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Seven and Mel definitely pass the Hot Cocoa Test; he does almost as much poking and hugging with her as he does with Ace, although Ace gets slightly more by virtue of being there longer. What do you think of Mel, by the way? She's one of those companions who supposedly get much, much better in her Big Finish adventures, but I kind of liked her anyway, screaming notwithstanding. She grew on me.

Um...looking in my bookmarks, I have way more than I thought. >___> I've got the Pertwee-era Fashion Love thread (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/3136.html?thread=13184832#t13184832), obvs, because that was what made me realize that the meme didn't fail hard all the time, plus the House That Dripped Blood (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/3810.html?thread=16772834#t16772834) picspam because it is for great lolz. There's also a lot of picspams in there and some conversations I've had with other people, especially if they led to interesting fanon or such. There's a ficlet about the Doctor cosplaying as himself (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/3329.html?thread=14705921#t14705921), a thread about which scientists we'd want the Doctor to visit in a historical episode (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/3329.html?thread=14944257#t14944257), a thread about Turlough that ends up with him dancing at the Moulin Rouge (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/3810.html?thread=16293602#t16293602), a thread where someone explains that Transporter 2 has the same plot as The Silurians (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4094.html?thread=17071102#t17071102), a winter wear picspam that went on longer than most (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4094.html?thread=18169342#t18169342), someone proposing a way of making peace between trads/Threefen and rads/Sevenfen (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4419.html?thread=19621187#t19621187), an epic picspam of the actors who played the Doctors in other roles (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4419.html?thread=19921731#t19921731), a really long and awesome discussion thread (see! We *can* have discussion without wank, and boo to anyone that says we can't) (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4419.html?thread=20249411#t20249411) that actually started as a comment on a one-sentence porn meme and spun way off from there (I was one of the participants in that conversation; which one will become obvious quickly), a Benton love thread (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4419.html?thread=20754243#t20754243), that talk about Liz Shaw and stereotypes in The Blue Tooth (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4635.html?thread=20958747#t20958747), the only Boxman wank that doesn't make me want to break things because it's about characterization!fail instead of sexism (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4635.html?thread=21949467#t21949467), an enormous picspam of HiFi whut (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/4635.html?thread=21991451#t21991451), a discussion thread about commenting on fic (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/5236.html?thread=22356852#t22356852), a discussion of plot holes in Doctor Who turns into Jo and Sarah requisitioning the UNIT boys and an appreciation of Day of the Daleks tortureporn (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/5236.html?thread=22746996#t22746996), and the thread where someone recced me Verdigris (http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/5236.html?thread=22913140#t22913140).

OH GOD THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL OF THEM. D:

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I've only seen Mel in Dragonfire, but she was adorable and I considered going backwards for her. Only my determination to see Ace and carry on to the TVM kept me from it.

That list is faaaaaaaaaabulous. :D And several of those threads were before my time so I doubly appreciate the links.

Are you going to do the friending meme, btw? I'm waffling on the idea. There's lovely people I wanna get cracky with but the meme is slow and right now I just feel like LJ takes so much energy. Which is silly because I'm not really DOING anything lately but I just. idk. I'm also worried because I'm coming up on my 1 year anniversary of entering the fandom and er, my past fandoms haven't lasted much longer than that. :/

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I've only seen one other Mel episode, and it was with Six (Terror of the Vervoids, IIRC - must get around to posting reviews of all these things I've quietly seen), but I think she offsets Six a bit better than Seven. Not that she doesn't work with Seven, but she provides a sort of counterpoint to Six's bombastic attitude and gets to gently yet forcefully tell him off, which you know I'm all over. Aaaand that sounds way more creepily sexist than it did in my head, I swear. :(

I don't know about the friending meme. It's a nice idea in principle, but I just don't know if I have the time or energy to entertain people atm, plus the Thing I Talk About Under Filter that will probably take me off LJ for the better part of June. And, yeah, I do feel like LJ is kind of an energy drain, which is silly because it's supposed to be a break, but...yeah. And having more fannish friends would mean I'd feel even guiltier about not having written anything by way of fic or meta recently.

I'm not making a whole lot of sense right now; sorry.

But your past fandoms haven't had 45 solid years of canon that you've only just scratched the surface of. You haven't even gotten to the books and audios yet! :D I find that constantly having something new to explore really helps the fandom luster stick.

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I'm hopeful that the 45 years of canon will do exactly as you say. The only thing is, I feel much more easily into writing TW than into writing Who. I haven't really examined what makes me take fannish engagement to the next level but as it is, TW has it and the other shows (apparently and at the moment) don't.

Another part of it is that I'm devoting a little more time to the Big Project of Big Doom, which actually feeds parasitically on Who fandom (and several other fandoms) so, idk idk. Things are a little weird right now. I'm running into issues where I have two characters-- a Who character and an orig character which was initially the Who character but is now barely recognizable--in the same situations and my brain tries to elaborate for both characters.

Also, now that I'm officially Going Back to School I don't feel the same drive to produce fic that I did a few months ago.

And, well, there's... other stuff. That I may or may not seek reassurance for under flock. :/

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*shrug* I'm still not sure what differentiates for me between "fandom" and "something I watch", so I'm not sure I could help you. I mean, I kind of figured that Torchwood engaged you more fannishly given that that's what you write, but even Torchwood's getting new canon soon, yes? And you never know, you may yet find a DW era that clicks with you the way Torchwood does. It might even be EDA or BFA or NA or PDA or any of those other wacky acronyms.

And I've definitely done that with my own characters, to the point where I ended up writing neither, so sympathy on that. And...well, School will do that to one's fannish output. Not much I can offer there.

And, well, there's... other stuff. That I may or may not seek reassurance for under flock. :/

*pre-emptive hugs*

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