Still struggling a little, so if you enjoy my poems/reviews/various writings and would like to help it’s very much appreciated!

It’s a Nendoroid. They’re kind of like an anime version of a Funko Pop.

Gandalf: You must cross the Barauneúir River from the forest of Coethic to the ruins of Iřuinruil Frodo: what will I find there? Gandalf: my friend Doug Gerbils

Finally we will get the Pitt. You know how many ‘where is the Pitt streaming’ conversations I have where I have to say ‘well, it isn’t’? More than you’d think. It’s happened at least twice

This is up there with Kim Stanley Robinson no longer believing in Mars colonisation

The other soldiers are gonna be so annoyed when we show up and start talking about Garek in Deep Space 9 and Skies of Arcadia on the Sega Dreamcast

So. Irish people should look at this and remember how our economy unravelled in 2007/2008. All it takes is the fall of one domino to stop the money wheel from turning. The financial structures behind these firms is a house of cards.

the elder millennial-younger millennial divide is whether you have stronger associations with The Onion or Clickhole

Stumbled across some more of these photos of the TNG cast looking at the comic book art. I think they're all on TrekCore.

Sofubi Rankin-Bass Gollum is REAL

oh man the real Lathe of Heaven bsky.app/profile/crai...

in the face of the deterioration of the international rules-based order, the Irish government has made its priorities clear: nothing is, or could be, more important than ensuring businesses can profit from it as easily as possible www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

This film was one of the biggest influences on Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Seeing it for the first time, Miyazaki told his friend, "I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?" This is Crac -- the first masterpiece by animator Frédéric Back. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-lament...

For some reason this Futurama moment has always stuck with me as being very touching

Seeing someone praise Project Hail Mary as if it was shot on location reminds me of a movie that was: Shipenko’s The Challenge, the first fiction film actually filmed in space. As a Russian film from 2023 it didn’t enjoy much of a release in the Anglophone world but it exists

Taking the Inner Sphere by storm in 1999: MechWarrior 3.

'The Simpsons Wrestling' released on this day in 2001. Released at the height of professional wrestling's popularity, as well as one of the last peaks in viewership for The Simpsons on television. Overly-simplistic / choppy gameplay barely resembles actual grappling, though.

‘Why an Irish women’s group is now focused on immigration’ Good to show the misuse of stats and facts by these ring wing groups! Countess Markievicz must be turning in her grave at the use of her name by these people. #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...

if only we'd previously had a period of global energy crisis caused by, in this order, a war between Israel and its neighbours, followed a few years later by a destabilising conflict in Iran

Advert for Star Trek 25th Anniversary point and click adventure game Source: www.tumblr.com/retrocgads/7...

One slight consolation here is that every cancelled Trek series from ENT onwards has been allowed a finale episode to give some degree of closure, rather than just disappearing as so often happens. SFA pending of course. Hopefully it won't end on a cliffhanger!

matier ver.2.0, art program, magazine screenshot, sharp x68000 (1993) archive.org/details/OhX_...

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With respect to my learned colleague, this is the ultimate Simpsons newspaper gag.

Mobile Police Patlabor Game Maker

Something I didn't know: Looney Tunes director Friz Freleng was planning to make a Snow White spoof starring a caricature of Marilyn Monroe as the lead. Here's some concept art by Aurelius Battaglia.

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

One of the meanest comparisons I’ve ever seen someone make about Harlan

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

I hate it here.

Disney/Marvel realized this was the most interesting thing they’ve made in seven years.

i need a DND setting for my phone that explicitly tells people i'm in a movie, what movie i'm watching, and that i'm a better person than they are because i'm patronizing the movies

Sinners is a movie about two brothers that look identical. From Dusk Till Dawn is a movie about brothers who look like George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino.

Disappointed - as I really rather liked the show (had a whole episode about the Doctor living out a new relationship in a high speed environment) - but not at all surprised. Trek shows being cancelled, twas ever thus variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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Me: Hello, the power is out on our road. ESB lady: I'm very sorry sir. It's an issue with one of the Transformers. Me *suddenly frightened*: It's not Megatron, is it?

the longer this iran thing goes on the more we look like wiggum

In Sidney Lumet's book 'Making Movies' he asks Kurosawa about why a certain shot was framed the way it was and is told because otherwise a power plant and an office tower would be on either side of the frame

One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.

Remembering the terrific Peter Lorre who died on this day in 1964 💖

A man born in 1882 found love via a computer in 1963.

Jonathan Frakes, Robert Picardo, and Tatiana Maslany on the set of "300th Night", STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (2026)

Garak: I see no reason why I can't be both the love interest and the antagonist here

I'm in a horrible state of depression tonight but not too depressed that I can't share some of my old websites

amazing old campaign imagery

Pola Negri as Catherine the Great in FORBIDDEN PARADISE (1924)

thinking about Barbenheimer again, one of my all time favorite days at the movies. I love that we did that.