Tom Morton-Smith

The neighbourhood awaits you this October half term! 🏠🌱 #FindYourSpirit

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

“Excuse me, I’m looking for the nuclear wessels.”

Tom Skerritt

The name Sudowrite shows how well they know their target users. How many working writers will get a reference to the Unix command versus how many will be repulsed and offended by the idea of pseudo-writing?

#slamdunkyourjunk

The Antony Gormleys at Crosby beach remain magnificent.

Remembering our girl.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s former head of new work Pippa Hill has been hired by production company ROYO in a new role that aims to expand its work developing original musicals and plays. Read more 👇

Kenichi Yoda, Princess of Asturias laureate: "Ghibli is closely tied to its time"

BioWare is the game studio that has given me the most joy. So sad to see it end like this.

There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

Spend half term in the neighbourhood! 🌱💚 Bring the whole family and discover the magic of #MyNeighbourTotoro, with an extra matinee performance on 27 October. ✨ Book your tickets via the link in our bio. #FindYourSpirit

The City in Glass by @nghivo.bsky.social is a gorgeous, sensual, expansive book, with some of the most beautiful prose I’ve experienced in a long time.

“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”

I am unnecessarily pleased with this picture of Godzilla I drew.

Spending time in the woods is always time well spent.

New dinosaur klaxon.

no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill

I want to go to this museum SO MUCH.

Well, I'm out. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

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I’ve a lot of sympathy for this, but commissions are super thin on the ground and it would be incredibly limiting to write a hyper local script on spec.

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Who knew forest spirits were this cute?? 🌱☺️ #FindYourSpirit

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Today marks the four year anniversary of @totoroshow.bsky.social's first preview at the Barbican Centre. Only three more months to catch it at the Gillian Lynne. totoroshow.com

Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds

Magic for everyone. 🌱✨ Join us for our next performance with integrated BSL interpreter on Sunday 11 October. #FindYourSpirit

The Butcher of the Forest by @premeemohamed.com was great. A mix of fairytale and horror with an utterly devastating emotional core.

Eva Marie Saint

One autistic individual is reported to be living the dream, having opened a bookshop and then displayed a large sign in the window reading NO CUSTOMERS.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

It’s Korvapuustipäivä in Finland and Kanelsbullens Dag in Sweden, which is to say Cinnamon Bun Day! I happen to have a recipe for Swedish Cinnamon Buns, so of course it has to be #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...

Hurry neighbours! 🌱 You only have 3 months left to catch My Neighbour Totoro before he leaves the West End! ✨ Book now via the link in bio.

Trying to get your work out into the world takes so goddamn long.

Hideo Kojima saw my show. Be chill.

I’ve just received my first book club scam email. I have finally arrived as a writer.

The horror … the delicious, delicious horror …

An Autumn Afternoon (1962), dir: Yasujirō Ozu.

Jim Henson would’ve been 90 today. An absolute hero of mine. I remain gobsmacked that puppets crafted by his company feature in one of my plays. I like to believe that Chu Totoro’s blue fur is the same as Cookie Monster’s and that makes them cousins.

Wouldn't that be nice, eh? 💚

Pervert glasses now brand your temples so people know you’re a pervert even when you’re off duty.

‘It is Macklemore, not Ed Sheeran, who has been barred from performing. Yet somehow the story is about Sheeran’s freedom to be apolitical.’ New on the blog from Lorna Finlayson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...