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OTD 1958: A Bear Called Paddington
The gently amusing story of a small, endearing immigrant.
First Michael Bond’s books
Introduced to little me on TV with the voice of Gandalf
Then major motion pictures
Now one of Britain’s most-heard liberal voices and national psychopomp.

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond, 1958 edition: a small bear, in a hat, with a brush and spilt paint

Paddington (2014): A small bear in a hat and a duffel coat with a smaller dog not in a hat nor a duffel coat ride the escalator at Paddington Station

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 8h

On this night 31 years ago Richard kissed me for the first time (on the Central Line*)…
On our Kissiversary, there’s something compellingly attractive about a couple who eat well and have a deeply committed relationship for a very, very long time
#HalloweenWho

Doctor Who – State of Decay: Camilla strikes a pose, Zargo at an oblique angle behind her. Like Abba Of The Night.
What music they make!

Richard and I in obliquely Abba-esque poses in white and black, slightly less than a thousand years ago

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 13h

I assume that this would cover whole areas and not just single people? And that it would be subject to being turned on or off by whichever addle-pated emotionally-stunted nazi techbro "owns" it?

I can think of few things worse, for the environment, for human circadian rhythm, and for lots else.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 11h

Honestly we should do Emmylou as well. Dolly Parton’s great and all, but the Internet desperately needs to learn a second iconic country singer.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

Another Traitor, almost to the day…
This Tuesday 1971: Play For Today – Traitor
John Le Mesurier is extraordinary as Dennis Potter’s nearly-real former spy gone to pieces (and, differently, in a startling flashback in a much nicer room and much nicer suit, with hair and himself in control)

“Exiled in Moscow” – John Le Mesurier as fictionalised Philby ‘Adrian Harris’ on the cover of Radio Times 9-15 October 1971

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

I loved this one at the time; I don’t think it works so well now.
But, crucially, the Federation is striking back, and our anti-heroes need to find an answer…
“Vila, until we are attacked, we are staying.”
“Blake would have been proud of you, you know.”
“I know. But then, he never was very bright.”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

“Doesn’t have much time for Tarrant, does he?”
“Ah, well. Tarrant is brave; young; handsome. There are three good reasons for anyone not to like him.”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

“Vila, if the Federation do have some new weapon, the Helots will know all about it. All Tarrant has to do is ask a few questions in the right places…”
“You think so? Well you’d better give him a list of questions and then a map to find the right places.”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

OTD 1981: Blake’s 7 – Traitor
“If you’re wrong?”
“If I’m wrong, you can say ‘I told you so’. Provided you speak loudly and quickly.”
Robert Holmes returns
But very secret police Commissioner Sleer is completely new
(and anyone who says otherwise will learn the Second Century meaning of ‘deadname’)

Avon (Paul Darrow) reacts strongly. In studded black leather.

Portrait (Jacqueline Pearce, in black frock with white highlights) of Servalan, late Supreme Empress, President and Supreme Commander of the Terran Federation, Lord of the Inner and Outer Worlds… I can’t think what put the completely unrelated person Commissioner Sleer in your head (but she might put something else in it)

Dayna (Josette Simon) and Tarrant (Steven Pacey) are down and safe. Well, down, anyway.

Secret Army / Shada’s Christopher Neame, with eyepatch, as Colonel Quute

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 19h

I am a cis woman. I have endometriosis, adenomyosis, I have had ten miscarriages, I may have ovarian cancer, I an about to have a total hysterectomy. The idea that that malfunctioning, agonising, broken BASTARD of a reproductive system is what makes me a woman is actually downright offensive....

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Richard Flowers @richarddominic.bsky.social · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Yet another constitutional amendment.”

🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Janice's keyboard isn't working

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Deborah Timms @deborahtimms.bsky.social · 1d

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 12h

Every couple of weeks someone great dies and we all make a big thing about how great they are (this week's is Diane Keaton) and it's always lovely because everyone is talking about fun things a cool person did. But I wish we could nominate one person a week we did that for *without* them dying.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 15h

Fulfilling the “Ghosts from the past…” promise of the trailer and capping an outstanding ‘present / future / history’ triad to introduce adventures in time and space – bringing in the scary bits!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 15h

Doctor Who – The Unquiet Dead
Yes, I know it’s only October, but an entrancing Victorian ghost story for Christmas
and Spring
and so it can be for #HalloweenWho too

A respectable Victorian matron laid to rest in her coffin. Suddenly, her eyes flick open!

The blue, gaseous Gelth suddenly light into vicious red flame

Gelth-possessed zombies of the Victorian dead struggle to reach through the bars to take the Doctor and Rose

The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) stands inside the TARDIS and promises us “Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The day the Earth died in a ball of flame… The trip of a lifetime!”

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 17h

Breaking out the emergency joy earlier than planned:

OTD 1987: George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You
Massive hit single heralding my favourite George album
(which, in turn, got teenage me into the Beatles, ELO, Roy Orbison…)
Incredibly catchy and sheer fun!

George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You single – George turned to one side, in mirrored shades, holding his Gretsch guitar, framed against blue sky and white clouds

George sitting playing his guitar and throwing a look to one side, unable to keep his face straight in the cosier / sillier Got My Mind Set On You video

George Harrison Cloud Nine LP – George grinning in mirrored shades, holding his Gretsch guitar, standing in front of blazing clouds

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Ben Wood /|\🥭🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 22h

'Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others' (Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism")

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 22h

OTD 1998: Hex (Thomas Hector Schofield)
OTD 2021, 08.29: Hex signs in, then meets the Doctor—
In #DoctorWho The Harvest, in the Big Finish car park, and now, eerily, in the past, as another tale from the future recedes behind us…

Doctor Who – The Harvest by Dan Abnett, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and introducing Philip Olivier as Hex: cover featuring the three of them with rippling circuit effects and a London cityscape with, oh look, St Paul’s, no reason

Sophie Aldred, Sylvester McCoy and Philip Olivier

Hex in NHS scrubs and the Doctor by Si Hodges

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

OTD 2014: #DoctorWho Mummy on the Orient Express
Stylish, unsettling, mysterious…
This Doctor gets both to be his most Doctorish so far and show off the most hilariously appalling bedside manner
“You knew this was no relaxing break. You knew this was dangerous!”
“I didn’t *know*. I certainly hoped.”

Doctor Who – Mummy on the Orient Express poster: the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and the engineer menaced by the mummy-wrapped Foretold as uniformed staff and glamorous passengers of the Orient Express – IN SPACE! – look on in horror

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Coming Out Day!
I’m gay.
Came out on general release, as it were, New Year’s Day 1989, aged 17, with a lot of badges and illegal on a few counts (though I’d make it more eventually).
Fewer badges today, but I have a husband. Here we are kissing in the pink.

Richard and I (both with beards and glasses) kissing under bright pink lights in the Winter Lights display at Canary Wharf this January. I like this one.
It was either that or post a pic of me in rainbow jocks.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 1d

OTD MCMLXXIX: The Iron Legion invades Stockbridge
The IXth Legion of a Roman Empire that never fell falls upon an English village
Fortunately also OTD 1979: Doctor Who Magazine (née Weekly) has roving reporter Dave Gibbons there to capture the scene!

Doctor Who Weekly Issue 1
Doctor Who and the Iron Legion, page 1:
Fantastic Dave Gibbons art of robot legionaries with machine guns and stick grenades blazing through an English village, commanded by a tank topped by eagle-headed General Ironicus
“They fought their way across a thousand planets -- robot veterans of the Eternal War -- destroying, with ruthless discipline, all who stood in their way!
“And now, the peaceful tranquillity of the English countryside is rudely shattered as they appear -- as if from nowhere -- brutally dragging people out and razing their houses to the ground!
“And yet… For all the robots’ strangeness, there is something… grimly familiar about them!”
Writers: Mills + Wagner [Mills Primus] / Artist: Dave Gibbons / Editor: Dez Skinn

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day!

Here's a collection of my drawings and paintings of famous LGBTQ+ folk. If you do decide to take the plunge, these are part of your new family!

barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-lgb...

#NationalComingOutDay

Barnaby Edwards | ART (LGBTQ HEROES)

LGBTQ HEROES Portraits of queer icons (10% of all sales from this gallery goes to LGBTQ+ charities)

barnabyedwards.co.uk

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 2d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2d

Doctor Who – The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
I had intended #HalloweenWho as a distraction from everything going to Hell, but…
The Ood are indelibly Cthulhoid
And Gabriel Woolf’s silkily evil temptation is one of the most terrifying scenes in all Doctor Who:
“Don’t turn around…”

“DON’T TURN AROUND” – Ood in the dark (tentacled face lit by the globe in its hand)

Mild-mannered archaeologist Toby Zed beckons death, his face marked by ancient runes, his smile twisted with Satanic glee

The Devil himself (or so he says, and who could doubt his word?) thrashes and roars in the flames above the relatively tiny figure of the Doctor

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2d

Doctor Who – The Dæmons
Magic vs science, the Doctor vs the Master, and Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho

The Dæmons fan poster, all in red – Azal the Dæmon’s proud, bestially horned head, haloed by a runic pentagram, rises hugely above the Doctor and Miss Hawthorne in the flames

The Master (Roger Delgado) in Satanic robes, cowering on the floor far below a high Dæmon’s-eye view

Azal the Dæmon, striking a pose – appearing as a traditional devil / satyr figure, with horns and cloven hooves, beard, masses of chest hair and even furrier legs. Phwoar. Hairy devil.

Villagers tie the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to the Maypole

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