You can't spell fannish divergence without 'fun'! Except you totally can.

[doyle]

March-ish 2005: doyle_sb4 is persuaded, very reluctantly, to watch Rose, first episode of the new Doctor Who series; she whines that she's not at all interested in DW but is swayed by the fact that the episode's written by Russell T Davies, creator of (the original) Queer as Folk.
Three viewings of same episode later: connorbeast asks "so, do you want to just write Buffy fandom that Dear John letter now?"
March 2006: doyle_sb4 looks at her floor-to-ceiling bookcase full of DW books, videos and DVDs and thinks "you know, I must get onto that."

God, I hate it when I go third-person. Anyhoo, I'm just dropping a note here to say that if any of you guys have me friended purely for Buffyverse fic/stuff and are liable to be very annoyed if I start talking even more about Doctor Who than I have been doing - and I want to, it's my exclusive shiny lovely One True Fandom and I want to do the squeeing and reviewing thing and have been holding back for fear of annoying people, which is kind of insane - like it says on my userinfo, every day's defriending amnesty day and I understand completely if you want to take me off your reading list. (I'll probably reciprocate, since I'm rapidly approaching LJ's mythic 750 friends limit). I promise I will neither hunt you down like a wild dog nor shed an emo tear as I wonder where it all went wrong.

Comments

[taleya.livejournal.com]

*glomps happily with the whoishness*

Screw the buffyers! You're ours now!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Icon! Coat! *plots finding self even MORE Who icons*

[calapine.livejournal.com]

One True Fandom! One True Fandom!

::dances a bit::

Ahem.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

It's so the Fandom That Ate My Life and Soul. I went from "I'll watch the new one but not the old series" to "I'll watch the old series but not any of the extended universe" to my current state of trying to get my mitts on every episode, audio, PDA, EDA, MA, NA, Telos novella, Target novelisation... and it's so *huge* and yet relatively un-ficced, and I keep finding awesomeness. Like the Doctor Who Quiz Book of Science, which may in fact be mankind's greatest literary achievement, and which I need to post about later tonight.

[that_mireille]

*glomps you* While I don't write a lot in Doctor Who, I love it madly, which you probably already knew. ;)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Heee. I had an inkling *g*

[gloss]

*clings to you*
I love hearing you talk about anything.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

'Rah! I am filled with glee just a bit at your Ten-n-Rose icon. (Did you get that vid uploaded okay?)

[gwynnega]

One True Fandom!!! :-)

(And come to think of it, you and paratti were the ones who got me to watch Rose and swayed me over to Who-ville!)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Mwah! Our influence is assidious indeed...

[wickedprincess3.livejournal.com]

YAY WHO :D

*sympathizes about fandoms that eat souuuuuuls*

*shifty eyes SV and comics*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh man, comics fandom must be enormous - one of the guys I live with is into Thor and The Avengers and there are about a smillion issues. I fear for my sanity if I ever go beyond my casual will-read-what's-lying-around-the-house comic fannishness.

[thesecondevil]

I tend to forget to comment a lot but I'm as interested in Who as Buffy, and what episodes, audios, fic etc that you like is a good litmus test for what's worth reading.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger...

[hurry-sundown.livejournal.com]

"so, do you want to just write Buffy fandom that Dear John letter now?"

Heh. It's a little less - severe, let's say, for me because my OTF is still in the Jossverse (Firefly, if guessing is required). Not a DW fan, but I seem to recall promos on SciFi recently, so I expect to have more exposure to it soonish. I'm happy to stay friended, but I won't throw a tantrum if you don't keep me.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I go through phases of Firefly fannishness when I rewatch the series (and probably will again soon when I get the Serenity DVD), so it's all good *g*

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

But aren't all the cool kids WhoFen these days?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

We should have badges *nods*

[swmbo.livejournal.com]

no way, i depend up on you for the doctor who love

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

When the new season starts (in 6-ish weeks, I hope) there will be much love, oh yes...

