#liz stewart’s writings

[modernmanblues]

“I take a hit off my cigarette then crane my head up to face Eric. I expel a cloud of smoke into his face, smirking at him. I feel like playing a little game with you, Mr. Stewart. His face grows more smug as the traveling smolder gently collides into his face. 

“Rookie.” He raises an eyebrow at me, maintaining his smug expression. He looks rather sultry.”

—excerpt from Chances, Chapter 2: Vogue pt. I

#liz stewart’s writings #10cc #eric stewart #oc!fem #fan fiction #favourite quotes

[serpercival]

The Conspicuous Lack of a Retirement Party - Doctor Who (1963)

For @believerindaydreams, who made the post that originally inspired this. There's a lot more incoming that spawned from the basic idea, but I couldn't help but post the first thousand words or so. There's some tentative Third Doctor/The Brigadier, but it could definitely be read as platonic.

Set in the immediate aftermath of "Doctor Who and the Silurians", featuring the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. They/them pronouns are used for the Doctor :)

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The Doctor hadn’t stopped pacing for three hours, forty-seven minutes, and… twenty-nine seconds, Liz observed upon checking her watch. She gave her distilling equipment one more thorough check.

Three hours, fifty-two minutes, and fifty-five seconds.

“Do you want me to let you know when you hit four hours?” Liz asked, leaning back against her lab bench. The Doctor grumbled something unintelligible. Maybe it wasn’t even English. They had moved on to predatorily circling the TARDIS, eyes fixed on the lab door.

At four hours, thirteen minutes, and nineteen seconds, Liz got up and stood in front of the door. “You can’t do this forever.”

“No,” the Doctor said, clenching their fists. “Only until Lethbridge-Stewart gets here.”

“You could do something productive during the wait, couldn’t you?”

The Doctor finally stopped. Liz refused to flinch under their glare. It was like they wanted to snarl at her.

“I am not doing any more work for that trigger-happy buffoon! Not ever, do you understand me? I am quitting. Abandoning ship. I won’t stoop so low as to leave without a formal resignation, but if I see him more than once in the next thousand years I swear I’ll–”

“What will you do, Doctor?” Liz asked, tilting her head. She was trying to maintain her casual air of disinterest but it was getting more difficult with every passing moment that the Doctor’s gaze drilled into her. “You can’t actually be considering leaving just because–”

“I’m not considering, I’ve decided!” the Doctor snapped. Liz couldn’t help but step back. The Doctor took a long, shaky breath and sat on their lab stool. “He killed them all, Liz. He could have gone against orders, but he didn’t. I can’t stay here. I can’t condone that.”

“The Brigadier would have lost his post if he went against orders. Then where would you be?”

“In exactly the same position as before,” the Doctor huffed. “I’m stuck on this miserable rock because I disobeyed my superiors, do you remember that?”

“You never stop reminding me.”

The door opened behind Liz. The Brigadier greeted her with a nod of his head. The Doctor’s gaze was burning properly, now. Liz decided then and there that she never wanted to do anything to pull the full weight of their anger. She couldn’t understand how the Brigadier managed to stand there so placidly with it bearing down on him.

The Brigadier lifted his chin. “I know what you’re going to say, Doctor, and–”

“Goodbye, Alistair,” the Doctor said, firmly.

“What?”

“I’m leaving. Dump the TARDIS on a street corner somewhere. I’ll be able to find her.”

“You can’t leave,” the Brigadier spluttered. Liz was abruptly aware of her position between the two men and sidled back to her lab bench.

“Are you going to stop me?”

The Brigadier was silent, his jaw set. It would be good to be the only scientific advisor around here, Liz supposed, but if that meant losing the Doctor? She couldn’t endorse that, no matter how much it annoyed her that she didn’t get the recognition she deserved.

“I suppose I’m not,” the Brigadier finally said. “It would be courteous to remind you, however, that you are not a citizen of this planet. Were you to tender your resignation, UNIT would be obligated to detain you.”

The Doctor closed their eyes for a brief, eternal moment. The Brigadier shot Liz a glance. He knew as well as she did that they wouldn’t be able to stop the Doctor from leaving if they had a full battalion.

“You should be very glad I’m not like the rest of my people, Alistair,” the Doctor said, softly. They opened their eyes and the Brigadier actually flinched. Liz looked down at her notes and pretended she hadn’t seen. “I don’t believe for a moment that any other Time Lord would leave quietly after being threatened.”

“I’m not–”

“Of course you are!” The Doctor whirled to their feet, that ridiculous cape of theirs trailing out behind them. The effort it was taking the Brigadier to stay in place was obvious. “Tell me what UNIT does to non-humans, Brigadier.”

“Doctor–”

“Tell me!”

“We eliminate the threat. Never you, Doctor. Never.”

The Doctor scoffed. “That’s bureaucratic babble for murder and you know it.”

They turned, beginning to gather their things. Most of it was in the TARDIS, but there were a few bits and bobs scattered around the lab. Their sonic screwdriver. An old coffee tin where they had been shoving the pay UNIT insisted on giving them. The Doctor glanced at Liz for only the briefest moment and she suddenly understood why the Brigadier had flinched. She was reminded of a trip to the zoo as a child. Her sister had banged on the glass in the lion enclosure and the beast had bared his fangs and roared, ready to snap his jaws shut on the morsels that had made themselves so easily known.

Liz looked away, swallowing the bile that had risen in her throat. The Doctor wasn’t dangerous. They weren’t going to pounce to tear her limb from limb, no matter how firmly her mind screamed it. Still, there was no glass. Nothing to protect her if they decided to follow through on the implied threat.

“Liz?” the Doctor was saying. They touched her cheek, gently, and all her muscles went stiff to prevent her from flinching away from the threat and the cold of their fingers. “I’m sorry, Liz. I forget to be careful with all these soldiers around. Their minds aren’t nearly so open.”

Liz decided that her best option was to be empirical. She calmly observed the key placed into her hand, the chill of the Doctor leaning in to kiss her on the cheek and whisper to her.

“So she can find you again.”

There was nothing romantic about the kiss. She didn’t think she would have wanted there to be. The Doctor and the Brigadier’s relationship was strained at the best of times. It wouldn’t do to get in the way of the something that was there, the something that crept around the edges of her thoughts when the Doctor called him Alistair instead of Brigadier. The Doctor considered her a friend and nothing more, as she thought about them. They certainly didn’t call her pet names.

