Alasdair Stuart

@alasdairstuart

Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.

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Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· 28d

Notebook swap day! Thanks @ravenswordpress.com !

Two notebooks. One is blue and has stickers reading FENRIS GAMES and ASTEROID LOUNGE as well as a sticker showing a bunny a key and a carrot and a banana.

The other is a tan notebook with a Forbidden Newberry sticker showing an old medieval drawing of a mister, a second sticker marked ALIEN ATTACK showing three UFOs in front of New York cut and a pair of stickers of dinosaurs dressed for parties

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· 28d

Hey @dimension20.dropout.tv ? If the Purpee coterie needs a Bournemouth offshoot, I’ve got a candidate for you.

A deconsecrated church in Bournemouth turned into a night club called Sanctuary

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jul 4

Happy birthday! Please enjoy Twiglet in full repose:) he has multiple office beds and this is his favorite:)

Twiglet the white cat with pink toe beans reaches his front paws to the camera while lying upside down on an orange bed

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jul 3

#TheFullLid -3rd July - Happy Friday! This week @brandtandstein.com introduce us to the Worst Man, the ALA tell us to read, Twiglet is adorable and @ibuiltthesky.bsky.social plays us into the weekend! mailchi.mp/59c2027ab412...

On top of a basically exploded wedding cake, Chris Kafka sits. He is a very large man with long ish scruffy black hair, stubble and a white shirt and purple tie and jacket. He's not wearing socks but is in leather loafers. It looks good. In his arms, leaning backwards and toasting us with an enormous shiteating grin is Rad Raleigh. Slender, red haired, red suited, black shirted, yellow tied and entirely without filter, Rad is clearly having a ball. Chris is not. Written over them on a wedding invite style title card is BRANDT & STEIN-WORST MAN

Miss Piggy in a super cute kicky denim skirt and blouse picks books from the top of a shelf as Kermit reads next to her.

Twiglet the white cat with pink ears sits neatly on a dark blue carpet, tail kinked, looking up at the camera.

A smiling be-suited man with red hair and a beard holds a hand up to a bird, which lands on it. He, the bird and the desk he's leaning against are all on fire. He doesn't care and neither should you. At the top is the title I BUILT THE SKY - PROMISE ME YOU'LL THRIVE.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jun 30

Literally tapping the sign.

sign that says "i'm not interested in competing with anyone. i hope we all make it."

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jun 26

#TheFullLid - 26h June - Happy Friday! This week we're wandering the #backroomsmovie, meeting the cast of #worstman, boosting the #becksend crowd funder and playing out with the magnificent @monetxchange.bsky.social and some otter friends. mailchi.mp/5eae45a7eabd...

The poster for the backrooms shows Doctor Mary Kline, played by Renate Reinsve, bloodied and panicked, pressed up against a yellow wall.

An illustration of a Polaroid photo with the name “Francesca + Templeton” written at the bottom. The image is of an older white woman, wearing a yellow shirt and pearls, with her hair tied up at the back. She’s cooing indulgently at the angry Pomeranian she’s holding, that is snarling at the camera

Text reading THE CAST OF BECK'S END above a group of eight photos of the cast arranged in two lines of four. They include Becky Lindsay as Maya Cresswell, Karim Kronfli as Nicholas Hickman, Marta Da Silva as Sue Hickman, David Ault as the Reverend Warwick Pullman, Maryam Ali as Bailey Frakes, Dave Jones as Clifford Waite, Erika Sanderson as Tess Dunning and Pal Aron as Moeen Frakes

Magnificent drag artists Monét X Change and Trinity the Tuck honor the sea otter program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jun 19

#TheFullLid - 19th June - Happy Friday! This week we're looking at @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social and @dropout.tv 's comedy cadence, Ghanaian movie posters, boosting @strangehorizons.bsky.social and playing out with Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers. mailchi.mp/5a74c17f74d2...

Josh Johnson, wearing a black and gold brocaded jacket, juggles instruments above a banner reading JOSH JOHNSON-SYMPHONY-COMEDY SPECIAL MAY 22-HBO MAX

Prince sits on a purple motorbike wearing badass purple leathers and holding a gun. Above him in the sky a woman holds an assault rifle. The bike and Prince definitely happen in the original movie.

A female presenting figure throws a hammer, while on the other side of the image a group of grey buildings cluster under a dark sky

The band members perform the song while at a crowded flat party.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jun 13

This was a fun way to spend the afternoon:)

Four Italian style subway sandwich loaves dusted with herbs

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jun 1

Homemwde naan and spicy tomato jam with cream cheese and bacon. The Dishoom bacon naan basically. So happy with this:)

A homemwde fluffy man stuffed with bacon. Cream cheese and tomato jam

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Jun 1

Notebook swap day! Putting is the Excalibur casino and Starfleet Academy, incoming ie @fenrisgames.com @cloudyappleart.bsky.social and a mysterious bunny!

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 29

#TheFullLid - 29th May - Happy Friday! This week we're looking at @thenerdypriest.bsky.social 's great new book #thesheepdetectives and #herdling. We've got the Sinlaku RPG charity bundle, @bean525.bsky.social 's Star Trek Text Generator nd Ecca Vandal plays us out‬. mailchi.mp/0d4cb7bfd725...

The USS Cerritos, a light grey saucer shaped spacecraft with underslung warp engines and a yellow strip around the middle of it's saucer floats in space. A small square shuttlepod hurtles past. We see one of the red glowing engines under it and the title 'LUDICROUS SPEED!' in the top left corner.

A painting of Typhoon Sinlaku with blue, orange, white and green icons over the top.

Ecca Vandal sings and dances in a variety of rooms in an almost Backrooms-esque suburban house.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 22

A coastal cottage. A continental divide. A ticking clock. Centuries of ghosts. Ben and Lilly Duffy are about to make First Contact, as part of the The Sheridan Tapes: Anathema, crowdfunding now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 15

#TheFullLid - 15th May - Happy Friday! This week we're aboard the Icaron with @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social , spotlighting the game work of Friend of the Lid @rufflejax.bsky.social and Lika plays us into the weekend. mailchi.mp/05e5e1c6995f...

A vast cylindrical space station wrapped in enormous carapace like petals floats in space above a planet. Above the limb of the world the images of three people are visible. Lachesis 'Kiki' Davis is a black woman in her late 20s wearing dark coveralls and an orange turtleneck with her hair up. Next to her, Vera 'Fishcakes' Lam is an Asian teenager with gaunt features and an intense look, wearing grey with an orange harness. Next to them, Andrei Dulca is a heavyset white man in his 40s with long hair, which is partially white and a beard. He's wearing high tech glasses and a green uniform coat. Above them is the title FLIGHT OF THE ICARON

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 11

My first job every week is to start building the last thing I send on Friday, my newsletter. The Full Lid is a weekly dose of pop culture enthusiasm and I love doing it. Want to get this week's issue? Sign up here:

Alasdair peeks out over the top of the image, with the words THE FULL LID written across his head against a backdrop of pens, coffee and film reels

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 10

Hey @tincanaudio.co.uk ? As promised, weird dishwasher sounds!

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 10

Twiglet is entirely concealed. There is no cat in this bag.

Twiglet the white cat with pink toe beans lies in an M and S bag full of waste paper. He is convinced he is invisible. He is not correct.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 8

#TheFullLid - 8th May - Happy Friday! This week we're looking at Artemis II, Star Trek and all of us through The Overview Effect! Our Spotlights are some of the best photos from the flight, our Featured Boost is @talesfeathers.bsky.social and @mc.frontalot.com plays us into the weekend.

Commander Reid Wiseman of Artemis II films the Earth slowly disappearing behind the Moon as the crew's spacecraft orbits.

A group of animals and travellers sit around a fire at night and warm themselves. The title TALES & FEATHERS is in the middle of the image with YEAR 5. YEA 5. PRINT. FUND SLICE OF LIFE FANTASY along the top and BACK ON KICKSTARTER UNTIL MAY 31 along the bottom.

Astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover sit on the recovery chopper that picked them up having splashed down after the first successful flyby of the Moon in fifty years. They're both waving, giving thumbs up and have the colossal shit-eating grins of people who just literally went where no one has gone before and got to come back

A heavily pixelated old school computer game shows MC Frontalot as a small green character holding a sword fighting his way through a dungeon, looting the monsters and slowly leveling up.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 6

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Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· May 1

#TheFullLid - 17th April - Happy Friday! We're back with snapshot thoughts on #akira, #snluk and breaking the Big Guy Code. We've got Bandcamp Friday picks for you and details of the #thesheridantapes crowdfunder I'm writing for! mailchi.mp/97e63a5cdb02...

Ayoade Bamgboye, Paddy Young, Emma Sidi, Celeste Dring and Jack Shep lean on each other on the lower row of the photo. Above them, their castmates George Fouracres, Al Nash, Hammed Animashaun, Annabel Marlow, Larry Dean and Anna Maglano do the same

The word ANATHEMA, written in tense black letters on a white background

Fan art of Cammy White and Chun Li, two characters from the Street Fight series of video games. Cammy has long blond hair in pig tails, is wearing combat boots, a thigh holster, a green high collar leotard, red gloves and a red beret. Chun Li is wearing a knee length blue and white dress cut to the waist with a white sash. Her hair is in white spherical bunches and she has spiked wristlets. Both women are throwing high kicks, their legs colliding and throwing electric sparks. The words LIGHTNING KICK are written above that electricity and A WOMEN-LED STREET FIGHTER II ALBUM is written beneath it.

A bonfire at night as Katherine Priddy, a woman with dark hair, is on a steadicam, facing the lens, slowly orbits it.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Apr 30

Twiglet endorses this behaviour. Unless he's got his plushie dumpling. In which case he endorses that.

Twiglet, the white cat with pink ears and toe beans, naps in a sunbeam with his plushie dumpling.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Apr 17

#TheFullLid - 17th April - Happy Friday! We're looking at Welcome to Fosters by the amazing @imogenwrites.bsky.social on @rustyquill.com 's Neon Inkwell strand, the paper art of Hari and Deepti, @escapepod.org has a writer's call for you and Paul Kelly plays us out. mailchi.mp/898e22008027...

A forest clearing frames an image of a pond in an open wood. People are swimming and fishing in it while others watch. Golden light filters through the image from the back.

A background of a purple planet hanging in space with a moon in front of it and a nebula behind it. Stylised people icons stand in a crowd. The words DEMOCRATIC FUTURES are written over them. A friendly Escape Pod, circular with four yellow lights on top of it, hurtles past to the right.

A sepia-toned photo of a boy with dark hair holding a trumpet. Above him are the words SONGS FROM THE SOUTH 1985-2019 and the title PAUL KELLY'S GREATEST HITS

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Apr 13

Notebook swap day!

A dark blue notebook with a large sticker filled with orange tentacles holding swords. The centre of the sticker reads THE CUKT OF THE SUPERFLUOUS TENTACLE. Above it to the right is a blue sticker with a drawing of a green bird-like young person in dungarees and a beret, avidly reading. The phrase ZINES FOREVER surrounds them. To it's left a blue and red STARFLEET ACADEMY PENNANT shows orbital tracks of planets with the Starfleet chevron between them, also orbiting.

A maroon notebook with a blue white and red STARFLEET ACADEMY sticker on it. The chevron is white and the words STARFLEET ACADEMY EX ASTRIS, SCIENTIA written in dark blue around it. Below it is a side view drawing of the helmet from a suit of medieval armour. The plume is red and the words EXCALIBUR LAS VEGAS are written beneath the helmet.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Apr 10

#TheFullLid - 10th April - Happy Friday! We're skating through Hell with the extraordinary Skate Story, listening to the soundtrack by Blood Cultures as we go. Our boost is @anathemamagazine.bsky.social and we play you into the weekend with a skateboarding classic. mailchi.mp/797e5d769061...

On a field of warped stars, a glass skater stares at a brilliant white moon

Under deep red and blue light, the hooded and masked band members perform the song in urban environments.

A green and white candy striped background frames a photo of Han and Dean, two smilng white men in sweaters. The title reads SURF CITY: THE BEST OF JAN AND DEAN.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Apr 3

#TheFullLid - 3rd April - Happy Friday! We're looking at the vengeful heroines of #theywillkillyou and #readyornot2, going to the arctic with @pseudopod.org, the pop culture jungle with Richard Wilkinson and to the weekend with a Warox remix of a rap classic. mailchi.mp/66b9e089c00e...

The poster for THEY WILL KILL YOU shows Asia, the main character played by Zazie Beetz. She's drenched in blood and drawing a samuai sword in front of her face. The faces of the immortal rich assholes hunting her so they can harvest her soul for the devil are reflected in the sword

A painting of an insect viewed from above which looks like Wile E. Coyote, an orange and brown coyote with a permanently affronted and surprised expression. Beneath it are the words CARNIVOROUS VULGARIS, Family: Insanusmelodiam.

The words WAROX HIP HOP written over a roiling blue and yellow electrical storm and the title JUMP AROUND REMIX.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Mar 28

On the left, olive oil. In the pumpkin, olive oil, rock salt, garlic. Attemptint something like a tomato confit. On the right, salt, olive oil and Pizza the Action from condimaniacs. On the bottom, nothing 2-3 hours at 140c. Let’s go.

Baby tomatoes on a
Silver baking tray, with a small ceramic pumpkin tray in the middle.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Mar 27

#TheFullLid - 27th March - Happy Friday! We're going to the Moon and back with Tom Hanks and The Moonwalkers, celebrating the space art of Alma Thomas, loving the first issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social and playing into the weekend with Anne Nikitin mailchi.mp/5d7e83bc6659...

A corner of The Lightrooms shows an image of an Apollo astronaut standing on the Moon. The image is on every surface and a man in dark trousers and a light t-shirt looks on, awestruck,

An orange background with a red circle. Two thirds of it are red, with a vertical yellow stripe defining the third section and orange beyond that. The paint is acrylic

Against a twilight forest background speckled with stars, a female violinist in a black and white dress plays. She has the head of a rabbit. The cover reads ADVENTITIOUS ISSUE 1-FEATURING NEW FICTION FROM PA CORNELL AND OTHERS

A high definition image of an Apollo astronaut on the moon on the edge of a crater. It's projected across all four visible surfaces of an enormous room with people standing and sitting looking up at the photo from the floor. The title THE MOONWALKERS and BY ANNE NIKITIN is written across the centre of the image.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Mar 20

#TheFullLid - 20th March - Happy Friday! We're back with a @mygoditsraining.bsky.social 's brilliant The Survivor, Nancy Blum's amazing subway flowers from @thisiscolossal.com , @brendonconnelly.bsky.social 'snew newsletter and Sonic Youth takes us out to the weekend. mailchi.mp/8b1e48dbc800...

A New York subway train hurtles past a deserted platform, motion blurring as it goes. At the top of the image is the quote 'An absolute delight to read a thriller this damn good.' by Mark Greaney. Below that is the title THE SURVIVOR. Below that are the words A NOVEL and below that is the name ANDREW REID

A green background with an image of an ink well in black and the words 'invisible ink' written in white lower case text

Pink flowers and curved dark green leaves in mosaic form on a white background in a New York subway station

A kneeling woman in a dress snarls on a concrete floor. Above her the words SONIC YOUTH are written in the air. Below her in the bottom left corner is the word EVOL.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Mar 9

It’s been, and in some ways continues to be, something of a Time. So this morning we get the good coffee.

A bronze moka pot sits on a gas stove, preparing the coffee that Alasdair needs this morning.

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Mar 6

#TheFullLid - 6th March - Happy Friday! This week we're solving the mystery of the Midnight Cartographers with @geeksyndicate.bsky.social 's new book, we've got Bandcamp Friday recommendations, @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social crowdfunding and DJ Afrosia plays us out. mailchi.mp/926fc8a07043...

$A group of kids stand on a fracturing surface filled with splinters of white light. They're all in the same school uniform, with Bobby at the front holding a satchel and a determined expression. To his right is Tony, blonde and terrified but standing. Behind him is DJ wearing a hat with a hamster with a determined expression on his shoulder and behind him is Nikki. She's the biggest kid, with glasses, pig tails and wielding a ruler like a sword. To her right and off Bobby's left shoulder is Ada, the smallest of them and the one with the most determined expression. The title reads MYSTERY OF THE MIDNIGHT CARTOGRAPHERS by BARRY NUGENT'$

Flights of Foundry' is written in green against a dark blue background. Black dragons speckled with white dance through it.

A forest at night with a cottage to one side of a clearing and a fire in the centre of it. The fire forms a wolf and a horse head above the forest and the title CAMLANN - A Post-Apocalyptic Audio Drama is written above it.

DJ Afrosia's 90's New Jack Swing remix. DJ Afrosia is a woman in a brightly coloured top, DJ'ing in a daylight filled cheerful room

Alasdair Stuart@alasdairstuart· Feb 27

#TheFullLid - 27th February 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're manufacturing revelation in the stunning new game from @rufflejax.bsky.social ,supporting the Trans Continental pipeline, doing the Clean Sweep for the month and playing out with Billy Preston. mailchi.mp/71ec2906ee77...