#Tegan Martin

[gallifreywhere]

'Never cruel and never cowardly!'

Book quote: In Wonderland, by Paul Magrs

[headcanonsandmore]

My apologies to @thestationwlw3 but I may have to steal the name "Tegan Strapvanka" if I ever do drag.

Bonus points if it's at a Doctor-Who themed drag show.

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

I rewatched this serial on 29 April 2023. I chose the four part version because that’s the format in which I first saw the story. UK audiences in 1984 saw it in two parts of about 45 minutes each.

We begin in a part of London near London Bridge station that’s changed now from what’s depicted here. An old geezer watches as a bunch of people in weird outfits escape from a building to be gunned down by bobbies… they get the geezer, too. Welcome to 1984 in Thatcher’s England… although, not quite. The bobbies aren’t what they seem.

In the TARDIS, we continue with the turbulence from the last serial. Our heroes arrive in London to search for the time corridor that’s caused all the strife. They meet the one survivor of the mass killing and then Turlough goes missing. The Doctor, Tegan and Stien (the survivor) run into British Army bomb disposal bods. They’re not UNIT, but act as sort of stand-ins.

There’s a space station with a wonderfully diverse crew! They come under attack from a battle cruiser. Who might they be? Clue is in the title of the serial. Yes, they’re back. The Daleks. And they are not happy. There’s a fair bit of plot rehash from previous Dalek serials, and Davros really is a bore like most fascistic fanatics, but there’s also a fair bit in the tale that influences future Dalek tales.

I am also struck during my gallop through the series just how this serial is a return to the way Dr Who was in earlier times: surprisingly violent and with a large support cast. The deaths, though, come at an unrelenting pace and it’s entirely understandable that Tegan decides to leave the TARDIS. Farewell, Janet Fielding! Her association with the show continued when she became an agent for Paul McGann. Plus, of course, she returned as Tegan in the story I am aiming to rewatch on 31 October 2023.

Fun fact, wholly unrelated to this serial: it’s Jo Martin’s birthday! 

[mikeladano]

REVIEW: Arkells - Blink Twice (2022)

[albumwalloffame]

Album Cover Wall (Hall) of Fame Summer 2023 Inductees - Day 4

Kiss Each Other Clean - Iron & Wine

2. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara

3. Thelonious Monk Plays - Thelonious Monk

4. Speak For Yourself - Imogen Heap

5. Exotica - Martin Denny

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[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in October 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. List below! ]

❤️ Back in the Hunt - K. Sterling 🧡 The Connoisseur's Christmas Courtship - L.M. Bennett 💛 Shoestring Theory - Mariana Costa 💚 The Black Hunger - Nicholas Pullen 💙 Wild Fire - Radclyffe 💜 Because Fat Girl - Lauren Marie Fleming ❤️ The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide - Cody Daigle-Orians 🧡 Soul Survivors - River Kai 💛 Stolen Hearts - Michele Castleman 💙 Reverence - Milena McKay 💜 Love Immortal - Kit Vincent

❤️ Take a Sad Song - Ona Gritz 🧡 Showmance - Chad Beguelin 💛 Redundancies & Potentials - Dominique Dickey 💚 Alexander - Karla Nikole 💙 Rest in Peaches - Alex Brown 💜 Rise of the Wrecking Crew - Kalynn Bayron ❤️ Language Lessons - Sage Donnell 🧡 Legend of the White Snake - Sher Lee 💛 Sorcery and Small Magis - Maiga Doocy 💙 Cried Out - Kate Hawthorne 💜 Skysong - C.A. Wright 🌈 No Rules Tonight - Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada

❤️ My Mother's Ridiculous Rules for Dating - Philip William Stover 🧡 I Shall Never Fall in Love - Hari Conner 💛 Castle Swimmer - Wendy Martin 🧡 The Hollow and the Haunted - Camilla Raines 💙 How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? - Anna Montague 💜 The Arizona Triangle - Sydney Graves ❤️ Every Rule Undone - Nancy S.M. Waldman 🧡 Mister Nice - Jamie Jennings 💛 Under the Mistletoe with You - Lizzie Huxley-Jones 💙 How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster - Muriel Leung 💜 The Snowball Effect - Haley Cass 🌈 This Will Be Fun - E.B. Asher

❤️ Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst 🧡 Don't Let the Forest In - C.G. Drews 💛 Finding Delaware - Bree Wiley 💚 The Reeds - Arjun Basu 💙 The Bloodless Princes - Charlotte Bond 💜 Women's Hotel - Daniel M. Lavery ❤️ Alex McKenna and the Academy of Souls - Vicki-Ann Bush 🧡 A Vile Season - David Ferraro 💛 Synchronicity - J.J. Hale 💙 Writ of Love - Cassidy Crane 💜 Di-Curious - Erin Branch 🌈 Swordcrossed - Freya Marske

❤️ Stand Up! - Tori Sharp 🧡 Haunt Me, Baby - Rose Santoriello 💚 Planet Drag: Uncover the Global Herstory - Various 💙 Until We Shatter - Kate Dylan 💜 Metal from Heaven - August Clarke ❤️ Vicious Fates and Vast Futures - Tilly Bramley 🧡 The Daughter of Danray - Natalia Hernandez 💛 If I Stopped Haunting You - Colby Wilkens 💙 The Darkness Behind The Door - Mira Gonzalez 💜 Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, and Fall in Love - A.M. Weald 🌈 Jasmine Is Haunted - Mark Oshiro

❤️ Model Home - Rivers Solomon 🧡 Haunting Melody - Chloe Spencer 💛 The Door in Lake Mallion - S.M. Beiko 💚 The City in Glass - Nghi Vo 💙 Fang Fiction - Kate Stayman-London 💜 The Merriest Misters - Timothy Janovsky ❤️ Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake 🧡 My Kind of Trouble - L.A. Schwartz 💛 To Become A Flower - CEON 💙 What Was Lost - Melissa Connelly 💜 The Forbidden Book - Sacha Lamb 🌈 This Dark Paradise - Erin Luken

❤️ The Sound of Storms - Anya Keeler 🧡 Country Queers - Rae Garringer 💛 A Spell for Heartsickness - Alistair Reeves 💚 The Stars Inside Us - Kristy Gardner 💙 October's Ocean - Delaine Coppock 💜 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts ❤️ The Dark Becomes Her - Judy I. Lin 🧡 Power Pose - Emily Silver 💛 The Magic You Make - Jason June 💙 House of Elephants - Claribel A. Ortega 💜 Tegan and Sara: Crush - Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Tillie Walden 🌈 The Brightness Between Us - Eliot Schrefer

❤️ The Spring before Obergefell - Benjamin S. Grossberg 🧡 Pray For Him - Tyler Battaglia 💛 Coup de Grâce - Sofia Ajram 💚 Coal Gets In Your Veins - Cat Rector 💙 He Who Bleeds - Dorian Valentine 💜 The Revenge of Captain Vessia - Leslie Allen ❤️ Camelot's Tower - Brooke Matthews 🧡 The Manor - Tiffany E. Taylor 💛 Arcanum - Ashlyn Drewek 💙 Strange Beasts - Susan J. Morris 💜 On Vicious Worlds - Bethany Jacobs 🌈 Death Song - B. Ripley

❤️ Best Hex Ever - Nadia El-Fassi 🧡 I'll Be Gone for Christmas - Georgia K. Boone 💛 Make My Wish Come True - Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick 💚 Gentlest of Wild Things - Sarah Underwood 💙 Troth - E.H. Lupton 💜 Solis - Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher ❤️ Lucy, Uncensored - Mel Hammond, Teghan Hammond 🧡 Mama - Nikkya Hargrove 💛 Under All the Lights - Maya Ameyaw 💙 Reclaimed - Seth Haddon 💜 The Devil's Dilemma - Alex J. Adams 🌈 The Jovian Madrigals - Janneke de Beer

❤️ Blood Price - Nicole Evans 🧡 Worship Me - K.C. Blume 💛 All the Hearts You Eat - Hailey Piper 💚 The Nightmare Before Kissmas - Sara Raasch 💙 Rogue Community College - David R. Slayton 💜 Mistress of Hours - Emma Elizabeth ❤️ The Dog Trainer's Secret - Sav Uong 🧡 Most Wonderful - Georgia Clark 💛 Antenora - Dori Lumpkin 💙 House of Frank - Kay Synclaire 💜 Sir Callie and the Witch's War - Esme Symes-Smith 🌈 Prince of Fortune - Lisa Tirreno

[nerdygaymormon]

Merry Queermas

I have a number of queer playlists, so thought I'd add one for Christmas.

Lesbians

Brandi Carlile - The Heartache Can Wait

girl in red - two queens in a king sized bed

k.d. lang - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (with Glee cast)

Indigo Girls - It Really Is (A Wonderful Life)

Jane Lynch - A Swingin' Little Christmas Time

Joan Jett - Little Drummer Boy

LADIES - Ladies, It's Cold Outside

Mary Lambert - Christmas Cookies (feat. Wyatt Hermansen)

Melissa Etheridge - It's Christmas Time

Raven Symoné - My Christmas Wish

Tegan and Sara - Make You Mine This Season

Gays

Adam Lambert - Please Come Home for Christmas

Barry Manilow - (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays

Bearforce 1 - Christmas is Here

Billy Porter - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Calum Scott - White Christmas

Darren Hayes - Last Christmas

David Archuleta - Christmas Every Day

Elton John - Step Into Christmas; Merry Christmas (with Ed Sheeran)

Erasure - Make It Wonderful (Bright Light Bright Light Remix)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love

Johnny Mathis - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Joshua Bassett - The Perfect Gift

Lil Nas X - Holiday

Luther Vandross - Every Year, Every Christmas

Matt Rogers - Also It's Christmas

Mister Chase and Chris Salvatore - Baby, It's Cold Outside

MNEK - Stopped Believing in Santa

Neon Trees - Holiday Rock

Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas

Queen - Thank God It's Christmas

Ricky Martin - Ay Ay Ay It's Christmas

Rufus Wainwright - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

Sam Smith - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; The Lighthouse Keeper

Todrick Hall - Bells, Bows, Gifts, Trees

Wham! - Last Christmas

Wrabel - First Winter

Bi/Pan

Anne-Marie - Think of Christmas

Crystal Bowersox - Coming Out for Christmas

Demi Lovato - I'll Be Home for Christmas

Green Day - Xmas Time Of The Year

Jessie J - Man With the Bag

Phoebe Bridgers - If We Make It Through December

Sia - Santa's Coming For Us; Candy Cane Lane; Snowman

Trans, Gender Nonconforming, Fluid, Nonbinary

Bebe Rexha - Count on Christmas

Big Freedia - Make It Jingle

Miley Cyrus - Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Shea Diamond -Blame it on Christmas (feat. Cyndi Lauper); Mrs. Claus

Drag Queens

Alaska - Everyday is Christmas; Let It Snow (Ivan and Peter Mix)

Alaska, Courtney Act & Willam - Dear Santa, Bring Me A Man

Bob the Drag Queen - Sandra Claus

Detox - This is How We Jew It

Ginger Minj - Winter Wonderland (feat. Gidget Galore)

Manila Luzon, Peppermint & Alaska - We Three Queens

Nina West - Calista

Priyanka - Sleigh My Name

RuPaul - Hey Sis, It's Christmas

The Divas

Amy Winehouse - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Ariana Grande - December; Santa Tell Me; Winter Things;

Ava Max - 1 Wish; Christmas Without You

Barbra Streisand - Jingle Bells?