The key in her hand was simple, something that wouldn’t look out of place on her key ring if it hadn’t been so vibrantly metallic. Her eyes slid through it to land on the silvery reflections contained within.

Liz worked to piece together the data. The Doctor’s fury, the TARDIS key in her hand, the way the Brigadier’s knuckles were white on his swagger stick.

“This is a rash decision,” she said. The Doctor closed her fingers around the key and stepped away.

She put the key on the same ring as her others. Her car key, house key, and the key to the TARDIS next to them, like they were all of the same mundane quality.

When Liz looked back up, the Doctor was gone.

#doctor who fanfiction #dw fanfiction #doctor who #classic doctor who #I have huge plans for this :) #serpercival writes #spwrites third doctor #spwrites liz shaw #spwrites brigadier lethbridge-stewart

[thisbluespirit]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (1963) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Third Doctor/Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart/Liz Shaw Characters: Third Doctor (Doctor Who), Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton Additional Tags: Accidental Marriage, Post-Serial: s054 Inferno, Blood and Injury, Aliens - Think They're Married, Aliens - Artifact Creates Marriage, Marriage of Convenience Summary:

“Doctor,” said the Brigadier, “you’re not saying you’ve stranded all three of us on an alien planet, with no way back home – and we’re married?”

#fanfic #doctor who #third doctor #liz shaw #brigadier lethbridge-stewart #three x brig x liz #justmarried #marriage of convenience #accidental marriage #alien planets #justmarried has revealed #there was a two week delay with collection opening so it feels forever ago i was writing this now #but i'm actually still really pleased with it #gift fic #merfilly #my recip had a bunch of dw relationships to choose from #and rashly opted for any tag

[thousandfireworks]

Authors whose books you have to avoid because they are problematic.

Abigail Hing Wen.

Alex Aster.

Alice Hoffman.

Alice Oseman.

Alison Win Scotch. ‘Terrorism is never acceptable. Not in Israel.’

Allie Sarah.

Amber Kelly.

Amy Harmon.

Annabelle Monaghan.

Anna Akana.

Aurora Parker.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Brandon Sanderson. Islamophobic.

Carissa Broadbent. Said that hamas is doing violence against innocence.

Chloe Walsh. Siding with Israel in the name of humanity.

Christina Lauren. Believe that Israel is the victim. A racist, also Islamophobic.

Colleen Hoover.

Cora Reilly. Travel to Israel despite criticism.

Danielle Bernstein. Islamophobic.

Danielle Lori.

Deke Moulton. Said hamas is terrorist.

Dian Purnomo.

Eliza Chan.

Elle Kennedy.

Elyssa Friedland.

Emily Henry.

Emily Mclntire.

Emily St. J. Mandel. Admiring Israel.

Gabrielle Zevin. Wrote a book about anti-Palestine. Mentioned Israel multiple times without context on his book.

Gregory Carlos. Israeli author. A zionist.

Hannah Whitten.

Hazel Hayes. Reposted a post about October 7th.

Heidi Shertok.

Jamie McGuire.

Jay Shetty. ‘Violence is happening in Israel.’

Jean Meltzer.

Jeffery Archer. Wrote a book with a mc Israel operative (mossad) in a positive and anti terrorist light.

Jennifer Hartman. Liked a post about pro-Israel.

Jen Calonita.

Jessa Hastings.

Jill Santopolo. Said that Israel has right to exist and fight back.

John Green.

Jojo Moyes.

J. Elle.

J. K. Rowling. Support genocide. Racist. Islamophobic.

Kate Canterbery.

Kate Stewart.

Katherine Howe.

Katherine Locke.

Kristin Hannah. Support Israel. Shared a donation link.

Laini Taylor.

Laura Thalassa. Islamophobic.

Lauren Wise. Cussed that Palestinian supporters would be raped in front of children.

Lea Geller. Thanked people who supports Israel.

Leigh Stein.

Lilian Harris. A racist. Blocking people who educates about colonialism in Palestine and call them disgusting.

Lisa Barr. A daughter of Holocaust survivor. Support Israel.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery.

Lisa Steinke.

Liz Fenton.

Lynn Painter. Afraid of getting cancelled as a pro-Palestine and posted a template afterwards.

L. J. Shen. Her husband joins idf (Israel army).

Mariana Zapata.

Marie Lu.

Marissa Meyer.

Melissa de la Cruz.

Michelle Cohen Corasanti.

Michelle Hodkin. Spread false rumors about arab-hamas. Islamophobic.

Mitch Albom. ‘We shouldn't blame Israel for surviving attacks or defending against them.’

Monica Murphy. Siding with Israel.

Naomi Klein.

Navah Wolfe.

Neil Gaiman. Suggested Palestinians unite with Israel and become citizens.

Nicholas Sparks.

Nic Stone. Talked nonsense that children in Palestinian refugee camp are training to be martyrs for Allah because they felt it was their call in life.

Nyla K.

Olivia Wildenstein. Blocking people who disagree with Israel wrongdoing.

Pamela Becker.

Penelope Douglas.

Pierce Brown.

Rachel Lynn Solomon.

Rebecca G. Martinez.

Rebecca Yarros. ‘I despise violence’ her opinion about what's happening in Gaza. Blocking people who calls her a zionist.

Rena Rossner.

Renee Ahdieh.

Rick Riordan.

Rina Kent.

Rivka (noctem.novelle).

Rochelle Weinstein.

Romina Garber. ‘These terrorist attacks do nothing to improve the lives of Palestinians people.’

Roshani Chokshi. Encourage people to donate to Israel.

Samantha Greene Woodruff.

Sarah J. Mass. Her book contained ideology of zionism.

Skye Warren.

Sonali Dev.

Talia Carner.

Tarryn Fisher. Said ‘there was terrorist attack in Israel.’

Taylor Jenkins Reid. Posted a video about genocide.

Tere Liye. Rumoured to have ghoswriters to write his books and never give credit to them.

Tillie Cole.

Tracy Deon.

Trinity Traveler (Ade Perucha Hutagaol). Rumour to wrote book about handsome Israelis.

T. J. Klune.

Uri Kurlianchik.

Veronica Roth.

Victoria Aveyard. ‘Israel has the right to exist.’ quote from her about the issue.

V. E. Schwab. Shared a donation link and video about Israel.

Yuval Noah. ‘Israel has the right to do anything to defend themselves.’

