time and relative dimension in space

( Doctor Who 13x04 Village Of The Angels )

Next week, Survivors of the Flux; Dan and Yaz have been in the early 20th century for three years, everything is working for Swarm and Azure just as planned, and where's the Doctor?</lj-spoiler

( Doctor Who 13x02 War Of The Sontarans )

Next week: Once, Upon Time

Series 13 news, including an airdate! The series is subtitled "Flux" and will be airing starting October 13. We'll be seeing Sontarans, Weeping Angels, the Ravagers, "enemies from across the universe".

I'm on-board with the speculation that this might be tying in somehow with the Faction Paradox! Obscure? Yes! But I don't care! The EU has already brought the Faction Paradox back, in the anthology book Wintertime Paradox, and the idea of time as something that's constantly being rewritten -- including the Doctor's own past -- is something that could tie in with Chibnall's Timeless Child arc very, very nicely. Am I wildly spitballing? Yes! Excited to see where this leads, whether or not it's connected to the Faction Paradox.

Also hugely excited to finally have an airdate. Halloween! Yay! THAT'S SO CLOSE.


In other Doctor Who news.

Took a brief break from my PDA readthrough because I finally got my hands on the three new Target new-series novelizations, Dalek, The Crimson Horror, and The Witchfinders. (I preordered them in April of 2020. Mm, pandemic delays.) Thoughts below the cut!

( Dalek by Robert Shearman )


( The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss )


( The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson )

Three excellent reads. Recommended.

( Doctor Who Past Doctors Adventures 11 Catastrophea by Terrance Dicks )




( Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures 12 Mission: Impractical by David A. McIntee )


Both books highly recommended, for very different reasons.

I have a job interview tomorrow morning so this post is regrettably short.

( Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures #2 Respond To All Calls )

Well, this post is late, but that's how I roll.

Two big pieces of Doctor Who news to discuss!

First, ( from Big Finish )

Second, ( from the Comicon panel, regarding series thirteen )

I guess at least for now I'll be writing PDA reaction posts two books at a time? It feels sustainable. We'll see.

( Past Doctor Adventures 03 The Ultimate Treasure by Christoper Bulis )



( Past Doctor Adventures 04 Business Unusual by Gary Russell )

I'm so tired of job applications. I just filled out a ~personality assessment~ that made no sense. Why are you asking me whether I'm more of a team player or more happy to work in fast-paced environments? Those two choices are not only not mutually exclusive they basically have nothing to do with each other. After about ten questions like that it starts to feel like "when did you stop beating your wife".

I've officially started reading the Past Doctor Adventures and am two books in. I haven't figured out how I want to blog about them, yet -- after every book seems excessive because I don't think I'll have that much to say, but there don't seem to be natural stopping points like with, say, the Target novelizations. (No, I haven't gotten the new Target novelizations yet. Still waiting for my preordered copies.) For now I suppose I'll figure it out as I go.

( Doctor Who PDA 01 The Devil Goblins Of Neptune )

( Doctor Who PDA 02 The Murder Game )

So 50% success rate so far, which is not bad! We'll see how it goes going forward...

Is it perfect? No. Do I care? No.

( Doctor Who 13x00 Revolution of the Daleks )

Goodreads sent out the link to their Year in Review today and, man, looking at that image grid is just a reminder that I read a lot of trash this year. Not to get judgmental at myself. But that's a lot of trash. Fun trash! Trash I enjoyed! (Mostly.) But trash reading. It's like. Comic book, Doctor Who book, Scholastic book aimed at ten-year-olds from the 90s, repeat. With the rare bit of nonfiction or actual literature thrown in to mix it up.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I also wanted to post to promote two new media releases that I am currently obsessing over: Taylor Swift's album Evermore and the Cartoon Saloon movie Wolfwalkers.

Evermore probably doesn't actually need me to promote it as it's getting plenty of promotion and buzz, but I'm wildly in love with it; it's like a short story anthology in music form. Particular song highlights for me are champagne problems (she would've made such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head), tis the damn season, tolerate it, no body no crime, cowboy like me, and closure.

Wolfwalkers, on the other hand, is the newest film from the same little indie Irish studio that produced some of my other favorite animated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and The Breadwinner; I've been looking forward to it since the concept trailer was released back in 2015, and it does not disappoint. It's about a young English girl who moves to Ireland with her father in 1650 to hunt wolves and discovers the truth about the local myths of 'wolfwalkers' - shapeshifters who are humans by day and wolves by night - when she befriends a local girl. It's utterly gorgeous (like all of their projects) with a fantastic story and incredible characters. It's available through Apple TV and select theatres.

How's everybody doing??