Bette Midler - Cool Yule

Britney Spears - My Only Wish (This Year)

Carly Rae Jepsen - It's Not Christmas Till Somebody Cries; Mittens

Céline Dion - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Cher - DJ Play a Christmas Song

Christina Aguilera - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting Over An Open Fire)

Diana Ross & The Supremes - My Favorite Things

Eurythmics - Winter Wonderland

Kacey Musgraves - Glittery (feat. Troye Sivan)

Katy Perry - Cozy Little Christmas

Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree

Kylie Minogue - Every Day's Like Christmas

Leona Lewis - One More Sleep

Little Mix - One I've Been Missing

Lizzo - Never Felt Like Christmas

Madonna - Santa Baby

Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You; Oh Santa

Meghan Trainor - Holidays (feat. Earth, Wind & Fire)

Olivia Rodrigo - River

Taylor Swift - Christmas Tree Farm

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Link to Spotify Playlist of these songs

Link to My Queer Playlist - Part 1 songs from 1939 to 1999

Link to My Queer Playlist - Part 2 songs from 2000 to 2015

Link to My Queer Playlist - Part 3 songs from 2016 to 2019

Link to My Queer Playlist - Part 4 songs from 2021 to present

Link to my Queer Disney Songs Playlist

Link to my K-Pop Queer Playlist

Link to my Queer Religious Playlist

[nerds-yearbook]

Jodie Whittaker regenerated in The Power of the Doctor episode of Doctor Who, which aired on October 23, 2022. The episode saw the Doctor's three oldest and most iconic enemies The Master (Sacha Dhawan), the Daleks, and the Cybermen (both voiced by Nicholas Briggs) to get rid of the Doctor by the Master taking over her life. The episode featured previous Doctors (David Bradley, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, and Jo Martin) and companions Yaz (Mandip Gill), Dan (John Bishop), Ace (Sophie Aldred), Tegan (Janet Fielding), Graham (Bradley Walsh), Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford), Jo Jones (Katy Manning), and Ian Chesterton (William Russell, who set a world record for the longest gap in between televised appearances as the same character at 57 years). It also featured the return of UNIT with Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave). The episode marked the 300th episode, was part of the BBC's 100 year anniversary, and was the lead into the 60th Doctor Who anniversary. Whittaker regenerated into Doctor 14, played by David Tennant, who was the first Dr Who actor to play the character twice. ("The Power of the Doctor", Dr Who, TV Event)

[browzerhistory]

OC MASTERPOST

(plain text: oc masterpost)

the goal here is to have a Big List of all my little guys and eventually make refs/posts for all of them at least once so i can link them. i'll organize them by fandom/story if they're original universe guys. anyways It Begins under the cut

RAIN WORLD

safe ship, harbored + the historian: ref sheet and askblog @safe-ship-harbored)

reincarnation ascension + the harbinger: ref sheet

scale of a tamed beast + scugs: ref sheet

rainstorm over sea + the caregiver: ref sheet

chime of eight bells: no ref

in a thousand grains of sand, a pearl: no ref

the beggar: no ref

MARROW & CHRYSALIS (oc story)

yanahel "yanny" owens: ref in this post (link)

tegan anders: no ref

stella martin: no ref

violet west: no ref

hanna baker: no ref

adam & vivienne williamson: no ref

amadeus ???: no ref

sasuke sawada: no ref

STEVEN UNIVERSE

banded amethyst: no ref

sunset diamond: no ref

light blue diamond twins: no ref

black star diamond: no ref

honey diamond: no ref

grape agate: no ref

delilah reese: no ref

emilia winza: no ref

UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE

Clustertale characters:

sans (orchid) and papyrus (citrus): no refs

nototon: no ref

alphys and undyne: no refs

toriel: no ref

Other:

roman, tillana, and delius: no refs

verdana: no ref

hess: no ref

[nonelvis]

meme time

@nostalgia-tblr tagged anyone who wanted to do this meme, and I have a few minutes before I have to do dinner prep, so let's see how this goes.

3 ships: anyone who knows me knows I will ship pretty much anything, so this is a real hard one to narrow down. Let's go with two rarepairs I've been thinking about writing recently – Martha/Ace and Ten/Jackie – and the third rarepair is not from Doctor Who, but there will be fic of it on Monday the 18th, so no names yet, sorry

first ship ever: Fifth Doctor/me Fifth Doctor/Tegan, whom I still ship to this day

last song: look, sometimes you just need to hear a cover of a classic skiffle song from the 1930s

last movie: in the theater: Barbie. At home: Singin' in the Rain

currently reading: having one of those high-stress years where I just can't focus on anything, but I just finished Uncanny issue 53, need to start issue 54, and have had an Arkady Martine novella sitting on my hard drive forever waiting for me to read it

currently watching: am about halfway through S2 in my Disco rewatch, am going through old seasons of Only Connect with my spouse since our beloved Jeopardy! is busy recycling old clues instead of PAYING THE WRITERS, just started My Adventures With Superman, and as usual, various cooking competitions, my comfort viewing

currently consuming: in about 10 minutes there will be some trimmings from the last of the hot pepper gouda my sister brought back from Amsterdam and which I am turning into mac 'n' cheese with spigarello and garlic scapes tonight (gotta use that CSA share!)

currently craving: hot pepper gouda, conveniently enough

tagging anyone who wants to do this

[bambiesque]

New thread for Davison!Doctor:

Serial: Castrovalva - Everyone is wonderful. I love Davison!Doctor so much and I love his affecting the mannerisms of the earlier Doctors. He has Hartnell!Doctor's annoying little laugh down.

Serial: Four to Doomsday - An enjoyable story and very diverse for a change. I hope the androids found a nice home.

