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I mean sure your hero/villain ship is deranged, but is it 'villain rips out the hero's heart* and surgically implants it in his own chest' deranged? Is it 'the hero's response to this is to continually sexually harass the villain about how weird and gay that is' deranged?Is it 'love songs have been written about less' deranged?
*don't worry they've got a spare
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Doctor who is becoming fantasy. Beasts from somewhere with an association with other worlds and feasting on human flesh.p led by a king of Beasts Goblins. Feels like we may be getting a family friendly adaption of Adventuress of Henrietta Street. I mean Gallifrey is gone as well, Magic is all but stated to be returning to the universe. This is so Post Ancestor Cell EDA coded.
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“Straddling the big barrel torso of the animal, perched on his ribcage with one leg on either side, was the thin and pale-faced form of the Doctor. He had something in his hand, and was repeatedly bringing it down on the gigantic beast’s head. At least, that was Lisa-Beth’s first impression.
When she moved a little further into the room, past the staring, unmoving figures of Fitz and Anji, she saw that he was actually assaulting the ape’s thick neck. Whatever he was holding in his hand, it was sharp. He was hammering the object into the animal’s throat, and even Lisa-Beth admitted to finding the sight alarming, as if there were something bestial about the Doctor himself.”
- Doctor Who: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
#doctor who#classic who#eighth doctor#paul mcgann#eighth doctor adventures#dr who#doctor who fanart#8th doctor#edas#the adventuress of henrietta street#my art#blood#gore#animal death
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Oh Herr Mozart, I must say….
This edible ain’t SHIT!
*30 SECONDS LATER*
*breaks down the wall like the fucking Kool-Aid man*
My GOD!!!!!!
*Don Giovanni Overture suddenly and ominously begins to play*
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He tries explaining the theory to Fitz, once. “It’s not that I love her,” he says. “Juliette’s a nice girl, obviously. But love’s got nothing to do with, with, with.” He casts his mind back, vaguely; doesn’t find what he’s looking for. “Marriage,” he decides, even though he’s pretty sure he’s generalizing a little.
The Doctor, Innocet, ritual weddings, Houses, and homes.
#doctor who#innocet#lungbarrow#seventh doctor#eighth doctor#scarlette#the adventuress of henrietta street#eleventh doctor#the wedding of river song#canon welding#hi i emerge from the abyss with a fic that has an audience of like. two people#sorry. i couldn't stop thinking about it#worlds stalest hot take: lungbarrow is good actually#ao3 fic#zephflix original
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thinking about the doctor’s black eyes when he gets sick in adventuress
#eighth doctor#the adventuress of henrietta street#what if they stuck around for a little longer. what if
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The Points of the Star
In the .E.D.A., "The Adventuress of Henrietta Street" we are told that one of The Service's founders John Dee, (astronomer, spy, magacian, and royal confidante) entrusted to it five secret, "Points of the Star" names which when written onto agent's bodies intending to lend a great and holy strength. Going by what's known about Dee in both real life and the Whoverse, (specifically his use of the, "Angelical" enochian magic language in his brainwashing experiments) the five names are probably those of the five archangels thats are described as having been central to his actions, (aswell as being a common grouping in medieval and renaisssance occult works) detailed in the first part of his central magic text, "The Five Books of Mystery".
Intended powers notes
1.Most likely written in Dee's, "Angelical" ecochian magic language. (The fact the Star Chamber has a reality changing language like the Timelord's Circular Galifreyan is another example of resonance).
1.Since the hebrew meaning of each of the achangel's names it makes sense that each power is different.
2.The power works until the name is smudged or removed.
3.Lisa-Beth Lachlan's blackmail cannot simply be the archangel's names as they are already well known so it must of been the knowledge that they can grant powers. (Though who would take a prositute making proclemations about the occult seriously? Wouldn't the Service's member just accept their leaders inevitable denials?).
4.Could be genuinely magical with at least 1 and 4 being covered by psionics. We are told that the devestation or destruction of Gallifrey 8, (swapped with 1) in the Kasterbourous system the Battle of Mutter's Cluster brought back magic to some extent, (presumably not to that of the, "wilder magics" returning and for a limited period until Gallifrey 3 takes it's spacial position?).
The Five Points of the Star
1.Michael
Hebrew meaning: Who is God?
Compass point: East.
Intended power: Increased intelligence.
2.Gabriel.
Hebrew menaing: God is my strength.
Compass point: North.
Intended power: Increased strength.
3.Raphael
Hebrew meaning: God has healed.
Compass point: West.
Indtended power: Faster self healing and or healing others.
4.Uriel
Hebrew menaing: Fire of God.
Compass point: South.
Intended power: Mental flame creation and control.
5.Ammael
Hebrew meaning: Grace or glory of God.
Compass point: .N/A.
Intended power: Increased luck.
#faction paradox#book of the war#bbc doctor who#whoniverse#doctor who#the grand families#star chamber#the service#enochian#enochian magic#angelical#archangels#John Dee#Edward Kelly#Books of Mystery#.E.D.A.#The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
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Doctor Who episodes that aired on the 5th of November…
In 1966, The Power of the Daleks Episode One
In 1977, Image of the Fendahl Part Two
#Doctor Who#Two#The introduction of the very second Doctor in 1966!#On this date in 2001 the novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street came out. The Doctor gets married but his heart belongs to someone else.#1966#1977#November
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My blog tells me that I finished reading The Adventuress of Henrietta Street around 4 years ago. That was around the time that I finished uni (and the pandemic happened) and I just stopped reading novels. Before then, I was reading the EDAs on-and-off all throughout high school and university, and got around 70% of the way through them. It's a really important series to me for a whole number of personal reasons.
So I'm really very happy to say that I finally finished a new EDA! 🎉🎉🎉 My first, shortlived attempt at Mad Dogs and Englishmen was 4 years ago, but now I've finished it! Here's hoping many more EDAs follow it. And the rest of my massive to-read list.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen was classic Paul Magrs, so it was good that I went in expecting none of it to make a whole lot of sense. Magrs really does like focusing on aesthetics, meta-commentary, and sometimes emotions over realism or strong plot logic. I really don't mind those kind of focuses, but I much prefer them with some grounding in realistic emotions and a coherent plot, which is why I'm not sure Magrs is quite as high in my list of favourite Who authors as other EU fans. I appreciate what he does with his stories, they're just not my favourite. For example, in this novel a bunch of seemingly normal clay figurines come to life for, unless I'm forgetting something, no reason at all. It's a cool sequence, but not really much more. Then the monsters lead to the kinda awful death of a minor character because the protagonists... ignored him? Forgot about him? And the novel brushes past that pretty quickly. So yeah when I read a Magrs novel, I just need to switch off my mind's logic (including, sometimes, emotional logic) and just enjoy the ride.
But having said all that, I did enjoy the ride quite a lot! Definitely more than The Blue Angel, which I remember dragged a little for me. Mad Dogs, on the other hand, really held my attention, especially when I got to the point where the Tardis team had split up on their own adventures, and all three of them were equally entertaining (A rare EDA achievement!) It's always a joy for Iris to turn up, though I wish she could've been in more of the book, and Fitz's reaction to figuring her out was so entertaining. Also, does Iris' new body in this book make her one of the first Time Lords(ish) in any media to change skin colour? Just two months before Don Warrington made his first appearance as Rassilon (It's always fun to figure out what the comics and audios were doing at the same time as the novel I'm up to.)
Anyway, the premise of the Doctor and his team investigating the various stages of a novel's adaptation into a movie to find out how and why it was temporally interfered with to turn it into propaganda for another planet's politics is fantastic. Noel Coward having such a large part in the plot was a little surprising but fun. It's interesting how Anji still feels like she doesn't quite fit this life after 10 novels now, the poor girl. And the infamous scenes where the Tardis team are stripped naked, collared, and made to crawl around by dogs, and only Anji is at all upset about that is hilarious (That just happened to be the bit I was up to when my girlfriend asked me to read aloud to her to help her fall asleep. She ended up asking me to stop because what I was reading was 'too interesting' for her to sleep to 😂)
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What is your favourite Doctor Who story?
ROUND 2 MASTERPOST
synopses and propaganda under the cut
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
Synopsis
On February 9, 1783, a funeral was held in the tunnels at the dead heart of London. It was the funeral of a warrior and a conjurer, a paladin and an oracle, the last of an ancient breed who'd once stood between the Earth and the bloodiest of its nightmares.
Her name was Scarlette. Part courtesan, part sorceress, this is her history: the part she played in the Siege of Henrietta Street, and the sacrifice she made in the defence of her world.
In the year leading up to that funeral, something raw and primal ate its way through human society, from the streets of pre-Revolutionary Paris to the slave-states of America. Something that only the eighteenth century could have summoned, and against which the only line of defence was a bordello in Covent Garden.
