#short trips

[msterpicasso]

@jaydacheaves

[joumanadraws]

Short Trip

Here's an original Gallifrey short story from me!

Please excuse the sloppy rendering in places, I really wanted to finish it before I went away and I was dying towards the end. If I collect and print my little comics in the future, I'll do a lot of touching up.

I still barely understand Tumblr so I didn't put any spoilers in the tags...

This takes place sometime after season 6 (after the Axis saga) and before Intervention Earth.

I had an absolute ball imagining this encounter with ensuing character dynamics and I hope you enjoyed these pages... I'd love to hear what's your favourite moment if any!

By the way, the setting is based on real places I visited in the past, where large places of worship were genuinely carved into rock, in Armenia and Ethiopia. Here are a few snapshots with details you'll recognise...

#gallifrey #gallifrey audios #big finish #narvin #fan comic #leela #doctor who #fan fiction #short trips

[gallifreywhere]

Peri: I'm sorry about my friend. His voice fights his clothes to see who can be the loudest.

#big finish #six #sixth doctor #peri brown #perpugilliam brown #short trips #short trips - Vigil #doctor who #nicola bryant

[cringecompanionapologist]

The Velvet Dark: The Short Trip Where the Master Does Some Stuff

Okay, there are probably enough Short Trips featuring the Master for the title to not make sense. This is just another Weird Doctor Who Thing I want to do a breakdown of. Honestly, as far as Weird Doctor Who Things go, this one's only slightly weirder than what you'd see on television. But Turlough's in it and he suffers, so let's take a look:

So we start of with Vislor being spelled wrong. I'm pretty sure this isn't the only short trip that does this.

So, we're on Earth, probably in England, and probably in the late 20th or early 21st century, but the details don't really matter. The Doctor is there to attend the Master's funeral, since he apparently died of natural causes in an ordinary Earth old folks' home. The Doctor is genuinely mourning his old friend while Tegan and Turlough try really hard to be nice about it. We start in Tegan's PoV and she misses Nyssa. Also Turlough has a big fur coat for cool rainy funerals now.

After the funeral, the Team goes to where the Master apparently spent his final days to collect his stuff and see if he left any interesting traps for them before he died. Tegan still doesn't trust Turlough, nor does she like that the Doctor seems to listen to him more than he listens to her.

They find nothing interesting, the Doctor sulks for a bit, and Tegan loses patience with the whole thing and decides to go get a cup of tea. She offers to get some for the others.

Tegan stumbles upon the plot when a nurse looking for a missing old lady has found a tiny doll of the lady in her bed that looks a bit too realistic. Tegan knows what's up here and begins her investigation.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Turlough have lunch. Turlough has no idea why the Doctor wants to eat cafeteria food.

This is kind of a reverse of a bit in Kinda where the Doctor and Adric get some food, but Adric is still hungry after he finishes his and the Doctor gives him the rest of his own food. He's a growing boy. Turlough is just miserable.

The Doctor, who isn't actually an idiot, is still trying to figure out what happened to the Master and he decides to ask the elderly.

Did Turlough not know his grandparents or are old people built different on Trion?

An old man talks to them for a little bit about how the recently dead guy mostly kept to himself but he doesn't want to miss the next show on TV. The Doctor and Turlough banter over this for a bit.

Yeah, this place is supposed run by a Mr. Tase, which might just be the laziest silly anagram the Master's ever used.

Meanwhile, Tegan and her nurse friend have gone to the boiler room to find that a lot of dolls that look a bit too similar to the patients here are people burned. The Master confronts them. He's burned too. He's still the Ainley Master in theory but he looks like he did before he stole Nyssa's dad's body for reasons that will be explained later.

While going to confront "Mr Tase", the Doctor and Turlough suddenly remember that Tegan exists and find out that she might be in trouble.

So Turlough goes down to the boiler room, finds Tegan, and they're both captured.

