Line #58 FanFic/TheClassicDoctorWhoTwitterBlog


1	-->''The journey of a New Whovian through Classic territory, 140 steps at a time...''
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3	A [[strike:mission log]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' archive with a Twitter twist.
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5	In January 2010, recent fandom inductee Tropers/{{Hannahchan}} (real name Hannah J. Rothman) was inspired by the Twitter commentary posted by a friend during "The End of Time, Part 2" and wound up adopting the practice in her impending epic venture into the vast world of Classic Who. The rest is history.
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7	Begun on her personal Website/LiveJournal and Twitter accounts in late January 2010 and earning their own a few months later in April, Hannah formats the Classic Who Twitter Blog as a raw account of her grand adventure through the history of her beloved fandom. She limits her comments to Twitter's 140 characters-per-tweet and does no further HTML editing once she transfers the Tweets to the main Blog so as to preserve the original fangasmia.
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9	The Blog can be found [[http://classicwhoblog.livejournal.com/ here.]]
10	The Twitter Live Feed can be found [[https://twitter.com/WhoBlogLiveFeed here.]]
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12	The blog is currently being collected into print and ebook collections with new exclusive content in the form of [[http://raggedymoonbooks.com/non-fiction Twitter Who]].
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14	This is an ongoing project with fairly regular updates.
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16	!!Related Tropes
17	* AlwaysMale: Hannah usually addresses her followers (and the show's creators) as "Guys".
18	* BerserkButton: Don't let her see companions in heels...
19	* BigNo: Used with surprising rarity, though it does happen in the commentaries for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" when [[spoiler: Mr. Fibuli and D84, respectively, die]].
20	%%* BigWhat:
21	* CharacterCatchphrase:
22	** "Guys. This show."
23	** "Why do I have a funny feeling that..."
24	** "CALLED IT."
25	** "checks Website/{{Wikipedia}}"
26	** "And then there was a s'plosion!"
27	* ClusterFBomb: Happened a lot in earlier commentaries, but less so after Hannah decided to opt for a less foulmouthed mode of expressing herself in times of crazy things happening. Nowadays, CurseCutShort and PrecisionFStrike act as substitutes.
28	* CurseCutShort: "WHAT THE FU" is used occasionally.
29	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: If ''anything'' seems to have rape-related subtext, most notably Count Grendel's treatment of Romana in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E4TheAndroidsOfTara The Androids of Tara]]", it ''will'' be pointed out.
30	* FanDisservice: From the "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead From Space]]" commentary:
31	-->"Woah. Wait. Three in shower. What. No. We do not need to see this."
32	* FlatWhat: In the case of some serials, this is the commentary's lifeblood. You would probably be hard-pressed to find one that ''doesn't'' use this ''repeatedly.''
33	* FreudianSlip: Seaman-Master!
34	%%* GenreSavvy: See several of the catchphrases above.
35	* HappyFunBall:
36	** The FanNickname for the sphere in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]".
37	** And the surveillance spheres in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday Four to Doomsday]]".
38	* IncrediblyLamePun: Happens from time to time. She noted actively trying to think of one for Creator/JonPertwee's tattoo in the commentary for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians The Silurians]]".
39	%%* LampshadeHanging: Naturally.
40	* LateArrivalSpoiler:
41	** In ''spades.''
42	** Also, nearly everything about "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda Kinda]]".
43	* NostalgiaFilter: There are some serials that Hannah remembers more favorably after some time has passed.
44	* PhraseCatcher: Most explosions are noted with [[StuffBlowingUp "And then there was a s'plosion!"]] Recent commentaries have started incorporating variants related to the [[ImpressivePyrotechnics size of the explosion]] or [[MadeOfExplodium the exploding thing in question.]]
45	* PrecisionFStrike: Used to replace the ClusterFBomb, usually in the context of noting a character "freaking the fuck out", but also as a bizarre form of {{Squee}} when she ''finally'' made it to her [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks first Dalek serial]]:
46	-->''FUCK YEAH DALEKS. WE HAVE DALEKS UP IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER. DALEKS. DA. LEKS. DAAAAAAAAAAAALEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS.''
47	* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
48	** "FOUR. IS. HANGING. OUT OF A WINDOW."
49	** "YOU. FUCKING. LIAR."
50	** "Most. Convenient. Thunderstorm. Ever."
51	* RuleOfThree: The "COME ON, FOUR! DON'T LET..." lines near the end of the "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]" commentary. The third turns into "COME ON, FIVE! DON'T LET..."
52	* RunningGag:
53	** Hannah was keeping a scorecard for the Doctor, UNIT, and the Silurians during the first two viewing sessions of "The Silurians". It was dropped accidentally because the weekend-long wait for the second disk to arrive caused her to forget about it.
54	** The Counter of Rassilon in "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" commentary (tallying every time someone says "the _______ of Rassilon." [[spoiler: 16, to be precise]]).
55	* ScreamingWoman: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E5ThePowerOfKroll The Power of Kroll]]" commentary, Hannah states that she will only be okay with companion-screaming in the event that they are ''actually in immediate and potentially fatal danger.''
56	* ShoutOut: Usually to New Who, but also some to our own lovely TV Tropes.
57	* {{Squee}}: Hannah permits herself a good deal of "completely shameless fangirling" during all of the running-through-Paris scenes in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]".
58	* TakeThat: Some earlier commentaries attack accusations made by Mightyotaking in his "''Doctor Who'': Old vs. New" video.
59	* JustForFun/XMeetsY: In-universe, Hannah speculates that "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight Midnight]]" was derived from a mixture of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]" (people trapped together in a confined space where an unidentified entity is possessing passengers) and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" (set in an isolated resort on a beautiful but dead planet).
60	* WhatTheHellHero: The commentary for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]". Oh, ''boy''.

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