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!

[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. ;)

[gloss]

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

[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*

[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.

[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.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

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

[swmbo.livejournal.com]

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

[roseveare.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

You're our wife now...

[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. :-)

[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*

[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

[owl]

And new series soon! *happy dance*

[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!

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

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

[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 . . . )

[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?)

[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...

[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?

[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]
:)

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

Dr. Who sounds good to me. ;)