There’s going to be some math for a moment. Bleep over the actual figuring if you like and bear with me.

Here is the Excel formula I use to calculate the current point in years in Doctor Who’s screen history:
=(NOW()-23338.75)/365.25+1  
The figure which the formula returns today, rounded to two decimal places, is 54.14. That is, had Doctor Who aired a season a year without a break since 11/22/63, we would now be one-seventh through the year when the fifty fourth season aired.  

Now subtract from that figure for every year I don’t consider there was any airings of Doctor Who. I don’t just mean years there was no full tv season. I keep in my count the year of Dimensions in Time and the year of the movie and even 2004 as the hypothetical year there was an imaginary season of the War Doctor, and that’s not a complete list of my inclusions (details available on request but that’s not what this post is about). The point is, this result is 43.14, or forty three and one seventh. Half of forty three and one seventh is twenty one and four sevenths. This is significant because Peri Brown, my favorite companion and my favorite companion to put in smut, joined the program in the fifth serial of seven in Season 21 in 1984.

I’ve written once or twice here that the pure excess of options to choose from when sitting down to make smut of Doctor Who characters, not to mention of Doctor Who crossovers with other franchises, is often immobilizing to me. At the same time you may have noticed that only Peri comes at all close to rivaling the Doctor for characters’ number of appearances here. Often my attempts to be inclusive and cosmopolitan run parallel to making notes on yet another scenario when Peri is persuaded by circumstances that, even though she feels zero or negative romantic or sexual attraction for the Doctor and vice versa, today for some improbable reason is a good day for Time Lord dick.

(I’m sorry-not-sorry to disappoint anyone who stops by here looking for romantic SixPeri shipping. To my id, it’s much hotter for these two characters to hook up with the added tension of each being someone the other is usually actively opposed to sharing nudity, genitalia and orgasms with.)

So I’m going to stop suppressing that impulse. Peri remained on Doctor Who through the second serial of four of the twenty-third season. Twice 23.5 is 47; minus 43.14 is 3.86. So for the next almost four years, when I wanna draw or write here about Peri Brown naked and/or having sex, I’ll please myself.

As long as I haven’t left the good drawing laptop at work for the weekend.