The Great Houses are Fighting the War.
They are fighting The War
They are fighting THE WAR
They are fighting THE WAR
The War itself is is the Enemy, it all makes sense now the only thing the Great Houses are fighting is the War. Everything they have fought has been part of the War. Thus the WAR is the Enemy
They are fighting the War.
They are not fight in the war they are fighting the War itself.
It’s so simple. It’s beautiful. The Enemy is the War.
havent drawn my eldrich time lords design in a hot minute
When the fuck does Braxiatel get his own boxset and spin-off??
1.1 Only the Bastards
The Braxiatel Collection has reopened its doors after years of nonexistence.
Bernice Summerfield doesn’t quite understand how she got there, but she knows it can’t be good.
Caught between the Worldsphere and a hard place, Braxiatel must choose between his plans for his people and the lives of his friends … again.
1.2 Blood of the Covenant
Irving Braxiatel has returned to Gallifrey at the perfect time. As Omega’s influence spreads across the cosmos, Braxiatel must join forces with old allies to restore order to Gallifrey. But are they already too late to save the Time Lords? And why is a gigantic bone-flower blossoming in the sky?
1.3 Water of the Womb
Irving Braxiatel has left Gallifrey at the perfect time. As the Daleks entrench themselves throughout the cosmos, he retreats to a familiar haunt on the planet Legion – only to find someone who definitely doesn’t belong. With his timeline collapsing around him, Braxiatel’s loyalty to family is put to the test.
1.4 Whatever Happened to Irving Braxiatel?
Braxiatel is a promising young student in the Academy, eager to prove himself and discover the universe outside of Gallifrey.
But when the Watchmaker arrives with a version of his future self, he has to make an impossible choice.
A choice that could change the fate of the universe forever…
From the creator: All is not what it seems in this bleak, brutalist Dalek city... Here it is (in 4K too!) Perhaps one of the weirdest things I've ever made, Compliance is the product of my wildest dreams mixed with my love of Daleks. Enjoy!
I always have a blast with my friends on the Who Cares? podcast, but this one was especially fun: we got to chat about Faction Paradox past and future, old Lawrence Miles interviews, Zagreus, Iris Wildthyme, and more! Definitely give it a listen and help celebrate this well deserved 1000 subscriber milestone.
The Wild Hunt (from Unnatural History)
lol Tardis you wildin
By this logic Ian and Barbara should die when they travel into the distant future what the fuck
Oh it gets better
Covers by Chris Foss
Apparently Peter Davison edited some sci-fi anthologies with his face slapped on the cover to capitalize on Doctor Who?
The absolute audacity to mention Time Lords on the back cover is actually admirable.
Oh, and there was also The Jon Pertwee Book of Monsters (cover by George Underwood):
Peter Davison sheds some light on this collection in his foreword to the charity anthology Missing Pieces:
I can’t say I know much about the stories in this collection but I am quietly confident they will equal if not surpass those in my previously prefaced volume, the renowned and much sought after Peter Davison’s Book of Alien Monsters, circa 1982. (You must remember it surely!) On that occasion, as the title might indicate, the book was a collection of my very favourite science fiction tales (In fact I was sent ten stories previously unknown to me, and told to choose nine. Yes it was fraud!), and jolly good stories they were. But of course not a patch on the pieces I set before you now. With literary giants the like of Colin Baker and Wendy Padbury how could this book possibly fail? In fact I feel sure that in time this book will certainly make its mark on the Library of Congress. Provided you throw it hard enough. And perhaps often enough.
Wasn’t expecting to find Cernunnos in episode 3 of Robin of Sherwood…
He was expecting you, however, and bids you welcome to his domain.
Rereading some EDAs and … I’m used to being confused by nonsense stuff in Doctor Who, but when it comes to the Council of Eight I just ? ??! ?!?!? ??????
(Massive Timeless / Sometime Never… spoilers)
These eight diamonds are apparently what grow up into the Council of Eight. They’re named Soul, Duvar, Trilon, Feear, Penter, Hexx, Sept, and Octan. You might notice that their names are number-themed. That’s because each member resembles the corresponding incarnation of the Doctor. I don’t understand why. It’s never explained. Does it need to be? (Yes. Yes it does.)
I’m an EDAs lurker (as in I’ve never read any but love to read up on the lore) so I could be really off the mark here with this but, after Power of the Doctor, I can’t imagine the Council wearing anything but the Guardians of the Edge robes. Could these diamonds be in some kind of way connected to the Guardians? I mean, of the White Point Star is anything to go by, it wouldn’t be that difficult for Time Lord diamonds to escape a sort of Matrix-y realm, would it?
