#white darkness

[hiddlesfan-club]

Update for The White Darkness for Tom Hiddleston by its producer!!

[do-you-know-this-dw-story]

white darkness (novel: 1993)

do you know this doctor who story?

yes, i have read it

yes, i have read parts of it

i have heard of it & plan to read

i have only heard of it

no, i have never heard of it

Voting ended onJan 15, 2025

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

Tom Hiddleston to Star in Apple Drama Series ‘White Darkness’ From ‘Pachinko’ Writer Soo Hugh

Tom Hiddleston is set to star in the Apple limited series “The White Darkness,” Variety has learned. The series is based on the nonfiction b

He has work! HE HAS WORK! NON-LOKI WORK!

It's a fucking miracle!

[zzkt]

The white noise that beats within the white darkness is the rhythm of life; it is that pulse which never truly left the stage.

Ergo Proxy

[originallonemagpie]

It's not the same as hosting a live rewatch, but I've gone and pirated my own books, risking the wrath of BBC copyright, put all my old Dr Who books up here in this folder in PDF format - some are duplicates for some reason, but, there you go. They're all long out of print, but might be worth it for fans in lockdown. Feel free to share in other DW groups- I'm not on all of them.

[heartofmuse]

Cold

It is so cold, oh so cold inside this soul 

A layer of snow covers it all 

I try to dust it off but it melts, pools, freezes

So it´s worse 

Can’t seem to get up or find my stride 

On the cold ice I slip and slide

Sure I broke more than one of my legs

Maybe a rib or two 

Pretty sure I cracked my skull 

Snow keeps falling 

Never seems to end

So I just lie there

I am starting to feel numb

It will be the death of me, but I just watch enthralled

Ice, my deathbed and a blanket of beautiful snowflakes

White darkness envelops me. 

e.v.e.

[lesserjoke]

Book #103 of 2026:

Doctor Who: White Darkness by David A. McIntee (Virgin New Adventures #15)

Largely a back-to-basics reset for the series, bringing the Seventh Doctor and his companions Ace and Bernice to Haiti in 1915, amid the unrest that ultimately led to an American invasion and occupation of the island country. While not a straight historical adventure — cultists are trying to raise one of H. P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones, in the first explicit connection of that mythos to Doctor Who — it’s a pretty well-researched period piece that is generally content to get the protagonists caught up in various earthly intrigues and keep the wilder sci-fi business to a minimum. For most of the plot, the main threat isn’t even the unnamed extradimensional being lurking in the background, but rather that outsiders are appropriating and corrupting the traditional vodoun practices, researching ways to enhance the pharmacological properties that induce a pacifying ‘zombi’ state.

I had my hesitations about this story (especially once I realized the Lovecraftian angle), but I think it treats its subject fairly respectfully overall. There is overt racism in the text, including racial slurs, but our viewpoint time-travelers are firmly against such nonsense and one senses that author David A. McIntee was striving to write the Haitians as a real and multifaceted society to the best of his abilities. Plotwise it’s a bit overstuffed with characters and action beats that involve them running from one location to another, and other than the setting, it doesn’t really showcase the cleverness or ambition that I’d prefer in a work like this. But I’ve certainly seen worse from this franchise before.

[Content warning for slavery, suicide, gun violence, threat of rape, and gore.]

★★★☆☆

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[heimeldat]

White Darkness was better than I expected. I don't know enough about Haitian culture or history to know if the author got everything right, but it was certainly more nuanced and respectful than a lot of other portrayals I've encountered. It was overall well written and engaging, and I'm intrigued by the introduction of the Great Old Ones. I know there are lots of eldritch abominations in the VNAs, but I didn't expect actual Lovecraftian gods!