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Doctor Who Books/Music/Movies/Cats Trying to be positive LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 No LGB without the T 🏳️‍⚧️ I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 UK 🇬🇧 + Europe 🇪🇺 He/Him Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8Pl3l

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 5h

😱 Jaw-dropping … 😳

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 14h

The new one by Tom Cox - Everything Will Swallow You - I’m nearly halfway through, it’s immersive, pure pleasure.

The cover of Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox (Swift, 2025).

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 14h

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 14h

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 15h

Ha! Great fun! 🤩

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

Stuart! 😃 Of course, now you say it, it’s obvious! 😁 How on Earth are you after all these years?

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere round here I read it was going to be Masque of Mandragora as well as Logopolis (which was included of course to make sure it _was_ five faces! 😁) but 6 stories would’ve eaten into BBC2’s Xmas schedule. & Barry Letts did the choosing? So, Carnival 🤷‍♂️ And 3 Drs coz it’s celebratory 🥳

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting to be remembered! And my love of Dr Who hasn’t changed in all these years. 😁 But … oh dear … I’m afraid I can’t put a name to the face … so sorry, terribly embarrassing, but you’re going to have to remind me! 😬

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

On this day, 2 November 1981, The Five Faces of Doctor Who season began on BBC2 - 5 stories, every Dr to date (just about ..!), 4 adventures I never thought I’d ever be able to see - An Unearthly Child! The Krotons! Carnival of Monsters! The Three Doctors! & Logopolis from earlier in the year.

BBC photo caption advertising the unprecedented repeat season, all 5 Doctors, pure excitement!

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 1d

Impossible to say! They’re all so good, and frankly any deep dive into Doctor Who’s history is worth anyone’s time. I’m just working my way through chronologically. Hugely enjoyable.

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 2d

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 2d

#BookSky
#TheStorygraph

October’s completed books. A bunch of Doctor Who as usual - 3 more volumes of the Complete History and a book of essays - plus new and classic lit, spanning a century or two!

Doctor Who - The Complete History - three volumes, covering the stories from The Massacre to The Moonbase - published by Panini between 2016 and 2018, edited by Mark Wright and John Ainsworth.

Doctor Who From A to Z by Gary Gillatt, published by BBC Worldwide in 1998 - though I may not agree with all his conclusions and opinions, he was and remains a brilliant writer, always worth a read.

Odd Man Out by F L Green, originally published by Michael Joseph in 1945, Penguin edition 1948 - a gripping study of the Irish troubles in microcosm, quite different from the movie it spawned.

Learwife by J R Thorp, published by Canongate in 2021 - magnificent imagining of the erased life of Lear’s Queen.

The Vampyre by John Polidori - this is a recent republication by Penguin of the 1819 story, packaged with a translation of Karl Adolf von Wachsmann’s 1854 story Der Fremde, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest, published posthumously in 1914.

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 2d

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 2d

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched
#FilmSky
#MovieSky

Modern-ish retro-horror x2
The life of a legend.
And an apocalyptic thriller.

Late Night With The Devil
(Australia / UAE / USA, 2023)
d. Cameron Cairnes, Colin Caurnes

Worlds Within - The Life Of Ian Marter
(UK, 2025)
d. Chris Chapman

Last Night In Soho
(UK / USA / China, 2021)
d. Edgar Wright

A House Of Dynamite
(USA, 2025)
d. Kathryn Bigelow

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

Not really … I have seen Hellraiser, and maybe the second one? A long time ago though!

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yes, utterly likeable from the start - a brilliant performance, brilliantly written - Dan’s a star! 🌟

James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣🤣

David G-P @davidjgp1983.bsky.social · 3d

What monstrous thing has Davros made this week?!

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

Martha the Mechanical Housemaid (Doctor Who comic strip, TV Comic #894-898, 1/2-1-3/1969)

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 3d

Why the BBC WAC should remain bigger on the inside. An absolutely boffo column from Doctor Who mensch @tobyhadoke.bsky.social about the very silly decision by the BBC to cut off independent and exploratory research at its Written Archives Centre. cstonline.net/defending-th...

Defending the WAC: ‘Bigger on the Inside’ Doctor Who Archives by Toby Hadoke

It’s always bloody Doctor Who isn’t it? The show about the police box that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. There is so much in the rich history of BBC drama that requires scrutiny…

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

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James Guthrie 🐈‍⬛ @zygoville.bsky.social · 3d

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