#time ram

[6-and-7]

Time Ram: A Good Man Fucks Us Up

Don't be lulled by the Easy Yellow alert; this is Time Ram's darkest hour, as our hosts must find a way to make A Good Man Goes to War in the Troughton era, without any earlier Rammed stories to draw from. Lucky for me, it's now two years later, so I can confidently say that the Doctor goes to Demon's Run to rescue Polly, allied with the Silurians, the Kaldor Robots, the Robo-Pleasence, Sabalom Glitz, all of whom are now from the Hartnell era, and the Meddling Monk, who isn't! Or something like that, probably. Ben cusses out some cybermen. Susan's ring results in hyperbabies. Continuity is probably going to keep collapsing even worse now. Oh my giddy aunt...

Featuring Diana Rigg as River Song and Stephanie Bidmead as Madam Kovarian!

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[baztimeram]

Time Ram is better than a Time War as we take our expansive Christmas extravaganza and investigate special episode ‘Day of the Doctor’! Packed full of frilly shirts, yellow horses heads, felt tips and Benton’s infinite cup of coffee alongside all kinds of seasonal treats. Join us for a verse or two of Surely it’s Susan.

[creep-tober]

Creeptober 21 - Weird Archtecture

Time Ram - Zero (Pr)Escher

It's the first episode of the Paul McGann era, that thrilling tale of lost fathers, treacherous brothers, and McGann's glistening abs. And what better way to kick off this action-filled American series than Castrovalva? Almost anything? Tough! The Ram says that's what we've got! So tune in for Chang Lee counting cards, dragons soaring over MC Escher cathedrals, Zero Hats, Time Lord fork lifts, and the musical stylings of Hanson. Will this be the story that gets Fox to greenlight a full series? Yeah, apparently, because there have already been six other McGann stories! Time Ram!

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[truebluewhocanoe]

Please tell me someone has done fan art of the Sixth Doctor Cyberiad with the sparkly silver coat from Time Ram's "Excellence in Silver" I am begging you

[lurking-latinist]

In twelve years or whatever it is when Time Ram finishes, I’m going to listen to the whole podcast in story order—starting with William Hartnell’s Time and the Rani or whatever it ends up being—and liveblog that

[baztimeram]

“It’s my job, remember?”

The Time Monster - season 09 - 1972

[geetimesthree]

Found out that Rick is canonically a Bubbline shipper this week.

[azuneekun]

drew my farmer althea with march (for scale)

[shushmal]

tw: for implied past emotional abuse, im in my feels today

"What the fuck were you thinking?" Hopper growls. He's not quite shouting, but he's still loud, raised voice echoing through the living room. "She's not ready to drive yet, I forbade it, and what? You two decided that you knew better?"

Eddie rolls his eyes, but gamely keeps quiet. He knows Hopper's less upset with Ellie taking a spin through the parking lot and more upset about the property damage. Eddie's on her side though, that phone pole came out of nowhere. Must have been pretty rotted out too, to fall over that easily after a little love tap.

Ellie had done a damn good job fixing the huge dent in the bumper.

But if Hopper wants to be dramatic and chew everyone involved out, Eddie's not going to stop him. Whatever gets the guy's blood pressure back down.

"You're supposed to be responsible adults! Especially you, Steve!"

Rolling his eyes again, Eddie glances over, hoping to share a commiserating look with Steve.

Except Steve isn't looking anywhere but down, shoulders and spine ruler straight. Eddie stalls there, stuck on the way Steve's standing, tense from jaw down to his ankles, his hands balled into tight fists flat at his side, knuckles white. Hopper keeps ranting, pacing a wide circle in front of them, but Steve doesn't flinch, doesn't look up, doesn't react. It's like all the color has washed from him.

"Are you even listening?!"

"Yes, sir," Steve says tightly. He doesn't look up. Hopper keeps going.

Eddie watches as Steve's throat works to swallow, like he's choking. Like he can't breathe.

"Hopper," Eddie snaps. "Shut the fuck up."

