#captain frobisher

[legok9]

Doctor Who + stories "written" by their actors

Harry Sullivan's War by Ian Marter

The Age of Chaos by Colin Baker

Exodus Code by John Barrowman (and Carole E. Barrowman)

Scratchman by Tom Baker (and James Goss)

The Dark River by Matthew Waterhouse

At Childhood's End by Sophie Aldred (Mike Tucker, and Steve Cole)

The Ruby's Curse by Alex Kingston (and Jacqueline Rayner)

The Evil of the Daleks by Frazer Hines (Mike Tucker, and Steve Cole)

Death in the Stars by Bonnie Langford (and Jacqueline Rayner)

[youremyonlyhope]

It is truly a shame that Jack Harkness never got to meet Twelve.

[smilingaspera]

Alright so the first time the 456 came to earth they asked for like 10 kids (I don’t remember the number) and one of them got away so they only got 9 kids and they were like ok no big deal don’t worry we’re leaving in peace. From their point of view the humans didn’t respect their end of the deal and they were just fine with it? Did I miss something?

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

I know there is something... very distracting going on with that last page, and believe me I'll get to it... but more importantly, the other shoe drops with Courtney... in issue number 5 of this book we were shown that someone had come to replace her, and there was a faint outline of an ashed body on the floor, and this is confirmation that it was Sat-Yr-9 who did it.

Now the elephant in the room.... yeah, Jamie is back, and they still have not got this dude some clothes, so he is once again just running around in his banana hammock, like man, someone needs to buy this guy some pants...

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[dw-companion-bracket]

DW Companion Bracket - Round 2

[companion-showdown]

Who is the best companion to get intoxicated with?

this tournament was suggested anonymously

GRAND FINAL

Ace McShane vs Donna Noble

SEMI FINALS

Ace McShane vs Wilfred Mott

Jack Harkness vs Donna Noble

QUARTERFINALS

Ace McShane vs Jamie McCrimmon

Wilfred Mott vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Iris Wildthyme

previous rounds under the cut

ROUND 4

Ace McShane vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Jamie McCrimmon

Wilfred Mott vs Liz Shaw

Dan Lewis vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs The TARDIS

ROUND 3

Ace McShane vs River Song

Charley Pollard vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Dodo Chaplet

Rose Tyler vs Jamie McCrimmon

Delgado!Master vs Wilfred Mott

Romana II vs Liz Shaw

Barbara Wright vs Dan Lewis

Frobisher vs Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Martha Jones

Polly Wright vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Koschei

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Bernice Summerfield

Clara Oswald vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs Romana I

The TARDIS vs Tegan Jovanka

ROUND 2

Day 2

Jack Harkness vs Liv Chenka

Martha Jones vs Alan Turing

Polly Wright vs Mel Bush

Chris Cwej vs Irving Braxiatel

Madam Vastra vs Jason Kane

Koschei vs McQueen!Master

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Narvin

Ruth Leonidus vs Jo Grant

Donna Noble vs Vislor Turlough

Bernice Summerfield vs Steven Taylor

Wolsey vs Clara Oswald

Clarence the Angel vs Missy

Iris Wildthyme vs Karra

Romana I vs Romana III

Compassion vs The TARDIS

Hebe Harrison vs Tegan Jovanka

Day 1

Ace McShane vs God the Computer

Evelyn Smythe vs River Song

Sabalom Glitz vs Charley Pollard

Miranda Who vs K9

Ruby Sunday vs Hex Schofield

Dodo Chaplet vs Panna

Vicki Pallister vs Rose Tyler

Peri Brown vs Jamie McCrimmon

Delgado!Master vs Fitz Kreiner

Wilfred Mott vs Leela

The Brigadier vs Romana II

Liz Shaw vs The Black Dalek Leader

Barbara Wright vs Nyssa

Lucie Miller vs Dan Lewis

Father Kreiner vs Frobisher

Amy Pond vs Bill Potts

ROUND 1

(too many links for the post to work but all matches under the tag intoxication: round 1)

