Jamie Beckwith

@terriblezodin.bsky.social

One half of the team behind The Terrible Zodin fanzine, Yes Virginia, This is a Podcast and Black Archive: A Christmas Carol http://doctorwhottz.blogspot.com https://m.soundcloud.com/user-420543381/sets/yes-virginia-this-is-a-podcast

FM: “Why are you telling me about the ghost when I’m here alone?” Me: “Well if the ghost is here you’re not all alone are you?” FM: *glares* Me: “Anyway I’m not telling you to scare you. I’m telling you because you’re Facilities and it’s your job to call Ghostbusters!” #hauntedofficebanter

38 years ago today I became a Doctor Who fan. Thank you Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, John Nathan Turner, Andrew Morgan and even Keff McCulloch. You sparked decades of imagination and indirectly set me on the path where I met my wife and became a published writer

Films watched in September 2026 The Third Man (in a cinema in Vienna!) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Dune (1984) In the Mouth of Madness Event Horizon The Lost World: Jurassic Park Majestic Christmas The Boys from County Hell The Adventures of Prince Achmed The Dead Are Alive

How many stories has Doctor Who done that rails against soulless machines that went to enslave human imagination and profit of their creative labour? The idea that the BBC would even contemplate generative AI episodes of Doctor Who is a tone deaf soul destroying idea

I am asking every man I know to think about this question honestly. If someone found a magic lamp and wished for every rapist on the earth to drop dead, how many obituaries of men you know do you think you’d end up reading and why isn’t that number zero?

Quotes from the pilot episode of Derry Girls that live rent free in my head “Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not enjoying this bomb.” “I'm not being an individual on my own.” “He's a wee Ethiopian fella from Ballybofey”