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So, first of all, I'm running a contest, because I've never run a contest before and it sounds fun. The prize will be Volumes 1-3 of TARDIS Eruditorum (Volume 1 in its first edition state, obviously, as that's the one that exists) in ebook format.
Entering is simple - you just come up with the best possible title for a Doctor Who story in the format The _____ of the _____. Post in comments. You can go for funny or sincere, and any sort of story - judging criteria will strictly be what catches my fancy.
One interesting note, though - collaboration is encouraged; you can win just as well by tinkering with someone else's suggestion. And if a tinkered version of your suggestion wins, both you and the tinkerer will win the prize. So if someone suggested the (actually quite rubbish) title The Terror of the Giraffes, and you came along and said, "actually, I think that would be much better as The Horror of the Giraffes" then, if I agreed, both you AND the person who came up with The Terror of the Giraffes would win a set of ebooks. You thus lose nothing at all by having people tinker with your titles. You may also tinker with other tinkerings as desired.
Limit of two initial entries. Entries based on tinkering other entries are currently unlimited, though if someone annoys me I'll change that rule.
I'll post the winners on Tuesday, along with other favorites. Second of all, then, I have an idea.
Virtually everyone writing with advice for writers these days makes much of the fact that the market is changing and blah blah blah. I imagine the same is true for other creative pursuits. But there's very little information on the pragmatic reality of being a professional writer - what sort of markets and forms people's "real money" comes from, and just, broadly speaking, information on the working conditions of writers. I can find a few individual discussions - authors here or there who go into detail on their royalty statements - but the market is so idiosyncratic that a few datapoints aren't useful.
And what I really can't find are questions like, for instance, do writers tend to make their money by getting small royalty checks off multiple books that add up, do they live entirely off new releases, do they get one hit that keeps them going for a long time, or what? And how does it work for other media?
So I wanted to just set up a nice, informal survey in the hopes that I can get a bunch of answers and compile them into something that paints a decent picture of how working creators make their money. To that end, if you are a professional creator and don't mind shooting me an e-mail with the answers to a few questions, please do.
Let's define professional creator subjectively - if a significant portion of your household income comes from your creative work, you qualify. So if you sold a short story for $75 but that's it, you're below the threshold I'm interested in here, but if you've got, say, a $8k a year Etsy shop selling knitted space aliens, please do reply.
Answer as many or as few questions as you feel comfortable with as much or as little detail as you feel comfortable.
- What media do you work in? (Writing, illustration, music...)
- How would you describe your lifestyle? ("Solidly middle class," "$80k a year," "I can get dinner on the table most nights"...)
- Does your creative work provide a majority of your household income? (Yes, no, 23% of it...)
- What aspect of your creative work provided the largest share of your income last year? (Merchandise from your webcomic, writing Star Wars novels, concerts...)
- Do you own the copyright on most of your creative work? (Yes, no, some complicated middle ground...)
- What do you consider the start of your professional creative career?
- Any advice for an aspiring creator in your medium/media?
- Can I use your name, or would you like to be anonymous?
I've created a dedicated e-mail address to compile these, so please send answers to whatcreatorsdo at gmail. I don't know exactly what I'll do with the data yet - it depends on what kind of response I get. But I'll find some useful way of compiling it.
(For the moment I'm not looking to spread the word about this. If I get a decent set of answers to start I'll probably look into spreading the word, but for now I'll just take any professional creators among my regular readers and make "hey, can you get the word out about this" a project for later, and likely for a post that's not half a contest to win my ebooks.)
And, of course, as ever, how's your weekend?
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gustave 6 years ago
The Heist of the Millenium
Link | Replymatt bracher 6 years ago
The Philanthropy of the Sontarans.
Link | ReplyJoel Phillips 6 years ago
Actually a reference to the more deus ex machina endings, take your pick.
Link | ReplyEwa Woowa 6 years ago
The little england-erness of the conservative party
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
Re the market: I'm not up to "significant portion of your household income" yet, but I've been doing some research. For ebooks, there seems to be a significant amount of "long tail", as long as you produce consistently - old ones keep selling, not hugely, but significantly.
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
Also, The Kyriarchy of the Daleks, and The Empire of the Supermen.
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
This, I vote this one.
Link | Replyprandeamus 6 years ago
The Anagram of the Master
Link | ReplyEclecticDave 6 years ago
The Umbrella Hat of Rassilon
Link | ReplyProving Rassilon can beat the Doctor at his own game when it comes to headwear. Also because I suddenly want to see Timothy Dalton in an Umbrella Hat!
EclecticDave 6 years ago
The Shock Of The New
Link | ReplyThe Logic Of The Ending
Pen Name Pending 6 years ago
Well, I'm looking to be a writer in the future so I will await the survey answers just as you are. I've been waiting for this thread all week because I wanted to bring up a small discussion.
Link | ReplyFirst, though, I had an unusual Doctor Who-themed dream last night in which each student in my English class was assigned to watch a Doctor Who serial (and apparently nothing from the 80s were included) and keep track of several recurring motifs or themes or what have you. The number of things you had to keep track of depended on how many episodes were in your serial...and I had The War Games. I planned to keep track of the bad Southern accents. Someone was more unfortunate and got The Daleks' Master Plan, and I tried to explain that only 3 of those episodes existed.
Anyway, I wanted to bring up this blog's statistics, which I've found interesting. The only other new series post to make it into the Top 10 aside from "Rose" is Only Human...does anyone know why? Was it posted somewhere else? And, recently, The Chase and The Dalek Invasion of Earth have jumped up. (On the other hand, it makes sense that the Daily Mail post would be the only off-day post to be up there.)
I also noticed that the "I, Personally, Like These Posts" haven't been updated since the Virgin era. I nominate the TV movie!
Pen Name Pending 6 years ago
Can't read without hearing song...
Link | ReplyElizabeth Sandifer 6 years ago
Now that the TV Movie has fallen off the top ten it will go on the I, Personally list as soon as I update that. But right now I'm kind of staring at the whole thing because, puzzlingly, the stats there don't match Blogger's overall record of pageviews - it seems like recent page views are given slightly more credit somehow. I'm really not sure why or how, but I can find two distinct counts of pageviews for each post, and they produce very different lists.
Link | ReplyThe Chase and Dalek Invasion of Earth have been getting an oddly high amount of traffic this week, and I don't know why - there's no obvious inbound link that explains it. Probably Twitter or Facebook, which is hard to follow back.
Only Human was linked by Gareth Roberts, which created a massive traffic spike in about one hour that ensures its place on the top ten.
So basically, those lists aren't currently doing what I originally intended and I'm thus a bit puzzled by them and not sure what to do. I'm doing an overall table of contents for the blog this week, and will probably think about what an "essential posts" list should look like once that's done.
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
Heh, I love this one :D
Link | ReplyPen Name Pending 6 years ago
Well, it's nice to see that Roberts read it!
Link | ReplyBy any chance, did you link The Chase and The Dalek Invasion of Earth on Gallifrey Base when you reviewed them? That was my theory.
Elizabeth Sandifer 6 years ago
Nope. But they've got 1200 and 800 views this week respectively. Oddly, no link in my log accounts for those kinds of numbers, so I'm really at a loss for what happened there.
Link | ReplyBerserkRL 6 years ago
The Immanentization of the Eschaton.
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Horror of the Monads
Link | ReplyThe Blindness of the Monads
The Leibniz of the Monads
The Monads of Mondas
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Not-Really of the Daleks, of the Cybermen Instead
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Canticle for Leibowitz
Link | ReplyThe Word of the Hyponochroids
Terror of the Mirkins
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Clones of the Attack
Link | ReplyThe Sith of the Revenge
The Jedi of the Return
The King of the Return
The Ring of the Fellowship
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Practice of the Cactus
Link | ReplyThe Failure of the Chameleon Circuit
The Mercury of David Whitaker
The Tewwance and Bawwy Vawiety Houwah
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Edification of the Eruditorum
Link | ReplyThe Stroke of the Ego
The Stroke of the Bodily Appendage
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Terror of Cozy Fascism
Link | Reply(A Pertwee, of course)
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Whitaker of Nicolas Flamel
Link | ReplyThe Beard of Philip Sandifer
Absence of the Mustache of Philip Sandifer
The Unused Shaving Kit of Philip Sandifer
The Endless Deconstructions of Jane
The Eternal Hidden Meanings of Jane
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Nonsense of the Terminology
Link | ReplyThat Obscure Term on the Eruditorum
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Gazing of the Navel
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Smashing of the Mirrors
Link | ReplyThe Smashing of the Pumpkins
James V 6 years ago
Remembrance of the Chumblies
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Graham of the Williams
Link | ReplyThe Hinchcliffe of the Philip
The Sherwin of the Derrick
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Face on the Planet
Link | ReplyTerror of the Submarine
The Hider of the House
The Craziness of the TARDIS
Horror of the Crimson
The Last of the Cybermen / Terror of the Cyberplanner
The Tomb of the Doctor
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Nonsense of the Terminology
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Ginger of the Doctor
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
Desolation of the Daleks
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Judas of the Gospels
Link | ReplyThe Speaking of the Giant Cross
The Failed Creation of the Demiurge
James V 6 years ago
'Disappointment of the Daleks'
Link | Reply'The Diminishing Returns of the Cybermen'
(I don't know why I bother. Mark Gatiss won this contest already with 'Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday')
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Passion of the Anoraks
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
Chumbly
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Fapping of the Worm (dear god, I'm terrible...)
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Tony of the Ainley
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
I think you win.
Link | ReplyElizabeth Sandifer 6 years ago
I do too, but I also see a delightful way to improve it, and really hope someone tinkers.
Link | ReplyEwa Woowa 6 years ago
Actually what with DrWho being about the most inventive program / idea ever... how about:
Link | ReplyThe Art of Invention
Ewa Woowa 6 years ago
Oh, oh, oh!
Link | ReplyHow about:
The Deus Ex Machina of the RTD Finale?
I quite like that one if I do say so myself..
Nyq Only 6 years ago
I was going to say just "The Deus of the Machina". Heck even works as a straight title about some machine civilisations god.
Link | ReplyJohn Voorhees 6 years ago
The Haunting of the Snarkasons
Link | ReplyJohn Voorhees 6 years ago
Doctor Who and the Heartbreak of the Psoriasons!
Link | Replyelvwood 6 years ago
The Managra of the Tarmes?
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
I can't believe the first of these hasn't been taken:
Link | ReplyThe Name of the Rose
so on that theme...
The Pendulum of the Focualt
The Umberto of the Eco
The Sign of the Signified
mac 6 years ago
The Affair of the End
Link | ReplyCleofis 6 years ago
Bildungsroman of the Daleks. Dunno why that one amuses me so.
Link | Replyelvwood 6 years ago
1. The Results of the Competition
Link | Reply2. The Coracle of the Northumbrian Spokeshaver
(a spot-the-reference one for late-50s music fans)
mac 6 years ago
The Top of the Morning
Link | ReplyMatthew Celestis 6 years ago
The Felonies of the Foamasi
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
The Cancellation of the Series
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
Well on the theme of such stereotypes:
Link | ReplyTha' trouble at t' mill
The cor blimey of the guvnor
The timorousness of the beastie
The front row of the Pontypool
The haadaway of the Geordies or the The Fog of the Tyne
Nyq Only 6 years ago
Or for the episode where Rose was made into a ganger resulting in two armies of ganger Billy Pipers:
Link | ReplyThe War of the Roses
Nyq Only 6 years ago
For the Jamie Oliver guest appearance:
Link | ReplyThe Bish of the Bosh
For the Noel Fielding guest appearance:
The Might of the Boosh
Nyq Only 6 years ago
The Misogyny of the Daleks
Link | ReplyThe Patriarchy of the Cybermen
The Feminism of the Silurians
The Tokenism of the Companions
Nyq Only 6 years ago
Last comment:
Link | ReplyYou can also use the captcha prove-you're-not-a-robot words to generate these
From my last posts:
The Enonmous of the Fences
The Nisbarr of the Which
Anton B 6 years ago
The Eye of the Pyramid
Link | ReplyThe Conspiracy of the Illuminati
The Enlightenment of the Revolution
Ewa Woowa 6 years ago
That's better!
Link | ReplyI consider myself tinkered with!
(are you Jimmy Saville?)
Pen Name Pending 6 years ago
Someone must like them so much that they've repeatedly refreshed the page.
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
The Garment of Samara
Link | ReplyThe Armaments of Agar
Sadly "The Narratives of Magma" is a few letters out
thingsiambotheredby 6 years ago
The YANAgram of the Master.
Link | Reply(YANA wasn't an anagram but I couldn't resist)
prandeamus 6 years ago
The Mantras of the Megara
Link | Replythingsiambotheredby 6 years ago
I was grazing over this discussion and thought that it said that Eric Roberts had read the article about the TV Movie and I chuckled.
Link | Replythingsiambotheredby 6 years ago
The Lords of Time
Link | Replyprandeamus 6 years ago
The engrams of the tarama.
Link | ReplyThe gamester of amaranth.
(That's enough, Ed.)
David Anderson 6 years ago
I like the C. On that note,
Link | ReplyThe Remorse of the Cybermen.
The Sorrow of the Cybermen.
(Have all three ebooks already.)
prandeamus 6 years ago
The Doom of Atlantis (a multi-parter)
Link | ReplyDavid Anderson 6 years ago
The Game of the Roses.
Link | ReplyThe Crossing of the Rivers.
prandeamus 6 years ago
The Swann of Flanders!
Link | ReplyAlphapenguin 6 years ago
The Return of the Fan-Favorite Side Character.
Link | ReplyAlphapenguin 6 years ago
At last, the Doctor faces his most terrible enemy:
Link | ReplyThe Evil of the Thatcherites.
Or:
The Power of the Thatcherites.
Or:
The Vengeance of the Thatcherites.
Alphapenguin 6 years ago
Or:
Link | ReplyThe Guest Appearance of the Gay Cultural Icon.
prandeamus 6 years ago
The Unforeseen Consequences of the Blue Peter Monster Competition.
Link | ReplyAnton B 6 years ago
The Medium of the Message
Link | ReplyThe Society of the Spectacle
The Prank of the Situationists
Alphapenguin 6 years ago
Actually, better yet, it should be The Revenge of the Thatcherites, in which they're revealed to be a bit crap and nobody but their most devoted fans take them seriously.
Link | Replyprandeamus 6 years ago
The Fart of the Slitheen.
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
The Rewritten Script Because We Just Got The Rights Back of the Daleks
Link | ReplyAnna Wiggins 6 years ago
"The Beard of Philip Sandifer" has my vote.
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
Games is good
Link | ReplyThe Games of the Ratan Arm
Even better as the Games of the Ratan Armchair but I can't make "chair" work
The armrest of the saga man
prandeamus 6 years ago
The Misdirection of the Moff
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
"The Iron of the Lady" just doesn't work
Link | ReplyThe Genesis of the Neocons
The Sinking of the Belgrano - ok maybe not
The Frontiers of the State
The Enemy from Within - Thatcher wrote her own Doctor Who titles
Ununnilium 6 years ago
The Gamester of Amaranth is my favorite so far, even if it doesn't quite fit the pattern.
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
The Confusion of the Narrative
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
Ooooooh.
Link | ReplyThe Journey of the Hero
The Monoculture of the Myth
Ununnilium 6 years ago
The Revamp of the Classic Villain
Link | ReplyThe Unexpectedness of the Obscure Reference
The Increasing Youth of the Main Character
Ununnilium 6 years ago
In related subjects: The Brutality of the Teatime
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
The Marmite of the New Series
Link | Replymac 6 years ago
The Top of the Pops/The Bottom of the Barrel*
Link | Reply* these may very well be thinly veiled jabs at the season one finale.
prandeamus 6 years ago
The Revenant of Rassilon.
Link | Replyprandeamus 6 years ago
The Repeated Inclusion of the Mary-Sue
Link | ReplyThe Lord of Ábrocen Landmearca 6 years ago
The Education of the Doctor
Link | ReplyThe Fall of the Time Lords
The Lord of Ábrocen Landmearca 6 years ago
The Inquisition of the Spanish
Link | ReplyThe Lord of Ábrocen Landmearca 6 years ago
The Apocatastasis of the Gelth
Link | ReplyFroborr 6 years ago
The Death of Death, in which the Doctor meets Jesus and Cthulhu.
Link | ReplyFollowed by The Wrath of the Lamb, in which the Doctor and Cthulhu team up to stop Jesus from destroying the world.
Nyq Only 6 years ago
Does that mean Logopolis was the Vegemite of the Classic Series?
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
The Song of the Lumberjack
Link | ReplyThe Sketch of the Dead Parrot
drjon 6 years ago
Hey, Phil. This might be Relevant To Your Interests: https://mobile.twitter.com/richjohnston/statuses/342925572936183808
Link | ReplyPen Name Pending 6 years ago
(I already have the books, this is just for fun)
Link | ReplyThe Surprise of the Ending (The Cliffhanger of the Ending?)
The Plunger of the Dalek
The Techno of the Babble
The Flight of the TARDIS
The Height of the Sontarans
The Wrath of the Doctor
The Problems of the Continuity
The Sound of the Silence (Perhaps copyrighted?)
The Shakiness of the Sets
The Heat of the Rubber Suit
Pen Name Pending 6 years ago
The Master of the Anagram, perhaps?
Link | ReplyPen Name Pending 6 years ago
Aw, my comment mysteriously never poster (apparently I am being discriminated against, too). I had some just for fun, as I already have the books.
Link | ReplyThe Cliffhanger of the Ending
The Sound of the Silence
The Shakiness of the Sets
The Heat of the Rubber Suit
The Plunger of the Dalek
The Height of the Sontarans
The Mystery of the Make-Up
The Speck of Doom
The Wrath of the Doctor (on a more serious note)
Pen Name Pending 6 years ago
Two of mine disappeared today. However, they both show up on the mobile version. (The one I posted in lieu of one that got deleted, on the other hand, doesn't show up on mobile but did on desktop.)
Link | ReplyElizabeth Sandifer 6 years ago
Google's spam filter is being weird and catching many longtime posters. I'm going through several times a day to liberate comments. If yours don't show up, wait patiently or ping me on Twitter and I'll fix it.
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Kitchen of the Toymaker
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Wrath of Gilbert (a follow-up to The Happiness Patrol)
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Fugue of the State
Link | Reply(A McCoy, of course)
jane 6 years ago
The Doom of the Muttonchops
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The New Men of Sydney
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Market of the Goblins
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Thunder of the Perfect Mind
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Curse of the Skulltopus
Link | Replyjane 6 years ago
The Wheel of the Radiant
Link | ReplyJohn Toon 6 years ago
Follow-up thought on The Banality of Evil. That episode of Torchwood where Owen discovers a bunch of people running a Fight Club with those alien Weevil things? Someone really should have retitled that "The Banality of Weevils".
Link | Replythingsiambotheredby 6 years ago
The Bottom of the Night
Link | ReplyBennett 6 years ago
The Will of the Heart's Knell? (...so addictive...must stop....)
Link | Replyoverflowontology 6 years ago
Feast of the Merkins
Link | ReplyBatmanAoD 6 years ago
The Problem of Susan
Link | ReplyIG 6 years ago
The Wind of the Slitheen
Link | ReplyMore poetic ;)
IG 6 years ago
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Link | ReplyIG 6 years ago
The Catharsis of the Spurious Morality
Link | ReplyThe Cop-Out of the Ending
HarlequiNQB 6 years ago
The Anagram of Stream
Link | ReplyOr possibly
The Stream of Anagrams
elvwood 6 years ago
Congratulations! You win some metal bottle tops you can nail upside-down to your floor!
Link | ReplyAnton B 6 years ago
The Fluff of the Hartnell
Link | ReplyThe Ruse of the Fluid-Link
The Whimsy of the Troughton
The Scream of the Companion
The Ruffles ef the Pertwee
The Reversal of the Polarity
The Grin of the Baker
The Touching of the Wires
The Celery of the Davison
The Otherness of the Way
The Fashion Crimes of the Baker
The Expectation of the Someone Else
The Spoons of the McCoy
The Deviousness of the Plan
The Kiss of the McGann
The Opportunities of the Lost
The North of the Eccleston
The Grin of the Fantastic
The Hubris of the Tennant
The Worshipping of the Rose
The Fez of the Smith
The Custardy Fingers of the Fish
AuntyJack 6 years ago
The Threat of the Comfy Chair
Link | ReplyAuntyJack 6 years ago
The Bride of Borusa
Link | ReplyThe Time share of the Terileptils
The Antagonist of Entropy
Iain Matheson 6 years ago
Part 1: The Court of the Mark
Link | ReplyPart 2: The Time of Play
Froborr 6 years ago
Ha!
