#astrid ferrier

[demigodofhoolemere]

Rest In Peace Mary Peach, who played Astrid Ferrier in The Enemy of the World. She passed away last month at 90. 💗

[tyba1t]

Quick Valentine's Day doodle

Massive crack ship but every time I watch Enemy of the World, I can't stop thinking about it

So Astrid x 2 cuz yes ❤

I love her sm and I love how they interact in the serial

[companion-showdown]

im also adding Fariah from ememy of the world to the list

[sarahwatchesthings]

RIP Fariah, you deserved better. 💔

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

Almost/Could have been Contestant List

Who would you like to have seen become a companion?

Rules for further suggestions:

Must have met the Doctor

I know Jago and Litefoot are popular but I am not including anyone from Talons as a matter of principle

Not someone you could already call a companion (some exceptions may be made on a case by case basis)

Not necessary, but ideally someone who would have said yes in the right circumstances

There's no other restrictions on the kinds of characters to include, just anyone you wanted to come on further adventures in the TARDIS

Current List under the cut (there will be a group stage if necessary to bring this down to an appropriate number ie a power of 2, so do not worry about suggesting more)

60s

Jenny (The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Bret Vyon (The Daleks Master Plan)

Anne (The Massacre)

Sam Briggs (The Faceless Ones)

Isobel (The Invasion)

Astrid Ferrier (Enemy of the World)

70s

Miss Hawthorne (The Daemons)

Bellal (Death to the Daleks)

Lish Toos (The Robots of Death)

D84 (Robots of Death)

Rodan (The Invasion of Time)

Duggan (City of Death)

80s

Todd (Kinda)

Richard Mace (The Visitation)

Will Chandler (The Awakening)

Chela (Snakedance)

Norna (Frontis)

Janet (Terror of the Vervoids)

The DJ (Revelation of the Daleks)

Ray (Delta and the Bannermen)

Mags (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

Shou Yuing (Battlefield)

Sabalom Glitz (Various)

EU

Ruby Duvall

RTD

Jabe (The End of the World)

Harriet Jones (Aliens of London / World War Three

Lynda (Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways)

Mrs Moore (Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

Jake (Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel & Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

Sally Sparrow (Blink)

Timothy (Human Nature / The Family of Blood (could have his name wrong))

Joan Redfern (Human Nature / The Family of Blood)

Professor Yana (Utopia)

Chan Tho (Utopia)

Tom (The Last of the Time Lords / The Sound of Drums)

Astrid Peth (Voyage of the Damned)

Alonzo (Voyage of the Damned)

Ross (The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)

Jenny (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Hath Peck (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Rosita (The Next Doctor)

Lady Christina de Souza (Planet of the Dead)

Adelaide Brooke (The Waters of Mars)

Moffat

Nasreen Chaudry (The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood)

Craig Owens (The Lodger & Closing Time)

Kazran (A Christmas Carol)

Abigail (A Christmas Carol)

Canton Everette Deleware III (Day of the Moon)

Rita (The God Complex)

Lorna (A Good Man Goes to War)

Madge Arwell (The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe)

Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

John Riddell (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Nefertiti

Petronella Osgood (Various)

Kate Stewart (Various)

Madame Vastra (Various – The Paternoster Gang)

Jenny (Various – The Paternoster Gang)

Strax (Various – The Paternoster Gang)

Journey Blue (Into the Dalek)

Psi (Time Heist)

Saibra (Time Heist)

Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Express)

Courtney Woods (Kill the Moon)

Rigsy (Flatline & Face the Raven)

Maebh (In the Forest of the Night)

Shona (Last Christmas)

Cass (Under the Lake / Before the Flood)

Me (The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived & various)

Missy (Various)

Heather (Pilot & The Doctor Falls)

Erica (Pyramid at the End of the World)

Danny Pink

Chibnall

Bel (Flux)

Vinder (Flux)

Claire (Flux)

Jericho (Flux)

Spinoffs

Luke Smith (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Clyde Langer (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Rani Chandra (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)

Ianto Jones (Torchwood)

Tosh Sato (Torchwood)

[tyba1t]

"Tv shows with Mary Peach" (because I wanted references of Mary Peach, aka Astrid Ferrier, cuz I love her)

Tagging @mimemamomymelody and @fleetn-crab85 because yes, but I'm open to anyone who happens to find this-

I know you already did it but sh

Can we start a tag game?

The 3rd most recent thing you searched: "shovel digging" (I was trying to find references for drawing lol)

Tags:

@being-a-human-isnt-very-fun @sunfl0wersapphic @anonthatwantsyoursoul @caliisreal

[cleowho]

“Proof! Proof! Proof!”

The Enemy of the World - season 05 - 1967

[lurking-latinist]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (1963) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Second Doctor (Doctor Who), Astrid Ferrier, Original Time Lord Character(s) (Doctor Who) Additional Tags: Series 6B (Doctor Who 1963), Post-Serial: s040 The Enemy of the World, Headcanon Summary:

The Doctor finds there was more to Astrid Ferrier than he realized—and the CIA's been interfering in his life for longer than he ever knew.

