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Apep, Pariah of the Osirian Court, and Kifah and Intrepid from my contribution to Faction Paradox: The Book of the Peace, the short story Going Once, Going Twice!

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i got convinced to make a sketch, here’s some peter summerfield love~

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We recently released a series of previews for the upcoming episodes! You can read each of them here. Episodes One-Four:  https://www.theuntoldadventures.com/single-post/Episode-Previews-One-to-Four Episodes Five-Eight:  https://www.theuntoldadventures.com/single-post/Episode-Previews-Five-to-Eight Episodes Nine-Twelve:  https://www.theuntoldadventures.com/single-post/Episode-Previews-Nine-to-Twelve

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A portrait of noted alien mathematician Belle Aurum during her breif stay in France.

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     “Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time, the discarded times of all the men and women who have lived, worked, dreamed and died in the streets which grow like a willfully organic thing, unfurl like the petals of a mired rose and yet lack evanescence so entirely that they preserve the past in haphazard layers, so this alley is old while the avenue that runs beside it is newly built but nevertheless has been built over the deep-down, dead-in-the-ground relics of the older, perhaps the original, huddle of alleys which germinated the entire quarter.”  

(Angela Carter, “The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman”)

A fun chrono-geographical parallel:

“It’s what your friend mistook for a ley line. (…) It’s part of the fabric of space-time itself. What DNA is to your genetic code, this stuff is to biodata. And it’s just exposed here now. Personality, history, memory, perception, all vulnerable. (…) It’s me.”

(…)

“Kyra said she’d been mapping these lines all over the city …”

(Kate Orman & Jon Blum, “Unnatural History”)

“Imagine if time all happened at once. Every moment of your life laid out around you like a city. Streets full of buildings made of days. The day you were born, the day you die. The day you fall in love, the day that love ends. A whole city built from triumph and heartbreak and boredom and laughter and cutting your toenails. It’s the best place you will ever be.”

(Steven Moffat, “The Pilot”)

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The lord of the Glass City of Valacea and orchestrator of the War in the Enclave, the mad king Daedalus, enemy of the Eighth Doctor and Iris Wildthyme. The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad.

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no cops at pride just rose tyler and her bigass gun

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Came up with a conversation with friends about Faction Paradox and metanarratives in Who, so I thought I’d blog that bit I’ve written about Class and its governors (full article here: https://downtime2017.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/tiberian-thoughts-the-fall-of-the-house-of-ness-notes-on-class-33/ )

"There’s one detail, however, that’s incredibly intriguing. We see the Heaven of the Arn, the Hell of the Lore, the Birth of the Quill Godess (interesting that we explore in quick succession three religious-themed vistas; it echoes, somehow, the form of the triptych, a threefold religious painting representing three scenes completing each other).But, before we get to the Cabinet of Souls, we stop by the inside of Coal Hill school – under a stage, because of course it’s under a stage. There’s of course an obvious, plot-driven answer: the Governors projected an hologram to make Quill more comfortable during her operation. But if you read more into it … That makes Coal Hill into a place of worship in and on itself, yet another religious scene. The Governors, from their little pocket dimension, seem to be worshipping the school. And that is fascinating – because what is Coal Hill, if not a physical representation of Who itself? It was there the show started, all the way back in 1963. It’s no coincidence if “The Day of the Doctor” opens there, or if Clara, the character that is destined to take the Who narrative into her own hands and ascend to the status of Doctor herself, works there. The Governors are Doctor Who fans. They’re just not very good fans – if we go back to “Love and Monsters” terminology, they are the polished, respectable spawn of Victor Kennedy. They are statisticians, analysts that deconstruct the show and its narrative in a bunch of numbers and factoids. Their agents are literal robots apparently incapable of speech. Dorothea, the only one showing anything resembling human emotion, gets killed fairly horrifically by her superiors. If Class is about the destruction and corruption of the Who narrative, then the Governors are the hidden, rotten heart of this corruption.""And of course – of course – they serve the Weeping Angels. That just makes too much sense. It’s easy to forget how meta a creation the Angels are – they’re not scary because they’re going to torture you; but because they are going to rewrite you, rewrite your story, deprive you of your agency. That’s why every single episode where they’re the key threat is centered around text (and by text, I mean “a piece of media”, not just a written one) – the script in “Blink“, the manuscript and surveillance footage in “Time of the Angels“, and of course Amy’s book in “The Angels Take Manhattan“. That’s also why some of the efforts to make them work in the Expanded Universe have failed so badly – “Fallen Angels” is an awful, awful, awful trainwreck, people, and you won’t convince me otherwise. What Class teases is a world where they are going to launch a full-scale attack against the Who narrative – where they are attempting of rewriting the show, starting with square one, Coal Hill School."

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very homophobic of the universe to not make me a big buff werewolf tbh

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I’m a simple gay.

I see a dumb boy? I kiss.

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Man, Doctor Who and Paul Cornell really wanted us to feel bad for racist, classist Joan Redfern, didn’t they. Really wanted us to mourn the loss of John Smith’s racist, classist “Ordinary Life” with his racist, classist wife and their racist, classist 2.5 kids. Really didn’t want to acknowledge that that “Ordinary Life” could only ever apply to a small select few of the world’s population, and that that “Ordinary Life” was built on the backs of people like Martha and Jenny the school maid.

And then Doctor Who and Russell T Davies really wanted us to know that things turned out a-ok for racist, classist Joan in the end. Really thought it was necessary to give her story a special little bit at the end of the Tenth Doctor’s story, really thought he should care that much. And really wanted to show us how her eerily lookalike granddaughter was profiting off the story of that time the Doctor put Martha Jones through Hell for two months all because he wanted to be “kind” to some alien mass-murderers.

For all that this era and these writers are celebrated, they could really be completely tone deaf sometimes.

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Trading Futures

Some highlights of the last EDA I’ve read (Trading Futures).

I took these screens while reading, along with my reactions. As usual, this is full of spoilers.

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I wrote dat. It has Star Wars jokes, and a lot of depressive ramblings about why I really dislike this story. Also, sociology, yay!

@tiberelechat‘s review of “Kerblam!” is available to read.

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lesbian helen/bi liv being a badass couple (requested by anon)

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Or the one where I get uncomfortably personal and emotional about colonisation and its legacy.

But eh, I also talk about Proust and rituals and stuff?

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A fun chrono-geographical parallel:

“It’s what your friend mistook for a ley line. (…) It’s part of the fabric of space-time itself. What DNA is to your genetic code, this stuff is to biodata. And it’s just exposed here now. Personality, history, memory, perception, all vulnerable. (…) It’s me.”

(…)

“Kyra said she’d been mapping these lines all over the city …”

(Kate Orman & Jon Blum, “Unnatural History”)

“Imagine if time all happened at once. Every moment of your life laid out around you like a city. Streets full of buildings made of days. The day you were born, the day you die. The day you fall in love, the day that love ends. A whole city built from triumph and heartbreak and boredom and laughter and cutting your toenails. It's the best place you will ever be.”

(Steven Moffat, “The Pilot”)

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Zendaya is Nietzsche