Thien Valdram

I like DW and Faction Paradox (Among other things) I do not use the site actively so don't expect a lot of reblogs and the like. I have a Discord but no other Socials, especially not Twitter.

[thienvaldram]

Thien Valdram Complete Story Archive

For future reference, will be updated.

Licensed

The Dinosaur in the Snow in The Book of the Snowstorm at Arcbeatle Press

Island on the Edge of Eternity at The Cheshire House

Island on the Edge of Eternity Part 2 at The Cheshire House

Tirion and Rosanna: Where Are They Now? (In the Cupid Courier) for the Crew of the Copper Colored Cupids 2024 Advent Calendar

Architects of a Failed World at The Cheshire House

First Dawn in Our Own Voices at Arcbeatle Press

Hughes High School Donation Request in Cwej: Shutter Speed at Arcbeatle Press

The Day the Storm Came at The Cheshire House

The Warehouse Anomaly in Cwej30: Issue 3 at Arcbeatle Press

Incident Report - Jackie Taylor, Xana's Second First Day (With Theta Mandel), The Freshfield's Invasion in SIGNET: Aisle Be Watching at Arcbeatle Press

Fanfiction (DWU)

Pre-Hartnell Doctors

Prologue (Fugitive Doctor)

Cruel Sea (Original Doctor - Pliosaur)

The Conspiracy of Censeron (Frieze Xoanon Doctor)

Skyfall (Herrick Xoanon Doctor) (with cameo by Salem Xoanon Doctor)

Heritage Falls (Robert Banks Stewart Doctor) (Gravity Falls Crossover)

A Brand New Calamity (Camfield Doctor) (Terraria Calamity Mod Crossover)

Era of Peace (Harper Doctor)

The Corruption of Censeron (Holmes Doctor)

Broken (Holmes Doctor) - For Eldritch Dimensionality

Eighth Doctor

The Greyhound's Wake (Eight & Charley)

Last Time... (Stranded Era)

Fifteenth Doctor

Never Went Back (Post Empire of Death)

Misc

Sutekh on the TARDIS (Crack)

The Book of the War Apocrypha - The 2025 Event (Faction Paradox)

Regenerative Dissonance OC Anthology (Cameos from Salem, Frieze and Herrick Xoanon Doctors)

Against Divinity (Compassion) - For Eldritch Dimensionality

Alo̸͖̽ǹ̸̍e̞ (War in Heaven) - For Eldritch Dimensionality

[thienvaldram]

Before it stood two figures. One was a time-eyed witch, robed in a golden dress. She sat in her floating wicker basket, carefully considering her next move. Somehow Chris knew this wasn’t just any old priestess: she was the Pythia—the first mystic ruler of the planet. Her opponent was a younger woman, wearing a lilac headdress, thick chronocular goggles, and a plain grey tunic. She sat against a small stone pyramid that throbbed and hummed. Chris’ eyes widened: she was leaning on a timeship—his target’s ship. That girl was the other. “You can’t hold out forever,” said the Pythia from her basket. “A wretched little grott like you cannot match the strength of the Pythian will!” ​The girl stared at the gold Fire Witch. “Who do you think you’re talking to?” she snapped. ​The Pythia cackled at her opponent’s conceited vulgarity. “The most arrogant of questions. Are you to make a move, or shall I claim my prize already? I want that travelling craft. And you’ve locked yourself in our Crooked-Finger Gambit to win my prophecies. The deal cannot be broken, you must play—or lose.” ​“Perhaps I need your Book of the Future more than you might want my ship,” said the other. “I’m thinking, so shut up and let me take my time.” ​“Time!” said the Pythia with a sardonic hiss. “Time indeed. Time will not move your piece. Only your mind can. And out of our minds, mine is superior!” ​The other was quiet, her play piece remained still. “Silence!” The girl spoke in a commanding and strong tone that belied her diminutive physical presence. She pointed a finger at the board and shouted, “Sepulchasm!” ​Trembling quakes shook the temple’s foundations. The tiles of the board and floorboards beneath began to split into a jagged crack. Chris saw the strain on the Pythia’s face. The other stood at the edge of the crack, peering into the cavernous depths before her. A flashing countdown blazed in his mind, and he rushed at the young woman by the ship. Deftly, he snatched up the book from its place beside the board, and launched at the other. He grasped her left shoulder, and with a mighty shove, pushed her towards the fissure in the floor. With a gasp, she stumbled, desperate to regain her footing. For good measure, Chris threw the Book at her as well. The other tipped over the precipice, and fell. Chris stopped to watch her descent into the darkness, to make sure his task was done. To his dismay, the other simply seemed to vanish, long before the fall would have otherwise carried her from sight.

