I want a girl with a mind like a diamond

[purplefringe]

Short Skirt / Long Jacket
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Doctor Who (Classic Series)
characters: Romana I and the Fourth Doctor
music: Short Skirt / Long Jacket - Cake
summary: She is touring the facility and picking up slack
content notes: Romana > you

notes: This vid is dedicated to the wonderful usuallyhats! She bakes the world's best brownies, is fabulous and encouraging when asked to edit essays at the last minute or beta vids in secret, she can do MAGICAL THINGS with a sewing machine, she has good and thoughtful opinions on Doctor Who and superheroes and is really happy to share them, and is an all round excellent and delightful human. Every home should have one. :-) (I'm pretty sure her fingernails actually shine like justice too.) <3

Thanks to such_heights and cosmic_llin for beta-ing and squee and appreciating the perfection of Mary Tamm's eyebrows with me. And particular thanks to calapine who is completely responsible for introducing me to Romana I in the first place. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.

This vid premiered earlier this evening at the Nine Worlds Doctor Who vidding panel. It was very exciting! :-D (Until such_heights was a bad person and pointed me out to the rest of the room who all looked at me and it was terrible /o\)

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Lyrics

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond
I want a girl who knows what's best
I want a girl with shoes that cut
And eyes that burn like cigarettes

I want a girl with the right allocations
Who's fast and thorough
And sharp as a tack
She's playing with her jewelry
She's putting up her hair
She's touring the facility
And picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnng jacket......

I want a girl who gets up early
I want a girl who stays up late
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

She is fast and thorough
And sharp as a tack
She's touring the facility
And picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnng.... lonnng jacket

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation
I want a girl with good dividends
At Citibank we will meet accidentally
We'll start to talk when she borrows my pen

She wants a car with a cupholder arm rest
She wants a car that will get her there
She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen
She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler La Baron

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnggggggggg jacket

Comments

[purplefringe]

Argh *blushes* *flails* *loses cool in face of high praise*

Thank you so much! That's such a lovely, heartfelt comment to receive! <33 I'm delighted you enjoyed it, and very grateful you battled your nefarious Dreamwidth account to tell me so!

So, I think Romana I is awesome. As you may be able to tell. She is often really overlooked in favour of Romana II, who is a lot chirpier and more chilled out, and generally easier to like. Romana I gets called an 'ice queen' (and variations thereupon) quite a lot, which I think is unfair. YES she can be VERY disdainful and aloof (her eyebrows were kind of made for that!) but she also has this amazingly dry sense of humour, which I think is often forgotten. She is generally amazing. She does have a few less-than-amazing moments which I haven't included in the vid, but generally she is super-competent and more than equal to the Doctor and it's great.

HOWEVER, if you are doing the whole watching-all-of-Who-in-order thing then I SALUTE YOU. It's something I'd love to do at some point, when I have a few years to spare.