[motherwasapapafucker]

The rock came down and...

The primitive was injured, dying probably. Slowing them down almost certainly. The action was born of cold logic, they'd all be caught if they continued to support him. The Doctor grasped the yellowing boulder in his hand, focused on the injured man and resolved to do what had to be done.

 The rock came down and…

In the Dalek City on radiation blighted Skaro the Doctor slipped through the carnage. Brave, noble Thals dying around him; Susan and the two irritants doing their best to keep up even as that fool Chesterpot nattered on about helping where they could. There were more important matters to attend to, they needed the fluid-link. Once it was recovered he could turn his attentions to dealing with the Daleks. 

It wasn’t like the teacher’s words were reflected in action anyway, this tended to be the case with lofty speeches in the Doctor’s experience. Still, he’d been useful in radicalizing the Thals. A direct assault on the city was the perfect cover for recovering the device and if the planet was saved in the process? Well that would just be one less issue he had to deal with, wouldn’t it? 

The rock came down and…

He is Ramón Salamander, the world’s shopkeeper. Beloved in public, he has used his status to manipulate and corrupt the powers of the World Zone Authority to his own ends. Pursuing a ruthless, single minded conquest of the world he has murdered and schemed for decades. Or at least, that’s what they think. 

Ramón Salamander is dead. His corpse left rotting in a tunnel, the Doctor once again slipping into his life. Astrid Ferrier and her allies only wanted him stopped, the delicate balance of power restored, but there’s so much more he could do with Salamander’s influence. It would have been easy to run off, leave things as they were. Afforded a few more hours in the life of Ramón Salamander the Doctor changes the face of the world. 

The rock came down and…

On a cold, rain soaked moor he finalizes the last explosive in a chain that will collapse the cave system. The Brigadier pensively watching as he works. Dutiful even in discomfort, the man is grimly determined to see the matter through to the end. 

"Not getting cold feet are we Alistair?" The Doctor smiles grimly. 

"No, I...we both agree this is necessary it's just...is there really no other option Doctor? The peace treaty…" 

"In better circumstances perhaps," he sighs. "You saw what happened to the infected, the chaos at Waterloo. We simply cannot rely on their good will." He offered the detonator. Alister was a friend but he was a commanding officer above all else. It was only fitting he be the one to pull the trigger. "For the future," he prompted, guiding Alister's hands around the device. "For all mankind." 

When Liz finds out what they’ve done she can't look either of them in the eye. 

The rock came down and…

Skaro again. A younger Skaro, bursting with life and blighted as always. An irritating diversion foisted on him, the price paid for his continued freedom. The Daleks emerging from their conflict with the Thals eons ago and centuries in their own future to spread out across the stars with a single-minded drive. A toxic spill in the waters of eternity. His fault allegedly. 

The Daleks must die, that much is clear. The Doctor has no argument there, but the suggested method is crude, lacking in finesse. Allowing himself to be captured, he plots their downfall from the comfort of an interrogation cell. He is a stellar manipulator, words echoing down the centuries as he tells Davros exactly what he wants to hear. The empire dead a scant two-thousand years after its founding. Undone by advice that was only ever beneficial on the surface.

The rock came down and…

Castrovalva, the flirtation is at an end. The city collapsing around them, the Master’s attention darts between the Doctor and the body hanging in a network of something that only looks like web on the surface.

“You...you.” he stammers through a stolen voice. “A mercy after everything you’ve done to him.” the Doctor declares, gun shaking with the effort it takes to get the words out. They’re objectionable things, but useful in the right hands. It could easily become a crutch but faced with the scale of the Master’s latest scheme and his own weakened form there was no other option. He’s indulged his old friend too long, his presence in his life as much an affectation as dress capes and vintage cars. It has to end. 

The rock came down and…

Home, or near enough. He’s facing himself allegedly. His shadowy accuser bleating indignantly deep within the matrix, voluminous robes sagging with a faintly comical weight as he attempts to posture through the collapse of whatever grand ploy he had in mind with the trial. 

“Don’t you see!” his arms flap wildly. “Don’t you see where you’re taking us, the depths you’re dragging us into.” “You know if I really were you, or you really were me I’d never be this sore a loser” “Oh you conceited little shi...” the voice snarls, but by then he’s all but gone. Robes collapsing in the wake of his sudden, wholly involuntary abdication. 

The rock came down and…

The Doctor guides the girl from Iceworld out of the TARDIS, a firm hand on her shoulder ejecting her from this world back into her own. Perivale, nice enough if you like that sort of thing. She wanted to stay of course, especially after everything Mel had told her. He couldn’t blame her, he’d want to escape this sort of life as well, but there were too many coincidences. Something was pulling her strings, something familiar. The girl watches the box vanish and sighs, trudging back towards her old routines having caught a glimpse of something larger, more important than any prospect she can imagine. 

Nearly forty years previously a bonfire built on the scrubland beyond Maidens' Point draws sleek, rumbling bombers off-course. The village and nearby military base are all but destroyed in the ensuing inferno. A dismal little house in a damp little street in Perivale forty years later barely registering the sudden change to the people living within it. 

The rock came down and…

He’s in the DEEP, Vollmer’s corpse continuing to mutate even in death. Low, warbling klaxxon warning him that his own death is close if he doesn’t take action soon. He moves the body as best he can, slipping the still warm gun into the back of his trousers as he clambers into the escape pod. He can feel the TARDIS at the back of his mind, itching away at him even as the pod draws him further from the facility. He doesn’t want to abandon it, doesn’t want to be trapped on this planet but what choice does he have? The facility explodes, subsonic rumble shaking the escape pod violently as the detonation wave reaches him. 

The rock came down and… There is a girl, young, uncomprehending. He delivers the news personally, hates every second of it. Vollmer’s words hanging heavy as he does his best to etch out some sort of existence here. Trapped again.

Self-inflicted exile. He helps the family as best as he can; at a distance at first but inevitably he is drawn into their lives. Inevitably they are drawn into his, doing what he can to preserve Vollmer’s memory even as he hides his own role in the man’s death for the benefit of them all. He fights the good fight, indulges his adventurous spirit where he can. Continues to fight to preserve stability, to limit the chaos, the death. The ship lingers in his mind, a phantom lover kissing softly, calling out to him from somewhere dark and cold. In time the radiation will subside, in time he will return to her. 

The rock came down and… He is reborn, cold and confused. Throat dry and scratchy, struggling to remember how he got here, how he died. A woman is pointing a gun at him, something horrendous lurking over her shoulder. The two figures are faintly familiar.

The bullet hits before he can properly place them.

The rock came down and…

...his hand stopped, hovering just above the stricken man’s skull. Gently dropping the rock, the Doctor produced a handkerchief and applied it to the man’s forehead. This was no time to be rash, he could remove the obstacle, of course, but in doing so he would alienate his allies. 

He had few of them here, and those he did have were already cautious around him. The savages were bad enough, but ensuring the two teachers continued to support him was imperative. Killing the injured man would only cement their view of him, it would even risk driving Susan away. Better to show compassion, mercy, it was important to be canny about these things. 

The end would ultimately justify the means, he was sure of this.

[monannee2016etc]

TV - Fr3

Clap de fin pour Crimes parfaits. Lancée en 2017, la série policière de France 3 s'arrête ce mardi 21 février avec la diffusion des deux derniers épisodes inédits encore en stock, qui mettent en scène le duo Isabelle Gélinas et Arthur Mazet.

Dans ces deux nouvelles enquêtes de 52 minutes chacune, intitulées "Le Pied à l'étrier" et "D'une pierre deux coups", les flics Agnès et Thibaud vont devoir essayer d'y voir clair dans les meurtres d'un champion de sport équestre et d'un gynécologue-obstétricien directeur d’une clinique très prisée.

Côté guests, les téléspectateurs retrouveront Charlie Bruneau (En Famille) dans le premier épisode de la soirée, et Anne Charrier (Syndrome E) dans le second, qui referment ainsi la longue liste d'invités ayant incarné les ingénieux meurtriers de Crimes parfaits, prêts à tout pour ne pas se faire démasquer, au cours des 32 épisodes de la série.

Puisque chaque enquête repose sur un meurtrier, connu dès le début de l'épisode à la manière de Columbo, qui pense avoir commis le crime parfait.

Au fil des ans, cinq duos d'enquêteurs se sont partagés les épisodes de la série, en alternance : Isabelle Gélinas et Arthur Mazet, Antoine Duléry et Elisa Ruschke, Philippe Caroit et Garance Thénault, Julie Ferrier et Wendy Nieto, et Isabel Otero et Hubert Roulleau.

Et c'est justement cette abondance de héros qui, à en croire les déclarations d'Anne Holmes à notre micro, a en partie causé l'arrêt de Crimes parfaits, qui rejoint ainsi Police de caractères, Prière d'enquêter et la collection Crime à… avec Florence Pernel et Lola Dewaere au rang des fictions policières auxquelles France 3 a décidé de mettre un terme.

"Il y en a eu beaucoup", nous avouait Anne Holmes, la directrice des programmes et directrice de la fiction de France Télévisions, en septembre dernier en faisant référence au grand nombre d'épisodes de Crimes parfaits.

"Sur cette série j'ai un peu un regret : parce que ça marchait bien, on a repris les mêmes duos d'enquêteurs à chaque fois. Donc on avait en fait quatre séries : la série avec Philippe Caroit, la série avec Isabelle Gélinas, la série avec Julie Ferrier, … Et à un moment donné, je pense qu'il y a eu trop de duos. On n’avait plus forcément la place pour toutes ces versions de la même série".