And then there was Scarlette's accomplice, the "elemental champion" who stood alongside her in the final battle. The one they called the Doctor.
Propaganda no propaganda submitted
The Stranger
Synopsis
When young Claudia finds a sexy stranger near her home she discovers that he has lost his memory along with his clothes.
Having turned her back on relationships after the death of her husband, Claudia finds herself scandalising her friends by inviting the stranger into her home and her bed...
Propaganda
The Eighth Doctor Porn novel, Eights bisexual girl pal in this latter appears in Father Time which makes the novel canon.
One of eights romantic partner cliche thus becomes middle aged widow who meets him and rediscovered their sexuality. (anonymous)
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#doctor who#eighth doctor#dweu#I mean#Seeing I#Earth Arc#Adventuress of Henrietta Street#stranded#not two mention around two whole Time Wars#at least
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The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures "War in Heaven" arc, as it may have originally been
The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, at their start, didn't have any arc set-in-stone, and so author Lawrence Miles wrote the masterpiece Alien Bodies, kick-starting the "War in Heaven" arc. However, on 3 July 2000, The Ancestor Cell was published, putting an end to the War in Heaven arc, at least within the EDA range.
Before this novel was published, Lawrence Miles had other ideas for the War in Heaven, and I for this post have attempted to reconstruct a rough timeline for what could have been, from the available evidence. Bear in mind that I have taken some creative liberties and speculation. As there will be quite a few different stories in different ranges, some released and some unproduced, I've decided to code them for convenience: first off, assume everything is a published EDA unless told otherwise - then, green is for a part of the "Bernice Summerfield" New Adventures, blue is for Past Doctor Adventures, orange is for anything else, and bold is for unproduced (these can be combined).
Prelude
Down (September 1997)*: the Gods are introduced, setting up a War seemingly separate to the War in Heaven. This most likelywasn't originally intended to tie-in to the EDAs, or be part of the War in He and, but was brought in by Dead Romance.
Alien Bodies (November 1997): Faction Paradox, the Enemy, the Celestis, and the state of Gallifrey and it's cloneworlds during the War in Heaven is introduced and established as being in the Eighth Doctor's future.
Unnatural History (June 1999): small skirmish with Faction Paradox. It is altogether unclear whether they come from the War or from the Eighth Doctor's time
Act 1
Dead Romance (1 March 1999): the universe of the VNAs, that of Chris Cwej, is implied to be in a bottle in the EDA universe, as itself contains a bottle. Later stories would draw continuity with the VNAs, and The Ancestor Cell (not counted in this list) saw the merger of the bottle into the main universe. This is also implied to be the case by the fact that Cousin Eliza - Christine Summerfield - appears to be in the prime universe by The Faction Paradox Protocols. Personally, I reconcile these by concluding that only the later VNAs starring Bernice Summerfield, which lacked the BBC Doctor Who license, are part of this "bottle", and that Christine used the Gods of that universe to climb out of it, as she implies at the end of the novel.
Interference: What Happened On Earth (August 1999, part of "Interference"): a major interaction with the War; the Doctor prevents the destruction of Earth by wartime powers, thus marking his first major intervention in the War, as Earth is a cradle point of casualty. The War also infects the Doctor's timestream back to his third incarnation, in Interference: What Happened On Dust.
Toy Story (1999/2004)*2: Lolita talks to the TARDIS.
Interference: Foreman's World (August 1999, part of "Interference"): I.M. Foreman reveals the bottle universe, says the people within created their own bottle universe, and it is lost. This effectively confirms the implementation in Dead Romance. Interestingly, as far as I know, most people read Interference first, completely missing the fact that the ending of it is meant to confirm Dead Romance, not foreshadow it. At least, I completely missed that.
Beneath the Planet of the Spiders (after "Interference"): The Fourth Doctor combats the Eight Legs in place of the Third Doctor, and presumably the effects of Interference are further explored.
Valentine's Day (after "Interference"): the Doctor exiles himself for fear of regenerating into something worse than Faction Paradox could imagine. With his absence, the Daleks rise to power. The Doctor then trains a replacement, with the combined help of the Time Lords and Faction Paradox. Ideas of a replacement were adapted by Miles into The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, where the replacement is Sabbath Dei.
The Taking of Planet 5 (October 1999): Mictlan, realm of the Celestis, is destroyed, and the Doctor aids in saving the rest of the universe.
The Shadows of Avalon (2000): The specifics of Compassion's transformation into a TARDIS, and potentially the transformation in totality, were probably not part of Miles's original plan. However, he notably didn't contradict it in The Book of the War, so this will still be included.
Act 2
From here on out, there aren't any actual plans for Eighth Doctor novels, although that is likely just due to the small gap between Interference and The Ancestor Cell. Nevertheless, this has the interesting diegetic effect of making it seem that the War has started to escape the Eighth Doctor, and is widening it's girth.
First I shall list the unproduced novels that would fit into here, and then offer my diegetic summary:
The War (after 12 March 1999): Pertaining to an unknown range, perhaps the Past Doctor Adventures (as it also included the non-past Infinity Doctors and would have included the future Requiem), this would have featured Joanna Lumley's Thirteenth Doctor being in a concentration camp with other "strays from other realities", all taken from BBC sitcoms which the BBC still had rights to. @verityshush commissioned Wenart Gunardi to make a cover for this, in the style of the Virgin New Adventures (the anachronism fits)
Requiem (after 1998's "Interference"): There is a "huge, bone-like thing" in the sky over a war-paranoid Gallifrey. Miles contested that "The Ancestor Cell" copied the idea of this, but the thing in the huge black bone structure in Requiem reportedly was totally different to in "The Ancestor Cell".). There would have been 5 sequels to Requiem, all following this "future incarnation of the Doctor". Presumably these would have crossed over with the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures at at least one point, if not more.
Below is my deigetic imaging of what could have been.
The War in Heaven expands beyond the Eighth Doctor's timestream, and begins infecting both alternative timelines (The War) and future incarnations (Requiem). The future incarnations may be an "infection" of the developing War, as the Doctor "originally died on Dronid", but as it's heavily implied that's not quite what happened, he could have easily experienced Requiem first and then gone back to the beginning of the War (which should be impossible, but just look at how many times the Eighth Doctor interacted with the future War) to be found on Drornid.
Despite expanding beyond the Eighth Doctor, it still chases him, or to be more specific, the War Queen Romana chases him, Fitz, and their timeship Compassion. Eventually, in unknown book (unknown because future novels with the War Queen Romana never even got to the pitching state, but feel like they should have existed), the Doctor would regain his TARDIS, and in my ideal world it would have regenerated (not because I don't like the Victorian parlour, quite the contrary, I the arc would be more impactful if it had a permanent effect). I think that after he gets his TARDIS back, the Eighth Doctor should just keep on as normal, not really seeing the War all that much, perhaps even his TARDIS has engineered itself to not ever collide with it again - without the Doctor's knowledge? - but there's no "cataclysmic", The Ancestor Cell -like removal of the War.
Compassion, now a timeship separate from the Doctor, Fitz, and the Doctor's TARDIS, would leave the "TARDIS team" and eventually get the companion "Carmen Yeh"*3
Finally, an unnecessary but nice note on how Compassion become the mother of timeships:
The Book of the War, specifically the entry on "Carmen Yeh", features Compassion confronting the War King, and entering into diplomatic relations with him. This is likely the intended point by Miles of when Compassion would have aided in the reproduction of the 103-forms, as opposed to The Shadows of Avalon's version (rape).
*I have not actually read this book, my info for it derives solely from Nate Bumber's blogspot about the Bernice Summerfield War
*2 This was first published in the charity anthology Perfect Timing 2, and then later reprinted in Mad Norwegian Press's edition of Dead Romance
*3 In the Perfect Timing short story "Schrödinger's Botanist", Carmen Yeh would meet Compassion and join her.
Tagging (with permission): @doctornolonger
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TOO MANY NOTES???????!!!!!!!!!
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#my poor attempt at a joke#wolfgang amadeus mozart#amadeus 1984#abduction from the seraglio#EDAs#doctor who#the adventuress of Henrietta street#what#no context#music#notes#too many notes
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As requested by absolutely no one, my personal skiplist recomendation for the Eighth Doctor Adventures:
[ *Books that are more or less universally agreed to be excellent.
