CHOTINER: Do you even know who I am, and why people are talking about me? ME: Well, you're always doing interviews, so... I assume you're a journalist? Or maybe work in HR. CHOTINER: What do I look like. What colour are my eyes. ME: ...trick question - no colour. CHOTINER: Incorrect.

This Is The Sea is a bewildering creation. You hear The Whole of the Moon and think 'wow, what an incredible song' and then you listen to the album and it's just all like that. It's like someone actually figured out how to make the whole plane out of the indestructible black box.

A new restaurant near me advertises their New York-style pizza, and, while it is quite good, I think there will always be part of me that sees that and starts hollering 'New York, baby! Da Big Apple! Only city in the world where you can buy a coffee and a sandwich in the same store!'

When engaging with an established work (writing fanfiction), you have to grapple with unanswered questions (whether or not Ferret is from Yorkshire), make your own creative decisions (make Ferret be from Yorkshire), and accept the consequences (hope no-one minds you made Ferret be from Yorkshire.)

Absolutely baffled to discover that there are people, plural, who claim to have watched Taskmaster and routinely entirely skipped the prize task - to the point of not knowing there were prizes involved - because the thought the first fifth of the show was 'interviews'.

My only exposure to Hollow Knight is that a New Vegas blog that I liked pivoted to Hollow Knight content - with a full redesign and name change - and then shut down.

Y'know, I've gotta give J. R. R. Tolkien credit for creating fantasy creatures based on stereotypical white people. True ally behaviour.

There's a scene in The Amateur Cracksman where Raffles is being held at gunpoint by a South African diamond millionaire, but manages to escape by suggesting that his bodyguard had let slip he was an Illicit Diamond Buyer and then leaping out the window in the subsequent confusion and upset.

I sometimes think about dyeing my hair some interesting colour, but if I liked it, I'd have to redye it when it grows out (far too quick, happens in practically the blink of an eye), and if I didn't like it, I'd have to wait for it to grow out (far too slow, I'd be dead before it's done).

Casual reminder that, in Fallen London, you can let your finishing school class do a kink scene, only for them to annoy your boss by getting bogged down in bondage discourse. (She said we need to exercise restraint, but that's exactly what we were *trying* to do...)

Don't get your hopes up, people. We've been here before. His followers will revive him with the blood of a slaughtered virgin, same as last time.

If this antivirus really cared about the seven problems it found on my computer, it would fix them for me without asking me to subscribe for twelve months, with or without the discount.

'You're low on HP! You should drink a potion!' But if I use my action drinking a potion, I won't be able to hit the enemy this turn, so they'll still be alive, so they'll hit me and take away all the HP the potion gave me! Anyway, that's why they threw me out of the Adventurer's Guild.

One of my most sweepingly dismissive opinions is that pretty much all religious horror, folk horror and the like is just carrying water for Christian authoritarianism. 'If you stray from the True Church and a Pious Life, monsters will Get You.' Tedious propaganda.

I'm in the production team on Escape to the Country. I'm in charge of blurring out details that aren't fit for television. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll blur one photo of the current tenants' kids but not the other one. I'll blur a vase. If a cow walks past the window, I'll blur the cow.

When someone who usually looks after others has to be looked after.

sorry. going through some stuff

Rigorously checking that no-one's already diminished the same band before I post, because I'm terrible that way.

@wtyppod.bsky.social merch concept: 'IF THIS STRUCTURE'S A-ROCKIN' / MAKE IT MORE RIGID'.

Posting the sci-fi utopia picture with the caption 'society if John Cooper Clarke didn't read his poetry too fast when he performs live' and failing to adequately explain how this would lead to a sci-fi utopia.

Considering insisting that Kelvin is the only right temperature scale to use. Getting all my arguments that Celsius and Fahrenheit are confusing and arbitrary while Kelvin is easy and intuitive ready.

I was watching some TV, but I couldn't follow the plot at all because the subtitler forgot to describe the background music. I had no idea whether I was hearing (UPBEAT MUSIC) or (MID-TEMPO MUSIC)!

Got a new story on the go.

'It's rotten wood.' 'Not for me. Not if it's yew.'

We had to say goodbye to Boo today. She was the best cat in the world. If our love could have kept her going, she'd have lived forever, and if she'd got all the good things she deserved, she'd have spent it all cuddling in the sunshine and purring up a storm.

My mind is an iron ball rolled into a room full of magnets (the magnets are embarrassing, distressing or shameful memories).

Champignons for my real friends and real pinyons for my sham friends. Then they can all get together and make a delicious pizza.

BADGE CHECK. Post your badges here!

(youth pastor sitting backwards on a chair) Sure, Chappell Roan may be 'iconic', but you know who else is iconic? Ana Matronic. From Scissor Sisters. She's iconic too.

Someone included one of my New Vegas mods in their recommended mod pack, so lots of people are using it! That's rather nice. I hope they're enjoying it.

Hello. I wrote a story. It's about Fallen London and Taskmaster. If you happen to be cohabiting with me in the central slice of that Venn diagram, you can read it here.

If I'm not the main character of reality, how come I'm in every scene? Check and mate.

Trying a new build - Stealth Suit + the 12.7mm SMG, and, for a quirky twist, Dr Mobius' glove. I tackled Quarry Junction by sneaking in, punching a few of the deathclaws to frenzy them, and letting them kill each other. Her name is Ianthe.

Five Nights at Freddy's is kind of amazing. It became phenomenally successful, with dozens of sequels and spinoffs, despite basically every part of it being bad (and getting worse with every subsequent entry).

DID YOU KNOW: 'Art Garfunkel' is short for Arthur Garfunkel.

Suck it, you miserable vampires. I hope this figure is underreported by orders of magnitude. I hope they burned trillions trying to put their puppet in office.

Some days, the very idea of being a writer seems laughably pretentious. You think your thoughts are so good that people will pay you for them? Do your farts smell so good that people will pay to sniff them, too? The mad thing is, it works. You just gotta practice being the best farter you can be.

Oh, man, never again. I signed up for one of those adopt-an-aristocrat apps. I was hoping for a top-class lord, all haunted and interesting, smoking hashish and writing mournful poetry.

Love seeing someone get close to cats for the first time and post something like 'my new cat follows me around and climbs on top of me and headbutts me and makes a growling noise, does he hate me???'

DID YOU KNOW: The name 'Isabelle' is derived from the phrase '(she) is a belle (a beautiful girl)'. Similarly, a less attractive baby might be named 'Isntabelle'.

If you ever see this, it means some rat fuck of a quiz setter has got one over on you.

I'll be on JOY Drive (joy.org.au/joydrive/) at 5.45 on Monday evening talking about queergoldfields.au, if anyone wants to listen in!

(trying to insult someone by implying their testicles are smaller than is usual) Damn, did this girl arrive in a cardboard box? Because she's packing peanuts.

Yolf.

My low-stakes conspiracy theory is that printers are lying to us about what colour inks they use. Mixing magenta and yellow to create red? That's impossible. Magenta is purple so it's red and blue. Adding yellow will make brown. I'm no fool!

I may have just made the most academic pun of my career. Someone was talking about how history writing is about drawing a line of best fit between the subjects' and the audiences' language and frames of reference and I said they were really putting the 'graph' in 'historiography'.

Reddit exists to remind us that gamers are the lowest form of life and deserve no consideration or sympathy.

If I had a nickel for every time a band with a wooly name released a song about erasing a tape, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

If Northern Exposure had a post-watershed spinoff they could call it Indecent Exposure.