Joli succès sur France 3, Crimes parfaits, qui réunissait encore 5,2 millions de téléspectateurs lors de sa dernière diffusion en décembre 2021, ne s'arrête donc pas en raison de scores décevants, mais plutôt dans une optique de renouveler l'offre de fictions policières de France Télévisions. Anne Holmes ajourant : "Si on veut lancer des pilotes, il faut arrêter certaines fictions".

Après la diffusion de A l'instinct début février, pensé comme un pilote ayant vocation à potentiellement devenir une série, France Télévisions possède également en stock un autre pilote, Les François, porté par Samuel Labarthe et Sylvie Testud. Tandis que Simon Coleman, Poulets grillés et Les Pennac reviendront prochainement pour de nouveaux épisodes en raison de leur succès.

Bref, malgré l'arrêt de Crimes parfaits ou de Prière d'enquêter, les amateurs de fictions policières auront de quoi faire sur France 2 et sur France 3 dans les mois à venir. D'autant plus que Capitaine Marleau, Astrid et Raphaëlle, César Wagner ou Alex Hugo continuent de plus belle.

[companion-showdown]

Almost/Could have been Companion: Nominations

It's nomination time: Who is the Best Almost Companion

Who would you like to have seen become a companion?

Rules:

Must have met the Doctor

I know Jago and Litefoot are popular but I am not including anyone from Talons as a matter of principle

Not someone you could already call a companion (some exceptions may be made on a case by case basis) (if they are TV characters who are companions only in the EU that will be allowed)

Not necessary, but ideally someone who would have said yes in the right circumstances

There's no other restrictions on the kinds of characters to include, just anyone you wanted to come on further adventures in the TARDIS

Nominations will close in 24 hours (17:15 BST (UTC+1), 13/10)

Current list under the cut because it is already very long and only going to get longer

60s

Cameca (The Aztecs)

Jenny (The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Bret Vyon (The Daleks Master Plan)

Anne (The Massacre)

Sam Briggs (The Faceless Ones)

Isobel (The Invasion)

Fariah (Enemy of the World)

Astrid Ferrier (Enemy of the World)

Ping-Cho (Marco Polo)

70s

Miss Hawthorne (The Daemons)

Bellal (Death to the Daleks)

Lish Toos (The Robots of Death)

D84 (Robots of Death)

Rodan (The Invasion of Time)

Duggan (City of Death)

80s

Todd (Kinda)

Richard Mace (The Visitation)

Will Chandler (The Awakening)

Chela (Snakedance)

Norna (Frontis)

Janet (Terror of the Vervoids)

The DJ (Revelation of the Daleks)

Ray (Delta and the Bannermen)

Mags (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

Shou Yuing (Battlefield)

Sabalom Glitz (Various)

Rachel (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Allison (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Gustave Lytton (Resurrection of the Daleks, Attack of the Cybermen)

EU

Ruby Duvall

Cousin Justine (Met the Doctor in Alien Bodies)

The Duke of Wellington (multiple encounters)

Irving Braxiatel (the Doctor’s Brother, and a Jerk)

Koschie (Academy era Master)

Millennia and Rallon

Narvin

Alan Turing

Hal Bishop

Abslom Dakk

Carolyn McConnell (Vampire Science)

Alex Campbell (the dead one not the alternate version who travels with the doctor)

Bounce (Year of Intelligent Tigers)

Karl Sadeghi (Year if Intelligent Tigers)

Scarlette (Adventures of Henrietta Street)

Leonardo da Vinci (Various)

Jason Kane

Jack Springheel

Peter Summerfield

RTD

Jabe (The End of the World)

Harriet Jones (Aliens of London / World War Three

Lynda (Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways)

Mrs Moore (Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

Jake (Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel & Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

Sally Sparrow (Blink)

Timothy (Human Nature / The Family of Blood (could have his name wrong))

Joan Redfern (Human Nature / The Family of Blood)

Professor Yana (Utopia)

Chan Tho (Utopia)

Tom (The Last of the Time Lords / The Sound of Drums)

Astrid Peth (Voyage of the Damned)

Alonzo (Voyage of the Damned)

Ross (The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)

Jenny (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Hath Peck (The Doctor’s Daughter)

Rosita (The Next Doctor)

Lady Christina de Souza (Planet of the Dead)

Adelaide Brooke (The Waters of Mars)

Elton Pope (Love and Monsters)

Simm!Master

Agatha Christie (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Jethro (Midnight)

Jacobi!Master

Dee Dee (Midnight)

Moffat

Nasreen Chaudry (The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood)

Craig Owens (The Lodger & Closing Time)

Kazran (A Christmas Carol)

Abigail (A Christmas Carol)

Canton Everette Deleware III (Day of the Moon)

Rita (The God Complex)

Lorna (A Good Man Goes to War)

Madge Arwell (The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe)

Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

John Riddell (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Nefertiti

Petronella Osgood (Various)

Kate Stewart (Various)

Madame Vastra (Various – The Paternoster Gang)

Jenny (Various – The Paternoster Gang)

Strax (Various – The Paternoster Gang)

Journey Blue (Into the Dalek)

Psi (Time Heist)

Saibra (Time Heist)

Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Express)

Courtney Woods (Kill the Moon)

Rigsy (Flatline & Face the Raven)

Maebh (In the Forest of the Night)

Shona (Last Christmas)

Cass (Under the Lake / Before the Flood)

Me (The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived & various)

Missy (Various)

Heather (Pilot & The Doctor Falls)

Erica (Pyramid at the End of the World)

Danny Pink

Ada Gillyflower (The Crimson Horror)

Shona (Last Christmas)

Chibnall

Bel (Flux)

Vinder (Flux)

Claire (Flux)

Jericho (Flux)

Ada Lovelace (Spyfall)

Ronan (The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Nikola Tesla (Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror)

Spinoffs

Luke Smith (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Clyde Langer (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Rani Chandra (The Sarah-Jane Adventures)

Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)

Ianto Jones (Torchwood)

Tosh Sato (Torchwood)

[therealvagabird]

The Island of Buyan

A fairy tale in the Slavic style, by C. Christiansen. A faithful recreation of ancient folk stories, featuring the villain Koschei the Deathless. Initially written for my college course.

Once in a rural village, neither then nor now, neither here nor there, there lived a family of peasants. The mother and the father were farmers, and had three sons. The eldest was quite strong, and became a ferrier for the army. The middle child was clever, and kept stocks and records in the town hall. The youngest, Ivan, was neither strong nor good with books and numbers. He sat on the stove all day, grooming himself and idling away.

Eventually, his mother reprimanded him. “When are you going to leave the home, Ivan? You need a wife, you need money, and yet you sit here preening all day!”

Ivan considered this, and was in the middle of thinking when a small bird perched on the windowsill.

“Go, go, young Ivan! To far Buyan, on the silver sea! Princess Carola seeks a groom!”

“A princess?” Ivan gawked, “But why should a princess want to marry me?” but then he thought, “Well, my brothers may be stronger and better learned than me, but I am neither weak nor slow. I’ve a fair temper, and fairer looks. Perhaps I have a chance!”

And so, thinking it his best hope, Ivan set out the next day with a pack on his back and what money he could spare. He journeyed to the shores of the silver sea, past the borders of the Thrice-Ninth Kingdom in the Thrice-Tenth Lands. He walked for many days, and was very tired when he reached the coast. Still, his wit and charms were enough to buy a small boat for cheap, and he set out rowing into the open ocean.

He rowed for as long as he had walked, and grew even more tired. Raising his arms in despair, he called to the winds.

“Oh, cruel fate! How much longer must I row to reach Buyan? My arms are tired, my legs are tired, and I’ve naught but half a loaf of dry bread left!”

And the spirits on the wind heard his cries. They swooped down and pushed in a heavy gale, sending Ivan’s boat onwards until it reached the island of Buyan. It was a mystical place, with a town that sparkled with moonlight, with a great mansion above. The forests were dark and green, and the fields wide and covered in blue grass.

Grateful for his luck, Ivan left his boat and went up to the shining village. He asked about where he might find the beautiful Princess Carola.

“Why, if only you’d gotten here a day sooner!” one villager remarked, “She’s been engaged already.”

“To who?” Ivan demanded, frown on his face.

“Tsar Koschei! He came in on a black horse, right over the waves, and swept up our good Princess to wed! She had no say in the matter.”

“And where is this Koschei?” Ivan inquired.

“Staying up in the royal villa, on top of the hill.” The peasant pointed to the majestic house.

“Well.” Thought Ivan aloud, “I will have to go up and duel this Koschei. Kidnapping Princesses won’t do! And I wanted to marry sweet Carola!”

“Oh, but you can’t duel him.” Warned the villager, “Koschei is deathless. He can’t be killed, not without his death.”

And so Ivan asked where he might find this death, but nobody knew. So he left, heading out to the forest for some peace and quiet so he could plan.

“Where oh where to find this death? Where do you find a death? Is it in the air? Hanging from a tree? Oh, I wish I knew!”

And one tree heard him, an old apple tree. It rustled and shook an apple right at Ivan’s head.

“Hey, what are you doing, tree?” Ivan rubbed at the bruise.

“You seek something? Perhaps I could help, if only you ask.” The tree spoke.

“I do ask, if you please.” Ivan informed it, “I seek the death of Tsar Koschei.”

“Ah, but you seek his soul! Koschei’s soul is as frail as a candle’s flame, but death cannot come to him so long as it stays hidden. And so he buried it in an iron chest, here on this very island. Go to where the amber stream leaves the green forest, and runs across the blue grass to the silver sea. There his chest is buried.”

