Not a Smut Queen . . . A Smut Khaleesi

"Really, we're just good friends."

Welcome to our fair city. I hope that you enjoy your stay.

But it was just a metaphor to describe my annoyance at nostalgic fanservice about a single character and a single era for the last 15 years.

In fact, why the hell didn’t he experience the effects of segregation? That would’ve been powerful and it would’ve shown the Doctor. The fact that he’s vulnerable now and he can’t just waltz in and do whatever the hell he wants. Kind of like how in the witches episode in 13’s era where she was run over and ignored as a woman and had to deal with it and got frustrated. We never get a sense of that. We never get a sense of him struggling with something so that way the kids can see hey this is still a thing and this is what Black people have to go through. No the dot in the bubble doesn’t count because that happened at the end of the episode when it was discovered and we are never exposed to it ever again almost as if it’s just a one off like racism only happens in this one era and that’s the only era that matters. It’s hard to take it’s anti-racism message seriously when the a writer don’t take it seriously in historical eras it could lead to death.

We never get a sense of danger. In the engine in the story, I’m told he prefers to hang out Lagos. Mainly because the person writing it is a person of color and surprise surprise. They understand the struggle as opposed to a white guy who does not understand the struggle because because he’s never experienced that kind of struggle and refuses to listen to anybody else because he thinks he knows best when clearly he does not.

I mean for crying out loud Rosa and 13’s era. Yes I’m going to bring up 13 era because it’s clunky as it was it did get its social messaging right when they landed in the Mississippi era just before Rosa with a coordinated effort of the NAACP started protesting the segregated bus car. There was a sense of danger. Ryan had to be careful. The things that he casually did in the modern era were dangerous. You got the impression that if he walked a certain way then he would get more than just a scorn and being ostracized and could be arrested worse. You got that sense that it was dangerous. So much so they had to hide. They probably had to tone it down, but the fact of the mannerisms is that they acknowledged it. And they used it to teach a lesson and well RTD is not interested in that. And that really undercuts the fact that the Doctor is Black because his skin color shouldn’t matter but the fact that the matter is, he’s a time traveler, he’s going to travel in the past and it’s going to matter. It’s still matters in fact. I’m not seeing that he should be subjected to racial abuse everywhere he goes, but the fact that doesn’t matter is is that it needs to be knowledge it needs to be said otherwise it becomes superfluous and it just feels toothless.

And then there’s his obsession with white blondes. I don’t know what his obsession is, but he seems to portray them as the most awesome thing ever at the expense of anyone who is a person of color. You start with rose and Martha, and even before I got on Tumblr and got into the discussions, I am my family member who watched that series both of agreed that she was treated like absolute crap. And this isn’t a matter of “oh she got on the Internet so now she’s into social justice crap.” No. I noticed before I got on the Internet and got into the discourse. I didn’t like it and I loathed it.

And hearing the discourse from other people made me realize “hey I’m not alone other people saw it too, and they thought it was crap too.”

[ID: A digital drawing of Teor Pridesire and Kattigan Vale from Critical Role. They're standing together holding beer cans, Kattigan with his chin resting on Teor's shoulder and a hand on Teor's waist. They're both looking off to the right with unimpressed expressions as Kattigan asks "Do you know what the fuck they're all talking about?" and Teor responds "No." End description.]