Wyrdvora

Faction Paradox fanatic; I connect any and all things to its expanded universe. Also author! Ostara Gale Profile picture by @aristidetwain

[wyrdvora]

My Doctor Who (-related) collection of books

Read my ongoing review of The Book of the Snowstorm (this should hopefully be the most up-to-date link but if not, check the reblogs)

Shown here is:

[top shelf, left to right]: The Novel of the Film (unread), Alien Bodies, Seeing I, The Scarlet Empress, Unnatural History, Interference, Dead Romance, Phoenix Court trilogy (Marked For Life, Does to Show?, Could It Be Magic?), The Blue Angel, The Taking of Planet 5, The Shadows of Avalon, The Banquo Legacy, The Ancestor Cell, The Burning, The Infinity Doctors (unread), The Tomb of Valdemar (unread)

[middle shelf, left to right] This Town Will Never Let Us Go, The Boulevard: Volume One

[bottom shelf, left to right] Timewyrm: Apocalypse (unread), Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (unread), Set Piece (unread), The Day of the Doctor, The Essential Terrance Dicks vol.2 (unread), City of Death, The Essential Terrance Dicks vol. 1, Dr. Who in An Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (unread)

My obverse wishlist

[collectivenothingness]

I have a disease called I want to text you so much but I have no idea what I would even write

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[quinnspinkcamera]

when people are like "i didn't come here to make friends" i'm like thats sooooo unrelatable. i am always on the look out for some girl friends. I would be in that hunger games cornucopia like "your ex boyfriend did WHAT."

[dragongirlsweetie]

i do think oil executives should be considered mass murderers and treated as such. they knew this was going to happen

[fairycosmos]

this lifetime is very bizarre and then youre not even supposed to also be bizarre. Ok

[thecheshirehouse]

Happy Pride from the Cheshire House! (No, it's not pride month anymore, but when most of your writers are queer every month is pride month). The heatwave almost cooked us, but we pulled through, and now we return with three wonderful new stories for you: the long-awaited second part of Lagrange Point, a new The Interstellar Sleuth story, and a very fishy adventure from a newcomer...

Plum Pudding created this amazing cover. 

Disparate Minds returns with the second half of Lagrange Point in this haunting finale from series creator Plum Pudding. Edited by Ostara Gale @wyrdvora and Aristide Twain @aristidetwain. The message follows: There have been casualties. There are the pages, crumpled in June’s pocket. There is the light at the edge of the field, there are the riders, and the killer is walking. There are letters on his knuckle fingers, the television breathes. When the night is gone, everything will have changed. Or perhaps nothing will have…

Plum Pudding is back with another banger; this lovely drawing is hers too!

The Mystery of the House at the End of the World is the latest entry in the Interstellar Sleuth series. Written by Molly Warton and edited by Plum Pudding, Theta Mandel @theangelshavethephonebox, and Aristide Twain, this is a story about dealing with death. When Lotto's friend Gogan passes away unexpectedly, he suspects foul play, and begins an investigation that tears through the lives of all who knew her.

This absolutely swimming artwork was drawn, once again, by the multitalented Pudding made of Plum!

Elliott Parmelee makes his Cheshire debut with a splash! Introducing a new limited series, 'Fish Detective'; find out more on our website. The first installment, Fish Detective, edited by Ostara Gale and Aristide Twain, is a tale as old as time: a fish who is also a detective is drawn into murky waters as he swims towards justice for a dame whose baby was stolen by a notorious mobster. Fishing for information quickly lands him in a tangled net of crime; is this northern pike finally out of his depth?

You can find us at CheshireHouseStories on Instagram, as well as TheCheshireHouse on Bluesky.

[blackshvck]

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

[yellow-cat]

the reason that wounds that break the skin hurt is because its always supposed to be dark inside your body and when your blood sees sunlight for the first time it gets scared. and that causes the pain. or maybe it doesnt

[pluralzalpha]

[al-hadikhia]

botc valentines (pt 2) by @/nightphasebanter on instagram

[valtsv]

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

[hayleywilliamsfan84]

i keep laughing at the way that eridian culture in the movie and eridian culture in the book are not contradictory at all, if you accept that movie rocky is just a total FREAK

grace: boy i sure can't wait to meet other eridians haha! rocky, putting on a shirt for the first time in four years: rocky has something to tell grace but does grace promise not to be mad, question?

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[paranormal-taters]

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

[paranormal-taters]

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

[paranormal-taters]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS NEW AND BETTER WORD

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

being friends with english majors is so fun you'll send a text like hey are you free for brunch and they'll respond with some shit like "haven't the faintest clue, my schedule is utterly fucked"

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

english majors so used to talking like 19th century british aristocracy they think this is a joke about busy schedules

[infertilityidol]

giggled at something and my coworker comes out of the break room and goes "I just heard like, a haunted child laugh... so weird." and I'm like okay so it was a normal regular alive adult laugh actually

[natequarter]

concept: doctor who series where a villain appears in the second episode, causes some trouble, is stopped, and the doctor leaves. they're set up so that it seems like they could be a one-off but they could also return. they don't appear again until the next series, in another relatively insignificant episode where it becomes clear that they have some uhhh personal beef with the doctor. the doctor stops them and moves on again, but he's kind of uneasy - because they clearly have beef with something that happened in his future. the villain shows up for a third time in the finale, and the doctor manages to defeat them, but they try to kill the doctor one last time. the doctor has no choice but to kill them in self-defence. as they lie dying, they break down over the trauma of their time with the doctor, and it becomes clear that, whatever happened, they let their grief and anger fester, and chose to blame the doctor rather than process that pain.

in the next series, the doctor picks up a new companion. they're bright, starry-eyed, and want to help the doctor make the universe a better place.

then we hear their name.