Please read Tomoko Maynard Banks’ book if you’re a fan of Doctor Who (especially the VNAs, and ESPECIALLY if you’re a fan of Lungbarrow and looms). She’s a very dear friend of mine and I have seen her go through re-draft after re-draft to get this just right since 2019! So many elements were considered, some were cut, but ultimately the book is absolutely phenomenal in its final form.
I promise you there are a LOT of revelations to come for all levels of fans.
Also there’s a character in it based on my likeness featured on the cover (the one on the right in regards to the two figures in the foreground of Cover B); the villain of the book itself. Who? You’ll just have to read the book to find out ;)
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The machine is on the Mountain. A young inventor is laughing, guiding his tutor by the hand down the sloping fields of weanshrike. The young lady giggles, looks back: they aren’t being watched.
Oh OK so Patience was the Other's tutor too. Dr Who will see an authority figure and say is anyone going to have an illicit affair with that
Before it stood two figures. One was a time-eyed witch, robed in a golden dress. She sat in her floating wicker basket, carefully considering her next move. Somehow Chris knew this wasn’t just any old priestess: she was the Pythia—the first mystic ruler of the planet. Her opponent was a younger woman, wearing a lilac headdress, thick chronocular goggles, and a plain grey tunic. She sat against a small stone pyramid that throbbed and hummed. Chris’ eyes widened: she was leaning on a timeship—his target’s ship. That girl was the other.
“You can’t hold out forever,” said the Pythia from her basket. “A wretched little grott like you cannot match the strength of the Pythian will!”
The girl stared at the gold Fire Witch. “Who do you think you’re talking to?” she snapped. The Pythia cackled at her opponent’s conceited vulgarity.
“The most arrogant of questions. Are you to make a move, or shall I claim my prize already? I want that travelling craft. And you’ve locked yourself in our Crooked-Finger Gambit to win my prophecies. The deal cannot be broken, you must play—or lose.”
“Perhaps I need your Book of the Future more than you might want my ship,” said the other. “I’m thinking, so shut up and let me take my time.”
“Time!” said the Pythia with a sardonic hiss. “Time indeed. Time will not move your piece. Only your mind can. And out of our minds, mine is superior!” The other was quiet, her play piece remained still.
“Silence!” The girl spoke in a commanding and strong tone that belied her diminutive physical presence.
She pointed a finger at the board and shouted, “Sepulchasm!” Trembling quakes shook the temple’s foundations. The tiles of the board and floorboards beneath began to split into a jagged crack.
Chris saw the strain on the Pythia’s face. The other stood at the edge of the crack, peering into the cavernous depths before her.
A flashing countdown blazed in his mind, and he rushed at the young woman by the ship. Deftly, he snatched up the book from its place beside the board, and launched at the other. He grasped her left shoulder, and with a mighty shove, pushed her towards the fissure in the floor. With a gasp, she stumbled, desperate to regain her footing. For good measure, Chris threw the Book at her as well. The other tipped over the precipice, and fell.
Chris stopped to watch her descent into the darkness, to make sure his task was done. To his dismay, the other simply seemed to vanish, long before the fall would have otherwise carried her from sight.
An admittedly poor mockup of the other as a younger Jo Martin, alongside the Pythia and Cwej. You can actually find hints towards this and numerous other Pre-Hartnell actors throughout Loomlight's depiction of the other including Jesse Deyi's Seventh Timeless Child, the traditional bearded Other as depicted by Paul Hanley, the Morbii and even Richard Hurndall or Peter Cushing.
(Lungbarrow by Loomlight is the secret first part of Circuit Breaker)
i’m a big fan of Time Lords. yeah they certainly do have two hearts. yep and two brain stems. and two stomachs. and four kidneys. and another ribcage. yeah that’s orange blood you’re seeing. yeah they haven’t really breathed in 5 minutes but honest they’re fine. no they’re not cold they always feel like that. they spoke to you a little too sweetly and looked into your eyes a little too deeply and now you wanna do their bidding? don’t worry about it
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There are many tales told around the House of Lungbarrow. Some whispered by its hearths. Here is one. You can learn about the new novel Lung
There are many stories that have been told in the House of Lungbarrow. Here is one, A Time-Eyed Tale: The Curse of the Mountain King by Tomoko M. Banks.
This survived draft-after-draft before being cut; I’m so glad Tomoko decided to release it. This is still very much worth the read (especially if you enjoyed the lore-building of Lungbarrow by Loomlight).
Ace: No colored signs in 1963, Pakis out and petrol bombs in my time, now it's the future and it's ethnic cleansing. Nothing changes, does it?
Doctor: Forty years ago, Harper wouldn't have even been out of the ordinary. It does change, you know? Never completely, never all at once, but it does.
Ace: But when?
Doctor: Are you looking for the butterfly?
Ace: What, the one who beats its wings and tips the balance so the hurricane forms? There isn't one, is there?
Doctor: Not often. We just tell the butterflies that to keep them happy.
Ace: Should've known.
Doctor: No, mostly they break the butterfly on the wheel of time. But over the decades and millions of butterflies, the weather still changes somehow. That's time. A million, multicolored pieces of time.
my thoughts on the villain in lungbarrow by loomlight
spoilers under the cut!
if you told me a few weeks ago that there would be a lungbarrow book with the master in it i would call you insane but here we are. tbh the master was one of my candidates for the twist villain because duh, although at first i was a bit shocked it was actually him cause he felt a bit out of place in this story. however, when his true motivations were revealed at the end of the book and i thought about it more, i gotta say the author kinda cooked and there's nothing i like more than psychoanalysing the master, so here's my essay no one asked for!!
the thing about the master is that they're a huge control freak and the thing they want more than anything is to have absolute power - over everything and everyone. and usually in order to achieve this, they have to first destroy the established order, however brutal that is, and this can manifest even more strongly for the time lords, since the master's grudge with them is quite personal. when he found out about the timeless child, he destroyed the planet and killed everyone, while also creating the cybermasters - something he believed to be superior and more importantly, under his control.
similar thing happened here. now i'm not sure where exactly in the master's timeline this story takes place or if it's meant to be a sort of an au, but ig the most important thing we can assume is that the master knows about the timeless child and the other being the doctor, so the master's actions relate to that. in this story, the master’s resentment towards the time lords was truly taken to another level. he was tired of the lies and corruption that form the foundation of the time lord society, not because he found it morally wrong, but because he found it chaotic. he hated how this chaos reflected upon his own life and identity, so he wanted to rewrite the whole universe so he could create a better time lord society, one that would fulfill its full potential according to him. once again, he's creating something better and under his control.
then there’s also the fact that he’s doing all this through erasing the other, and therefore the doctor as well. we all know the master loves terrorising the doctor, and his feelings about the doctor being so foundational for the time lord society are complicated to say the least, so at first this might have seemed as just a vendetta against the doctor. of course we find out that's not fully the case. when dhawan!master found out about the timeless child, ofc he was angry for himself, but it also doesn’t take much reading between the lines to see that he was furious on the doctor’s behalf as well, and i can’t help but read it the same way here. the master even confirms this himself: “i don’t need revenge against my old friend, but rather against the society that created us.” even though the other is one of the founders of the time lords, it was never voluntarily and the time lords kept using them however they pleased, and it’s clear the master despised that this is what the society is built upon. and so his obsession with the doctor and his hatred for the time lords comes together in this plan.
so it’s not a typical personal feud he usually has with the doctor. erasing the other, the fundamental part of the current time lord society, would erase the society as well, allowing him a blank slate that he can adjust however he sees fit. now it’s not really clear to me whether he intends for the other (+the doctor) to be a part of his new, better time lord society (the whole conversation between the master and chris was so abstract that i was getting lost in it so forgive me if it is specified), so it just leaves me wondering. even if he created a universe he sees as perfect, could the master really be happy in a world without his oldest and only friend? if you ask me, i don’t think so. on the other hand there's also the possibility he did want the other and the doctor in his new world, and i would be curious to see what he imagines as a better life for the doctor. in the end, we don’t get to find out because his plan backfires on him before he can finish it.
in the end, i still think there could have been a better way to integrate the master throughout the whole book, not just the last 20%, because it does kind of feel like the master just falls out of the sky at the end. however, as a certified master connoisseur, the stuff we got was still really good and in line with how the master operates.
I think this is the first in depth analysis I’ve seen of the Deathless. Really well written and thought out :) (also he’s a pre-Delgado Master; there’s a line in his final Loomlight appearance where he comments on losing his memories, so it still lines up with canon).
"Why would they lie?" Why. Would. They. Lie? Why would the time lords lie? Why would the time lords lie. Girl every Time Lord loomed after the anchoring of the thread can't truth, all they know is charge they matrix, forsake the primitive temptations of the flesh, torture the Doctor, execute the Doctor, abuse the Doctor, eat hot chip and LIE.
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The first Doctor describes his memory of before he was born as being all strung out and "unraveled by the Loom" and I can't help but think of the Timeless Child being torn apart by Tecteuns prototype Loom, "the threads of his being unravelling into fleshy yarn on the cold white floor."
