for the pride month doodle thing - maybe bi sam jones n' fitz kreiner if you're familiar with the edas? that'd b pretty cool :^)
sorry this took a couple days!! i have actually not read any fitz books yet but i love sam from what i know of her and fitz as a concept is exactly my type of character so i want to read him!!
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Something I love doing with Doctor Who’s Wilderness novels and prose is imagining what a modern adaptation (movies, tv, audio dramas, whatever) would be like. Part of it is absolutely rooted in my love for the stories, the characters, the high-concepts from the VNAs, VMAs, the EDAs, and Faction Paradox, but there’s another big element that makes the fantasy a happy place for me.
I love the Wilderness Years. I think Doctor Who works in prose in a very special and different way than it does on television, and while I won’t say it’s better, prose Who fits me more. That’s why it’s my comfy place. You all know how I claim the Faction Paradox mythos and the post-War EDAs (including Miranda and Time Hunter) are more or less my definitive Who stomping ground, and there’s so much to love and enjoy from the Virgin publishing years.
But, the first VNA was published 27 years ago. The Gallifrey Chronicles and Fear Itself, the capstones to the BBC Books’ time as “current” Doctor Who, were published 13 years ago. Media that handles anything to do with race, gender, and sexuality, even if it handles it as delicately as it can, ages like milk (and that isn’t even touching when those things aren’t handled delicately).
Look at Alien Bodies’ mishandling of race and culture, and despite Faction Paradox’s constant improvement and forward moving, some of which happened immediately in Miles’ followup Interference and The Book of the War (and continues thanks to Obverse Books), those uncomfortable elements are still rooted in the core FP mythos. Or look at the VNAs absolute sex obsession, or the acephobic rhetoric that sometimes (but not all the time, to be clear) accompanies the lore surrounding Looms. Look at Chris Cwej and Fitz Kreiner’s womanizing in the hands of less self-aware writers. The treatment of Ace, or the few times Anji Kapoor was severely mishandled.
There are things in the Wilderness Years that do not hold up. It doesn’t mean I, or any of its fans, have to love it any less. If anything, I think deconstructing, critiquing, and accepting these flaws before figuring out how to improve them in context and in future stories is the ultimate act of love towards a piece of media.
That’s why I love seeing how the Wilderness continues to thrive with the EU fans, in fanfiction, fanart, and discourse (canon welding or critical). That’s why it’s amazing so much of it still lives in Obverse Books’ Iris Wildthyme and Faction Paradox. That’s why I love imagining what the Eighth Doctor novels would look like as television, how the good elements would be replicated and the flawed/bad improved. I love seeing how people would make new stories with these characters and concepts, how the War arc or the Post-War would be modernized and made better, stronger.
I hope to god to see my dear beloved characters again... Fitz, Anji, Miranda, Sam, Compassion, Honoré, Larna, Emily, Kadiatu. I hope to see them reappear and reemerge because I would want to write them, to make new stories and keep pushing the books and stories I love so much to be better.
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Happy holidays, my only gift for you is a sleazeball.
Headcanon reformed OG Fitz with scars all over his body.
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New WIP video featuring my bad accent, my occasionally terrible pronunciation, grammar mistakes, and ramblings about Doctor Who, 19th century literature and poetry, rec lists, the origin of instant coffee, and people kissing graves.
Save me.
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