{"id":216830,"date":"2014-04-13T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/13\/doctorpuppet-eringoblah-i-keep-this-blog\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T00:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:33:02","slug":"doctorpuppet-eringoblah-i-keep-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/13\/doctorpuppet-eringoblah-i-keep-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-216830 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/13\/doctorpuppet-eringoblah-i-keep-this-blog\/attachment\/216831\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ikn2e6Be1qae8iuo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ikn2e6Be1qae8iuo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ikn2e6Be1qae8iuo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doctorpuppet.tumblr.com\/post\/81960417050\/eringoblah-i-keep-this-blog-focused-on-my-art\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">doctorpuppet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eringoblah.tumblr.com\/post\/81693275631\/i-keep-this-blog-focused-on-my-art-and-animation\" target=\"_blank\">eringoblah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I keep this blog focused on my art and animation work, but just this once, I\u2019m going to go on a slight tangent to talk about how uncommonly kind Peter Capaldi is.<\/p>\n<p>Backstory brief: Last year longtime fan\u00a0<a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/myMbSfFFtso3u1HVBHNZw6w\" target=\"_blank\">fuckyespetercapaldi<\/a>\u00a0(speaking of uncommonly kind) spearheaded a Twelfth Doctor fanart\/letter\/photo collab on Tumblr and compiled all the contributions into a <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyespetercapaldi.tumblr.com\/tagged\/scrapbook\" target=\"_blank\">scrapbook<\/a>, which she mailed to PCap for Christmas. More recently, he <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyespetercapaldi.tumblr.com\/post\/79429094755\/if-youll-excuse-me-i-have-some-serious-crying-to\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> and those of us who contributed found ourselves receiving painted and autographed postcards like mine shown above.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he could have drawn one picture, made photocopies for everyone and signed those and we would have been THRILLED. He didn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>He drew and painted this design multiple times <em>by hand.\u00a0<\/em>He made sure each person had an individual, personally made piece. For a bunch of artists who know how much time and effort goes into our own art, it\u2019s incredibly touching and unexpected. (And for me, he wrote both the worst and best thing he could have written, because drawing is <em>hard<\/em>\u00a0but it\u2019s worth keeping at it.)<\/p>\n<p>Point is, Peter Capaldi is not just taking on his dream role; he\u2019s aware that he\u2019s just inherited a huge worldwide fanbase, and is trying his very hardest to do right by them.\u00a0It\u2019s a masterclass in class, so shoutout to the Doctor, for being the Doctor for us, before series 8 has even aired.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have to keep drawing, dammit. Doctor\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter. Stop being so awesome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>doctorpuppet: eringoblah: I keep this blog focused on my art and animation work, but just this once, I\u2019m going to go on a slight tangent to talk about how uncommonly kind Peter Capaldi is. Backstory brief: Last year longtime fan\u00a0fuckyespetercapaldi\u00a0(speaking of uncommonly kind) spearheaded a Twelfth Doctor fanart\/letter\/photo collab on Tumblr and compiled all the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/13\/doctorpuppet-eringoblah-i-keep-this-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,2516,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216832,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216830\/revisions\/216832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}