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You are trapped on a desert island with Chris Chibnall, J. K. Rowling and Donald Trump. You also have a gun with only one bullet in it. Who do you shoot with it?
The question puts me in mind of my line about Mark Fischer having the most philosophically coherent response to the Trump era.
Ready to come out fully after years of boymodong in public. Any advice, especially on staying safe?
Fundamentally it's no different than staying safe in any other circumstances are. It's kinda like you're just always gonna be in a bad part of town now. (But of course, bad parts of town aren't nearly as scary as people want you to think they are. The reality is, most people ain't lookin' to bother you.)
what missing episodes do you think would gain the biggest positive/negative reappraisals if rediscovered?
I like to imagine more people would realize Celestial Toymaker is unwatchable. I'd also be unsurprised if either The Abominable Snowmen or The Savages proved more racially dubious than people realize. I suspect Space Pirates is better than people imagine. And I'm confident The Myth Makers would do quite well for itself.
Are you a fan of Sparks? Their endless reinventions and style shifts have made me think that a history of the 20th century music industry could be done through their career Eruditorum style. Plus they're great fun and so funny
Not especially familiar with them, but I feel like if you’re trying to do a history of music via an artist known for reinventions you quickly run into the problem that Chris O’Leary already killed it with Pushing Ahead of the Dame, which is already about the best and most obvious artist for that, and so you’re doomed to a certain level of inadequacy.
What is the more terrible fandom, Comics fans or Doctor Who fans?
From a broad perspective, and assuming you mean American superhero comics fans, comics fans are plainly far worse. This week, in my personal experience, on the other hand…
do you have a favorite moffat interview?
It's hard not to pick "You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair."
Is there still a clear way forward for Doctor Who or is it doomed to wonder in cancelation limbo for years to come? Because it seems to be in worse place than it was in 1989. At least there, we had a clear Doctor.
I don’t feel like “do we have a clear Doctor” is among the biggest factors, or even a particularly meaningful factor, in whether or not they’re going to make more of the show. Like, it wouldn’t even be the first time the show has come back with a new Doctor and an unexplained time gap.
Are you still worshipping the Blakean pantheon?
I have nothing to add to Ithaca a Saga at this time.
I often find myself using your hug boxing/scab picking framework. Have you written any more on it beyond the initial short essay (perhaps on patreon) and if not do you have any new thoughts on it?
I've not written more about it, no. And no major thoughts other than a sense that the pendulum is swinging away from hugboxing a bit, at least in SFF.
Congratulations on your Hugo nomination! Very well deserved. Sending hearty wishes that you win!
Thank you! I'd quite like that too!
I decided today to (irresponsibly?) use some of my grad student summer stipend to pay the $50 to vote for Cuddled Little Vice in the Hugos! As someone who lowkey grew up on your criticism back in my Doctor Who fandom days, I'm excited to chip in here. Big congrats and best of luck.
Ah, very kind of you. Enjoy the rest of the Hugo Packet.
Congrats on the Hugos nomination !
I’ve been down a Kieron Gillen rabbit hole lately thanks to eruditorum press. I desperately need to get his comics out of my head lest I start gushing about them in hour-long tirades to the normal people in my life. So, before it inevitably turns up in LWIA in a few years’ time, what are your thoughts on the first big arc of The Power Fantasy now that it’s done ?
Also, WicDiv. A bit torn about the very last issue but bloody hell that was good wasn’t it ? Aaaah !
I broadly liked the first arc, while finding a measure of "gosh, we really are just doing all the pent up things he wished he could do with Krakoa aren't we?" to it, especially the culminating reveal. Equally, arc 2 promises to do some stuff I'm super interested in seeing done with superheroes, so I remain quite excited. WicDiv, I largely agree with you on the final issue, but it's hard to dislike on the whole. DIE: Loaded is probably my favorite recent Gillen though. That's absolutely killing it.
what are your thoughts on the animated reconstructions of missing episodes?
My favorite reconstructions, when I was writing about this era, were the ones that paired the narrated audio that the BBC released on CD with photos. (Tragically the group that did the bulk of these, Elaphe, seems all but wiped from the Internet) These days, were I writing about missing episodes again, I'd probably still favor that because it gets more of what was on the screen in the 60s, which is what's important to me in terms of understanding the episodes. But if I'm watching with a normie the animated episodes are far easier to put in front of someone and have them enjoy it.
Don't suppose you've got around to Small Prophets? It's pretty great if not.
Between it and reviving a classic BBC kid's show starring Jon Pertwee with Worzel Gummidge, the tempting thing people are moving towards is pitching Mackenzie Crook as the new DW showrunner. But I suppose it's a struggle to imagine the BBC going for a vision which would surely be quite different from anything the revived has yet attempted? DW as melancholy magic realist comedy? A Pertwee era set in a garden shed rather than a military base?
I'm not watching a ton of TV these days. Sounds neat though.
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If you're a fan of my work I promise you don't want to miss this exploration of a magical work by Alan Moore that's gone entirely undiscussed in the thirty years since he undertook it.
I don’t think America should be burned to the ground because I think you people need to start caring more about indigenous people and their land first.
Like, I understand the sentiment but 9 times out of 10 I hear this sort of stuff from people who do not include indigenous rights in their activism, and rather depend on violent slogans to rid themselves of responsibility to their community, as if they’d prefer to have a pissing contest over who can hate America the most instead of, like… work on restoring land rights to Native Americans or engage with their real life communities.
The American government is a genocidal machine built upon the deaths of millions of Black and Brown people, both in America and oversees, but white people on tumblr would rather joke about burning it all to the ground instead of talk to the people whose land it belongs to and actively work on involving them in their activism.
Like, I don’t talk too much about my politics here, but the landback movement is my main point of activism (not just in America, but in every country across the world) and unfortunately, this tankie-led website always gets suspiciously quiet whenever indigenous people in their own country want to talk about restoring their land, because it doesn’t really fit into their (originally white European) idea of destroying everything from the ground up and turning it into some communist utopia.
Like, I also don’t think you care much about people oversees either, you just kinda want an outlet for your violent fantasies.
I love that Tumblr is still a site in which an entirely performative and exaggerated statement like "America should be burnt to the ground" is meticulously flayed as if it is a real policy proposal and rejected on the grounds that it is insufficiently considerate of indigenous rights, complete with dismissing the very site on which this is being said as being controlled by tankies, all of it framed as if this discourse, consisting purely of yelling at the echoes resonating through the hermetically sealed chamber in which it takes place, constitutes a more urgent political issue than the actual war that is killing actual people.
I ain't even mad. It's like seeing a species previously feared extinct rising up to the strains of Yakety Sax.
Ir was the masker by torrey peters, found it like 2 minutes after messaging you. Sorry to bother you
No worries. Hope it's good!
