Married to Richard, he/him, gay, Doctor Who fan, still European, Liberal Democrat, mostly ill, burnt-out firebrand (but gets by online with the odd spark).
Alex Wilcock 🔸🏳️🌈
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Body being quite uncooperative today, lacking spoons for usual cheery anniversaries, but I can’t say how I’m feeling about three or four grim news stories without going a bit bathetic ‘Lennon returns OBE letter’ style.
*People were making political compasses using images they already had saved and, as I sometimes do, I fell into doing many, e.g.
The Goodies had my crappiest pics but fell into place instantly
The Lloyd George—Churchill compass was the cleverest, though I say so
But this one is closest to my hearts.
In displacement activity five years ago today* I assembled this from what’s not usually seen as one of Doctor Who’s more political eras
Yet looking at it again now, it’s still about as (locatormutor) core to my political compass as things get.
Alex Wilcock 🔸🏳️🌈
OTD 2007: #DoctorWho Blink
Introducing the ancient assassins: keep your eyes on those statues…
The Weeping Angels are New Who’s most iconic new monsters
(chiselled into an ideal form this first time by an elegantly simple USP)
Some idle thoughts having now finished watching this:
Stephenson is an absolute radicalised hardcore TERF fruit loop. She's slightly better at keeping 'calm' than Falkner, but read between the lines she absolutely knee deep in hardcore TERF talking points
(Shudders)
For decades my Prince Prospero’s Yellow Room was Fleetwood Mac Tango In the Night, from teen me Co-op shelf-stacking and the manager playing *nothing but* in the night through 1988
Many years later I quite like Everywhere and Big Love, but Little Lies still makes me tense up and grimace.
Happy birthday to David Troughton 🎂 Photographed on location by @radiotimes.bsky.social as the hilariously awful Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, which is currently enjoying a renaissance on BBC iPlayer and BBC Four.