Ivan thanked the tree graciously, and set off with nothing more than a hand-spade for digging. He found where the amber-colored stream left the green shadows of the forest, and ran across the blue meadows down to the silver sea, and began to dig. It was a tough job, but he couldn’t let Carola be married before he found Koschei’s death. Before the next morning’s sun rose, his spade clanked against the hard top of an iron chest. He pulled it out of the black soil, and turned the latch that sealed it shut.

Before Ivan had a chance to look inside, a hare jumped from the chest, running off across the fields and out of sight. When Ivan looked in the chest, there was nothing.

Just then, lightning flashed and Ivan looked in fear to the skies. A black horse rode down, with a man astride it. The man was thin as a rail, so thin you could see his bones. He had a great beard, a crown of bronze, and a cloak of white fur.

“What are you doing, child? Digging up my chest? You should leave such things well alone!” Tsar Koschei the Deathless snapped at Ivan.

“So you are Koschei? You seek to marry Princess Carola, but I was supposed to marry Carola! You listen, old man: such a beautiful girl can’t marry one like you! I’ll save her!”

“You certainly will not.” Koschei grumbled, “You will leave Buyan and you will not come back. I am to marry the Princess in three days, and I can’t have you interrupting. As such, I will give you three days to pick up and leave this island. If you fail to do so, I will strike you dead!” and Koschei drew forth a great black sword, and lightning flashed again. Ivan fled while Koschei laughed.

Later in the day, Ivan sat on a stump and looked up to the white mansion high on the far away hill above the town.

“Oh Carola! You could have married me, but now you’re set to marry that old corpse. How am I to catch that hare? Koschei’s death must be hidden with it, and yet I am not fast enough, nor do I know how fix a snare!”

Just then, a small bird perched on a branch above, and spoke in a familiar voice.

“Young Ivan, young Ivan! You’ve come to wed the Princess!” the bird exclaimed.

“I did, but now I can’t. I cannot catch the death of Tsar Koschei!” Ivan told the bird.

“Go, go, young Ivan. Back to where the chest is buried. A hare lives inside, yes? When it tries to flee, I will turn into a great raven and catch it!”

Ivan was astounded and thanked the bird, heading back to where the amber stream left the green woods, and snaked across the blue meadows into the silver sea. He took his spade, and knowing where the chest was this time he dug and dug. Koschei had buried it deeper than before, but still he managed to find it by the next morning. He turned the latch on the chest, and the hare leapt out, dashing across the meadows. With a rawking caw, a great black raven swooped down and grabbed the hare, tearing it open with its beak. But just then, with a sudden puff of fur and feathers, the rabbit vanished, and a duck took to the skies from where it had lain. The duck flew off into the skies, and lightning flashed again.

“Foolish child!” Koschei rode down on his black horse, “You invite death! I would kill you early, if I did not have my honor! Leave Buyan! Leave my chest alone! And do so before my wedding, or I my sword will drink your blood!” Ivan was terrified at his wrath, and fled again, running off into the forest.

The next day, Ivan was thinking hard. He could not leave until he had the Princess, though he was not keen on dying.

“How to catch that duck? I have no bow, I have no net! What to do?”

And it was then he heard a whisper on the breeze, and saw the faces of several spirits swirling about him. They were fair, not ghostly, and sang like the ocean winds.

“Spirits! Will you help me again? My gratitude would be unending! I must have the death of Koschei, for the sake of the good Princess!”

The spirits nodded in silence, and fluttered back to the skies.

That night, Ivan returned to where the chest had been buried again, following the amber stream until it left the green forest to meander down the blue fields into the silver sea. He spotted where the chest was buried, and saw there was a big stone resting on top of it. It was a great burden, but with all the might he could muster, Ivan shifted the stone aside and set about digging down, down, down to find the iron chest.

When he pulled it up, he undid the latch, and the hare came darting out. Before it could run away, the raven swooped down for its meal. When the black bird tucked into the rabbit, the duck sprang forth and took to the skies. But then a great gale swept in, and sent the duck spiraling towards the ground. Ivan grabbed the bird, and as it squawked it laid a single, glowing egg. Ivan let go of the duck and grabbed the egg, cracking it open to find a fine sewing needle. In the eye of the needle flickered a little blue flame.

Lightning parted the skies, and Koschei rode down on his horse in a fury, black sword drawn.

“Fool! What are you doing?!” he demanded, but then saw the needle in Ivan’s fingers.

“You are finished, Koschei, and Carola is free!” and with that he blew out the flame in the needle.

“NO!” but Koschei’s bones flew away like smoke, and he was gone.

Ivan marched up to the royal villa, and found Carola there. He proclaimed Koschei had met his death, and that he wished to marry her. The gracious princess agreed, and the two were married but the next day. They sailed back across the sea on a beautiful ship, to the Thrice-Ninth Kingdom in the Thrice-Tenth Lands, where stood the palace of the Princess’ father, the good Tsar. They lived there for many long years in prosperity and health, with treasures all about them. I saw it! I was there! I drank beer—but it all flowed down my moustache, and none went in my mouth!

