Ok so for the next season of #CelebrityTraitors I need: David Tennant (traitor) Emma Thompson (traitor) Maisie Adam (faithful who finds everything really frustrating and gets really angry about it) Reece Shearsmith (faithful) Matthew Baynton (faithful) LaVoix (either side, comedy gold)

Now that I’ve watched all 10 Best Picture nominees from 1939, I realise I’ve only seen 21 films in total from that excellent year. Any 1939 favourites you’d recommend, film fans? #filmsky

Apparently it is Emma Thompson Week (just in my house; it's not a real holiday but it should be), so I've just watched Dead of Winter (2025) and tomorrow the first two episodes of Down Cemetery Road drop! I've been waiting MONTHS for the latter, so I hope it's good. 😍

Well, this explains everything about me (1979 baby).

My love for Emma Thompson knows no bounds. Why are we not best friends? (I’ve been asking this since 1993 🤣)

It’s so odd, but none of the houses in my neighbourhood are decorated for Halloween yet. I’ve lived here for 13 years and I’ve never seen it like this! Have they all just given up the ghost?

Skimming my Goodreads feed and seeing that someone I follow has just read a book by Ben Shapiro.😲 Never unfollowed someone so fast in my life. I had the speed of a person hearing their pet starting to make vomit noises in a carpeted room.

Just bought my first mince pies of the season, along with some minty hot chocolate, because we need to find our tiny joys in whatever way we can at the moment.

I’ve been checking out Threads, and it’s just not as nice and respectful as it is on here. Let’s keep it that way here! Not sure why people would choose the less kind place, but 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Playing “I’m never gonna dance again” for Jimmy’s exit song is a bit on the nose. 🤣🤣🤣 (yes, I know it’s not actually called that) #strictly

Not to be all grumpy old lady about it, but SURELY when my friends and I were teenagers, we weren’t this shrieky on public transport?

Older lady on my bus, after hunting for her bus pass and getting settled with all her bags: “All right. I’m alive. Not sure it’s worth it, though.”

Aaand the heating is on. It’s really just for the cat, of course. I am big strong human who is not a shivery weakling. But the tiny creature must be protected.

Mark Bonnar finding out who the traitors are is my favourite reveal so far. #celebritytraitors God I love him.

And with that I've finally seen all 10 Best Picture nominees from 1939. One of my least favourite of the bunch (as expected), but the ending got me. Betty Field is intensely annoying in this, and I have a suspicion it's what Jean Hagen based her "Singin' in the Rain" performance on. 😆

Public Service Announcement: The 19th Century DOES NOT MEAN "The 1900s". The 20th Century is not what we're in now. Suddenly I'm seeing people getting this wrong everywhere I go, and it's driving me crazy. Gnaaargh.

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. The best of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

Someone who’s seen The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), can you tell me how big Emma Thompson’s part in it is? Trying to complete her filmography (because she’s glorious), but I’d rather do bigger roles first.

Blergh, I forgot that the clocks go back this weekend.

This absolute embarrassment of a post (where Labour pretends that a lack of social media controls murdered Brianna Ghey, rather than the rampant transphobia they are gleefully pushing daily) is much improved by the comments on it. Always good to be reminded the majority of people are decent.

Thanks, I HATE IT.

Hectic weekend, so today I’ve slept very late, and am now snuggled in bed with my cat pressed against me in the cave under my legs (her favourite). Just playing my word games and checking social media while it rains outside… Bliss.

The British Public (or at least the #Strictly fans) proving that we love and support drag queens, and hate fascists, is my biggest takeaway from the series so far. 😀 It's lovely to know that most people are decent, no matter what the media tries to tell us.

Ok that was fucking MAGICAL! The magic and whimsy were off the charts. 😍😍😍 My face had the biggest delighted grin the entire time, and I teared up in so many places, just because it was so beautiful. 🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰

Off to see My Neighbour Totoro at the theatre. So excited! I'm like a little child wearing my Totoro hoodie and my Totoro earrings 😂

Surprised that Craig in particular didn’t mention that the start of Katya and Lewis’ dance was a tribute to the “You were Meant for Me” scene in Singin’ in the Rain. #strictly

Guys…. are Alex and Johannes going to win this??? 😮😮 Because I would LOVE that. #strictly

American friends attending the #NoKings protests today, please stay safe. I wish I could join you!

