Beautiful Anomalies

A new Doctor Who FATE game run by Rose Bailey. Actual Play posts as and when. The first includes the dialogue note “Doctor is lying.” which should be recommendation enough.

Comeback

A new time travel thriller by the director of TimeCrimes and Colossal, based on a comic series I have never heard of! The hook is a group illegally using time travel to save people from untimely deaths, particularly loved ones of clients who can pay through the nose...

New Doctor, new outfit

A first look at the Thirteenth Doctor in costume and yes, she has a big long coat that will flap when running. That’s what really matters. Also statement earrings, a somewhat Mork And Mindy rainbow shirt and braces combo, and a slightly 80s vibe all round. I imagine it will vary episode to episode, especially after Twelve had that flashy coat he hardly ever wore.

Just a few weeks until the Christmas special... and hopefully a trailer to follow, though probbaly not a big one as the series returns in the autumn.

In the meantime, there is already fanart from comics creators and other artists.

The October Revolution

Russia's October Revolution was 100 years ago today. Yes, it was in November by our calendar.

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was born 150 years ago today.

Rose Bailey's Doctor Who gaming goodness

Rose Bailey (Cavaliers Of Mars, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, and more) is planning out a Doctor Who game. So, among other things, a revival of her 2009 thread taking entire game settings and turning them into Doctor Who adventure hooks, in this case hitting Malcolm Craig’s Cold City.

Thirteen And Three

Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor will be travelling with three companions - Bradley Walsh as Graham, Tosin Cole as Ryan and Mandip Gill as Yasmin.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

A Google Doodle today honouring the birth, 107 years ago, of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, founder of astrophysics.

Timewasters

A new time travel show on British TV! Timewasters is a comedy about four modern Londoners going back to the 1920s - and not feeling very welcome.

Doctor Who RPG adventures, with sound files

Four so far, from caseyjonescaseyjones on Kinja. Thanks to Rangdo for the link.

The Fifth Doctor EU Sourcebook

332 pages detailing Fifth Doctor book, audio, comics and other adventures in RPG-friendly format.

Resurrection by poem

Harriet Jones lives! In Now We Are Six Hundred, a book of Whovian poetry by Russell T Davies.

The Fibreglass Saucer Invasion

Fifty years ago tonight, southern England was invaded by flying saucers! Made of fibreglass and flour.

“We thought the government should have some sort of plan if aliens did land. So we gave them a chance to try out whatever plan they had - but they didn’t have one.”
Chris Southall, one of the masterminds of the hoax.

David Clarke, media law expert at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant and curator for the National Archives UFO project, believes the response to the hoax was flawed.
“One of the saucers when they actually drilled into it, because it was full of this compacted, sort of papier-maché mess, actually exploded and showered the police officers with this stuff. If it had been some kind of radiation hazard, how would they have dealt with that? It would have been a disaster area. And what did they do? Just washed it down the drains.”

This is the kind of thing that gets you thrown out of UNIT.

Thanks to Robin Low on RPG.net for the link.

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby was born 100 years ago today. Known for designing a massive chunk of the Marvel universe, his work at DC creating the Fourth World in the early 1970s is most directly relevant as a huge over-the-top space opera of human-ish space travellers fighting across the universe coming to Earth and pulling ordinary people into their adventures.

It features, among other things... an exiled son of Apokolips hiding on Earth with human companions, a heroic escape artist who is essentially a mythic take on the Houdini idea of escapologist as symbol of hope, a not-exactly-neutral observer in a time and space chair, accidental time travel, deliberate time travel, sufficiently advanced technology even by spacefaring alien civilisations, an artificial planet built for war, an undersea culture with a mix of enemies and allies, unwitting human underlings for alien invaders equipped with unearthly technology, a loch monster, a miniaturised planet with a society based on Universal horror movies, a thing called The Lump who is surprisingly amenable to conversation, superhuman propaganda, a robot boxer with a convenient off switch, a Metropolis cop defeating an alien champion with a weapon using the city’s entire power grid...

Jodie Whittaker reacts to 13th Doctor cosplay

“That is amazing!”