An admittedly poor mockup of the other as a younger Jo Martin, alongside the Pythia and Cwej. You can actually find hints towards this and numerous other Pre-Hartnell actors throughout Loomlight's depiction of the other including Jesse Deyi's Seventh Timeless Child, the traditional bearded Other as depicted by Paul Hanley, the Morbii and even Richard Hurndall or Peter Cushing.

(Lungbarrow by Loomlight is the secret first part of Circuit Breaker)

[ylfa-snorgelssons]

wait i just realized how funny that everyone just calls the tardis 'the tardis' as if that's its name. yes hello this is my car it's my best friend its name is The Car

[thewomancallednova]

And the actual car‘s name? Bessie.

[heimeldat]

The TARDIS has a name, of course, but it's composed of transdimensional mathematics and symbiotic reverberations. It's not something that can be translated into words. Every time the Doctor touches her console in that particular loving way, he's mentally saying her name. But anything he calls her verbally is guaranteed to be pitifully reductionist; the best he can do is to carry on calling her what she represents, all of time and space and dimension and relativity wrapped up in one. That's not who she is, but at least he can use a name that describes what she is.

[thienvaldram]

Toy Story kinda backs this up by having the TARDIS refuse to tell Lolita what her name she chose is.

And of course we ignore the Doctor's Wife

[thienvaldram]

The Case of the Saviour's Folly...?

Upcoming Interstellar Sleuth draft

[thienvaldram]

I’d love to know more about Doctor Who – Legion and Skyfall II 👀

Legion is a Third Xoanon Doctor (Anthony Frieze) and Yanis IV (Nistri) story about some of the early stuff before the War of Betrayal that Yanis V and the Fourth Xoanon Doctor (Roy Herrick) fight in.

Skyfall II is the sequel to Skyfall, a crossover with ITVs Primeval and a couple other franchises and Daybreak's formal introduction story outside of her cameos in her hatching fic and one other one.

[thienvaldram]

What's The Case of the Saviour’s Folly and The Day the Packleader Fell?

Case of the Saviour's Folly is a pitch for Interstellar Sleuth on the Cheshire House

Day the Packleader Fell is a pseudosequel to the Day the Storm Came, also on the Cheshire House.

[thienvaldram]

WIP ask game.

Does Alone count as a WIP when it's already finished and just not available yet?

Compassion Story please? What sort of Compassion story?

Also is Yanis already a dinosaur when they're mindbending?

I considered Alone a WIP because its not fully edited yet

Compassion Story is one for the Compassion Zine if that ever gets off the ground, its a series of flashbacks to earlier parts of her life about her identity whilst she confronts the Anonymity, set during God Encompasses.

Actually the mindbending excerpt is Yanis VII, after the raptor.

[thienvaldram]

Ask game! I was tagged by @aquanafrahudy

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

I also don't have a single WIP folder so we're going for all the WIPs I have.

The Day the Packleader Fell

Hartnell Spragg 2026

Alo̸͖̽ǹ̸̍ͅe̶̞̩̒̈

Compassion Story

Broken Days

The Day the World Burnt

Yanis Mindbending excerpt

Doctor Who – Legion

Skyfall II

Doctor Who and the Last of the Time Lords

Cosmology of the Universal Island and M31 Group Errata

The Case of the Saviour’s Folly

Zadellin Colony

(2) Echoes of Tyranny

And not tagging that many people... I don't even know that many people.

But @wyrdvora, @shiftofgallifrey, @i-would-like-a-jelly-baby, @aristidetwain...

[icantspellthings]

Whenever people ask me "why don't you know xyz, it's so popular" well see it's because

[icantspellthings]

I literally live in south east asia

[hollowedskin]

Most countries cut the map like that because it's the easiest and most logical place to have a big vertical split! Everyone else agrees that the awkward and self centred way that Americans cut the map so that they sit in the middle is obnoxious as hell.

