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jennystrath.bsky.social
@jennystrath.bsky.social
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Manager of a Warhammer Store. Sometimes I write things. My opinions are my own. She/Her.
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jennystrath.bsky.social @jennystrath.bsky.social · Nov 9
I really should reintroduce myself.

I'm Jenny, I have now been the manager of a Warhammer store for 10 years!

I also love to write things, long walks to my fridge and goth nonsense 🖤

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TWIN TEMPLE ON DRAGULA THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT!!!!
a cartoon character with long hair and a mustache is making a scary face .
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November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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I watched the new Del Toro Frankenstien last night and obviously adored it and am obsessed with the films gorgeous colour palette.

But also my brain is broken in a Warhammer way so I had no choice but to;
Shot from Del Toro's Frankenstein of Victor in a mossy chair with Erebus's face pasted on top. Text reads "oh sure blame the guy whose fault it is 🙄"
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Singing along to Babymetal today, thinking about how it's kind of like how Chatgpt works.

I don't speak Japanese (or German for Rammstien, or Icelandic for Sólstafir etc) but I can make vaguely convincing mouth-sounds
Yet I have no true understanding of what I'm saying.
It's just regurgitated noise
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 29d
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My extended PAX related absence was deeply felt at home, proved by these 2 cuties physically fighting for who got to sit on me, while I rested my pax-ed out body on the couch today 🥰

Indescribably epic weekend, and I can't wait to do it all again next year.
Maybe my feet will feel better by then.
Two Alaskan Malamutes taking up an entire couch. Geri on the left is a pretty princess, Freki on the right is the cuddliest boy ever to guy.
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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PAX LET'S GOOOOO!
Me standing in front of the Warhammer PAX Aus booth, wearing an Event Staff shirt
October 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Goth Christmas is truly begun now that Dragula is back!

Sigourney Beaver is my everything and I will take up arms against any who she deems her enemy.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I upcycled some cute but battered drawers I got at an Op Shop (aka thrift store) for a friend. I'm pretty pleased at how they turned out🙂

With the holiday season around the corner, it's a good reminder that Warhammer skills can be adapted to make thoughtful and affordable gifts for our loved ones 🖤
Up-cycled small set of drawers. Painted black and red with french-style shoe tiles and black plastic spiders. Up-cycled small set of drawers. Painted black and red with french-style shoe tiles and black plastic spiders. The small drawers in their original white, chipped paint. Before I cleaned and painted them.
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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It's so beautiful 🥹

Sorry literally all of my other ongoing games - you'll have to wait for 100% Yōtei completion.

And luckily my old ps5 controller was holding like 20 minutes of battery so I could justify getting a new one. It's gorgeous!

#ghostofyotei
Ghost of Yōtei Collectors Edition Swag. Mask, Tsuba, coin pouch and additional PS5 Controller. Ghost of Yōtei Collectors Edition Swag. Mask, Tsuba, coin pouch and additional PS5 Controller. Ghost of Yōtei Collectors Edition Swag. Mask, Tsuba, coin pouch and additional PS5 Controller. Ghost of Yōtei Collectors Edition Swag. Mask, Tsuba, coin pouch and additional PS5 Controller.
October 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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I've loved the Preyton ever since I first laid eyes on him. Fucked up deer monster? Yes please and always 🖤🦌🖤

So glad they're finally back in print, it's been a white whale of a deer monster for me.

Isn't he gorgeous?! 🥹
A built Warhammer Preyton. Part stag, part lion, part bird. All cutie 🥰
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I'm so hype to be part of the Victorian Warhammer team running our stall at PAX Aus in two weeks!

We're working with the USA events team, and it's definitely going to be our biggest & best year ever 🥰

(Note to self: try to do a K-Pop Demon Hunters style intro carbo-load feast beforehand)
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September 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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My toxic white woman trait is that I do believe I could train an Alien like a good doggy and/or/preferably befriend an Eye Octopus Sheep Monster.

(I feel like morale has not yet improved to an ideal level, a la Eye Octopus Sheep Monster posting)
Simpsons still of a cute sheep (with an Alien pasted on top) being pushed out of the way for an even cuter sheep (with the Eye Octopus Sheep Monster pasted on top)
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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I don't think it's fair that I have to do stocktake again, since I already spent all night having stocktake nightmares (I can't read any labels and why do the paints keep moving!😭)

But nonetheless, I am here with my Ultramarine socks on. Literally, because I think they would be good at stocktakes
September 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Eye octopus sheep monster posting will continue until morale improves.
Simpsons scene. Alien Earth eye octopus sheep monster standing in Simpsons front yard. Text reads "look ar him. He's going to do something and you know it's going to be good"
September 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I saw Beetlejuice: The Musical this week!

As (obviously) a huge fan of the film, I enjoyed all the differences in the adaption 🥰

Our Beetlejuice (the understudy James Haxby) had a killer amount of charisma. Could have watched him caper around for hours.

Perfect way to spend a rare night out 👻
Outside a theatre. Neon sign reads "Welcome to the Netherworld" Theatre stage with purple, red and green lights. Neon sign and arrow pointing down reads "Betelgeuse Betelgeuse" Theatre lobby with mosaic ceiling and balconies. Mix of gothic, Louis Seize/rococo, and baroque architecture. Interior theatre audience. Purple and green lights across a baroqie ceiling, balcony, and floor seats.
September 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. ** Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in. One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming. While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Reaffirming my ongoing allegiance.
👁🐙
Simpsons Screenshot. Kent Brockman on camera with the octopus eyeball from Alien: Earth. Text reads, "and I for one, welcome our new ocellus overlords"
September 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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<hopefully me showing up to the restaurant tonight>

"Sorry Oliver, I know it's technically your birthday, but this party is about something else now."
August 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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I'm joining the war on the eye octopus sheep monster on the side of the eye octopus sheep monster.
August 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I know we all know: but I was flipping through Pratchett's "Making Money," and found this passage reminding us all that Mr Terry explicitly said Trans Rights.

The G.O.A.T
A page of Terry Pratchett's novel, "Making Money," that describes a clay Golem becoming by culture while staying technically, physically no different than she ever was.
August 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Some masked lapwings have brought their 2 chicks to nest in my backyard.

Cute right? WRONG!

These guys are CUNTS!

They're too dumb to nest in trees, trapped their babies in a fenced yard and keep SWOOPING MY DOGS when they go out to pee. These assholes have bone barbs on their wings. ASSHOLES!
An asshole in the shape of a large-ish bird. A Masked Lapwing aka Plover. I have stamped the image correctly with the title "cunts"
August 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Proud to announce that I worked on the Ironkin Steeljacks as part of the Warhammer Design team.

Now available to buy: www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/l...

Awesome paint job by @vincentknotley.bsky.social
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August 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Aura Farming?

It could only be Dr. F. Bile MD. PhD. DMD.

Surely doing said aura-farming unethically, in vats of some kind.
August 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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White Dwarf 515 has a great section on successor chapters that I contributed a model to, who would have guessed that it would be a Blood Angel? #paintingwarhammer #bloodangels #spacemarines #whitedwarf #warhammercommunity
August 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM