Speaking of timey-wimey… which Doctor do we think did this?

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Me accidentally stumbling into a Who thread that starts bringing in whether Big Finish is canon

Mona Lisa of the Deep. A well-preserved daguerreotype of an unidentified woman, found in the wreckage of the SS Central America. The ship had sunk in 1857, resting about 7,200 feet (2,200 meters) deep off the coast of South Carolina news.artnet.com/market/shipw...

More young men were lost to aids than the Vietnam War, many of them creatives at the peak of their careers. Howard Ashman, Derek Jarman, Keith Haring and Freddie Mercury are some of the most famous but there are so many unknown writers/actors/artists/filmakers cut down before they even started.

Giles was such a wonderful mix of warmth and sharpness, authority and vulnerability. An amazing character to put together over 7 seasons.

[Holly Willoughby voice] Firstly, are you OK?

I'm in Norway at the moment and can report: this is everywhere. Last night's main TV news included a lengthy making-of report, to counter the accuation that the longboats are CGI (they're not)

I have questions.

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

Of course Bruce Dickinson turns up at this year’s Sweden Rock riding in a tank*. Of course he does. *actually a very solid-looking APC or something similar that presumably belongs to the Swedish army and they’re not going to let him get any ideas about keeping it

Timeline cleanse. This, from Conan, is truly emancipatory.

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

As a result of this specific post in the “artists whose work gets used in memes” thread, I went and looked at Diana Franco’s art and it is AMAZING dianafranco.artstation.com

It’s genuinely unbelievable!

I read this and immediately knew no female author would ever have an ex-husband who would print their emails for them.

The thing is, this could so easily also have been a metal album cover - and the deep skill of it is that you know exactly how it would have sounded

a dad bod? you mean a father figure

My absolute favourite part of giving blood is the text you get a few weeks later telling you where your blood's been sent. Last time, mine went to Birmingham; this time it's gone to Burton. It is the best thing knowing that you can help someone. Register to donate here: www.blood.co.uk

Just be grateful there’s nothing living in mist though because yikes

Pirates. Got to be pirates.

How can you not realise that someone has been stabbed if you’re handcuffing them? How can you not know? How could you not care if someone told you that, whatever the circumstances?

Into week 2 of “I will never be able to play an F chord because fingers” and I could weep with joy because someone’s shown me a couple of cheat versions I can work on which don’t involve a barre! They’re still *quite* hard (and I know they won’t sound exactly right) but it’s better than giving up

I’m watching Two Weeks in August, and honestly I can’t get past the fact that all of these characters are apparently happy being out in the sun ALL the time, rather than scuttling for the shade at every opportunity. One of them is a redhead! It’s set in Greece in August!

Rivals splitting Season 2 into two parts, the second of which is due in October, is NOT ALLOWED.

Controversial opinion: I always liked Bluetonic infinitely more than Slight Return www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

It’s his time

This is a really good piece and worth reading, especially on spending two days treating the regurgitron like a human: "...trying to dig to the depths of something and not finding any." That's it. There's no there there.

live your life in such a way that you would not disappoint Guillermo Del Toro

I will construct and staff a full scale Redwall Abbey and open it as a theme park where people can LARP as their favourite characters, take part in battle re-enactments, follow mysteries (new ones every year, not just the ones in the books), and have feasts.

The Kid and I always joke that my husband lives his life under a rock and almost totally offline (despite the fact / because he works in IT) but last night we had to explain the concept of Chicken Shop Date to him as he stared at us with increasing bemusement

Shipping the bases in the Firth.

This disappoints me enormously, but sadly it doesn’t shock me. Yet again, our government manages to squander and diminish something we’re both really, really good at and which is incredibly economically important.

I went out for drinks with friends this evening, and FIVE different people came up to me and complimented my top. Was I wearing a fancy ‘going out’ top? Nope. So what was I wearing…? … My Iron Maiden t-shirt.

I went out for drinks with friends this evening, and FIVE different people came up to me and complimented my top. Was I wearing a fancy ‘going out’ top? Nope. So what was I wearing…? … My Iron Maiden t-shirt.

PSA

Because I’m a nerd, I made an Eighth Doctor title card for my Eighth Doctor Big Finish audio, Vespertine from the “Cass” box set

Same!

A disaster has befallen Legotown. 😱

That video doing the rounds on Instagram of Dexter Holland giving the commencement address at USC, talking about how scientists can - and should - also be artists, and how life should be messy and passionate is an absolute delight and I urge you all to watch it.

Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

And on top of all that, if they do want to continue in education, they face a mountain of debt at the end if it and their options for possible universities are closing, cutting courses, merging, falling apart or now woefully understaffed.

I think he’s melted

I know lots of people still posting fan art there or saying they stay there because of fan art. What Twitter has become is the opposite of what all fandoms stand for. Please don’t keep supporting it: there are other places to share the things you love.

Three kings