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

*and a load of chocolate. I’m only human.

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

Even more run-down than usual.
In a spectacular insight, it took me until half an hour ago to notice how cold I am.
But today’s small victory was to move from my chair, make two more mugs of tea (series not parallel), eat half a salad* and – go me! – carefully dust the radiator grilles at last.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 3h

That one’s our favourite.
Several soups in the fridge or the cupboard, we need comfort? That’s it.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 4h

Ghost Light and The Rescue!
I’d better stop there as I’d be going for a preponderance of McCoy…

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

Today’s been rough. If I don’t get to my planned #HalloweenWho tonight, it’s a Thirteenth Doctor and I hope to catch up.
But The Woman Who Fell To Earth is her first (not last) to mention Halloween! Serial killer’s not my sort of horror, but a kebab is tempting.
Careful what you do with your salad.

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

I love how Jodie starts off with such joy and energy – and oddity
(I wish she’d been given more of all three)
I like a year without all the same enemies* and with the Doctor’s personal credo up front and driving her actions.

*Yet, O! The Master to come!

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 19h

OTD 2018: #DoctorWho The Woman Who Fell To Earth
Jodie Whittaker is the Doctor!
And Sheffield doesn’t know what’s hit it.
Say hello to Yaz, Ryan and Graham, and the glorious forging of the Sonic.
Seven years seems so short a time, and yet so very long ago.

Radio Times 6-12 October 2018: The Doctor – Jodie Whittaker – in big coat, big boots and set in multi-coloured circles

The Doctor in goggles and charred apron, brandishing her new-forged sonic screwdriver

The Universe Is Calling – Doctor Who poster, with the Doctor amid a blaze of colour and crystals

Doctor Who poster – Graham, Yaz, the Doctor and Ryan amid a blaze of colour and crystals on an alien desert plain

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

I’m tired.
In retrospect perhaps I shouldn’t have been listening to the score from Castrovalva on the way.…

Castrovalva: “Recursive occlusion! We’re caught in a space-time trap!”

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

The consultant literally repeating all the same things, making the same assumptions, the same gaping hole in the process as when I went in May when that also did absolutely nothing but waste my time and theirs
I had to interrupt and keep telling him, yes, I know, this is the third time, where is it?

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

The NHS is a literal life-saver and keeps me going when so much of me isn’t functional
But
Yet *another* appointment going round and round where they’ve just not done what they were meant to do in *January*
Wasting my time and theirs
I don’t want to name the hospital but it really gets on my

Hackney Wick Mildmay roundel, seen from train doors one station along from…

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

Apparently it’s a thing you get a lift from.
NGL, nearly went for a pizza as I could do with a lift RN.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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

The butch “2-4-6-8” chant is borrowed from gay marches

While I’d also bet the song as a whole inspired Not the 9 O’Clock News “I like trucking and I like to truck!”

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

Without ever having counted, I’m willing to bet this ties for the song I’ve seen performed live most at gigs, along with War Baby and (Sing If You’re) Glad To Be Gay. You may also be able to punt on who I saw most in my gig-going years.

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

OTD 1977: Tom Robinson Band – 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Tom Robinson’s first and biggest hit, one of the great punk singalongs with fantastic guitar from Danny Kustow
Top ten then, and still cracking.

Danny Kustow on lead guitar, Tom Robinson on bass and lead vocals, “THE TOM ROBINSON BAND”

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

We must popularise this straight away.

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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

Tempting, but usually just 5!
Minutes, not 5. Mostly. 😵‍💫

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Doctor Who: Too Broad & Too Deep Podcast @2broad2deeppod.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨

Come down to Project Eden, as @alexwilcock.bsky.social joins us to explore Lucifer Rising! 🌅

Is it more Twin Peaks than Poirot in Space? And is this the 1st multi-master story?

Have a listen to our thoughts below 👇

toobroadtoodeeppod.podbean.com/e/lucifer-ri...

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

Beloved’s suggestion for getting back to sleep:
Count the good bits of Ultraworld.
Count them on what? Your fingers? I reply.
I can think of something positive – well, double negative – it’s not the worst.
The following week, that’s the worst.
That’s the worst… So far.
#Blakes7

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

Hospital appointment at 11. 3 trains away, and not a morning person. Grumpy about that.
Woke up on the dot of 4. Despite repeated attempts, haven’t been able to get back to sleep.
Grumpier about that.

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

Strong breakfast tea! x

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

Hospital appointment at 11. 3 trains away, and not a morning person. Grumpy about that.
Woke up on the dot of 4. Despite repeated attempts, haven’t been able to get back to sleep.
Grumpier about that.

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

Happy actual anniversary (and I hope you manage to stay off here to enjoy it so you don’t see this for a day or two)!

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

Happy 1000 followers and not-1000th birthday! A x

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

OTD 3018 Third Age (1418 Shire Reckoning): A Knife In the Dark on Weathertop
The Nazgûl are revealed to Frodo in the ruins of the Amon Sûl watch-tower
The long aftermath of the Witch-King stabbing Frodo is some of Tolkien’s writing that most touches me:
There are some wounds that never really heal…

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

I love the loping groove of Come Together, and it’s a terrific song, but there’s no doubt which A-side here is A-er.

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