Tim Leach

Yeah, the last decade or so of HE policy has basically been Tories saying "Run your university more like a business! Wait, not like that..."

The main reason that the Twitter memes about epidemics of knife crime in Britain are so very tedious.

His crybullying would be ridiculous if it wasn't also so dangerous.

It really is superb, do watch it if you haven't already.

Ah, interesting, I thought things had been relatively quiet over there. It's all fun and games until you actually get in power and realise what collapsing your economy will do to your political prospects, I suppose.

Lovely thread, this.

Anyway. Guess the moral here (like in the original post) is that WHATEVER you love a creator for from their work output, do tell them if you get a chance.

It's not always the big stuff they loved the most. And there's no high like being told something you loved making was loved by someone else.

What's your personal favourite? Earthsea definitely a contender, though on pure aesthetic is hard to beat the OG Hobbit map, which is basic of me but I don't care (the calligraphy! the red and black! the elegance of the dragon! oh my!)

"This will definitely make them like me more," she somehow thought to herself.

That really would be the maximum banter outcome.

Flirt with someone today, do it for Jilly Cooper x

(Though probably more likely that he does it anyway, blows up the economy, and runs away to America.)

There's a bleakly funny outcome where on day 1 he is presented with the figures and modelling of what would actually happen if he implemented his immigration policies, and we witness the most spectacular reverse ferret in political history.

YouTube video by regisatlas FARGO Season 5 | So you want freedom?

Basically this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsn...

(Still feels much healthier and more functional than British politics at the moment, but perhaps that's a grass is always greener kind of thing.)

YouTube video by Tastytoast225 Bison remembers Tuesday

Feel like French politics is like M Bison in the Street Fighter movie.

"For you, this would be an epoch defining constitutional crisis. But for me, it was Tuesday."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhO...

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ? Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

Every time I see a double decker train, I briefly turn into an excited 5 year old. Like glimpsing some mysterious and beautiful cryptid roaming in the wild.

What fiction can do really well is the actual human experience ('what does it feel like to live in a world of melting houses?') and that can be indirectly political. But yeah, didacticism is usually a mug's game in fiction.

So you can have a story filled with ice cream houses to prove the statement 'houses melt', and it is true and valid in the world of the story, but completely meaningless and useless as an actual political statement.

There's a great George Saunders line on this, where he states that fiction is a bad vehicle for being didactic because you control all the variables and it is too easy to cheat.

Never seen Avatar or Avengers:Endgame, and never read Harry Potter (despite being just about the perfect age to read it).

53. Caverns of the Snow Witch, Ian Livingstone

Revisiting the favourite Fighting Fantasy book from my youth. A really great story in this one, really feels like a proper D&D campaign. Brick hard though, some nasty fights that I couldn't see a way to avoid (that damn Birdman!)

52. Maigret Sets a Trap, Georges Simenon

More Maigret fun - a more conventional structure (serial killer on the loose), but still great stuff.

51. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros

Not for me this one, though always interesting to see what books are doing really big numbers.

The most common error I see as a book editor is incorrectly punctuated dialogue.

NO: “Nice to meet you.” She said.
YES: “Nice to meet you,” she said.

NO: “Likewise.” The editor said.
YES: “Likewise,” the editor said.

NO: She smiled, “Hi."
YES: She smiled. “Hi.”

Repost to save a life 😂
#writesky

There is a joke told in Turkey. A prisoner goes to the prison library to ask for a particular book. The librarian says, "We don't have the book -- but we have its author."

Superman was so good!

Yeah, I sort of feel the same on Leo, but he really is excellent in this. Maybe the best performance I've seen him give? Probably my favourite, anyway.

And it is visually stunning, so well worth grabbing on the big screen.