#vnas

[melbush]

hi! if anyone wants to join a little book club to read doctor who novels and comics together, i’ve started one.

we’re going to vote on the books of the month and have discussions of the books and hopefully have a good little time. any and all eras, spin-offs, etc

link to join here or in the reblogs!

[st4rshiptr00per]

adult man who could not complete a middle schoolers english assignment: when i was growing up doctor who wasn't about politics

average doctor who writer in the 90s: doctor who says you should kill your landlord

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I’ve had a vision

[daydreamycrustacean]

Fanart of Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell that I started months ago and that then I burned out hard while rendering them. (there are other two more, but one I really don´t like how it came out and the other is just a sketch, so...)

I feel bad for not finishing them when I worked so hard on the lines, but I still can´t muster up enough energy to do it, so I might as well post them like this....

Context:

"The Hanged Man. Wicked." Because it was the Doctor, hands fumbling with his umbrella as he hung from one leg, trying to reach upwards. She turned the card over. The picture on the other side was labelled "The Traveller" and pictured the Doctor waving a spotted handkerchief to some tiny hut in the distance. In front of the hut stood people, or were they? No matter how hard Ace looked, they remained vague.

Another card in the pack was "We Are Friends To The Ugly/We War With The Beautiful". This gave Ace a moment's pause, because she was the Doctor's friend, wasn't she? Or used to be. But the card showed the Time Lord embracing a many-tentacled monster and confronting a calm humanoid, so she thought she saw the point. "Ka Farag Gatri - Bringer Of Darkness/Destroyer Of Worlds" showed on one side a black and white raven hovering over a crystalline city, on the other the Doctor hanging his head in shame. She got that one, that was guilt at destroying the Dalek homeworld of Skaro. Only the Doctor could feel sad about those scumbags.

The last card that she found surprised her. It said simply "Ace" and was the same on both sides, a mirror. Yeah. That was cool."

[natequarter]

"lungbarrow is so hard to get hold of" physical copies? yeah. pdf copies? a well-formatted version of it is on archive.org, complete with author's notes, and you don't even have to borrow it. i am aware this is not common knowledge but like it very much is there

[thepixelatedbunny]

The Seventh Doctor as a chessmaster:

-Chess metaphors are overdone for manipulative characters in general

-90% of his traps or preparations for fighting the Big Bad fail at about the halfway point in his stories and he has to improvise at some point

- Bro's not even in fully control because he's only really playing for Time herself.

-There are at least 1 or 2 occasions where it's stated that he's also only a chess piece between whatever tf is going on with the gods. A very valuable one, but a chess piece nevertheless.

- He's not even a good chess player. Gets beaten by all of his companions in chess at some point. Good lord you are a Time Lord, for rassilon's sake;

-Manages to get beaten by Benny in chess who's just randomly moving chess pieces.

The Seventh Doctor as a Poker player:

-Mysterious

-Not as overdone as chess metahpors

-He's really good at bluffing and playing for Tiem(Curse of Fenric, Greatest Show in the Galaxy, etc)

-You are never really fully sure about his intentions until the reveal

-He usually has some trump card at the end that he's building up to in the background while his companions are in mortal danger.(He has an Ace up his sleeves)

-The fact that most of the time, his plans involve being lucky enough (like that one time he plays Russian roulette in order to goad a nazi into shooting himself)

-He a performer. He canonically brings a pack of cards in his pockets so he can do magic tricks for people.

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[heimeldat]

VNA era Ace anyone?

ID: a realistic digital painting of Ace Mcshane staring at the viewer with her face lowered slightly so she's looking up from under her eyebrows with a small, dangerous smile. She still has yellow cat eyes from Survival, along with slightly pointed ears. Her hair is tied back so you can't see most of it, and she wears black segmented body armor. The background is dark blue speckled with stars, and neon blue light outlines one edge of her face and shoulder. end ID.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Shhhhhh it's okay. The Virgin New Adventures are here to save you.

[partiallithopseffect]

[abominandus]

relearning how to draw the wholings

+ extended universe below the cut. annual the empire of glass posting

read my books boy

[melbush]

90s doctor who is just writers getting giddy because they’ve been let off the reins from the bbc. acting like they’ve got the nucleur launch codes because they can make Dr Who gayer and fucked up

[st4rshiptr00per]

wolsey tiem

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

In trying times like these we must remember that we still have Gallifrey and Bernice summerfield and the edas and the vnas, new who can not hurt us, it is merely a spin off attempting to put that doctor guy on tv, don’t worry it’s not canon

[intuitive-revelations]

This week in obscure Doctor Who expanded universe references the internet has found:

First, the pub has a beer called Llanfer Ceiriog Pale Ale. While there's some similarly named locations IRL, with the Ceiriog Valley being a valley in North-East Wales, there is no place actually called this. Instead it's seemingly a direct reference to a fictional Welsh village visited by Seven and Ace in Cat's Cradle: Witch's Mark, connected by a stone circle to a planet of fantasy creatures. Quite ironic, given how mocking the landlady and patrons are about people thinking Welsh villages are backwards and full of witchcraft.

Secondly, while this might be a coincidence, Kate's suggestion of a Sontaran's arrival inspiring belief in God could be referencing DWM 59's comic: "The Gods Walk Among Us", where ancient Egyptians indeed mistake a Sontaran named Styx for a god.

Bonus, because it's not actually a reference, but just a reused filming location:

The pub Ruby stays in is the same one in Countrycide. At least in this case, however, it's just a filming location coincidence. The external shots are completely different, they're in different villages, and the pubs have different names.

[ouidamforeman]

Me trying to get people to read Dr who novels: listen to me the bbc didn’t care anymore so people were allowed to say fuck in them

[natequarter]

doctor who's short but exhilarating life as a run of novels about the seventh doctor published by a company unironically called virgin may be, besides the great literary output, one of the funniest things to happen in doctor who history, because it forces us fans to refer to the virgin new adventures with a straight face