Doctor Who Friending Meme

[primsong]

There's so many folks coming in to Dreamwidth it feels like a massive game of Marco-Polo in the dark - seems it would be a useful thing to have a Friending Meme up for our fandom, to help us find one another and get our favorite types of communities up and running at our new "home".

Adapt and add/subtract as you see fit!

DOCTOR WHO FRIENDING MEME

Please DO pimp this meme out to any Whovians you may have on your own flists, or to other related communities.

<b>Name:</b> <b>'Your Doctor' plus your Favourite Doctor</b>: <b>Favourite companion(s):</b> <b>Favourite minor character(s):</b> <b>Favourite ship(s):</b> <b>Some favourite episode(s):</b>l <b>Fic writer? What genres?:</b> <b>Favourite Who communities back at LJ:</b> <b>Other Fandom(s):</b> <b>Fez?:</b> <b>Anything else?</b>

Comments

[kerravonsen]

What do you mean by "asexual romance"?

[charamei]

Romance in which at least one participant is asexual (usually the Time Lord in Who).

Asexual does not necessarily mean aromantic. :)

As I said, there's not much of it in this fandom, which is a shame given the long tradition of asexual Time Lords. asexy_sherlock is the comm for Sherlock, so that's the best place to go for examples.

[primsong]

So how would this type of fic differ from Gen? Isn't that simply another way to define a close platonic friendship?

[charamei]

Not... really? Asexuals can be in love with someone, in a romantic sense, and still not want to have sex with them. For a romantic asexual, there's an intermediary step that might well be filled with, say, kissing, sharing a bed and general physical closeness without any kind of arousal factoring in.

I'm possibly not explaining this very well because, being ace myself, it makes far more intuitive sense to me than the sex does. If that's the case then I apologise: keep asking me questions if you want and I'll do my best to make this make sense :) You might also want to check out the FAQ I linked to upthread (here it is again), because the folks at AVEN are far better at this than I am.

EDIT: Sorry, just reread: in terms of fic, I guess there's not much difference between this and a PG-13 romance? Except in terms of implication: when I write PG-13 'normal' romance, there's usually at least some implication that they're getting busy offscreen. When I write ace romance, they're not.