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I've enjoyed not knowing what day it was.

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Okay, I was supposed to find out by *myself* that Patrick Stewart was doing Yorkshire Tea ads??

FFS. :)

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"I used to know your grandad, Wilf. I loved that man."

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It’s been said before but it bears repeating that Discworld is science fiction wearing the skin of fantasy.

Discworld tells science fiction plots and builds them from the material of fantasy. Feet of Clay is about robots and the ethics of artificial intelligence. Lords and Ladies is an alien invasion story. Moving Pictures and The Truth and Raising Steam are about the impact of new technologies on society.

Going Postal has hackers. They hack telegraphs, but they’re explicitly hackers.

Hex is made of magic and bees and ram skulls, but it is a super-computer. Discworld is built out of fairy tales and myths and swords and sorcery and a big hearty helping of Tolkien, but somewhere, deep down in its bones, it has a core of science fiction.

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Happy Turkey Day y’all!

Nothing like some quality family time playing board games 🥰

I made this illustration for the Hexes and Os zine Secret Santa as a gift for Qureppi on Twitter last year (:

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David Tennant and Michael Sheen on Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship

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The river slunk sullenly in the bottom of its bed, like a student around 11 a.m.

-- Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms

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I'm starting to get levels of reach and engagement on Threads that I once got on early twitter.

I'm scared.

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Please please please I know we all love Friends and Chandler was our favourite character and Matthew always put a smile on our faces and that’s all amazing but can we please please please talk about this:

“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.

And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...

but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.

I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”

- Matthew Langford Perry

(August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)

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Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody's upcoming #LisaFrankenstein set in the 1980s and starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse looks amazing and like it checks off a lot of my boxes!

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I’m not canonically autistic but it’s strongly implied

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dear god please just give the pirates their quiet seaside inn and the angel and demon their little cottage in the south downs before I lose my mind completely

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I will be like "I'm fine" and then another fucking event will occur

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