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[elsandifer]

Are you single like a pringle and ready to mingle?

No.

[elsandifer]

I think a lot about what you refer to as the Jackie Tyler's Coffee Table problem in the Eruditorum for Rose, and I kind of think the simplest distillation of the problems of RTD2 compared to RTD1 is that in Space Babies the TARDIS destroys the ceiling of Carla Sunday's apartment and it's never treated as anything with any lasting consequences.

Yeah, it’s weird how uninterested the RTD2 era is in class.

[elsandifer]

Are you a top or a bottom?

I should think it obvious.

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What is the best Mark Millar comic? Or is "Least Bad" the more apt phrasing?

The Authority #28

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Chrissie’s Transcripts makes up fully 90% of my “proceed to this site anyway (may be unsafe)” clicks per year. (Anyway, it’s thankfully all preserved on archive.org)

(aka Chrissie of Chrissie's Transcripts Site, aka sci-fi fandom's strongest soldier)

[elsandifer]

The common factor is wanton acceptance of illiteracy, and indeed the outright resentment of literacy.

probably a connection between "curtains are just blue/maybe poe just liked birds" stupidity, and "evil artists are hoarding the means and knowledge of art production" pro LLM stuff, with totally narcissistic, customer-is-always-right consumerism as the bridge, yeah?

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GIven how much the Hinchcliffe were stealing from them, why did you never do a Pop Between Realities for Hammer Films?

I mostly don't do them outside of the actual time period I'm covering, and Hammer's heyday was well ahead of the Hinchcliffe era.

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Re: The Great When: On the one hand, it was nice, as a working-class reader, to finally get a fantasy novel told from a working-class perspective. On the other hand ... Dennis Knuckleyard.

Honestly for me it was just that everything in the book is stuff Moore has done before, and at least as well if not better.

[elsandifer]

The Great When?

Bit meh tbh

[elsandifer]

Hopes and expectations for the prospective Long London TV adaptation?

That Moore ends up happy with the result.

[elsandifer]

Why do you think RTD feels the need to so obviously and consistently lie about production issues past and present? I get the requirement to be a positive persona as showrunner but I feel his dishonesty is now reaching a point where it's damaging his relationship with sections of the fanbase.

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to here, but I'd point out that television isn't really supposed to be made in the kind of fishbowl we subject Doctor Who to, and that sometimes people's privacy and dignity is legitimately more important than fandom prurience.

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Been reading random eruditorum essays lately and they’re still so, so good. So thank you for that. Loved the Husbands of River Song one especially

I’m glad you’re enjoying!

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I've been seeing the phrase a lot recently, but do you feel that the Gatwa/R2D era represents 'Keir Starmer Who'?

Not really, no.

[elsandifer]

Just one more onion that remains unburnt

Well, I’d be pretty careful not to burn that one then.

[elsandifer]

I burnt the onions I was caramelizing, is there anyway I can save lunch? 😭

Do you have more onions?

[elsandifer]

Can't imagine it's anywhere near a priority, but have you had any vague thoughts as to the Gatwa Eruditorum now that era is over?

I have some ideas, but it’s impossible to write it without knowing if the ending is cancellation or not.

[elsandifer]

How much of the recent Gatwa series had you seen spoilers about in advance?

I was aware of all the stuff that had leaked at all widely (including Piper), but didn’t have any personal inside line above and beyond that or anything.