Hopper whirls on him, livid, but Eddie's not looking at him, fixed on Steve as he reaches out. Tries to take Steve's hand, just holds his wrist when Steve can't unclench his fist, gentle as he touches him. Steve is tightly wound and trembling under his fingers.

When he looks, Eddie finds Hopper with deep regret on his face, struck silent. He doesn't say anything when Eddie leads Steve away, back out onto the porch. They sit on the swing, Eddie's arm around Steve's shoulders, rocking back and forth until the muscles loosen and Steve slumps, strings cut, into Eddie's side. They'll sit like that for a while more, watching the woods as the sun sets and listening to the dusk settle, crickets and cicadas and chats calling the moon up, filling their silence with nighttime music.

Later, Hopper will come out, temper cooled, and sit on Steve's other side. Will ruffle Steve's hair when Steve starts to stiffen. Will apologize when Steve eyes him warily.

Later, Eddie will scowl and glare, but ultimately keep quiet, unwilling to make the whole thing worse for Steve, another fight, another shouting match. Will stiltedly tell Hopper good night and take Steve home, wait patiently until Steve finally speaks, when he finally tells Eddie a little more and a little more, until Eddie's holding him tight.

That's later though. For now, he digs his heel into the porch, rocking them back and forth, and waits for Steve to breathe.

[krysmcscience]

The Lamb is malicious in a funny way and the Goat is funny in a malicious way. No, I will not elaborate.

Anyway, everyone give thanks to the Lamb for interrupting what was sure to be a very boring and patronizing PSA from their grouchy cat hubby. Truly, they are doing God's work. Granted, the Lamb canonically is God now, so, uh. Mostly they're just doing their own work.

Speaking of their grouchy cat hubby, yes this is absolutely still Narilamb, Narinder is 100% into his goofy-ass spouse always no matter what and we all know it, he just wasn't expecting his brand new adopted kid to share the same single goofy-ass brain cell as the Lamb. :)

[6-and-7]

Time Ram - The Jollity Patrol

It's always Christmas on Terra Alpha. The overpowering stench of peppermint pervades the air, the Chuckle Brothers are armed with sniper rifles, and Humbugs will be shot on sight. So when that grumpy old Doctor arrives, it's not for gingerbread and Christmas cheer, but Segway chases, tonic water, and Jazz Agents. It's Theresa May, not Margaret Thatcher; Stycorax, not Sycorax; Percy Pig, not Bertie Basset*, as the Doctor and Nardole battle the Jollity Patrol.

*alt. versions with gingerbread man Kandyman below the cut, because I had a vision that wouldn't leave me. He could even say "Run, run, fast as you can, you'll never escape the Kandyman." Or words to that effect.

[baztimeram]

Time Ram takes on the 14th Doctor, David Againnant, surprisingly appearing in Peter Capaldi’s ‘The Pilot’. It’s a continuity conundrum with squeaky Mel, CG giant heads and plenty of prop facts! Somehow, we also find time to debut our 70s film series starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Unmissable!

[creep-tober]

Creeptober 17 - Strange Geometry

Time Ram - Two Flat Ladies

It's episode 69, baby! You know what that means; Turlough's getting frothy, Tegan's getting bolshy, and the TARDIS is getting smaller on the outside. That's right, the Time Ram has swapped Peters, taking Capaldi's dimensionally transcendental Flatline and transposing it into the Davison era. The TARDIS has gotten into a sticky situation, and I don't just mean from the incessant pineapple snacking; the Doctor and Turlough are trapped inside a shrunken, dying TARDIS, leaving Tegan to contend with Chromakeyed outlines, Helen Mirren's Thatcher analogue, and her Jeyes Fluid-covered granddad. It could always be worse, though; at least Tom Baker's not getting chased around by a graffiti'd cock and balls.

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[t3chborb]

Cuddling the big scary robot would save me actually.

[lurking-latinist]

Enjoying today’s Time Ram.

Would the stunt-casting cameo for the morgue attendant perhaps be Brian Miller, who has a stunt-casting cameo as the tramp with the coat in Deep Breath?

Also, just imagine the fanart that would’ve ensued if Michelle Gomez had initially been introduced as an ambulance-driving lesbian.

[marggri]