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Trying out Dreamwidth as my primary platform for a while. We'll see how it goes! I'll continue crossposting to LJ at least for a bit, although tbh I will continue posting exactly as often as I have been, which, let's be honest, is not a lot.

Anyway, I've completed two more PDAs!

Past Doctor Adventures 19: The Wages Of Sin by David A. McIntee )


Past Doctor Adventures 20: Deep Blue by Mark Morris )
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Given world news, I'm looking to relocate my admittedly infrequent posts to a new server. It's a strange feeling, given how long I've been here on LJ, but I don't feel I can in good conscience continue on a Russian-owned and -affiliated business, regardless of how little my patronage might contribute to that. If anyone has any suggestions of where I can move to, I would welcome them.

In the meantime, I guess here's another Doctor Who post.

Past Doctor Adventures 17: The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin )



Past Doctor Adventures 18: Salvation by Steve Lyons )
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Rather belatedly, let's talk about the two most recent PDAs I've read. (There's just been a lot going on RL right now. Sorry. Big Finish post still to come.)

Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures 15 Last Man Running by Chris Boucher )


Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures 16 Matrix by Robert Perry & Mike Tucker )
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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.
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In other New Who news, Jodie and Chris will be leaving the show as of autumn 2022. So similar to David's run we're getting three seasons and then a handful of specials.

I'm so tired of this three-and-done run trend. :( Very sad to see Jodie leaving, I love her to bits.

In true Whovian fashion, though, I'm very excited to see who comes next! Desperately hoping our next Doctor is a woman as well and that Jodie has set the trend. Hopefully a woman of color, there's so many great actresses out there. IDK, I'm sure whoever it is will be great.

I have literally no clue who the next showrunner will be. There doesn't seem to be an obvious successor this time, which is making me a little nervous.

WE'LL SEE.



Anyway, in classic Who news, I've finished two more Past Doctor Adventures!

PDA 07 The Face Of The Enemy by David A McIntree )


PDA 08 Eye of Heaven by Jim Mortimore )

Both excellent reads, for very different reasons. Both highly recommended.
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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...
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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??
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I started my Target readthrough with Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child, completed on February 9, 2017.

I've completed it tonight, with Doctor Who: Survival, on September 19, 2020.

It's been a journey.

the Seventh Doctor in novelizations )

. . . okay, so technically there's also the Target adaptations of the lost stories and the novelization of the movie when I can track that down and there's three new series adaptations supposed to be coming out next year that I'm looking forward to so I'm not actually done, but shhh. This is where I'm drawing my line in the sand. I'm done for now and I'm moving on to other parts of the DW bookverse. I'll circle back to Target.

This has been a three-and-a-half-year-long readthrough, with highs and lows, and honestly I'm really glad I did it. Even the most lackluster adaptation offered a new way of looking at a serial and the best of them are good Who in their own right.

As I mentioned up post, I'm going to be clearing out my TBR list of some one-off Doctor Who books before tackling any of the other lines, but then I think I've decided I'll be trying the Past Doctor Adventures. This is subject to change, but that's where I think I'm headed next.
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Another step forward in my quest to read through the Target novelizations -- I have completed The Ultimate Foe and thus the Sixth Doctor's run!

the Sixth Doctor )

Onward to Seven!

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