Christmas Specials I’ve Rewatched Far Too Often

After watching The Avengers' Too Many Christmas Trees for Telefantasy Time Jump's Christmas Special (out...sometime this month!! I should really check these things), I felt compelled to return to a few Christmas telly favs to try and life my mood during this week of Eternal Rain and Wind and Grey Omg When Will It End.…

Star Trek’s Greatest Christmas Episodes

"But Star Trek doesn't have any Christmas episodes," you might say. And you would be correct. Technically. But you don't need actual Christmas when you have the spirit of Christmas, and that's exactly what these Trek episodes have: the hardiest of Christmas spirits. (If you absolutely insist that it must actually be Christmas, I suppose…

The Laws of Rassilon: Constitutional and Criminal Law on Gallifrey

Way back in 2019 I did a wee talk on the TARDIS Talks academic track at the Gallifrey One convention. It's a fantastic part of the convention that lets attendees do a deep dive into some aspect of Doctor Who that they're passionate about. And instead of the more traditional panel structure, you present a…

Book news! Where We Stand, Where We Fall Available to Pre-Order

The beautiful cover has been created by artist Daryl Joyce I've been working on this for rather a while now, and my book, Where We Stand, Where We Fall, is up for pre-order. I mentioned it on BlueSky last week, but here's a whole post about it - and a 30% discount code if you…

It’s well over halfway through January. I don’t like this. Also, opticians are good.

Usually I try to write something at the end of/very beginning of the year as some sort of vague reflectiveness on the past year. This feels a bit late. And it's really not reflecting all that much on the previous year. But I still wanted to write something to mark the existential despair of having…

An Exciting and Innovative New Way to Rate Horror Films

CW: This post is about dog deaths in films. A few months ago I finally got over my childhood fear of The Amityville Horror and actually watched it. And I loved it. Then I watched the remake, and hated it with a burning passion in the way many people hate on a remake of a…