#huon particles

[doctorkinktraveller]

[astrhae]

-- "I really do remember, though. Every second with you."

[bugeater77]

me and the best friend i pulled by getting dosed with huon particles

[jennycalendar]

donna slapping the doctor as he starts getting into his excited kid-in-a-candy-store infodumping about the science behind why she's been dosed with huon particles, then demanding to know if he's "enjoying this." OH i am chewing on that one real hard. up until this point rose has been the doctor's companion and she was always so unilaterally charmed by his enthusiasm, no matter the context -- not just that, but regularly joining in! it was like a playground to BOTH of them and they paid the price, and now we're seeing the doctor, consciously or subconsciously, gravitating towards a person who is going to force him to take things seriously, because when he's around someone who encourages him to play around, he gets them hurt. he very nearly gets them killed

[jareaulover]

Ya know what? Fuck Lance. I'll marry Donna. I would treat her right. I would love to hear all her pup culture trivia. I would get excited over new Pringle flavors with her. I would bring her coffee with NO huon particles. I would love Donna!!!@

[ninemelodies]

look don’t get me wrong i LOVE runaway bride but the way donna just SCREAMS whenever the huon particles activate will never not be funny

[doctor-who-binge]

So, in Turn Left, I wonder how The Doctor stopped the Racnoss because he only found out about her because Donna had huon (?) particles and ended up in his TARDIS. Also who was the stand in for Donna who got poisoned with the huon particles

[teecupangel]

What about a crossover with Doctor Who? I can imagine each of the assassins meeting The Doctor, and they will become companion to The Doctor. Also, The Master working with the templars to try to take over Earth. (You don't have to do this ask if you haven't seen the show.)

Oh man…

I was thinking that it would be cool if the Doctor regenerated to Desmond but I realized that it wouldn’t be Desmond himself, just the Doctor taking his face (kinda of like how Twelve isn’t the same dude as the one in Pompeii or the one in Torchwood) so instead, have this alternative:

The Doctor’s primary companion is Desmond who, at this point, is just a simple bartender running away from his past.

Instead of the Assassins becoming companions of the Doctor, it’s the Tardis doing her own thing and bringing the Doctor and Desmond to their lives.

Maybe it’s just a random day where a medjay is looking for all those Bastet-forsaken cats which turned into this hunt for a feline alien species who were actually abducting the little furballs.

Maybe they get lost on this foggy island and meet a random mercenary who was there for a job and it turns out this supposed mythological creature she is hunting was some kind of hostile alien lifeforce who should not be in earth at all.

Maybe they were just looking at one of the oldest churches in the world when a raiding party starts burning things and the Doctor is forced to help Desmond fend them off so that the villagers could run away.

Then it starts getting personal. Desmond meets the Assassins of old.

An arrogant Syrian who doesn’t even realize just how lonely he was because he had always been alone.

A fallen Italian noble so wrapped in grief and rage, not giving himself enough time to rest.

A young Indigenous American finding himself in the middle of the Americans’ bid for independence, only wishing to protect his village.

Desmond doesn’t know them but he feels a connection with them. The Doctor stresses that they cannot change the past, that doing so would be catastrophic for the entire timeline.

So Desmond doesn’t. He helps anyway he can that the Doctor allows but he never forgets them. He never forgets…

The throwing knife Altaïr gives him silently before they left…

The warmth of Ezio’s final embrace…

The quiet goodbye he shared with Ratonhnhaké:ton…

Even as he continues to be the Doctor’s companion…

Spending a few weeks sailing the West Indies with a pirate captain, looking for a ghost ship that the Doctor was sure was some kind of spaceship with a failing cloaking system…

Watching the earthquake in Lisbon and only being able to help the people who swam towards the ship they were in…

Accidentally getting swept up into the storming of Bastille prison because the Tardis brought them smack in the middle of the said prison…

Meeting Florence Nightingale at Lambeth Asylum and getting the Doctor to help out any way he can…

In the end, Desmond still ends up sacrificing his life to protect the world in 2012 but the Doctor ends up accidentally saving him in a sense. Desmond has one of the highest recorded Isu gene percentage in humanity and Isus were descended from the alien species that later evolved to Timelords. By being in close proximity to the Tardis for so long, his body had become a hybrid of human, Isu and Tardis itself due to the Huon particles and Desmond’s body composition itself. Whether this had been Minerva’s endgoal though… remains a mystery.

Because of this, Desmond sorta regenerated instead of dying but, because of how ‘alien’ Desmond had become, the Tardis starts having an allergic reaction to him. Instead of leaving him stranded somewhere, the Doctor gives him a TARDIS coral so he could grow a TARDIS of his own that wouldn’t be allergic to him.

It might take thousands of years to have his own TARDIS but…

Desmond was looking forward to it.

To having his own adventures with his own companions…

[denimbex1986]

'Ahead of Doctor Who's 60-anniversary specials, David Tennant and Catherine Tate reflect on their shared history on the show. During Tennant's stint as the Tenth Doctor from 2005 to 2010, Tate portrayed one of his most memorable companions, Donna Noble. Although she initially started as a guest star on Doctor Who in 2006, she was later elevated to a lead role in season 4. Noble and the Doctor would have one of the saddest goodbyes, but their story is finally picking up after 13 years as Tennant and Tate will reprise their roles for Doctor Who's three-part 60th-anniversary specials.

Tate and Tennant filmed a short video on the Doctor Who YouTube channel to recap their shared history...

The pair recap everything that happened between Noble and the Doctor ahead of their reunion onscreen. It's quite a chaotic and humorous summary as they try to recall every detail of their history together, with Tennant seemingly remembering more than Tate about Doctor Who's history. However, it's enough to remind viewers of all the significant milestones in Doctor and Noble's adventures together.

What You Need To Know About Donna Before Doctor Who’s Anniversary Specials Tate and Tennant's whirlwind explanation of the Tenth Doctor and Noble's Doctor Who story may be overwhelming, but there are few significant plot points to understand the story in Doctor Who's 60-anniversary specials. Tate's first appearance was one of the franchise's biggest surprises, as she is randomly transported into the Doctor's TARDIS in the final scene of the season 2 finale, "Doomsday." Her story picked up in the 2006 Christmas special "The Runaway Bride," where it is revealed she appeared in the TARDIS because she was steeped in huon particles.

Noble's family is also an essential part of her story, and the Doctor had a close friendship with her grandfather, Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbans).

It turns out that Noble's fiancé had inundated her with the particles as part of his scheme to aid the alien Racnoss Empress (Sarah Parish). By the end of their journey, Noble parted with the Doctor and had to navigate a new life without her partner or former job. Her worldview changed as she went from being a close-minded, naive, and somewhat obnoxious woman to realizing a bigger world exists. That's why when she ran into the Doctor again in season 4, episode 1, "Partners in Crimes," she jumped at the chance to join him and become his official companion.

Together, they shared many great adventures, including meeting the Doctor's daughter, Jenny (Georgia Tennant), and his wife, River Song (Alex Kingston). In the season's final episodes, she becomes imbued with Time Lord knowledge to save the world from Davros (Julian Bleach), but it's too much for her human mind. The Doctor wipes her memory to save her, causing her to forget he existed. It is later revealed she went on to marry Shaun Temple (Karl Collins) and live a normal life. With Noble returning in Doctor Who's 60th-anniversary specials, the pair will finally reunite and perhaps receive a happier ending.'

[doomedandstoned]

Tasmanian Dark Ambient Experimentalists MEKIGAH Reveal 2nd Single for 5th LP

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

From Huonville, a town along the Huon River in Tasmania, Australia, comes MEKIGAH, an ambient industrial doom project of guitarist Richard Ziltch and various collaborators, now five albums deep into the experience and taking us on a disturbing, quasi-mystical journey deeper down the strange rabbit hole of brain-wracking technological acceleration corresponding with social, cultural, environmental, and spiritual decline.

Their forthcoming six-tracker is aptly named: 'To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart' (2024). As the album opens ("Collapsing Under"), there are samples of various mechanical sounds. I found myself turning down my volume to check and see whether those weed eaters were coming from my own neighborhood or not. They don't last long, and soon we escape the suburban morass into a world of surreal sounds that seem to comment on the mad zoo of isolation and vanity that human existence has become. You can feel these unsettling rumblings in the track that follows ("Broken Rhythm Pressure").

Before us is the album's second single, "Away Drifting," of which Mekigah member Skot tells us this:

"Away Drifting" From was the last track written to complete the album. Having had time to listen back to all the other material numerous times it made it much more clear to me what sort of track/sound was missing. The idea of what almost seemed like a throwback to earlier Mekigah, starting with a more folk-inspired melodic riff, drawn out more flowing mid to doom paced, less chaotic drums and crushing chords, quickly transformed as soon as I handed over the initial recordings to Richard Ziltch. RZ took a fairly leading role on this song in particular, adding layers of psychedelic, swarming and claustrophobic guitars.

As well as these layers that can be heard as both guitar and any number of other things, he also played a strong hand in mixing all his and my parts before Leigh and Sova Locus added to it further and I last added vocals.

Vocals were split into two sessions and two ways of thinking. There is a brooding, wordless, mournful choir,relaxed and breathing slowly. Then an unhinged explosive schizophrenic outburst of pain, confusion and bitterness.

It has a pretty straight forward structure compared to other tracks on this album but is no less noisy, chaotic & overwhelming sonically in its own way. There was an intention to create something a bit more beautiful and ambient with this track which slowly got taken down and drowned in a swamp of unforgiving frequencies, unforgiving emotions and negative psychedelic attributes.

We go, leave, are away, drifting from people, out of our mind, knowing or caring about what's going on in society, drifting away from places, from memories, physically, mentally.

Drifting through time, through life, through dimensions, through space. Drifting like water, like particles in the wind.

Mekigah's To Hold Onto a Heartless Heart is an immersive, often terrifying, contemplation into the bizarre landscape of our present reality. Out in August on the Aesthetic Death record label (get it here).

SOME BUZZ

The fifth MEKIGAH full length album is a purposely designed ugly, drawn out, raw, awkward journey.

There's no attempt or desire to either embrace the slow slow doom, to aggressively technically impress or to build upon previous motifs. Everything is caught between worlds, as MEKIGAH itself is caught between worlds.

Nothing is where it belongs as things are uncomfortably forced together through the sheer necessity of only gaining satisfaction via sonic self sabotage and harm, creating audial-mazes to which they then have to delicately navigate through.

"I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved” - Ralph Steadman

Heavily driven by basslines along with industrial, sparse, neanderthal drums. Guitars are featured heavily, but infrequently as riffs, more as screeching, wailing, floating walls of high frequency pain that are meshed with discordant piano lines – all this amidst the brief, but demented, freestyle vocal stabs and incoherent mournful chants. Neither the gothic metal, nor the noise doom of previous releases, yet having slight nods to both in fleeting moments.

“To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart” can feel immensely detached & cold but somehow personal & emotional too. This is MEKIGAH evolving, following his own heart and creative vision.

More challenging than catchy or entertaining in any shape or form. Layers of sound to discover and uncover in detail on repeated listens. At other times there feels to be claustrophobic walls of noise that are impassable, impossible to make sense of but for the hope and glimpses of reason that are seen through the minimalist riffs and beats - simplistic, repetitive and drilled into your skull over and over again.

“What it's all about”….. is far more dictated by however any individual interprets the music, or how it makes them feel.

With any lyrical content, words & voice serving far more as an instrument or sound than expressing a storyline or emotion. Words on this album are minimal yet the confusion & loss that inspired them were huge.

Once again featuring long time collaborator guitarist Richard Ziltch and this time joined by Tasmanian underground metal legends Leigh Ritson (Disseminate, Thrall, Ruins) & Alex Pope (Ruins, Evil Dead) along with local experimental noise-mates Sova Locus, Primal Regression Therapy, Sydney Punk/Noise stalwart Con BCTW (Blurters, Milat, Impact Statement) and local arborist Sammy.

Mastered by Greg Chandler and once again Aesthetic Death is honoured to be working together with MEKIGAH to release this on digi CD.

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[academy13]

It's wild to me that one, Doctor Who is making a lot of references to the past six decades of the show in this season. I mean yeah the show makes references regularly, but some of them have been pretty goddamn specific of late. And I'm gonna be on the music thing for a while because okay, I thought maybe it was a one off thing. Doctor Who has a history of doing silly things, but every episode EXCEPT the specials with Donna and the Doctor has done the musical bit. As in, everyone is doing the bit. The Toymaker doing a musical bit, not that weird. The whole cast doing a musical number? That's weird. AND IT SEEMS TO KEEP HAPPENING.

Plus like... the companions who've returned so far. Tegan, Ace, Donna, Mel... that's some specific ass shit right there. Tegan, wandered into the TARDIS on accident, wound up getting possessed by the Mara. Ace, swept up in a storm to another planet, the whole Fenric thing. Donna, appeared on the TARDIS because of Huon particles, metacrisis. Mel, also just kind of showed up, has never had how she met the Doctor explained.

Call me crazy, but there's something about Ruby. And that's another thing... the last time I remember a character being named Ruby in this universe, it was on Sarah Jane Adventures. That story was SOME HEAVY SHIT MAN. I don't know what the game is here, but I know we're getting thrown a whole lot of clues, but which one's are the relevant ones to the twist?

[shinelikethunder]

but also an echo of the huon particles in "runaway bride": there is a Process going on here and it needs you to be emotionally activated to catalyze it. fun little bookend with donna's first episode.

looking back on those fourteenth doctor specials, "wild blue yonder" was very luke skywalker dagobah cave incident...... "what's in here?" "only what you take with you"

[fictionalinfinity]

girl help, i just got an idea for a multichapter fic

[scripted-downfall]

The Prophecy Must Complete

I recently finished a rewatch of 10’s entire era — my first time watching those episodes in at least ten years (estimated), and definitely my first time (in even longer than that) watching them all in chronological order — and I’m really glad I did, because I stumbled across a number of things that I hadn’t registered the first time in the process.  Most notably, my mind is currently reeling from the DoctorDonna storyline, and how thoroughly it was set up.

