Stephanie would like to talk to you about ghosts. Beneath the fold she uses words like ‘decolonise’, ‘ritual’, and ‘read the Koran to keep the ghosts away in a video game’.
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APPARENTLY research shows that you should only make resolutions after having a nice epiphany on a nice holiday. But it’s Lunar New Year on Saturday, and Liz only just went back to work last week, so it seems like a good arbitrary time to talk about things we’d like to do as individuals (and a blog) over the coming months.
Post features pictures of cats.
Welcome to our favourite No Award posts of 2016! I promise this is the last round up post.
I went home on the weekend, to celebrate the greatest festival of the year. And today is Day Four, the return to business, so it’s time for some Lunar Festival navel gazing.
In 2015 we really ramped up vis No Award; a whole lot of posts, including guest posts, and even a posting schedule (!!). We’ve got plans for 2016, which we’ll announce shortly. Thanks for yelling with us in 2015, Australia.
(Speaking of yelling, if you’re getting intrusive pop-up ads on NA, especially on the mobile version, please let us know! We’re looking into it.)
And now, starting as we mean to go on, a day late we bring you our favourite posts of the year!
I could have done these in individual posts, but I’ll be honest: I was busy, I was tired, I couldn’t be bothered. The three preceding episodes were so offensively terrible, they managed to pretty much destroy my enthusiasm for season 9.
It’s a shame, because “Face the Raven” was genuinely outstanding, and not just because it advanced a strong anti-birb agenda. And “Heaven Sent” and “Hell Bent” were both quite good, even though I nearly noped out when —
But I get ahead of myself.
Continue reading “Doctor Who 9.11, 9.12 and 9.13: “Face the Raven”, “Heaven Sent”, “Hell Bent””
I just have a lot of feelings about food. (This is basically a journey of me learning about these foods)
Ah, Hallowe’en. It’s the one time of year No Award doesn’t complain about American cultural imperialism.* Yes, it’s deeply frustrating that you spend all day carving a pumpkin, and 24 hours later it’s covered in fruit flies. But come on, this is a festival that involves costumes and confectionary. We’re not complete monsters**.
So if you’ve only just remembered that costume party you were invited to back in August, or if you’ve received a polite letter from a neighbour, letting you know in advance that their children will be trick or treating and asking if you’d like to participate, No Award is here to provide some extremely scary costume suggestions.
Continue reading “No Award’s Handy List of Scary Last-Minute Hallowe’en Costumes”
How great is Maisie Williams, eh? People are saying it’s a shame she’s too busy with Game of Thrones to be the next companion, but I say, wait until she’s 40, then she can be the sixteenth Doctor.
I probably didn’t need to review this as a two-parter — synchronicity of titles aside, these episodes didn’t have to be consecutive — but hey, I didn’t know that until it was too late.
(Beyond the cut are discussions of alleged spoilers published in the UK tabloid press — emphasis on “alleged”.)
Continue reading “Doctor Who 9.05 and 9.06 – “The Girl Who Died” and “The Woman Who Lived””
Let’s get some things out of the way first:
“The Magician’s Apprentice”, in which the Doctor meets a winsome child on a battlefield, Missy advances the asexual agenda, and Clara/Jane Austen is canon.
(Steph has proofread this post: There really is a lot about the Asexual History of Doctor Who, just fyi)
Continue reading “Doctor Who 9.01: The Magician’s Apprentice”
