#Pollard six sixes

[expired-glass-of-milk]

six the musical but it’s all the doctors companions he was supposedly in love with specifically the male ones. And if we don’t have enough men. Then. We can just use some of the women. It works. IT WORKS.

The master has to play Katheryn of Aragon, and Jamie has to play Anne Boleyn. This is not up for debate.

[lurking-latinist]

not sure where I'm going with this but: eight/charley AU where they meet when she's somewhat older. she's successfully run away to have adventures, and she's had them and loved them, and she's done her bit in the war effort and she's so tired, but not in the sense that she's done with her way of life: what used to be adventure has become grim reality, but she still wants adventure. Maybe she's had a romance or two that ended when she realized the other person assumed she'd eventually settle down. She doesn't really miss them, not really, but she knows that is what she's missing out on in her life: a sense of belonging with someone. She's starting to wonder if all her connections are doomed to be fleeting ones. Isn't there anyone out there who's as much of a wanderer as her--anyone she could travel hand in hand with?

Enter the Doctor...

[thisbluespirit]

A few different prompts, pick what suits your fancy!

Six &/ Charley (& or / however you like), 9, 22, or 28?

Seven/Romana, 20, 31, or 38?

Eight/Charley, 3, 18, or 48?

😊

Thank you! Six/Charley + 28 (as a lie)

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“Yes, but the thing is, I can’t possibly marry you, your holiness – I have a husband!”  Charley grabbed the Doctor’s hand.  She tried to blush.  It proved difficult to do on order, so she merely lowered her lashes and attempted to look demure instead.

The Doctor turned his head and she could see him opening his mouth, probably to say something that would ruin it, like, “Is this another little detail you haven’t felt the need to share with me, Charlotte?”

Charley squeezed his hand tighter and mouthed, It’s you.  She hoped that the rider of play along would go without saying.

He narrowed his gaze, and she thought he would argue, but then his face cleared.  He turned back to address the Emperor.  “Oh, quite, your holiness.  I apologise for not mentioning it sooner – Charlotte and I have been married for years.”

“Utterly devoted.”

“Mad about each other,” added the Doctor, in tones she didn’t entirely like.

Charley coughed.  She tugged at his hand and then stretched up to put her arms around his neck – it was much more of a way to go with this Doctor.  Once there, she kissed him squarely on the mouth.  His face twitched.  Somewhat to her surprise, he closed his arms around her, tighter and fiercer than the soft velvet, swirling-around embrace of her Doctor, and kissed her back with both vim and vigour.

“Gosh,” she said, once they were finally done.  She coughed.  “I mean – see, your holiness?”

Afterwards, once they’d made their escape, the Doctor directed a stern look at her.  “That, Charlotte, is what I believe they call taking an outrageous liberty.”

“I really am most awfully sorry.”

And that, she reflected, was what you called a whopping fib.

Send me a ship/character combo + a kiss here!

[crystalromana]

Brotherhood of the Daleks is just both of them going through it.

[gallifreywhere]

I feel like The Doomwood Curse could have been novelised and published as the 6th Doctor story in the current range of fairytales/mythology books

[magiefish]

Listened to "Blue Forgotten Planet" and now I'm suing Big Finish for emotional damages.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 6

The Fourth Doctor once almost drowned in a lake while following giant cat footprints.

While "pimping up" Bessie, the Eleventh Doctor turned her into a monster truck.

The Seventh Doctor takes five to six sugars in his tea.

The Seventh Doctor once admitted that he enjoyed destroying worlds.

The Second Doctor once found parts of the Sixth Doctor's outfit in his TARDIS wardrobe. He decided that he would never wear such a thing.

Khavûl, the main enemy in the "Chronomancer" audio starring the Sixth Doctor, Mel Bush, and Hebe Harrison, is a Drornidian and a Paradox Mage. The planet Drornid would play an important role during the War in Heaven.

In the far future where it is not meaningful to measure time, Evelyn Smythe became a CyberController.

While training to be an astronaut, Steven Taylor played the titular character in a stage production of Hamlet.

The Eighth Doctor has kept kittens in his pockets before.

Chris Cwej has used body bepples, a form of genetic alteration that can change one's physical appearance. He has taken the forms of a person-sized teddy bear and a catboy with tufted ears.

The Doctor was given an avatroid named Badger when he was very young because he needed a tutor, friend, and protector. Badger gives literally almost rib-cracking hugs.

When Rose Tyler and the Tenth Doctor considered getting a pet for the TARDIS, they found a pet store that was run by peaceful Cybermen. Only when Rose protested against the conversion of mice to Cybermice did the Doctor defeat the Cybermen.