+Books I personally quite like that don't tend to make the top ten lists
-Books that are important enough that you shouldn't skip them, but imo kind of suck (don't yell at me if a book you like is on here, this is just my opinion)
Bolded books are arc important. ]
2. Vampire Science*
4. Genocide
6. Alien Bodies*
9. Longest Day-
11. Dreamstone Moon
12. Seeing I*
15. The Scarlet Empress*
17. Beltempest
19. The Taint-
21. Revolution Man+
22. Dominion+
23. Unnatural History*
25. Interference pt One: Shock Tactic
26. Interference pt Two: Hour of the Geek
27. The Blue Angel*
28. The Taking of Planet 5*
30. Parallel 59+
31. The Shadows of Avalon
32. The Fall of Yquatine
33. Coldheart+
36. The Ancestor Cell
38. Casualties of War
39. The Turing Test*
41. Father Time-
42. Escape Velocity-
43. EarthWorld*
45. Eater of Wasps+
46. The Year of Intelligent Tigers*
49. City of the Dead*
50. Grimm Reality*
51. The Adventuress of Henrietta Street-
52. Mad Dogs and Englishmen
54. Anachrophobia*
56. The Book of the Still*
58. History 101+
59. Camera Obscura*
60. Time Zero
62. The Domino Effect
63. Reckless Engineering
64. The Last Resort+
65. Timeless
66. Emotional Chemistry
69. The Tomorrow Windows
71. The Deadstone Memorial+
72. To the Slaughter
73. The Gallifrey Chronicles-
PDA 73. Fear Itself* (Takes place between EarthWorld and Vanishing Point)
There are a number of books that are perfectly fine but nothing particularly special that didn't make the cut, as well as some kind of shitty books that did, as this is a skiplist to sort of whittle down the series to a somewhat more managable number while still keeping all of the arc essential books on the list. In my opinion, you could read every book on this list and not only not be confused by any of the arc stuff, but also come away not feeling like you've missed anything quintessential to the series.
And remember, this is my personal list, not speaking for anyone else's opinions about any of these, sorry if I included one of your favorite books among the 'shitty but significant' list, sorry if I skipped a book you love, yadda yadda yadda.
Happy reading! :D
#eighth doctor adventures#eighth doctor books#eighth doctor#megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace#honestly the real actual skiplist is just: skip The Eight Doctors the two dalek books and Placebo Effect#basically all of the others have at least one or two redeeming features each#y'know it's telling that of those it's three among the first ten when the series was still finding its feet#and the gary russell book#so even the really shitty ones aren't as bad as all that#and most of them are genuinely decent through absolutely excellent
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How Doctor Who is secretly fantasy
One of the things I enjoy most about Doctor Who is that it looks like sci-fi on the surface but as you get deeper and deeper into it, it begins to resemble fantasy more and more. For example according to Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, the Time Lords are sterile and reproduce using genetic Looms because of the Pythia's curse. No technology, no virus, it's just a magical curse.
The original genre of the Doctor Who universe was fantasy but the Time Lords created history in such a way that magic couldn't exist. Basically, they did a magic spell to destroy magic. Hypocrites. (Christmas on a Rational Planet) This history was bound by what the Time Lords could comprehend, it's why there are so many humanoid species out there, they couldn't understand most of the non-humanoid ones. The Time Lords eventually came to view themselves as functions of history, given form through the Looms, barely biological at all. (The Book of the War)
When Gallifrey was destroyed in the EDA book range(long story), the chains that it had imposed on history were shattered and magic began to seep back into the universe: Beasts/Mal'akh(Adventuress of Henrietta Street), spirits(City of the Dead) and magic time travelling dogs(Timeless) but Gallifrey's destruction lead to the Doctor's hearts decaying in his chest(Adventuress of Henrietta Street). The only reason he survived is because a heart was ripped out of his chest and later implanted into Sabbath's which linked their lifeforces meaning that neither could die as long as the other was alive. This was only discovered after the Doctor's chest was crushed by a sandbag.(Camera Obscura)
Anyhow, after that extended wander through the books, the relevant thing to the show is that it's happening again. The fantastical is seeping back into the universe, this time due to the Doctor invoking a superstition at the edge of the universe in Wild Blue Yonder, we've already seen goblins in The Church on Ruby Road, I wonder what could come next?
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A friend of mine taking a British history class in college came across a historical account of "the Adventuress of Henrietta Street" in the college library that makes extensive reference to an individual referred to as "the Doctor." The description partially matches one of the recorded, recurring instances of the legendary figure (albeit, with a beard hitherto unreported). The one who attended Fidel Castro's funeral 233 years after the events documented in this book.
The Doctor mentioned in the book is clearly no ordinary physician. For one, the term "Doctor" is capitalised. He is described as an "elemental" who brings forewarnings of terrible danger. This "Doctor" is seen as a bad omen, which is a frequent aspect of the doctor of legend. There are many historical accounts of "the Doctor" appearing at times of crisis, and this appears to be one of them.
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