[upslapmeal]

Fury from the Deep

“I’m going to watch some classic who every night once I’m back in the uk” Incy you’re a filthy liar and you know it. Anyway this is another one I forgot to make notes for so it’s gonna be brief.

WEED

weed is bad kids it takes over your body and makes you live in a bubble bath

that’s the last entirely missing serial!!!

poor Victoria I didn’t know this was going to be her last serial but I guessed it would be a couple of eps in

it just all got a bit much for her I suppose

“it’s her life so her decision” *Susan glaring in the background* *Ian and Barbara glaring in the background but for the opposite reason*

(also in light of umm.....recent lies comments about the First Doctor being from the 60s so being a bit chauvinist can I just mention that this is also from the 60s)

Victoria’s scream was weaponised and saved the day!

anyway goodbye Victoria I’ll miss you

and RIP Deborah Watling :(

Astrid Ferrier mention!

*12 almost kills everyone in a helicopter* “ooh I didn’t know you could do a loop-the-loop in a helicopter”

man why didn’t I make notes I’ve forgotten all the things I wanted to say while I was watching

I don’t know anything about The Wheel in Space but I’m guessing this is where we meet Zoe?

[ramon-salamander]

The Timeline

NOTE: Dates are subjective depending on what others think, but are canon as far as stuff on this blog is concerned. Some are also approximations from given information, and what is the Mun's own headcanon. She is also working under the assumption most everyone reading this has at least a basic understanding of The Enemy of the World's plotline, and so she will try to keep that part of the timeline as brief as possible.

NOTE 2: Mun has also tried her best to list any events that should be notable and important and not just completely random (otherwise there would be plenty of useless information here).

NOTE 3: Some dates are very intentional, but also serve mostly to giggle at them.

AUGUST 13, 1875: Eztli Pérez, the second son of a corrupted business owner, is born in Progreso.

JUNE 25, 1894: Eztli is reported missing by his two siblings, while his father seems indifferent to the situation.

MARCH 28, 1895: Enough evidence is amounted against Mr. Pérez to find him responsible for his son's disappearance. However, Eztli is never found.

MARCH 25, 1982: Ramón Salamander is born in Merída.

JULY 1986: Ramón falls severely ill during a family trip. Eztli awakens within Ramón's conscious in this time period as well, but it is debatable if the illness caused the awakening or vice versa.

OCTOBER 1986: Ramón becomes aware of Eztli's presence within his mind. The being terrifies him, usually to tears, and it takes all Ramón has to not let Eztli get to him too bad.

MARCH 1988: Ramón, tired of Eztli's terrorizing, informs his parents, who dismiss his claims as him just having an over-active imagination. Eztli somehow manages to convince Ramón of this as well, and the child does his best to ignore the entity.

DECEMBER 1991: A noise disturbs the household in the night. Ramón investigates, only to find his father standing over his mother's body. His father turns on him for discovering the sight and Eztli, experiencing deja vu, takes over and fights back in the boy's stead, ultimately disposing of Mr. Salamander. Eztli uses his presence to suppress Ramón's memory of the night, and thus hides the truth from him for years to come.

FEBRUARY to JULY 2010: Ramón moves to England. Somewhere in this period, he begins work on developing the SunStore, and encounters Giles Kent in a pub in Sussex. Kent fills his head with talk of world domination, of stomping out those who had ever believed he was meant for nothing but failure and dismay. Deep in Ramón's conscious, having been silent for many years, Eztli stirs and begins to form a plan and slowly begins taking control.

DECEMBER 23, 2020: Ramón begins showing the SunStore to various corporations, hoping for a bite. He is unaware at this point that at least that 50% of his actions are not actually his own.

FEBRUARY 2025: The work on the underground shelter concludes, and Giles Kent begins the 'endurance tests'. Ramón, though unaware that he is fully under Eztli's control, arrives after Kent leaves to check something above ground, beginning the whole panic about the 'nuclear war' above ground.

NOVEMBER 23, 2025: The SunStore officially launches, to worldwide satisfaction and acclaim.

2025-2026: Ramón lets the success gained from the SunStore get to his head, and Eztli seizes the opportunity to take full control, subduing Ramón's conscious to the point he can do nothing but watch what Eztli does as an outsider looking in. It's also in this timeframe that Eztli decides that his host's last name is ironic---an old legend does tell, after all, of a lizard that could live in fire---and so prefers to be called Salamander, rather than being addressed as Ramón's name. Somewhere in this timeframe, Kent also becomes Security Commissioner for the North African and European zones.

JULY 2026 to SEPTEMBER 2028: Mikhail Assevski, Lars Helvig, John Freremont, and several others die under mysterious circumstances after meeting with either Salamander or his deputy Theodore Benik.