Day 1

Ace McShane vs Adric

Tegan Jovanka vs Victoria Waterfield

Delgado!Master vs Aris

Jo Grant vs Sutekh

Jamie McCrimmon vs Kamelion

Barbara Wright vs Harry Sullivan

The Black Dalek Leader vs Mother Francesca

Irving Braxiatel vs Elspeth (Where Angels Fear)

Iris Wildthym vs Peter Summerfield

C'rizz vs God the Computer

Romana III vs Carmen Yeh

McQueen!Master vs Mr Crofton

Wolsey vs Sam Bishop

Jack Harkness vs Rory Williams

Bill Potts vs Mickey Smith

Donna Noble vs Ryan Sinclair

Day 2

K9 vs Grace Holloway

Sabalom Glitz vs Sara Kingdom

Polly Wright vs Mike Yates

The Brigadier vs Morbius

Panna vs Varsh

Vicki Pallister vs Karuna

Father Kreiner vs Cousin Anastasia

Alan Turing vs Captain Magenta

Compassion vs Jack McSpringheel

Evelyn Smythe vs Renée Thalia

Frobisher vs Sabbath Dei

Narvin vs Lola Denison

Ruby Sunday vs Ianto Jones

Missy vs Yasmin Khan

Madam Vastra vs Sally Sparrow

Dan Lewis vs Graham O'Brien

Day 3

Steven Taylor vs Ben Jackson

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Zoe Heriot

Leela vs Ian Chesterton

Soldeed vs Vislor Turlough

Tremas vs Peri Brown

Dodo Chaplet vs Duggan

Bernice Summerfield vs Pandora

Koschei vs Valarie Lockwood

Lucie Miller vs The War King

Charley Pollard vs Joseph (The Doomsday Manuscript)

Miranda Who vs Eliza

Chris Cwej vs Adrian Wall

Death's Head vs Hebe Harrison

Jane Austen vs Amy Pond

River Song vs Gwen Cooper

The TARDIS vs Beep the Meep

Day 4

Romana II vs Chang Lee

The Three Who Rule vs Liz Shaw

The Kandyman vs Nyssa

Sergeant Benton vs Karra

Mel Bush vs Susan Foreman

Romana I vs Erato

Jason Kane vs V.M.McCrimmon

Clarence the Angel vs Scarlette

Hex Schofield vs Cousin Justine

John (Another Girl, Another Planet) vs Liv Chenka

Ruth Leonidus vs D'Eon

Fitz Kreiner vs The Original Golden Dalek Emperor

Martha Jones vs Bannakaffalatta

Wilfred Mott vs Toshiko Sato

Rose Tyler vs Vincent van Gogh

Clara Oswald vs Nardole

links to previous tournaments

[lesbicosmos]

i made a list of all the people i could think of that had multiple roles in the whoniverse and damn this show rly likes reusing cast members

peter capaldi

12th doctor

caecilius (4x02: the fires of pompeii)

john frobisher (torchwood: children of earth)

karen gillan

amy pond

soothsayer (4x02: the fires of pompeii)

freema agyeman

martha jones

adeola oshodi (2x12: army of ghosts)

eve myles

gwen cooper

gwyneth (1x03: the unquiet dead)

anjli mohindra

rani chandra (sja)

queen of the skithra (12x04: nikola tesla's night of terror)

julian bleach

davros

the ghostmaker (torchwood 2x10: from out of the rain)

the nightmare man (sja 4x01/02: the nightmare man)

mark gatiss

richard lazarus (3x06: the lazarus experiment)

danny boy (5x03: victory of the daleks)

gantok (6x13: the wedding of river song)

captain lethbridge-stewart (2017 special: twice upon a time)

david bradley

solomon (7x02: dinosaurs on a spaceship)

first doctor (2017 special: twice upon a time)

bradley walsh

graham o'brien

elijah spellman (sja 2x03/04: the day of the clown)

dan starkey

strax

several other sontarans

ian the elf (2014 special: last christmas)

chipo chung

chantho (3x11: utopia)

fortune teller (4x11: turn left)

miriam margolyes

beep the meep (voice) (the star beast)

leef apple glyn slitheen-blathereen (voice) (sja 3x06: the gift)

adjoa andoh

sister jatt (2x01: new earth)

francine jones

vinette robinson

abi lerner (3x07: 42)

rosa parks (11x03: rosa)

alexander armstrong

reg arwell (2011 special: the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe)

mr smith (voice) (sja)

[mercurygray]

I love this prompt list!! Could I have 9. historic and 23. wind for anyone you’d like to write?

