Unfathomably niche pop music opinion: I dream of a collaboration between Simon Panrucker and Lorraine Bowen, both delightful musicians with freshly silly sensibilities, and both coincidentally featured on the Playdate. They've also both done comedy music fitness routine live performances 🌱

I have borrowed a sari and safety-pinned fairy lights into it, we are *go* for our Arcane-inspired larp! I'm playing mostly-Victor partly-Jace but I've only watched the first three episodes of the series "so I wouldn't be too biased by the story". Nobody tell me if fairy-lit sari is a spoiler.

Having trouble mustering up even the larp-basic tier* of fantasy costume for this weekend 😅 *dress shirt and far too many scarves in "innovative" places

They were out of discount easter eggs, so it's time for Doubting hippopoThomas! My friend Leo made that pun and entirely disabled himself with laughter, we're sure my ecumenical bluesky followers will get it.

Having trouble shaking the feeling I'm in my "bastard era". Some fun hurdles for mental health have left my resilience for people, places, things, or even activities at an all-time-low, so friends have had to get used to snapping or hiding from them. At least my therapist has some new theories 👍🏽

Thank you @loadingreadyrun.com and Coca Cola's vice president of global sparkling flavours for giving @drkuro.bsky.social higher "does the world feel dreamlike or unreal?" than he got from actual ketamine on a clinical trial. May the blesséd Canadians continue to keep us entertained and informed 🫡

Cold take: I miss when programs let you choose how they worked. MSN messenger let you hide or disable basically any function, meanwhile Telegram keeps yapping about its in-line textbox AI, and YouTube keeps putting more "playables" in my home feed and auto-playing shorts on open.

The Empire Strikes Back is a masterclass in sad wookiee noises, sad human man noises, and anyone else who wants to sound like a husky being washed under duress.

yoda's dark side snake emporium is so cool idk where he got so many varieties of friendly lizard, I just wanna chill out with them

Star Wars Vee: Backpack Yoda has to have been a merch opportunity. Store your schoolbooks in his robe, and get random verbal snippets about bewaring the seductive nature of the dark side 👍🏽

Now that we're in Yoda's Dagobah Food Hut And Day Spa, we're actually at part of the franchise where I recognise something! Even if it's entirely from bad lip reading and yoda puppet memes, I feel myself on firmer ground, ironic for Dagobah 😛

Lightsabers are gloriously unsubtle weapons. I feel like there's a "samurai code of honour in star wars" video essay somewhere.

It's another post-hospital star wars recovery, and Star Wars 5: One Battle After Another is looking pretty good so far. We've spotted two different women who aren't Leia! The Hoth base has featured background blonde and background brunette! I really love the wobbly practical sets for realism too.

I've been thinking about manspreading a lot, as one of the "bad bits of masculinity", and realising that it physically hurts not to do it. I'm someone who abhors taking up space, but anything tighter than a 45-60° leg angle is a constant muscle effort to fight against nature. I feel like a golem.

I'm stealing Chichester's press shots just to show off one of the transitions between BFG human and puppet, every single time the change was magic. Not pictured here is small-puppet BFG, for when the big giants got human actors and the human characters got even smaller!

Popped down to my family yesterday to see the BFG in Chichester, and I have so much respect for their puppeteers. Every time they change which characters are human-scale, every prop and puppet has to change too, and they keep the physical character expression seamless.

drive carefully we have podcast in the back

Star Wars 4: A New Setting for Indiana Jones is as good as I should have expected it to be. Helps me understand why Phantom Menace copied this super janky plot structure, but the "anthology of cool stuff" storyline makes sense here! Lots of fun meeting all of this with Andor+Rogue One first, too.

"His hair guns are powered by opera" (and other sentences One Piece makes me say)

We've made it to Rogue One, which is excellent. Very good Star Wars yes. Lots of weighty self-sacrificial characters. It also shows the audience that only 2% of people in the star wars universe are female, which explains the intense macho politics that are reinforcing the empire 😅 #whynowomen

"fresh" "vegetables" are propaganda from Big Farmer here's why everything should be 🥒pickles🥒 in this essay I will... (brought to you by me trying some piccalilli, loving it, and learning a lot about cultural appropriation in a short time)

I thought we'd gotten away with a jar-jar free film but he had to appear at the most emotionally inopportune moment 🥲

Star Wars 3: You Can't Fix Him Padmé is great, I get it's why its people's favourite of the opening trilogy. As Obi-Wan Kenobi says, "A Jedi is never late, Anakin, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to. And it helps if he has one of these little breathing tube things."

My favourite TTRPG rules system is HEART! (Human Error Assessment & Reduction Technique) OK so it's a systems engineering standard, but have you seen these tables for calculating player disadvantage based on action context? The task feeling meaningless is 2-3x as bad as being below 75% HP!

Friends have got us watching Season 2 of the live-action One Piece, and I have a quiet admiration for "can't hug every sword 😭" girl's characterisation.

