Calum Novak-Mitchell
calumnm.bsky.social
Calum Novak-Mitchell
@calumnm.bsky.social
Folk music, ttrpgs, books etc
Ah weird it showed up for me. (Though it did get a bit confused, maybe because iplayer doesn’t have s2?)
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Not 100% sure if it’s what you’re asking for - but JustWatch does the trick for me?
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My theory is that it’s the only mainstream franchise where there is No Point in waiting for it to hit streaming. It’s just a theme park ride for the cinema, so people actually go out.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
(Also was chatting to a friend who is a lecturer yesterday, and he’s pretty positive about the bunch of students he has right now)
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I had the same reaction - but it’s been calming seeing the responses from other academics who either don’t recognise the behaviour described at all, or did see it as behaviour from a specific pandemic cohort, that is now much improved in the new batch of students.
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
connery gives this nonsense so much more gravitas than it deserves. Though the scene where he meets with the previous defence lawyer does feel like it’s been beamed in from a much better film.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
And I feel like npc feeling is amplified by the fact that supporting plots was *so much easier* than initiating them. If you start a story, you’re rolling the dice on whether anyone will bite. If you support what someone else is doing, then the plot is necessarily gathering steam!
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
(not a paper that we published, thankfully)
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fond memories of my grandfather, in his months-long looney tunes-style battle to stop the squirrels from getting at the birdseed.

He’d grease the pole! They’d develop greased-pole-climbing skills!
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I think it’s Terribly Unfair that a person got to write a Lord Byron episode of Doctor Who, and that person wasn’t me.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If I do one of these again*, I’m absolutely going to start with some character art, even if it’s just a stock image or an ms paint doodle.

*hopefully we’ll see loads of these springing up…
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Everything I hear about this book makes it sound like it’s doubling down on everything frustrating about her previous Big Heavily Marketed Fantasy Book, which I already thought was as frustrating as it‘s possible for a book to be.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Yeah, it was nice when Bratva got more spaces for rp. I don’t remember if it was still like this when you joined, but when I first joined Bratva, the channels were 90% semi-ooc wargame chat
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I’ve got “what if I did an OSR folk-horror thing about Edwardian folk song collectors” rattling around in my head
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s so much fun. I read it during Covid so I 1) had plenty of time for a ludicrously long novel, and 2) empathised hard with Being Sad About Being Trapped Indoors For Ages
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Haha, Whitney Flick learns that it is possible for someone to be friendly and also evil.

I did consider joining the union in the first few days, just so I had a source of credits. I’m glad I didn’t - union politics was clearly fun for a lot of people but I’d have found it frustrating I think.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Every violence is an intelligence failure“ is cool as hell
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM