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An Admiral hails you. They're probably going to betray you and Starfleet principles. Half of the senior staff are giving acting lessons. Half of the senior staff play a musical instrument. None of them offer music lessons. The Captain is wearing a red shirt. The walls are beige. They are closing in. Beigely. The holodeck…
Continue reading ➞ How To Tell If You Are In Star Trek The Next Generation
And by Christmas films, I mean the films I most love and adore watching during the festive season. Some have snow - I think one might actually have Christmas - most do not. But they are movies I would find Very Weird to watch outside of December. There would be A Wrongness to it. So,…
A week of posts! So a bit of a break tonight, plus I've just finished a three hour Dungeons and Dragons session. Thus, pics. The loch on quite the winter-y morning, all ice and mist. Same loch, different day. Very, very different day. And one winter afternoon, the sun already going down. ###
Today we consider hats. Not merely any hats, but the splendid hats of Doctor Who that have helped to create worlds. So that means (magnificent as, say, the Doctor's hat in The Reign of Terror is) hats from the real world are not included, no matter how dashing it looks perched on the head of…
Continue reading ➞ The Most Excellent and Awesome Worldbuilding Hats of Doctor Who
After yesterday's post required a wee bit more work than I expected (I started out "oh, I know all about this, let's go!" and them ended up trying to check everything in a fit of paranoia) today's one is nice and straightforward. And a meme once again nicked off Twitter: my Top 5 Doctor Who…
Yesterday I listened to the Braveheart episode of the Best Pick podcast, and delighted in hearing their thoughts on a film which, if nothing else, has provided many people with a fine historical education of the period as they read about all the things it got wrong (personal favourite, the lack of a bridge at…
Continue reading ➞ Robert the Bruce and the Murder of John Comyn
I think the theme of these blogs is "nick something I saw on Twitter and turn it into a blog post". It's not the best plan, probably, but it definitely doesn't sound like the worst either. Anyway, there was a meme a few days ago asking for your Top 5 Video Games of the Decade.…
Look! It's Vincent Price and a Christmas tree! If that doesn't make you feel all merry and bright, I don't know what will. Today's post is brought to you courtesy of whoever tweeted another festive pic of Vincent Price that crossed my feed yesterday, one where he was buying a Christmas tree with his daughter.…
For my blogathon month, and not such a cheating post as yesterday, here's a beautiful listicle of entirely sensible opinions. So, the Original Series. Now, much as I wouldn’t call myself a Trek fan, mostly cause I can’t stomach the idea of being called a fan of TNG (I’m sorry, it’s a great show! Many…
...and my brilliant plan was to write a blog post every day for a month. So when the year ends, the first thing I do isn't promise myself that, yes, I absolutely will blog more this year. (Also I failed at Nanowrimo, so to cheer myself up I can fail at this too.) And, I…
