Saturday Waffling (June 8, 2013)
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?
June 8, 2013 @ 6:55 am
The Heist of the Millenium
June 8, 2013 @ 7:07 am
The Philanthropy of the Sontarans.
June 8, 2013 @ 7:22 am
Actually a reference to the more deus ex machina endings, take your pick.
June 8, 2013 @ 7:50 am
The little england-erness of the conservative party
June 8, 2013 @ 7:58 am
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.
June 8, 2013 @ 8:08 am
Also, The Kyriarchy of the Daleks, and The Empire of the Supermen.
June 8, 2013 @ 8:17 am
This, I vote this one.
June 8, 2013 @ 8:20 am
The Anagram of the Master
June 8, 2013 @ 8:24 am
The Umbrella Hat of Rassilon
Proving 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!
June 8, 2013 @ 8:31 am
The Shock Of The New
The Logic Of The Ending
June 8, 2013 @ 8:36 am
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.
First, 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!
June 8, 2013 @ 8:37 am
Can't read without hearing song…
June 8, 2013 @ 8:40 am
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.
The 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.
June 8, 2013 @ 8:58 am
Heh, I love this one 😀
June 8, 2013 @ 9:03 am
Well, it's nice to see that Roberts read it!
By any chance, did you link The Chase and The Dalek Invasion of Earth on Gallifrey Base when you reviewed them? That was my theory.
June 8, 2013 @ 9:04 am
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.
June 8, 2013 @ 9:07 am
The Immanentization of the Eschaton.
June 8, 2013 @ 9:14 am
The Horror of the Monads
The Blindness of the Monads
The Leibniz of the Monads
The Monads of Mondas
June 8, 2013 @ 9:15 am
The Not-Really of the Daleks, of the Cybermen Instead
June 8, 2013 @ 9:16 am
The Canticle for Leibowitz
The Word of the Hyponochroids
Terror of the Mirkins
June 8, 2013 @ 9:18 am
The Clones of the Attack
The Sith of the Revenge
The Jedi of the Return
The King of the Return
The Ring of the Fellowship
June 8, 2013 @ 9:21 am
The Practice of the Cactus
The Failure of the Chameleon Circuit
The Mercury of David Whitaker
The Tewwance and Bawwy Vawiety Houwah
June 8, 2013 @ 9:22 am
The Edification of the Eruditorum
The Stroke of the Ego
The Stroke of the Bodily Appendage
June 8, 2013 @ 9:24 am
The Terror of Cozy Fascism
(A Pertwee, of course)
June 8, 2013 @ 9:28 am
The Whitaker of Nicolas Flamel
The 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
June 8, 2013 @ 9:30 am
The Nonsense of the Terminology
That Obscure Term on the Eruditorum
June 8, 2013 @ 9:30 am
The Gazing of the Navel
June 8, 2013 @ 9:31 am
The Smashing of the Mirrors
The Smashing of the Pumpkins
June 8, 2013 @ 9:33 am
Remembrance of the Chumblies
June 8, 2013 @ 9:33 am
The Graham of the Williams
The Hinchcliffe of the Philip
The Sherwin of the Derrick
June 8, 2013 @ 9:36 am
The Face on the Planet
Terror 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
June 8, 2013 @ 9:37 am
The Nonsense of the Terminology
June 8, 2013 @ 9:38 am
The Ginger of the Doctor
June 8, 2013 @ 9:38 am
Desolation of the Daleks
June 8, 2013 @ 9:40 am
The Judas of the Gospels
The Speaking of the Giant Cross
The Failed Creation of the Demiurge
June 8, 2013 @ 9:40 am
'Disappointment of the Daleks'
'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')
June 8, 2013 @ 9:41 am
The Passion of the Anoraks
June 8, 2013 @ 9:41 am
Chumbly
June 8, 2013 @ 9:42 am
The Fapping of the Worm (dear god, I'm terrible…)
June 8, 2013 @ 9:43 am
The Tony of the Ainley
June 8, 2013 @ 9:44 am
I think you win.
June 8, 2013 @ 9:46 am
I do too, but I also see a delightful way to improve it, and really hope someone tinkers.
June 8, 2013 @ 10:10 am
Actually what with DrWho being about the most inventive program / idea ever… how about:
The Art of Invention
June 8, 2013 @ 10:13 am
Oh, oh, oh!
How about:
The Deus Ex Machina of the RTD Finale?
I quite like that one if I do say so myself..
June 8, 2013 @ 10:40 am
I was going to say just "The Deus of the Machina". Heck even works as a straight title about some machine civilisations god.
June 8, 2013 @ 10:41 am
The Haunting of the Snarkasons
June 8, 2013 @ 10:45 am
Doctor Who and the Heartbreak of the Psoriasons!
June 8, 2013 @ 10:46 am
The Managra of the Tarmes?
June 8, 2013 @ 10:48 am
I can't believe the first of these hasn't been taken:
The Name of the Rose
so on that theme…
The Pendulum of the Focualt
The Umberto of the Eco
The Sign of the Signified
June 8, 2013 @ 10:54 am
The Affair of the End
June 8, 2013 @ 10:57 am
Bildungsroman of the Daleks. Dunno why that one amuses me so.
June 8, 2013 @ 11:03 am
2. The Coracle of the Northumbrian Spokeshaver
(a spot-the-reference one for late-50s music fans)
June 8, 2013 @ 11:04 am
The Top of the Morning
June 8, 2013 @ 11:08 am
The Felonies of the Foamasi
June 8, 2013 @ 11:10 am
The Cancellation of the Series
June 8, 2013 @ 11:22 am
Well on the theme of such stereotypes:
Tha' 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
June 8, 2013 @ 11:24 am
Or for the episode where Rose was made into a ganger resulting in two armies of ganger Billy Pipers:
The War of the Roses
June 8, 2013 @ 11:29 am
For the Jamie Oliver guest appearance:
The Bish of the Bosh
For the Noel Fielding guest appearance:
The Might of the Boosh
June 8, 2013 @ 11:51 am
The Misogyny of the Daleks
The Patriarchy of the Cybermen
The Feminism of the Silurians
The Tokenism of the Companions
June 8, 2013 @ 11:54 am
Last comment:
You 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
June 8, 2013 @ 11:54 am
The Eye of the Pyramid
The Conspiracy of the Illuminati
The Enlightenment of the Revolution
June 8, 2013 @ 12:08 pm
That's better!
I consider myself tinkered with!
(are you Jimmy Saville?)
June 8, 2013 @ 12:09 pm
Someone must like them so much that they've repeatedly refreshed the page.
June 8, 2013 @ 12:47 pm
The Garment of Samara
The Armaments of Agar
Sadly "The Narratives of Magma" is a few letters out
June 8, 2013 @ 12:50 pm
The YANAgram of the Master.
(YANA wasn't an anagram but I couldn't resist)
June 8, 2013 @ 12:51 pm
The Mantras of the Megara
June 8, 2013 @ 12:56 pm
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.
June 8, 2013 @ 12:58 pm
The Lords of Time
June 8, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
The engrams of the tarama.
The gamester of amaranth.
(That's enough, Ed.)
June 8, 2013 @ 1:17 pm
I like the C. On that note,
The Remorse of the Cybermen.
The Sorrow of the Cybermen.
(Have all three ebooks already.)
June 8, 2013 @ 1:17 pm
The Doom of Atlantis (a multi-parter)
June 8, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
The Game of the Roses.
The Crossing of the Rivers.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
The Swann of Flanders!
June 8, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
The Return of the Fan-Favorite Side Character.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
At last, the Doctor faces his most terrible enemy:
The Evil of the Thatcherites.
Or:
The Power of the Thatcherites.
Or:
The Vengeance of the Thatcherites.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:27 pm
Or:
The Guest Appearance of the Gay Cultural Icon.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:34 pm
The Unforeseen Consequences of the Blue Peter Monster Competition.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:36 pm
The Medium of the Message
The Society of the Spectacle
The Prank of the Situationists
June 8, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
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.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
The Fart of the Slitheen.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:44 pm
The Rewritten Script Because We Just Got The Rights Back of the Daleks
June 8, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
"The Beard of Philip Sandifer" has my vote.
June 8, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
Games is good
The 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
June 8, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
The Misdirection of the Moff
June 8, 2013 @ 1:57 pm
"The Iron of the Lady" just doesn't work
The 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
June 8, 2013 @ 2:10 pm
The Gamester of Amaranth is my favorite so far, even if it doesn't quite fit the pattern.
June 8, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
The Confusion of the Narrative
June 8, 2013 @ 2:17 pm
Ooooooh.
The Journey of the Hero
The Monoculture of the Myth
June 8, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
The Revamp of the Classic Villain
The Unexpectedness of the Obscure Reference
The Increasing Youth of the Main Character
June 8, 2013 @ 2:20 pm
In related subjects: The Brutality of the Teatime
June 8, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
The Marmite of the New Series
June 8, 2013 @ 2:42 pm
The Top of the Pops/The Bottom of the Barrel
these may very well be thinly veiled jabs at the season one finale.
June 8, 2013 @ 2:44 pm
The Revenant of Rassilon.
June 8, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
The Repeated Inclusion of the Mary-Sue
June 8, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
The Education of the Doctor
The Fall of the Time Lords
June 8, 2013 @ 3:00 pm
The Inquisition of the Spanish
June 8, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
The Apocatastasis of the Gelth
June 8, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
The Death of Death, in which the Doctor meets Jesus and Cthulhu.
Followed by The Wrath of the Lamb, in which the Doctor and Cthulhu team up to stop Jesus from destroying the world.
June 8, 2013 @ 3:29 pm
Does that mean Logopolis was the Vegemite of the Classic Series?
June 8, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
The Song of the Lumberjack
The Sketch of the Dead Parrot
June 8, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
Hey, Phil. This might be Relevant To Your Interests: https://mobile.twitter.com/richjohnston/statuses/342925572936183808
June 8, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
(I already have the books, this is just for fun)
The 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
June 8, 2013 @ 5:21 pm
The Master of the Anagram, perhaps?
June 8, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
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.
The 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)
June 8, 2013 @ 6:20 pm
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.)
June 8, 2013 @ 6:28 pm
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.
June 8, 2013 @ 6:35 pm
The Kitchen of the Toymaker
June 8, 2013 @ 6:37 pm
The Wrath of Gilbert (a follow-up to The Happiness Patrol)
June 8, 2013 @ 6:40 pm
The Fugue of the State
(A McCoy, of course)
June 8, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
The Doom of the Muttonchops
June 8, 2013 @ 6:47 pm
The New Men of Sydney
June 8, 2013 @ 6:49 pm
The Market of the Goblins
June 8, 2013 @ 6:50 pm
The Thunder of the Perfect Mind
June 8, 2013 @ 6:55 pm
The Curse of the Skulltopus
June 8, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
The Wheel of the Radiant
June 8, 2013 @ 7:01 pm
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".
June 8, 2013 @ 7:05 pm
The Bottom of the Night
June 8, 2013 @ 7:59 pm
The Will of the Heart's Knell? (…so addictive…must stop….)
June 8, 2013 @ 8:42 pm
Feast of the Merkins
June 8, 2013 @ 9:01 pm
The Problem of Susan
June 8, 2013 @ 10:14 pm
The Wind of the Slitheen
More poetic 😉
June 8, 2013 @ 10:15 pm
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June 8, 2013 @ 10:27 pm
The Catharsis of the Spurious Morality
The Cop-Out of the Ending
June 8, 2013 @ 10:34 pm
The Anagram of Stream
Or possibly
The Stream of Anagrams
June 8, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
Congratulations! You win some metal bottle tops you can nail upside-down to your floor!
June 8, 2013 @ 11:12 pm
The Fluff of the Hartnell
The 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
June 8, 2013 @ 11:17 pm
The Threat of the Comfy Chair
June 8, 2013 @ 11:23 pm
The Bride of Borusa
The Time share of the Terileptils
The Antagonist of Entropy
June 8, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
Part 1: The Court of the Mark
Part 2: The Time of Play
June 9, 2013 @ 1:09 am
Ha!
June 9, 2013 @ 1:23 am
The Invasion of Tim
And its many sequels, including Tim and the Rani, The Tim Monster and The Tim Meddler.
June 9, 2013 @ 1:39 am
The Kiss of the Rani
The 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
June 9, 2013 @ 3:15 am
Not to forget the tragic "The End of Tim"
June 9, 2013 @ 3:21 am
The Exploration of the Medium
(A Hartnell, of course)
June 9, 2013 @ 3:23 am
So long as it's not
The Wiles of the Tosh
June 9, 2013 @ 3:43 am
Heh, spin the 'joke' title on its head:
Absence of the Toclafane
June 9, 2013 @ 3:46 am
The Pip of the Bakers
June 9, 2013 @ 3:47 am
The Ring of Saint John
June 9, 2013 @ 3:49 am
Kaleidoscope of the Tegan (see her Five Doctors outfit)
June 9, 2013 @ 3:50 am
The Androgum of the Master
June 9, 2013 @ 3:50 am
The Muddle of Roy Trommely and Neil Toynay 😉
June 9, 2013 @ 3:52 am
Going with the 80s R theme:
Rubbish of the Daleks?
Rubbish of the Dustbins?
June 9, 2013 @ 3:53 am
The Fanwank of Spurious Morality
June 9, 2013 @ 3:54 am
The Curse of the Blue Peter Spot
June 9, 2013 @ 3:55 am
Re: Kissogram
OSCULATE
OSCULATE
OSCULATE
June 9, 2013 @ 3:55 am
The Balls of the Ood (totally not sorry)
The Horn of the Judoon
The Cock of Erato
June 9, 2013 @ 3:56 am
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June 9, 2013 @ 3:58 am
The Crapness of Chibnall
The Guff of Gatiss
June 9, 2013 @ 3:58 am
The Sun Lounger of the Sontarans
June 9, 2013 @ 4:00 am
In-keeping with names, let's not forget Pertwee's introduction: "Head from Ace"
June 9, 2013 @ 4:04 am
Going along with "Letts Kill Hitler" (which, if I could have a choice, would be my proper entry to the competition):
"The Hinchcliffe of Fear"
"Ericshock"
"Cartmel and the Masterplan"
"The Erasure of the Producer" 😉
June 9, 2013 @ 4:05 am
The Mark of the Gatiss
AHHHHHH.
