Gevity

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Gevity was a term which temporarily replaced gravity due to the actions of seemingly Epsilon the Watcher or one of his followers.

This brief "interregnum" followed a controversy (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...{"page":"405","name":"L&W","1":"Love & War (short story)"}) involving the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble, where they inadvertently diverged Sir Isaac Newton's coining of gravity to mavity, (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"], etc.) and, while a time-interventionist attempted to revert these meta-historical changes to the concept, they inadvertently caused another change, where Isaac Newton's name was altered to Isaac Mewton. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...{"page":"405","name":"L&W","1":"Love & War (short story)"})

Other realities

Willy McDuff's universe

In one universe, while Jenny Everywhere was in Willy McDuff's "chocolate factory", she noticed polystyrene cups containing a splash of a fizzy liquid placed around on a black table, "in a futile effort to imply that their contents were the results of the wacky chemistry", an illusion which wasn't helped by a plastic Gevity bottle rolling out from behind the table. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination [+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

A graphic of Gevity's logo.

While referenced without context in Love & War [+]Loading...{"page":"405","name":"L&W","1":"Love & War (short story)"}, gevity is a reference to the unreleased webcast 41.1978.A [+]Loading...["41.1978.A (unreleased webcast)"], which would've revealed that Gevity, or 'Gevity™ as it was then known, was an energy drink sold by "Epsilon Enterprises" during the Winter of Discontent in 1978 to exploit the strikes.

The webcast would've been framed as a case file compiled by C.R.U.X. following their investigation in 1985, including a live-action advertisement where John Brown, the company's CEO, promoted the drink's benefits.

While the webcast was set for a March 2022 release, it was ultimately cancelled despite being completed due to varying factors. In 2024, Xavier Llewellyn released a post on the official Realms of Ink website, detailing the webcast's production.[1]

Footnotes

  1. Xavier Llewellyn (21 January 2024). The Gevity Emergence. Realms of Ink. Archived from the original on 21 January 2024. Retrieved on 3 March 2024.