The Second Doctor was once seen offering a prayer to "the gods of his own people."

The Eighth Doctor also took Charley Pollard back in time to kill the would-be dictator as a baby but was foiled as well.

The Second Doctor can play the recorder hanging upside down.

Through his forced regenerations, the Doctor lost the ability to make a good soufflé.

The Master once set Jo Grant up on a date with Mike Yates.

Dalek casings are made of polycarbide and dalekanium.

Rose Tyler was once infected with a lagnon grub, so the Tenth Doctor put her into a dream where he was dating Jackie and Mickey had an Amazonian girlfriend. The resulting jealousy drove the grub from her body.

While most future incarnations looked at the First Doctor with deep respect, the Eleventh Doctor did not, calling him a selfish idiot and a coward.

Glitterguns are effective weapons against the Cybermen.

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

[companion-showdown]

Who is your favourite companion?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

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Charley Pollard

Scherzo on it's own should get Charley this win. This girl but up with Eight AND Six. The original Clara Oswald. Thr Doctor liked her so much that he was fully willing to let time be torn apart just so he could travel woth her. Charley herself is just such a neat character, she's horrifically endearing even in her first audio. Charley is the reason i fell in love with Doctor Who, and i fully believe that Charley and Eight audios should be required listening/reading for DW fans. (@muppetcube )

[isasapphicmess]

need someone to chat about Charley pollard with like, she is everything and I have so many thoughts about her but no one listens past the girl who never was even though her arc with six is amazing like PLS

[dustedmagazine]

Guided By Voices — Strut of Kings (GBV Inc.)

Photo by Ellen Qbertplaya

In an interview following the announcement of the new Guided By Voices record, Strut of Kings, Robert Pollard explained why it would, uncharacteristically, be the group’s only release this year: “I just wanted to give this one a little more time to sink in with the fans. Give them some breathing space.” Take Pollard at his word: Strut of Kings is worth the focus and, speaking of space, it’ll take up as much as your speakers allow.

Back in 2018, I wrote that Space Gun (also that year’s only GBV album) was “a protein-rich re-entry point from which to backtrack through the post-millennium catalog…with triumphant blends of sweeping rhythm guitar, ascending lead riffs and rolling rhythm sections.” Six years and 13 albums later, I’ll say the same of Strut of Kings, only more so. As on Space Gun, Pollard is backed by Bobby Bare Jr., Doug Gillard, Mark Shue, and Kevin March, but here they play with a stormier ambition that adds an extra potency to the songs. This isn’t angry music, exactly, but it is noticeably heavier and sounds off with a harder-rocking urgency.

On the edgier end of things come ornery, ear-ringing slugfests like “Olympus Cock In Radiana” and “Cavemen Running Naked.” The first of which heaves around thick, fuzzy guitar arpeggios over a dogged stomp with the bare menace of early Black Sabbath. The second evokes both Queens of the Stone Age with its brute force drumming and taut, meaty riffs and Thin Lizzy with its buzzy, glamorous bursts of guitar. Sequenced between those two and yet darker is “Leaving Umbrella.” The track, slow, sheer and draped with cymbal crashes and sliding walls of distortion, finds Pollard wallowing in a psychedelic, fantastical fog, like a long lost David Bowie album for Southern Lord.

Ill-tempered bangers aside, Strut of Kings is, like so much of Pollard’s vast catalog, at its best in rich, punchy, power pop mode. One of Pollard’s great strengths as a vocalist is delivering even his hardest-to-parse lines with the conviction of confessional poetry. As the sparkling strum and thrust of “Fictional Environment Dream” is lifted by sustained electronic keys, “trying to sell me/on such same primitive tools/programming fever dreams/with the fools/let them expel me” might as well be Matthew Sweet lamenting “I’m sick of myself when I look at you.” It’s one of several moments when the musical ambition and vigor of this album crosses into more radiant, but no less powerful territory. Take, for instance, the long, elegiac build of “Bit Of A Crunch,” from clean, picked guitar to a robust, sunbreak-after-rain stadium balladry close to Oasis’ ragged, golden “Don’t Go Away.” Perhaps the record’s most potent blend of beauty and brawn, however, is “Serene King.” At the bridge, while Pollard raps towards his jet plane takeoff on the final refrain, a rapid series of single guitar notes shoot up from the bullying rumble of bass, drums and blasting, third-rail rhythm chords, taking the song from fist-pumping to something like transcendent.

