It’s awkward timing that bloggers should start digging through David Cameron’s amnesiac record on LGBT issues at the moment when Attitude declares that he wants “gay love.” The attempt to bury a vote against same-sex adoption rights in 2002 as a procedural wrinkle demonstrates remarkable tone-deafness, given the Conservative party’s track record on queer issues: …
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We tell stories to make sense of our lives and experiences, stories that seem all the more urgent and vital when they claim to account for our sexual identities. Those stories are more intriguing again when they appear to change, mid-flow. Which leads me to this story in today’s Times, titled The day I decided …
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Jack Arnott’s recent speculation about the possible end of game endings opens with the recognition that “before the advent of ‘saving’, the completion of even a simple game could take huge amounts of patience, effort and time.” I’m not sure I’ve ever fully realised the consequences of that difficulty for how I treated game narrative …
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Neil E. Hobbs (light and sound designer / collaborator for The Penny Dreadfuls, and general theatre wunderkind) has produced a beautiful and highly useful chart of relationships between Doctors, Companions and adversaries in the universe of Doctor Who. It is also, above all, a huge chart, and in that respect alone will fulfill most of …
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