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Today got off to a rather bad start when I found out the hard way that my trainers don't have much grip when it's been raining. *hurryhurryhurryslidethumpOW* more or less sums it up. Luckily nothing but my dignity was bruised.

A meme from persiflage_1:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

persiflage_1 gave me: ace, discworld, harry sullivan, jamie mccrimmon, martha/romana, sarah jane smith, zoe herriot (I have tended towards talking about why I love them rather than who they are.)


Ace

This is my very favourite Ace moment - towards the end of Survival, when she thinks the Doctor's dead. She's angry, she's upset, but most of all she's resolute. She's going to take up the Doctor's mantle and carry on in his place, because someone has to. I love her mixture of toughness and vulnerabilty, and how determined she is to do the right thing (especially if it involves exploding something).

Discworld
Comic fiction that isn't afraid to be serious (or serious fiction that isn't afraid to be funny, depending on which way you want to look at it), I love this series and its central notion of morality: that it's wrong to treat people as things. A few years ago I reread them in (chronological) order and it's amazing to see this brilliant universe with its fantastic characters grow and expand and mature.

Harry Sullivan
I have loved Harry since I saw The Ark In Space - he spent almost the entire serial shoeless and never ever complained. (Once he made a rueful remark.) There is so much I love about Harry: his unfailing politeness, saving the Doctor with his steady hands in Genesis, "only qualified to work on sailors" and his "sorry, but he's right" expression when the Doctor says it, ALL OF WOLFSBANE for Harry is PURE OF HEART, the giant clam, skipping with the Doctor, how VERY ENGLISH he is, oh, everything. Here is a picture.


Jamie McCrimmon
"I was him; he will be me."
"Oh, aye, and who will I be?"
Best response to being introduced to the concept of regeneration ever!

(There are surprisingly few pictures of Jamie on his own so you get bonus Two and Zoe also)
Jamie's loyalty to the Doctor is just lovely, as is his whole attitude to travelling in time and space - he takes everything in his stride, even if he doesn't understand it, and if anything threatens his friends, he'll take it on and try and protect them. I love the little bit in The Invasion when he's shepherded into the back of Vaughn's car, climbs all the way through, gets out the other side, hops into the front seat and sits their grinning smugly at a rather miffed Packer(?).

Martha/Romana

This pairing really appeals to me, as a 'ship, TARDIS team or both; I think they'd get on famously, they'd be sarcastic and silly and serious when the situation demanded it, and they'd always read the manual. (Either Romana or indeed future!Romana is good, but I love that picture muchly.)

Sarah Jane Smith
"Call me old girl again, and I'll spit in your eye."

Oh Sarah, so determined, dauntless and not afraid to pull a silly face if the situation demands it. I am so pleased to see her training up a new generation of adventurers in The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Zoe Herriot

So tiny and sparkly! She kills computers with her brain and Cybermen with maths! She beats up comic book heroes with the greatest of ease! She is so self-possessed and full of joy and curiousity, and sometimes she thinks the Doctor may almost be as clever as she is.


And now I go back to coding today's who_daily fic edition. Or possibly the washing up.

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