Plural Z Alpha

Daniel Tessier. Sundry geekery. Lots of Who. Occasionally a bit nsfw. He/him. Queer. English. Old (Level 42) http://danieltessier.blogspot.com

[pluralzalpha]

Links to all my fiction currently available online (mostly but not entirely Doctor Who). I'll update it as and when.

CLASSIC WHO

The Gift of the Garb

Double-drabble. Third Doctor and Jo.

Shadow at the Heart

With James P. Quick. TDWP Brief Encounters series. Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.

Monkey Cups

TDWP Brief Encounters series. Sixth Doctor and Peri.

The Sleeping Ones

Seventh Doctor and Ace. Originally for Mythmakers Presents: Golden Years.

Missing in Action

Seventh Doctor.

Auld Lang Syne

Eighth Doctor (Amnesia arc) and Valeyard. Originally for Shelf Life.

MODERN WHO

Too Young To Die

Eighth to Ninth Doctor. Written long before we knew about the War Doctor or the Moment.

A World Apart

Ninth Doctor, Rose, Captain Jack and Iris Wildthyme. Originally on the Iris Wildthyme Pages, later printed in Bafflement and Devotion.

The Orb of Amarella

Tenth Doctor.

Time-Crossed

First Doctor, Steven and Sara Kingdom; Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. Originally for Time Shadows: Second Nature.

Ace

Thirteenth Doctor and Ace. Written pre-Power of the Doctor.

The Under Gallery, or, The Curator's Egg

The Curator (Tom Baker version).

ALT & FAN DOCTORS

A Spoonful Weighs a Ton

Shalka Doctor, Alison and the Master.

Frozen in Time

Shalka Doctor and the Master. Originally for Nine Lives.

The Fossilist

With James P. Quick. TDWP Brief Encounters series. Basil Rathbone (9th) Doctor, Silver and Mary Anning.

City of the Dragon

TDWP main series. Basil Rathbone (9th) Doctor, Val and Tom.

Peace of Mind

TDWP main series. Vincent Perez (10th) Doctor, Val and Tom.

Timebase

With Hamish Crawford and Meg MacDonald. TDWP Main series. Winston Adderly (11th) Doctor, Maggie and Simon.

BATMAN

World's Greatest Detective: The Lynx of Mbacké

Two-part audio adventure! CP Studios. Starring Terry Cooper as Batman and Jessica Matthews as Selina Kyle.

ORIGINAL SCI-FI & FANTASY

The Gorgon: Medusa's Story

Ginny

Don't Drink the Water

The Edge: Gazing Into Other Worlds

Pathways to Now

AVAILABLE TO BUY (under the break)

Forgotten Lives 2 (Obverse Books)

Includes my story "The First Englishmen" featuring Morbius Doctor III and his children, Jilly and Cedric. Ebook format available.

Forgotten Lives 3 (Obverse Books)

Includes my story "Scientific Advisor," also featuring Morbius Doctor III. Both ebook and paperback are currently available.

Iris Wildthyme of Mars (Obverse Books)

Starring Iris Wildthyme in her "Barbarella" incarnation and her good friend Panda. Includes my story "Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Bad Weekend," a sequel to Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (aka Gulliver of Mars). Ebook and paperback currently available.

Bafflement and Devotion: Iris at the Edges (Obverse Books)

A charity anthology of Iris Wildthyme oddities, which includes "A World Apart" (see above) and many more weird and wonderful stories. Ten paperback copies are available at time of writing.

The Curse of Fanfic (Obverse Books)

A collection of madness, with a variety of 20th century TV crossovers. Includes my story, "Gadget Goes to Launch," which I believe to be the only Inspector Gadget/Doctor Who crossover in print. Ebook only currently.

Sarah Jane Smith: Roving Reporter (Pencil Tip Publishing)

A collection of stories, comics and essays starring the perennial favourite companion, Sarah Jane. Includes my story "Exposure." Available in print again for a limited time.

Sarah Jane Smith: Roving Reporter II (Pencil Tip Publishing)

A second volume of essays and new fiction, including my story "Remembrance." All proceeds to the British Columbia Cancer Foundation.

TDWP Season 37 Omnibus (The Doctor Who Project)

All nine stories from TDWP Season 37 featuring the Basil Rathbone Ninth Doctor, including my story City of the Dragon, collected in paperback format.