The Doctor meets with Mr. Tase and immediately calls him out on being the Master. The Master doesn't want to kill him this time (as if he ever genuinely does). He just needs the Doctor's help with a thing and he knows that the Doctor will refuse to do the thing, so he got the companions captured to ensure his cooperation.

However cooperative the Doctor might be in this situation, Tegan is not. This causes a bit of a kerfuffle.

The nursing home was the Master's TARDIS btw. He materialized his TARDIS around the nursing home and absorbed it. Or something. None of the things the Master does make sense.

Anyway, the TCE (shrinky death ray thing) was fired. What was that about? They wait a bit before telling you.

So, the TCE has a shrink ray version of a stun setting where it shrinks you but doesn't kill you. The Master just never uses it. Except now, mostly just to fuck with the Doctor. Also, instead of shrinking Tegan, who was actively causing trouble for him, the Master shrunk Turlough. The whole "surrendering and standing still" thing made him an easier target and the Master is a dick.

Tegan feels pretty bad about the whole thing and the Adric flashbacks it gave the Doctor.

Then, things get complicated, because it's the Master. Apparently, the Time Lords sort of half-exiled/half-executed him, taking away his stolen body, but his life force hung around by sheer force of will and he's actually been an invisible being in a castle this entire time. The burnt Master is his Watcher, who he's been acting through. He wants to do a thing with some mirrors to steal one of the Doctor's regenerations. I really can't explain it any better than that.

The Master continues to fuck with the Doctor by hypnotizing Tegan and we get...this:

Yeah. That.

Anyway, hypnotized Tegan is commanded to kill the Doctor and the Doctor is unable to fight back in any way without causing permanent damage to Turlough via the Master shaking him around inside a snuffbox, beating him up.

So, the Doctor screams and breaks all the magic mirrors because he can just do that now. I think the Fourth Doctor might've done something like this once, but it's still a bit anti-climactic here.

We just sort of cut to the Team all restored to normal trying to decide what to do with the Master.

This wrap-up conversation gives off this vibe that the Doctor just can't understand why Tegan and Turlough are so upset here. But it might just be a side-effect of this story about the Doctor still having some emotional attachment to the Master despite everything being in a hurry to end.

Or maybe the narrator doesn't get it:

I'm pretty sure anyone would be upset after being shrunk and kept in a snuffbox and might not have a whole lot of patience for someone protecting the person responsible.

Still, in the end, the Doctor sort of tries to humor him a bit...

How their complete trust was restored is unclear. They just decide to stop disagreeing with him for Reasons.

So, an interesting story, the a bit of a dumb one. I'm not gonna complain about not being able to follow the Master's plan because all of his plans are like that.

Ultimately, I think the biggest problem with this one is that the 5 isn't the Doctor you want for this story. We're exploring the Doctor's relationship with the Master. No matter how many times he tries to, and no matter what he says, the Master can't kill the Doctor because he likes him too much. At the same time, no matter how many terrible things he does, no matter how personal, no matter the scale, the Doctor can never defeat the Master completely, because he likes him too much.

The problem is that 5, though it was still a bit of a thing with him, isn't as friendly with the Master as most other incarnations. 3 treated the Master's antics like a game, but when 5 comes along, the Master destroys a quarter of the universe and traumatizes all of his companions in rapid succession. It's not fun anymore. The Master still thinks of it as a game, but the Doctor's no longer amused. This all resets later on, especially after the Time War, but for 5, that's our trajectory.

Think about how things between 5 and the Master end in Planet of Fire. The Master has pushed the Doctor so far that he can stand there and watch him burn alive. One of the things that sets 5 off is Kamelion's death. The Doctor had to kill Kamelion because the Master kept fucking with him. If Kamelion were an actual character, this moment might have the emotional weight it needed. The Master spends 5's run harming his companions. This is what really changed things. During 3's era, the Master developed a respect for Jo, the only TARDIS-traveling companion he had a chance to interact with. She almost became an extension of the Doctor. The Delgado Master, outside of a bit of hypnosis, doesn't harm the Doctor's companions. The Ainley Master does. 5's first story has the Master spend most of it torturing Adric. So, the entire dynamic of 5 and the Master is 5 losing his compassion for the Master because he hurt his companions.

