About

I’m Tim Franklin. I work for an arts organisation in the Northwest of England. This blog is for everything that I want to play with: ideas, toys, complicated electronics, theatre audiences, words.

My interests:

1. Toy soldiers*~
2. Silly, silly computer systems*
3. Pen and paper RPGs~
4. Comic books
5. Computer games~
6. Plays
7. Books and that
8. Learning things
9. Science
10. Animals
11. Ethics

*Hobbies I don’t have the money to indulge
~Hobbies I don’t have the time to indulge

My policies:

If I’ve pissed you off:

I have no idea why. I’m delightful, surely? Anyway. Assuming you’ve got beef:

If you’d like to give me some constructive criticism in a comment, do. Provided you don’t write anything which is downright offensive you’ll stay up. Flamers will of course be removed and blacklisted, same for griefers, trolls, and Loki, Norse God of mischief and tricks.

But yeah. Provided you’re not virulently nasty / dangerously insane, please do tell me what’s offensive in my writing! I’m always looking to improve my politics / knowledge.

If I stole something of yours:

If I’ve used a photograph or some other content of yours without crediting you, sorry! If you want I’ll credit you, or otherwise I’ll remove the offending object from the site. I work on the basis that if you’re hosting content on the internet and not hiding it behind a pay barrier, you want it to be seen. Hence I’ll do my best either to link or to credit.

If you’d like to give me free stuff:

Send a message to me through the contact form with the heading “Free stuff”. When I rave about stuff it’s because I think it’s cool. So no promises on giving a review. Certainly no promises on positivity. And if I think something is so bad people need to avoid it – or it’s funny – then I’m gonna write a post that says so. I’m not interested in formal advertising at the moment, thanks.

The people I blog about:

I use my own name because I have a reckless disregard for my own professional well-being.  However you might find I provide anonymity for other people, even if they don’t give it to themselves. Let’s call that the double-dutch approach. I don’t think it’s principled so much as dumb but hey. You only live once at all under certain prevalent ideologically derived concepts of self-hood.

(Also because the incredible webcomic Overcompensating gives made up names to all the other webcomic writers it links to, and is totally awesome.)