[roseveare.livejournal.com]

You should totally do the squeeing and reviewing thing! Especially if it involves Fitz!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I definitely need to do Why Fitz is Just Brilliant. Because it's *true*. I almost reluctant to read the nine or ten books I have left that feature him, because then they'll all be gone...

[minim_calibre]

See, I must keep reading you because THE FREAKING NINE DVDS WILL FINALLY BE OUT REALLYREALLYSOONIFNOTALREADY (I can't remember the NA release date), AND THEN OMG DOYLEFICDOCTORWHOWHEEWHEEWHEE!!!

Ahem.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

JOINSINTHEWHEEOMG

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

You're our wife now...

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hallo Dave?

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

I love the new Doctor Who, though it will never replace Buffy as my OTF. But please squee away. It's all good. :-)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I will, thank you! :p

[dreamy-tiger.livejournal.com]

I started off reading here for the Buffy fiction and things, but reading all your Dr Who squee got me watching it too.

I made a very undignified noise in my Western History class today, because Nine was in the movie we're watching. And no one understood what i was talking about. *facepalm*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

The squee is a force to be reckoned with!

What movie was it?

[tekiclutch.livejournal.com]

I can definitely relate to what you're going through here... the whole "previous-friends-list-fandom-displacement" thing. Of course, the whole reason I added you in the first place was cuz' you rant about DW, so this is no problem at all for me. XP

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yay! *g*

[owl]

And new series soon! *happy dance*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I wish we knew a date! It must be soon, it was Easter last year... (I'm so looking forward to my flist erupting afterwards)

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

Hee! Remember when you posted compressed versions of new Who episodes last spring? That's what converted me. I was all ambivalent and dismissive until then, and finally got persuaded by the squee in your posts and decided to give it a try. Never looked back!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love knowing I successfully pimped my fandom.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Heh. ::shares the DW love:: Not going anywhere.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*proves self too easily amused by icon identical twins*

[cindershadow.livejournal.com]

I enjoy your posts, and although I am not a DW fan yet, you may still bring me over . . . so I'll keep hanging around, quietly. However, as you know, I'm not really posting anything myself except for birthday thank-yous to writers, and thus far they are all Buffyverse or Sentinel, so I will not mind one eensy, teensy little bit if you need to trim me off your reading list! (Because I can barely get through mine, and it's nowhere the length of yours . . . )

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's fine, and I really like your birthday posts :)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Dude, I went right there along with you.

Hey. You're in the UK. Any clue when new series starts?? (and when I have to start madly downloading again so I can have a weekly party at my house for me, MrVoodoo and dachelle?)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

There's been no announcement about the new series date yet - which is strange, as it started about Easter last year and everybody assumed it'd be the same this time out, but that's only 6 weeks away and there's no word yet.

Still, the moment it's announced I will be squeeing...

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

You have 597 friends! And 301 communities! How do you live?! How do you cope?!

::new-found levels of respect for you::

In other news, I got the new ('Mickey') issue of the Dr Who magazine today. Apparently Noel Clarke nearly died, very close to filming. And there are vague spoilers. Glorious, glorious vague spoilers...

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I cope very badly indeed - most of it's laziness as I join communities and then defriend but don't leave them. One of these days (as I've been saying for, ooh, about a year) I need to do a big clearout.

I got DWM too - Noel Clarke is looking mighty fine [/shallow], and I'm dying to know now what he means with all that stuff about Mickey's last scene.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

You know perfectly well that I'm very fond of both you and DW, but I am curious - is Buffy fandom totally dumped, or just very much overshadowed?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good question: I think at the minute I'm just burned out on reading/writing Buffyverse fic, so - still love the show, am reading people's meta and such when I feel inclined, just not presently very fannish about it.

[helygen.livejournal.com]

Your DW fannishness is fine by me. I'm always on the lookout for Rose/Nine fic, as they're my other OTP [/hint]
:)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hee! I need to do a big season 1 rewatch before the new one - alas, poor Nine, we barely knew thee.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Dr. Who sounds good to me. ;)