Our last trip to Middle Earth over on the Patreon this month - subtitled 'Suckin' and Fuckin' with Smeagol and Deagol' - and it's a hoot and a half! We sound, once again, like we've been at the pipeweed; ASMR lovers, tune in to hear Callum slurping on a festive Irn Bru www.patreon.com/onceuponavhs

I’ve put my tree up, I’m watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and contemplating whether two people have ever been sexier than Dolly and Burt Reynolds on film - it’s fair to say it’s Christmas

Arranging to meet all my friends and loved ones over the next 7 days because I will be otherwise preoccupied with seeing Wicked: For Good for the rest of the year.

Chuckling at the phrase 'managing the levels of whimsy' in my edits from @bonabooks.bsky.social (story of my LIFE).

Buffy series 5 or SKAM series 3

Look, it’s tomorrow (this film is going to kill me)

Seeing videos of people going apeshit for Shannon Purser turning up at the Stranger Things premiere is making me think of what a cultural moment Barb was and how it should spawned a Barb in every show.

Love my mother but £35 for this hideous mug, she is tricking and treating us this holiday season!

The quirk of the Writer’s Guild of America that means Wicked was written by Winnie Holzman and Winnie Holzman is very funny to me, give her the Oscar and let her do two speeches

i visited the palestine museum in edinburgh for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and spoke to founder faisal salah about showcasing the vibrancy + diversity of palestinian culture in the midst of genocide, witnessing via children's drawings, and the solidarity he has seen from the people of scotland

Daddy or chips?

‘You have to dig up your buried heart and acknowledge it. To train yourself in magic and to master it‘ - Gregory Maguire

Taking our last trip to Middle Earth for the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon tonight and my notes are as insightful as ever

‘And we forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name’ - me trying to stay afloat as a freelancer in this haunted and cursed economy

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families (annoying, rumoured to be dead)

Alan Moore knows the score

This stuff is dystopian

Staying at my Mam’s and being reminded that one of the things I’m allergic to is hyper allogenic pillows, truly embarrassing to live in a body.

Anything can happen on Fairuzaween! This week’s @onceuponavhs.bsky.social is a celebration of our scream queen, Fairuza Balk - join us for The Worst Witch and a return Return to Oz linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I will be out office this week but will look upon my works in the order they are received when I return.

This is always worth a revisit, in reading trans fem fiction kaichengthom.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...

Love it when you prebook a train and Trainline emails you like 'GET READY FOR EDINBURGH!!' - like, love the enthusiasm, babe, I'm only going to work.

Youngest niece always wants to chat to me on the phone but she is VERY effecient, she is chatting 3 minutes tops and then it's, 'okay I'm going to play with Elsa and Ana now bye.'

The day I have no enemies is the day Microsoft Authenticator is finally defeated.

The weird AI book pusher emails have warped, recently, and are now emailing to gas me up and offer to help me market books I didn't write

Currently feel like Buffy in 'Intervention' and I would like to feel like Buffy at the end of 'Checkpoint'.

The way this was the best Halloween costume ever and nobody ever came close to touching it again

🧚✨🔮📧💸 a spell for good news 💸📧🔮✨🧚

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Guillermo Del Toro asking the important questions, like, what if Frankenstein’s monster was caked up?

She was the first Antifa Disney Princess

Sorry to be a millennial but the new Lily Allen album is good.

Hey showgirls! An absolute pleasure to go into the woods with Rachel Lydia Barker (Girl on Film) for this week's @onceuponavhs.bsky.social linktr.ee/onceuponavhs...

Friends fear she’s listening to songs which actively hurt her feelings again

Lady on the train looking at photos of Jonathan Bailey you have saved to your phone, I feel you.

They release another Wicked clip every day and part of me worries that I'll have seen the whole film before it comes out next month but I can't stop watching them.

Clearing off my Desktop and look at this picture I made of Judy Garland reading Fierce Salvage, I think you'll agree it's seamless

You know when people who never read Harry Potter thinks it means something about them? That’s me with never thinking Roisin Murphy had a single good tune.

i need hosing down

Convinced myself I'd get some easy work off my desk on the train even though I KNOW Scotrail's WiFi is powered by a grasshopper rubbing it's two front legs together quickly.

This is a ghoulish misappropriation of Brianna Ghey's death, a death caused by a media-induced trans panic that Joe Powell's party are entirely supportive of - I need them GONE

I’m doing a very fun, very silly event at Category Is for Book Week Scotland - come and hear some spooky stories from Heather Parry and Ciara Maguire, chat about queer horror with us and sample some bespoke (spooky) bakes from James Dewar (The Big Gay Baker) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bad-taste-...

the thing about being queer is i am queer everywhere i go, and everywhere i go i meet other queers. no entire people is my enemy and no state is my friend

Inside baseball, but for a while the dolls were using the word 'trainee' as an intercommunity term for trans women (intercommunity ie. if you're not it you don't get to say it, those are the rules) and anyway I chuckle every time I see this Scottish screen org promote their new 'trainee finder'.

Little flurry of new followers - hello! Where are you all coming from?

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Sam Fender (North Shields) winning the Mercury Prize and JADE (South Shields) winning the PopJustice Prize, I know that's right - the North East is cool as fuck.

Watching shorts and reading scripts for a few things at the moment, and a real recurring feature is stuff on the theme of AI and digital ethics and it all feels so... quaint?