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[thepsychiccircus]

Just a few Doctor Who textpost memes I made :D

[aqua-rants-and-rambles]

HE PUT THE RING ON IM GOING TO THROW UP

[kosmicpowers]

Not enough whump content of Four. Not enough of him desperately trying to remain whimsical and funny as he's being tortured. Still grinning as he coughs up blood. Trying to get jelly babies out of his pocket with a broken arm. Joking about bruises "but you said I was looking pale and needed more color anyway" laughing because it's the only way he can keep from screaming in agony

[ye-olde-tardis]

How are there possibly Thoschei haters when they LITERALLY kissed. They literally smooched on screen.

[lennylemlem]

doctor who has survived so long that its become fanfic of itself

[theladsaregoingmental]

I have been pondering my wardrobe and an idea hit me as though God himself wished this to be known

The BBC should stop being cowards and give us the doctor in a Hawaiian shirt.

You can't convince me that fourteen isn't off in Donna's back garden wearing this fuckign thing

[vikingschism]

Continuing my readthrough of the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures, I finished reading Damaged Goods the other day. This book was Russel T Davies' first published foray into Who and it was an absolute banger. Many of these novels don't really hold up to much scrutiny as a reader, but this is one of the few that I think really stands out - not just as a Doctor Who novel, but a novel that is worth reading.

The Doctor and companions find themselves on earth, trying to ingratiate themselves with the residents of a working class housing estate - given what RTD would go on to write in the main show, this sort of setting should sound instantly familiar. However, we cannot forget that these are the VNAs and thus there is a level of grit and grime that feel more like they come from Torchwood. This book gets dark. I can handle that, but it's definitely something to be wary of if you're interested in reading the book.

The main enemy of the book was a really fun concept, definitely one that special effects would struggle to keep up with but in prose can really shine. And speaking of the prose the novel is written well - there's some great lines in here. I particularly love The Doctor describing the challenge of ingratiating themselves with the different households on the estate as having to "breach 76 fortresses". That's a wonderfully evocative bit of dialogue.

And I really have to give RTD praise for the characters - they're well drawn and compelling. One of them is a gay man who is roiling in self-loathing, there's a mother desperate to give her children a better life than her, and a teenage girl who saw something many years ago (as well as The Doctor) but wants nothing more than to have nothing to do with it. And that's only naming a few - all of the characters have their internal struggles and these are all well done.

In all, I highly recommend the novel. I will caveat that it is dark and not for the faint of heart - expect a similar level of grimness as Torchwood: Children of Earth had. The book was a great time though, and I will look forward to seeing how So Vile A Sin continues this little arc that's developed over the past few books.

[lariskapargitay]

NEW FIC

In the aftermath of the Twelfth Doctor’s regeneration into the Thirteenth, a clandestine cult obsessed with the Doctor slithers out from the shadows —one that clings to outdated beliefs and clutches at the threads of a bygone era. One of their most sacredly held beliefs? That men, and men alone, were made in the image of the Doctor. To them, his true form is immutable; a masculine silhouette etched across time. But now the Doctor stands reborn as a woman. As the new Doctor embraces her new identity, she becomes their target. Kidnapped and imprisoned, she faces a twisted ultimatum: revert to her previous form or suffer their wrath.

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