This is a story for a later Doctor with some distance from these events. That's the serious problem. But the story is very silly, so serious problems aren't that big a deal, really.

#fifth doctor #vislor turlough #tegan jovanka #ainley!master #the velvet dark #short trips #sometimes i just gotta get way too into a thing

[waldgeister]

Black Hole Sun - Ägypten Shorttrip - Februar 2k24

#pws #lensblr #photographers on tumblr #original photography #moody photography #nikon #teamnikon #nature photography #Travelling #travel photography #short trips

[doctorkinktraveller]

#doctor who #colin baker #6th doctor #short trips

[rachelbethhines]

60 Years of Doctor Who Anniversary Marathon - Davison 11th Review

Graham Dilley Saves the World - Short Story

We got another Short Trips for this round. Past Tense focuses on the Doctor visiting historical moments through out Earth’s history. 

The event for this story is a 1981 cricket game between the UK and Australia. During the game, a player named Graham Dilley catches the ball and basically wins the game for the UK.

This is Graham Dilley by the way.

Or at least that’s what is supposed to happen. Only the Doctor finds out that something has gone wrong.

While visiting the future with Peri and Erimem, the Doctor finds that the world has devolved into a fascist, post-apocalyptic dystopia, overrun with war and pollution. 

He figures out that Graham Dilley is the nexus point where time went off the rails. He drops the ball, literally, and it leads to a civil war within the UK when police fail to stop a riot of butt hurt sports fans, which in turn leads to a world war as many world leaders are killed when a bomb goes off at Prince Charles and Diane’s wedding.   

(Sadly, I fully believe the people of the UK would go to war over fucking cricket before they would fight to overthrow those that led them to Brexit.)

Well, anyways, what caused Graham Dilley to fumble the ball and cause time to go awry?

Why the Doctor himself of course!

Or more specifically Tegan. 

Graham Dilley gets distracted when he sees her standing in the bleachers wearing a mini-skirt.

So it’s up to Peri and  Erimem to stop Tegan from distracting Graham Dilley, while the Doctor avoids running into himself or his past companions. Also Peri and Erimem can’t be seen by the past Doctor or Turlough, nor can they tell Tegan that they are future companions of the Doctor.

Despite the timey-whimey plot, this is at it’s heart a character piece.

Most of the story is just Peri and Erimem goofing off and being the teenage girls that they are. (And for those that don’t know, Erimem is a former Egyptian pharaoh who travels with Five and Peri in the extended AU.)

They tease the Doctor relentlessly, gossip behind poor Turlough’s back, befriend Tegan by talking about shoes, and at the end go on a drinking binge complete with ‘munchies’, much to the Doctor’s disapproval.

And can I just say, I love the idea of Peri and Tegan being besties. Like this story just makes me wish that they got to travel together.

There’s also a pathos here, as the Doctor reflects on his past with Tegan, and how they parted on bad terms. It’s hurts him in a way that most companions’ goodbyes don’t, because he knows that on at least some level it’s his fault. 

It’s rather poetic now that we’ve got Power of the Doctor to bring closure to this plot point.

So in conclusion, this is a really strong Short Trip. I don’t know if it’s the best one we’ve covered so far, but it’s high up there. I fully recommend it. 

#doctor who #fifth doctor #peter davison #tegan jovanka #turlough #peri #erimem #classic who #short trips

[eutravels]

Doctor Who Short Trips Rarities : Intuition (2.3)

Oh what an intriguing story! Honestly the summary of this one really appealed to me and I was not disappointed.

The mystery is clever and so is its resolution! I do love some strange time/mind phenomenon.

Both the Swiss setting and Ur are lovely features from this story, the latter one being actually moving to both us and the Doctor.

I don't have a lot to say about this one since it is not that long and goes straight to the point. Give it a listen if you wish to hear about the Alps, mind control, time shenanigans and death! Rarities are a truly great range, it features some of the best stories from the whole Short Trips collection.

