#sword of orion

[softlyblues]

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a/n: i'm writing a little doodley after every audio series i listen to, bc paul mcgann makes me feel lesbionic. lesbionic screwdriver

Hours after the door of the TARDIS has swung comfortingly shut, Charley still can’t sleep. 

Her bedroom on board is a comfortable thing, completely the opposite of the way her childhood attic room in London had been. Is? Will be? Here she has been able to clutter, to spread out, despite only travelling with the Doctor for a few - days? - yet. She has a crystal ball from the bazaar on Garazone, some logbooks pinched from the R101, and some paintings she and the Doctor found in a dusty anteroom on the TARDIS that she hung up; some pretty, thick-petalled flowers where the paint looks to have been applied with a shovel. It’s full of stuff, with space for more. 

She lies in her comfortable bed, on the mattress that’s never been softer, in a room that’s right from her wildest dreams, and she can’t sleep. 

It isn’t like she particularly liked the crew of the Vangard. Most of them were either disgustingly chauvinistic, ridiculously stupid, offensively standoffish, or a beautiful mixture of all three; she barely held that man, that Grash, off killing her for most of her day. 

But she’d heard the noises from the Cyber-Conversion chamber. Before the Doctor pulled her away from it, before the fight shuffled further down the corridor. She heard the noises. 

Charley gives up. She swings her bare-footed legs out of bed, shuddering when her soles hit the cold metal floor - before the TARDIS hums and heats it - and slips into the fluffy blue robe hung on the back of her door. 

She hasn’t yet had the guts to ask why the Doctor has so many clothes in her size and approximate style. The answer will either hurt her brain or make her want to cry. 

Her bedroom is near the console room. Charley pads silently towards it, the heart of the TARDIS, and hears what she knew she would; muttering. 

“... Fine, fine, be that way. And if we turn towards the latest system? Core temperature reading with that variable modified, please… right. Of course. Okay.” The sound of flipping switches. Someone drumming their fingers absently on a piece of hollow metal. “And then change the time variable - account for rusting…”

“Doctor?”

“Charley?” His head pops around the other side of the console, “What are you doing up?”

“I could say the same for you, Doctor.” She comes towards the console. “Have you even moved?”

She can tell he hasn’t. The Doctor hasn’t bothered to go anywhere near the regen-room or his own bedroom (does he sleep in there? What does he do?), and so there’s still a red mark on his cheek where the Cyberman’s fumbling grasp landed. His eyes are pressed deep into purple bruises. If Charley felt like it, she knows she’d see two big red handprints on his shoulders where he was taken and held. Cyber-Conversion. Not something she wants to risk again. 

The Doctor flaps his hand dismissively. “Go back to bed. I’m going now in a moment.”

“You said that hours ago. What are you doing?”

“Nothing.”

Charley reaches the console and looks down at the nearest display, the wide square screen with the circular script bouncing around it. “You’re… tracking Deeva?”

“Mmm.”

“Why are you tracking Deeva?”

“I’m not, really,” he says. He doesn’t look at her; he’s still focused on his own readouts. “I’m just… indulging a bit of curiosity.”

“Curiosity?”

“When Deeva might… defrost. Reactivate.”

“She’s in the middle of ion debris,” Charley says uncertainly, although these words are still unknown to her, and she uses them clumsily, “You’d not be able to rescue her.”

“I know.” 

“Do you?”

“I know,” the Doctor blinks rapidly, and then pushes his hand against his cheek, the side with the mark. He flips a few buttons, but the movement feels random. Displacement activity. “Charley, you really ought to get some rest. I want to get Ramsay somewhere safe, and you need to be whole for it.”

“So d’you,” Charley says obstinately, tapping her fingers on her thighs, “Go to bed. Or, like, cocoon. Or whatever it is Time Lords do. Regenerate.”

“Regenerate?” His eyes pull away from the console, buggily, wide, and stare at her. “Why do you want me to regenerate?”

“Woah,” Charley holds her hands to her shoulders, “Calm! I don’t know? Is that what you call it? Sleep? Relax? Reform? I don’t know?”

The Doctor inhales, then pinches the top of his long nose. His hair falls forward in his face. The fight, as soon as it found him, is gone. “I - sorry. Charley. Sorry. I - it has been a long day.”

“Yeah,” she takes a risk and comes over to beside him. He’s taller than her, but not by very much, and he smells…(nice, her brain fills in lamely) nice. “Listen. It’ll look the same tomorrow. Go to bed.”

“It makes me sad,” the Doctor mumbles, looking back at the console as Charley tugs him away by his wrist, “It just makes me… it makes me sad.”

