#tbotw

[walks-the-ages]

Look what i found on the archive!!!!!!!

Someone uploaded it only a day or two ago 👀👀👀👀👀👀

Faction Paradox fans and those who want to get into it-- check this out!

[rassilon-imprimatur]

Y’all are gonna think I’m crazy, but I actually have a lot of feelings about how Miles’ building blocks to The Book of the War, especially Interference and Dead Romance, aim for Cronenberg Videodrome/Scanners and Lynch Fire Walk With Me/Lost Highway, but accidentally hit something much more akin to The End of Evangelion and The Adolescence of Utena. And far less refined than either, messy, seeping. I love it a lot?

[adventure-showdown]

#camera obscura my beloved you aren’t winning but you win in my heart#tbotw is good but it’s so separate from everything else that i can’t in good conscience vote for it#whereas camera obscura is a banger of a story by queen of dr who lloyd rose (@clockworkouroboros)

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 3 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Camera Obscura

Synopsis

The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of his remaining heart. He had never got used to it. He never would. The single sound where a double should be. What was this new code hammering through his body? What did it mean? Mortal. No, he'd always known he could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled. Through his shirt, his fingers sought the thick ridge of his scar. Human...

The Doctor's second heart was taken from his body — for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.

Propaganda

DESPAIR ACCORDS WITH REALITY BUT I INSIST ON HOPE!!!!!!! GOOD FUCKING BOOK IM UNWELL (anonymous)

The Book of the War

Synopsis

The Great Houses: Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic.

The Enemy: Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it.

Faction Paradox: Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage… assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable.

The War: A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."

Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past…

Propaganda

Is it about Dr Who? I mean, sort of. Arguably. You could say the Doctor is present in it. Somewhat. Not by name tho because that would be illegal. But definitely there are uh. well. there's definitely stuff in it that's DWesque. It's Dr Who Adjacent. It's Dr Whoish. Strong Dr Who vibes. (@eighthdoctor )

Experimental sci-fantasy that defined the Time War and started a whole series of its own. (anonymous)

[missingalaxies]

midnight’s treasure

[aleclikescupcakes]

This tweet gave me the same chaotic energy that Alec and Max would have hahah

[cupcakes-n-cigarettes]

[a-wartime-paradox]

Yeah, fair haha.

Mhm, I did mean in-universe. It was Virgin who invented Cousins, but FP (specifically TBOTW) clarified that the word wasn't getting thrown around in Classic Who because it was a new thing to use it, as biological words are scarwy for the Sun Builders.

👍

me and @dontcallmecedge were discussing what The Master’s name is and we came to the conclusion that within the 77 years he was trapped on earth he founded toys r us

[poodlethumbs]

No but seriously do the Faction Paradox books sell for that much? Asking for me.

[omnifitense]

The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic my beloved.

[theangelshavethephonebox]

Why not? Why can't the Other have just reloomed themself into the Doctor?

Also, was that definitely the Other in tbotw that caused the renegeneration (generation of renegades)? I thought it was just some fluke in the biodata that may be caused by the Other, or by something else entirely. I mean, why would the Other have only affected that generation if they died/disappeared like 2 million years before that generation was ever loomed?

Okay, so we’re saying the Time Lady in The End of Time was the Doctor’s mom, right?

Then why did the Doctor grow up in an orphanage?

[a-wartime-paradox]

Anyone else really uncomfortable about the "north American warrior tribes" in The Book of the War? Like, it feels really icky to me that the ethnic group stereotyped for savagery for so long turns out to "secretly have proto-Remote biology, being the savages of the spiral politic.". I think TBoTW literally uses the word "savage".... Ewww

Anyone got anything to say on this? Am I misinterpreting, or is this just a massive YIKES of TBotW that is (I assume??) ignored by the actual series?

[improvidence99]

[khaleesiofalicante]

PLEASE read GotSM before TBotW those last two chapters are,,,,, hhhhbbhhnsndnsh,,,,

That’s a valid argument 🤭🤭🤭

[a-wartime-paradox]

Read tBotW's entry on "the caldera"...

I know I’m crazy late to the game but it’s WILD that if Chibnall had called Division, Anchor that it would’ve canonized Faction Paradox almost instantly.

I mean correct me if I’m wrong but conceptually the Anchoring and Division aren’t much different beyond Division feeling much more militaristic.

Literally just the name difference would’ve changed so much! Not to mention the Doctor discovering this conspiratorial group call the Anchor sounds way more interesting than Division, in my opinion.

[105nt]

There may be spoilers ...

(1)

Intrigued by the clip of True Things. It occurred to me after watching it that if, as it seemed to be, this is their first sexual encounter, they are sugar coating the book massively (in the book they first have sex in a car park).

I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with that. I think the book as it reads is un-filmable. The protagonist does extraordinary, inexplicable things and I spent most of the time while reading it desperate to know why she does those things, but Deborah Kay Davies never says why.

It's maddening that she doesn't, but also what makes the book worth reading, to me.

In a film I do not know how a director would reproduce that. How they would have their female lead showing us all the things that happened without a why escaping through the lens. Actors are so good at telling us why non-verbally. It's part of their job.

In the clip we've seen, Ruth's character looks at Tom's character like she's physically very attracted to him, enough to overwhelm her evident modesty. She's also enthralled by his past ... it seems as if she knows he's just come out of prison. In the book, we don't even get that much detail.

Deborah Kay Davies said: "Readers are intelligent. I wanted to tell the story for itself: people can make their own connections" and "people do things for no reason" and to try and psychoanalyse characters "distracts from the mystery and fascination of human behaviour".

Hmm.

(2)

I am getting on slightly better with The Book of Two Ways. The central love triangle is still doing nothing for me, but I am finding consolation in some of the passages about the protagonist's dead mother and her troubled daughter. I liked ...

When I was little, I used to read the obituaries, and one day I asked my mother why people die in alphabetical order.

and

I watched her fade into the sheets, more a memory than a mother.

and

It's funny, you think as a mother that the very act of giving someone life should be enough to bind you to them.

Ploughing on. I just wish it was less of an effort.

(3)

Thinking about some more form poems.

Thinking now, this could be a good use for TBoTW if I can't get to the end of it. 😁

That's all.

[aleclikescupcakes]

Hi shadowhunters fandom, I am back. Alive. Finally another book from The Eldest Curses series.

Happy shadowhunters day ❤️

A quote from The Book of The White

“They’re the only leads we have, my love,” Alec said, “so I think we’re getting in the cabs.” “Okay,” said Magnus. He kissed Alec. “Let’s go.”

I am screamed when Alec called Magnus my love. I need more Alec using pet names on Magnus please 😍