW, is quite easy to avoid; I've managed to keep out of any wank for some three years or so), the HP fandom is fun. And it's delightfully kinky, which is something that is regretably missing from Doctor Who - or any other fandom I've been toying with in the last few years, for that matter. Tell me if I'm wrong, because I am willing to learn, but is there any other fandom which is so shameless and so filthy as HP? I mean, we pair everyone with everything, as long as it's got a pulse. Or not.*

So, Doctor Who has all these possibilities, what with alien creatures of all descriptions which could be the basis for seriously kinky and totally pervy alien sex, and the time travel which could be the basis for hawt Doctor/Julius Caesar, Doctor/Barbara Cartland, Doctor/Casanova, Doctor/Henry VIII, Doctor/Calamity Jane, Doctor/Xantippe, Doctor/Immanuel Kant, Doctor/homo erectus porn, but, sadly, isn't. Instead, we get Ten making tender love to Rose *sighs*

Love and monsters made me realise this sad fact anew, because the predominant reaction to Elton/MoaningMyrtle!PavementSlab seems to be "ew, creepy". Personally, I love it. And it says something about the quality of the much-promoted main pairing that I prefer Elton/spoiler to Ten/Rose. No competition.

On another pairing note: Jackie/Mickey is now canon, isn't it? Now that we witnessed her in her behaviour towards yummy young men whom she uses as handymen?

And finally: Does Ten dress Rose's hair? Is this what the swivel chair by the TARDIS console is there for? Because is not that easy to braid your hair into an elaborate do yourself, you know.

*Shamelessly stealing other people's lines. Yep, that's me.

Comments

[hardticket.livejournal.com]

Instead, we get Ten making tender love to Rose *sighs*
I think the closest you can find to kink in Doctor Who is Doctor/Tardis, probably the only thing he would chose over Rose.
Who know's it might be different next season after she is gone.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course, Ten/TARDIS is canon! But even then, Doctor/TARDIS fics remain rather tame, if I'm not mistaken. I, too, am very much hoping for a more interesting dynamics between the Doctor and the next companion.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

The only way I would have been all 'ewww' about Elton/MoaningMyrtle!PavementSlab is if there'd been a suggestion of non-con about it, which isn't my thing. But Slab!Myrtle so totally wanted to be with Elton and they were having sex and they both liked it and yay! I mean, how vanilla is just a regular old blow job these days compared to everything else the characters in HP get up to in every other story, and yet that's somehow creepy? She's sentient! She's aware! Good for them.

(on the other hand, I *do* like Doctor Who, cheese and all...but if you want a show that's just screaming to be meta-cized, check out Life on Mars)

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

The Harry Potter fandom, for me, is an odd fandom "Home Sweet Home". I get tired of it, I move away, I visit occasionally, I have absurd longings for parts of it, and eventually I always come back (at least for holidays). If I'm looking for a specific type of fic and I can't find it anywhere, chances are I will find at least 10 such fics in HP.

That's why I can foray into relatively sexless fandoms and still satisfy my kink quota. That said, there is something vaguely unsatisfying about other fandoms after having been in HP - for all it's wank and contension and eye-rolling, HP is an incredibly large and all-inclusive fandom.