Off to see a friend from an ex-job perform in a play tonight! It'll be so fantastic to see him on stage in his element, where he belongs, instead of us bonding over how miserable we were at that job.

Reminder, now the world has been reduced to ‘content’ being fed into make-believe machines run by billionaires, books are gold dust when compared to all other ‘content’. If only book publishing positioned themselves as that and believed in themselves.

There’s some sort of tear in the time fabric around the 90s. I’m convinced that movies like Pulp Fiction only came out about a decade ago, but movies from the late 80s came out at least 35 years ago.

Also now I feel the urge to get that number up to an even 100. What is everyone’s favourite 1999 film that you think I might not have seen? #filmsky

Film fans on Letterboxd, from what year have you seen the most films? My winner is 1999 with 88 films, which tracks: it’s one of the best movie years of all time (along with 1939), and it was around the time I was watching everything I could get my hands on - as you do in your early 20s. #filmsky

Well I guess we’ve answered that question. #strictly

It’ll be interesting to see if Ross was safe last week because people voted for him tactically to make sure the fash went out (I know I did), or if they actually voted for him because they wanted him to stay. It should clearly be him vs Chris in the dance off this week, but will it? #strictly

Shrieking when Katya said, “Do you want to do it again? Do you want a cake?” Then, to Claudia, “Do you want to ride a horses again?” And Claud gave the most emphatic “No!” of her life. 🤣🤣🤣 #Strictly #celebritytraitors

Not Diane Keaton. 😭 That’s a shock. 😥😥😥

Alex Kingston giving full Miranda Priestley in the background the whole time is giving me LIFE 😍😍 #strictly

The biggest smile on my face during the whole of George and Alexis’ “soda pop” routine. Such a delight! And how gorgeous does Alexis look in that purple wig? PS if you haven’t seen KPop Demon Hunters, it’s great. #strictly

You know when you feel like writing, like mentally you’re in the zone…but you don’t *physically* feel like sitting there in your chair and writing? GAAAAAH to that feeling. Work with me here, physical body! I hardly ever feel like writing and you’re fucking it up.

I like Halloween season, but as a film fan I’m annoyed by it because I hate horror movies and all anyone wants is recommendations for horror movies. But soon, SOON, it will be Christmas season and then watch out, for I will recommend Christmas movies the likes of which you have never seen! Mwahaha!

Fascinating dream the other night where I had a visitor, but suddenly it was my childhood home and all my dogs from my whole life were there. But it was definitely 2025, and I was amazed how old my dogs were, and wondering how I’d never realised that Shadow was 36 years old now. More in alt text!

Shrieking when Stephen Fry had to go look up how many people died in Hamlet before he could do anything else, because that would absolutely have been me. Not knowing the correct answer would have been eating away at my brain all night otherwise. #CelebrityTraitors

When UK #CelebrityTraitors was announced, I rolled my eyes and assumed it would just be annoying reality tv people and influencers. But in a twist worthy of the show itself, they've actually got proper celebs! Stephen Fry! Alan Carr! Jonathan Ross! Clare Balding! It starts tonight and I can't wait.

JFC if the wondrous light of a human being that is Dolly Parton dies before the fully evil orange barely-human being that is bent on destroying lives does, there really is no point to anything anymore.

Ding Dong, the MAGAT’s gone! 🥳🎉🥳🎉🎉🎉 Now we can watch our fun show in peace. Well done, British public! #Strictly

I bloody LOVE a Charleston and it’s always a gamble when they do it so early on, but balvinder and Julian did a great job! I wonder if there’ll be one next week. Last year there was a patch where there wasn’t a Charleston for 4 consecutive weeks! #strictly

I have never ever wanted to find out the #Strictly spoiler before the results show airs, but I’m so stressed this week that I might cave and look, just so I know if the MAGA is gone or not.

Ok what’s the consensus on how to vote to ensure that MAGA Temu Biff Tannen goes out? My instinct is to vote for Ross to make sure he’s safe from the DO in case he’s in it and makes a mistake. Or Chris? But i don’t want voting for the worst ppl to mean two better ppl end up in the DO🤔 #Strictly