You can nominate any character in the Whoniverse, human, alien, robot, it does not matter, the only rule is that they should pass the Harkness test (human intelligence or greater, able to communicate using language, sexually mature for their species)
Current Nominations:
Masters:
Missy
Delgado!Master
Simm!Master
Dhawan!Master
Crispy!Master
Shalka!Master
Jacobi!Master
Ainley!Master
Roberts!Master from MASTER!
Roberts!Master
Classic Who Characters:
Erato (The Creature from the Pit)
Duggan
Meglos!4
Allison Williams (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Rachel Jensen (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Sara Kingdom
Alternate Universe!Liz
Ramón Salamander
Osgood (no this isn't the new who one)
The Rani
Queen Thalira (The Curse of Pleadon)
Andred
Carol (the Sensorites)
Penley (the Ice Warriors)
Isobel (the Invasion)
Kelly (Seeds of Death)
New Who Characters:
Dalek Sec
Tasha Lem
Idris!TARDIS
2000s Sarah-Jane (70s Sarah-Jane will be the automatically qualifying Sarah)
Kate Stewart
Jenny Flint
Vastra
Jabe
Chantho
Shakespeare (this is the most recognisable place he appears in Doctor Who)
Ruth!Doctor
Osgood
Handles
Danny Pink
Bel
Vinder
Jake (Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)
Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)
Jethro (Midnight)
Lady Christina de Souza (Planet of the Dead)
Gwen Cooper
Tallulah (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)
Lynda (Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways)
Liz 10 (The Beast Below)
Frank (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)
Heather (The Pilot)
Sally Sparrow (Blink)
Madam de Pompadour
Miss Evangelista (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)
Ada Lovelace
Billy Shipton (Blink)
Lorna Bucket
Tosh
Stacy Campbell (Partners in Crime)
Anita (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)
Girl who was the sex gas
Frobisher (Torchwood)
EU Characters:
Fey Truscott-Sade
Hebe Harrison
Tom Campbell (Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150AD)
Valarie Lockwood
Compassion
Zagreus!TARDIS
Irving Braxiatel
Trey!Romana
War Queen!Romana
Narvin
Sibling Different
Chris Cwej (first incarnation)
Father Kreiner
Chris Cwej (second incarnation)
Chris Cwej (third incarnation)
Chris Cwej (V Cwej)
Dalek Prime Strategist (Time Lord Victorious)
The Graak (Destiny of the Doctors)
Sheila (Señor 105's companion)
Carmen Yeh (Companion of the Sixth Doctor in a charity anthology and latter companion of Compassion in Book of the War. Also implied to be a companion of the Eighth Doctor as well)
Scarlette (eight doctors wife)
Nivet (Compassions first companion)
Cousin Eliza (Cousin Justine's companion aka the Grandfather Paradox (who has a slim chance of being the Doctor so that backs it up)
Sally Armstrong (the Master’s companion (the master might also part of the Doctor depending on the source, or at the very least a reincarnation of the same person)
Patience (the Others wife or the first doctors wife or the infinity doctors wife, depends on source)
Daisy Weston the companion of the Robert Banks Stewart Doctor
Alison Cheney
The City of the Saved
Laura Tobin
The War King
Marie
Ulysses
Penelope Gate
Homunculette
Lolita
Marnal
Captain Scarlet
Doctor Fawn
The Mysterons
Colonel White
Steve Zodiac
Venus (Fireball XL5)
Captain Black
Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme
Claudia Marwood
Lauren Anderson
Other polls about the running of this tournament:
splitting up men and women for as long as numbers allow
including or excluding companions it is very difficult or impossible to read as adults (all their actors are adults)
Nominations will be open for 24 hours, closing around 13:30 BST (UTC + 1), 03/09
QUARTO DE DESPEJO (2023)
Carolina Maria de Jesus e Ruth de Souza
Quarto de Despejo" é um livro escrito por Carolina Maria de Jesus, uma escritora brasileira nascida em Minas Gerais em 1914 e falecida em 1977. O livro foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1960 e é um relato autobiográfico que apresenta o cotidiano de Carolina Maria de Jesus na favela do Canindé, em São Paulo.
O título "Quarto de Despejo" refere-se ao local onde Carolina vivia, um barraco precário na favela. No livro, ela descreve as condições de vida difíceis, a pobreza extrema, a fome e as lutas diárias para sobreviver. Carolina registrava suas experiências em diários, nos quais ela expressava seus pensamentos, emoções e observações sobre a realidade à sua volta.