Zibby Owens.

#boycott israel #boycott zionist #free palestine

[somekindofflowergirl]

Timeless, Hollywoodland, and The Philadelphia Story

I found this old meta I’ve had in my Google docs for years but I don’t believe I’ve ever posted anything about it, since I originally intended to use the idea in a fic. Since that isn’t happening, even though it’s been years and I doubt anyone is out here writing or reading Timeless meta anymore, here you go. Obviously spoilers for both.

Most Garcy fans will groan if I suggest we take a look at Hollywoodland, but considering a certain admittedly fantastic dress:

…and a certain cut scene involving a pool, it’s interesting to consider through the lens of The Philadelphia Story, of which the dress and pool scene are iconic elements. Here is a still from the movie:

Look familiar? This is also poolside.

The Philadelphia Story revolves around Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn), a wealthy socialite who is preparing to marry her fiance, George (who matters as little as Lucy’s quirk-of-the-timeline-fiancé Noah in Timeless but manages to be far less likable) in a matter of days. The head of Spy Magazine assigns Macaulay Connor (Jimmy Stewart, oddly nicknamed “Mike”) and his photographer, Liz, to go to the wedding and get the story posing as friends of her expatriate brother, with an actual friend of his as their in: C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant). Dexter also happens to be Tracy’s first husband. They divorced years prior due to his alcoholism—including a nasty incident of him shoving her down—and her criticism of him. Dexter originally seems to be doing this out of spite, but we quickly learn it’s actually to keep the magazine from releasing a bigger scoop about Tracy’s father’s affair and estrangement from her mother, which have devastated Tracy. The rest of the film is about Tracy’s entanglement with all these men.

(Sidenote: there are some very old-fashioned diatribes and comments about the nature of women and marriage and the shoving I found very hard to overlook, but that’s not the point of this post. Just heads up if you do ever watch it.)

On the eve of Tracy’s wedding to George, she dons The Dress to attend a ball in their honor. She gets drunk for only the second time in her life, and she and a similarly drunk Mike spend time together. They mainly talk drunk nonsense, drive drunk, and Mike sings Over the Rainbow. They have a grand time, end up kissing, and jump in the pool for a midnight swim.

Similarly, in Hollywoodland, Lucy and Wyatt share a sweet poolside conversation while she wears The Dress to a Hedy Lamarr party, they kiss, and they would have jumped in the pool if not for wildfire filming issues. They spend the night together, scar Rufus the next morning, then head back to the present. Wyatt soon receives a text from his supposedly dead wife. He takes off, without telling anyone why, and Wyatt spends the rest of the season trying to win back Jessica permanently while still having feelings for Lucy. In the “movie” (reminder: Christmas isn’t canon), Jessica is a pure evil Rittenhouse operative who lied about being pregnant, is killed, and Lucy and Wyatt are hastily shoved back together without fixing the issues between them on-screen. TPTB have claimed that their pairing was always endgame and the reunion would have happened anyway–albeit less swiftly and unrealistically–but they were Made For Each Other, loved each other all along, blah blah blah.

Which brings us back to The Philadelphia Story. The scene at the pool between Tracy and Mike is iconic for a reason. Mike is very “eat the rich” and she calls him out for being an intellectual snob, he tells her she’s wonderful and that the other men didn’t know what they were talking about, and their kiss is incredibly cinematic. It’s truly romantic…

In the moment.

For that moment, that one night, the audience can root for this couple. Mike is saying what Tracy needs to hear, and she’s enjoying letting herself fail by getting drunk and doing the unexpected. It’s sweet.

But it isn’t the endgame. No one means it to be.

After the multiple confrontations that arise out of the pool situation, Tracy breaks off with George just before the wedding. Mike asks Tracy to marry him and she turns him down. Liz loves him, and while he and Tracy like each other as friends, they would both be unhappy long-term. They live very different lives and have different values. And they’re not actually in love.

I don’t honestly believe this was intentional as foreshadowing that Lyatt may not be endgame so much as Abigail Spencer really wanting to wear The Dress. But even as a subconscious accidental parallel, it’s decent. Mike is nice and he and Tracy get along fairly well, but he’s better suited to Liz, who has stood by and loved him for years while waiting for him to mature enough for forever with her. Tracy, having realized that she doesn’t want the picture-perfect (on the outside) life she envisioned—and having seen that Dexter, now sober and much changed, is not the man he was when he hurt her—she forgives Dexter for the pain of their past. He lets go of it all as well and they remarry, this time making it down the aisle rather than eloping as they did before.

And as a book I adore (Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos) says: “Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.”

#timeless #garcy #lucy preston #garcia flynn #wyatt logan #anti-lyatt #the philadelphia story #timeless meta #long post #boy is it #christmas isn’t canon

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Colin Firth, filming Lockerbie and embodying Dr Jim Swire, 88, in Glasgow as he sported Jim's famous 'Lockerbie: The Truth Must Be Known' badge. 📸 © Wattie Cheung

Sky drama and Peacock “Lockerbie”.

It's not the one original series "Lockerbie," about the 1988 flight disaster. Sky and Peacock began filming in Scotland in February and BBC, Netflix and MGM started programming in March.

The cast members in Lockerbie Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man, The Staircase) join Catherine McCormack (Slow Horses, Temple, Lucan) to play Jane Swire opposite Firth’s Dr Jim Swire.

Known as the Lockerbie bombing and the Lockerbie air disaster in the UK, it was described by Scotland's Lord Advocate as the UK's largest criminal inquiry led by the smallest police force in Britain, Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary.

The five-part series, featuring Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth, is based on the tragic Lockerbie terror attack on 21st December 1988 when Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Dumfries and Galloway town, killing all 259 on board and 11 residents.

Colin Firth, will play Dr Jim Swire, a doctor who lost his daughter, Flora, in the 1988 tragedy. Writers also took inspiration from Jim's book, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father's Search for Justice.

In the wake of the disaster, Dr Jim Swire (Firth), is nominated spokesperson for the UK victims’ families, who have united to demand truth and justice. Travelling across continents and political divides, Jim embarks on a relentless journey that not only jeopardises his stability, family and life, but completely overturns his trust in the justice system. As the truth shifts under Jim’s feet, his view of the world is left forever sullied.

