James Sykes
@jamesrsykes.bsky.social
Plant dad and actual dad / work in translation rights / perpetually rewatching Doctor Who / ❤️💜💙
"Hello? It's my husband.. he's been having gay thoughts" #DoctorWho
May 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Hello? It's my husband.. he's been having gay thoughts" #DoctorWho
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David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder
Reposted by James Sykes
I suspect this is because the “murder mystery” format as developed in Victorian fiction is an attempt to impose rational order on chaos, and so creates the illusion that someone is in control, that someone will fix this mess, even if everything except the murder mystery is batshit. It’s reassurance.
David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I suspect this is because the “murder mystery” format as developed in Victorian fiction is an attempt to impose rational order on chaos, and so creates the illusion that someone is in control, that someone will fix this mess, even if everything except the murder mystery is batshit. It’s reassurance.
“I don’t write set books. I keep coming back to the distinction between mysterious, which is OK, and mystical, which is not OK. The thing that ties all creativity together is not something that universities should analyse, but people should just accept as wonder.” www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
‘It can feel quite mysterious’: Alan Garner on writing, folklore and experiencing time slips in the Pennines
At 90, the author reflects on his friendship with Alan Turing, quantum realities and how his grandfather inspired his latest book
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM
“I don’t write set books. I keep coming back to the distinction between mysterious, which is OK, and mystical, which is not OK. The thing that ties all creativity together is not something that universities should analyse, but people should just accept as wonder.” www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
December 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 6, 2024 at 6:06 AM
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December 5, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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December 4, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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December 2, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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November 30, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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November 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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both a blessing and a curse that they have probably already made the best episode with the best Doctor and will forever be trying to eclipse it #doctorwho
"Finally ran out of corridor - there’s a life summed up."
ON THIS DAY... 9 years ago, 'Heaven Sent', the eleventh and penultimate episode of Series Nine of Doctor Who, was first broadcast on BBC One 🎬
ON THIS DAY... 9 years ago, 'Heaven Sent', the eleventh and penultimate episode of Series Nine of Doctor Who, was first broadcast on BBC One 🎬
November 28, 2024 at 3:14 PM
both a blessing and a curse that they have probably already made the best episode with the best Doctor and will forever be trying to eclipse it #doctorwho
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November 28, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Pretty crazy someone can be charged federally with interfering in an election and those charges get dropped because they win an election.
November 25, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Pretty crazy someone can be charged federally with interfering in an election and those charges get dropped because they win an election.
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November 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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November 25, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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The War Games 💥 in COLOUR!!
Dec 23rd, BBC Four 📺
It’s been an unbelievable privilege to work on this, and it’s really REALLY going to blow your socks off!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0u2...
Dec 23rd, BBC Four 📺
It’s been an unbelievable privilege to work on this, and it’s really REALLY going to blow your socks off!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0u2...
THE WAR GAMES in Colour - Trailer | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
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November 23, 2024 at 5:21 PM
The War Games 💥 in COLOUR!!
Dec 23rd, BBC Four 📺
It’s been an unbelievable privilege to work on this, and it’s really REALLY going to blow your socks off!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0u2...
Dec 23rd, BBC Four 📺
It’s been an unbelievable privilege to work on this, and it’s really REALLY going to blow your socks off!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0u2...
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November 23, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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Could include so many others tbh. Also made me realise I love so many Tom Baker stories but not that many of his seasons overall? #DoctorWho
November 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Could include so many others tbh. Also made me realise I love so many Tom Baker stories but not that many of his seasons overall? #DoctorWho
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November 22, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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