Serial: Kinda - Weird but interesting. I love Tegan so much. I'm glad we got to keep Nyssa too.

Serial: The Visitation - The androids are very sparkly. Nyssa is clearly the Doctor's favourite because she does as she's told or tries to help in practical ways. Tegan is reaching Sarah Jane levels of brainwashing, poor thing.

Serial: Black Orchid - Love Davison!Doctor wanting to be train driver and getting to play cricket. Also Tegan being a cricket fan. Two Nyssas and Tegan dressed as a flower fairy. I love this one.

Serial: Earthshock - Oh we're back in our favourite filming location - a quarry. Brave heart, Tegan. <3 The Cybermen are hilarious this serial. The ending was very sad. Poor Adric. I didn't hate you like I used to.

Serial: Time-Flight - The Master is back in another terrible disguise. The Doctor has to be pretending that he doesn't recognise him at this point. An enjoyable story with a cliffhanger ending (sort of).

Serial: Arc of Infinity - Nyssa is a badass this serial and I love her even more because of it. More Gallifreyan shennanigans so obviously a fave. Colin Baker making his first appearance. And a Leela mention!

Serial: Snakedance - Martin Clunes wins this story - genuinely the best I've ever seen him. I like Nyssa's new clothes and the Doctor not giving a damn about them. I want to hug Tegan.

Serial: Mawdryn Undead - Turlough, my love, you are such a little shit. The Brig is back! I love this story so much. Different timelines, two Brigadiers, baby Tegan and Nyssa, Turlough the snarky space twink. No notes.

(Actually, one note: Why is there not more 5/Turlough fic?)

Serial: Terminus - Quite a slow one and not one of the best. I'm sad to see Nyssa go though. I will miss her.

Serial: Enlightenment - One of my all time favorite stories. Everyone is wonderful. Tegan in her beautiful dress <3 PIrates. "Your companion is a beautiful woman" / "Is she?". Turlough being a sad puppy but a very good boy.

Serial: The King's Demons - The Master in another "disguise". Tegan in a magnificent coat. Aww The Doctor and The Master are having another swordfight. Just kiss you idiots!

Special: The Five Doctors - This is the story I have watched the most in my life and I love it. I love all the Doctors meeting and the companions meeting - Five meeting Susan again - and the phantoms of Mike, Liz, Jamie and Zoe. The Master being excellent. Tegan getting to spend time with the grumpiest Doctor of them all. Turlough doing his art. The Brig getting to punch the Master. Dinah Sheridan. Rassilon. Borusa getting his (creepy af) comeuppance. The Doctor becoming President. <3

Serial: Warriors of the Deep - Davison!Doctor is all wet (be still my heart). Turlough jumps to the worst conclusions even quicker than I do. What's the point of having TARDIS keys if you never use them? Turlough being a badass there. The production isn't great but the story is a good one.

Serial: The Awakening - The crack in the wall looks suspiciously like the crack in Amy's wall. Tegan has another pretty(ish) dress but is going to be burnt at the stake/maypole. This is bonkers but lots of fun.

Serial: Frontios - Another good one. Giant woodlice. Turlough defending the Doctor with a hatstand. Actually poor Turlough really goes through it in this serial bless him. Kudos to Tegan for running around all those tunnels in her heels.

Serial: Resurrection of the Daleks - So much death! Really this is just 90 minutes of people dying. I'm so sad my darling Tegan has gone. That ending made me cry.

Serial: Planet of Fire - Turlough and Five are on honeymoon. Thank you to whoever put Mark in those shorts and Nicola in that whole outfit. I am an easily pleased bisexual. The Master is here looking quite dapper and not in a stupid disguise for a change. And Turlough is leaving too - now I'm crying again.

Serial: The Caves of Androzani - An excellent send off for my fave. Great story, great performances. The Doctor being a big damn hero. And then seeing all the companions again when he regenerated. So good.

Davison!Doctor Era Round-up

Favourite Companion: Tegan Jovanka - my love.

Least favourite Companion: Kamelion - kind of pointless.

Favourite Serial: Enlightenment / The Five Doctors

Least Favourite Serial: Terminus

Davison!Doctor is MY Doctor. He projects the weariness of age despite being (so far) the youngest Doctor. He's smiley and kind but at the same time, serious and determined. I love him.

Current Doctor standings

Davison

Pertwee

TBaker

Troughton

Hartnell

Current Top 10 Companions

Jo Grant

Tegan Jovanka

Barbara Wright

Vislor Turlough

Sarah Jane Smith

Nyssa of Traken

Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart

Leela

Romana II

Zoe

[headcanonsandmore]

This has been on my mind for a while but I know I'm not the only Whovian who hates the outfits Tegan and Nyssa were lumbered with in season 20 onwards. Most of the remit for them seems to have been "show as much skin as possible so the dads watching can leer at the actors" (they both, along with Peri, got the brunt of these awful costumes).

So, to rectify that (and inspired by @timelordian-disaster-126 's awesome artwork), here are some suggestions for outfit ideas for Tegan and Nyssa that I think would be fun.

Nyssa would probably like dungarees, so a pair of linen or corduroy dungarees are a good idea. Paired with a polka-dot or funky patterned shirt. Bonus points if Nyssa starts adding scientific instruments into the pockets. A pair of sturdy boots (either with a stack heel or no heel) would complement it nicely, plus a long raincoat (think Ms Frizzle by way of the Thirteenth Doctor).

Tegan's season 20 outfit is hated by all of us (Janet Fielding especially) so literally anything would be better. In which case, I think practicality is the best bet for our favourite Australian so a pair of jeans, t-shirt (preferably a plain colour like white or light blue but could be purple to reference the flight attendant uniform) and a plaid shirt (maybe red or a dark blue). It is Important that the plaid shirt be rolled up to the elbows. A leather jacket to complete the outfit but (if cold) could be switched out with a thick woodsman jacket. For footwear, either a pair of sturdy trainers or a good pair of Doc Martins.

