Twitter Twatter #47

July 2017's Twitter posts:

Face your fear.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 1 July 2017

Rare copy of Charles Dickens' lost novel, 'Simon Callow'. pic.twitter.com/dxZtRKZwqZ

— O'Brien (@MrsSteveMOBrien) 1 July 2017

Is that Gillian?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 1 July 2017

Hunt is selling off 5 million square metres of NHS land to private companies - RT if you think everyone should know https://t.co/b8dltgU9qu

— NHS Million (@NHSMillion) 1 July 2017

He did you know.

It was in The Five Doctors, I believe.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 2 July 2017

First: The Romans
Second: The Seeds Of Death
Third: Frontier In Space
Fourth: City Of Death
Fifth: The Five Doctors#DoctorWho

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 8 July 2017

Sixth: The Two Doctors
Seventh: The Curse Of Fenric
Eighth: The Chimes Of Midnight
War: The Day Of The Doctor#DoctorWho

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 8 July 2017

Ninth: The Long Game
Tenth: The Girl In The Fireplace
Eleventh: The God Complex
Twelfth: Listen#DoctorWho

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 8 July 2017

Probably The Trial Of A Time Lord. And there's no hash browns...

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 9 July 2017

Today I learned that pythons
a) Watch TV
b) Yawn pic.twitter.com/FCprn2XdOd

— Halloweenya 🎃👻 (@DM_ME_YOUR_CATS) 11 July 2017

pic.twitter.com/YgjHCjrRfG

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 13 July 2017

@Sodenator

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 13 July 2017

The #13thDoctor is due to be revealed after the Wimbledon Men's Final.

So, who will be the new #DoctorWho?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 14 July 2017

So I'm told by a few Tories to stop tweeting this video. Here it is again if anyone missed it #bbcaq don't forget to RT . pic.twitter.com/4WhAVjq5KS

— Nadeem Ahmed (@Muqadaam) 14 July 2017

Change my dears and not a moment too soon - she IS the Doctor whether you like it or not!

— Colin Baker (@SawbonesHex) 16 July 2017

I'm absolutely for progress and inclusiveness but it is fair to worry when almost every ep of Doctor Who revolved around his big ol' dick

— Joss Whedon (@joss) 16 July 2017

Is that cushion from Varos?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 19 July 2017

Number five still holds the record for longest tenure. pic.twitter.com/JbAwvtmFjP

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 20 July 2017

I'd be happy to.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 22 July 2017

Serving suggestion. https://t.co/IpPSiOmtJ1

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 23 July 2017

pic.twitter.com/TZCxtZ3I0R

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 23 July 2017

Lest we forget, Polly's top was very much a shade of grey...

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 24 July 2017

Where is Jessica Hyde?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 27 July 2017

The Wicker Mat #MakeAHorrorFilmLessScary

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 27 July 2017

Everyone's joking about all the backstabbing in the White House, but nobody's giving them credit for their frontstabbing

— Joss Whedon (@joss) 28 July 2017

Five years ago today a bell end nearly killed someone pic.twitter.com/900YUtgDfz

— NHS Million (@NHSMillion) 27 July 2017

Don't eat chicken bones. RT @Caloriesfixes: 400 Calories of each pic.twitter.com/nZhok2sCyP

— Jane Espenson (@JaneEspenson) 30 July 2017

I'd be more worried about those daffodils.

Are they plastic by any chance?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 July 2017

Who is your favourite #DoctorWho? *

Please retweet far and wide for best possible results.

*Other Doctors are available.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

@pipmadeley Do you have #IWasADrWhoMonster? The Underwater Menace actress miming how to be a fishperson is a #doctorwhogifsthatneededtoexist

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

Tories posing unironically in front of The Scream. pic.twitter.com/g7lveCpWAk

— Slay Deers Eve (@severedelays) 29 July 2017

Hey you. How about you Tweet#BringBackUtopia @netflix @NetflixUK @reedhastings @Channel4

Til we gets a season 3? pic.twitter.com/LPTOlVwPPh

— BringBackUtopia (@BringBackUtopia) 13 January 2016

@uppityfabulous Would you like a cup of...?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

Thank you. Almost exactly that bit. The last three or four seconds of Mary and without Sylvester.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

Thank you very much.@uppityfabulous, this is for you!

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

That thing where you list where you first saw each #DoctorWho
1 - Doctor Who
2 - Doctor Who
3 - Worzel Gummidge
4 - Doctor Who

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

List where I first saw each #DoctorWho
5 - All Creatures Great & Small
6 - Doctor Who
7 - What's Your Story?
8 - #Alien3
War - #Alien

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

List where I first saw each #DoctorWho
9 - Cracker
10 - Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
11 - Party Animals
12 - #Neverwhere

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

List where I first saw each #DoctorWho
13 - #AttackTheBlock or #BlackMirror (whichever came first)
Cushing - #StarWars
Grant - Jack & Sarah

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 July 2017

Time Shadows Anniversary Edition

Time Shadows, the Doctor Who Charity Short Story Anthology that I contributed a story to, has been re-released in a new format.

The 'Anniversary Edition' features almost all the short stories from the original edition features and now complementing them are twelve fantastic illustrations by Simon A. Brett, Paul Cowan, Carolyn Edwards, Jon Wesley Huff and Michael Leis.

In addition to the illustrations there are a series of interviews with the authors. It was strange to have to consider the story all over again after the fact.

The Time Shadows 'Anniversary Edition' once again benefits Limbforge, a charity that creates and provides prosthetic limbs for some of the world's most vulnerable people.

Time Shadows 'Anniversary Edition' is available here.

Outside In: Makes It So Makes It Here

My own copy of Outside In: Makes It So has arrived and I'm really looking forward to reading everybody else's contributions.

I'm the one on the left. Naturally, the first thing I did was take a glance at my own effort.

And then the other, on which Laura Gillespie did the heavy lifting.

You can get your very own copy here.

Sokath, His Eyes Uncovered

I mentioned previously that in addition to the piece that I wrote about The Price there was another...

It's called When The Walls Fell and its all about Darmok, that episode of The Next Generation in which Picard is stranded on an alien planet by a Tamarian, an alien that speaks entirely in metaphor, and they are forced by adversity to learn to communicate with each other.

The lion share of it is a great point of view piece written by Laura Gillespie, while I contributed the bits written in the Tamarian idiom.

Outside In: Makes It So is available here.