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(I'm so creative with my subject lines!!)

Lovely little post here about the Christmas Special: The gentle world of The Return of Doctor Mysterio

And I mentioned that Darcy has developed a proper Christmas cold/flu, yes?

He does not QUITE adhere to Manflu: A User’s Guide, as he went straight to bed and slept for best part of yesterday, but he DID watch Wheeler Dealers this morning. (Note: apparently in the US this programme has lots of explosions and stuff? Over here, it's one guy buying cars and another guy fixing them up and then the first guy selling them on. (Episode here) It's... incredibly same-y, but it seems to hit the sweet spot for ppl with a Y chromosome.

Now however he's reading Plato's The Republic, so probably on the mend.

Had a lovely Christmas btw, in case I didn't mention that before. :)

RIP Carrie Fisher

I meant to write this weeks ago, and never got round to it... I think it was on Darcy's birthday that we re-watched The Force Awakens, and I realised how well the Star Wars Movies can be seen as metaphors for our times - or a modern day fairy tale to help guide us...

We thought we had won, that things were looking up, and yet there's danger arising again. Doesn't matter what it's called, it's always the same. I jotted down a few things:


The New Order - all the white supremacy groups rising, both in America and Europe

General Hux - handsome alt-right leader

Resistance - all of us

Kylo Ren - radicalised white youth/male Trump offspring

General Leia - Hillary Clinton (she has fought all her life, but still carries on, because it's a job needs doing)


There may have been more, but it's all horribly sad now. I still think it fits, and that we will need Princess Leia's example more than ever. There may not be a Rey, no shining new heroine to help save us. We just have to be the Resistance, all of us doing our bit to help turn the tide and make sure the Dark Side doesn't win.

It's not a battle fought in space ships, but every day - organising, protesting, talking to people trying to open their minds, helping those that need it.

honor carrie fisher:

- normalize mental illness and its treatment
- take life a little less seriously
- destroy a fascist regime

— Isaiah Breen (@isikbreen) December 27, 2016

ETA: Oh and this too - storified!

I storified all my Princess Leia/General Organa tweets for y'all https://t.co/8Xkt8K46lN

— Anne Thériault (@anne_theriault) December 27, 2016

(And all this as I was still trying to process George Michael's death. This year is brutal.)