Tom Murch

@thomasjohnmurch.bsky.social

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Born in Britain, raised by humans, taught the myriad secrets of the UK National Curriculum and elevated to the rank of Master of History. A punny guy. He/Him.

A Raptor, a bipedal military mech from the video game G-Police: Weapons of Justice, strides down a tunnel.
A screencap from Doctor Who series 6 episode 10, The Girl Who Waited. Amy Pond is drawing an arrow on a pair of white doors, having already written "Doctor, I'm waiting" above.
A screencap from the video game Divinity: Original Sin 2. A ghostly figure known only as the Spirit of the Apprentice is talking to the protagonist, saying, "To consume a being's Source is to consume their memories, their loves, their essence ... all the echoes of themselves, gone. It is worse than death. It is oblivion." The protagonist has two possible responses: "Consume the spirit's Source" or "Take your leave."
A screencap from the video game Life Is Strange, episode 5, "Polarized." After repeatedly rewinding time, Max Caulfield is once again unable to stop Mark Jefferson from shooting and killing David Madsen; this time, after having done so, Jefferson mutters, "Déjà vu."
A GIF from the video game Mass Effect, showing the Mako infantry fighting vehicle burning and badly damaged.
A screencap from the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, showing Elizabeth (portrayed by Jennifer Ehle) sat at the dinner table beside Mr Collins (David Bamber).
A screencap from Doctor Who series 8 episode 12, Death in Heaven. The Doctor, portrayed by Peter Capaldi, is saying, "That's your answer for everything, isn't it? Vote for an idiot."
A screencap from the video game Divinity: Original Sin 2. A text box shows an old rabbit saying, "My days of chasing does is long past me, of course. A shady grove and the occasional root vegetable is more than enough to keep me happy now."
A screencap from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, showing a young Anakin Skywalker running away from a hoverbike-mounted Darth Maul.
A screencap from the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode, The Day of the Doctor. Clara Oswald (portrayed by Jenna Coleman) looks somewhat confused as she tries to threaten some people she cannot even see with her non-existent powers of witchcraft, saying, "...or I'll turn you all into frogs."
A screencap from Star Wars: Visions season 3 episode 4. The protagonist, Sevn, has been knocked to the ground, whilst Jin-Sim looms over her in a giant gold-plated droideka mech-suit.
A screencap from the TV show Doctor Who, season 3 episode 12 (the third part of The Dalek's Master Plan), from 1965. The Doctor is saying, "The Daleks will stop at anything to prevent us", instead of the more common and appropriate saying, 'stop at nothing.'
A screencap from the TV show Doctor Who, season 3 episode 12 (the third part of The Dalek's Master Plan), from 1965. Steven is saying, "The Daleks aren't going to leave a tape around with their plans on it."
A screencap from the TV show Doctor Who, season 3 episode 10 (the first part of The Dalek's Master Plan), from 1965. Two Daleks meet in a jungle; the one of the left is saying, "One man remains. Find and destroy him!"
The title card for the movie Hail the Conquering Hero.
A screencap from Doctor Who series 6 episode 2, The Day of the Moon. Rory Williams and the Eleventh Doctor are both sat in a dark room, talking about Rory's memories of his life as the Last Centurion.
In an interview from 2015, Pope Francis said, “If Dr. Gasbarri, a great friend, says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him.” This screencap from that interview shows the pope pretending to hit Gabbarri, along with the translation text "a punch awaits him."
A behind-the-scenes shot from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2- Yuri's Revenge, showing Udo Kier (playing as Yuri) and two brains in strange jars adorned with psychic technology.
A screenshot from The Simpsons, season 3 episode 19. In a dream sequence, Homer imagines what he'd do if he won the lottery: the image shows a towering, gold-covered version of himself talking to Lenny in the cafeteria at work.
An image from Life Is Strange, showing Chloe glancing at Max whilst driving her through a wooded area. The golden sunlight shining through the trees is beautiful enough to make me weep.
A picture of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil Requiem, looking slightly smug.
A picture of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil Requiem, looking slightly smug.
An advert for the video game Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered, showing dual protagonists Raziel and Kain bearing their respective Soul Reaver blades, with Janos Audron behind them.
Two characters from Stranger Things - Eleven and Max - standing in a doorway.
A screencap from the TV show The Nevers, season 1 episode 4. The image shows a chess board, where all the regular pieces have been replaced by small pieces of cheese, each bearing a tiny flag to show which side and piece-type it represents.
A screencap from the TV show Small Prophets, series 1 episode 4. An old man (played by Michael Palin) is telling his son that he recently won "Remote-controlled cars. Six of them," in a competition.
A screencap from Wonder Man season 1 episode 2; Trevor Slattery (portrayed by Ben Kingsley) is sat texting on his phone, saying, "I would never text a sentence fragment."
A screencap from the 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It shows the protagonists on their bicycles at the moment they are telekinetically raised into the air, flying over a police-car barricade (to the astonishment of the two shotgun-armed officers beside their vehicles).
A screencap from Doctor Who series 5 episode 1, "The Eleventh Hour." The image shows the home of the young Amelia Pond, and the subtitle text shows her words as she utters the first spoken line in the Moffat era: "Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish."
An image of the recently-released Doctor Who series 10 official soundtrack; the piece of music currently playing is titled, "Operation Exodus."
A screenshot from Doctor Who series 5 episode 13, "The Big Bang." Amy Pond (played by Karen Gillan) is saying, "I brought the others back, I can bring you home too."
A screencap from Doctor Who, series 5 episode 3; "Victory of the Daleks." In a spacious and sterile-looking chamber, the Eleventh Doctor is confronted outside the Progenitor Device by three Daleks, one of which is saying, "It is our past. And our future."
A promotional picture for the Doctor Who spin-off show Torchwood, showing the main cast.
A screenshot from the BBC iPlayer, showing an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The image shows Jo Jones (nee Grant) and Sarah Jane Smith smiling at each other, and the title of the episode: "Death of the Doctor: Part 1."
A screenshot from the 2022 movie "Pearl", where the titular character is snogging a scarecrow in a cornfield.