[smallerontheoutside]

wait sorry Americans do what now??

[heimeldat]

I'm American and I've never seen a map that puts America in the center... the map on top looks normal to me. But now I'm curious, can someone show me how the map gets split to center America? Like... draw a line between Africa and India and just let a few countries get chopped in half?

[thienvaldram]

[arcbeatlepress]

The mirror tells no lies... Harry Gibson, the model for the mysterious Mirror-servant has put together a short webcast celebrating Cwej: Lungbarrow by Loomlight!

[hazmatblogs]

“And you will obey me…”

[thienvaldram]

"Funny, you should be so sleepy, so early in the morning"

[thienvaldram]

The Doctor's Timeline Made Simple Update

In honour of Lungbarrow by Loomlight, the Doctor's Timeline Made Simple v20

Full size version here

[heimeldat]

Chris has books??? 🧐

Yes, a whole series! They take place after the War, when he's helping to clean up various temporal messes left behind. Though he doesn't like his employers or the kind of work they make him do...

[human-nxture]

Wait… which War?

[heimeldat]

Well... personally I think they're one war, but the War in Heaven.

[thienvaldram]

If you're an All One War fan there's evidence in the Book of the Snowstorm, the Book of the Peace Primer and other places that V-Time can be interpreted as a mid-War peace interregnum rather than fully Post-War. (As intent seems to be that it's "between the War in Heaven and Last Great Time War" but that doesn't work if you're an All One War fan)

[idle-speculation]

I'm not too deep into EU lore but I've always personally thought the LGTW was the aftermath of the Enemy's victory crystalizing a version of history where Gallifrey falls as the "true" one.

[thienvaldram]

That is a valid read of the situation. That the LGTW metatemporally ""overwrites"" or ""replaces"" the WiH.

[heimeldat]

Chris has books??? 🧐

Yes, a whole series! They take place after the War, when he's helping to clean up various temporal messes left behind. Though he doesn't like his employers or the kind of work they make him do...

[human-nxture]

Wait… which War?

[heimeldat]

Well... personally I think they're one war, but the War in Heaven.

[thienvaldram]

If you're an All One War fan there's evidence in the Book of the Snowstorm, the Book of the Peace Primer and other places that V-Time can be interpreted as a mid-War peace interregnum rather than fully Post-War. (As intent seems to be that it's "between the War in Heaven and Last Great Time War" but that doesn't work if you're an All One War fan)

[heimeldat]

I've written up all the important pieces of lore I got from Loomlight, splitting it into three sections: The Other's Timeline (chronological from his perspective), new facts about Ancient Gallifrey, and new facts about Modern Gallifrey.

Loomlight Lore

THE OTHER’S TIMELINE: “I have no home, no beginning, just lots and lots of lives, all tangled and knotted together. Some I have to trim, or

[thienvaldram]

The Master is actually not a postwar Master, LbL Koschei is pre-Delgado.

[thienvaldram]

The House of Lungbarrow has many mysteries, inside and out. Here is a story from the edges of its world...

We get to see the fates of the Cousins!

[thienvaldram]

Lungbarrow by Loomlight and Forgotten Lives are the second generation of Lungbarrow and Cold Fusion.

Both made with the blessing of their respective predecessors writers (Loomlight with Platt, Forgotten Lives with Parkin).

Both attempt to explain the previous contradictions between the two first generation books. (Loomlight by retelling Cold Fusion in a Platt-ian context, Forgotten Lives by seperating Camfield's time from the Other's time and making Camfield recent history).

Both contradict one another (In when the timezone of Susan's birth and the razing of Blyledge are set).

And both are incredibly peak.

[thienvaldram]

Isn’t it dark, And isn’t it cold? Seek out the future before it grows old, Once there were children: this is their doom, Now all the people are born from the Loom. There’s frost in the fire, and rocking-chair, There’s frost in the hearth, and frost in the ladles. Hollow voices fill the air, And a cold wind rocks the empty cradles. The threads of all time will carry our grief, With whispering curses, and a love all too brief. The children have gone, now the Father has fled, And into the Loom their memories are bled, To breed all the Cousins to remember the dead, And the truth, and the lies, and the Housefounder’s strife, Those crimes we all pay for as we begin life. So banish the cold, and brush off the dark, And bathe in the bask of the Loomlight so stark.