She puts him to bed. Or rather, she puts him near a room he says is his bedroom, and which he refuses to go into with her watching, like some sort of shy and irritating cat. She walks back to her own room, her feet pleasantly warm now the TARDIS has realised she’s walking around without shoes, and gets back into her cold bed. 

“Goodnight,” she whispers to the dark air, “Sleep tight.”

The TARDIS beeps at her, she’d swear it. 

Charley sleeps. 

#eighth doctor #big finish audio #paul mcgann #charley pollard #sword of orion #my writing #doctor who

[sparrowsabre7]

Eighth Doctor audios

The Doctor: I'm here to save the day and drink tea, and I'm all out of tea...

*hours later*

The Doctor: No but seriously, that wasn't a joke, I need some goddamn tea.

#eighth doctor #big finish #the doctor #man's mad for the tea #sword of orion

[demigodofhoolemere]

Sword of Orion was also very good (though I had trouble distinguishing between the male guest characters). Cybermen usually make for an interesting story and I liked having a historical companion adjust to things of the future, it’s been way too long.

#dweu #big finish #sword of orion #eighth doctor #charley pollard

[reecypontiff]

The Eighth Doctor makes some new... friends? Hmm...

Bonus cover by @timb1167

#Eighth Doctor #cosplay #doctor who #doctor who cosplay #Paul McGann #big finish #sword of orion #doctor who fan art

[veshialles]

it's becoming increasingly clear that Chris Chibnall was a big fan of the audio dramas because Ascension's plot feels like it was partially lifted straight from Sword Of Orion

#doctor who #sword of orion #ascension of the cybermen #big finish #trapped on a ship full of cryofrozen cybermen? check! cyber-warriors? check

[geronimomo-spd]

Sword Of Orion!

i recently finished Sword of Orion!

it was nice! pretty basic story, but i do gotta say that it did held me at the edge of my sit!

Paul really held my attention, and it was really nice to listen to the cyberman at an audio form

Charley and the Doc laughing together really was adorable!!!

here are the time stemp for him laughing (MY BOYYY): 2:39

and here is the time stamp for when they laugh together at the obscurity of the situation loll: 3:14

i gotta say, getting to expiriance Charley's reaction to her first alien place was really cool, even if it was just a bazzar and just another spaceship. and i really liked how she managed to catch on pretty fast on the morals of the situation!

more thoughts and spoilers under the cut!!

i didn't expect to hear people getting converted omg that gave me the hibbi gibbies (remind me to never listen to Spare Parts)

also at the end when the is an air breach you can really hear the fear of the doctor from losing charley that i really like

two things i didn't like:

1) we didn't get Charley's reaction to the tardis! we didn't get the its bigger on the inside stuff!! i was really looking forwrad to that!!

2) its the second story in a row that they forcibly separate Charley and the doctor, and i don't like it! i wanna see them act together not just in the third act of the story for once!

i didn't get a fave qoute this time, but i will say that i really enjoyed the aittude of the doctor throught

overall a basic story, felt a little less engaed then the first, but still a solid listen

#doctor who #8th doctor #eighth doctor #sword of orion #8th doctor big finish stuff #paul mcgann #india fisher #a basic second episode but i kinda get what they were going for #momo rambles #8th doctor listenalong #will be continuing forward with the rest

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Reviewed: The Thrill of Going On Further Adventure(s)s with the Eighth Doctor and Charley

The Thrill of Going On Further Adventure(s)s with the Eighth #DoctorWho and Charley with @bigfinish

Charley Pollard: The Further Adventuress. A title and also, well, a title for the 1920s aristocrat-turned-time traveller. The Eighth Doctor’s first audio-exclusive companion returned for a full boxset of adventures in January of this year and it’s four episodes of fun, flirting, and further adventures. The Mummy Speaks! is the boxset opener and is immediately a load of fun. In fact, it’s a right…

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#Alan Barnes #Big Finish #Charley Pollard #Charlotte Pollard: The Further Adventuress #Eddie Robson #Eighth Doctor #India Fisher #Lisa McMullin #Nicholas Briggs #Nick Briggs #Paul McGann #Sword of Orion

[drwhowatch]

Sword of Orion

Consecutive stories with the same Doctor makes it easier to follow and is more similar to the TV show. The Cybermen initially seem like much more of a threat but get less interesting following their first murder. For someone born in the past, Charley adapts fairly well to her future surroundings. Enjoying Paul’s voice acting.

