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Sixth Doctor Era Fan • Merroney Apologist • Bakerloony • Writer and Bibliophile

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The skull cane
The curved stashe
The crocs (lol)
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Had this been a different show, Reynard and Portia would’ve made a nice couple.

30.09.2025 21:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Colin Baker wearing a dark ensemble and a wielding a cane with a skull on it

Colin Baker wearing a dark ensemble and a wielding a cane with a skull on it

Goth Colin in blue and red nightclub lighting

Goth Colin in blue and red nightclub lighting

Oh, hello 👀
Thank you Shakespeare and Hathaway for giving us Bakerloonies more Goth Colin 😍

30.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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a man in a black hoodie is sitting in the stands during a basketball game and says lets gooooo . ALT: a man in a black hoodie is sitting in the stands during a basketball game and says lets gooooo .

They finally announced the airdate for s5 of Shakespeare and Hathaway. It’s about time.

09.09.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds about right for Mr Hammond. Always dressed up with nowhere to go.

07.09.2025 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

This implies that someone will actually bother! Ted couldn’t be arsed, Brian is too busy with Jane, David “has plans“, and Paul ain’t saving nobody.

So…where’s Gwen Riley?

07.09.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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March 20, 1979 - Hull Daily Mail - A meeting of Doctor Who stars as Katy Manning and Colin Baker star in a production of Odd Man In.
#doctorwho #katymanning #colinbaker #oddmanin #hulldailymail #throwbackthursday

14.04.2025 13:00 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
An excerpt of the Doctor Who 2019 Annual. It reads “Best Friend: Peri Brown” and is accompanied by a brief biography of Peri along with a photo of her and the Doctor in the TARDIS

An excerpt of the Doctor Who 2019 Annual. It reads “Best Friend: Peri Brown” and is accompanied by a brief biography of Peri along with a photo of her and the Doctor in the TARDIS

I was not expecting to see this bit of cuteness while reading the Sixth Doctor page of the #doctorwho 2019 Annual.

Let the truth be known! 🙌

11.04.2025 20:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Bayban the Butcher boxset and Bayban Ascending tie-in. Which is odd considering Blake's 7 has a small but robust fanbase.

I’d love a volume two, but I don’t think it’s in the cards.

04.04.2025 16:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s so neat!

03.04.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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le bonheur (1965) dir. agnès varda

18.03.2025 09:27 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

The new season of Shakespeare and Hathaway can’t come fast enough.

02.04.2025 22:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New Colin content?

22.02.2025 20:57 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

(2/2)

90s and beyond:

May 93 This Morning Interview
93 - 30 Years in the Tardis outtakes
12/94 Anne and Nick Interview
2/96 Sci-fi bizz
1999 cyber cafe
2001 Dead Ringers
2003 Born sloppy
21/12/2003 - GMTV

Thanks in advance

17.02.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reposting this, sorry. My last comment was inaccurate.

All Colin Baker era:

22/3/84 Breakfast Time
25/8/84 Saturday Picture Show
14/8/86 USA interview
86 Whovent Interview
86 Blue Peter
86 Peter Dickson’s Nightcap
23/11/86 KRCA interviews

(Part 1/2)

Any of these would be appreciated

17.02.2025 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi @tme1998.bsky.social, do you have the actual copies of the media you have listed on your site or is information (such as duration, dates, and images) compiled from various sources?

17.02.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Please start!

I’ve got nothing against genre fic (especially romance, which would be my favorite if I had to choose), but like you said, it’s been difficult finding accounts that aren’t dedicated to speculative stories or whatever’s popular on social media.

11.02.2025 00:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi there!

10.02.2025 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read Monte Cristo in two days based on some random recommendation by a celebrity I like, so I think I liked it haha.

If Beale Street Could Talk, but any of James Baldwin’s books count.

Sula got me hooked on Toni Morrison

10.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hi #booksky. On my journey to making my bluesky more book-oriented, I’m looking for people to follow who read primarily (and post about) literary fiction, poetry, or classics in general.

#literaryfiction #litfic #poetry #classics

10.02.2025 18:52 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

I’m a huge fan of Japanese novels and poetry, so I’ve dabbled in my fair share.

“On Love and Barley” by Basho is a nice haiku collection, as are “For All My Walking” from Santoka and “Essential Haiku” with Basho, Buson, and Issa (translated by Robert Hass).

#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚

10.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

At nearly 700 pages, my longest was definitely Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis. I couldn’t put this book down. It’s depressing thru and thru, but helps you see EP as the well-rounded person he was.

Shortest was Gd Help the Child by Toni Morrison. Also a good read.

#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚

01.02.2025 00:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s a Disney Princess voice if I ever heard one :)

Love the Aerosmith cover, too!

05.01.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a person is kneeling down on the floor in a room . Alt: A guy collapsing to his knees and wailing in emotional distress

I am, once again, as always, as per usual, in my feelings that #thebrothers1972 never got an eighth season

04.01.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s what I’m saying! Fanart also has a reputation for being nsfw depending on who you talk to, but that doesn’t stop the artists from having an “upper hand”. You can draw SFW, NSFW, AU art and be fine.

Meanwhile writers as a collective have to write canon-compliant genfic to be taken seriously.

04.01.2025 00:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Footnote: I’m not saying I want to shove my writing into anyone’s face, but, as someone who is not ashamed of my work, I don’t like these imaginary barriers that force me to look at my work in a shameful way.

03.01.2025 23:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AND we have double-standards towards us. Artists can give the cast and crew their art/tag them on social media, can sell it, can display it wherever.

But writers are barred from mentioning the word “fanfic” within a 200mi radius of relevant persons. Why is our art supposed to be left in the dark?

03.01.2025 23:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Spock was first

FF a few eons, I watched the Sixth Doctor—one of the most blatant autism representations I’ve seen. I instantly connected with him

Then I watched The Brothers. Paul Merroney has traits carbon-copied all over him

Honestly, Colin’s filmography is rife with autistic-esque characters

02.01.2025 20:49 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, I miss TWoP. Primetimer is/was a very poor substitute.

02.01.2025 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right? The number of overlapping actors is one thing, but all the dialogue that parallels each other is fascinating.

02.01.2025 20:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lmao I much prefer the outfits Peri wears that are more aligned with her age and personality. The pantsuit ensembles are a bit too mature for her, in my view. More businesswoman than California college chick

02.01.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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