Andy the Corsair

@andyrenfield.bsky.social

ESL expert. Brit in Mexico. Whovian. Nerdfighter.

I've been doing a reread and then getting myself up to date on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, so now I've fallen behind on John Scalzi. So I'll have a handful of novels waiting for me once I'm all Butchered up. I'm cursed with too many excellent novels to read. Pity me!

I love the reaction of cat lovers upon seeing a cat. Every single time the level of excitement is like they've read about cats for decades but never actually seen one in real life and they're SO EXCITED. Every. Single Time. Even if it's the hundredth cat they've seen that day.

After a few years hiatus, a very good way for Doctor Who to return would be to have an episode with many charismatic and quirky characters involved in a whodunnit and you don't know which one is the new Doctor until the end.

“Villainy comes from people who have an idea that they think makes them smarter than anyone else” - Rufus Hound in the behind the scenes of the latest Big Finish; and if that doesn’t perfectly describe most of the people who have ideas for how Doctor Who should be made going forwards.

Folks with any reach on Bluesky, please consider reposting so I can find friends old and new: I'm Rob; I like fantasy books, maths and physics, ancient stuff and mythology, linguistics and music, British wildlife, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And I might occasionally mention Doctor Who