Also A+ to claiming your own memories and shaming Twelve out of mindwipes--I was like "This feels like a retread, didn't Clara get a lovely rant on the subject already last year? Not that I'll ever mind a good fuck you to Ten about Donna,"
HELL FUCKING YEAH
Although, it struck me as...not good or bad, exactly, but odd, that she tried a "Just let me remember for a week" tactic. In her place, I don't think it would have even occurred to me to think that might have any chance of working; it's so obvious that it's at best barely better and probably a lot worse than just letting her keep them. In this day and age, knowledge can and frequently does operate on r-selection. Give her the chance, and by this time next week, there will be twenty thousand copies of her story, in paper and cloth and magnetic tape, in USB drives kept in safes and in far-flung corners of the Internet, in the minds of friends and acquaintances scattered throughout the globe. You may find and destroy a few thousand, but you'll have a hell of a time finding them all.
(I have many feelings about mind-wipes and fighting back against them.)
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Also A+ to claiming your own memories and shaming Twelve out of mindwipes--I was like "This feels like a retread, didn't Clara get a lovely rant on the subject already last year? Not that I'll ever mind a good fuck you to Ten about Donna,"
HELL FUCKING YEAH
Although, it struck me as...not good or bad, exactly, but odd, that she tried a "Just let me remember for a week" tactic. In her place, I don't think it would have even occurred to me to think that might have any chance of working; it's so obvious that it's at best barely better and probably a lot worse than just letting her keep them. In this day and age, knowledge can and frequently does operate on r-selection. Give her the chance, and by this time next week, there will be twenty thousand copies of her story, in paper and cloth and magnetic tape, in USB drives kept in safes and in far-flung corners of the Internet, in the minds of friends and acquaintances scattered throughout the globe. You may find and destroy a few thousand, but you'll have a hell of a time finding them all.
(I have many feelings about mind-wipes and fighting back against them.)