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just finished reading the Infinity Doctors and i'm now going to make it everybody else's problem, so welcome to what is probably going to be the opposite of a concise review by someone who knows utterly fuck all about any of the 90s books, yeehaw (spoilers)

so in all honestly i literally only read this because it's the only other time that i'm aware of that Patience appears and after reading Cold Fusion i wanted to find out more about her. imagine my feelings when i find out that this entire book is set in a different universe :D

for real though it took me a good while to figure out wtf was going on. i didn't know if it was pre-Hartnell or a Doctor from the future or what but i think it's the latter because there's one line about how he doesn't wear a velvet coat anymore, implying he's after Eight and i know it was written wayy before Nine was cast but his description fits Eccleston's so well which to me points to him being yet another alternate Ninth Doctor so ig Nine just gets to vibe on Gallifrey in this timeline instead of facing The Horrors(tm)

speaking of timeline stuff it kinda just felt like a compressed version of the Doctor's life from the main universe. he remembers Patience here so clearly married her as Hartnell rather than before. Hedin's around so i figure he just didn't die, which makes sense if the Omega shennanigans in the Three Doctors and Arc of Infinity also didn't happen which i have to assume is the case judging by the entire plot of the book. there were also references to something that'll off the Time Lords later on which tracks with the Time War but again this was pre revival so i'm guessing it's some Faction Paradox stuff since that was also referenced. it follows the concept that the Doctor's half Human and his parents are Penelope and Ulysses which is not something i'm a fan of normally but knowing this is an alternate universe i think it has potential. he called the TARDIS a family heirloom at one point which is bizarre but in that context somewhat works

and the Magistrate is the Master right? surely that's gotta be a unanimous opinion, right?? i loved him though, probably my fav character in the book. exactly what you'd expect a Gallifrey-bound incarnation of the Master to be like. i was sad when he was killed/vanished/whatever, i wish there was some sort of follow up on that or even just a reaction from the other characters at all. there was one line though where Larna notes that it's obvious that he's in love with the Doctor and vice versa and that made my thoschei shipping brain squee with delight.

loved Larna too! we all had that one hot teacher she's just the only one lucky enough to actually snog them. i loved her dynamic with the Doctor and the Magistrate and i like to think she exists in the main universe, probably re-engineering Gallifrey's staircases and turning down constant offers to join the High Council

i would like to have strong words with Lance Parkin regarding his repeated de-shoeing of female characters though and of the random mentions of curves and figure that never occurs with male characters. i wouldn't mind the emphasis as much if the same had been done for the male characters, and it's not like there wasn't opportunity for it however in the scenes where the Doctor is naked briefly or the Magistrate is wearing tight fitting clothing not once is it given the same depth of description as the scenes with Patience or Larna. the introduction of systemic sexism on Gallifrey was also so incredibly unnecessary and i have no clue why anyone would feel the need to specify that "of the thousands of Time Lords on Gallifrey only around a dozen were female" like huh???

speaking of Gallifrey i did enjoy (for the most part) the depiciton of Time Lord day to day. i'm not fond of the distinction between Gallifreyans and Time Lords, in my mind all Gallifreyans are Time Lords some just don't live in the Citadel, but the stuff about Infinity Chambers, the way they decorate their rooms, the random tech like Z-Caps and Force Knives, the obsession with protocol and proceedure, it's all gorgeous. the use of TARDIS/Time Lord dynamics was stunning (there's a soft moment between the Doctor and the TARDIS at the end and i love it), also the use of different pronouns for different TARDISes was a welcome treat

onto Patience though, the reason i read the book. it referenced her fate from Cold Fusion but because of the everything about this book i assume it's a different version of Patience which honestly i'm glad about because i'm not sure how i feel about the idea of the Doctor marrying the woman who was at his birth and proceeded to raise him. also don't like her being Omega's wife, that's really weird??? i enjoy the idea that she's older than she initially appeared in Cold Fusion though, past regenerations for her would be cool but i doubt she stretches back as far as the Doctor does in the main universe. it was so fun to see her again though albeit a different her

on the whole i'd say a very good book but with enough iffy bits that i wouldn't rate it too high. bit of a slow burn but in a good way! i love Sontarans and i didn't know going in that they were there so that was incredibly welcome. i really like the Infinity Doctor and i wouldn't say no to more content with him, even just an unbound comic strip or something because i really like this take on the character

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" Hello Dearest Vita, happy birthday ! I am ashamed to not be able to come to Walpurga Nacht in person to give you your present myself, but I trust my cute familiar to give it to you in person.

It's an old necromancy tome that used to be mine, but since my uncle has a copy I wish to give this one to you. You'll find some spells that were lost to time and some of my notes about how to increase their effectiveness. I hope you will find them useful...

And also, as a former member of Noctasis, I hope your dorm mates didn't put something too incapacitating in their special mixture.

Good luck, dear and have a marvelous birthday

-Winona Shelby "

"My lovely Winona does spoil me, does she not? Larna?" Vita asks, petting the left head of the Kerberos. He rests his other heads on her lap, and stretches out his neck to take a better look at the book. Giving in a sniffle, his middle head perks up as he glances at his mistress. "Yes, my love~ 'Tis a most useful gift for my interests indeed. To think that dear Winona would be so conscientious of my taste~"

Reading the last part of the letter, she chuckles. "No need to be so concerned, dear. After all the little ones still have quite a lot to learn about catching foxes~"

#twisted wonderland #vita dies #larna #winona shelby #thank you so much for the ask!!#ask #noctasis

Idia learns that being a stay-at-home dad means making sure you look after your babies, along with your 80 kg, Kerberos breed dog, while your goth wife is off doing goth things.

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #idia shroud #larna #vita dies #twisute #twisute oc #twist #twist oc #i really like the shroud-dies family tbh #they're very cute for how dark they are tbh #meme #blackflame

This scene depicts the start of the latest chapter (Chapter 9?) I wrote of my novel, a tennis match between Larna and Edmund. Cordy's selling drinks, Cordel's holding two of them and casually hiding all his dark secrets and intel about the future of humanity. Alice has organised some gambling (and I actually tried to make the fifties look legit), Madeline somehow managed to catch the ball. Cane, Rina, Helena, Phil and Alden are watching the game- hang on, is that another Alden though the trees? Oooh, mysterious. Also btw basically all the hundred or so other people watching, that I didn't draw, are on Larna's side (hence the pink/purple balloons); Edmund's got a pretty bad reputation at this point. But he's adorable and precious, please love him.