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Alys Noire
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A ball of custard floating in zero gravity. The glass is half full/empty of arsenic and I’ll be darned if I’m not knocking it back and asking for another. I don’t know who or what I am. 🏳️‍⚧Questioning
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A few interesting things from Vigo
A closed shop in Vigo, Spain. Prominently showing a squid with knife and fork saying “non me comas”, and various pictographs around it. An art alley, featuring a torso/arms/head bust that has string/wire joining parts of the body A basket weaver working on a basket, his former work is on the wall behind him A statue dedicated to Jules Verne as the story of lost Spanish treasure from sunken Spanish valleys inspired him to write 20,000 leagues under the sea. One chapter is based in Vigo
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Caerphilly castle. Yes that tower is leaning. Yes they know!
Caerphilly castle with the famous leaning tower, in the middle of a large moat/lake against a blue sky
August 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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NIPPLE PASTIES?!

Like...
A cornish Pastie, a food item in the UK (and cornwall), which consists of meat and vegetables in a pastry, with a crust on the edge. The original use of the crust (which was more defined than the image), was for miners to hold on to, to eat the pasty (with black coal-tinged fingers), and then can throw the crust away. Random fact - the original pasties for coal/tin miners, had both meal and desert in one, so like the meat feeling and then at the bottom an apple pie filling.
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I like photography although I suck at it. One of the things I dug out of the "to sell" pile was my old Huawei P20 pro, which has a dedicated monochrome camera and sensor. I now drag this around with me.
#photography #monocrome
Bangor pier hut, a hexagonal building with stylised windows and a tall roof A shot of some of the houses on the side of the sea, shadowed by trees. The sky looks grey and stormy, ripples in the water to show how windy it is A shot from a wooded path looking out towards the water with mountains (or big hills) in the background. Before the hills are various boat silhouettes.
July 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Wow so I guess my fav social media is commercial now! /s
A nail booster called Bluesky, white bottle with black text and a flower outline for the image on the bottle
July 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A friend introduced me to this song, and now I'm addicted to it. It just... feels like me?

'Cause I've grown tired of this body
A cumbersome and heavy body
I′ve grown tired of this body
Fall apart without me, body

Mother Mother - Body

Just so annoyed I can't seem to get the CD from anywhere!
The cover of Mother Mother - Oh My Heart album, which depicts a fish head caught on a fishing line, and three red slices through it's blank white eye
June 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I totally didn’t go to town to buy more of those Blokees Transformers blind box things! Honest!

Or a random girl blind box from Kenji!

However going to Pho afterwards for pho was a really nice ending to the outing.
A blind box figure from Kenji, depicting a girl with yellow hair in fluffy pig tails with a bicycle helmet and glasses, wearing a hoodie and a cross body bag. Two more Blokees Galaxy class figures, Prowl (a police sports car based robot) and Long Haul ( a construction based vehicle in green and purple)
June 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Bought this out of curiosity and wasn’t disappointed.

Not seen Transformers One (I have *the* fear of any transformers film that wasn’t from 1986) but this is an awesome model kit!

All this gold must mean they are a good guy, right?
A Blokees galaxy Version 05 model kit blind box, showing transformers from the Transformers One film. A fully built Sentinel Prime model kit from the Blokees box.
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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“Please could you stay awhile to share my grief
For its such a lovely day
To have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake”

Portishead - Wandering Star (1994)
Album cover of Portishead - Dummy Blue border, inside is an Image of a lady on a chair in a room with multiple light sources
June 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I was very excited that I had a new form of centaur, but no, it was just Shy Guy trying to get into a bag.
A black and white cat, trying to get into a peach/salmon coloured Loungefly mini backpack (from Wreck it Ralph), on a sofa. His head and front legs are in the bag The black and white cat (black covering each eyes, white for muzzle and up the nose) sitting next to the Wreck it Ralph bag, on the sofa
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The duckling noticed it's reflection with wonder.
"Hi there!"
the reflection just stared back.
"Hello?"
It opened and closed it's beak silently in response.
Eventually, the duckling pushed it's head under the water, coming face to face with it's reflection.
"Save me" it cried.
A brown and blonde duckling looking at its own reflection from a log floating in a moat
June 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Harvington Hall - Battle through the ages

My money was on the sheriff (black dress)!
Two women dressed in period outfits (a sheriff and a celt warrior) fighting with long swords. The sherif has blonde wavy hair, a black dress with arms. And a leather belt holding a dagger and sword sheath. The Celt is dressed in what seems to be a white shirt dress type doublet, black leather boots and a black and red tabard. She has red hair in a tail. Two 15th century fighters, both male, one wearing a collection of plate armour covering neck, head, stomach, full legs and full arms, using a long sword, the other using a sword and buckler. With a padded doublet, green trousers, and metal arm guards. They are outside Harvington hall, and in the background there are two more fighters, one in a yellow and green doublet the other just a face And helmet.
June 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I keep an album on my phone of textures or patterns that interest me. I’m not sure how I’ll ever use this, but still here’s four from this weekend gone.
Cobblestones laid in an arch pattern A sandstone brick showing carving marks going out diagonally to each corner. In the middle is a square hole and cracks from each corner of the square leading from it Another sandstone brick this one has seen weathered damage and is almost like a topological map. Parts of it look more like a torn fabric or fibre than stone A sandstone column piece that had line workings running horizontal up the whole lock. This is a corner and shows that the lines were carved to meet sometimes but not all the time
June 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I feel something terrible happened here
A squeaky rubber chicken head and neck, chewed from the body, on the floor next to various rubbish
June 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Went to see the Book of Mormon, and before we got to the seats, saw a frog plush and was like “OMG I love frogs I must have one”.

Now I know what it stands for… still wanted it.

Frogs for life!
A plush frog in multicolour fabrics and red plastic eyes from the Book of Mormon theatre show
June 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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One thing at the games expo, was a Nanoblock Godzilla blind bag.

Yeah I knew I’d not be that lucky to get a Godzilla too!

Still cute though.
Godzilla nanoblock blind bag showing the six models you could get. They are Godzilla (4th form), Godzilla (2nd form), Gigan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla (1974) The finished Gigan nanoblock figure, in green, grey and yellow.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Beat you. We need more torture racks
June 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Seeing if I can emulate your lovely-ness, had to break into fake ears though to get anywhere near!
A fat person wearing a top that’s blue and purple and black with embroidery, a lanyard with various badges on and fake wolf ears in grey that match their grey hair
June 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Why does this hat amuse me so much!?
A khaki baseball hat with a fish on, surrounded by the phrase “fish want women, me fear me”. It’s a play on the phrase “women want me, fish fear me”
May 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Some of the cosplay at the #UkGamesExpo
Cosplayers dressed as Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon) and the Rocketeer Cosplayers dressed as Horus (warhammer 40k, Horus heresy), a Khornate Berzerker (Warhammer 40k) and a Dalek (yes there’s someone inside, from Dr Who) A cosplayer dressed as a ghost buster A red Dalek from dr who
May 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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What was your first gaming console?
The box of the SEGA Master System 2, with ALEX KIDD in miracle works built in.
May 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Omg and the “spokie dokies“ and reflectors that I had as a kid that came in the cereal boxes
An advert for a 1980s Kellogg’s bike reflectors and “spokie dokies”. The latter are lil bits of plastic that clip onto a spoke and make noise as they move up and down the spoke based on the speed of the wheel.
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is “Legendary levels of mean” according to the vets
A tortie cat on its side with paws in a begging motion, on the sofa
May 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Here’s some silly things to make you feel happier!
Tortoise shell cat lying on a sofa with her paws in a begging stance A vase that is styled as a fruit basket headdress lady A strange stone yoda in a garden centre
May 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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I need to warm the iron up... and learn how to iron, and how to iron on patches.

Then need to learn how to sew, to sew them on so they don't peel off.

Adventure time?

(Also I always thought ACAB was like AFAB/AMAB, so Assigned Chaotic At Birth (which is me). I still choose that as it's meaning!)
A green canvas backpack, with patches placed on, where they might end up being ironed/stitched on. The patches are: The Flatwoods Monster (scout type patch) Frog with wine saying "Rizz 'em with the 'tism" Nasa logo USCM logo (from Aliens) An opossum on fire saying Embrace Chaos A frog with a heart saying "No gender, only froggie" A toaster that has "live Laugh Toaster Bath" around it An opossum with the text "Don't be a part of the problem, be the whole problem" A tree frog on a branch from Eden Project A picture of a bear, and the words "Can I pet that dog" on it An astronaut cat in front of stars A mangled crow screaming "Everything is fine" a book of 1984 with an eye on it A flag that says Be Brave in rainbow colours A black cat's head with tears A speech bubble that says ACAB (I thought this meant Assigned Chaotic at Birth... I'm still fine with what it means though) two rabbits fighting, and the words 'Fighting Animal Testing' (lush)
May 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM