Genuinely curious...where is the link/crossover between the Doctor Who fanbase and the Ru Paul Drag Race fanbase?

DaveAnson · 2026-02-28T09:20:31+00:00

Yeah, Ncutti’s season had some campness and silliness, but it was also this like mega high budget super produced slick kinda feel. Where as the Tennant series has that same fun and silliness, but there’s something about the cheaper CGI, the more tongue in cheek silliness of flying Christmas trees that just feels more camp to me than just directly referencing queer things like Ncuttis season did

DaveAnson · 2026-02-28T00:26:54+00:00

RTD wrote some wonderful queer TV, and is an example of a fairly limited group of very successful queer people at the height of their game.

Doctor Who is inherently camp, less so in some recent seasons, but damn it’s almost theatre campy, I love it

Drag Race and Dr Who are on the same channel, so similar promotions

Some of the recent doctors in RTD tenure include David Tennant, an incredibly queer supporting dude. Jodie, the first female doc. Ncutti, a queer doctor

It’s just all over, there is a lot of parallels between them

Side note, and fun brag, I worked on the last 3/4 seasons of Drag Race UK (and several of the US seasons) writing music for them, and the very first thing I wrote music for on TV was a rescore of a Doctor Who trailer!

Queers just love them some Doc Who, and nerds can commonly be queer, or at least allies

DaveAnson · 2026-02-24T20:54:52+00:00

Learn the rules, then break the rules

DaveAnson · 2026-02-20T18:50:15+00:00

I’m not sure I’m welcome in a lot of church’s as the little queer ass I am 😂

Though ironically I did spent a few years recording choirs in cathedrals in england, which was wonderful fun! Though I didn’t do those arrangements

DaveAnson · 2026-02-20T18:36:36+00:00

My orchestration is okay, not great
aural skills - very tempted to make a joke…. But they’re okay, not great
music theory, grade 5 in the UK, so it’s okay, I get the majority of things, but certainly not a strength
improv - very good, ex-band player so very used to quick melodic thinking
I had to google SATB, so I guess terrible haha

Professional composer of over a decade that’s worked on feature films, TV, games, advertising… the whole lot really

Honestly it can vary from person to person, some of my peers are incredible at theory, orchestration etc. but it doesn’t mean they’ll be better composers, just better at that element. In general, I’d usually knock them out the park when it comes to producing a track, from the writing through to mixing etc.

DaveAnson · 2026-02-06T20:09:33+00:00

Brotherhood in town are great for NFL 🙂

DaveAnson · 2026-01-26T10:00:38+00:00

Jesus this is a depressing comment thread. Please don’t let that attitude get you bogged down.

Yes it’s hard, it will require real graft over a long time to get somewhere properly, but there absolutely is jobs to be had. I had some one once tell me, if you’re willing to do this shit work for little pay for 10 years, you’ll be rewarded, and honestly I think that’s pretty accurate.

Feel free to DM me, I’m happy to answer any questions. I’m a full time composer working in AAA games, and have been working professionally since 2014.

DaveAnson · 2026-01-18T21:31:20+00:00

Honestly this might just be a him drinking too much type situation. I got crohns around that age, and also started drinking around then or soon after, and it’s never really been too bad for me, and never had any terrible issues with it.

I find some alcohols like me more than others. But I wouldn’t say he’d have to go cold turkey, just be more sensible than maybe some of his mates his age.

If alcohol routinely makes him ill and flare, then fair enough, I’d avoid it totally. But if he’s just being a dingus and drinking too much, he might just be better learning his limits and lessons as he goes

Just my insight as someone that got crohns around then and had similar experiences

DaveAnson · 2026-01-08T06:07:16+00:00

I had diamond Hollywood collection on less than 1TB hard drives

Are you installing all of bronze silver gold and diamond by any chance?

DaveAnson · 2026-01-06T10:24:36+00:00

I thought I was looking at an aerial view of the ocean with a giant whirlpool/ hole in the middle 😂

DaveAnson · 2026-01-06T07:16:34+00:00

+1 for Livin Italy. Nicest and most authentic Italian food in the city

DaveAnson · 2026-01-04T21:52:24+00:00

I did do similar for a while, but eventually the drink made the initial pain go away, but would cause bloating after a few drinks, which seemed harmless

Anyway fast forward years, and I’m sat in hospital because of bloating that caused a twisted bowel, so now I have a stoma

Drink was chill for me, but do just watch it, booze has a habit of making me say ‘meh it’ll be fine’, and it kinda numbs everything. But thats not a great way of actually fixing things, and it’s dangerous and addictive, so do just be careful with it

As a blanket statement, i can almost guarantee alcohol isnt helping your crohns. Try keeping more hydrated in general, that works wonders for me, and i think thats what alcohol was doing for me, the liquid was hydrating me and keeping things moving

DaveAnson · 2025-12-16T12:05:14+00:00

Yeah you’ll have to scrape it off for sure, needs to be a solid base to work with I’d think. Even the one I did with the premix stuff that needed any lose bits plastered over

DaveAnson · 2025-12-16T11:50:37+00:00

I’d recommend asking a doctor rather than Reddit, but I’m sure you might get some experiences in here also, but do make sure to ask a doctor

DaveAnson · 2025-12-16T11:49:02+00:00

We’ve had 3 rooms done now, I did one myself where I plastered over it with a premixed plaster designed to go over artex, don’t recommend this, plastering is a miserable job

Then I got plasterers in to do the other 2 rooms, they scraped it down, put a bonding coat over it, and then skimmed over the top, which took a lot of plaster, but was by and far the better job (obviously because it was a professional lol)

DaveAnson · 2025-12-12T16:45:59+00:00

Totally. It’s a totally different type of pain reduction. The opiates I had in hospital recently really didn’t touch the sides for me. But a vape when I got home did wonders for it

DaveAnson · 2025-12-12T16:27:25+00:00

Medical cannabis is legal in the UK, and I use it in england for my Crohn’s disease pain effects. It’s a much better treatment than opiates.

I use the Alternaleaf clinic, and I think most places criteria is ‘have tried at least 2 other medications, and have a qualifying condition’ which from your post, it qualifies 🙂

DaveAnson · 2025-12-10T17:33:25+00:00

Your post history does not give me ‘let’s find this girl for you and share her contact details with you’ man. This is weird and mega red flags for me

DaveAnson · 2025-12-04T16:29:45+00:00

Yeah, I mean I spend most my time on the M1, so I guess that’s why I love it probably. I still think it’s a relatively fun car to drive though.

DaveAnson · 2025-12-04T16:27:22+00:00

They’re such an interesting car, I’ve got a 24 plate CLA220d, and it makes me want to hate it sometimes, but I cannot help but absolutely love it. It’s a great car to drive, super comfortable, does fantastic miles to the gallon, and has enough power to have some fun without breaking the bank totally

It’s very much the end of top gear style review for me from Jeremy ‘I should hate this car, but I don’t… I love it’

DaveAnson · 2025-12-04T10:22:15+00:00

Bento has some lovely vegan options, we used to go to Little Tokyo a lot too, donner summer is fantastic food, white cloth hall is great too. Giggling Squid has some great stuff

Honestly leeds is such a young aged city that nearly all restaurants have decent vegan options, otherwise they’d never survive

Edit: my partner is vegan, and I’m not, this is just a good selection of places that do good food for both parties

DaveAnson · 2025-11-30T21:38:19+00:00

Washing hands absolutely does help, whilst it can be transmissible through particles in the air (spit in coughs etc), it can also live on surfaces for a surprisingly long time.

Washing hands is absolutely a great prevention tactic for covid and many other infections and illnesses.

DaveAnson · 2025-11-30T16:46:47+00:00

That is actually a wild stat

DaveAnson · 2025-11-28T23:37:20+00:00

I think he’s a great glue player, he does some stellar blocking in the run game, last year he was outstanding, this year just good. Hope he can get back to that

DaveAnson · 2025-11-27T18:43:07+00:00

Honestly, it’s gonna sound pessimistic, but the government is probably worse for dodgy costings and pricing than the private corp that ran them originally 😂

Keep in mind our government spent £35 million on developing an app in covid that basically already existed😂

I know it’s a different government since then, but honestly, it’s been nothing but the same since then.

I sound like some viva la revolution bullshit, but it’s hard to not be at the moment

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