#this is where i live! – @chiaroscuroverse on Tumblr

To me it's like this. Word of god only counts when I like it. When it's bs (such as what you mentioned from rtd) I change my approach to "a tweet is not a valid source anyway" lol

Ha, exactly! (re: the tags on this post.) The whole relationship of canon and outside material to fandom and shipping and fic is really interesting to me. I could ramble on and on! :P (Can inspire, fuel the fire, make it last forever, make it fizzle, kill it dead...)

And I think in a similar way to that post, “Word of God” can have different levels. So, behind the scenes footage of RTD and Julie, et al, explaining choices made that bolster and enrich what we see on the screen is pretty weighty. Thus the reason the bts material for Doomsday or that incredibly shippy DW Confidential they did in series 1 is like:

But then the Confidential for G*TF is so extra infuriating for the same reason - not only does all that shit happen on the screen, but then there they are explaining how much they really meant to do that... 😒😒

A tweet about a silly idea that lived only in RTD’s head (I was referring to the one about Wilf being a descendent of Mm DPomp) and has no textual evidence whatsoever really doesn’t have any weight! (Also his tone is cheeky, so I think there’s no reason for anyone to take it seriously.) If it were a tweet I liked or made me laugh or whatever, I’d of course be plastering it all over my blog like gospel haha, but really falls in the category of lighthearted fannish things.

#scribbledpages #I watched part of that sidekick out of you confidential and now i'm all ahhhhh #forget any historical randos #this is where i live!#:D:D #i totally agree with neil gaiman about canon #it's *only* what's textual #everything else is Not Canonical #and then after a point it's all academic #cause we do what we want regardless #including popping together characters from different shows #but it still builds on the canon of each character...#it's a complex fascinating relationship eh?#csv meta #ask replies #rtd #uhhh #anti gitf #ha there should be an essay book called something like #the problem of gitf #for all of the great meta analyses that have been done over the years #there were worse ones in that twitter party which i'll also pfffffffft right into the sun #also should say that i am a huge fan of rtd but he's certainly not perfect in my eyes and i'm just as ready to discard bs if he says it :P