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

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— 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.

Outside In Makes It So Published Today

Today is the thirtieth anniversary of Encounter At Farpoint, the first broadcast of the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Today also sees the publication of Outside In: Makes It So, available here.

Twitter Twatter #46

The rest of June 2017:

Is it any relation to that fish that buries itself in pies? pic.twitter.com/N5yNjb5CVs

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 10 June 2017

If Jeremy Hunt remains in post Theresa May has clearly learned nothing from last night - RT to make your voice heard again #HuntMustGo pic.twitter.com/GrSrqxIoIy

— NHS Million (@NHSMillion) 9 June 2017

Ironically, the DUP don't believe in dinosaurs.

— Victims of Comics (@victimsofcomics) 10 June 2017

Jeremy Hunt has just been re-appointed as Health Secretary by Theresa May - pls RT if you agree it is an utter disgrace #reshuffle pic.twitter.com/1MvHToKmCT

— NHS Million (@NHSMillion) 11 June 2017

John Hurt 2013 - 2005

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 11 June 2017

Wirrn

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 14 June 2017

@JulianSmithUK Why did you vote against making properties fit for human habitation? https://t.co/wCNz7uJScs

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 14 June 2017

not one fucking thing pic.twitter.com/2orl4kG2Vf

— Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) 15 June 2017

Let's make it our mission to eject from office every single one of those venal bastards who voted against Labour's housing bill.

— Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) 16 June 2017

These #ActionFigure photos by Japanese photographer #HotKenobi just made my day 😂💙🙌 @batsancats @suckerpunchgeek pic.twitter.com/Ldc0DPqnlL

— Jessica Thompson (@ItsMe_JessicaT) 15 June 2017

For some reason, I find the faded spine on these TNG VHS sleeves reassuring. https://t.co/hKfYi9oJ1f

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 16 June 2017

My apologies... pic.twitter.com/MHpreKELmy

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 17 June 2017

This letter. #GrenfellTower pic.twitter.com/zEHlFcATAw

— James Rhodes (@JRhodesPianist) 17 June 2017

RT if you unashamedly give a fuck about poor kids burning to death & want to make sure IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. pic.twitter.com/RK1VqNhHMJ

— jack monroe ❄ (@BootstrapCook) 18 June 2017

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— steve barber (@LptpsteveBarber) 18 June 2017

In weather like this, I worry about Batman. And Judge Dredd too.

The tan lines must be a nightmare.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 19 June 2017

Fantastic photo of @PeterDavison5. What a welcome. pic.twitter.com/ljh28nhfG9

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 19 June 2017

Have I ever told you how glad I am that these pictures exist? pic.twitter.com/JlLXfWMG5Z

— ㅤ (@grahamslexa) 19 June 2017

Fun and strange to be writing "The League of Gentlemen" again. Evidently it's true.... we'll never leave.

— Reece Shearsmith (@ReeceShearsmith) 20 June 2017

Who says journalism has lost its way... local newspaper in Donegal, Ireland pic.twitter.com/dfoEs0ZNy1

— Shona Murray (@ShonaMurrayNT) 30 June 2017

Excellent typo in document I’ve just been sent. pic.twitter.com/LULe5MvHWz

— Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) 30 June 2017

literary criticism peaked in 1944 pic.twitter.com/p1lMTfiJU6

— 🍸 (@oscarewilde) 30 June 2017

Outside In: Makes It So Personnel & Essay Titles

Outside In: Makes It So features contributions from the likes of Keith R.A. DeCandido (novelist), Rich Handley (Star Trek comics expert and Hasslein Books supremo), Paul Simpson (Editor of Star Trek Magazine), Lars Pearson (novelist), Robert Greenberger (the Editor of DC Comics’ Star Trek), David A McIntee (novelist), Shaun Lyon (Outpost Gallifrey) and Robert Smith? (editor extraordinaire).

Not to mention a hundred and fifty more also-rans like me.

And here they are...

There you have it, folks: Mine is called God Forbid I Should Miss My First Look At The Wormhole I have written about The Price, that episode of The Next Generation in which Deanna Troi talks about chocolate, has a romantic encounter and witnesses a momentous revelation that will impact the entire galaxy for the next decade. And yet, that's not really what I've written about at all.

I've written something else as well, but more on that later.

Outside In: Makes It So is available for pre-order here.