#janeyre

hey!! hope you like this one—it's mostly very mellow acoustic stuff, because that's what i'm in the mood for :)

g : goji berry sunset, jealous of the birds

r : roslyn, bon iver & st. vincent

a : autumn town leaves, iron & wine

c : call me when you land, old sea brigade & luke sital-singh

~ janeyre

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OMG THANK YOU!!!! I'm so glad you liked them, I LOVED your answers! I definitely picked the ones I wanted to have someone ask me in the hopes that this EXACT thing would happen so, please prepare for a book lmao

9. Who introduced you to DW? A small group of my middle school friends sat me down on the couch one afternoon! I think I at least had a sense of what it was through Nerd Circle Peripheral Exposure, but I can't recall for certain.

30. Who did you not used to like, but really like now? The closest I have is Martha, I think. It's not that I didn't like her, more that I was... neutral? In the 12 or so years since I started watching as a barely-teen, needless to say my worldview has changed a LOT and I really understand her SO much better as a character and as a complicated, imperfect person than I ever could as a kid, and I've really come to love her a ton as a result that I didn't feel in my first watch-through.

34. Best two-parter? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET/THE SATAN PIT, BABEY!!!!!!! I never realized how beloved this one was by so many until entering the DoctorRose Fanfic Sphere, but my reasons for loving it are actually completely unrelated to the shippy factors.

I could go on for hours, and it all comes down to the assortment of such wonderful, real people. I love the concept of space bases in general; they're always my favorite kind of episode because there's such a gritty realness to that environment in the context of both science and sci-fi. I love how much we get to know each of the supporting characters and the really deep conversations that come out of it.

I love getting to see Rose really kick ASS while the Doctor is gone. I love the mystery of it. I love that we have no freakin clue what the devil was, I love the ambiguity for interpretation and how that colors everyone's interactions. I love black holes and weird space physics, and if I could change one thing, I'd have added some of the weird effects you see in Interstellar - but I suppose at the time that DW was airing in 2006, we didn't KNOW those things about black holes yet! HOW COOL IS THAT!

What I love most is a quote, just a little quote, that has inspired me for years - the "why did you come here, why? I'll tell you why, because it was there, brilliant." When I first heard that uttered by the Doctor at age 12, I felt so insanely validated, because my career aspirations are deep space exploration, and so often my mom would ask "why does it matter? What's the point" and the answer? Well, because it was there. Because that's what humanity is, the urge to jump - the urge to fall.

In an INSANE twist of irony, I only recently learned learned that it's a perfect echo of JFK's "we choose to go to the moon" speech. So a lot really clicked into place.

Ok. End rant. Thank you for asking this question XD I have so much fic drafted to really get this all out of my system, too.

72. Favourite piece of Murray Gold music? Song of Freedom, hands down. A lot of people call The Shepherd's Boy my man Murray's magnum opus, but I honestly think it's Song of Freedom. The violin at the start, the bittersweetness of that melody, the hopefulness of the chorus, the beat marching ever-forward, the layers upon layers of incredible harmony... it's. I can't even put it in words. I can't watch the scene of everyone flying the TARDIS together without crying.

Of course, another personal layer to it is that it's the song I listen to on the way to Phoenix Comicon every year. I play it for much the same reasons - it's a song for reunions, for found family, for bright and shining moments even if they only last for the blink of an eye - and that's what the event is for me. So it's very, very dear to me.