I mean, one of my favorite parts of the show is how subtly each arc is woven through the episodes.  “Bad Wolf” being slipped gently into series 1 (with the occasional reference later).  Torchwood being developed in series 2.  Saxon slowly infiltrating, with his earliest mention being, I think, “Love and Monsters” via the Absorbaloff’s newspaper, but being slowly expanded throughout series 3.  And then various references — subtle and varied — to Donna’s fate, equally elusive in its prevalence through series 4.

But I never quite caught how early it started being developed.  I mean, there were the obvious preludes to it, but hers was always the arc that felt the quietest, the most undeveloped at the start… but this runthrough slightly exploded my mind.  Because the thing is.

The thing.  Is.

Donna first met the Doctor because Lance poisoned her with ancient energy (the Huon particles) that can only be found in the heart of the TARDIS, and the two connected enough that she got “beamed up” so to speak.

Which means that from the very beginning, all the way back during the Christmas special, Donna was intrinsically connected to the heart of the TARDIS.  The first time we see her inherently foreshadows her fate in “Journey’s End” (regardless of whether it was intentional on the behalf of the writers or showrunners), and that kinda blows my mind.

[longwayroundpodcast]

Join us LAST and also THIS (because I’m bad at promo) WEEK on the Long Way Round! This double-feature episode includes gamer chairs, the complexities of interspecies relationships, and Nanogenes, NOT Huon particles.

Just a general content advisory for allusion to csa, teenage pregnancy, war, and body horror. If you have any comments, questions, or qualms regarding current and future episodes, whether it be serious or more lighthearted, please email us at longwayroundpodcast@gmail.com.

[taecasadilla]

It's the start of Disc 2 with the episode 'Rosa'. I guess I can start this bit with I was told about it as a kid but I know it wasn't extensive enough. I definitely don't remember being told that it was because she was tired. This was the last episode I watched before I decided to watch it once I got the Box Set and the way I was watching stopped working. Anyway, onto the episode.

There actually wasn't much I didn't like other than secondhand embarrassment. And for me most of that was in the first half of the episode.

One big critique I have is that they could've done more. I liked that this was one of the Doctor Who episodes where their mission is to keep time from changing. I get it butterfly effect and all but hasn't the show said multiple times that; 1. time fixes itself 2. The butterfly effect doesn't really exist So then why does the bus driver matter so much? Shouldn't the number of people on the bus matter more?

Also, did Ryan kill that guy? He sent him as far back as possible, how far back is that?

I don't have really anything I'd say I really liked, it was just an average episode of Doctor Who. I did like that they changed the credit music.

I was going to nitpick Artron Energy because I thought they got their lore wrong (even though Doctor Who lore doesn't even matter since it's changed so much) but nope I was wrong. I double-checked the Doctor Who wiki and it's consistent. I mixed them up with Huon Particles. No idea how I did that.

Rating: 3/5

Next episode is 'Arachnids in the UK'

For Christmas, I got the Box Set for Jodie Whittaker's run as The Doctor so I'll finally be giving her run a go. I don't know much about what happens other than 'The Timeless Child' and 'Flux' but other than that it'll mostly be new to it. I'll be giving my thoughts on each episode that appears in the 10-disc box set.

And the first episode is, 'Twice Upon a Time'? That was a surprise to see as I double-checked and it's also in the Capaldi Box Set. I'm just confused because my other Box Sets for Doctor Runs don't have this. The Eccleston and Tennant Box Set (They were both put in the same one) doesn't have the TV movie, Matt Smith doesn't have Tennant's last episode two-parter and Capaldi's doesn't have Matt Smith's last episode. Since it's in the set I'm going to talk about it quickly since it isn't a Jodie Whittaker Episode.

I enjoyed this episode. I don't know if it's that I've stopped watching creators who are always negative about things. But I've been enjoying media more. You can talk about how the First Doctor makes comments we don't say anymore because they're misogynistic and such, but that stops about halfway through the episode, and with my first viewing of the First Doctor, he does say a bunch of them. He is there to show how much not only the character has changed but the show and society have changed.

It was a fun episode to watch and if you poke at it too much it falls apart a bit, but the places they and how they're connected is fun. I'd say this episode is very much Doctor Who, the characters, settings, and dynamics are great but not always the plot. And that's ok. The worst Doctor Who episodes are usually the ones with bad characterization and relationships.

So on to 'The Woman Who Fell To Earth'.

Rating: 3/5