Autopsy scars

The Eighth Doctor has lived rent free in my head for more than ten years at this point and yet @daydreamycrustacean drawing Eight with autopsy scars reprogrammed my entire brain with a single drawing

 

Infinity Train crossover

 

I haven't updated this blog in more than a year even though I was originally planning to finish reading this series of books in 2024. The problem is that I fell into my biggest hyperfixation-turned-special-interest since, well, Doctor Who ten years earlier. As you can guess, it was Infinity Train.

At some point in August 2024, one user called deathchrist2000 asked me "Of the 8th Doctor companions, who would have the largest number upon entering the Infinity Train? Why do I feel like the answer is Fitz?" to which I replied: "Look me in the eye. Look me in the eye, and tell me that Fitz “intergalactic loser of mystery” Kreiner would have a higher number upon entering the Train than the alien mass murderer raised in a death cult" and posted that first picture with C'rizz from the audios. Then I added "Sidenote: over there we have someone who couldn’t deal with the death of a loved one and who tried to clone him, except the clone isn’t a perfect copy. Weird how that keeps happening, uh" and posted that second drawing with Eight and Fitz.
 

The Sights 2 [Satellites]

 

I did it because you're a jerk

Reckless Engineering - At the end of the universe

Anji filling a water bottle with luminous water

Reckless Engineering

Some highlights of the latest EDA I’ve read (Reckless Engineering).

I took these screens while reading, along with my reactions. As usual, this is full of spoilers.

 

 

Finally! A good book! Well, not a great book, but, you know. A pretty good one! After the previous two, that's a relief. Sure, the regulars are kind of the generic version of themselves (Eight especially is threading daaaaangerously close to "generic Doctor" territory), but at least they're not the caricatures or the complete OOC versions we had in recent memory. Sure, the resolution of the plot is way too simple considering how complex everything was before that point, but it only feels a bit cheap, not like a complete cheat.

Fortunately, the main qualities of this book are its core concept and its worldbuilding, and that goes a long way when dealing with mostly generic characters. What an amazingly disturbing idea for an apocalypse! What a cool way to create zombie-like humans for your story. What a great choice that was to set most of the plot 150 years after said apocalypse to see what kind of world would be born out of it.

It's compelling, it's disturbing, it's a great concept. If only the plot was a bit more clever and the regulars written a bit better! But still, 7/10

The Domino Effect

Some highlights of the latest EDA I’ve read (The Domino Effect).

I took these screens while reading, along with my reactions. As usual, this is full of spoilers.

 

Good news, everyone! This one isn't as bad as Infinity Race.

Unfortunately that's where the good news stop. And yeah, it's also pretty bad, but in a completely different way than the previous book - it's slightly better written, but it's gratuitously edgy, the regulars are either bland, way too aggressive or too busy being tortured to be in or out of character, the plot is very thin and makes very little sense, and it ends in the most boring, predictable way possible. And it also has the most artificial conflict between the main characters that I've ever seen in these books.

Some parts are so-bad-it's-good, and I kinda liked one specific plot thread, but that's about it. I sincerely hope this is just a fluke? 2,5/10