#rosemartha

just remembered you can ship rosemartha and felt high

I have no idea if this was directed at me and I didnt see myself doing anti-rosemartha posts on the tl again but regardless, I don't think white sapphic dw stans understand how much white womanhood/proximity to it affects Black women. They don't understand how much of women's representation and issues, including sapphic rep, centres white women. There's a reason why you rarely see Black sapphic ships. There's a reason why fandoms care more about the white sapphic in interracial pairings and paints the Black sapphic as dominant, aggressive and masc, even if she's none of those things. 'Oh but I see it as Rose is the one to show Martha's she loved' 'Rose makes Martha feel good about herself' 'Rose teaches Martha to be happy' Again Rose Rose Rose. You don't see Martha as having love, confidence and joy if it's not tied to her in some way the same way you don't think or want Ten/The Doctor to. You don't see Martha as a Black sapphic woman, you see her as an extension of Rose again. Your only likeable quality about Martha is that she could be Rose's bestie or gf, but not as a character in her own right. You'll call it misogyny for people to not like RoseMartha and go 'what about TenMartha' as if it's not possible to walk and chew gum at the same time. As if Black women don't experience that same misogyny you're weaponising. As if being a white woman as opposed to a white man is a free pass for misogynoir.

Rose stays as companion past Doomsday but is clearly hurt by the whole experience and the Doctor ends up recruiting Martha anyway who realises the state Rose is in from her medical training and decides to work on comforting her and helping her. Eventually they leave the TARDIS together