Master Pieces (Altrix Books)

An original collection of stories starring the Master in their many lives, including my Unbound story "The Devil You Know."

[peytowin]

played as her ONCE in mario party jamboree and now Im obsessed

[smileyobrien]

Especially when you're working with the Cardassians.

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE – 5.19 "Ties of Blood and Water"

[the-1-foxy]

I saw a screenshot of some AI gen (or photoshop idk) of Doctor who supporting Nigel Farage, and it pissed me off so much I drew him punching that stupid fucker in the head.

[politijohn]

Source

[butterflypeaflowertea]

feeling this old mitski tweet so hard lately

[nikuttek]

Uh oh, I've got bad news for you, Grace

instagram | tiktok

[depsidase]

[pluralzalpha]

How do we say that? Because this seems like an essential word.

[dduane]

The Star Trek title card generator is over here:

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

The sitemaker (Josh Mayfield at https://bsky.app/profile/bean525.bsky.social) has asked for people to come in and kick its tires so he can work out any bugs they turn up. So do give him a hand, if you feel inclined. :)

(also, deeply amused by this one...)

[girlsjustwannahaveadegree]

Look, I'm only on season 2 of voyager, and maybe he gets better, but...

[killjoy-cutie]

This has no doubt been said before but it would be endlessly better for everyone if we taught children how to identify grooming behavior (making you feel special, secret keeping, desensitization to inappropriate behavior) instead of banning them from being friends with adults, especially in the age of the internet.

Social isolation is good for no one and puts kids/teens in a far more vulnerable position than the alternative.

[futchdoctor]

Need my mutuals who aren't into the extended media for doctor who to know there's a canon human au for the eighth doctor where he's an ambigiously gay schizospec landlord. He still has 2 hearts, and his mother is an Eastern European mermaid. Also gets pregnant in the leg with a baby angel.

[butterfly-room]

showed this post to my friend who doesn't know doctor who and they had questions

[danielfeketewrites]

I should read The Blue Angel

[pluralzalpha]

Always hated that "goof." Talk about missing the point of the 20 Questions epilogue.

[craymor1]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

[emotional-support-husband]

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

[chekhovs-raygun]

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

[lizardlicks]

this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.

[hapalopus]

And yes, it's still needed today, despite no one wearing hats. People will go to crazy lengths to acquire rare feathers

Dead Exotic Bird Thief | Field Ethos

By Andrew Court In 2009, a college kid named Edwin Rist broke into the British Natural History museum…

[depsidase]

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

How did it get up there

[piratekayte]

It’s difficult to tell - typically light fixtures are installed using some combination of screws and brackets to affix them to the wall, but in this case the actual point of connection is obscured by a cat.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[dumbpuppyfag]

okay fine let's start over from the top

lesson 1: you have to respect women

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 2: yes, even the ones you don't want to fuck

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 3: also you have to respect the ones you do want to fuck. even if you don't get to fuck them at the end.

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 4: sometimes (not always but often enough) respecting women means shutting the fuck up. whether you like this or not is immaterial. you will likely find that this is something of a cheat code for respecting women because so few people do it. this is because we live in hell.

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 5: the fact that you say you respect women does not automatically mean that you do. there is no incantation that makes the cultural effects of misogyny disappear.

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 6: your position relative to misogyny is a political concept and not a moral one. whether you are a "good person" is irrelevant. if you do not actively seek to understand and account for your position of relative privilege then you will exploit it without even noticing. this is harmful to women.

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 7: whatever objections you currently have to the previous 6 lessons are definitely not new and there are entire academic libraries going over them. this is part of lesson 4.

[dumbpuppyfag]

lesson 8: in some ways privilege, be it gendered or racialised or otherwise, is like walking through life with a hammer duct-taped to your hand. you didn't ask for the hammer, there are few (if any) personal consequences for using it and when you're pissed off, it can be really really tempting to swing it. you must never do this, even if you have one million ways to justify it to yourself. even if you hate a particular woman, you must resist the urge to weaponise misogyny against her. there are no exceptions to this.

[nonbino-chaos-fox]

Lesson 9: respecting women includes trans and intersex women

[dumbpuppyfag]