A little post-war tidbit, for Dick and Joan and a few other familiar faces.

Try as he might, he could not remember the house.

"Well, of course you don't remember it," Joan said, as if this were the most obvious thing in the world. "You never came upstairs. The most you ever saw of the inside of the Frobishers' was the Captain's study for a drink after dinner."

Dick allowed that she was right, and contented himself with pulling her a little closer and trying to find his memory of that room - just inside the front door, to the left. He remembered a chess board and a whiskey decanter, and long panoramic photos on the wall. Well, that was something, at least. His mind hadn't completely deserted him after all this time away.

It was cold, for September, with the wind coming out of the North, and the fur-lined lap robe seemed the very height of luxury here in the wide back bench seat of the saloon car. Mrs. Frobisher was, as always, a very thoughtful hostess - she'd sent the car to the station at Newbury with the robe, a flask of tea, and strict instructions that the couple were to come straight to the house so they might have time to freshen up before dinner. So for now it was just the two of them opening up their shared personal history and reminiscing fondly about Wiltshire country roads.

"You were always in and out of our rooms," Dick remembered, suddenly, as the car took them by the turning-in to the drive for Littlecote House.

"And I always had the door open when I did it," Joan pointed out. "If I'd even thought of inviting you upstairs with me the scandal would have been all over town by tea-time." She smiled privately and, looking over at him, squeezed his knee. "And I'll remind you at the time, you weren't very interested in upstairs rooms or in me, Lieutenant Winters."

"More fool me," Dick said dryly, covering her hand with his own so it might stay where it was.

"Here we are," said the driver, cutting in as politely as he could as he turned into the drive.

"Who on earth is that?" Dick asked, taking note of a tall, dark-haired man in his late twenties standing next to Captain and Mrs. Frobisher in the drive.

"That must be one of their sons," Joan said, sitting up and studying the face a little as the car pulled to a stop. "I couldn't tell you which."

Dick was glad, at least, that he wasn't the only one without answers, and contented himself with rearranging the robe away from the door so Joan might step out of the car and exchange greetings and Abigail Frobisher could admire, in this order, her hair, her coat, and her luggage, before launching into a detailed version of the itinerary that had already been decided weeks ago by letter.

"And Major Winters! So good to see you again, my dear. I don't think either of you have met Aubrey, our eldest. He was away, when you were here last."

"You make it sound like I was at school, Mother," Aubrey observed with a slight smile, stepping forward to join the group, "and not fighting the Japanese. Heard so much about you both," the younger Frobisher offered, shaking hands with both of them. Dick took note of the cane he was resting on, the slight brittleness of his smile, and tried to remember the pictures on the Captain's desk. Was it Army, or Air Forces? The detail escaped him. If he wanted to know how Aubrey Frobisher had been injured, it seemed like Dick was going to need to ask.

"All of it good, I hope," Joan joked, merely for something to say.

"The absolute best," Aubrey assured her, her hand still in his. "I was promised you were a beauty, and I'm happy to report a rare case of my mother telling the truth."

"Aubrey!" Just which part of what he'd said had raised offense with his mother was difficult to divine - she looked flushed, though whether that was from her comments about Joan or her son's about her gossip no one could say. And, too, there was a slight touch of color in Joan's cheeks too, a fact which made Dick a little warm under the collar himself.

"Shall we all go inside?" Captain Frobisher, as always, had the whole thing well in hand, interrupting before anyone got too hot. He held the door open to allow his wife and Joan into the house first, letting his son take his time with the two steps up and heading up the rear with Dick. "How are you, Major?"

"Well enough," Dick said, shaking the Captain's hand. "Keeping busy. You?"

"Can't complain," Oliver Frobisher said with a shrug. "The world keeps turning and we all turn with it. It's nice to have a full house again. Will you have a game of chess after dinner - for old time's sake? I haven't had a half-decent game since I played against your friend Nixon."

"If you want half-decent, you'd better keep waiting," Dick managed, still trying to keep his eye on Aubrey and Joan. "Nix was always a better player than me."

"Ah, well, in chess, maybe," the Captain said with a smile. "It seems to me you won the only other game worth playing." He nodded to Joan, who had finally been left alone in the hall after Mrs. Frobisher had sent her son on some errand or another, and winked.

Dick smiled gratefully and joined his wife to help take off her coat.

"Are you jealous, Mr. Winters?" Joan asked, when she'd gotten out of her scarf and helped him leave his own overcoat on the hall tree. "You have a terrible poker face."

"I'm just glad he was in Burma while you were here," Dick said quietly, his relief little-hidden now that the two of them were alone, thinking of Aubrey, and Lew, and a thousand other dark-eyed charmers. "If he'd been here I don't think I would have stood a chance."

[transthadymacdermot]

very curious abt what devlin's deal is. both wrt martin frobisher & in general. if you feel like elaborating

Devlin's deal is mostly a result of the fact that he was born and raised in the middle of nowhere in the west of ireland in the 1700s in some of the most wretched poverty in the entire country + due to experiencing this as an ambitious and admittedly rather clever boy with no prospects if he stayed was instilled with a deep self loathing and a desire to prove that he's just as "good" as the british establishment by rigidly enforcing "morality" and decrying all attempts to do something other than be part of or exactly like the british establishment (jacobinism, etc). & beyond being his specific complex + something that's been encouraged by the church this is also tied to the politics of the day -- devlin is a kenmarite, which means he wants the incorporation of wealthy catholics (& obviously he includes himself in this #classtraitor) into the protestant ascendancy and believes that enthusiastic cooperation with westminster is the way to achieving his political goals, most of which are basically identical to those of, like, edmund burke. perhaps paradoxically though he doesn't follow things thoughtlessly and can be extremely ruthless when it comes to getting what he wants, if he wants something. he rarely does, though, because pretty much his main goal in life is to get into a position of mild authority and then read books all day, and metaphorically (or not) have anyone who tries to interrupt this plan killed.

Anyway the fascination with british arctic explorers is kinda just an extension of his political beliefs; devlin thinks respectability is the path to success and by extension heaven so he has this all consuming obsession with being a respectable enlightenment man of letters and ummm well his interest in the polar regions is just the most prominent way this manifests. he wants to show that he is NOT!!!! a small minded caricature like the british government thought all Papifts were back then so he's developed this fascination with the most cutting edge exploration and politics (⬅️ which has led to an interest in seafaring in general, oceans are now battlefields &c) and science of his era, which has got to the point where it's no longer put on and he legitimately is very interested in it all + enjoys the escapism value of it, because to a certain degree he wishes HE was also a privileged british naval captain. he also wants to show that he is NOT!!!!! a morally bankrupt faction fighting drunk caricature irishman so he's also a religious fundamentalist who basically spends all day trying to torture catholicism into people even though really his own personal views aren't quite that extreme so he can hold this up as a way he defends traditional values™️. and this manifests in other ways too ofc, it influences how he dresses and the reason he frequently pretends not to even be able to pronounce names as gaeilge even though he's a native irish speaker is that he thinks it's embarrassing to be a native irish speaker for these reasons. so ummm in general his deal is that he's incredibly insecure, confused, hates himself and his life, and enjoys punching down whenever possible. hope he dies!

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

The Holy Terror

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands in a forbidding castle in a time of religious upheaval. The old god has been overthrown, and all heretics are to be slaughtered. Obviously it isn't the sort of thing which would happen there every day — just every few years or so.

Soon after the Doctor and Frobisher are hailed as messengers from heaven, they become vital to opposing factions in their struggle for power. But will they be merely the acolytes of the new order — or will they be made gods themselves?

Evil is growing deep within the crypt. And the pair soon find out that they will be lucky to escape their new immortality with their lives.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Synopsis

Chasing a metallic object through the Time Vortex, the Ninth Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler, arrive in London during the Blitz. While Rose meets "Captain Jack Harkness", the dashing Time Agent responsible for bringing the object, the Doctor finds a group of homeless children terrorised by Jamie, an "empty" child wearing a gas mask.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted  

[handfuloftime]

A playlist for Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes. (Or: What if we were gay polar explorers resorting to cannibalism while trapped in the Arctic? No, not those ones, the other ones!)