Chalk it up to the explosive instrumentals, but the lyrics, often the most beguiling aspect of a Guided By Voices record, aren’t the most memorable part of Strut of Kings. One verse, though, from the album closer “Bicycle Garden,” stands out: “Though all the roses are dying/the old nest climbing with ivy/is lively.” What better way to describe Pollard’s indefatigable musical career than in terms of voracious regeneration. With this latest liveliness, Pollard and company continue that relentless growth. And remember, they’re leaving the breathing space for you: no one said they needed it.

Alex Johnson

[raspberry-gloaming]

I'm currently at a point where because I've got into Gallifrey, I follow or have at least browsed people's blogs who love other dweu stuff. And I thought it might be fun to say what I currently think and know about eu characters/companions so when I have in the future delved deeper into the eu I can look back and compare and laugh and see how much is accurate! There's gonna be a "read more" here because this gonna get Long.

Also please let me know what I've got right and not and also tell me more about these characters if you are fans of them!

Benny: starting off strong i know some stuff about her! she's an archeologist from the future (wonder if she ever met River) and she travelled with... one of the doctor(s)? Possibly Seven? She is besties with Brax and sometimes works for him and his collection. Probably must be able to put up with bullshit because of those last two points. Has a husband called Jason and at least one kid, which, iconic, female adventure and action protagonists should get to be mums more often its always the childfree so big up Benny for that. made a cameo at the end of Gallifrey IV.

Evelyn: I have heard her. A little. I basically skipped through the apocalypse element because I wanted to understand some of the reasons that Romana is the way she is in Gallifrey, but didn't listen properly because I got bored. Is an old lady, which is great - its great to see ages mixing it up a bit, instead of the 19-25 year old girl primary companions we consistently get in nu-who. Travelled with Six and is/was a professor at a university. Not sure for which subject though.

Fitz: Canonically bisexual and wears a leather jacket. I've seen A Lot of shipping him and Eight, and these shippers seem to have a similar vibe to Two/Jamie shippers. I don't know much else, except that his time with the doctor is probably fucked up because from what I have gleaned, Eight's companions Go Through It like big time.

Compassion: Faction Paradox which I believe is in an alternate universe (also the faction paradox timelines seem to have have a different vibe of names to the main universe ones, every time I'm on the "Individual Time Lords" category on the wiki and see a name that seems out of place it turns out to be a character from Faction Paradox.) Is a person (human i think?) but is also a TARDIS? Like you can go into her and travel? Where tf is the door this is very cursed. Also used as a breeding machine to make more TARDISes as well? By Romana? Idk but this seems pretty fucked up in an icky way. And fucked up in a non-icky way too. I'm just confused tbh. Not sure which doctor is involved in this one.

C'rizz - Possibly people can't say his name right? Is that him? Alien boy, travelled with Eight and Charley. That's about all I know.

Chris Cwej: I know even less about him, hes the other possibility for people mixing up his name or something. Think he travelled with Seven. Idk why but he gives me dick vibes.

Hex Schofield: Travelled with Ace and Seven. Is from 2021 or something and says "sus." Which yh that was a thing but he was made before among us existed that's a cool coincidence that it turned out like that.

Liv and Helen: They exist. That's it I know nothing more.

Molly O'Sullivan: Also exists. Travelled with eight?

Charley Pollard: Has a Nazi for a sister - Blind Eye my beloved. Calls herself Edwardian even though she's from the 1930s, idk if its like a character point or an accidental fuck up by the writers. Has a romance with the doctor in some form. And also a pretty messed up relationship with him i think. Actually just a pretty messed up time. Especially because I think she was in Scherzo which I hear Wild Blue Yonder was inspired by. So good luck girl you're gonna need it.

[lurking-latinist]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sixth Doctor & Charley Pollard Characters: Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who), Charley Pollard, Louisa Pollard Additional Tags: Christmas, Christmas Shopping, Time Shenanigans, POV Child, POV Outsider Summary:

Christmas, 1918. Six-year-old Charlotte Pollard meets a strangely dressed man and a lady with secrets.

Christmas, 1918. Twenty-something-year-old Charlotte Pollard has secrets to keep.

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

@davellisgb and his guide @lukepollard91 won the Olympic gold 🥇🇬🇧 in the PTVI3 class finishing 750m swim, 20k bike and the 5k run in 58 minutes. Could you do this? 🏊🚴🏃

Cheesin' all the way to the finish line in Paris 🇫🇷😁

Dave Ellis banished the ghosts of Tokyo 2021 with a brilliant performance to claim Paralympics PTVI para-triathlon gold at Paris 2024

Dave Ellis and guide Luke Pollard finished one minute 26 seconds ahead of their competitors

Competing in the PTVI category in paratriathlete competition, partially sighted Dave Ellis is a six-time world and five-time European champion, and now a Paralympic gold medallist. Dave races with a guide due to having less than 10% of his vision.