#Sword of Orion #dr who #doctor who #eighth doctor #8th doctor #big finish #paul mcgann #1 episode #2001 #2.5 stars

[eiochevart]

Links in their casual/traditional outfits >>>>>

#art #the legend of Zelda #loz #tloz #Zelda art #Zelda fanart #legend of Zelda #twilight princess #skyward sword #loz tp #loz ss #loz sksw #loz ww #loz wind waker #sksw #loz link #link #Orion village #skyloft #outset island #windfall island #digital art #sketch #doodle #fanart #loz fanart #loz art #wind waker

[relasped-whovian]

Doctor Who: Sword of Orion

Atmosphere, atmosphere, and almost nothing but atmosphere. I’ll confess, this is the first Big Finish audio I ever listened to. At the time I was entranced by experiencing Doctor Who in a new medium for the first time, but listening to it again all this time later, it’s issues are obvious.

It’s a classic case of insufficient material stretched to breaking over four parts. And the weird thing is there there is enough *there* to build on. The android wars, the mutinous workers, dealing with a zero gravity environment. They’re all crying out for more meat on their bones but instead the audio just lets them lie there, padding the run time out with action scenes and running about.

Still, it’s hard to hate this one, apart from the nostalgia. It’s such a fascinating setting, a cyberman graveyard in space. You can feel the cold depth of space, the broken down machinery, the darkness in the corners of a spaceship. I don’t know, even though I should be bored I never am. But ultimately this is an unfinished story.

4/10

#doctor who #big finish #cybermen #sword of Orion #8th Doctor

[cuties-in-codices]

the constellation of orion depicted as a knight holding a sword and a grotesque shield

in an astrological-astronomical manuscript, germany, ca. 1445

source: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Ms. germ. fol. 244, fol. 77r

#the german word for this type of shield in medieval art is “fratzenschild” but i couldn't find much information on it online #or figure out if there's a better english word for it than grotesque shield #hmu if you know more about it! #orion #constellation #knight #sword #shield #grotesque shield #fratzenschild #illuminated manuscript #15th century #medieval astronomy

[omnificent-orion]

"What began in deception would end with the Truth, shining like a blade in the hand of the last usurper."

Besmirched, Chapter 26 A Gladiolus/Noctis Irish folklore AU longfic by @rose-madder-gaze

#Orion's Art #Final Fantasy #Final Fantasy 15 #Final Fantasy XV #Noctis Lucis Caelum #I'll tag the rest as well #Gladiolus Amicitia #gladnoct #Prompto Argentum #Ignis Scientia #promnis #Ardyn Izunia #fanfic #''I will tell you a story'' #''bannered in the truth'' #''and'' #''when it is over'' #''I'll have that Sword.'' #I said I wasn't going to draw any more for this #but I finally got to read the ending #and well #''It was well worth the wait'' #ah but I want to read some more #and more and more #happy birthday noctis #so long for now

[howlingday]

Jaune Arc… I give thee…

This sword, and a new emblem…

Jaune: Uh, thanks, but I already have a sword. And an emblem.

Ruby: What does GALM mean?

#rwby #jaune arc #ruby rose #ru ja gun con #ru ja gun con au #rwby au #okami #amaterasu #I have no idea what either of these references are #never heard of galm #and the only thing the sword brings up is “Orion” on an amino page #ace combat

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Military scientist: hey so I made a missile that's just a massive thing of swords.

physicist: ok yeah no that makes sense

Military scientist: Next up I'm going to drop a tungsten rod from so high up it's basically a nuke

physicist: wha- no, that wouldn't work.

Military scientist:

Physicist: anyway, wanna hear about my cool rocket idea that is powered by exploding tiny nukes underneath it? we just need you to invent a cheap nuke that could fit in a suitcase and we'll be to jupiter by- wait, where are you going?

#science #physics #space #military science #scientists sitcom #project orion #project thor #SWORD missile

[mokkkki]

regulus' relationship with his father

#the death of morat #oath of the horatii #jacques louis david #the sword of damocles #the scream #edvard munch #regulus black #orion black #father #son #father son relationship #patricide #art #weabweave #web weave #web weaves #web weaving #webweaving #swte #harry potter #jegulus #wolfstar #swte webweaves

[transingthoseformers]

I love Megatron and Orion Pax being a thing before the war in TFP.

But something I very rarely see but love just as much is that they never got around to actually confessing their feelings. Instead, it was just full of all this romantic tension.

I've seen a few fics do this, and have a post floating around with a similar idea! I'll need to dig up that post, but I've certainly thought about this

#maccadam #transformers #i think ''coming home'' did it? yeah. #tfp orion pax #tfp megatronus #I'll go dig up that post because it had a cool idea around it #wait it might've been ''they honestly were just friends before the war but fell in love behind the sword'' instead #megop #kinda