HelloxxAlone

Lately I've been doing a lot of cosplay and stuff. Started an ask blog with some friends, Ask Dream Bubble Stuck. I spent three months working on a Princess Luna cosplay, that can be viewed in my cosplay tag on tumblr. Uh, yeah.
I've got a computer imaging class currently and will be back to making stuff more often I guess. No idea why I keep updating here but whatever, I'll try to post some things to this site but I'm really most active on other sites.

Using this website, meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-…, which allows you to blend any two colors, no matter how different they are, I blended bright purple and florescent green to create...well, I like to think that it's octarine, but it's really sort of grey. Clearly my computer is just incapable of displaying the color of magic.

I've been doing a fair bit of sketching and random drawing and stuff lately, but I haven't really done anything that I feel like putting online. Perhaps I'll touch up some of these sketches sometime, but I'm really a bit too busy at this point.

adorksgeekyart answered: That is question that in nearly unquestionable. What is a Doctor without his Tardis? And a Tardis without her Doctor?

        heartoftardis answered: They are equally important. You can't have one without the other.

        b-lynninja answered: "We don't work that way" comes to mind.

        eflauta answered: The Doctor.

        strandedonamountain answered: The writing. Without the DOctor, we'd be watching The TARDIS

        thetruthandthedream answered: The Doctor

The question was "Which do you think is more important to Doctor Who: The Doctor or the TARDIS?"

Now allow me to explain the question.

I was thinking last night about the importance of character to any story. Many people would tell you that without characters, a story simply doesn't work. As a Doctor Who fan, I began to think about the importance of the TARDIS to the Doctor, as a character and in the grand scheme of the story that is Doctor Who. I know, of course, that the TARDIS is herself a character, as was confirmed in the brilliant episode The Doctor's Wife. However, for the purposes of this, I shall be looking at the TARDIS as part of the plot, a plot device.

Going back to the very beginning of Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child opens with the distant sounds of a bell, a police officer is walking through the foggy night, opening the gates to a junk yard to ensure that everything is as it should be. He shines his torch around, and sees a police box, standing in the junk yard. (Indeed, in the Target novelization of An Unearthly Child, the police officer wonders why it's there, but then concludes that it must be old and no longer functional.) All Doctor Who fans are well aware that this police box is actually a TARDIS, a magnificent time ship that can take one anywhere and anywhen. This time ship, this TARDIS, belongs to a mysterious character known as the Doctor, and only as the Doctor.

Doctor Who literally begins with the TARDIS. Doctor Who is the story of the Doctor, true. Sure, the story of the Doctor as a whole begins, of course, with the Doctor, but our view into the Doctor's Universe begins with the TARDIS.

Which leads me to this: would the Doctor be an interesting character without the TARDIS?

I would say that the biggest appeal to the Doctor is not his advanced, alien intelligence, or his eccentric personality. His greatest appeal is the possibility that being around the Doctor brings: the chance to do everything, see anything, go anywhere. And that would not be possible without the TARDIS.

However, think of the Third Doctor's era. The majority of this era was spent on Earth, as the Doctor could no longer pilot his TARDIS. Did the show continue? Of course it did. The show even enjoyed a surge of popularity, bringing in viewers who weren't as fond of the alien ships and planets of Doctor Who until that point, but thoroughly enjoyed the drama playing out on the familiar planet Earth. All of this, was without the TARDIS bringing the Doctor to a new place every week.

The reason I asked the question, "Which do you think is more important to Doctor Who: The Doctor, or the TARDIS?" was to see what other Whovians thought about this. My own opinion is that they are equally important. As adorksgeekyart said, you cannot have the TARDIS without the Doctor, and you cannot have the Doctor without the TARDIS. They are both equally important, and the show would be nothing without either. Did the Doctor spend time without access to the Universe via the TARDIS? Yup. But it was his experience of the Universe that aided so much with the alien invasions that the Third Doctor's era (The UNIT era) featured. I'd say that the majority of this experienced didn't come from his Time Lord education, but from his experiences travelling the Universe.

Again, thank you for the responses, and if you've read this to the end, thank you for dealing with my rambles.

I don't actually remember when I first saw Doctor Who. It's just always been there for me.

My parents had watched Doctor Who back In The Day with Tom Baker, and always did things like say "doctor" in fake English accents and stuff. I would watch the show with them whenever there were old episodes on PBS. Then, Doctor Who came back. My parent say that the first episode they saw of New Who was The Empty Child, not long after the show had been brought back. I live in America so they hadn't even known Doctor Who was coming back until it already was.

I remember being in the fourth grade, we were supposed to write something science fiction and I wrote something that, in retrospect, was a thinly veiled Doctor Who fanfiction. In the summer between the fifth and sixth grades, there was a Doctor Who marathon on the Sci-Fi channel (back when it was actually spelled Sci-Fi) and I spent an entire day watching it. Doctor Who was the only reason I would sit down and watch TV, I preferred to run around or read or write or talk to my friends.

In the summer of 2008, I started watching Doctor Who more than ever. I was not a very happy person at the time because I was fairly lonely: homeschooled, stuck in a small town where I simply did not Fit In. The Sci-Fi channel had started regularly showing Doctor Who not very long after the episodes were originally aired, and I finally had a chance to catch up with the plot and what was going on in the Whoniverse. Donna was the companion at the time. I remember having a dream about the events of Turn Left, the night before I was going on a trip to visit family in a different state. I wrote about the dream in my journal while in the car. While at my aunt's house, I took to her TV and watched The Stolen Earth (that cliffhanger nearly killed me!) and Journey's End, which remains one of my absolute favourite episodes.

I did everything I could to have more DW in my life. This was before you could get Doctor Who merch at Hot Topic or anything like that. I listened to some Doctor Who audio plays from the '80s that my parents had on cassette, as well as a mix tape of music that reminded me of Doctor Who (Hey, I didn't have a CD burner or anything. I made my mixes the old-fashioned way.) I even wrote a few songs about Doctor Who, one of which is still one of my favourite songs I've ever written, even though I have never quite been able to finish it. I had just gotten into DIY t-shirt customization, so I took some Sharpies and a pair of scissors to a plain white t-shirt and made it into a sign of my Doctor Who love.

That summer, Doctor Who had been more than just entertainment. It had been a friend, something to make me happy, something to look forward to, and something to turn to when I was down.

I've always been a Whovian, and that is my story.