#eleventh hour

It was a characteristically grey Lancashire morning when I met up with the lovely Stephen Gallagher, who was speaking that afternoon at the university in Preston.  After a nice wander around the campus shooting the breeze and taking getting photographical, we found ourselves in the audience of a talk about the science behind Doctor Who.  I’m fairly sure that the target demographic was considerably younger than Stephen and myself, mind, as the young chap of about 6 or so was excitedly whispering the names of all the monsters on the Doctor Who quiz sheet we had all been given.

(I swear we’d have aced the quiz too, even without the young gentleman inadvertently feeding us all the answers.)

I’m not normally one given to egregious displays of fangirl behaviour, but  I must admit that I was so pleased that this gentleman agreed to be a part of this project, as he wrote the fascinating, beautiful departure stories for two of my very favourite companions : Warrior’s Gate, which sees Romana’s farewell, with K-9 in tow, and Terminus, where Nyssa says goodbye to the TARDIS.  Both of these stories see our heroines departing in order to go on to bigger and better things, where they feel they will be able to affect significant positive change, to do something meaningful with their lives.  It’s always heartwarming to see companions get the farewell that they deserve, and these two serials served their departing companions admirably.  He’s been quite busy since as well, writing for a number of shows as well as novels (including the novelizations of his two Doctor Who stories, albeit under the pseudonym John Lydecker, for some reason) and two short story collections, as well as directing, creating and writing for The Eleventh Hour, both in its UK and US incarnations, and serving as co-executive producer on The Forgotten.  And he’s delightful company to boot.  You can keep up with his many adventures on his blog, and I highly encourage you do.  What a wonderful fellow!

draikinator:

This won’t be the last time it takes someone from you.

[image description: a three-panel comic. First is Taako, in profile, wearing a mongoose mask. He has a green wizard’s hat on and a long blonde braid down his back. He’s in front of a gray background, and next to him is written, “You know, I gotta ask. Why a mongoose?” The next panel is Taako in profile again, but this time he’s covering his mouth in horror, eyes wide and tears on his face. He’s wearing a chef’s hat and his hair is pulled into a ponytail. The background is red and the text next to him reads: “Because the mongoose has a specialized set of choline receptors that make it impervious to”. The last panel says “poison” in white on a black background.]

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This my tee on Teebusters and it’s up for voting. I really need your help. I think every DW fan would love this tee. So I need you to vote and they will put it on sale. I would be more than happy, if you reblog this . 

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Some time ago I was commissioned by the delightful Elin Gregory to draw the characters of her equally delightful Eleventh Hour, Briars and Miles/Millie. If you want to read a wonderful and unusual 1920s queer british spy romp romance between a badass spy and a charming non-binary linguist, this is the book for you.

Eleventh Hour has:

• undercover fake marrieds!
• Cool Spy Stuff
• Tol snarky falls in love with smol snarky
• They go on a date to see the movie Wings and marvel at that famous gay kiss (wow im so soft)
• Theres a scene where Briars, the hardened spy and also a war vet, has to calm down a baby and he freaks out and says “sorry old man”. To a baby. That hes holding
  
• a german best frenemy spy who turns up even more in the second book and I love him so much
• just. real good Gender Stuff when it comes to Miles and his gender presentation 

Please go put money in Elin Gregory’s pocket and also make a fandom for this series