Nyssa wearing a roll-neck jumper with a pair of black dungarees (sort-of a reference to her jumpsuit in season 19, but with more of a individual spin on it). Perhaps accesorised with a necklace or some pens stuck into the dungaree front pockets.

If Tegan wants more of a femme-inspired look, perhaps a long skirt with a blue-and-white striped t-shirt (either long or short sleeved). She can also wear a pair of leggings underneath, combined with some nice tennis shoes in a complimenting colour.

Nyssa in a shirt, trousers and waistcoat would be fun, perhaps accesorised with a pocket-watch on a chain. Perhaps with a boater-hat (maybe she found Romana's old one whilst rooting in the TARDIS wardrobe?). She can have a neck-tie (either done up or loosened) or go without, depending on the situation.

Dunno if it's practical for Tegan to wear a tuxedo, but maybe some sort of shirt, trousers and jacket combo. It would work well with her shorter hair in season 20, as well.

Those are my ideas, but what do you all think? Please let me know what ideas you have. :)

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: Snakedance

I rewatched this serial on 22 April 2023. It’s the second of the twentieth anniversary season stories, and this time we mark the return of a recent monster, the Mara. The serial is notable for introducing Martin Clunes to TV audiences.

We begin with an old bloke sat in the desert. In total contrast, Nyssa shows off an entirely new outfit to the Doctor, who refuses to notice. Tegan’s asleep in her and Nyssa’s bedroom (if one can trust the clothes hung up). One ponders if Tegan’s inspired Nyssa’s new sense of fashion… Meanwhile, on Manussa, which vibes like BBC-drama ancient Rome, Lon and his mother discuss the Mara and whether or not they are gone. It can’t be a spoiler to say that Lon is wrong, and it’s not long before the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan are caught in the drama. It’s interesting how the Mara affected so many societies, and Manussa is very different from that of the Kinda.

[fearsome-series]

BOOK ONE | BOOK TWO | [BOOK THREE]

Chapter [One] | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight

NORTHEASTERN PUERTO RICO

SEPTEMBER 1995

She did laundry, shoveling clothes from the washer to the dryer, listening to the wind outside. In the other room, a television was playing; a comedian talking once again about that -

- put her claws on either side of the goat’s head and shot down her tongue into the hole she made with her teeth, behind her a goat bleated, if she turned around she’d see dozens of them dead and dying but she finished up draining this one and skipped over to the chain link fence, climbed over it, climbed over barbed wire -

- stupid goatsucker story. Who knows what that woman was on? She laughed to herself, went to put away her clothes, and -

- a human! -

- the goatsucker! A scaly, clawed, winged creature standing hunched over in her laundry room, shuffling around. Reaching out with one of its claws…

It was only two feet tall.

“You’re a sorry excuse for a monster, aren’t you?” She laughed. “Pendejo!”

The creature covered itself with its wings, backed away, and fled, scared away by her display of might.

- she called me a pendejo, she thought, racing up and over the fence and past the field of dead goats. I’m so embarrassed.

She killed seven more goats that night to cope.

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#3: THE GHOST'S SONG

CHAPTER ONE

INSIDE OUTSIDE

“...and I was excited. Was my first time out since my arrival. Me and Javier at bookstore across the mall.”

Besa addressed the Tunnel’s support group, and Laura found herself obsessed with her hair - her large, frizzy, beautiful hair - and the insects that called it home. She looked human, and as Besa told her story, a katydid crawled out from inside her hair.

“How’d that go for ya?” asked the facilitator, June. She was blonde, obnoxiously optimistic, and loud.

“Javier gave me gift of clothes from the college. With them on, I appeared as they do. First time since ever.”

“How’s your English?” June asked.

“Improving, thanks to you and Coleman. I was enjoying browsing books until…”

“It’s okay if you don’t wanna talk about it,” June said.

“Thank you, but I am ready. Other shopper noticed exploring friend. Tobi, the beetle. He takes book and...and…”

Gasps of shock among the group. Katie, a buff girl who looked like an axolotl, cried out, “not Tobi!” Laura didn’t really know how Besa’s insects worked, but she tried to join in anyway: “Oh no…?”

“There there, you’re safe now.” June said.

“Yeah,” Javy added. He wore pajamas and dark circles under his eyes, and the clouds of colorful dust orbiting his head like a personal nebula occasionally beeped out a tinny song. “I’m so sorry for bringing you there.”

“No, Javier. Am still glad I went out.” The katydid crawled back onto Besa’s hand; she petted it gently. “Yet...is first time my hive mind lost a member in years. It is so sudden. So painful...but I am working on it. Pain is in the gap where Tobi should be, but...the pain is fading.”

“We’re glad to hear it. If ya need us, know we’re always here for y’all.” Everyone clapped - with hands or claws or slimy tendrils. “And now our newbie! Laura, d’you wanna introduce yourself?”

“Oh! Yeah, sure.” Laura sat straight up. “Hey. So I’m Laura and I’m a werewolf. Hi?”

A moment of blank stares, and then they came all at once. First was Nina, a short girl with silver eyes and a sleeveless, glittery silver jumpsuit; until now, Laura hadn’t noticed that she hovered a half a foot off the floor. She greeted her in Russian - “Dobro pozhalovat!”

“Hey, Wolfgirl!” Eliza showed her to the others: to Tegan and Tori, identical twins who spoke a language she couldn’t understand - they spoke quickly in rapid words, with one instantly continuing the sentence of the other, and to Martin, a dour man made of purple slime. He stretched out a hand - the bones and veins visible through the nearly-translucent “skin” - but retracted it before Laura could shake it, offering only a miserable “I am sorry” before shuffling along. Laura shot a weak little hello back.

