you can't let her stab me k9! it's not legal

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

BBC: We're cancelling the Christmas Special.

People: THEY CANCELLED DOCTOR WHO, I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, HONESTLY DESERVED, THE SHOW HAD BEEN DECLINING IN QUALITY EVER SINCE--

BBC: We're putting the show out to competitive tender to ensure its long-term future, so the next thing you'll se won't be just a special but a whole season.

People: we got Wilderness Years 2.0, Doctor Who is literally dead. I've been saying they should do this for literally so long guys--

RTD in an interview: I don't know why people are saying it's cancelled, competitive tender means the exact opposite of that.

People: Yeah, yeah, of course he'd say that 🙄 he's just bitter.

At what point does it stop being terrible reading and comprehension skills and just start being willful ignorance? No, the BBC has no interest in killing off it's most profitable show that gives a shit ton in merchandise and is basically the only thing with which they're still reaching young people. This is not a situation like the 1980s with Michael Grade. In fact, RTD being let go is pretty much the opposite situation of when JNT was forced to stay.

BBC: We're cancelling the Christmas Special.

People: THEY CANCELLED DOCTOR WHO, I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, HONESTLY DESERVED, THE SHOW HAD BEEN DECLINING IN QUALITY EVER SINCE--

BBC: We're putting the show out to competitive tender to ensure its long-term future, so the next thing you'll se won't be just a special but a whole season.

People: we got Wilderness Years 2.0, Doctor Who is literally dead. I've been saying they should do this for literally so long guys--

RTD in an interview: I don't know why people are saying it's cancelled, competitive tender means the exact opposite of that.

People: Yeah, yeah, of course he'd say that 🙄 he's just bitter.

At what point does it stop being terrible reading and comprehension skills and just start being willful ignorance? No, the BBC has no interest in killing off it's most profitable show that gives a shit ton in merchandise and is basically the only thing with which they're still reaching young people. This is not a situation like the 1980s with Michael Grade. In fact, RTD being let go is pretty much the opposite situation of when JNT was forced to stay.