What do youse, canon-welders, think about it?
“This is a call for submissions for the new Paradise Towers collection, ICE HOT, so if you’ve got a story to tell set in Stephen Wyatt’s world from Doctor Who, now’s the time to pitch it to ICEHOT@obversebooks.co.uk. Writing sample too, if you’ve not written for us before!”
Anything unique to the Paradise Towers serial can be used - but worth mentioning that we’re not looking for stories which tie into other properties or other stories.
“This is a call for submissions for the new Paradise Towers collection, ICE HOT, so if you've got a story to tell set in Stephen Wyatt's world from Doctor Who, now's the time to pitch it to ICEHOT@obversebooks.co.uk. Writing sample too, if you've not written for us before!”
If you’re looking for a guide to the best Who literature of the 2000s, you can’t do much better than this Jade Pagoda index!
As some of you saw, I found one of my “lost” Doctor Who holy grails, Daniel O’Mahony’s A Rag and a Bone! I’d been hunting high and low for this piece of fiction because the idea of O’Mahony writing a Sabbath-centric story was too good. There was literally no information whatsoever online as to what the story was actually about, but I love O’Mahony’s writing and the idea of him tackling Sabbath seemed like a match made in hell.
Finally getting a hold of this story, I must say that calling it “a Sabbath story by Daniel O’Mahony” is incredibly disingenuous, and while I dissect this story and share it all with you, I have to be completely honest and say that I have never been more confused at such a short piece of fiction in my life. Delighted, mind, but very confused.
This story was published in 2003′s Myth Makers Essentials, the famous fanzine’s special 40th anniversary celebration. Myth Makers has been rather a white whale of mine, most long out of print issues holding onto other holy grails, most notably Parkin’s Saldaamir and The School of Doom.
This story is more than a Sabbath tale, being a celebration of Doctor Who’s history, the history of the humans who keep Doctor Who going, as well as a celebration of the 2003 BBC prose continuity that, for all intents and purposes, was the Doctor Who at the time alongside Big Finish’s 1999-2003 years.
It’s also written by one of the closest things Doctor Who has ever had to Clive Barker, meaning that it’s a very disturbing celebration.
O’Mahony introduces his story with a discussion of what he considers one of Doctor Who’s essential elements:
In O’Mahony’s view of the series, Doctor Who is about humanity. Human history, ingenuity, sacrifice. Without humanity, Doctor Who is nothing. It’s a much more grounded view on the series, and while I’m not sure I quite agree with it, it makes literally every Doctor Who story O’Mahony has written make a lot more sense.
I go into the story’s eccentricities and references (SO MANY REFERENCES GUYS, I’M SO HAPPY) under the cut. Reminder that a) O’Mahony, while a beautiful writer, is a very brutal one; his whole brand is painting objective horror and worldly ugliness in the richest, wine-like prose ever, and it’s definitely not for everyone, and b) this story, like Bidmead’s wonderful With All Awry, is far less literal than it is figurative. The continuity of the time is a factor in the story, but it’s rather useless to try and squeeze it in anywhere, that’s not it’s point.
A Rag and a Bone is an author’s thesis on the spirit of Doctor Who, as well as a simultaneous criticism and celebration of its state in 2003, all the while managing to use Sabbath in the manner he was intended, rarely seen outside of Lawrence Miles’ writing.
I’m not doing every passage of the thing, just the meatier ones. Enjoy and watch me stretch my English degree!
Covers by Chris Foss
Apparently Peter Davison edited some sci-fi anthologies with his face slapped on the cover to capitalize on Doctor Who?
The absolute audacity to mention Time Lords on the back cover is actually admirable.
Oh, and there was also The Jon Pertwee Book of Monsters (cover by George Underwood):
🪐 ‘The King’s balls get bigger every year!’ 🪐
The interest check for Refracted Lives, a Big Finish Bernice Summerfield fanzine celebrating the series' 25th anniversary, is now open until April 18th! Please make sure to fill it out; it would be of great help!
Edit: Apparently the links were broken, it should be fixed now!
Wasn’t expecting to find Cernunnos in episode 3 of Robin of Sherwood…
When I first listened to Intervention Earth a few years back I noticed something odd. I felt that their where significant similarities between the two stories. I will now list those similarities.
To me this suggests that both stories lead into the War in Heaven and thus The Ancestor Cell and Enemy lines also fulfil the same narrative point much like infinite does with intervention.
Honestly I find this rather fascinating.
