So I started watching INDUSTRY and I kept getting into this odd physiological state of panic, and at first I thought it was just envy; that I’m not the sort of young and cool writer who would be let anywhere near shows where the hot characters do ket and rub one out.

you've seen my paintings but what about my true passion? Yes I'm talking about reimagining the labyrinth at Chartres as a hedge maze in Medieval Dynasty

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

I do NOT know what it means when people "invite me to their channel" on Instagram and I will NOT find out

The first version of Jenny Porter from 2Point4 Children will return in Avengers Doomsday.

Looking for a job #PortfolioDay

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

It was an aesthetic choice as much as a moral one.

all ghosts are ripped and victorian

Happy new year 2026 to all ! I wish your all the good things you can imagine and more.

The Comedy Playhouse pilot of Last of the Summer Wine was originally broadcast on this day in 1973.

MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: *hands woman box* If you press this button, someone you don't know dies WOMAN: Ok *presses button* STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much STRANGER: No, you don't pay WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again* STRANGER: Jesus Christ

I think somebody should make a love letter to cinema.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

One thing about being this age is there is NO casual flirting, no mutual LUSTING, because NO ONE is single.

There’s no such thing as two, single, good looking neighbours in their 30s/40s sorry. #NightManager

there is a true nap and a false nap. the false nap is scheduled. a true nap must be taken when necessary. the false nap is timed. a true nap must be unfettered. the false nap's goal is to return to work. a true nap's goal is to play within the mind

Ultra Q (1966) Episode 19

Henry Flint Prog #2458

rolling into 2026...

Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

Almost time to watch my favourite autistic romantic comedy. Here’s what my flatmate texted me after she’d been to see PHANTOM THREAD.

Phantom thread

Was there ever a more stark contrast between title sequence and actual show than BBCs ON THE RECORD? Sick stop-motion Big Ben dinosaur hybrid stomps across the UK, roaring to a jazzy George Fenton number. Cut to: a static Dimbleby for 60 minutes.

Today's 2025 pb choice is The Cat Bride by @charlieratpig.bsky.social, a wild, gory, strange female coming-of-age tale that taps into the folkloric "beast on the moor/escaped zoo animal" type reports. Tense, moody, dark & hallucinatory, a shapeshifting tale from a great unreliable narrator. 💙📚🪐

my cat thinks the wacom pen is a scritching device and that every time I use it I am summoning her for pets

We are the pillars

First day back in the shop after Christmas and people are donating David Walliams books by the metric tonne.

When analyses of the bad state of the film and TV industry blame the various writers / actors’ strikes, it’d be nice if they blamed the reasons for those strikes instead. “The industry has struggled to recover from appalling residuals offers, and aggressive tech-driven erosion of artists’ rights.”

Found it! Though explaining why I had to take this photo to my Dad made us both feel like we were having an aneurysm.

Never seen Gen Z so horny for movie characters as they are for Oona Chaplin’s Varang and Jacob Elordi’s Frankenstein’s creature. The shot of Timmy Chalamet’s butt in Marty Supreme didn’t do anything. The age of monster fuckers is upon us.

WHAT’S TO-DAY, MY FINE FELLOW?

Fairytale Of New York

Caroling Batman - never forget. Detail from Batman 219 (1970), by Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams, and Dick Giordano.

Legend has it that this moment in the Morecambe & Wise Christmas show 1977 broke television sets up and down the country because of how much star power was onscreen. 🤩

Someone donated some pristine sci-fi paperbacks to the shop, so naturally I bought *a few*. (We took over £3,000 across Monday and Tuesday, which puts us in league with the fancy-pants Herne Hill and Blackheath branches)

Every time Varang wasn’t on screen I was just thinking “where’s Varang?”

A control panel for my happiness.

Signs and portents

Sorry if this is a bit personal but does this shit make anyone else feel completely fucking insane

Look at this crab I found the other day🦀 It was way too cute.

Only ever translated a couple of short stories, but having once volunteered to edit a friend's memoir I can say that it's twice the chore to tidy up a piece of prose than to generate it. Like building a wall where every brick requires another trip to the builders' yard

Clive Dempster wasn’t a patch on Jeffrey Fairbrother. I don’t know why it says ‘🌍 Anyone can interact’ at the bottom of the screen as I type this. They won’t.

Hi-De-Hi! - The Marriage Settlement (18th December 1983). Jeff agrees to a divorce from his wife Daphne and also agrees to be the guilty party (caught in a compromising position with another woman). Gladys is upset that she's not been chosen as "the other woman" ...

Hamill has never been better than right here, and I mean that.

there are no limits to what you can do with a car and still be allowed to drive again one day