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I swear on everything that this isn’t just some stupid contest to gain followers. I’ve been wanting a new camera for ages so now I have two. I was thinking about returning/selling my old one, but I wouldn’t be getting the same amount or more than what it was originally priced. I’ve already talked to my mum about me giving it away, and she doesn’t mind. Anyway, who doesn’t like free stuff?

Here’s how this will work:

You do not have to follow me. I don’t want any followers that don’t actually like my blog. I do ask of you to kindly check out my blog though. If you like it cool, if not, then your loss.

Likes do not count for anything, only reblogs will count. You can reblog this as many times as you’d like.

Do not create any extra blogs or whatever, I will be looking on your archives.

Winner will be chosen like as if it were a raffle drawing.

Winner will be contacted via ask, so make sure that you have that on/open.

This will be over on March 21st 2014, and the winner will be announced on the 22nd.

I am doing this basically to make someone else happy and also because I accidentally deleted the other contest I was doing. Please don’t participate if you already own a Canon, but you can if you’d like I guess. I really don’t care if you live in Hogwarts, anyone is allowed to enter.

Here’s what the winner will get:

Canon EOS 1100D

Camera Cover R-F-3

Battery Charger LC-E10E

EUR AC Cable 1m

Battery pack LP-E10

Battery cover

Interface cable IFC-130U

All the disks needed.

The camera is basically brand new.

If you think this is “stupid” of me to do or anything of that sort, than just ignore it. It’s that simple.

Q. “Why would you just giveaway an expensive camera to a stranger?”

A. TO MAKE THEM HAPPY!

Q. “How do we know you aren’t bullshitting us?”

A. To make a fake contest just for followers is stupid, plus, I have a picture of me holding both the cameras :)

So…because the Aquariel drawing got unbelievably popular overnight, I went through some of the comments and tumblr user swan2swan wrote something about Ariel arm-wrestling Gaston and obviously I thought ‘of course this HAS to be drawn!’ 

She loses control of her body to the Weeping Angels.

She is kidnapped and begins to be turned into a Saturnyn.

She becomes nine months pregnant because of the Dream Lord’s manifestation of Rory’s subconscious desires.

She is sucked under ground and strapped to a table to be vivisectioned.

Ha

HA

Oh, were you being serious? Actually no:

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She does not lose control of her body. The Angels were trying to climb into her mind, but she was still in control as long as she kept her eyes shut. Also, in those same episodes, she figured out how to save herself from the angel climbing out of the screen by freezing it and tried to convince the Doctor to go on without her when she thought her hand was stone because she wanted to be brave and help save everyone. Not to mention, the Weeping Angels are the villains of the episodes. Did you really expect them to ask nicely or go “oh well we can’t interfere with agency!”

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Amy chose to go into that school knowing that some shit was going down. She knew something would probably happen to her and she went anyways. And she was saved by other woman as well.

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Kovarian is the villain. Kovarian is using Amy because Kovarian is evil. This is what the episode shows. This is not the writer’s going “oh well women pfft we must put them in boxes and force them to be pregnant for their own good”. This is the show showing why this is a negative thing because it’s the villains who do it.

I’ll give you the last three, but you know who else loses control of bodily agency in this show very often? PRACTICALLY EVERYONE. Male or female.

"Even including episodes where Amy barely shows up (the Christmas episodes and the two Craig episodes), she spends half of her time being kidnapped or having something else take control of her body.”

What the hell are you even talking about here? In “A Christmas Carol” no one’s kidnapped her or taken control of her. She’s in equal danger to everyone else on that ship. In “Closing Time” the only time we see her is when she’s in the store, so no. And in Lodger, yeah ok, she’s stuck on the TARDIS, but no one took control of her there either. In fact, she was helping the Doctor sort out the problem. In “The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe” we literally only see her at the end. So what the hell are you talking about?

"But what do you expect when ‘part of the mission statement when writing a script for Doctor Who is how bad of a time can you give Amy Pond’?"

You do understand that the entire point of Amy and Rory’s era was to show how large (and often negative) an impact the Doctor can have on someone’s life, right? That’s why a shitload of negative things happen to both Amy and Rory (and River too really and also the Doctor himself and also basically everyone). It isn’t the writers going “oh look a woman lol let’s fuck her up”. It’s the writers going “look at how negative a life with the Doctor can actually be”.

Basically, you’re being purposefully ignorant to the facts.

That is not what you said. You said, and I quote (and I quoted in my original response) “”Even including episodes where Amy barely shows up (the Christmas episodes and the two Craig episodes), she spends half of her time being kidnapped or having something else take control of her body.”” Now, it sounds like we’ve had a misunderstanding on this point, and that fine. You should have been more precise and maybe I should have read between the lines, but don’t act like you said something you didn’t just so you can act like I’m stupid or something.