June 9, 2013 @ 4:20 am
Unfortunately he was killed of in the EU story Death Comes to Tim.
June 9, 2013 @ 4:46 am
The Supercity of the Beauracroids
The Inevitability of the Daleks
The Flair of the Cybermen
June 9, 2013 @ 5:56 am
The Wrath of the Dominators
The 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
June 9, 2013 @ 6:12 am
The Poetry of the Daleks
The Drafting of the Shadow Proclamation
June 9, 2013 @ 6:20 am
or "The Founding of the Shadow Proclamation", since apparently the phrase refers to the governing group, rather than a foundational document for that group.
June 9, 2013 @ 6:31 am
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June 9, 2013 @ 6:46 am
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);
"The Melanin-Deficiency of the TIme Lords"
"The Ever-presence of the Doctor's Y-Chromosome"
June 9, 2013 @ 6:54 am
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June 9, 2013 @ 7:13 am
The Baker of the Colon
June 9, 2013 @ 7:25 am
Shallowness of the Sontarans?
June 9, 2013 @ 7:27 am
The Repeated Assertion of the Dubious Claim
June 9, 2013 @ 7:30 am
I'd say it's more like the Nutella – different from everything around it, yet easy to love.
June 9, 2013 @ 8:02 am
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).
June 9, 2013 @ 8:30 am
The Aztecs just overtook Logopolis! Someone must really like Hartnell.
June 9, 2013 @ 8:47 am
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June 9, 2013 @ 8:48 am
The McGann of Canon
June 9, 2013 @ 8:48 am
This wins my serious vote.
June 9, 2013 @ 8:49 am
Empty Threat of the Tin Soldiers
June 9, 2013 @ 8:50 am
Revenge of the Sofa of Reasonable Comfort
June 9, 2013 @ 8:52 am
But he was later saved in BF's "Frozen Tim".
Given a son in "The Boy That Tim Forgot".
June 9, 2013 @ 8:54 am
Going with the poetry joke:
Daffodils of the Daleks
June 9, 2013 @ 8:55 am
@Matthew: I suppose "The Bait of the Master" is one you're dying to post next.
June 9, 2013 @ 9:53 am
Because I just read the news,
The sad and untimely passing of the Iain Banks
June 9, 2013 @ 10:02 am
Please deliver them to the house next door.
June 9, 2013 @ 10:18 am
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"
June 9, 2013 @ 10:56 am
The Grasp of the Grask
The Crypt of the Rani
The Feast of the Chronovores
June 9, 2013 @ 11:31 am
The Threat of Jane's Crazy Word-Puzzles
June 9, 2013 @ 11:32 am
The Toclafane of the Absence
June 9, 2013 @ 11:34 am
The Grapes of Gilbert
The Apotheosis of Jane's Absurd Comments
June 9, 2013 @ 12:22 pm
The The of The
June 9, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
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.
June 9, 2013 @ 2:08 pm
The Knot of the Mind Probe
June 9, 2013 @ 3:18 pm
The Wedding of Ian and Barbara
June 9, 2013 @ 4:12 pm
The Absence of the Toclafane
June 9, 2013 @ 4:14 pm
The Hiatus of Too Long (To Wait)
June 9, 2013 @ 4:34 pm
How about The Eye of the Tiger?
June 9, 2013 @ 9:00 pm
"The End of History"
This, 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?
June 9, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical
June 9, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical
June 10, 2013 @ 12:52 am
A Name of the Star Garm
June 10, 2013 @ 1:47 am
The Empires of the Earth.
June 10, 2013 @ 4:03 am
The Obscurity of the Reference
June 10, 2013 @ 5:33 am
Repeating (deletion):
Part I: The Court of the Mark
Part II: The Time of Play
June 10, 2013 @ 6:17 am
A Name of the Star Garm
(previously eaten by spam checker)
June 10, 2013 @ 7:58 am
The 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
June 10, 2013 @ 8:00 am
(trying again…)
The 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
June 10, 2013 @ 8:46 am
The Absence of the Daleks.
June 11, 2013 @ 12:53 am
Come on, hurry up!
(Taps tail on the table impatiently)
It's Tuesday, have I won yet?