#doctor who eu #doctor who expanded universe #big finish #doctor who #dr who #dweu #classic doctor who #classic who #doctor who classic #short trips #sixth doctor #6th doctor #colin baker #mel bush #melanie bush #bonnie langford

[gallifreyanhotfive]

#kinda curious #doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #new who #big finish #big finish doctor who #big finish audios #paul spragg memorial #short trips #polls

[raspberry-gloaming]

Listening to erasure -

Like everyone else I'm AAH-ing over those lines, you know the ones

#big finish audios #gallifrey #short trips #erasure #narvin #narvinectrolonum #amber listens

[cainrizquez-blog]

#vatican #roma #Rome #caín rízquez #no mine #aestethic #lifestyle #ciudad #ciudad eterna #eternal city #city #cityspace #cityscape #short trips #amazing trips #trip #travel #travel photography #slowly

[pers-books]

BIGFINISHMAS DAY 5 SHORT TRIPS VOLS 1-4

Download any of the first four volumes of Doctor Who – Short Trips for just £2.99 each. Exciting short stories for eight classic Doctors, performed by original TV series actors, including William Russell, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and more. 

Hurry! All offers expire at 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2024.

(Not gonna lie, I've got all four of these but Volume 2 is the one I've listened to most frequently - the stories for Doctors 2 - 6 and 8 are just really excellent listening as far as I'm concerned.

(Click the link above. The code is MERRY23.)

#Bigfinishmas #Sale #Short Trips #Doctor Who #Audio Drama

[legok9]

The Seventh Doctor and Ace are in Los Angeles today!

From the short story Instead of You in Christmas Around the World (2008)

I choose to believe this toy shop is somehow a modern version of Mr. Emporium. The Toymaker's game never truly ends...

#doctor who #7th doctor #ace mcshane #the toymaker #the giggle #christmas eve #short trips

[cringecompanionapologist]

5/Turlough Moments in Short Stories

Short stories mainly means Short Trips, but the older Decalogs and Annuals still count. Unlike the chronological order of the novelizations, these are in no particular order. 

I’ll start with two from the Short Trip Qualia. Turlough is a teacher’s pet and Tegan is jealous.

There there’s Zeitgeist, a Decalog. It’s another story from right after Tegan left. The Doctor is sad and Turlough is having no fun.

The Matasian Pleasure Rings sounds like one of those Star Trek pleasure planets, like Risa.

The Doctor smiles for the first time in ages because Turlough says a Turlough thing and the narration, still in Turlough’s PoV, describes it as saintlike. That’s adorable.

Lastly, there’s The Oxaqua Incident from the 1984 Annual. I’ve already posted this screenshot but it goes here.

The Doctor saves Turlough’s life in a way that involves rolling around on top of him and Turlough basically asks him out in response. This being 1984, it probably wasn’t intentional but wow.

Also, this isn’t really 5/Turlough but it’s interesting:

So, the 1995 Yearbook, which is basically an annual for a year when the show was cancelled by the fans wanted one anyway, there’s a short story called One Last Try. There’s an alien life-form that’s sort of like a Ditto. It turns itself into the people it sees. However, when it turns into a copy of Turlough, it couldn’t imitate his clothes for some reason. And there’s an illustration.

(Mildly NSFW? Nothing graphic, really...)

So...screenshots. I have quite the collection.

#Five/Turlough #Vislor Turlough #short trips #virgin decalogs #doctor who annual #doctor who yearbook #qualia #zeitgeist #the oxaqua incident #one last try

[goldyapper]

Isn't the Ads Virus always the enemy?

#gold’s yappering #doctor who #big finish #Pop-Up #Short trips

[eda-quotes]

…but he was so much older then. He really didn't want to be that old again.

Model Train Set by Jonathan Blum

#doctor who #eighth doctor #short trips #short trips: model train set #i know eleven is the quintessential old soul for most people #but eight has moments like this where it just like #damn #the doctor is OLD