Roy Gill

That auto reverse motion.

A self-described “space-age-artist”, Silvio Russo designed a variety of lucite animals for Guzzini from 1970-79 Source: Urban Finds, Chicago

Lucite Camel by Silvio Russo for Team Guzzini, Italy 1970s

two hattie morahans, a zygon, paul mcgann, and tv's own nicola walker on the cover of the "empty vessels" big finish audio drama box set

just finished my second listen to the latest from my all-time favorite tardis team - the 8th doctor, liv, and helen - the "empty vessels" set. i love these stories and can't wait to talk about them on the popular @trapone.bsky.social "doctor who" podcast!

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hidden Treasures, A Criminal Practice by Terrance Dicks Idealistic Matthew Larrabie joins his uncle's firm of solicitors.

On 12 February, Radio 4 Extra is repeating A Criminal Practice, a comic play by Terrance Dicks a year before he joined Doctor Who. I’ll share some background details nearer the time. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Grab your crucifix! ✝️ In 15 minutes COUNT DRACULA (1977) rises from the grave... at 9:05pm #TPTVsubtitles

Would Orson Welles want his lost classic restored by A.I.? You mean the same Orson Welles who, when Ted Turner was leading the charge to colorize black & white movies, famously proclaimed "don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons"? I think I can make an educated guess here.

Doctor Who Tardis moved from Suffolk to Cambridge church Having a Tardis is like having a rock star in church, the sci-fi-loving reverend says.

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I love it to bits. And where else can you see Obi Wan and Doctor Who doing a murderous flat share?!?

Cover of Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod

As it’s LGBTQ+ History Month I thought I’d share some bits from my new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains (out in mid March) just to give a flavour of what was going on beyond the privet…

Had a look at a copy of NF Simpson’s absurdist comedy One Way Pendulum I’d ‘taped’ off Talking Pictures a while back... Dialogue sounded ok but the music and effects were weirdly echoed and distracting. Hoping it might come round again (and in better shape). Anyone else notice this?

My best friend died 2 months ago aged 30. Yesterday we had his memorial. It was a beautiful day but, because he didn't have a will, his estranged family took his body away from us. His partner of 13 years doesn't know when or where he was buried. Please please make a will x

Boney Skull

Hey, creative people! Just a heads up that you will be told "Wait, be patient. Your time will come" right up until you're told "You've had your time. Best step aside." It will even weirdly overlap in the middle.

Ignore both because they are both complete bullshit.

Most people don't realize the truly staggering rate of improvement of renewable technologies - the pace has been *insane* and costs have fallen through the floor.

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I used to be paranoid about that but I find if the label gets slightly damp it doesn’t seem to dry stained or crinkled somehow

I’ve got a lot bolder on what I’ll take a gamble on secondhand as a result of owning it.

Currently looking for a UK source of new brushes. Get the liquid from Juno

I’ve got the Knosti version of this. It’s amazing the radical improvement on most discs, previously filled with crackle that now play near mint. Pretty much everything I buy secondhand goes through it now.

Only just realised that ‘Sale of the Century’ and ‘The Price is Right’ were two different shows. Ok. As you were.

“So what was Glasgow like to a young gay writer in that period … You don’t go silent. You circumvent, you encode, you enfabulate … You work by methods not unlike those used by dissidents in authoritarian regimes.”

—Edwin Morgan, “Transgression in Glasgow”
#LGBTplusHM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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For what would've been her 80th birthday, here's #ElisabethSladen reminiscing on a DVD commentary in 2004 about how, when she left Doctor Who in the 70s, the props people let her keep a TARDIS key, so she'd feel like she could someday come back.
And did she ever.

On this day 45 years ago, 1st Feb 1981 Scotland partially decriminalised homosexuality, bringing to an end half a millennia of state sanctioned murder, imprisonment, hard labour & transportation for the crime of being gay.

Yep

Did you read some Avon/Blake slash and wish very hard?

Peter Dinklage reading Amanda Gorman's poem about Renee Good, a fellow poet.

Once I realised that I became less interested in trying it 😁

I don’t mind tinned sardines on toast, though. That’s the other great luxury Tumnus has, isn’t it?

And not strictly rationed like butter, IIRC

Supposedly the proper, authentic stuff is a lot better than the supermarket bars, but I’ve never been tempted.

Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe also made bread and dripping sound delicious. It’s a very 1940s mix of foods that are thought achievable or desirable, I guess

AI TRAINING??? YES PLEASE!!!

THE GREY ONE Following last weeks return to the lair of BOSS there was one more prop on this set I wanted to look at. I’ve previously looked at a wide bo...

More whirly tape computer fun this week. It’s a quick read, give it a click. #doctorwho doctorwhoprophunt.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

(I’ve just realised I’ve been confusing ‘Maybury’ - which I’ve never seen - with ‘Mulberry’ - which I vaguely remember.

If nothing else I now understand why there’s a screenshot of Patrick Stewart not Karl Howman on the video.

Off to source more tea. As you were)

Starfleet Academy Writing Assignment #4: Kling, Gone On Star Trek: SFA s01e04, "Vox in Excelso"

Wasn't this week's Starfleet Academy terrific? A big Klingon episode, but also a story about discourse and a young man struggling to find his voice.