Selected lyrics below.

Then:

Black Eyes - Shearwater No light on the western shore No sign of the ships at anchor No sound but the roaring winds No warmth but the life behind the eye

Ship in a Bottle - fin Oh, captain, let's make a deal Where we both say the things that we both really feel I feel scared and I'm starting to sink And I only sink deeper the deeper I think

Stripped - Depeche Mode Let me see you stripped down to the bone Let me hear you speaking just for me

Mouth of the Devil - Mother Mother You gotta hold me down You gotta hold me back Cause I might slip away Slip into the past

Come and See - Fox Apts. See the gore on his bootshine Where he's singing in the reeds He's borne the cold, bore it often He's wading in

Love Love Love - The Mountain Goats Love love is going to lead you by the hand Into a white and soundless place

Nautical Disaster - The Tragically Hip Our conversation is as faint as a sound in my memory As those fingernails scratching on my hull

Love Like Ghosts - Lord Huron I don't feel it till it hurts sometimes Oh, go on, baby, hurt me tonight I want ours to be an endless song Baby, in my eyes, you do no wrong

Now:

Jackie - Placebo I've been waiting all this time For my man to come Take his hand in mine And lead me away to unseen shores

Wretch - Autoheart Who will save a wretch like me? Just hold me to the ground

Phantom Limb - Seeming I can feel your phantom limb Yes you hold me from within I can see you clear and close Like a camera sees a ghost

Oh Ruin - You Are Wolf She moves like snowdrift She moves likes a cold breath in the air She's like a whisper Or maybe she was never really there

Black Eyes - David Wirsig Its black eyes find you almost at once You can't hide, swim away or take air into your lungs To scream for help that won't come

Cannibal's Hymn - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals And your heart that is banging and beating And banging like a gong

The Ocean Is Your Voice - ThouShaltNot Oh, and the ocean is your voice It's howling, "Half my life is dead." And I am screaming bloody murder Breaking promises and bread

Seven Devils - Florence + the Machine You can't keep it out It's coming through the walls To devastate your heart And to take your soul

Replacement - She Wants Revenge No matter who is laying beside me All it does is make me wish it were you And if I close my eyes tight, I can almost pretend And for a moment it's as if it were true

You As You Were - Shearwater You can stand on the back of a shuddering beam With a pistol, firing shots into the air You could run in the blood of the sun’s hard rays You could drive the mountains down into the bay Or go back to the east where it’s all so civilized

The Eyes of Extinction - Seeming Come stare into the eyes of extinction with me And together we might see another burning of the dawn When it's empty up in heaven, there among the last debris Is the seed still green and tender of a life that's living on

The Hearts Filthy Lesson - David Bowie If there was only something between us Other than our clothes Something in our skies, something in our skies Something in our blood, something in our skies

Oh Death - Noah Gundersen Oh death Where is your sting

Frobisher Bay - Newman Sound Men's Choir And cold is the Arctic sea Far are your arms from me

Emerging - The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice I will sail home again Concealed among the upright walking men To know that sleeping bodies hide Sweet things inside

[autisticiantojvnes]

[ID: Eight gifs of Torchwood. Lois Habiba is standing confidently in the front of a room which includes Brian Green, the Prime Minister of the UK, and Bridget Spears, Frobisher's PA. They watch her, shocked, as she says: "I'm afraid not, sir. Right now, Captain Jack Harkness, Head of the Torchwood Institute, is in the reception of the MI5 building. So you're going to stand aside, and let him do his job. And deal with the 456. Immediately. And, er... I think that's it." She smiles. End ID]

Torchwood has been recording all these meetings. And everything that’s been said around this table, every single word spoken by every single one of you, will be made public unless you do exactly what Torchwood says. Torchwood’s been destroyed.

[torchwood-99]

The Torchwood Mash Part 10!

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Nigel's ambitions just get too big for his britches, and Sat-Yr-9 takes him out like a total chump...

[rubysundaymondaytuesday]

An Alternative Sixth Doctor Moodboard