O livro ganhou destaque por retratar a vida de uma mulher negra e pobre no Brasil durante os anos 1950 e 1960. Carolina Maria de Jesus foi uma das primeiras escritoras negras a alcançar reconhecimento no país, e "Quarto de Despejo" é considerado um importante documento histórico e literário que oferece uma visão única das condições de vida nas favelas brasileiras naquela época.
Neuroscientists have had the monopoly on using light-activated proteins to induce electrical impulses in cells. This ability to control cell firing at the flick of a switch has revolutionised research into the brain, but brain cells are not the only electrical cells in nature. It’s understood, for example, that changes in microbial cell electrophysiology regulate all sorts of processes including spore production, biofilm formation and susceptibility to antibiotics. With this in mind, researchers have now adapted tools previously used in neurons for use in bacteria. The bacteria in the video contain such photoswitch proteins and, when exposed to light for 10 seconds (every 10 minutes), become negatively charged (hyperpolarised) – seen as a pulse of blue colour. As a proof-of-concept experiment, these flashing bacteria open the door for research into various aspects of microbial electrophysiology and pave the way for developing synthetic bacteria whose functions can be controlled by light.
Written by Ruth Williams
Video from work by Tailise Carolina De Souza-Guerreiro and colleagues
School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK and Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Teconologia, Milano, Italy
Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Advanced Science, January 2023
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here we go another one of these BUT this time, it's companionbait, i.e. characters who are introduced and portrayed as characters that could be companions, potentially even offered the role by the Doctor at some point, but for one reason or another never appeared past their first serial.
There's many characters who I consider absolutely perfect examples of this trope, and some who are essentially stand-in companions who kinda have to go in here, but then there's also a bunch of characters who I'm not entirely sure about, and therefore to narrow down the numbers and also allow for extra submissions, I'm gonna run some polls to see who gets in before I start the bracket itself.
Before I set those up tomorrow though this is the opportunity to send me asks about who you think should be included under the definition of "single-use almost-companion - a character who acted as a temporary companion to the Doctor and perhaps was even invited onboard, but who was never in more than one episode"
The list of ones I'll be putting to a vote and the one's I'm 100% using is below:
Already absolutely using:
Lynda (Bad Wolf)
Mrs Moore (Rise of the Cybermen)
Rita (The God Complex)
Astrid Peth (Voyage of the Damned)
Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)
Clara Oswin Oswald (The Snowmen)
Madge Arwell (The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe)
Christina de Souza (Planet of the Dead)
Jackson Lake (The Next Doctor)
Chief Engineer Perkins (Mummy on the Orient Express)
Grace O'Brien (The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
Cass (Under the Lake)
Ida Scott (The Impossible Planet)
In the vote tomorrow:
Nasreen Chaudhry (The Hungry Earth)
The Tardis / Idris (The Doctor's Wife)
Owsin Oswald (Asylum of the Daleks)
Ruth Clayton (Fugitive of the Judoon)
The Ghost (The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
Erica (The Pyramid at the End of the World)
Agent O (Spyfall)
Claire (Flux)
Karvanista (Flux)
Jabe (The End of the World)
Joan Redfern (Human Nature)
Madame de Pompadour (The Girl in the Fireplace)
Sally Sparrow (Blink)
Maebh Arden (In the Forest of the Night)
Canton Everett Delaware III (The Impossible Astronaut)
Psi (Time Heist)
Saibra (Time Heist)
Elton Pope (Love & Monsters)
Seria o dia da consciência humana, se humanos a tivessem. Viva Zumbi, Dandara, Aqualtune, Aleijadinho, Tereza de Benguela, Mestre Valentim, Padre José Maurício Machado de Assis, Barbosa, Pelé, Luís Gama, Maria Firmina do Reis, Marielle Franco, Daiane dos Santos, Ruth de Souza, Estêvão Silva, André Rebouças, Grande Otelo, José do Patrocínio, Nilo Peçanha, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Francisco José do Nascimento, Louis Armstrong , B.B. King, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Mãe Menininha do Gantois, Pixinguinha, Gilberto Gil, Cartola, D. Zica, Jamelão, a poesia de Carolina de Jesus, Abdias do Nascimento, Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Moacir Santos, a irreverência de Mussum, viva... como diria Jorge Ben Jor: “Negro é Lindo”... orgulho dos meus antepassados, do meu avô, do meu pai!#diadaconsciêncianegra #diadaconsciêncianegraétododia #preconceitonão #racismonão #racismoécrime #respeito https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMTnzXvk0Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Começando as postagens com uma das nossas maiores damas da dramaturgia brasileira, a minha favorita entre todas, a saudosa e inigualável Ruth de Souza (1921-2019), estrela de primeira grandeza do teatro, cinema e televisão, uma das mulheres que abriu os caminhos para toda uma infinidade de outras atrizes negras do nosso país.
