It's mostly comedians and TV presenters, sometimes sportspeople. Maybe I could become a TV presenter. Debbie's Guide To Slapdash Archeology, or something. Probably pays better than being a writer, too. 😂
My lower sixth form tutor was one of the harmonica players on the last of the summer wine theme tune! He played it as he left his retirement assembly!! 🥹
Sudden memory of a 2000AD one shot strip where some 19th century style archeologists are exploring an underground ruin and discussing what they thought it's creators intended.
Final panel is focused on text on a wall saying something to the effect of "London nuclear bunker No.7".
I can't have been the only seven year old on a school visit to the British Museum to wonder whether one day my skeleton would be on display in a glass case.
I want them to bring back This Is Your Life (not with some comedian presenting it) and know the person getting the big red book and just make lots of in-jokes
I want to be the eccentric wife of an ambassador. I've not been shy about sharing this ambition with my husband (who sadly makes theatre instead of fulfilling my dreams 🥲)
I have huge unrealistic ambitions (I'd like to win an Oscar), but my niche ones are fairly small. Like, I want to be a guest on a podcast like Disniversity or Overhated, talking about films I love.
oooh yes. I would love to be a guest on a book podcast. I have got book-podcast-adjacent (thank you @samillingworth.com for talking to me about poetry for ages!) but just straight up being able to be too keen about books for an hour would be a dream come true.
After my great-grandfather was released from the nazis, he built a little house with his own hands for himself and my great-grandmother. I want to build my own little home someday, with a greenhouse on the southern side. In the woods. Near the sea. I force myself to breathe until I have that.
Our field hospital got freedom of the city of Liverpool in 2009 had a nice brew with the Mayor and a little march around so definitely still a thing. I think though it would be a pre requisite that Everton are taken off your villain slide 🤣 Man Utd maybe
An ex boss of mine had a theory that everyone secretly years to be a torch singer and also, no matter what they actually do for work, to need an Oscars acceptance speech in their back pocket. (She was a hoot to work with.)
I remember writing an oscars acceptance when I was about 15. Me and my friends all wrote it together. It was really mean about one specific fictional person, our nemesis.
He was the Damsel in Distress.
Like... angel brought the drama. The exes, the kid, it's all side plot.
If you had wanted to center him this is how: Angel, got his soul & broods, he wants to save humans; he is good at saving humans. The supernatural world fucking hates him tho.
But people (cordi, Lorne, Wes, Fred...) notice he is both trying to do the people thing (build community, make connections, &c) & is good
at the Good thing (save innocents, avert apocalypses, &c) & also that everything supernatural hates his guts
I would like to be that last minute guest they call for chat shows when someone else falls through, because I always have good anecdotes, and excellent chemistry with the host.
Genuinely thought that at this point of my career I'd be presenting an ITV light entertainment afternoon cartoon quiz show featuring twilight stars like Lionel Blair, as a latterday Bill Tidy
My ambitions are to play at Fuji Rock festival in Japan and to do a tour of Mexico. I have no idea why it’s those two specifically but that’s always been my answer.
Well I wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer when I was a kid. They were kinda like Pan’s People on the American top of the pops. Damn my perimenopausal knees!
Ha! I realise my mistake now - I meant being at a convention and meeting someone who was dressed as a character from one of my books. But heck yes, why not go for the whole single-author con as my niche wish?! 😂
I was desperate make an art book about the Polish/Austrian/German production of the 1977-1982 stop motion Moomins series. I spent years contacting people and rights holders, and constantly hit dead ends. I’d still love to make it.
It sounds like a really cool project -- we'd love to see it exist. Not sure we have any special access that would make it happen, but we'd be happy to lend a hand if we were ever needed.
Oh no don't worry lol, I know there are many many more worthy people than me. It's just a thing I dreamed of when I was a boy that's all, thinking maybe one day I'd be the one to press the button. I'll keep working hard and maybe one day I'll earn the honour! 🥰
I’ve always wanted to, just like the villains in Kojak when I was a kid, get out of my own outdoor swimming pool and immediately put on bathrobe. I was in absolute awe of those guys when I was little because their Mums never made them get dry or anything.
While the recognition would be neat I would cherish something I created endure among humanity 300 years hence. Whatsoever it may be; a word or idiom that frothed forth from my mind, a thing I crafted, a way of looking at a thing...
Just for the joy of contributing to this exquisite corpse
I’d like to be the writer in residence at a library on the edge of a forest, that has a big outdoor deck where you can sit on comfy sofas or cushions and watch the world go by as you pretend to read the books. And also actually read them. I’m not a complete heathen.
I'd like to be famous enough to be one of the guest judges for my area on Great British Menu, just so I can eat two four course award quality meals. Also maybe to go on Strictly and make it as far as Musicals Week.
Making a living writing wouldn’t hurt either.
Seeing as “having Tommy Arnold confirm the blob in his illustration of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is actually Gurathin’s head” was achieved this morning I had to think of something else quickly… https://bsky.app/profile/tommyarnoldart.com/post/3lignozcq622b
About 20 years ago, I came across a pop up in a mall in New Delhi, India selling discount cards for the city of Liverpool. It was so random! The card let you get discounts at restaurants, museums, bus rides, etc.
To have a pet crow.
It nearly happened. I rescued one of the crows that nest in our garden when it fell in a river, but it was sick and it died. Now the other crows avoid me. I've since discovered that crows hold grudges across generations so I've got no chance now unless I move house!
I did get to spend time with her while she recuperated though. If I left her anywhere alone she made a complete racket. If she was in the same room as me she quietly scolded me until I talked to her. Then she'd fall asleep. 🖤
I always wanted to be a guest on Midweek With Libby Purves. I've appeared on a gazilion Radio 4 programmes but would have LOVED to have been on her show. Then the idiots went and took it off air, scuppering my chances.
Me too, and my choices change so it's worth keeping the lists updated just in case. "Well Kirsty" (because in my version it is Kirsty, sorry Lauren) "this next one reminds me of a particularly challenging time when I lived in Croydon"
Well, you could be any daughter of the King to be named Infanta (or daughter to the heir of the Spanish throne), and not necessarily even!. The late Duke of Calabria was named infante by King Juan Carlos. He was cousin by his mother side and cousin once removed by his father side, to Juan Carlos
As a matter of fact if you were to be the heiress to the Spanish throne, you would be Infanta, yes, but the title preceding that would be, as it happens now, Princess of Asturias
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A skiing holiday while I'm able to ski.
Win Wimbledon.
All perfectly reasonable except perhaps no 1.
Add in some Morrisey LP's and a Canadian flag to keep them guessing.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Mysteries
Final panel is focused on text on a wall saying something to the effect of "London nuclear bunker No.7".
If only I was a professional film journalist.
Heck him & Cordelia ALONE would have more than carried the show
Like... angel brought the drama. The exes, the kid, it's all side plot.
If you had wanted to center him this is how: Angel, got his soul & broods, he wants to save humans; he is good at saving humans. The supernatural world fucking hates him tho.
at the Good thing (save innocents, avert apocalypses, &c) & also that everything supernatural hates his guts
So they strive to keep him safe to do his thing
Alas, I always get typecast as the village idiot.
https://youtu.be/bQV88yFzl9I?si=p16Gp89m5FD0vIlI
Sent the script to a friend who writes professional pantos, who told me I had far too much plot!
A tricky form to do well, but thoroughly enjoyable.
Just for the joy of contributing to this exquisite corpse
The Muppets don't get out of bed for anyone who isn't the absolute top of their game. If Kermit calls, I'll know I've made it.
Side note: I don't know or care what field I've made it in.
Making a living writing wouldn’t hurt either.
https://bsky.app/profile/tommyarnoldart.com/post/3lignozcq622b
Niche expertise vaccines and the anti-vaccine lobby (Private Eye made a massive mistake re MMR but did admit it…)
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it’s a wild show!
Liverpool, explain yourself!
It nearly happened. I rescued one of the crows that nest in our garden when it fell in a river, but it was sick and it died. Now the other crows avoid me. I've since discovered that crows hold grudges across generations so I've got no chance now unless I move house!
https://youtu.be/BiL1nkhfsHI?si=I4jMRbZ5czfx74dN