#post-war britain

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The Balloonist - Wulfrun (2025)

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Post-War London Dr. Who companion

They don’t even know what a banana is, nevermind the aliens. All they know is smog and cans of spam.

They have the exact same reaction to outer space/universes beyond our comprehension as they do to like… Brazil. They form a conspiracy theory that the Americans are descended from aliens and refuse to drop it because the notion of America as a country is just so strange to them they struggle to comprehend it. They ask all the aliens they meet if they know the Americans much to the doctor’s embarrassment.

They go to London in the modern day and they’re like “Okay… not much has changed.”

But they’re taken to a slightly different part of England in the same year, same everything and they’re like

“Wow, Doctor! What planet is this?!”

“………..this is Coventry.”

They will eat literally anything from any era or planet. I mean it beats rationing, amarite? And plus, people came up with some weird recipes during rationing. (Or just. Y’know. Use carrots for everything.)

They go back home for an episode and tell all these colourful stories to the people they know, their family, their football mates, and everyone thinks they’ve gone mad but they’re so intrigued! And it brings some light into the lives of people that really, really need it.

They’re bright and cheery and resilient in the face of danger because they grew up in the aftermath of ‘blitz spirit’ where people had to keep calm and carry on otherwise the stress of the situation would completely break them. Maybe sometimes they share little tidbits of their home life and the doctor is just stunned by how thrilled they are about such small things that seem so pathetic and trivial to a nigh-immortal alien.

They talk about playing football in the smog when you couldn’t even see the other side of the pitch and how it made playground games much more exciting as a kid (The doctor is very concerned for their health). They talk about how much fun they used to have playing on old bomb ruins with their friends. They talk about the pranks they pulled at school and how their education was completely useless but they had a jolly good time being educated, despite the beatings. They know how to find joy in difficult places and situations.

Maybe every once in a while they drop a short sad bit like “Oh, I never saw my parents’ wedding photos myself. Their best friends had them in their house during the war, you see, and I’m afraid the bombs took the photos with them.” or “My mother cried when I turned eighteen because I was old enough now to be sent away to war if things turned sour with Russia.” but they say it cheerily and almost seem not to realise the tone of the conversation has gone down because everyone has stories like that, don’t they?

They take home souvenirs from every adventure they go on with the doctor and in episodes where they go home they slowly build up a display for them in their family home.

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MyNDTALK – Wogamatter - Esther Lawson

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MyNDTALK - What's the Matter_Wogamatter Esther Lawson

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MyNDTALK - What's the Matter_Wogamatter Esther Lawson

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I just watched a great documentary about the Cold War in Britain.

In the late 1940s, two Communist spies were discovered. They also happened to be gay. According to the crazy logic at the time that meant that all gay men were therefore Communist spies. Cue many people getting arrested.

Christ.