Colin dyed his hair a whitish shade of grey to match Jim's and wore a tartan tie. 📸 © Wattie Cheung

Firth was seen on the set of the new drama in Linlithgow, which will close several roads in the east end and city centre during the filming. Colin was spotted in character and has taken on the role of Jim, 88, the father of one of the 270 victims of the 21st December 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

At the back of Colin's briefcase was a drawing of Jim's daughter, Flora Swire, who was on her way to the US to spend Christmas with her boyfriend when Libyan terrorists blew up the plane.

The real Jim (pictured in 2015) became famous after the bombing for his relentless lobbying towards a solution for the difficulties in bringing suspects in the original bombing to trial 📸 © PA

The series is based on the book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph – as well as other sources.

Lockerbie bombing, The new drama, Flight 103: Film crew in Linlithgow to work on, have been spotted in Glasgow as filming begins in the city. Road closures are in place as filming kick starts.

A film crew is currently filming in Linlithgow working on a new TV series based on the Lockerbie disaster.

Linlithgow is situated between Edinburgh and Glasgow, to the south of the Firth of Forth and on the edge of Linlithgow Loch. Linlithgow Palace, Stewart residence, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, and rest stop between Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle.

It had been noticed for its similarity to the original Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over the town of Dumfries and Galloway, 40 minutes into its flight from London to New York.

@getty Images

Scottish playwright David Harrower (Blackbird, Knives in Hens) is the lead writer. Maryam Hamidi (Vigil) is guest writer on an episode. Additional writing comes from Jim, Kirsten and Naomi Sheridan.

BAFTA Award-winning Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders, The Winter King) is lead director. Jim Loach (Save Me) will also direct an episode. Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant are Executive Producers for Carnival Films. Sam Hoyle is Executive Producer for Sky Studios. Additional Executive Producers include David Harrower, Otto Bathurst, Liz Trubridge, Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Oskar Slingerland.

A true story with an Academy Award®-winning actor Colin Firth not to be missed 📍

#Lockerbie #ColinFirth #DrJimSwire #book #TheLockerbieBombing: AFather'sSearchfor Justice #SKY #Peacok #truestory #bombing #CatherineMcCormack #Linlithgow #Scotland #PanAmflight103 #DumfriesandGalloway #disaster #filming #newdrama #FloraSwire #JaneSwire #series #Libyanterrorists #plane #LockerbieairdisasterintheUK #policeforce

A release date for the series hasn't yet been set.

Posted 6th March 2024

#Youtube

[variousqueerthings]

I feel like I need to make a little rundown of everything UNIT and Kate Stewart has done since being re-introduced in s7, but I also want to finish watching classic!who so I can make that comparison more effectively. certainly in pertwee-era of doctor who there was some critique and analysis of UNIT's methods as a military group and that the doctor kind of had to work with them to begin with because he didn't have a working tardis (+ already knew the brigadier and UNIT from troughton-era)

liz shaw and jo grant both start with UNIT and both leave UNIT, partially after narratives where they're at odds with what the institution represents and how easy it is for it to abuse power and/or simply make bad choices to begin with (liz taking the doctor's side several times and eventually quitting, although with that slightly lazy--pseudo-feminist "she didn't want to fetch the teas" explanation given post-leaving when there was definitely a lot more going on for her than that, but I think that was the way the actress was feeling so I can see the meta reasonings in it, and jo figuring out that she believes in different ways of protecting the earth joining a radical group and yeah ok straight up getting engaged to that welsh guy after two days, but she was considering leaving before then anyway), and sarah-jane just enters spaces and acts like she belongs there and nobody knows how to tell her to leave, but she's frequently not on UNIT's side so much as the side of Truth (I say, we now enter fourth doctor era so we'll see)

but yeah, the brigadier was there from the beginning, and there's yates and whatshisface, so there's the humanising faces depicting UNIT as essentially for good from the get-go, despite episodes where they're definitely antagonists. but then reintroduced in nu!who s4 as... not quite comfortable to the doctor/partly as that season's narrative of how the doctor affects their companions for worse and inspires them to become soldiers. so they're not the bad guys in the same way torchwood of s2 were, but they aren't comfortable allies either

so now I'm on s9 and... dunno. they're not quite what they were at the beginning, and they're not what they were in s4. more than anything they feel like a get-out-of-jail free card for whatever writer needs to do something that would be easier to solve with a big handy institution with guns, but don't want to analyse the idea of a big handy institution with guns, so we're told that UNIT is "good" but I keep waiting for someone -- osgood and/or bingham -- to become that next liz shaw, and for kate stewart to be confirmed an antagonist based on said rundown I haven't made of her actions, which at best are often ineffectual and at worst some near-villain shit

rtd in the new specials continues writing UNIT the way it has been since s7 -- the same issues and questions about it are at the forefront, with a couple of new ones thrown in (an institution that's very diverse does not make it any less a paramilitary institution and in fact makes one highly suspicious of its propaganda campaign), but I hope he remembers some of the ways they caused problems during three's era, or the way his own original run at least complicated the doctor's feelings about them and I hope he ends up reintroducing those complications with fifteen but x 1000

and. kate stewart needs to become an antagonist. in my opinion. she'd make a very good antagonist, considering how much history there is between her and the doctor. that's another post though, but I want to make a list of every time KS has tried to deal with a situation with extra-judicial violence, because it is practically every episode she's in (if not every episode she's in)

I can buy the doctor feeling some kinda way, because UNIT was the brigadier, was liz, was jo, was yates and whatshisface (sorry I have forgotten his name), was a time where they were stuck and in need of help and UNIT did help them, and then it was also martha and now mel... the doctor built real personal connections with UNIT, but as a structure it is hiiiighly dubious At Best and fully just no-good the majority of the time

#i also dont remember what happens to osgood #we'll see! #i dont like the doctor being president of the world in this season #and i don't like how easily he works with UNIT sending out troops in this double-episode although he does suggest other ways #it's the part of nu!who that loses me -- when it moves away from People and focuses on the pov of institutional powers #but it can at aaany point choose to pivot again so it's not like it's The Dealbreaker #it's just that i am sat here waiting for the pivot #me doing that scene from friends: PIVOOOOT!!!! PIVOTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! #im watching nu!who #im watching capaldi who #the measurement #oh goooosh UNIT also just straight-up GAVE martha the osterhagen key just fuckn #they did that to martha -- doctor! i dont like'em kick'em to the cuuurb #doctor who meta

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

Mini-Tournaments Contestent Lists

Green is for definite inclusion

Red is for maybes (opinions on if they should be included are welcome)