"And I didn’t say that Amy never had agency or never did anything, but way to go ahead and prove me wrong for all the things I didn’t say. That’s really smart of you."

Oh sorry, my bad. See, this is a little thing I like to call insight. You don’t need to actually say that you don’t think Amy did enough. The rest of what you said says that for you. It’s also not hard to guess because there are heaps of criticisms out there with the idea that the show turned  Amy into a “walking uterus” or “constant damsel in distress”. Given your position on the subject of Steven Moffat and the female companions, I made an inference to your beliefs on the matter of Amy’s usefulness to the narrative. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that far off given that you saw fit to delete two important portions of my original response when you responded because they contradicted your point.

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You do know that physical agency isn’t the only important issue to consider, right? Rory and Amy both went through a lot emotionally as well. You think Rory living as a plastic centurion had no affect on him? He tells the Doctor in “Day of the Moon” that he can sometimes remember bits and pieces and it’s like there’s a door to a whole other life in his head. And Amy was not the only one who had the baby ripped away from her, but Rory was as well.

She loses control of her body to the Weeping Angels.

She is kidnapped and begins to be turned into a Saturnyn.

She becomes nine months pregnant because of the Dream Lord’s manifestation of Rory’s subconscious desires.

She is sucked under ground and strapped to a table to be vivisectioned.

Ha

HA

Oh, were you being serious? Actually no:

...

She does not lose control of her body. The Angels were trying to climb into her mind, but she was still in control as long as she kept her eyes shut. Also, in those same episodes, she figured out how to save herself from the angel climbing out of the screen by freezing it and tried to convince the Doctor to go on without her when she thought her hand was stone because she wanted to be brave and help save everyone. Not to mention, the Weeping Angels are the villains of the episodes. Did you really expect them to ask nicely or go “oh well we can’t interfere with agency!”

.....

Amy chose to go into that school knowing that some shit was going down. She knew something would probably happen to her and she went anyways. And she was saved by other woman as well.

....

Kovarian is the villain. Kovarian is using Amy because Kovarian is evil. This is what the episode shows. This is not the writer’s going “oh well women pfft we must put them in boxes and force them to be pregnant for their own good”. This is the show showing why this is a negative thing because it’s the villains who do it.

I’ll give you the last three, but you know who else loses control of bodily agency in this show very often? PRACTICALLY EVERYONE. Male or female.

"Even including episodes where Amy barely shows up (the Christmas episodes and the two Craig episodes), she spends half of her time being kidnapped or having something else take control of her body.”

What the hell are you even talking about here? In “A Christmas Carol” no one’s kidnapped her or taken control of her. She’s in equal danger to everyone else on that ship. In “Closing Time” the only time we see her is when she’s in the store, so no. And in Lodger, yeah ok, she’s stuck on the TARDIS, but no one took control of her there either. In fact, she was helping the Doctor sort out the problem. In “The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe” we literally only see her at the end. So what the hell are you talking about?

"But what do you expect when ‘part of the mission statement when writing a script for Doctor Who is how bad of a time can you give Amy Pond’?"

You do understand that the entire point of Amy and Rory’s era was to show how large (and often negative) an impact the Doctor can have on someone’s life, right? That’s why a shitload of negative things happen to both Amy and Rory (and River too really and also the Doctor himself and also basically everyone). It isn’t the writers going “oh look a woman lol let’s fuck her up”. It’s the writers going “look at how negative a life with the Doctor can actually be”.

Basically, you’re being purposefully ignorant to the facts.

Sometimes the Doctor is a father figure, and sometimes the Doctor is your best friend. He comforts you and berates you. He guides his companions and depends on their perspective. He’s old and wise and weary, and he’s young-at-heart and curious and meddlesome. Basically, the Doctor is many things. Sometimes he is a father figure, but I would argue that he is not just a father figure.

But I’d would also ask: Why shouldn’t a woman portray that kind of character? We tend to think many of the Doctor’s characteristics are “male” or “father figure” characteristics: his wisdom, his power and authority, that slightly paternalistic and condescending way he treats the people around him. But really, there’s no reason why those characteristics couldn’t be portrayed by a woman.

In fact, that would be an utterly fascinating character. Show me a woman who unquestionably commands respect and authority, who is eager for new experiences but frequently betrays a sense of weariness with all she has seen. Give me a woman who is fiercely intelligent, and clever and who can get away with being slightly condescending because she’s just brilliant. And we’ll forgive her because we know she believes that every person is important (or because we knew that jerk had it coming to them).

I know it’s hard to view the Doctor as anyone but a man when there’s such a strong association between those “father figure” characteristics and men, but I’d urge you to challenge yourself and try to imagine a woman taking on that kind of role. You can start by watching Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica.