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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 3h

“Theatre essentially relies on people having had the privilege of an education that allows them to believe that they’re entitled to go to the theatre... It’s a relatively small group of people that is available to..."

I mean, pretty much yeah.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

‘Theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people’: Daniel Day-Lewis talks class, cinema and his crush on Mary Poppins

Speaking at the London film festival, the triple Oscar-winner mounted a fierce defence of movies and method acting, although he conceded My Left Foot couldn’t be made today

www.theguardian.com

Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 17h

I want Adrian Chiles to review every piece of performance art.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, explicit new art show – and there was an awful lot to take in | Adrian Chiles

The ‘grandmother of performance art’ and I both have Slavic roots. But I didn’t recognise any of her 14th-century Dalmatian fertility rites – and neither did my mum, writes Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 1d

And also Bethan Woollvin in her Rebel Fairytale series

Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Love her artwork. Spider in the Well is a firm favourite of my daughter.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Haughton! He uses colour very intentionally across his books, especially his later ones. Shh! We have a Plan and Maybe particularly.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder if you'd like to hear me & the British Museum's Irving Finkel talk about the history of boardgames, we're on in Canterbury this Saturday at 5:30pm. I'd love to see you there. I can't wait.
canterburyfestival.co.uk/whats-on/tim...

Tim Clare & Irving Finkel: The History of Board Games - Canterbury Festival

Global expert on cuneiform tablet games, Dr Irving Finkel speaks to author Tim Clare about our fascination with a good board game.

canterburyfestival.co.uk

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Very much looking forward to it!

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 4d

I really want an article/blog post on your experience of this, please.

Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 4d

Same, Tom, same. #CelebrityTraitors

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 5d

Exploring some Tove Jansson style dwarves for #inktober #ttrpg

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 7d

The only failure to integrate is by the wealthy.

#tomorrowspaperstoday

Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 11d

Weapons was good recently. And I Saw the TV Glow last year was incredible.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 11d

Didn't care for today's theme of 'murky' so here's a fly and a cheese grater with some other stuff. #inktober

An ink drawing of a cheese grater. There's also a shuttlecock, oak and holly leaves and a snake.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 11d

Gently Johnny and the Maypole Song on such tunes.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 12d

I'm just going to put it out there #ttrpg community...

I don't enjoy Actual Plays. I'm sure people do, but they're not for me.
Watching professional comedians and improvisers playing any ttrpg makes me feel less good about playing, like I'm not as witty or erudite in my play/character choices.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoyed this one today a lot. Feels like I'm hitting a stride which is nice, and remembering how much I love drawing. #inktober

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 13d

Just in the nick of time today!

#inktober

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not the best of drawers (the right hand, ugh) but I'm going to commit to doing this #inktober2025.

Dwarf with axe.

A crudely sketched dwarf with axe. The foreshortening doesn't make any sense and the right hand is shit.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah. I'm ruttedly middle class. Attended a minor independent school, parents attended university, as did I, holidayed in France, occasionally Italy. I've never pretended to be anything but middle class. Highlighted it, frankly.

And it's been *so* uncool. Painfully.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!

Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 14d

I know this is always a boring question, but may I ask what you draw with?

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 15d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 15d

This was fun (rhetorical/profundity) to read first thing this morning. I can totally see how the Molly House story is included in fun. But I'm not sure that fun as a descriptor is totally without merit, I might try writing a defence, or 'defunce' if you will.

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Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 16d

You seen this flag?!

Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social · 16d

The new issue of Wyrd Science (@wyrdscience.bsky.social) has just thumped onto my doormat, and it looks incredible. So many cool articles and for them to be analogued onto ink and paper. Viva Print!

Thanks to editor @johnpower.bsky.social for allowing me to write for this one.

A vibrant cover of the Wyrd Science magazine depicting a sci-fi fantasy mashup in an explosion of colour.

A list of incredible writers that I'm incredibly honoured to appear alongside.

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