Besa - and her katydid - said hi, and Javier and Katie the axolotl girl and Wade, a scaly green man with a human-ish face and an alligator’s body, who lay beside his chair on the floor.

One person said nothing. One person didn’t move to greet her.

Melissa watched from her chair, her expression completely inscrutable to Laura. Thanks, dark glasses slash uncertain hell eyes.  As everyone found their way back to their seats, she didn’t turn away from Laura. She kept looking. But she still said nothing.

“So Laura,” said June. “If it’s okay by you, could ya tell us what it’s like to be a werewolf?”

“Oh, uh, yeah.” Brought back to Earth. Melissa - who’d said nothing, besides her name and pronouns - looked away. “So under the Full Moon - oh, and the night before and after - you transform into a...really big wolf person.”

“Do you go around hunting people?” Katie asked softly.

“What? No. Just deer. Uh, also, even when you aren’t a werewolf, you are a werewolf? ‘Cause it’s...part of you. You see the world differently, even without all the wolf bits.”

Wade spoke up. “But you still look human.”

“Uh, yeah.”

“Except for three nights a month, you look like them? Look human, sound human, live with humans? Live on the surface?”

Laura knew Wade was going somewhere she didn’t like. “I do, but I’m not human. Kinda.”

“You know, I’m always this. I always look like some alien.” Wade put his arms and forelegs on his chair, rearing up higher. “I was human. I am human, maybe. But I’m not like you. It’s not on the ‘inside’.”

“Uh, sorry.” She didn’t know what else to say. What was she apologizing for? Being herself?

“We can’t turn it off like you.”

“Hey!” June tried to intervene, but the group drowned her out.

“Javy looks human when his orbs aren’t out. Besa, TeganTori. Kea and Esme too, when the entity’s not manifesting.” Katie said. “Think they don’t belong, either?”

“The entity…?” Laura mumbled.

“Oh my god,” Javier said, throwing his head back and staring at the ceiling.

Wade flicked his membranes. “Now that you say it, yeah, it may chafe a bit that you all can go out on low alert.”

“Don’t listen to Wade,” Katie piped up. “He’s always...croc-hety.”

“Really?” Wade countered.

“Sorry. I can’t herp it.”

“Ignorant. I’m part alligator, not -”

“Hey, hey, hey!” June finally got a word in. “Let’s keep everything respectful, ‘kay?”

“Fine.” Wade slunk back to the floor.

June regained order. “Who’s next? Nina, you haven’t said much. Everything okay?”

“Am still trapped in ridiculous capitalist hellscape. What is there more to say?”

“...alright! It’s gettin’ late, isn’t it? Hope to see y’all next week, ‘specially our newest werewolf.”

Laura quickly ran for the door. “Uh, yeah, maybe, uh, it’s a moon, but...yeah. Later.”

“Another Full Moon so soon? That’s not what it looks like on my calendar…I added a moon phase one, once I heard we had a werewolf joining us.” June said, as Laura walked out. She waited by a motivational poster (an eagle and “DARE TO SOAR”), its corner peeling, waiting for…

There she was!

“Hey, Melissa,” Laura ran up to her. “Uh, you probably don’t recognize me, huh? ‘cause one time I was a dog and the other time you weren’t awake. But I was wondering if you were okay-”

Melissa didn’t say anything.

“Hey, uh, sorry-”

She ran into her room and slammed the metal sheet of a door.

“Wow, you’re welcome!” Laura said smugly.

“Wolfgirl?” Eliza said from down the hall; Laura hesitated a second, then joined her.

“Is Melissa okay?” Laura asked.

“Heh. She’s…adjusting,” Eliza answered.

***

Eliza led Laura down a corridor lined with art of Zener cards (at least Yang had called them that once) in a starscape. Lot more thorough than the art in that dump of a meeting room. Eliza hoped Laura wasn’t upset by Wade’s latest crusade.

“I’m sorry,” Laura said, upset. “I didn’t think about how...how easy I have it. Compared to him, and you, and…”

Eliza couldn’t say that Wade didn’t have a point. Laura could stop being a wolf. She couldn’t stop being the chupacabra. But why bring it up like that? 

“Don’t worry about it! Wade’s always like that.”

“I guess I’d be too if I turned into an alligator guy.” Laura’s voice was brightening up a bit, to Eliza’s relief.

“It’s not the worst thing you could become. He can swim really well...got some nice scales…”

“You know, your scales are cool. Really...tough but kinda shiny?”

“Thanks, Wolfgirl.”

“Your claws are super cool too. You could really mess someone up. My claws are cool too, but...temporary. My sharp teeth, too. The curse of the lichen..lickin...likeand...werewolf.”

“Thanks...maybe I can see what you’re like fluffy someday.”

“Yeah! Werewolf selfie. Just gotta get it to work with paws.” Laura looked at the art of the man unlocking his third eye. “Uh, what’s with the decoration?”

“The staff added it to make it a lot less depressing down here,” Eliza explained. “Yang and Wood did a bunch of paranormal murals, which they got from some old book.”

“Doesn’t look like June did much in the meeting room.”

“No. A couple fake flowers can’t cover that much gray.”

Eliza paused at her door. “Are your parents coming by soon?”

“Gotta leave in about ten minutes. Pick up Gef from Sjöberg’s office.” Laura said. “Could you come up and…?”

Eliza shook her head. “We may be on lowish alert, but…”

“What’s the alert thing?”

“How likely it is the Chicago people are around. I don’t know how Sjöberg knows, but we can only go out in disguise, and only when she’s got proof the Agency’s out of office somewhere.”

Laura ran her hand over the metal flap, over the sign on it saying STAY OUT TIL SUNSET UNLESS OPEN. “Is that your room?”

“Yeah.”

“Can I see it?”

