Thom
@thwphipps.bsky.social
This is the official BlueSky account of beloved TV writer Thom Phipps
Great premise - Native American INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE based around the 1870 Marias Massacre - interesting executed: narrated using Blackfoot language/slang as assumed knowledge. Cool imagery, loads of imagination, sly sense of humour, genuinely chilling horror. And yet. And yet. Quite boring.
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great premise - Native American INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE based around the 1870 Marias Massacre - interesting executed: narrated using Blackfoot language/slang as assumed knowledge. Cool imagery, loads of imagination, sly sense of humour, genuinely chilling horror. And yet. And yet. Quite boring.
This was VERY ODD! In a good way! I’d thought it was just a folk horror novel but it’s more like a series of very loosely connected short stories, all set in the same town, each one leaping forward through time. Like a literary Royston Vasey, kinda...
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This was VERY ODD! In a good way! I’d thought it was just a folk horror novel but it’s more like a series of very loosely connected short stories, all set in the same town, each one leaping forward through time. Like a literary Royston Vasey, kinda...
V entertaining: escalating battle of wits between an elderly widow & a horrid little boy in a Covid-denuded Egyptian hotel. Also a series of background mysteries that play out more or less satisfactorily. The author said it was originally a short story that grew out of control, which makes sense...
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
V entertaining: escalating battle of wits between an elderly widow & a horrid little boy in a Covid-denuded Egyptian hotel. Also a series of background mysteries that play out more or less satisfactorily. The author said it was originally a short story that grew out of control, which makes sense...
Another of these BL short story collections; a characteristically entertaining romp through circus-themed weird fiction of the 20th century...
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Another of these BL short story collections; a characteristically entertaining romp through circus-themed weird fiction of the 20th century...
@fadeinpro.com hello hello what's this
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@fadeinpro.com hello hello what's this
You remove the two ROBOTs from the bottom, but it gets REFIT and returns at the top. That's it. There was also an element where some words in clues were "wrong" (so additional anagrams) that I never really engaged in, and as such there are some unparsed answers in there that I always hate. Annoying
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You remove the two ROBOTs from the bottom, but it gets REFIT and returns at the top. That's it. There was also an element where some words in clues were "wrong" (so additional anagrams) that I never really engaged in, and as such there are some unparsed answers in there that I always hate. Annoying
Didn't much enjoy this one. Clues were really and there was maybe one level of abstraction too many. Anyway. First grid here. Extra letters/words gave WHERE NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO [WRONG], and SLOPPY WITH YOUR DRINK?, a Simpsons parody of and quote from WESTWORLD, in which a HUMAN meets a ROBOT
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Didn't much enjoy this one. Clues were really and there was maybe one level of abstraction too many. Anyway. First grid here. Extra letters/words gave WHERE NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO [WRONG], and SLOPPY WITH YOUR DRINK?, a Simpsons parody of and quote from WESTWORLD, in which a HUMAN meets a ROBOT
Greatest film ever made
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Greatest film ever made
The man respects winners. What else can you say
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The man respects winners. What else can you say
Me watching this film, which I’ve seen upwards of thirty times before
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Me watching this film, which I’ve seen upwards of thirty times before
What I like about Keaton is that his Batman is a grinner. He grins at the goons. None of the others grin. Well, absolute Batman does I guess
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What I like about Keaton is that his Batman is a grinner. He grins at the goons. None of the others grin. Well, absolute Batman does I guess
I'm not convinced that a tremendous amount of effort went into this
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm not convinced that a tremendous amount of effort went into this
Quite fun. Thematic answers were “as” simile connections, as defined in Brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable - eg if the clue answer was CHEAP you enter CHIPS. Once I figured that out the rest flowed fairly neatly (other than GENEROUS AS HATIM, which, huh ???)
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Quite fun. Thematic answers were “as” simile connections, as defined in Brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable - eg if the clue answer was CHEAP you enter CHIPS. Once I figured that out the rest flowed fairly neatly (other than GENEROUS AS HATIM, which, huh ???)
This is really making me laugh
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is really making me laugh
Christ this paints a picture doesn’t it
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Christ this paints a picture doesn’t it
The handsomest a man has ever looked btw
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The handsomest a man has ever looked btw