Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 02/07/2025This year for end of term treats we’ve watched Labyrinth, The Neverending Story and we’re half-way through The Princess Bride (I’m prepped for Montoya’s little linguistic moment). The class keep asking to watch more of “the 80s” - it cracks me up. 010
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Gothic 9yo is copying out the text to Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch because he loves it so much he wants the words with him all the time 🤷♀️ 000
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Accidental poem written aloud by a softly-burbling fugue-state class of 8-9 year olds while watching the last few scenes of Labyrinth: 110
Reposted by Zoe AnneWil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 26/03/2025Hi friends. It's official podcast launch day! It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton's first episode, a wonderful story called Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death, by Caroline M. Yoachim, is now available wherever you get your podcasts. I'm so excited and pretty anxious! It's a big day!wilwheaton.netIt’s Storytime with Wil WheatonYou may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B… 41874139
Reposted by Zoe AnneKatrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books. If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM. #ProtestHistory #Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...reaktionbooks.co.ukContested Commons | Reaktion BooksA radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over... 2318972
Reposted by Zoe AnneNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Oh this is so true. “Realist” fiction is a comforting fantasy. Fiction in which people create strange computer programmes that pretend to be God and billionaires build survival bunkers is truthfully reflecting reality. So is fiction where weird hallucinatory shit happens. 15713
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024My mother just randomly mentioned “Robbie Williams - you know, Wham?” After I had recovered from my weeping snorting fit she said “Oh well, I knew he was in some sort of band like What What What…” She was not trolling me. 130
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Some grieve for Chocolate Pac-Man. Some relish his doom. Some find his defEAT inevitable. Some wail for him to step into the bright shroud of Lazarus. Some say that resurrections are cheating (except for that 1 story where everyone comes back twice so they die again gruesomely rapidly lots). 110
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Can’t wait til the paperback comes out so I can get some for my class - there are worlds of glorious writing / mapping / creepy flora & fauna lessons (and more) aching to be planned. It’s heavenly beautiful too… 020
Zoe Anne @zoanne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024My mum is grumbling about how things have changed - “Now we’ve all got mobile phones and I don’t know what’s happened to citizens band radio…”. She has a new trapper hat - “like putting your head into a rabbit - it’s quite delightful” - which will end up slathered in wax if it dares let in rain. 020