I’m very disappointed as a Whovian and Doom Patrol fan.
07.08.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@davidpbferguson.bsky.social
Sometimes I write stuff. Comics. Pop Culture stuff for GCN.ie. Journey Planet contributor and editor (Hugo nominated) He / him. Trans rights 🏳️⚧️
I’m very disappointed as a Whovian and Doom Patrol fan.
07.08.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Did a review for a brilliant new book on Irish Conflict In Comics.
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Magical world but still office work. I'm empathising with the main character.
05.08.2025 22:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Louse on a house
05.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Goof on a roof.
05.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not usually into the fantasy genre but giving it a go for a change. Reminds that genre is just background furniture mostly. It’s the story that matters. At least for me.
05.08.2025 12:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
17.05.2024 18:09 — 👍 5950 🔁 2200 💬 37 📌 39Before, After, Alone (2023) by Emma Newman
Really enjoyed this short story collection but a little sad that I am out of Planetfall stuff to read. Loved seeing all the connections to the series here. My new favourite book series. Tks for writers them @emmanewman.bsky.social
04.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0Being old is being ten minutes into a movie before realising you have seen it before. Being old is also watching it anyway because you've forgotten the details.
03.08.2025 22:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stephen Fry should appear and give them a ten minute lecture on the topic, followed by a swift blow with a cricket bat.
03.08.2025 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Potentially looking for variant covers for au upcoming book that we're gonna crowdfund. If I know you and you have the time and desire, maybe hit me up
03.08.2025 21:19 — 👍 55 🔁 26 💬 9 📌 0Optimus prime and soundwave by Dan McDaid
Soundwave and Optimus Prime watercolour sketches - please enjoy!
03.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 226 🔁 60 💬 6 📌 3CM Punk in FF imspired gear?
CM Punk's ring gear reminded me of something... 🤔
03.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
02.08.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s 20C now in Dublin. All is completely normal.
02.08.2025 20:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read"
So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me
So that’s why Monstro was wearing a top hat and a monacle.
02.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He doesn’t look like he’s skipped many meals.
02.08.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Extra Bad Gays is out for July! We discuss summer reading, gay guys with girlfriends (keep those Gaggony Guncles questions coming!) and the despicable transphobic turn of Mayor Pete.
31.07.2025 21:29 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2Visiting my parents is like being on the set of Gardener’s world.
02.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have to remember to organise stuff the night before. Morning me forgets stuff.
02.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Somehow better than the Master of the Universe one.
01.08.2025 23:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Left it too late to get a Dublin Comic Con ticket. Gone are the good ol’ days where I could get a press pass.
01.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0like this
#🎨sketch
In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
16.11.2024 01:12 — 👍 21206 🔁 8921 💬 149 📌 498Tks! I appreciate the recommendations.
01.08.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry, misread.
Try Queer Universes, Sexualities in Science Fiction (2008), or the Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction (2022).
Get them from the library; they are ridiculously expensive.