Thomas Evans
thewrittentevs.bsky.social
Thomas Evans
@thewrittentevs.bsky.social
Writer/Marketer. He/Him.

Writes about Doctor Who at https://readfnord.wordpress.com

'By an English Sea' is in 'Neon Magazine 44'; 'The Month You Were in a Relationship with Taylor Swift' is in 'Kiss Your Darlings'.
Really trying not to rise to the bait of this post (no-one in the modern era is lip-syncing to someone else's vocals and claiming them as their own; that's just not a thing) but failing.
Milli Vanilli must be a mite annoyed at how they were treated, as now there's so many performers doing exactly what they did and no-one cares.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50

1. Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar (2024; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H58v...

** 12 POINTS! **
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49

2. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan (2024; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ENz...

** 11 POINTS **
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 48

3. Angel of My Dreams - JADE (2024; England)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEc-...

** 11 POINTS **
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I like the use of the word 'could' here, as if this is some hypothetical future scenario and not what's been happening in politics for decades
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 47

4. bad idea, right? - Olivia Rodrigo (2022; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9q...

** 11 POINTS **
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 46

5. Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift (2022; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kb...

** 11 POINTS **
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 45

6. As It Was - Harry Styles (2022; England)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5v3...
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 44

7. Blinding Lights - The Weeknd (2020; Canada)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRX...
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 43

8. Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter (2024; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF1N...
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 42

9. Tina's Hausu (梯納的鬼怪屋) - Joanna Wang (2024; Taiwan/USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0AH...
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 41

10. Fantasia Me Now! - Major Parkinson feat. Peri Winkle (2022; Norway)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_m...
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 40 (catching up)

11. Happy World - Debbii Dawson (2024; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5oa...
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What do you think is the likeihood that schools teaching three cueing ended up accidentally setting up our world of AI? The fact that AI simply guesses at what to throw together based on what looks right must feel quite natural to people whose entire approach to reading is based on the same process.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 39

12. The Giver - Chappell Roan (2025; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dubt...
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 38

13. Welcome to My Island - Caroline Polachek (2023; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxgc...
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 37

14. Living Lo-Fi - Cheekface (2025; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrZ...
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Though I do have issues with it, "I Am No Longer Myself Without You", Jonathan Rutherford's book about masculinity and its stoic approach to romance, really changed and defined my relationship to both topics in my late teens/early twenties. I've seen myself completely differently since reading it.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Thomas Evans
I do not understand this. They'll have a new actor, surely? So just reboot it, like they always did. Or rather, don't. You don't have to make these films. There's no law. It's not compulsory. We could just not make them. We could just decide, as a culture, that we can manage without them.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 36

15. Party Time - The Northern Boys (2022; England)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLQ...
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New on #FNORD:

My ep-by-ep Doctor Who review blog has reached The Daleks' Master Plan. Prepare yourselves, we're going to be watching this for quite a while.

On The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 1 (and how it's a response to the rest of the DW franchise): readfnord.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/d...
It’s Mavic Chen on Holiday (Doctor Who: The Daleks’ Master Plan P1: “The Nightmare Begins” Review)
Written by Tom On Kembel, Bret Vyon and his fellow Space Security Agency colleague are searching for the guy who died at the end of “Mission to the Unknown”. (Spoilers for that episode,…
readfnord.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 35

16. Death and Romance - Magdalena Bay (2024; USA)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8gf...
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 34

17. Sexy To Someone - Clairo (2024; USA)

youtu.be/iUxlnNnAoTc?...

Please ignore that the image itself gets her location wrong, and also how bizarrely ill-fitting the song's music video is.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 33

18. Nothing Matters - The Last Dinner Party (2023; England)

youtu.be/pETz4IMmeDU?...
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Coca Cola has done their second complete AI Christmas ad in a row, and even as an AI-detester, I am surprised and impressed by how much that ad has been absolutely despised by audiences.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM