Ivan | it/its | 26 | autistic
Doctor Who reblogs and some other stuff. I draw like once a year too.
Also, this is a sideblog. I follow from @belschine.
The Blue Angel is the best book ever.
thinking about the potential of tecteun as a character to be discussed if the fandom didn't hate the timeless children so much because she's so. interesting. Like picture tecteun vivisecting and torturing her own child to understand regeneration...the craziest experiments you can imagine. And the doctor just laid there and took it, dying over and over and over and over again. I wonder how many times she regenerated. I wonder if she had any say in the matter. I wonder what level of manipulation it took from tecteun to have the doctor stay still and look at her "mother" kill her a hundred times and again
when I remember that the eighth doctor saw compassionās place in the time war as a weaponised tardis coming for her like a bullet between the eyes and decided to try to control her in an attempt to throw the time lords off, as if he could only make her āhumanā enough then gallifrey couldnāt touch her, but all this does is rob her further of her agency, bodily autonomy, and awareness of her own circumstances, and push her away from trusting him, because the doctor has again reverted to a paternalistic approach of āknowing whatās bestā for āthe greater goodā - which is exactly why the time lords are in this mess in the first place - and also the mindset that eventually leads him to destroy gallifrey, the last resort of his speciesā conflict that heād been running away from by clinging onto blind denial and hiding behind his own renegade āhumanityā, and when I remember that the end of the ancestor cell leaves him the last of his kind with his life in compassionās hands, where she saves him but where he then wakes up amnesiac and identity-less in a world where he has no idea of the stakes of his own life or his power but canāt help but feel heās incompatible with the ānormalā human lives around him, leaving the audience with that sobering realisation that denying her nature didnāt allow the doctor to save compassion and denying his own didnāt allow him to save himself from his fate eitherā¦ā¦ your body is a weapon in the time war and no amount of pretending youāre human will convince the rest of the universe that youāre not a gallifreyan atom marked with āwaiting to be split down the middleā, which is, after all, exactly what you are
I think one of my favorite quirks about the Eighth Doctor is his tendency to repeat himself when he gets excited.
And it carries over into the Audios. I donāt know if it is McGann, or something he injected into this character alone, but I like it. I do wish his pick pocketing skills were used more.
imagine being happy go lucky lalala 8th dr who and then the fucking war happens and you're like Well this sucks. Time to blow up all 9 of my home planets. And then you start over again and your like lalala and then your companions all die and whatnot and you're like okay this sucks but at least i can have my leather phase. Bam. Second time war
Itās called The Kaleidoscope, itās a novel, and the thing Iām personally most excited about is that itās actually written by Jo Martin!!!!
Fans with more knowledge will have to chime in but I donāt know if weāve ever had one of the Doctors write a full novel before, and the writing of Dr Who (both for the show itself and for extended universe material) has been so dominated by writers who are white men, so itās incredibly exciting to have a writer come from a different demographic. Black fans - and Ncuti Gatwa too - have been saying for years that we need more diverse storytellers, not just to combat racism but for the sake of the art itself!
Itās coming out 3 September!
When memories lie, the truth can be fatal.
In the aftermath of an improbable mission, the Fugitive Doctor and Martha realise that something is interfering with their minds. Something that doesnāt want to be found.
Their investigation leads to a curious artefact in the British Museum: an apparently medieval toy known as the Kaleidoscope. But the object refuses to stay in one place, one time ā or one identity. And when the Doctor is repeatedly mistaken for someone sheās never met, fragments of unfamiliar memories begin to surface.
Across the Earth, a hidden pattern emerges; evidence of a secret that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal. As ancient enemies close in and innocent lives are put at risk, the Doctor learns the hard way that some truths were buried for a reasonā¦
A key instalment of the Doctor Who transmedia event Circuit Breaker, this novel is written by the Fugitive Doctor herself, Jo Martin ā and also features Martha Jones (as played by Freema Agyeman) together with the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, or UNIT.
From https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/481708/doctor-who-the-kaleidoscope-circuit-breaker-by-martin-jo/9781911743101
When memories lie, the truth can be fatal.In the aftermath of an improbable mission, the Fugitive Doctor and Martha realise that something i
You can also go to this Cultbox article to see pictures of the sonic screwdriver they gave Fugitive Doctor.
The Fugitive Doctor wields a previously-eschewed sonic screwdriver as she teams up with Martha Jones in a new Doctor Who novel penned by Jo
Thereās also this really wonderful interview with Jo Martin where you can find out more about the premise. She talks about what it was like to be cast and how her son is a huge Whovian who helped give her pointers while writing the book. And this lovely bit:
I really did grow up with Doctor Who; I used to dress up my cousins in tin foil ā they had to be the Daleks! And I would fashion some kind of costume for myself and play the Doctor. And theyād be like, āOkay, now itās my turn to be the Doctor. You have to be a Dalek.ā And Iād always say, āNah, nah, nah! I want to be the Doctor.ā And theyād be like, āYou canāt be a doctor, youāre a girl.ā
Back then, the show had a long tradition of white males in that role, so it really was wonderful that we got Jodie. But, as you can imagine, I never saw myself represented ā and to be seen is so important. So to be standing on set the day when I had to say, āHello, Iām the Doctorā¦ā Well. I mean, we had to retake that a few times because Iād get really choked upā¦ I could see that little girl in me.
But now it is ā and, of course, the fans have always been very inclusive. So to have that acknowledgment from Brazil to America, from France to Australia ā from Aboriginal girls sending me a message ā means a lot. Itās great to be able to cosplay as someone without anyone look being able to look at them and say, āWell, you canāt be wearing that.ā You know? The girls can dress up as Jodie or anybody else; they can be who they like. And then, as a Black child, you can look on me and go, āYou know what? I could do this.ā Because Doctor Who is for everyone.
The thing Iām probably most excited about is that it sounds like the Fugitive Doctor being Black isnāt just ignored, there is some cultural diversity there or touching on how being Black might shape her experiences - and we are going to that written BY someone who is actually Black, which was one of the things I loved so much about The Storyteller and the Engine.
So we lean into a bit of the Fugitive Doctorās heritage; the fact that sheās a Black woman. Weāve gone into what happened when she left Gallifrey ā weāve also gone to Jamdown, my dear! So weāre in Jamaica in some of the story.
Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker and the Fugitive Doctor: In conversation with Jo Martin and James Page.
Hey so if anyone finds a place to buy a physical copy of The Kaleidoscope: Circuit Breaker in the US (online bc I live in the middle of nowhere) please share with me
