Spoilers

This is one of my many schemes that became more complicated than expected. For a while,. I've been wanting to have some sort of icon or picture to use on my blog as a warning for spoilers. I hadn't yet thought of a good character or image to draw. 

I just rewatched my favorite season of Doctor Who - the one with Donna. I had kinda resisted starting it again, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I forgot how much fun the Doctor and Donna are. It was like being with old friends again. I even went back and watched some of the episodes again with Nicole a few days ago. 

I also noticed something new. In the library episodes, I always assumed that Donna's fictional husband really was fictional. But there are about three seconds at the end where you see him try to call out to Donna, and just miss her. Come on, Donna's story is already tragic enough without that! (This is where I send Fern in to interfere ;) which contributes to the feeling of these characters being old friends). 

This episode where we meet River Song solved a problem for me. One of her iconic lines is "spoilers." This show does a fascinating thing where River's timeline kind of flows backwards to the Doctor's. They're not supposed to share any information that the other doesn't know yet. I didn't think I could draw River well enough to let a casual viewer know it was her. I tried to find a picture, which ended up being hard. I just couldn't find an image of River that worked. I wanted that mischievous look she sometimes has when she says "spoilers." And I wanted the picture to have some hint that this character was from Doctor Who. I finally stumbled upon a book cover. It's a great picture of River, and she's holding her cool Tardis book. 

Then came the second hurdle. I no longer have simple access to the program that lets me add text to an image. At least not text that will be legible. But after combining a few different programs and websites, I finally got it! 

Now hopefully I'll actually remember to mark spoilers more often in my blog. Since I spent so long making this freaking image.