Judy Garland / Judy T734
Ruth Asenlund / with Kurt Jarnberg Quintet cooplp280
Bud Powell / Bud rlp-2224
Jack Montrose / Jack Montrose Sextet pj-1208
Bill Evans / Since We Met F-9501
Zoot Sims / The Art Of Jazz CELP-4520
Dusko Goykovich / Ten To Two Blues eny45
Hampton Hawes / Two Sides of Hampton Hawes jas-4004/2
Music Minus One / Swing With A Band MMO1022
Chico Hamilton / Jazz Milestones Series pj10108
Swedish Radio Jazz Group / Rainbow Sketches Cmlp590
Paul Butterfield / Better Days br2119
Eric Quincy Tate / Drinking Man's Friend CP0104
Third World / All The Way Strong bl38687
John Holt / Time Is The Master ctlp109
George McCrae / Rock Your Baby tk501
Wilson Simonal / Alegria Alegria Mofb3508
L'Ensemble Amaro De Souza / Saudades Do Brasil ARN33198
Nina Souza diz que, com Álvaro, Natal ficou “estagnada”: “Obras só existem por causa de Rogério Marinho”
A vereadora Nina Souza (PDT) fez, nesta terça-feira (23), duras críticas à gestão do prefeito Álvaro Dias (Republicanos). Em entrevista à jornalista Anna Ruth Dantas, na Rádio Cidade, a parlamentar declarou que as obras realizadas atualmente pela Prefeitura do Natal, sob a gestão de Álvaro Dias, só estão sendo executadas por ação do senador Rogério Marinho (PL) na época em que era ministro do…
Wow I loved learning about her she seemed pretty talented but still humble unlike most American icons and the photos of her over the years were remarkable thank you for sharing ❤️
Oh you're welcome. Reading this makes me SO happy. <3 <3
Talking about your own country can be very ambiguous cause, people are getting like very patriotic in a extreme way that is not very healthy...(And sometimes is contradictory ). There are some things of my country that I dislike alot or better saying: I do not relate to it. Like the hot weather, samba (I don't listen to samba much...Only a few few times with some very very specific artists), Anitta (eaehch...I dont like how she is making music all about sex sex sex sex sex...she poorly talented and she is very arrogant and she thinks she is like some pioneer of something lol), soccer (I hate soccer, it brings me a bad vibes and I hate hate hate hate very much).
But there are great things in my country that are nice: We have a great nature in some places (we dont live in the jungle lol) (but people are destroying :( ) , we have great actresses and actors like Ruth de Souza she was a brazilian who was running for best actress for the Leone d'Oro awards. (she passed away), Fernanda Montenegro (the only brazilian to run in the oscar with best actress), Tais Araujo and Lazaro Ramos (they are the Beyoncé and the Jay Z of the movies and soap operas), they are GREAT people.
We have a classical must-see movie called: A Dog's Will (O Auto da Compadecida)
This movie is a MUST SEE to any brazilian. To me this movie is like, Parasite, Past Lives level of SO GOOD. Its very funny and smart. We have some great musicians. I told about Rita Lee, she was the greatest, also there is Elza Soares who was almost a saint. She was amazing as well. (she also passed away)
sorry, I crossed cause if you let me, I just feel like a host introducing my own house lol
Um mergulho na MPB e no Jazz: Segundo Set Instrumental apresenta o show "Imaginatividade" no Teatro Ruth de Souza
Segundo Set Instrumental apresenta o show “Imaginatividade” no Teatro Ruth de Souza
Turnê de lançamento do álbum da renomada banda chega a Santa Teresa no dia 24 de novembro, sexta-feira, às 19h
A banda Segundo Set Instrumental vai encantar o público com uma experiência sonora que une MPB e Jazz no Teatro Municipal Ruth de Souza, em Santa Teresa, no dia 24 de novembro, sexta-feira, às 19h. O…