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[Ignore the previous poll if you saw it; I wanted the poll to go for a week instead of a day]

Idea stolen from @sillylotrpolls:

Counting all media, and you may take as generous a definition of companion as you like. To specify what 'number of characters' means in this context, if one character has multiple names, (fr'instance Bruce Wayne/Batman) that character only counts once. Otoh, multiple different characters with the same title, (ex. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, et. al.) might all be Robin, but they each count as separate characters.

As always, feel free to reblog for wider reach.

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naming doctor who ocs is so hard because about half of the names there are are already companions or major side characters

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for the character opinion bingo: Irving Braxiatel

ah yes, character I am most conflicted on in all of doctor who... I know too little, I know too much, when I get to the end of the Year of Braxiatel I'll be like 'eh, he's just some guy.'

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If anyone wants me to say my opinion on a character with this bingo

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Finally got around to uploading all my 2023 prompts to Ao3, so they're all in one place now, alongside 2022!

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Captains Eslo and Goben consistently break my heart. If I could draw, I'd be making a picture book of those two's story.

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*putting on a big finish dr who audio* it’s just me and my obscene noises of anguished suffering against the world

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anyway the fifth doctor has a shared language with each of his first three companions - mathematics with Adric, science with Nyssa, his beloved earth with Tegan.

But the only shared language between the group as a whole is that of loss, and that is hiding in the uneasiness behind every interaction, every fractious moment between them, why they never quite gel together as a team.

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if you travel in the tardis for more than five minutes and your fashion doesn’t go truly fucking bonkers what are you even doing

like you are travelling in time, wear the sparkly catsuit, why the fuck not

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BLOWING SO MANY KISSES I WAS WAITING FOR DOROTHY L SAYERS TO COME UP. NOW WHERE'S NGAIO MARSH????

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started the merfolk audio, showing my sharp little teeth. classics major, university town, murder mysteries. hi this is where I live.

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enlightenment is such a great dreamy masterpiece of a doctor who episode. like, what if wild blue yonder was a romance.

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no one talk to me, got to go up the local mountain tomorrow. more new five and tegan 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

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Post CoF Ace and 7 have me feeling emotions about their friendship and shared life 🥺🥺

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autumn walkies and was thinking about how for all Tegan is such a certain character - so loud and opinionated and bright and brash, she's also so very uncertain in herself. Mouth on legs, she says, as if there is very little beneath the surface. How frightened she is of the thought that the Mara could take her over again, as if she is so easy to wipe out of her own brain. But contradictorily she is also a strong personality that Kamelion latches onto. The Doctor (in audios at least) makes the comments of Tegan being more capable and more intelligent than she thinks herself. But please don't tell her I said that. Then there's that passage from an outsider's view of them in Sands of Time, 'rashness slakze of common sense, while her impulsiveness was often justified as if she had thought through her actions to a degree that belied the manner of their execution."

And then five who seems so assured, but is so often lost in who he is. Whose 'calm was often hurried and noisy, while his measured manner gave an impression of improvisation.' How others believe in him even if he doesn't in himself - the little blue boxes speech in the Pursuit of the Nightjar. Never let me forgot how lucky I am to travel with you. And then the Mara takes him over with just as much ease as it did Tegan. More, even. But he is the 'hero' of the piece, and just as lost as his longest companion. Unravelling without his anchor and dying so soon after she leaves him.

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bought a physical copy just so I can genuinely chew on it for all the emotions it has made me feel.

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catching up on my daily doctor who calendar, and that's him.... my april fool... 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