MARCH 2029: Salamander turns around whatever 'evidence' Kent holds on him to make it seem like Kent is the dangerous one, and so Kent is discredited, vowing revenge.

MAY 2029: Donald Bruce is appointed World Security Controller. Around this same time, Jean Ferrier disappears, also after having met with Salamander, and his daughter Astrid teams up with Giles Kent with the intention of exposing Salamander for his crimes. Little does she realize the truth of what happened between Kent and Salamander, and how angry Kent is because of it...

JANUARY 29, 2030: The Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria land on a beach in Australia, and are hunted down due to the Doctor's shocking physical resemblance to Salamander. They are rescued by Astrid, who takes them to see Kent, and the two plead for the group's help in bringing Salamander down. They reluctantly agree, and Jamie and Victoria head to the Central European Zone to assist Astrid while the Doctor stays with Kent. Things do not go as planned, and both Alexander Denes (the zone’s controller and Salamander's next target) and his deputy Nicholas Fedorin die.

JANUARY 30, 2030: Salamander arrives back in Australia with Jamie and Victoria as prisoners, none too pleased at what having a doppelgänger on the loose can mean. (Ramón also begins to fight against Salamander's control over him much fiercer than before, seeing the demon's distraction as an opportunity; it's only when Salamander's food taster Fariah Neguib dies in the effort to catch Kent, Astrid, and the Doctor that he begins to gradually succeed, and even manages to break through momentarily.) He returns to the people in the underground shelter, only to eventually be nearly caught in a web of lies when Patrick Swann finds a piece of newspaper that untangles the web. Salamander disposes of him and hides in the labyrinth of tunnels as the Doctor tries to help show Bruce what is going on.

JANUARY 31, 2030: Astrid finds Swann, and subsequently the shelter. Kent ultimately breaks into Salamander's sanctum and, after exposing his true intentions to the Doctor and Astrid (as well as Colin Redmayne and Mary Smith, two people from the shelter, and inadvertently Bruce), escapes into the tunnels as well, where Salamander confronts and shoots him. Kent, weak and dying, flees to where they had years earlier rigged explosives and sets them off, dying in the process. Salamander somehow manages to make it out barely alive but heavily injured. He makes it to the TARDIS where Jamie, thinking it was the Doctor, brings him inside, but his cover becomes blown when he motions for Jamie to start the machine. The Doctor appears, and a fight ensues that ends with the TARDIS taking off with her doors open, Salamander being cast out into the Time Vortex in the process.

WARNING: It is at this point that a timeline split occurs. Timeline Split 1 is the blog's main canon, while Timeline Split 2 is an alternate canon. This is done so we could still fit The Heralds of Destruction into this fustercluck of a blog, and still have fun in the process. Both splits, however, share one common factor: Ramón and Salamander are merged as one being until a year after the events described, but will be referred to as the latter for simplicity's sake.

TIMELINE SPLIT 1

????: Salamander actually dies within the Vortex as the result of a combination of his injuries and the pain the Vortex causes. He is ultimately found by the Horror, and Father Kreiner takes him to use as a guinea pig for experiments. Somehow, being taken into the group's base revives him, and he is horrified at what he sees being done to him. Salamander suffers through a year of torture thanks to Father Kreiner, and the experience ultimately breaks him to the point that when he gets out after roughly one year when going by a biological clock, he is willing to do whatever it takes to not have to go back for any period of time, even becoming repentant.

TIMELINE SPLIT 2

FEBRUARY 19??: Salamander is sent on the same course that the TARDIS was, and lands not long after our friends do in England during the Great Intelligence's invasion. He sets about doing what he can using only what is in his pockets, and thanks to some very questionable decisions this Mun still cannot quite grasp, is able to get rich quick off of his technology.

19??: At some point, he learns the Doctor, living under a new face, is under the protection of UNIT and plants devices undetectable to most to spy on him. His nanomachines begin to cause mayhem, and he disguises himself as the Doctor who resembles him, in order to get closer to how the TARDIS functions as a time machine. he succeeds, leaving them behind under the guise of the "Brigadier" (really the Master in disguise) having to just trust him. Things escalate, and the Doctor eventually realizes what is going on. UNIT, along with the Master, head to the corporation Salamander works with, and try to infiltrate, only to arrive just slightly too late. Salamander flips some stuff and off they go through the Vortex.

1868: Salamander escapes UNIT's clutches thanks to the nanomachines. He sets off to the House of Parliament, intending on convincing them to let him usher in a new age of technology. UNIT arrives right before he can succeed, and a fight ensues once more. (The Mun still thinks Brig should have shot him in the ass.) Eventually the Doctor succeeds in jamming the nanomachines and Salamander, in his frustration, attempts to choke him. It doesn't work out too well, and the Doctor hit s a pressure point in his neck that knocks him out.

19??: Salamander ultimately escapes after utilizing a few of the nanomachines that were not confiscated.

[cleowho]

“So, you’re a doctor?”

The Enemy of the World - season 05 - 1968