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Revelation of The Daleks:

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My New Year gift.

The function of this undiscovered organ called a "heart" According to my considerations, its just a fake...

🔵 Emilico Stimboard 🔵

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The Doctor meeting Ruby Sunday:

"You are a weirdo! And that is game recognizing game."

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Okay, this is brilliant!

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Yes. yes, they have.

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This!

Unpopular Opinion

The Sixth Doctor's outfit is amazing. I love it.

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Literally no one in the universe: My brain:

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So, I've just read "Shell Shock", thanks to this post. And my God, the story is positively unhinged, but also really impressive. It leaves the reader with a lot to think about.

Ok I've finally found and read "Doctor Who: Shell Shock" - a Doctor Who novella from Telos publishing. And it has no right to be so good!

Plot: the 6th Doctor and Peri visit an ocean planet and nearly drown. However, they both are saved: the Doctor - by the community of strange crab mechas, and Peri - by the omnipresent entity, who wants to make a god out of her.

"Shell shock" is written by Simon A. Froward and told in 3 pov's: the Doctor's, Peri's and one of the crabs'. This story is very introspective and it's main theme is overcoming the psychological trauma.

The story explores Peri's tramatic past (tw: this novella has mentions of sexual assult). I really felt for her: for nearly whole her life Peri was a victum, she lived through so much fucked up events, and the worst part is - she always needed someone to save her, or otherwise she would have died long ago. Even in this story she can't escape on her own, but the option of finally gaining power to solve her problem is much worse. So to keep in control of her future Peri must stick to her worst memories and find a way to help the Doctor. As only working in pair they can save everybody and return to the TARDIS.

I liked that "Shell shock" explores the injustice of being a Doctor's companion. It shows how friends of the Doctor often feel as if they're disposible and unimportant. These relationships can be very toxic and unhealthy, especially when the Doctor themselves treats them as lesser people (a consistent trait of the show, likely born out of showrunners' unwillengness to let the Doctor's character evolve over numerous regenerations and not make the same mistakes over and over again).

I was pleasently surprised that the 6th Doctor's pov was his actual pov. Many DW novels (written in the 3sd person) suffer from the same strange choice: they show the Doctor's bits of the story too "detachedly" - like a reader is not in their head, but follows them like a movie camera in a TV show. As a result, readers don't trully know what the Doctor thinks, why they're worried and what their plans are. Even some Doctor's solo stories are told from the pov of an original characters. But in "Shell shock" we can experience all emotions of the 6th Doctor, like his grief (when he thinks he lost Peri) and his determination to make everybody as happy and save as they can be. That's why revelations in this story hit so hard - the reader identifies themselves with the Doctor befriending all new characters and wanting to protect them. As a result, the 6th Doctor feels more fleshed out and sympathetic than in some longer dw novels.

To sum up, I highly recommend reading "Doctor Who: Shell shock". It reminded me of "The island of Dr Moreau" in the best way possible - sort of aquatic retelling of that story with lots of deep themes and gray characters to explore.

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That story absolutely broke me. Trying to forget, but I always remember...

project lazarus

i wanted some angst and whump, and well, i got that, and now i’m just really sad

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Am I not permitted an occasional moment of melodrama?

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Me, after watching the Sixth Doctor era and thoroughly enjoying it: "My dear child Whovians, what on Earth are you complaining about?"

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These are pretty old though.

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ー I didn't lose because I didn't run.

♡ Happy Birthday, Armin ♡ » November 3rd.

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Armin in episode 59 ♡

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"What's the Attack Titan's special power?"

Me: ....Wibbly wobbly time-y wimey... stuff.

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Guren: So, most people assume that after the end of the world, they won't be taking any orders from their annoying bosses... Well, that was not the case for me.

Kureto: I heard that.

Guren: Like I care.