#the ruby's curse

[spacewives-in-spacetime]

it makes me so happy that alex wrote herself her own river song fanfiction and got it OKed by doctor who, so now it's canon

[nemoo-m]

🌸👑River Song 👑🌸

Hello Sweetie 💋

[itsdawnforyou]

Welcome back to me struggling not to weep over River Song because im reading The Ruby's Curse (by Alex Kingston)!

"As I watched her Sail away, I wanted nothing more then to go home again too. Trouble is, I dont really have a home. I just have places where I live"

- The Ruby's Curse by Alex Kingston (chapter twenty-three)

[trucywright]

I've finally finished Ruby's Curse and it's actually even more insane to me that Ruby isn't River's daughter. In the book, River enters what she thinks is an offshoot of the Land of Fiction, entering the Melody Malone book. Upon leaving, Melody temporarily becomes a real person. At the same time, River almost becomes a deity with unlimited power due to the Eye of Horus. Melody merges with her and dies and the end of the book has Melody say "And I've got a Song in my heart."

It accidentally lines up pretty well with the current season having all this god stuff going on.

[thesongandthesunset]

"Aw, River, love, not like this. This is not how it's mean to be, you know that."

The fact that is canon that 13 would call River love makes me happy

[expectiations]

rereading The Ruby's Curse (when I definitely should be studying for exams) and River isn't a proto-Time Lord or a facsimile of a Time Lord, she's a secret, infinitely better third thing – the Child of Time (which is waaay better and cooler than some mere stuffy Time Lord imho)

[thelibraryofalexandriastillburns]

just that one line from Thirteen in The Ruby’s Curse watered my crops and kissed my forehead i love them so much

[morganhopesmith1996]

Listening to this right now! 😍

[facetheravenwood]

amy calling her daughter "darling girl" has fucking broken me

[melody-smith-pond]

[notyoujamie]

Reality bleeding through.

[amelia-yap]

not pictured: oscar drawing a hot bath

inspired by this

[itsdawnforyou]

I know Im probably late to the party but Im reading The Ruby's Curse by Alex Kingston for the first time and Im on chapter four, right?

Tell me why I see the sentence:

"Libraries arent really my bag (creepy places full of silence and shadows)"

EXCUSSEEEE MEEEEEEE????

ALEX HOW DARE YOU

I literally went "haha yeah- OH MY GOD". Brb crying over River Song AGAIN

[rowanthestrange]

Wait, I’m not insane right, wasn’t there a behind the scenes with her and she said she actually chose the name Malone like Melody Malone because she was a Doctor Who fan and how excited she was to be in the episode? And we know Russell’s done at least one casting by name alone to go “this will be funny”

bro it was totally Ruby who was the girl who broke her heart.

trudy was real btw she didnt just,,,"my friend trudy who definitely exists and is not me"

[dandelionjack]

space babies follows one of my favourite doctor who tropes: the bad guy of the episode isn’t a conscious villain at all, but a well-meaning robot or AI gone wrong with good intentions. the chula nanogenes turning everybody into gas mask zombies because they aren’t attuned to human dna and base their “healing” mechanism on the first wounded boy they encounter. repair droids gone rogue on a stranded ship chasing the brain of a 18th century french noblewoman because they’re programmed to think she’s the final piece of the puzzle. the ‘siren’ of the black spot ‘abducting’ pirates into her sickbay to cure them whereas they assume her to be monstrous.

and now — an education software system conjuring up a literal bogeyman to entertain a bunch of abandoned babies because it lost control in the absence of maintenance and wants to care for the kids as best it knows how. nobody’s to blame, nobody’s ��evil”. chefs kiss.

[tyote]