Who's slightly sleep deprived in A&E but just achieved their first ever "normal" blood pressure reading, and, uh, has two thumbs? wait dang it i have no idea how to express the appropriate gesture in text 👍🏽 this guy 👍🏽 (this is how I learn that emoji only has left-handed thumbs)

You should buy cool shirts from @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social, nobody* questions an obvious custard spill because the designs are 🌟 just 🌟 too 🌟 crisp 🌟 And I take it as their blessing that half an hour later I found a signed copy of Vermis III in an indie bookshop 😁 *outside the custard bun shop

I'm learnin' about South London Hedgehogs courtesy of @skhoshbell.bsky.social 👍🏽 North West London recently got its first beavers so of hedgehogs we can dream also 📯 (Support small run published works! They're almost always cool little treasures of someone else's hyperfixation and I love them!)

Dang, Yoda's hitbox is so small, Saruman doesn't have a chance in a lightsaber fight. (@drkuro.bsky.social assures me this was true in Soul Calibur 4, too.)

Star Wars 2: 50 Fraught Dates is a much better film than the phantom menace 📯 Super chuffed at Saruman the Brown showing up for some fun stunt casting and to point out that the film truly is operatic fantasy. Also a big fan of *unsubtle leitmotifs*, they're a lot of fun!

My emotions are so wild right now that @alcides.prof just mentioned the song "Baka Mitai" and now I'm ugly crying "thinking about narrative recontextualisation" is to me what "zoning out about swords" is to Brennan Lee Mulligan on a good day, but I'm also in SSRI withdrawal 😅

"I thought most fish were about 1/3 tail but most fish are mostly fish" I'm tired and I don't have to be good at learning art when I'm tired!

I think @drkuro.bsky.social was really mean taking me from the highs of Andor to The Phantom Menace ☹️

Obi-Westlife Kenobi looks ready to be a backstreet boy any minute. @drkuro.bsky.social has warned me that Anakin sports the same ponytail later. I have concerns 😅

Gods, Star Wars Uno: Racial of the Stereotypes really is a series of things they thought would look cool with minimum viable connective tissue. Some of them do look very cool, to be fair, but I keep getting "the cutaway scenes from speed racer with the kid and the monkey" vibes 😅

I'm watching Star Wars 1: The Tax Disputes for the first time, and I really appreciate how the subtitles are spelt to ensure Jar Jar Binks is irritating whether or not you can hear him. Inclusive annoyance! Goth Amidala slays though 🔥

that time when you're drunk for the first time in years with a friend you have a massive crush on but it's at the place they work so you don't want to make it weird for them (but at least the drinks are super cheap) asking for a friend 👍🏽 #ramblesky

can secret societies meet over zoom/discord etc.? asking for a friend 😉

In some bonkers "nature vs nurture" egg news (y'all know I'm an egg fan), I'm related to some identical twins who have separately been - limited to 2 eggs per week for cholesterol reasons - encouraged to eat 3 eggs per day for dietary reasons Me, I'm an egg improvisateur. I take'em when I get'em.

Yooo, traditionally made audio drama is still a thing! Like a book, but noisy! I know some of the voice actors in this, one of them personally, one of them is Jennifer Hale, and they're a really jolly lot who punch so far above their weight for production value. www.kickstarter.com/projects/era...

I love AI losing money posts. Always repost a hopecore.

Honestly if Elon Musk just ate a whole human person for every meal, he'd be killing fewer people than the gas emissions from his stupid AI datacenters that his only use case for are "you can make it generate personal insults at parties"

ok but why is vore suddenly everywhere, how come 1/5 of all posts featuring one-off tomodachi life jester "Hugh Morris" on Bluesky are vore-themed fan art? What kind of cultural indicator is this explosion in a specific kink? Do we want to be eaten consensually before the billionaires eat us?

The temptation to implement that one metaphor re fantazio desert worm dungeon as an overly complex #voresky path Dw, I'll draft it in twine like a proper narrative designer

Our house beast looks excited to read "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by qntm, a book I think I've technically already read in web form but thankfully, and thematically, forgotten all about 😊

Had sleep paralysis for the first time last night! Properly weird experience. Partly wishing I could check my legs existed, partly felt like I was moving my limbs after all, and a little bit still dreaming about buying a second-hand moped in Japan. Wasn't even sure which way up I was 🙃

today in a second-hand bookshop I saw a John Wyndham book that I had never heard of, which (1) I had no idea there were any John Wyndham books I hadn't read, (2) the book was called Jizzle

Not saying we're uncultured but in "name a Steven Spielberg movie" got the answers: - robocop - ET - Kill Bill - Indiana Jones - Titanic The right answer was @drkuro.bsky.social, so he's the capable one here 😅

We just started playing Sleeping Gods, the board/atlas game, and it has instructed us to "Gain Gloria, Soup, Gear, and Flapjacks" 10/10, game of the year (even if we're a few years late)

would you believe i could not find any clips of the workout routine from blippo+ on youtube so i made one myself & now i expect us all to do this every morning