I've always found stories where the TARDIS gets hurt rather disturbing. The Doctor handles mental and physical injury all the time, and accepts that it's a hazard of the profession. But the TARDIS, like a faithful dog or horse, often doesn't really understand what's happening. It just suffers. I have trouble coping with that as well as I do ( Read more... )

She's gone.It floored me to hear it; I hadn't realized she'd been ill. It hit me harder being so soon after Nick Courtney ( Read more... )

I did quite a bit today, and I'm sort of winding down before going to sleep. So here's my quiet yatta:

( Busy, busy )

Nicholas Courtney, 'Doctor Who' actor, dies at 81Brigadier Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was the longest-running character outside of the Doctor himself, I believe, and met the most incarnations of the Doctor; it wasn't his role to start with, but he gave it life. The Brigadier met every classic Doctor but the Sixth on screen, and in ( Read more... )

"So, Ace, the work you and the Doctor do... is it always this cloak-and-dagger stuff ( Read more... )

Keeping it all in the "family".

With my favorite two Doctors mixed up in this, it couldn't be anything but awesome.

I'd utterly forgotten that Peter Davison had a relationship some time back with Sandra Dickinson, aka Trillian. What a crossover. ;)

No, not the one next to my handle.

I'm using that one because I just spent about an hour making this one:


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While I have nothing of substance to complain about (other than a lack of employment), the holidays just aren't being particularly joyful this year. Not bad, just not... yayI'm unhappy about the weather -- this 7-10 days of rain has stymied me on several fronts, most notably throwing my schedule for the Buckeye totally to hell. It's affected my ( Read more... )

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The awesome britgeekgrrl found the time before departure to hand me a huge double stack of Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays. Wooo! Mostly 5th, 6th, and 7th, with a few 8th for dessert. I had always meant to start collecting them, and here's a bunch at once. Thank you ( Read more... )