Link | ReplyDaniel Tessier 6 years ago
The Invasion of Tim
Link | ReplyAnd its many sequels, including Tim and the Rani, The Tim Monster and The Tim Meddler.
Robert O' Shea 6 years ago
The Kiss of the Rani
Link | ReplyThe Lovers of the Doctor
The Terror of the Krotons
The Sweetshop of the Candyman
The Greenfly of the Vervoid
The Birth of the Doctor!
The Girlfriends of the Master
The Sadness of the Voord
The Kissogram of the Daleks
Multiple Ducks 6 years ago
Not to forget the tragic "The End of Tim"
Link | Replyelvwood 6 years ago
The Exploration of the Medium
Link | Reply(A Hartnell, of course)
elvwood 6 years ago
So long as it's not
Link | ReplyThe Wiles of the Tosh
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
Heh, spin the 'joke' title on its head:
Link | ReplyAbsence of the Toclafane
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
The Pip of the Bakers
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Ring of Saint John
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
Kaleidoscope of the Tegan (see her Five Doctors outfit)
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Androgum of the Master
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Muddle of Roy Trommely and Neil Toynay ;)
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
Going with the 80s R theme:
Link | ReplyRubbish of the Daleks?
Rubbish of the Dustbins?
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
The Fanwank of Spurious Morality
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Curse of the Blue Peter Spot
Link | Replyprandeamus 6 years ago
Re: Kissogram
Link | ReplyOSCULATE
OSCULATE
OSCULATE
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
The Balls of the Ood (totally not sorry)
Link | ReplyThe Horn of the Judoon
The Cock of Erato
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
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Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Crapness of Chibnall
Link | ReplyThe Guff of Gatiss
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
The Sun Lounger of the Sontarans
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
In-keeping with names, let's not forget Pertwee's introduction: "Head from Ace"
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
Going along with "Letts Kill Hitler" (which, if I could have a choice, would be my proper entry to the competition):
Link | Reply"The Hinchcliffe of Fear"
"Ericshock"
"Cartmel and the Masterplan"
"The Erasure of the Producer" ;)
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
The Mark of the Gatiss
Link | ReplyAHHHHHH.
thingsiambotheredby 6 years ago
Unfortunately he was killed of in the EU story Death Comes to Tim.
Link | ReplyMarionette 6 years ago
The Supercity of the Beauracroids
Link | ReplyThe Inevitability of the Daleks
The Flair of the Cybermen
axonite 6 years ago
The Wrath of the Dominators
Link | ReplyThe Failure of the Quarks
The Music of the Ogrons
The Hot Air Balloon of the Daleks
The Mirror of the Borad
The March of the Gastropods
Lewis Powell 6 years ago
The Poetry of the Daleks
Link | ReplyThe Drafting of the Shadow Proclamation
Lewis Powell 6 years ago
or "The Founding of the Shadow Proclamation", since apparently the phrase refers to the governing group, rather than a foundational document for that group.
Link | ReplySpacewarp 6 years ago
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Link | ReplyLewis Powell 6 years ago
Or, in light of the rumors on the 12th regeneration (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10108234/BBC-asks-James-Bond-star-to-be-its-new-Doctor-Who.html);
Link | Reply"The Melanin-Deficiency of the TIme Lords"
"The Ever-presence of the Doctor's Y-Chromosome"
prandeamus 6 years ago
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Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
The Baker of the Colon
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
Shallowness of the Sontarans?
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
The Repeated Assertion of the Dubious Claim
Link | ReplyUnunnilium 6 years ago
I'd say it's more like the Nutella - different from everything around it, yet easy to love.
Link | ReplyTony Macklin 6 years ago
Apologies for my blatant plug, but I have just started a new blog, looking at the Doctor Who world from an autistic persons point of view. It's at dwots.blogspot.com and any comments on it would be welcome (and possibly painful, if the writing is anything to go by).
Link | ReplyPen Name Pending 6 years ago
The Aztecs just overtook Logopolis! Someone must really like Hartnell.
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
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Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The McGann of Canon
Link | Replygoatie 6 years ago
This wins my serious vote.
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
Empty Threat of the Tin Soldiers
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
Revenge of the Sofa of Reasonable Comfort
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
But he was later saved in BF's "Frozen Tim".