“If you want…” Eliza nodded, but wondered as she pushed open the door: what will Laura think? Eliza liked her room, but through Laura’s eyes...would it be cozy, or small? A mess? A cell, not a home? She shouldn’t have asked, she…

“Huh.” Laura took the chair at Eliza’s desk. 

Eliza breathed a sigh of relief.  “Sorry, Wolfgirl. It’s pretty small.”

“How do they know it’s sunset?” Laura asked, spinning around and around and…

“Who?”

“On your door. Stay out ‘til sunset.”

“They know it’s sunset ‘cause I’m up. My body has a sense for it,” Eliza said, lying down on her bed. “I miss it, y’know? Going out at night.”

“Javier and Besa went out.”

“We’ve got a way to go out, the less human-y of us, but…only one of us at a time. I don’t want to risk it these days. It’s not like it used to be. When I was little and didn’t know any better. I’d creep out in the night. Feel the night breeze over my spines as I stalked a farm or -”

A thud. Something fell off the desk. It wasn’t her bracelet (with RATA <3 CABRA inscribed on it) or her coins, which meant…

“Oh, sorry. I pushed something off.” Laura searched around a basket of clothes at the foot of the desk. A mix of hoodies looking like the one she wore right now, and clothes gathered from thrift stores, all with spine holes poked out.

Eliza helped her look for...whatever it was. “My room’s kind of a mess, sorry.”

“Are you kidding? You have your clothes in, like, baskets. And drawers.” Laura said.

“You...you don’t?”

“Oh, hey, found it!” Laura pulled up Eliza’s phone. “Oh, you have a phone? Uh, here.”

Laura handed Eliza’s phone over: its well-worn body and screen were battered and cracked and all taped up. Claws and touch screens don’t mix. 

“Ugh!” Eliza furiously slid to unlock her phone, trying hard to use the blunt, fleshier parts of her finger and not her claw. It didn’t respond. “Can you unlock it?”

“Sure.” Laura took Eliza’s phone. “Hey, who’s this guy in the lock screen?”

“Oh!” Eliza quickly took her phone back. “That’s Clive. He is...he was my…”

“Boyfriend?”

“Yeah. He was. Didn’t realize he was still on there.”

“Cool. That you had one. I mean, not the had part, obviously. It’s not cool that you broke up...uh, I don’t know what I mean. Ignore meeeeeeeeee.” Laura buried her head in her hood.

“I know what you mean. Don’t worry.” Eliza tried one more time. Nothing.  “It’s not like anyone expects people like us to date.”

“Cool.” Laura pulled her hood back down. “I mean, I didn't think that. That you don't. I mean, I didn’t think about it? Not in a bad way, just didn’t...yeah. You know? Yeah. No? Uhh...” She buried her head in her hoodie again.

“Aw. Well, now we’ve both been awkward, so we’re even.” Eliza said.

“Yeah…” Laura took Eliza’s phone back. “He wasn’t at group. Is he around here, or…?”

“Not anymore. He’s…in the sanctuary in Portland.�� 

“Maine or Oregon?”

“Yeah.” With the number in, she took back her phone and studied the photo. His rat-like snout and hairless face and long, thin whiskers. His arm around her shoulders. The setting sun.

***

TWO YEARS AGO

Another support group. Another hot summer night. June guiding a group that really didn’t want to talk: her, Katie, Javy, Wade, Martin...and the empty seat between her and Katie. No kids, no Besa, and during every sullen silence Eliza’s eyes drifted to the empty chair.

“...my son mailed me. I finally figured out how to use that app we have to use.” Martin said slowly. “He said my grandson wanted to meet me. But I won’t let him. Not like this.”

“You have a family that wants to see you, and you’re too vain to-!?” Wade was cut off by a knock on the “door”. June rushed to answer.

“Here already? Alright, the more the merrier!”

June walked back in with him. Eliza remembered his hoodie, his torn jeans, how his bony tail dragged along the tile floor.

“This is Clive, and he’s here all the way from jolly-ol’-London! Say hi, y’all!”

Scattered applause and uneasy “hi”s. Eliza was sick of the apathy. She bounced to her feet and loudly welcomed him. “Hi, Clive!”

Her excitement faded when he took the empty chair. Her chair. Eliza winced. So did Katie, their uneasy gaze meeting from either side of the new arrival.

“How’s London?” Javier asked. “Always wanted to go. Buckingham Palace, Big Ben…”

“They stuck me in a little room on the third floor of a secret facility. My London was a tiny window, a porthole to a magical world of cracked pavement and a council estate.”

“...Wembley…”

Dead. Silence. Shuffling and coughing. A stray comment every few minutes, going nowhere; it was a lifeless meeting, and no one was more sullen than Clive, who seemed to be sizing them all up.

When the meeting ended, Eliza ran over to Clive. Might as well make friends...if he wants to.

“Hey, Clive.”

“Hi,” he shot back curtly.

“We never really did introductions, did we? I’m Eliza.”

“Hi. I’m still Clive.”

“I’m the chupacabra. Hey, do they know about me in England?” She kept up with him as they left the room.

“Aye. I’ve heard of you. The dread goatsucker of Puerto Rico.”

“Yeah, that’s me. I get my goat frozen now, though. Would I know about you?”

“No. There aren’t any legends about me. I’m just a simple ratman from Southend.”

“Where’s Southend?”

“The end, honestly.” Clive gave a tiny smirk.

“Huh?” If there was a joke, Eliza didn’t get it.

“I mean it’s England’s arse.”

“Oh...oh, of course. So you didn’t like it?” Obviously, Eliza.

“Maybe it’s lovely when you don’t experience it the Clive Davies way. I lived under an underpass, ‘til some kids beat me. The London folks found me frozen half to death and took me prisoner. So yeah, not an abundance of fond memories there.”

