slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I do think it's pretty funny that of the various novel companions who get multi year sabbaticals and then return to the TARDIS, Sam in Seeing I is the only one who all in all had a pretty chill time 121
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Alternate universe where they let writers opt out of writing for her and the Sam Is Missing arc is 10 books long 120
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's the only one where it's so pronounced it breaches the narration in hilariously overt thoughts from Sam about how terrible she is. My fav case study apart from it is Placebo where GR wanted to use Stacy+Ssard as the companions instead, and this being vetoed is why they disapear halfway through! 120
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There's def huge sexism + also just more audience/writer identification with Fitz than Sam; I don't think it's acc a large number of books that transparently hate Sam, but Fitz's trick is that if you don't identify with him straightforwardly, you can take the piss or throw him at wall and it scans. 120
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Apart from one moment that is pretty un-enticing, I think it works as a starting point. But it's a starting point where Fitz sucks. 120
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Basically the thing with Taint is it starts Fitz at his absolute worst, in a combination of intent (he very much has an arc) and misjudgement (of how shitty is a reasonable amount of shitty for a going nowhere 1963 bum to be.) It's sort of Owen in Torchwood-y, if he didn't actually do the crime. 120
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Thank you so much for the reply. If you have a discrete means for me to ask (e.g an email), I would appreciate it being passed in a private capacity, at your choice. 020
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slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Not a coincidence so many of these people thought Thanos was an awesome chad seven or eight years ago. 000
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Reposted by @slapdash84.bsky.socialLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Has anyone considers that Odysseus's problem is that his men are just too delicious. Yes, he angered the gods, but so many of them getting eaten cant be a coincidence. 471265230
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slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Thank you! I was curious because I read in interview that you and Michalowski collaborated a bit for the whole subplot in Tomorrow Windows of teasing her past. 100
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Reposted by @slapdash84.bsky.socialDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 21/06/2026So how did we get here, with Starmer on the way out after two years? To some extent, it does go back to the beginning. It was not an enthusiastic victory for Labour. Getting rid of the Tories was the top reason people voted for them in 2024, though with their message of 'Change' also resonating. 29626217
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slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 21/09/2025@kateorman.bsky.social Hi Kate, just recently finished Fallen Gods, your and Jon's novella with the 8th Doctor. Absolutely brilliant, gutting book. I was wondering if either of you happen to have the Postlude for the Myth Makers fanzine anywhere? It's so hard to find any of those stories. Np if not! 110
Reposted by @slapdash84.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite. 12314926212362
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 14/08/2025You're out of pocket on that one, post-rehab House is the comfiest of comfy eras 000
Reposted by @slapdash84.bsky.socialAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21/07/2025Quite good column from Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o... 816845
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 20/06/2025What a trip. She has a legion of bangers 010
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I know this is super out of date but I just searched her character name out of curiosity and I have to let you know how much I adored her and Eight as a team! Great chemistry, great development, him saving her and them off into the sunset in Flood is so moving. One of the greats, exit or no exit. 110
Reposted by @slapdash84.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him 8393331567
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 03/06/2025They saved the life of Cameca's broach 110
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Sometimes 60s Who boils down to getting in, getting in shit, and a mad scramble to get the fuck out without any particular problem solving agenda. 110
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Now I want to see Hartnell cross over with TOS. Somehow you can imagine him as just another above it all cosmic prick, can't you? 000
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I do love throughout this run how much even the most informed, authoritative guidance Ian and Barbara can get out of the Doctor as the senior time traveller is tempered by the fact he is, in fact, an unreliable, self interested hack. 010
slapdash84.bsky.social @slapdash84.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Tbf, they had all those months of pretty quiet travelling in Marco Polo! 100
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