Link | ReplyGiven a son in "The Boy That Tim Forgot".
Lewis Christian 6 years ago
Going with the poetry joke:
Link | ReplyDaffodils of the Daleks
goatie 6 years ago
@Matthew: I suppose "The Bait of the Master" is one you're dying to post next.
Link | ReplyNyq Only 6 years ago
Because I just read the news,
Link | ReplyThe sad and untimely passing of the Iain Banks
prandeamus 6 years ago
Please deliver them to the house next door.
Link | ReplyRoss 6 years ago
Now I'm thinking back about the old 'Professor X Programme Guide' and 'Doctor Who Alternative Program Guide' websites. ('Head from Ace' was one of the latter). I was partial to the pair of Pertwee serials about Don Pell: Don Pell's Thingy and Oh Bugger, It's Don Pell. Also, the one where, due to a production error, the entire episode is in Spanish and the official episode title is "El Professor Mysterio y El Crabs Loco del Itchy-Stichy"
Link | ReplyPôl Jackson 6 years ago
The Grasp of the Grask
Link | ReplyThe Crypt of the Rani
The Feast of the Chronovores
Matthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Threat of Jane's Crazy Word-Puzzles
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Toclafane of the Absence
Link | ReplyMatthew Blanchette 6 years ago
The Grapes of Gilbert
Link | ReplyThe Apotheosis of Jane's Absurd Comments
Nicholas Tosoni 6 years ago
The The of The
Link | ReplyPen Name Pending 6 years ago
It must just have a problem with too much commenting. Google disabled my account because of "unsual activity" and had to call me (it didn't take long; the phone rang just as I entered the number) to give me a verification code. The only thing I did aside from comment here was comment on one other blog.
Link | Replyprandeamus 6 years ago
The Knot of the Mind Probe
Link | ReplyDr. Tom 6 years ago
The Wedding of Ian and Barbara
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Absence of the Toclafane
Link | ReplyLewis Christian 6 years ago
The Hiatus of Too Long (To Wait)
Link | ReplyBennett 6 years ago
How about The Eye of the Tiger?
Link | ReplyDave 6 years ago
"The End of History"
Link | ReplyThis, of course, turns out to be classic Moffat title misdirection, and in the third act Francis Fukayama is revealed to be a Slitheen.
"The Lies of the Past"
Also The Lies of the Doctor, but that's a bit straightforward, and I'm trying to set up a spatial double meaning thing with "lies". Anybody?
mac 6 years ago
The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical
Link | Replymac 6 years ago
The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical
Link | ReplyDavid Anderson 6 years ago
A Name of the Star Garm
Link | ReplySean Cunningham 6 years ago
The Empires of the Earth.
Link | ReplyJoel Phillips 6 years ago
The Obscurity of the Reference
Link | ReplyIain Matheson 6 years ago
Repeating (deletion):
Link | ReplyPart I: The Court of the Mark
Part II: The Time of Play
David Anderson 6 years ago
A Name of the Star Garm
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brownstudy 6 years ago
The History of the Universe
Link | ReplyThe Songs of the Poets
The Dark of the Moons
The Diary of a Time Lord
The Return of Ian & Barbara
The Unearthly Child of Earth
The Song of the Unearthly Child
The Doom of Rhongara
The Ravens of Ussher
The Craters of Light
The Plague of the Emboits
The Jungles of Fear
The People of the Book
The Screams of Sharda
The Blood of the People
The Verses of Ajilon
The Cathedral of Blood
The Icons of Mordru
brownstudy 6 years ago
(trying again...)
Link | ReplyThe History of the Universe
The Songs of the Poets
The Dark of the Moons
The Diary of a Time Lord
The Return of Ian & Barbara
The Unearthly Child of Earth
The Song of the Unearthly Child
The Doom of Rhongara
The Ravens of Ussher
The Craters of Light
The Plague of the Emboits
The Jungles of Fear
The People of the Book
The Screams of Sharda
The Blood of the People
The Verses of Ajilon
The Cathedral of Blood
The Icons of Mordru
Triturus 6 years ago
The Absence of the Daleks.
Link | ReplyEwa Woowa 6 years ago
Come on, hurry up!
Link | Reply(Taps tail on the table impatiently)
It's Tuesday, have I won yet?
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