“Aw, oh no. But...you’re here, at least. How’d you get out of London?”

“A few of us hatched an escape plan with the help of a bleeding heart in the staff. ‘Course, they ended up catching her and the rest of our little flock before we could even enact phase one of our grand little scheme. Get this, when they were herding us back towards an unmarked van, they looked away, I sprinted for the wall, and jumped it. All that planning and I make it by sheer blind chance. I snuck around some ‘til I found the contact we were all supposed to meet, and he spirited me away after some Swedish lady.”

“The others who escaped are still stuck there?”

“Dead, most like,” he said coldly.

“Are you the only Ratman?” Eliza asked.

“Far as I know.”

“Me too. I’m the only chupacabra.”

“So we’re both one of a kind. Good to know, Goatgirl.”

“...huh?”

“Don’t worry. It’s not something bad. I like nicknames. Spares me the trouble of keepin’ everyone straight.”

“Oh, yeah. Me too, Ratboy.”

“Don’t know if you’ve got Ratboy privileges yet…”

They talked for another hour.

***

“What do you mean you don’t know, Brandon?”

“I don’t know what I want.”

“Who does?”

Freddy walked beside his boyfriend. It was a late night, and they were going through the nearest reaches of campus, with the already-drunk and the soon-to-be-drunk filtering from one of the block’s bars to another. Normally Freddy would be rendered anxious in the face of their fumbling mass, out of bars with neon signs branding them the HOME OF THE FISHBOWL; but now, the source of his annoyance was even closer at hand.

“You do!” Brandon said.

“I don’t know what I want.”

“Compared to me? I’ve changed majors twice. You? You have your shit together.”

Freddy gave a hollow laugh. “I don’t have my shit together.”

“I just wish I loved anything the way you love oceans, okay?”

“Inland waters, Brandon!” Freddy snapped. “Limnology is the study of inland waters. Jesus, why do I have to keep reminding you?”

“God, I’m sorry. I don’t-”

“Why would someone go to the Midwest to study oceans!?”

“I wasn’t thinking, okay? So sue me.”

“Are you ever thinking?” Freddy stormed off. Brandon tried to call after him, but Freddy had already melted into the faceless forces of the night.

Small, angry tears formed. His feet stomped the sidewalk forcefully. Freddy had stormed away impulsively, in a fit of frustration, and now the regret was setting in. Freddy left his boyfriend, which was bad. But now he was in a dark alley, an alley with high parking garages on either side, past midnight, with drunk assholes all over, all alone, which was worse.

“Great,” he mumbled.

His desperate stomp through the alley was interrupted by a song. A lilting song made up of tiny voices echoing through the concrete valley. Freddy couldn’t help but listen. He couldn’t tell where the song came from, and part of him knew he should be unnerved, should stomp on, flee, but it made him feel...at peace. In his mind’s eye, he saw himself somewhere beautiful. He saw gentle winds and tranquil waters. Slowly rocking boats moored to a pier, to that pier - his family’s, springing to mind unbidden. His mind invited him to close his eyes and dream.

But he couldn’t. When his eyes snapped open, a light stood in front of him. A hazy blue-white light in a featureless human shape; he found himself frozen before it; he couldn’t decide if the shining light was eerie or beautiful, or why it couldn’t be both.

The shape moved towards him, let out a single rising note, and that was enough to decide. He unmoored his entranced feet and ran. He heard shrieks and voices and a swooping gust of wind behind him, but wouldn't dare look back. Not until he escaped the alleyway; not until he ran all the way home; not until he had caught his breath and spent the night pressed to his window, shuddering at every noise.

[rachelbethhines]

60 Years of Doctor Who Anniversary Marathon - Martin 13th Review

Fugitive Doctor Recap

Stories covered

Timewyrm: Revelation - Novel

Cold Fusion - Full Audio

Origins - Comic

Fugitive of the Judoon - Novelization (not a full novelization but an Annual entry)

The Tourist - Short Story

Power of the Doctor - TV Story

A Sit Down With Jo Martin: Interview - Behind the Scenes

Fortnite (Doctor Who Island) - Video Game

Curse of the Fatal Death - Mini Episode

Unbound: Exile - Short Audio

Iris Wildthyme in Comeback of the Scorchies - Spin off

Doctor Who Velocity: The Vashta Nerada Return! - Fan Film

Companions represented

Fugitive Companions

Taslo (1 story)

Lee (1 story)

AU Doctors

Emma (1story)

Cheri (1 story)

Cheese (1 story)

Captain Turner (1 story)

Gloria (1 story)

Notable Appearances

In addition to such one off companions we get plenty of appearances from other Doctor companions as well.

Ace, Tegan, Yaz, and Graham show up twice.

We also get appearances and cameos by Susan, Nyssa, Adric, Roz, Chris, Ryan, Dan, Vinder, Kate, Mel, Jo, and even Ian, my beloved.

We meet the lovely sentient church, Paul, The Doctor's wife Patience, the companion turned AU Doctor, Iris, and you played as the companion, with your own personal avatar, in Fortnite.

The only historical figures that show up are Czar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra.  

As for villains... The Master shows up twice and so do the Daleks. Cybermen get a go, along with the Judoon. We meet the Timewyrm; a reoccurring villain that kicked off the new adventures novels. The Vashta Nerada Return! and the Scorchies make a Comeback. But the Doctor's biggest foes this era are the Time Lords themselves.

Ranking

(from best to worse)  

Power of the Doctor

The Tourist

Origins

Fortnite (Doctor Who Island)

Doctor Who Velocity: The Vashta Nerada Return!

Unbound: Exile

Cold Fusion (audio)

Timewyrm: Revelation

Iris Wildthyme in Comeback of the Scorchies

A Sit Down with Jo Martin

Fugitive of the Judoon (mini-novelization)

Curse of the Fatal Death