I’ve never seen them as anything but platonic friends either
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Yeah, I mean, Clara was dating Danny Pink for a good bit while traveling with the Doctor…
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Tardis makes no sense because it is established as an acronyym so basic punctuation and grammar dictates it should all be capitalised.
(Tell me you’re a teacher without telling me you’re a teacher…)
I hadn’t seen Doccy Who till - well, basically this forum and our Discord - and yes, it’s horrible.
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Laser is an acronym, and it’s not capitalized.
I feel like the acronym came after the fact, too, because I don’t really see how Susan could’ve been the one who named it… 
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Then how do you feel about TaRDiS? That is technically the correct way to capitalise that acronym.
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Sexy has a name
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Right Said Fred?
How dare you come in here with facts. Begone.
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Science! 
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See? I am not the only one to have fun with petty pedantry 
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Probabaly the same way I feel about Ofsted…
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I suppose the closest thing to an “ick” I have is when the “love saves the day”-trope is used to avoid trying to make an actual ending to a story.
I’m looking at you “Death in Heaven” and “Closing Time” 
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AMY: I remember you. I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you home, too. Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!
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I’ve always referred to the TARDIS as Old Girl to avoid this exact debate
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That can’t be your ick because it is sheer perfection and makes me cry 
It wasn’t about love saving the day, it was the power of stories.
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Calling any companion other than Jo Grant “the Doctor’s Assistant”. It was Jo’s job title at UNIT, Sarah posed as his assistant in Invasion of the Dinosaurs and the Pertwee Doctor described her as his assistant in other adventures even though she wasn’t. Liz Shaw was UNIT’s first scientific advisor before the Doctor was asked to help out, so, if anything he was her assistant. All the other people who travelled with the Doctor are far better described as companions or friends.
The term assistant really annoys me because it’s almost exclusively used to describe female companions. It’s reductive and inaccurate. In what way do they “assist”? I get even more irritated by “the assistant”, which suggests that there’s only ever one of them. Throughout the sixties the Doctor travelled with multiple companions, both male and female. In the UNIT years he worked with a team on Earth, although when he did travel it was with Jo and later Sarah. It was only really after Terror of the Zygons that the Doctor consistently travelled with one female companion, although the Fifth Doctor mainly travelled with a team.
I guess you could say that Romana assisted the Doctor in the quest for the key to time, but she stayed on travelling with him as a friend. In the new series the Doctor has travelled with a variety of men and women, most of whom have been friends or, rarely, a love interest, but they haven’t been “assistants”.
I think my annoyance stems from the common notion of the (male) Doctor being the hero who saves the (female) “assistant” who is the screaming damsel in distress. It’s never really been that way and it bugs me far more than it should.
Don’t get me started on how you define a companion! Lots of people join the Doctors on their adventures. Some travel in the TARDIS, some don’t, but they all count as friends. It didn’t stick, but I think Chibnall was onto something when he described The Fam as “the Doctor’s friends”, rather than as her companions.
And, breathe…
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I’ve never been able to take it seriously when a piece of writing exclusively uses T.A.R.D.I.S. It just looks worse and feels out of place, especially when characters say it multiple times in dialogue. It feels like it implies that the characters are stopping to say each letter out loud
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That’s because it’s capitalizing the conjunctions and prepositions. It should be “TaRDiS” :3
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As a linguist by education I approve of this message 
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this may be a bit more niche but any time someone refers to children as ‘tots’ makes me gag, so fans (and writers, unfortunately) referring to time lord children as “time tots” with a straight face makes me feel ill. utterly terrible word. should not be used for anything other than fried potato snacks.
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