RAF veteran Luke Pollard (Royal Air Force) and former RAF athlete won a gold medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, was selected to be Dave’s permanent guide in 2019 and since then the pair have become great friends off the course striking up a formidable partnership on it.

At the Tokyo Games in 2021, Pollard and Ellis saw their medal chase stopped in their tracks due to a broken bike chain.

Paratriathlon is a sport where athletes sequentially compete in three disciplines swim bike and run the type and level of disability are classified into three classes.

Congratulations to BOTH!! 🥇🥇

The 37-year-old, from Heanor, Derbyshire, also has a message for other people with disabilities who may doubt whether they can break down the barriers or overcome the obstacles that stand between them and the world of sport.

Barriers are there to be broken down. Obstacles to be overcome. And no-one knows this better than visually impaired para triathlete Dave Ellis. At the age of 16, sports-mad Dave was told he was going blind.

Nothing but love and respect for the Paralympic athletes! ❤️

🎥 @Paralympics

#Paris2024 @davellisgb @lukepollard91 #guide #triathlete #paratriathlete #paratriathlon #GoldMedal #triathlon #paralympics #respect

Posted 3rd September 2024

[thisbluespirit]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sixth Doctor/Charley Pollard Characters: Charley Pollard, Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who) Additional Tags: Flash Fic, Ficlet, Tumblr Prompt, Kissing, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Humor Summary:

Six/Charley, kiss as a lie

[crystalromana]

Thinking about Charley being put in a lotus-eater machine.

[dominickeating-source]

SFX Issue 134 (2005)

LOOK WHO'S STALKING... 

THE SFX STALKER ASKS THE QUESTIONS THAT REALLY MAKE THE STARS  GO..."FREAK!" 

DOMINIC KEATING 

For four years, Dominic Keating played Star Trek: Enterprise's token Brit, Malcolm Reed.  But now that's gone down the crapper, he's back in Blighty. 

Dominic, you've got a posh name. Are you very posh? "Semi-posh. My Mum's family is quite posh. My Dad was a very rural lad from the wilds of Ireland. I come from quite a dichotomy. My grandfather was a Brigadier OBE, but my grandfather on my dad's side was a lighthouse keeper."  What's the worst trouble you've ever been in?  "Oh gosh...at the tennis club disco when I was 13. I was snogging Sally Jinks quite vehemently, and I got this tap on the shoulder. It was the matron of the tennis club. I didn't even turn round but I sort of tipped my lips away from Sally and went 'Sod off!' I was immediately yanked off her and was in a pile of trouble..."  I heard that you were in a drag act, to get your Equity card.  (Wearily) "Yes I was. I did let that out one time, years ago..."  How Method did you go? Did you wear ladies knickers?  "I didn't wear the knickers. I had my boxers on. We did a charity gig at the Crypt in Brixton. There's me, a little public school boy, getting changed in the corner with 40 lacerating drag queens. ' What's the matter, didn't they have your size?' It was a hell of an experience, and very strengthening..." If I rifled through your bins, what would I find?  "You missed your opportunity. I just took back my flat in London after ten years and I did a huge throw out, and it was remarkable the amount of stuff I found."  And the most embarrassing thing you found?  "Er...I'd kept a Page Three of Kathy Lloyd that was wrapped up. (Laughs) What a serious pair she had, eh?"  Did you put that back in a draw for safekeeping?  "No I chucked it out! My fianc�e was there and I went very quiet for a second, and she went, ' What have you found?' 'Oh...nothing!' "  Which of the other Enterprise blokes could you beat in a fistfight?  "Oh, none! Hmm, maybe John Billingsley [Dr Phlox]...but he's got the weight on me. Connor and Anthony and Scott are big strapping, corn-fed fellas. I'm fairly fit - by English standards - but these guys, they're six foot and all muscle. I'm not even 5' 10". But as they say, diamonds are small...!"  Finally, a philosophical question...  "Philosophical? Oh you've lost me right there. (Puts on a Vicki Pollard voice) A what? Yeah, but, no but, yeah. Shut up!"  Please be serious, Dominic. Okay, here's the question : If there was a fight between a group of cavemen and a group of astronauts, who would win?  "Well, it depends on the environment really, doesn't it? But I would imagine the cavemen could kick the living crap out of the astronauts - they're all mathematicians. My money's on the cavemen mate!" 

Source: www.dominickeating.com