The goat is down. The prospect of a good year is looking up.

Hades was gifted to me and I found Chaos. Trust me to like them right away even if their gifts are... tricky. Yes. Tricky.

Just the usual welsh singing, festive undead horse

On my way to moving to Endwalker. That particular side story (to avoid spoilers) was harrowing but closed off Shadowbringers for me. Only fly in the ointment was that I actually new when to teleport in the fight but the delay got me killed. Annoying but minor.

Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

A very Moorcock Christmas! (I have nearly all the Discworld books, I need another author to collect obsessively) Something Breakfast In The Ruins might appreciate.

I had an exceptionally vivid dream that someonechad made a series based on a younger Lu-Tze (Sweeper) from Discworld. Looked promising until it crossed over into Doctor Who (Father's Day ep specifically) and he was lacking his iconic broom. Oh and a bit too much action for him.

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 24 Last one and nding on one that started not as a Christmas song initially but then became popularised as one. Bit of a long story but esentially this is the base version of Carol of the Bells. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeJ...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 23 Back to the sounds of Christmas in Africa, because I found myself enjoying these. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIGc...

Finishing my advent later but next year I have a new idea for my advent. Proggy christmas songs because I'm listening to a few.

More Yule Cat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi40...

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

... This suit rules. Also the jabs at Icelandic cuisine. (Also furries.. Come on. Don't fail me. You know what to do.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=noBX...

NEW EPISODE! Join me on a 40 minute trek through The Niko Trilogy, three gorgeous Finnish reindeer films emulating the kind of late 90s/early 2000s animated storytelling we all miss. A little quaint, a little filthy, but full of a surprising amount of heart (and reindeer ass)! youtu.be/j1XVVSGn-fA

Due to a certain ytp, I find myself sniggering at some Christmas classics. Thank goodness our music on the office is more modern ones otherwise I'd have to explain things XD

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 22 And all caught up. Trying to avoid Orthodox music at risk of repitition but this fit my remit ths year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC-T...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 21 So... how'd you like some throat singing? With traditional mongolian instruments? Not strictly in my remit but it had to go on my advent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJki...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 21 Poland this time. What I like about all these is how distinct each country's style is. Like a 'sing this in your style' thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7H-...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 20 Something from Brazil this time. This sounds quite happy and bouncy. Fitting for the season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXyo...

Covers what I broadly thought. I'm all for changes in Orwell's works (except I think the end should remain bleak) and I am very sure there's ways you can modernise it wihout it becoming this. The futuristic stuff is seriously going to date this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3q1...

This may as well have been the Top Worst songs featuring Taylor Swift (all of her album), Morgan Wallen, Drake and Chris Brown. Also sheesh. The fact taht they amde up the bulk worst of this... even worst songs are lacking variety XD www.youtube.com/watch?v=41A5...

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

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Drop Fortnite and hold your fav streamers accountable for still playing and posting about it. I'm so serious I'm blocking anyone I see still stream and talk positively about it.

I should dig this out but I compared the feelings evoked by Wish You Were Here to the Welsh concept of hiraeth, that yearning for a time lost that may never have existed.

All nine parts together? Hell yes. Noel Fielding (yes, he of the Mighty Boosh) making Syd Barrett look a little like Jerry Cornelius but I kinda wish he'd stopped a a point. The wishy-washy strokes were perfect at a point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-q...

So. Fun fact: it was decided not to use Roger's vocal on this track and up until now, I'd not heard his version. Honestly, I think I like these vocals better? It's very mechanical, atmosheric and gives me chills. Definitely Pink Floyd gone sci fi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY3r...

'How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.' 50 years of Wish You Were Here. The album i'd perhaps rank over Dark Side because it's the band's feelings laid bare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6qj...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 19 It's not Christmas without a wassail, or at least it wasn't for a long while. Nowadays it's not done much, although St Fagans here in Cardiff had it recently with the Mari Lywd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzv5...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 18 I hope you didn't think I'd forget Wales. This is In The Bleak Midwinter, just in Welsh, and I have no doubt midwinter was more bleak in years gone by. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WULL...

Oh and also it gets weird in relation to be being used as tourism... Oh and there it is. There's the racism. Ah. I knew that wouldn't take long.

Only half an hour into this video and all I know is that Catholicism gets fucking weird.

Doing some training today and finishing it off tomorrow. Helping fellow team mates to cover the deceased process in the bank and then my laptop died. Tomorrow, I'm brining the charger XD

When the Donna Summer part hits... I envy anyone who can put mashups together like this. This is just... mm. Perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ee...

Fffffucccccck Episode 1 was so good! No spoilers but believe me when I am trying so hard not to say anything. It's just so damn good! (also fuck you amazon, making me have to switch off my VPN)

Time for another lecture from Father Strange. ... rawr XD (And yes.. I still use XD. You will pry this cringe from my cold dead hands) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDFY...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 16 Well this unlocked memories. Used to sing this. Had no idea it was a much much older Christmas staple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QyZ...

Even in wartime, some things don't change. Like a mother's insistence on no fighting at the dinner table. I might have been a bit damp-eyed at that story, fantastical as it sounded. And sometimes the fantastical stories can be true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3IA...

#LoupMusicalAdvent day 15 Doing these lists is a reminder to myself to broaden my listening. I will admit this is my first hearing of this song but I admit it's a very good first impression. I'm a sucker for a good drumbeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucn1...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 14 I had difficulty with this one. Too many versions sounded happy. Strangely I wanted something that conjured the dark of winter and this matched what I was looking for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gyT...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 13 From one Orthodox tradition to another. This one is Byzantine. I can hear the similarities with the previous entry but there's very obvious differences too. Another beautiful entry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUH...

#LoupMusicalAdvent Day 12 Christian Orthodox traditions are one of the those I have not had much exposure to. It doesn't sound too dissimilar to how hymns are sung in churches I've been to, but has it's own sound and feel. Sounds beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rryu...

This is so damn niche for us in the Gen-X generation but I just had to share. #TheYoungOnes

Trekkies Against Fascism shirts are restocked! Orders placed this weekend will be on their way by Tuesday and should arrive ahead of Christmas. I also have pins and stickers, which make fantastic stocking stuffers! willburrows.art/shop

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

Also, there's been several moments its been kinda obvious 2D wasn't entirely cis. The fact he's happy to wear/present in anything he likes. He's either oblivious or doesn't care. And I'm really happy that Hewlett draws him that way.

So 2D from Gorillaz is he/they. I know its not important to some but I say good for them and always good to see more he/they out in the wild :D

Blame? Or thank? Or bit of both? I called it on several of these but was a bit disappointed the Cardiacs didn't get a mention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQB...