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Joel Hopton
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on here now | writer/reader/fivewhofans guy | co-writer/producer: @afarseries.bsky.social
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Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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A black and white newspaper photo of a person in a Chuck E. Cheese costume shaking hands with Alan Jardine, who is looking into the camera with a visibly annoyed expression. The caption reads "Chuck E. greets Al Jardine of the Beach Boys at the Harrisburg, Pa., Pizza Time."
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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about to Do It* Again (Remastered 2001)

*read about the Beach Boys, the lamest, coolest, sellout-est, strangest, saddest, most joyful rock and roll group in history 📚💙
Hardback copy of Surf's Up: Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys by Peter Doggett
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Rise of Skywalker screenshot: Somehow, [DOCTOR WHO] returned...
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hotshot Peasant Has Window
Hotshot Peasant Has Window
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Magic isn’t just whimsical frippery.

Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No?...
October 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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The Uncanny Valet
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Oct 11
our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so
October 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.
Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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when there's a mangled body in a ditch
a man and a woman soyfacing with glee surrounded by confetti, from the Patreon of the True Crime Obsessed podcast, I guess. the three membership levels are non-garbage person tco after party no (ads), bitch!
July 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Edited photo of Barack Obama placing a medal around the neck of a second Barack Obama.
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The wait is over! The proof of concept for our new fantasy series, Afar, is OUT NOW! A polite knight and an irritable wizard are faced with a terrible adversary... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kj0...
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings
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September 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🚨NEW VIDEO OUT NOW🚨
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings

A polite knight and an irritable wizard are faced with a terrible adversary.

youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings
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September 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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You can watch this amazing short right here, right NOW!: youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No?...
September 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Introducing the Gremlin! Gremlins are not intelligent enough to cause serious harm, but they will ruin your day in oddly specific ways that are borderline pathological.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube tomorrow! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Addresses in England are like "Cruikshank's Vinegar Baths, 23-27 Whooping Cough Lane, Quessex"
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Addresses in the USA are either "20352 Main Street, Bullhorn PA" or "Cheesecorp Head Office, 1 Cheese Plaza"
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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What the country needs right now to bring us all together is a disappointing Winter Wonderland.
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Introducing Wilkin! An irritable wizard who's only out for himself, Wilkin just wants a quiet life. The realm has other ideas.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube this Saturday! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Introducing Archibald Oakheart! Friendly, loyal and psychotically polite, Archibald is an elected knight on a perilous journey.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube this Saturday! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It's imminent! It's finally imminent! Tell your friends! Tell your mum! Get your gran to watch it on her iPad 80 times to game the algorithm!
afarseries.bsky.social Afar @afarseries.bsky.social · Sep 22
We’re excited to announce Afar’s proof of concept, a short film titled Gremlins and Grumblings!

The five-minute short, releasing Saturday 27th September, will see a knight and a wizard confront a terrible adversary...

AfarSeries.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Currently reading. Absolutely all of the chatter I've seen about this is people furious that the series still isn't finished, which seems to be the norm for fantasy tbh. 📚💙
Gollancz 50 edition of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: a yellow paperback with the title in big maroon letters. There is a dinosaur bookmark sticking out of the top.
September 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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One of my favourite Japanese tshirt brands has just released a new Mr Bean range and I’m not sure how I feel about this
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Here be gremlins. Stayed tuned for further news...
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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I wrote this in January, about the issues we face when responsibility for covering the irony-poisoned and extremely-online trolls of the far right, falls to journalists who can't rotate a PDF.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
The same sturdy media apparatus that so assiduously pores through court documents — or uncovers spending gaps or analyses executive orders — is not well positioned to tackle a movement entirely predicated on bad faith gestures designed to shock and confuse — not least one whose roots are in labyrinthine internet subcultures that modern, professional journalists will have avoided their entire lives. And so, buffering at the sight of the world’s richest man delivering a fascist salute to the cameras of the world, they froze on the spot. Within hours, the sensible and serious moderates everywhere from the BBC to the New York Times caveated their coverage with quote marks or qualifiers; “what looked like”, “what some are calling”, “what many interpreted as”. It is a deliberate nudge and wink to the far-right ideas you actively hold, bathed in a self-defensive layer of irony from which you can always wriggle, on the grounds that it was just a hilarious joke. “I’m an edgelord, not a Nazi,” you continue to tell yourself even as your every viewpoint calcifies toward the politics of Genghis Khan. This kidding/not kidding tactic forms the entire story of the last two decades of angry nerds on the internet. We have seen it play out everywhere sad men congregate to complain about their unhappy lives and get told that someone else — someone foreign, different, or weird — is to blame. None of it is mysterious. None of it is innocent. None of it is new.
September 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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The start of every 80s movie:
September 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM