MindProbe
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they/them. if you know a mindprobe (or @RefinedMicrobe) from somewhere else that's me, probably. hello.
with apologies to Dan Jurgens, I have no special affinity for the DC Comics character "Skeets".
with apologies to Dan Jurgens, I have no special affinity for the DC Comics character "Skeets".
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Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who is now 99p on Kindle, for a short time only, so fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Exterminate-...
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who is now 99p on Kindle, for a short time only, so fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Exterminate-...
random question but anybody got any recommended informational resources, books or whatever, on the history & cultural/religious/folkloric roots of christmas and related winter festivals around the world?
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
random question but anybody got any recommended informational resources, books or whatever, on the history & cultural/religious/folkloric roots of christmas and related winter festivals around the world?
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I think about this monologue (from ALIENS: LABYRINTH, by Jim Woodring and Kilian Plunkett) all the time. I don’t know if any other writer has managed to capture the pure atavistic terror of the xenomorph like this
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I think about this monologue (from ALIENS: LABYRINTH, by Jim Woodring and Kilian Plunkett) all the time. I don’t know if any other writer has managed to capture the pure atavistic terror of the xenomorph like this
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October 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
rewatched part one of Paradise Towers. I'd been putting this one off for a while, I think because I was worried it wouldn't be as good as I'd remembered, but nope, still a delight. Time and the Rani -> this is maybe the biggest instant glow-up in the show's whole history.
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
rewatched part one of Paradise Towers. I'd been putting this one off for a while, I think because I was worried it wouldn't be as good as I'd remembered, but nope, still a delight. Time and the Rani -> this is maybe the biggest instant glow-up in the show's whole history.
3/4 into rewatching Spearhead from Space on the Dr Who season 7 boxset. I'd remembered it as being good, but honestly kind of stunned at just how good. how sharp, how deft, how gripping. that verisimilitude that feels strikingly unlike what the show was doing even a couple of years later.
October 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
3/4 into rewatching Spearhead from Space on the Dr Who season 7 boxset. I'd remembered it as being good, but honestly kind of stunned at just how good. how sharp, how deft, how gripping. that verisimilitude that feels strikingly unlike what the show was doing even a couple of years later.
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From the Film Is Fabulous Facebook page:
October 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
From the Film Is Fabulous Facebook page:
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Got permission to post this; one of the trans women who was assaulted last week by a gang of anti-trans creeps has a gofundme up to help her with medical and survival costs while she recovers from a concussion. If you're able to help, please do.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...
September 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Got permission to post this; one of the trans women who was assaulted last week by a gang of anti-trans creeps has a gofundme up to help her with medical and survival costs while she recovers from a concussion. If you're able to help, please do.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...
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The Dynamite Duo, by Dick Giordano
October 27, 2023 at 1:35 AM
The Dynamite Duo, by Dick Giordano
one of Doctor Who's most charmingly idiosyncratic creative voices. shaped one of the show's most singular and compelling seasons. wrote one of my favourite opening lines to any book: "Events cast shadows before them, but the huger shadows creep over us unseen." will be missed.
Christopher H Bidmead : a warm, engaging and hugely intelligent man who enjoyed putting the cat among the pigeons on interviews. In real life though, he was approachable and kind: and made the nicest coffee I’ve ever had. Here is is at home in Dec 2013 when he kindly asked me round.
RIP Chris x
RIP Chris x
August 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
one of Doctor Who's most charmingly idiosyncratic creative voices. shaped one of the show's most singular and compelling seasons. wrote one of my favourite opening lines to any book: "Events cast shadows before them, but the huger shadows creep over us unseen." will be missed.
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Three days left on BBC iPlayer
Hidden Treasures - An Alternative To Suicide by Stephen Gallagher - BBC Sounds
A 22nd century corporation’s highly-developed computerised human machine fights back
www.bbc.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Three days left on BBC iPlayer
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Basically, a sincere perspective goes a long way. One of the first things I try to do when writing an established character is to ask "How do the fundamental things about this character actually feel to them?" Yes, they fly - but what does flying feel like? How doe sit differ to this other flyer?
Mhm, once you really nail your everyman then their sincerity draws everyone into the fiction no matter what.
Which, now I say it, is exactly what Kurt Busiek said to start this whole thread, so its gone a bit ouroboros.
Which, now I say it, is exactly what Kurt Busiek said to start this whole thread, so its gone a bit ouroboros.
July 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Basically, a sincere perspective goes a long way. One of the first things I try to do when writing an established character is to ask "How do the fundamental things about this character actually feel to them?" Yes, they fly - but what does flying feel like? How doe sit differ to this other flyer?
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1) If your characters are mocking your plot, it may be your subconscious telling you something.
2) So much is also performance: when doing Star Wars comics, obsessing over the first three, seeing how many of these classic nerd-fiction lines are said by chars who are visibly panicking was a lesson.
2) So much is also performance: when doing Star Wars comics, obsessing over the first three, seeing how many of these classic nerd-fiction lines are said by chars who are visibly panicking was a lesson.
I suppose this is part of the problem with the "So THAT just happened!" / "The dragons can shoot lightning? The dragons can shoot lighting!" type dialogue. It very very easily veers from feeling like the characters remarking on the absurdity of the situation to the characters reacting like they…
July 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
1) If your characters are mocking your plot, it may be your subconscious telling you something.
2) So much is also performance: when doing Star Wars comics, obsessing over the first three, seeing how many of these classic nerd-fiction lines are said by chars who are visibly panicking was a lesson.
2) So much is also performance: when doing Star Wars comics, obsessing over the first three, seeing how many of these classic nerd-fiction lines are said by chars who are visibly panicking was a lesson.
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sometimes a productive day is just one where you close more browser tabs than you open
July 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
sometimes a productive day is just one where you close more browser tabs than you open
I've got a joke about The Leisure Hive but I've removed all of its humorous content as a statement of intent
We should have one of those "I've got a joke about X but Y" things but for Doctor Who
June 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I've got a joke about The Leisure Hive but I've removed all of its humorous content as a statement of intent
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We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats
June 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats
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In front of Numazu Station
(2021)
(2021)
June 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
In front of Numazu Station
(2021)
(2021)
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Conclusions now I’ve had a break:
- EHRC aren’t trying to hide that they’re transphobic & their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement makes no sense
- MPs regularly cited what they’re hearing from members of the public in their questioning. Keep writing to them. They’re listening.
- EHRC aren’t trying to hide that they’re transphobic & their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement makes no sense
- MPs regularly cited what they’re hearing from members of the public in their questioning. Keep writing to them. They’re listening.
I’m watching parliament’s women and equalities committee grill Baroness Falkner and the EHRC so you don’t have to, follow along with this thread for a summary of what’s said
June 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Conclusions now I’ve had a break:
- EHRC aren’t trying to hide that they’re transphobic & their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement makes no sense
- MPs regularly cited what they’re hearing from members of the public in their questioning. Keep writing to them. They’re listening.
- EHRC aren’t trying to hide that they’re transphobic & their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement makes no sense
- MPs regularly cited what they’re hearing from members of the public in their questioning. Keep writing to them. They’re listening.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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