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.

[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]

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.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Heee. I had an inkling *g*

[gloss]

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

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i am very afraid that this is going to be me, because i am still in step one, but i -know- how i am fannishly. meep.

[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!)

[wickedprincess3.livejournal.com]

YAY WHO :D

*sympathizes about fandoms that eat souuuuuuls*

*shifty eyes SV and comics*

[livii.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who Quiz Book of Science

Omg, I can't wait to hear about that one! Sounds absolutely divine.

I'm falling into this fandom fast too, but can't possibly get through everything like you have been! I admire your dedication, however, and love reading about what you've read or seen.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I get into a fandom I want to know about everything. This can prove costly and time consuming and involve uber-nerdish things like spreadsheets. Also if my new DVD burner ever arrives I can set you up with episodes and stuff, just say the word.

[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]

It is all about Five teaching Tegan and Nyssa about science as if they're eight. It is awesome.

I admire your dedication

More like my OCD... *cries*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger...

[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.

[gloss]

I know it's all newbie and lame of me to love Ten as much as I do, but I can't stop myself.

I'm still waiting to hear from Miss Sheila re:vid.

Speaking of DW, I have decided to scan the book I got for you? Because package rates to your fair isle start at $20 here and, trust me. The book is not that good. *g*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Mwah! Our influence is assidious indeed...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

*notes all who icons in response to this point*

*giggles*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeesh! I know we're the back end of nowhere but that's just silly (I can send a small package to the US or Canada for a couple of quid). Which book is it? I bought a job lot recently and I might have it already. *glomps for the lovely thought anyway*

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

*\o/*

at the very least, once my computer is up and running again i'll need hints as to where to poke around for things. i feel as the technology is the only thing saving me keeping me from fandom ;)

[livii.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that's divine.

More like my OCD...

Erm, well, there's that too. But it produces great fic and commentary and stuff, yes! So there is an upside. Erm, for us. Well, you know.

[gloss]

Canada Post is EVIL. This is why privatization is bad, kids.

The book is...Christ, now I can't find it. Baker-era, but no Romana or K9, a guide to all the eps and favorite characters, companions, and villains. Skinny and cheesy as hell, but I read it to cover to cover after TCI. *g*

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i KNOW. i mean, i haven't even gotten through nine yet (though i'm close). but ten omg ten.

sigh. i think it's just tennant, though. casanova! crouch jr! there was no hope for me.