…This came up for discussion the other day. @petermorwood and I are in general agreement that there’s not as much mongering going on as there used to be. (Though the war- variety is still too prevalent…)
…For those curious: the OED says that the mong- root comes from an Old English / Old Norse word mangian and its noun form mangere, meaning “agent”. “A dealer, trafficker, trader,” the OED says. “From the 16th century onward, primarily, one who carries on a petty or disreputable ‘traffic.’”
Everybody’s out here forgetting about war mongering.
fandoms purists have never watched doctor who and it SHOWS
These people haven’t been hardened by a media property where half of the writers hate the other half’s ideas and they duke it out with the shows cannon, there’s a third half of the writers that ignore the rest and just do whatever they want anyway. And they’ve been doing this for 50+ years. The main characters home planet has been destroyed at least four times possibly more, there are entire spinoffs based on breaking cannon, the current show runner was basically killed in effigy on the show in the 7th doctors run (30+ years before he took the role lmao), the main characters backstory has been changed so much so often that one writer made an entire book to explain why it doesn’t matter. IN 1999. We’re simply on another level
‘wah wah this was out of character i don’t like the ship’ lmao go listen to zagreus. what is canon but a massive fucking joke?
