OKAY GUYS. I posted this as a comment in the campaign page but it's over 5k so there's captcha so the only reply I got (BEFORE I COULD FIX MY GIF OR COPY THE HTML UGH) was someone going "vote trade for Dean!" which ugh. Anyway, I know I've been campaigning non-stop for my bb Donna and I am very happy that it looks like she'll win BUT in the meantime I am disappointed that Dr Martha Jones has slipped from third place to 6th. That is criminal, so I'm just going to take this opportunity to talk about how fucking awesome Martha is. I'm not filtering it because even if you don't like FMM well here is a post about Martha:
I don't want to be just a passenger anymore.
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Martha Jones is a flawless individual with remarkable inner strength. Martha walked the entire earth alone for a year with the people she loved at the mercy of a madman because it was what she needed to do to save the world. Martha has the patience of a saint. She spends so much time taking care of other people that sometimes she forgets to take care of herself, but throughout the course of series 3 she learns that it's okay to be a bit selfish sometimes and do what she needs to do for her. She put up with being treated as second-best until she realized that hey, actually, she's Martha fucking Jones and she's amazing, and at that point she had the strength to say "thanks but no" and walk away with her head held high. She's the only New Who companion who's walked out of the TARDIS on her own terms, in her own time, for her reasons, and while I love the others, there's something to be said for that.
One time, Martha met Shakespeare at the Globe, and he told her she was pretty.
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Martha spends all of s3 being underappreciated and undervalued by the Doctor and the fact that this trend continues into fandom makes me sad.
THINGS MARTHA JONES IS NOT AND NEVER WAS: "needy", "whiny", "useless", "slutty" (hey fandom? fuck you btw)
THINGS MARTHA JONES IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN: intelligent ("they're not exactly air-tight -- if the air was gonna be sucked out, it would've been already"), brave ("we might die." / "we might not."), caring (she's a doctor!), resourceful (lightning rod at the last second?), patient (who else would've put up with Ten in s3 lbr), snarky ("and then I could get sectioned!"), nerdy (EXPELLIARMUS IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION NEED I SAY MORE, one of us one of us), practically perfect in every way
Finally, this is how Martha Jones responds to meeting the woman she spent over a year being compared to and feeling less-than:
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Not "UGH, YOU". Not quiet jealousy. Just class and happiness for them.
DR JONES, LADIES & GENTS.
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I don't want to be just a passenger anymore.
(x)
Martha Jones is a flawless individual with remarkable inner strength. Martha walked the entire earth alone for a year with the people she loved at the mercy of a madman because it was what she needed to do to save the world. Martha has the patience of a saint. She spends so much time taking care of other people that sometimes she forgets to take care of herself, but throughout the course of series 3 she learns that it's okay to be a bit selfish sometimes and do what she needs to do for her. She put up with being treated as second-best until she realized that hey, actually, she's Martha fucking Jones and she's amazing, and at that point she had the strength to say "thanks but no" and walk away with her head held high. She's the only New Who companion who's walked out of the TARDIS on her own terms, in her own time, for her reasons, and while I love the others, there's something to be said for that.
One time, Martha met Shakespeare at the Globe, and he told her she was pretty.
(x)
Martha spends all of s3 being underappreciated and undervalued by the Doctor and the fact that this trend continues into fandom makes me sad.
THINGS MARTHA JONES IS NOT AND NEVER WAS: "needy", "whiny", "useless", "slutty" (hey fandom? fuck you btw)
THINGS MARTHA JONES IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN: intelligent ("they're not exactly air-tight -- if the air was gonna be sucked out, it would've been already"), brave ("we might die." / "we might not."), caring (she's a doctor!), resourceful (lightning rod at the last second?), patient (who else would've put up with Ten in s3 lbr), snarky ("and then I could get sectioned!"), nerdy (EXPELLIARMUS IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION NEED I SAY MORE, one of us one of us), practically perfect in every way
Finally, this is how Martha Jones responds to meeting the woman she spent over a year being compared to and feeling less-than:
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Not "UGH, YOU". Not quiet jealousy. Just class and happiness for them.
DR JONES, LADIES & GENTS.
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