I am not familiar with EU companions, so if any of them should be included, please tell me (note, numbers are capped at 16 per tournament, EU companions won't be added if it would mean removing TV companions). They'll be listed in green as definite inclusions until the list is too long, companions in red will be removed first

Also, I'm writing these lists off the top of my head, so if I've forgotten someone obvious, let me know

Poll here

The Great Himboff:

Steven Taylor

Ben Jackson

Jamie McCrimmon

John Benton

Mike Yates

Harry Sullivan

Vislor Turlough

Chang Lee

Mickey Smith

Jack Harkness

Rory Williams

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Fitz Kreiner

Teenager Takedown (if they don't have a stated age they should be easy to interpret as a teenager):

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Dodo Chaplet

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

Adric

Nyssa

Ace McShane

Rose Tyler

Charley Pollard

Izzy Sinclair

Gillian and John Who

Sam Jones

Mary Shelley

Peri Brown

This bracket is now full

Not from Around Here

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

Leela

Romana I

Romana II

Adric

Nyssa

Vislor Turlough

Nardole

River Song

Jack Harkness

C'rizz

This bracket is now full

Chaos Incarnate

Susan Foreman

Vicki Pallister

Dodo Chaplet

Jamie McCrimmon

Zoe Heriot

Sarah-Jane Smith

Leela

Ace McShane

Clara Oswald

Bill Potts

Graham O'Brien

Dan Lewis

Iris Wildthyme

Doctors of Doctor Who (is a medical proffesional of any kind or has a PhD or alien equivalent)

Liz Shaw

Harry Sullivan

Romana I

Romana II

Grace Holloway

Martha Jones

River Song

Rory Williams

Evelyn Smythe

Liv Chenka

Bernice Summerfield

Molly O'Sullivan

Hex Schofield

Nyssa

Hebe Harrison

Tara Mishra

This bracket is not full, I may still replace Romana I or II with a better candidate

Smart Companions (as in being intelligent is a defining trait of the character)

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Susan Foreman

Zoe Heriot

Liz Shaw

Romana I

Romana II

Adric

Nyssa

Mel Bush

Grace Holloway

Martha Jones

Kate Stewart

The Robotathon (Robot/Cybernetically Enhanced)

K9

Kamelion

Handles

Nardole

Kroton

Marc

Bill Potts (maybes because I hesitate to call cyber conversion enhancement)

Valarie Lockwood

Shalka!Master

Mark Seven

UNIT team

The Brigadier

John Benton

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Martha Jones

Kate Stewart

Tara Mishra

#all the numbers seem to be working out as factors of two #which is weird #mini-tournaments

[the-lavender-creator]

October 5 7: UNIT/Torchwood

I kinda wasn't intending to do this prompt but then @gender-snatched posted his fic for the UNIT prompt (Disappearing Act) and like. I've been watching a LOT of classic who okay-

something something writing blog @vwritesawholelothm

Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Doctor/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler, Third Doctor/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler Characters: Third Doctor (Doctor Who), Brigade Leader Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler Additional Tags: OT3, Polyamory, United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (Doctor Who), Third Doctor Era, Third Doctor's Tattoo Summary: Two mysterious strangers from the Doctor's future show up at UNIT's doorstep, in want of a tour.

Event hosted by @doctorjackrose

#doctorjackrose #doctorjackrose week #doctorjackrose week 2023 #threejackrose

[readnburied]

24 Book Series for 2024

I know this post should’ve come at the beginning of the year but I was sick and so I was unable to write until now. So this is a list of 24 series I want to start, continue or finish in the year 2024 and I really hope I’m able to get to them so I can have the chance to try some new series. So without any further ado, here are the 24 series I want to get to in 2024. 

1. Insanity by Cameron Jace

I’ve read 3 out of 9 books in this series so of course I intend to continue with the next book. 

2. Zodiac by Romina Russell

I’ve read 3 out of 4 books in this series so if I’m able to get to this I can finish this series this year. 

3. The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan

I’ve read 3 out of 5 books in this series and I’m looking forward to reading the next book and getting closer to finishing the series. 

4. Millennium by Stieg Larson

I’ve read 1 out of 6 books in this series. I loved the first book a lot and I really want to know what’s in store in book 2. 

5. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor 

I’ve read 1 out of 3 books in this series and I think it’s about time I get to the next book and continue the story. 

6. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco 

This is a new series which I wish to start this year. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this series so I’m eager to get to it. 

7. Everneath by Brodi Aston

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and I’ve also read the novella. So one more book to go and I’ll be done with this series. 

8. Ruined by Paula Morris

I’ve read 1 out of 2 books in this series. I loved this series a lot and I’m eager to read the next book. 

9. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series, including the novella and I want to finish the series by reading the last book. 

10. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

I’ve read 4 out of 8 books in this series and it’s one of my favorite series, so I’m excited to continue it. 

11. Night Angel by Brent Weeks

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and I need to quickly read the next book so I can finish this series. 

12. The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee

I’ve read 1 out of 3 books in this series and the whole world has read this series and I feel left out, so I want to continue. 

13. Madison Avery by Kim Harrison

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and after one more book I’ll be done with this series. 

14. Book of the Ancestor by Mark Lawrence 

I’ve read 1 out of 3 books in this series. There’s also a novella so I need to read that as well but I hope I can get to this series. 

15. The Drowning Empire by Andrea Stewart 

This is a new series for me and once again I’m fashionably late for this series but I’m still eager to get to it. 

16. Depraved Sinners by Sheridan Anne

This is a new series for me and personally I only want to read this series because the book tittles are so interesting. 

17. Easy Bake Coven by Liz Scholte

I’ve read 2 out of 8 books in this series. This is a kind of a cozy mystery fantasy and I want to continue reading it. 

18. Private by Kate Brian

I’ve read 2 out of 14 books in this series and I don’t know if I’ll ever finish this series but for now I’m definitely eager to read more. 

19. The Order of the Sanguines by James Rollins

I’ve read 2 out of 3 book in this series and this includes a novella as well and I love this series and want to read the last book. 

20. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and this has a novella as well. I’m really looking forward to reading the last book in this series. 

21. The Codebreakers by Roseanna M. White

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and I love this series so much and I’m looking forward to the next book. 

22. Debutantes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I’ve read 1 out of 2 books in this series and I really hope I get the chance to finish this series this year. 

23. Nikki Kill by Jennifer Brown

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and I’m eager to finish this series because it’s just so beautiful. 

24. All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue 

I’ve read 2 out of 3 books in this series and this is an interesting series and I’m eager to know how it ends. 

So these are the series I want to try and get to this year. These are not the only series I intend to work on because there are so many others, but I can’t list them all for this post. Let me know if you’ve read any of these series or want to read do let me know. 

#read n buried #reading #booklr #books and reading #books #book #books & libraries #currently reading #book blog #book community #Book #reading list #long reads #readers #goodreads #Series #24 #2024 #new year 2024

[rawwkfingers]

The Mind of Evil

The Master's first appearance was somewhat bland; he was a cookie cutter villain that could easily have been replaced with "generic bad guy." This serial was the first step towards our modern understanding of the Master's character, and their relationship with the Doctor

The banter they had, the Master's plan hinging on the Doctor being willing to work with him, the Doctor's hesitance to kill the Master but also not wanting him to escape free. All those elements are what we see in New Who and they were all present here

The actual story wasn't especially great tbh. I'm not entirely sure what the point of the mind parasite was? I feel like the Master would have been able to take over the prison and then steal the missile without the help of the parasite; it felt like it was there to add a level of science fiction necessary for it to be a Doctor Who story and not because it was actually plot relevant

The charisma of the cast saves it from being "bad" though! I love the way Delgado portrays the Master as unflappable, even when things don't go his way he oozes charm and confidence. And Pertwee is just absolutely phenomenal as the Doctor. His scenes with Lethbridge-Stewart are always hilarious and I love the way he always cuts down pompous assholes to size

Jo is fantastic; she's a bit of a return to the Classic Who formula. Where Zoe and Liz were both more active partners to the Doctor, Jo reminds me a lot of Susan or Vicki where the Doctor views her as someone to protect and mentor. In modern storytelling, obviously I prefer the partner relationship but unfortunately, 70s writing isn't anywhere near as feminist as modern storytelling has evolved into and I'd rather have a student who can be the emotional intelligence of the show than someone who is meant to be the Doctor's equal but continues to be placed into plots that diminish their capabilities

#rawwk on #classic who watch #the mind of evil #i also just have a soft spot for “femme character who shows the power behind girlish stereotypes” #and jo fits that well

[modernmanblues]

“I glance over at Graham who appears to be hyperfocused on tuning his bass. He proceeds to finagle with several complex chords repeatedly, seemingly attempting to perfect a certain bass riff. I am by no means a professional musician, but whatever Graham is getting at is working out in his favor.

I stride over towards him and beam at him girlishly.

"Hi, Mr. Gouldman." I sound almost flirtatious.

Graham pauses mid-riff and peers at me, sneering at my greeting.

"Ough.Mr. Gouldman. Do I really look that old to you?" he retorts with a sarcastic undertone, raising his hands on either side of him.

I let out a soft chuckle and gape at him sheepishly. "Well you're no spring chicken either, lance corporal."”

—excerpt from Chances, Chapter 4: Spark pt. 1

#eric stewart x fem!oc #graham gouldman #leah walker #10cc #chances #eric stewart fanfiction #favourite quotes #liz stewart’s writings

[serpercival]

Serpercival Writes Fic Masterlist

Find my AO3 here!

Doctor Who

Third Doctor

The Conspicuous Lack of a Retirement Party - Genfic Third Doctor, Liz Shaw, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart The Silurians episode tag

Fourth Doctor

While There's Life - Implied Four/Delgado Master Jo Grant, Delgado!Master

Pandering to Curiosity - Four/Harry Fourth Doctor, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith

Sixth Doctor

A Science-Fictionalized History of the War in Korea - Multiple ships Sixth Doctor, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith A S1-3 (plus special guests) MASH crossover ONGOING Episode Two - Silver Heart

Tenth Doctor

In the Latter Half of the 20th Century - Genfic Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright

Twelfth Doctor

Whatever Happened in Aberdeen? - Genfic Twelfth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, John Benton

Former and Future Housemates - Genfic Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts, Harry (Knock Knock)

Fourteenth Doctor (Tennant)

A Purely Hypothetical Goodbye - Genfic Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble Prediction for the regeneration scene from 7/26/2023

Multi-Doctor/Anthology

Cricket Through the Ages - Genfic Snapshots of different Doctors

On the Biology of Time Lords - Genfic, arguably The Doctor hides a lot from their companions. An anthology series on some of the more disturbing pieces of Time Lord physiology.

M*A*S*H

S1-3

The Famous 4077th Dog Tag Party (Chapter Two) - Random ship generator, Frank/Sidney

Billigen Boys - Klinger/Mulcahy AU of the episode Bulletin Board

A Science-Fictionalized History of the War in Korea - Multiple ships Full S1-3 crew A Doctor Who crossover featuring the Sixth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan ONGOING Episode Two - Silver Heart

S6-11

Fourth Walls are for Climbing - BJ/Hawkeye Hawkeye/Alan Alda body swap

Post-Canon

Groundhog Day, 1954 (In a Context Completely Divorced from Time Loops) - Trapper/Hawkeye Charles runs into Trapper just before a medical conference. Things spiral from there.

Poker Night, 1979 - BJ/Trapper/Hawkeye, featuring some Trapper/Gonzo(Trapper John M.D.) Trapper John M.D. era, Gonzo gets invited to "poker night"

Explicit fics under the break ->

Doctor Who

Sixth Doctor

Here I Am, Drowning - Six/Jack Insert for On the Biology of Time Lords Erotic poetry? Experimental literature? who knows.

Temporal Wingmanning - Six/Clara

M*A*S*H

S1-3

Like a Bad Romance Novel - Trapper/Hawkeye

#fanfiction masterlist #fanfiction #doctor who #serpercival writes

[nityarawal]

9/22/23

Jessie's Boys

Morning Songs

Militia Says

She Was A Romanian

Gypsy

X-Boyfriend

Prison Shower Guard

Dorian

Thought She Was Ukrainian

Pete- Her Last Boyfriend

Trying To Plan A

Getaway

Make A Baby

Said She Was

Actually

American Romanian

Not A Gypsy

At All

LA

Golden Skinned

Blond

Just A Young 2nd Generation

34 Year Old

#FreeBritney

Trying To Be A Mom

Barred From Insulin

By Jealous exes

Like "Killing Of Mr. Green"

By Louis Duncan

Horrors

Crime "Ya"

Teen Mystery

Hell

"Lord Of The Rings"

Conspiracies

American Romanian

From LA

Discriminated Against

At Airbnb 

And Idyllwild "Gay" Realty

By Jessie's Sothby's 

Property Manager

Mary Schmitz

Who Couldn't Triangle

My Kids

After She Wrongfully Evicted

Me

And Scott

Couldn't Get

Me Jessie's Treehouse

Or Rescue Her

On His Motorcycle

Just Another Lady

Almost A

Mom

Smeared In Her Pretty

Prime

Like Marilyn

On Lies

Discriminated 

Against By

Klu Klux Klan

Militia

Triangulated

Skinheads

Jealous Exes

Another Nazi "Mistake"

In A Long Line

Of Killings

Domino Effect

Addicts

Triangulating 

Michael Thompson

Her "X" Boyfriend

Was There

When She Was Found

Gripping Keys- Stressed

Trying To Escape

Him

Taught Knuckles

Dead

Hands Clenched

Naked

In Bed

Was She "Barred"

From

Her Diabetic

Medicine

Insulin

Tortured To Death

Or Did She Die

On Fentanyl

Like Militia

Mitch

An Old Neighbor

Vanessa's Old Man

And Scott Clarke

Locals

Wanted You To Believe

Sheriff Jeremy Parson's

Proud Boys- Pine Cove

Enablers 

Or Was It Staged By Gay 

Trans-Moderators

From Florida

On Meta Facebook

Crime Watch

Social Media

Gossip

Post Apocalypse 

Data Theft

A Play

Book

They

Want You To Believe

Collin

A Roomate

Was There

Reporting 

Lies

Who Was He

Another Of Shane Stewart's

Impotent Latino Gay Lovers'

Addicts

Spying

Triangulating 

Nazis

Jessie

Only

34 Years Old

Innocent

Before She Could

Bare 

Her Babies

No obituary

Or Legacy

Pictures

To

Propagate Her 

Soulmates

Prodigy 

Just Pete

Possibly 

Selling Her

Life

Who Was Collin

He Was There

Tabloid Columnists

Say Triangulated

In Affair

A Gay

Perhaps

Speculating

Who Was Collin

Did He Know Our

"Token" Black

Rastafarians

Blamed

Scapegoats

Sick

With Lymes

Who Was Collin

A Roommate

Planted

Did He Make Up

The One Liners

When He Got

Michael Thompson

Put Under

Forever

3 Months Later

Dead

Supposedly

Murdered

The Tree House 

Pinecove Owners

Are Dead

But "Hurrah"

His Sons'

Might Have Said

Sarcastically

Dennis Glorified

Nymph-Happy-Endings

Prostrate Orgasms

Gluttony 

All Forgotten

In "Pride"

Who Inherited

Homestead

Like When 

Emily Pearson Died

A Property Manager

To Over 400 People

And Her Forgotten

Husband

Idy Folk

Wrongfully Evicted

In Covid

Rejected On

United Way 211

Silenced

Forgotten

Like When

Emily And Her

Husband Died

8 Hours Apart

No One Could Testify

What Really Happened

No Autopsy

Swept Under The Rug

Like So Many

Idyllwild Real Estate

Gay

Murders

For Shane Stewart's

Gangs

Swept Under The Rug

A "Hasbeen"

"Midnight In The"

Woods

Some Say 

Scientologists

Took El Salvadorian

Wives

Daughters

Missing Persons

Victims

Alibis

For Megan's Law

Scares

At Lumber Mill

6 Other Restaurants

In Idy

Wanted To Write

About the "Garden

Of Good And Evil"

Like Savannah

Georgia

Writers

Eyes

We Got

Transvestites

Blooming

A Restaurant 

Owner With

8 Pedophile

Charges

Louise Expected "Life"

Now Running Free

Yet Cops Come Running

For His Chef's

Humble

Car

Compounding

#CampCalifornia

Pimping Radar Out

And Golden Pitbull

Ryder

Pigs

Rape His Widow Friend

Liz

Charity Project

On Petty Crimes

For Addicts

Silencing Lies

Big "Stories" About

Shane Stewart's Lovers

Facts Omitted

8 Pedophile Crimes

Never Syndicated 

News Stories

Butterfield's Brokers 

12 Teachers At The Art Academy

Countless Students

Teachers Fired

Children Incarcerated

Silenced

Caged

Peace,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

[robertfrobisherslover]

If the UNIT spin-off rumours are true, then it's just further evidence that RTD has got eyes on my computer. First the Sunday Jones/Ruby Sunday coincidence, and now he's developing the Kate Stewart Show, which I have been writing my own treatment for since last summer (spoilers: it involves Daisy Ashford as Liz Shaw's niece, and yes, it's a lesbian enemies to lovers plot).

I see you Russell. I see you 👀

#doctor who spoilers #unit spoilers #i'm going to have to write this fucking series now before the actual one comes out aren't I #goddamn it russell I'm BUSY

[secret-diary-of-an-fa]

The Inevitable End of Year Awards, 2022 Edition

It would be fair to say that 2022 got off to a flatulent yet anaemic start back in Ye Olde January and has since sign-waved between extremes of joyless and joyful like a sherry-addled schizophrenic telling you his life story at a Xmas party that just won’t fucking end, finally ending on a weirdly positive note. So, with that in mind and before the New Year bursts all over us like a faulty condom, let us roll up our sleeves and ferret through the detritus of the year in the hope of finding the purest diamonds and filthiest sludge-nuggets, so we can drape medals about them and call it an awards ceremony. Let’s rock and roll, fuckeroos!

The Feyd-Rautha Award for Having One Job and Not Fucking Doing It… … Goes to Vladimir Putin, who gave himself the job of conquering the Ukraine and, despite having the military resources of an immense, wealthy country, a police state and a fully-subjugated media at his disposal, failed miserably. The war in Ukraine continues with no sign of Russia actually achieving anything. A bit’s been annexed- sort of- but Ukraine remains resolute and it’s highly probably that Russia’s ailing dictator will die before completing the job that he obviously intended to be his legacy. The stupid fucking twat.

The Suspicious Package that’s Actually a Present Award for Nicest Surprise… … Goes to the film Bullet Train, which looked like nothing more than a good laugh from the adverts but turned out to be a legitimately perfect film, utterly flawless in narrative construction and characterisation… that also happened to be a really good laugh. Any film that has Brad Pitt singing the praises of fate and smart toilets while two hit men bicker about Thomas the Tank Engine has got to be worth the price of admission… and maybe a little dance.

The Patrick Stewart Painting a Naked Beethoven Award for Special Services to High Culture… … Goes to another film, The Northman, which dared to ask ‘what if Hamlet and Beowulf were the same person’. It was a beautiful, meditative experience that reflected on the intersection between heroism and madness in pre-modern mythology… that also found time for fart jokes with Willem Dafoe and a big, epic sword-fight in front of an exploding volcano. I swear this is a real movie. I didn’t just neck a load of tramadol and hallucinate it while staring at an ant-farm. Go on, Google it. It’s real!

The Suspiciously Abrupt Bathroom Break Award for Shortest Tenure… Goes to spittle-spraying, plate-faced, xenophobic freak, Liz Truss, who clawed her way to the position of Tory Prime Minister but lasted about as long as a fast-food restaurant called Jimmy’s Shit and Chip Salmonella Palace. She was promptly replaced by a urinary condition in a suit who somehow contrived to be worse than her, despite the fact that that should have been physically impossible.

The Joker Shooting a Chat-Show Host Dead Award for Most Satisfying Moment… … Goes to the Doctor’s regeneration into previous, beloved Doctor Who star David Tennant shortly after the announcement that previous, beloved show-runner Russel T. Davis was being brought back to write and run the show again. The BBC is constitutionally capable of just saying ‘sorry, we fucked up’, but this does read as the closest possible equivalent. After a painfully ill-advised gender-flip, some lore-wrecking bullshit, an episode where the Doctor shilled for an evil mega-corp and a long-winded, multi-episode trudge through the colourful world of queer-baiting, the BBC seems to have finally realised that the last few years were a mistake. Will this lesson stay learned? Probably not. We’re talking about people who keep making the same crime drama every year and just calling it different names. Object permanence is not the Beeb’s strong-suit… but it’s still incredibly, viscerally satisfying to see a blustering, half-witted, incestuous institution forced into a U-turn, however temporary it might later end up being.

The Pluggity McPlugface Award for Best New Work of Fiction… … Goes to Enlightenment for All!, a brand new short story published by left-wing magazine Culture Matters and available to download for free, right now. Taking place across 20,000 years and charting a multi-generational effort to uncover the secret of enlightenment itself, it’s already being hailed as an important work of outsider ‘gypsy futurism’ by a certain internationally-respected poet WHO I AM IN NO WAY ADMITTING BEING RELATED TO. Oh, did I not mention? I’m the author! I wrote it! I am a proper published author, and this one story is set to be followed by a whole book in the New Year! Take a moment to let that sink in: I have a story available through one of Britain’s leading leftist magazines and a book of short stories slated to come out through the same soon. Once again: for all the squalidness of modern society, my life is fucking awesome.

The Garth Meringue Award for Abject Terror… … Goes to Smile, which- like Bullet Train- is a fucking perfect movie… albeit measured by a different metric. In this case, the metric for success is the number of ruined trousers associated with the media artefact’s existence, which has got to be well into the millions by now. This is neither the time nor place for a review, but Smile terrified me in a way that few films every have. Its capacity to induce fear is truly awe-inspiring… as its related capacity to ruin trousers.

The Special Award for Taking the Piss Like a Fucking Sewer System… … Goes to the recent rises in gas and electric prices. The UK’s price rises are among the highest on the European continent, because the people in charge of this country’s energy policies are craven, witless morons who have cheerfully privatised the energy sector while failing to arrange alternate sources of power at the state level. As a result, heating a home is now a slightly more expensive endeavour than just fucking off and starting a new life... ON THE MOON!

The Beige Flake in an Unflavoured Ice-Cream Award for Existing… … Goes to tepid new Marvel telly-show, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which has a fucking amazing title and contains one of Marvel Comics’ most beloved female characters… yet arrived to the resounding sound of ‘meh’. I never watched it myself, but I feel comfortable including it in my end of year round-up because, er, neither did anyone else. Why? Well, a combination of dodgy effects, formulaic episodes and one scene in which poor old Bruce Banner gets an ear-bashing from the title character that the fans just weren’t standing for. And that’s it: something that should have been a hilarious, weird odyssey through Marvel’s lesser-known catalogue arrived ended up making almost zero impression on the shape of popular culture. Pity really- but something from Marvel making so little impression is actually, weirdly impressive in itself. If they reverse-engineer the properties that made it so forgettable, they could render them down to a paint and use it disguise fucking military aircraft carriers.

The Salvador Dali Riding a Neon Zebra Through a Sky Made of Pancakes Award for Sheer Fucking Weirdness… … Goes to Everything Everywhere All at Once, a pseudo-comedy about the multiverse, divergent timelines, dildos, pinatas, family drama, rocks with googly eyes and putting everything on a bagel so that it collapses in on itself and becomes a reality-consuming singularity. It’s a great movie with a brilliantly talented actress and comedian in the leading roll. I realise I’ve done a lot of media mentions in this end of year round-up, but I feel like it’s important to praise films like this. If we don’t shine a light on quality, we end up with dreck. Good, original films and telly are rare, especially in a world where everything is a copy of some pre-existing IP, transcribed and adjusted and mutated until its no longer recognisable as itself. We live in a world where Jeff Bezos can buy the right to Lord of the Rings lore just so he can wipe his bald, pointless cock on it and where all of pop culture is dominated by a single, soulless corporation. When smaller creators with original ideas do something great, we should shine a light on it. So I am. Well done this film.

The ‘What, Really?’ Award for Unexpected Good News… … Goes to the news that James Gunn is going to be put in charge of the DC cinematic universe, which is unexpected and good- the two criteria for shockingly underwhelming award.

The Wonderful Fucking Timing Award… … Is the last award of the entry and goes to my car- or former car- which chose the week before Xmas to break down irreparably, leaking oil, petrol and water all at the same time while the engine misfired systematically. I loved that old motor, but its timing was always somewhat on the spectacular side. And so we end our awards ceremony on a personal and profoundly trivial note. So it goes.

And that was 2022. It averaged out to be pretty okay and now its ending to make way for 2023, which promises to be the latest in a long line of years. Until then (and the inevitable New Years Resolutions blog), bye.

#Secret Diary of a Fat Admirer #awards #end of year awards #everything everywhere all at once #Russel T Davies #new book #me