My 2021

It's been another weird year.

I can confirm that looking after a two year old, is much more difficult than looking after a one year old. This rate of mathematical progression does not fill me with confidence in light of my impending duty to look after a three year old.

As far as I am aware I did not not get Covid, but instead I did get two vaccine doses and booster, which was pretty incredible given where we were this time last year.  

I wrote twelve articles for Hero Collector: Doctor Who Top 10 Modern Cliffhangers, Beat Blue Monday, George Lucas' THX 1138 @50, Star Trek End of the Enterprise, X-Men: First Class @10, Attack The Block @10, The Earth is Doomed!, The Expanse @10, Captain America @10, 007: Top 10 Pre-Title Sequences, Dark Season @30. and The Expanse Boasts A USP For Sci-Fi Fans. That's almost one a month.

Outside In Wants To Believe was published containing my article, You Say Goodbye, And I Say Hello.

Spatial Anomaly published Big Damn Heroics episode guides about the Firefly episodes: Serenity: The Pilot, The Train Job, Bushwhacked, Shindig, Safe, Our Mrs Reynolds, Jaynestown, Out of Gas, Ariel, War Stories, Trash, The Message, Heart of Gold and Objects in Space, as well as The R. Tam Sessions 416 Second excerpt, 1 and 22.

While there were articles that were exclusive to patrons about the deleted scenes from Serenity: The Pilot, Our Mrs Reynolds and Objects in Space. episode orders, opening narrations, character profiles of Badger, Niska, Saffron and the Hands of Blue, A History of the 'verse Part One & Two, Top Ten Firefly Flashbacks, Screentime, Top Ten Death Tolls and an analysis of the opening titles. 

Spatial Anomaly was neglected in the second half of the year, but I'm planning on continuing it in the new year.

There was also a top secret project that took up any free time that I had. I'll let you know what it was as soon as I can...

It's The End As We Know It...

The 5th of June was World Environment Day and so I wrote an article about how science fiction has dealt with ecological disasters, but this is a message that is just as apt any day.

As Cop 26 recently copped out, the article shares a number of possibilities put forward by science fiction writers and if we are unlucky and our leaders fail us we'll get to find out who got it right...

You can read the article here.

Twitter Twatter #58

The Place: Twitter
The Time: May 2018

Don't. Vote. Tory.#LocalElections2018

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 3 May 2018

On Monday, @sajidjavid vowed to leave “no stone unturned” in pursuit of the truth about Windrush.
On Wednesday, he voted to keep all details of how it happened secret.
Dizzying hypocrisy has become a prerequisite for membership of Theresa May’s Government.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) 3 May 2018

On Monday, @sajidjavid vowed to leave “no stone unturned” in pursuit of the truth about Windrush.
On Wednesday, he voted to keep all details of how it happened secret.
Dizzying hypocrisy has become a prerequisite for membership of Theresa May’s Government.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) 3 May 2018

Compartment Car #edwardhopper #hopper pic.twitter.com/KXBrZW3FbR

— Edward Hopper (@artisthopper) 7 May 2018

This 1891 painting by Luke Fildes is called The Doctor and features the Twelfth in the doorway. pic.twitter.com/pcDrOLoZzb

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 11 May 2018

“No country can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of a lack of means.”-Aneurin Bevan. #NHS70 pic.twitter.com/zI65eQFeQf

— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) 11 May 2018

We can't have anything nice, can we? #TheExpanse #RenewTheExpanse #KeepTheRociFlying pic.twitter.com/VCu6fW1mHB

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 15 May 2018

Dear @AmazonStudios: Please #SaveTheExpanse You are investing in people who buy things on @Amazon. Here are customer reviews of #TheExpanse *books*. Note the spike when you started streaming Season 1. @expansewriters @AlconEnt @Casanvar @weschatham @JamesSACorey @AbrahamHanover pic.twitter.com/LwQOpgp2n9

— Oliver Crown Williams (@ocw5000) 14 May 2018

That's fantastic!

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 18 May 2018

We're all living in 2018. Deadpool 2's marketing team is living in 3018. pic.twitter.com/jL4cEIduZN

— Blake Northcott™⭐ (@BlakeNorthcott) 16 May 2018

R.I.P. Graham Strong. We've so much to thank him for. #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/gzkMm4vhlf

— Kieran Highman (@The66Ramblers) 18 May 2018

The n-word is considered the most offensive word in the English language. “Straight white male” is ... not. https://t.co/njUfJKA0g7

— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) 19 May 2018

From yesterday's #TheChase.
So close. pic.twitter.com/wJKX6vBhgu

— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) 17 May 2018

Cakes decorated all ready for the #RoyalWedding. pic.twitter.com/HlodIxeUzw

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 19 May 2018

Say what you like about Sisyphus, but I envy that job security.

— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) 23 May 2018

Here's the wife on the radio

We’re live in the studio now! @BBCLancashire pic.twitter.com/fSah9hCyIJ

— Nelson&ColneCollege (@NelsonColneColl) 23 May 2018

We’re at @BBCLancashire again today with our Art star Aleena Nadeem and Curriculum Leader Sarah Holmes talking about Aleena’s Highly Commended accolade in the BTEC Awards! Tune in at 10.30am! @BTECStudents pic.twitter.com/k9YyCfpl6Z

— Nelson&ColneCollege (@NelsonColneColl) 23 May 2018

My #IncredibleHulk #cosplay ingredients: one pair of ill-fitting paint-splattered shorts, one green T-shirt with holes in and one tired and gurning man who is getting increasingly bored of doing DIY. pic.twitter.com/4W22LSlyhP

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 24 May 2018

Best @2000AD cosplay EVER.
( Hes a puppet too!)@ManMadeMoon pic.twitter.com/Ogb47W8CSO

— Planet Replicas Ltd (@PlanetReplicas) 26 May 2018

from Anthony Ainley (aged 49)

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 27 May 2018

Is #DoctorWho's The Trial Of A Time Lord...

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 28 May 2018

A tale of two countries pic.twitter.com/tl1MLmqT7R

— will thorpe (@withorpe) 28 May 2018

pic.twitter.com/jGuklOFUkO

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2018

Ragey fucking pork-faced imbeciles piss their M&S slacks in impotent wrath about something risibly inconsequential in a bid to deflect attention from the imperial cuntery-fuelled catastrofuck they shat out on the UK’s face to help satisfy their irrational hatred of foreigners. https://t.co/XMZGSqsKni

— Max 🏳️‍🌈 (@SpillerOfTea) 29 May 2018

You fight like a dairy farmer.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2018

I love you Guybrush Threepbot.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2018

Please RT if you feel there should be an annual #Windrush Day to celebrate the contribution made by the #WindrushGeneration @davidwalliams @DavidLammy @George_Osborne @Beverleyknight @skygillian @lemnsissay @GaryLineker @BuffOriginals @TheVoiceNews @LennyHenry @mrjakedwood pic.twitter.com/u08VOpVPgG

— Floella Benjamin (@FloellaBenjamin) 29 May 2018