the aliens of london target is fucking brilliant. so happy to have one of my favourite stories expanded as well as that retroactive torchwood easter egg fully fleshed out and incorporated into the story great stuff as always @josephlidster.bsky.social

hamster book club: the next generation

Today on Too Hot For TV I am joined by @davidkitchen.bsky.social too look at the expanded universe of Star Trek. As we look at the novel 'Imzadi' and the fan film 'Blood and Fire'. linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees

Pure love for this.

Nonesuch by Francis Spufford might be the best novel to come out this year

william hartnell looksmaxxing in daleks masterplan

DALEKS MASTER PLAN WHAT WHAT WHAT

just had a completely insane fever dream where someone harassed me across a weird blend of bath and bristol for the names of poets so they could get into poetry i really dont like poetry so it turned into a shouting match about how John Clare was the only poet i respect strange

FINALLY

randomly got sick today, lovely

sometimes you pick up a novel from the daughter of very successful female novelist and realise that publishers will put out any old shit if the parent hold their own work hostage

just gonna start speaking exclusively in Sopranos quotes

sam jones!!

gonna buy a massive JBL speaker and blast 2slimey 24/7 until someone just rips my head from my shoulders

Bibliography: Donaldson & Ford, History 101, Hamster Book Club (2026) Halliday,History 101, BBC Books (2002)

i never knew a book about blood cancer could be so incredibly bleak and hilarious at the same time Barnes is a joy

keep being told my novel is INCREDIBLY complicated, probably to a fault. i’m Pynchon-maxxing fr

you ever feel like you want to pull your arm off and swing it about with the other one?

listening to too much Mr Bungle for my own good youtu.be/km1uWUPQvcs?...

at peace today, with what? i don’t really know. just feel completely relaxed :)

thinking about my uni journey as a whole. i’ve not changed as much as i thought i’d had. kinda forgot i still do the same things, just more aware of them now. the only real difference is that I’m a lot for pretentious and i believe I’m cleverer than i did beforehand. overall it has been worth it :)

“yea man postgrad is great, i’m loving every second of it”

Ghost Light (the best, fight me) Remembrance of the Daleks The Happiness Patrol Delta and the Bannermen The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

The Talons of Weng Chiang The Horns of Nimon The Ribos Operation Terror of the Zygons The Ark in Space honourable mention to the novel The Romance of Crime

so apathetic to AI, i dont know anything about the market but feel like its gonna dotcom bubble itself in like 5 years

Fables might be one of the best things Vertigo ever put out

roll on 2027 and just can this year in already

An absolute favourite bit of lunancy. Some people dancing to incidental music from The Moonbase in 1966.

finished Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson a few days back, the second attempt at tackling The Malazan Book of the Fallen. i was not ready for this series at 18 fucking hell is it good. confusing, incomprehensibly big yet the most unique fantasy world i’ve ever had to delight to read onto book 3

2025 was pretty good. i have a hard time focusing on the good bits but adding them all up i’ve quite liked inhabiting that year

Thank you to avid Lisa Bowerman scholar @lefthandeddalek.bsky.social, who graduated this year! Congratulations! I had an absolute BLAST podcasting with Kieran on both Series 4 Strictlys & the Tennant Strictly Finale, & adore listening to his smart, fiery, outspoken readings on Doctor Who literature.

mbv’s loveless is my winter album this year something about its hazy warm blanket sound just helps me walk around and enjoy the cold its like a controlled sorrow and i love it

this pub has a lot to answer for…

YOU WILL LISTEN! YOU MUST LISTEN!

didn’t get much better than this did it? youtu.be/rzLIUgnKY40?...

in ten years if my future child has to ask “who is michael jackson?” i might just have to call the experiment a failure and start over

on a gary russell era big finish binge atm jesus i wish big finish was this experimental now. not just in plotting but music and sound design too. “yea lets do a musical” “yea lets make a doctor who theme ibiza club mix” “yea lets tell a story through radio broadcasts” fucking great stuff

sitting in silence at the moment. I’m trying to conjure something. unsure of what. making small progress.

started reading the comic series Fables good stuff !

picked up there are rivers in the sky by elif shafak because it had a really good opening line but the author picture in the back annoys me as it just exudes self importance so i probably wont read it

all i want for Christmas

thinking about bullshit

Hellllo Everyone! This week on the Maran Chess Club @lefthandeddalek.bsky.social joins me to talk all about the Virgin Missing Adventure, Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton. #DoctorWho

my 2nd year of uni summed up in one image it was the best of times it was the worst of times

anxiously awake

blimey its doctor who day on sunday! what do i watch?

WRITERS BLOCK IS OVER!!!!!!!

winters really just hit me hard today. i’m wandering about town through backpaths that run along the train tracks. i was writing a really funny novel (at least i think it is) which has turned a bit sour and slowly becoming a way to vent my frustrations about my life. just a crap few days in general.