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@cynderglow.bsky.social
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28 | she/her | Writer, current project is dinosaur eco/cosmic horror in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Original SHODANPedia founder. Expect rambles about the books, movies and games I collect and get through. pfp by @lilkatzz.art
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Mario Kart World really decided to be the first $80 video game and then got absolutely wrecked by the competition twice in just a couple months, both by Sonic and *checks notes* Kirby, the third major Switch 2 exclusive.
Sakurai sitting in a brown room, wearing a Grey shirt with the caption "but this time we've added a second button. Unfortunately."
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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I got @restingdinoface.bsky.social's new book and it's signed!!! So happy and so excited to read it! #booksky
When the Earth Was Green by Riley Black. Plants, animals, and Evolution's greatest romance. Several prehistoric animals are surrounded by green plants along with some bugs flying against a black background. Title page of "When the Earth Was Green" with a signature from author Riley Black featuring a little dinosaur doodle.
April 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Should have posted this yesterday but oh well here it is. I got my first package from the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social book club recently and I'm so giddy about it! You can still sign up and pre-purchase all of their weird horror releases for the year and get goodies like in the pic and a t-shirt!
A yellow box labelled "Tenebrous" with a purple and blue monstrous angler fish on the top. Opening the box reveals a sticker with a cyrptid holding a balloon, a pink sticker that says "weird WEIRD weird" a book mark featuring Tenebrous book covers, a button not very visible, the orange cover of "Casual" underneath. There is also a small bit of fiction "exclusively for adherents to the Tenbrous Cult" by Koji A Dae which I have blacked out out of respect for the exclusivity. "Casual" by Koji A. Dae with an orange abstract cover with bits of tech, and Split Scream featuring a story by John K. Peck/L. Maheler and a story by Ide Hennessy, with a black and green cover with a wing on the top and a mucky deer on the bottom.
April 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I offer bnuuvees
Eevee and the eeveelurions shaped as small pudgy bunnies.
April 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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New book in the mail from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social, excited to dig into this one when I get a chance! #booksky
Shakey Pictures of Vanished Faces, by D. Matthew Urban. A man is sitting at a table holding a mug, but the head has shouted into a monstrous red mass with more than one distorted mouth.
April 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Lovely picture I took in Wisconsin Dells yesterday before a very long road trip back home.
A lake on a very sunny and kind of cloudy afternoon, green trees around it. Two geese are floating in the water closeby.
April 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Thanks for the chance and here's to 500!
Reference sheet of a blue and purple wolf girl with pink-red fluff at the end of her tail and around her neck, blue streak through purple hair.
April 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Let's fucking go, Wisconsin. Vote!
A red white and blue I voted sticker on a blue shirt.
April 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Dunno how realistic this sound the Hatzegopteryx makes in Path of Titans is but the more I see of these critters the more I'm convinced some pterosaurs are some of the best fits for horror nature has come up with.
March 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Lost World is really solid, and I'm really not sure how they could have ever truly beaten out the first film. Both the wow factor being kind of lightning in a bottle and also just, you can't really beat the big theme park getting shut down in a big storm letting the dinosaurs out concept. (1/3)
Post for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The red and black Jurassic Park logo is surrounded by a yellow border, T-rex fossil over the title of the film in the middle. It's scratched up and faded on dark damaged wood.
March 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Imagine being normal and not adhd as fuck and trying to get through five books at once couldn't be me #booksky
Five books stacked on top of each other. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black Love Crafted by Raven's Dagger Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour by Keiron Pim Dinosaurs Behavior: An Illustrated Guide by Michael J. Benton
March 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE MISSING WATER
A screenshot of Jurassic World Evolution 2. A dimetrodon is labelled as "Missing Water" while all of it's body except for it's back spine are submerged in water.
March 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Rewatched A Series of Unfortunate Events for the first time in a very long time and it's pretty damn good. They did a great job despite crunching three books to one film, the tone and style is great. The score amazing. The rearranged ending was smart. Faithful to the spirit of the books. Recommended
Count Olaf (played by Jim Carrey) stands in the middle of Klaus and Violet, two teenagers, holding them and staring at someone offscreen in the middle of a dirty green mansion.
March 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This has only further cemented the Stegosaurus as my favorite dinosaur.
Excerpt from Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide by Michael J. Benton: The Most Stupid Dinosaur Poor old Stegosaurus! This dinosaur has been identified as the most stupid dinosaur ever since the first studies of dinosaur brainpower. It's been said its brain was the size of a walnut, or that it had a kitten-sized brain in a 7-ton body.
February 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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My brain has decided it wants dinosaurs so this just came in the mail. I may have two other books coming as well.
A Jurassic Park Chess Set in a black box with only the Jurassic Park Logo and "Chess Set" on it, and a book called Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide by Michael J. Benton and illustrated by Bob Nicholls. The art depicts a Tyrannosaurus holding a smaller Triceratops(?) in its mouth, another larger Triceratops(?) looking distraught.
February 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Opened up my childhood copy of Jurassic Park and found this old bookmark sitting in it, I think this was from around fourth to sixth grade. #booksky
Jurassic Park is opened up to "The Tour," with a bookmark in the middle of the pages that says "Crack open a good book!" with an illustration of a newly hatched chicken sitting in it's egg and holding a purple book, creepily smiling sun above.
February 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I'm 250 pages in, this book is incredible so far. It's such a great introduction to the new era, characters are great, politics interesting, and the writing is beautiful. If I ever were to write Star Wars I'd want to describe the force even half as beautifully as this book does.
My hand holding Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule in hardcover. The cover art shows four Jedi in golden robes welding lightsabers, a space station visible in the distant sky.
February 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Beat my first two games of the year and also my first ever finished Sonic games, Sonic Generations and Shadow Generations. Sonic was okay, enjoyable enough. Shadow Generations though? Holy shit what a game, everything SG did well Shadow did 2x better at least. I actually loved it!
Cover art of Sonic X Shadow Generations, Shadow, Sonic and Classic Sonic run towards the camera in a white void world with green hill zone at the bottom and red warping buildings at the top, little cute creatures also are flying around them as well as a purple starfish creature with a yellow eye in the middle.
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Why must every animal in my house be on my bed with me
A large seventy pound white and brown dog (Buster) laying against me in bed while the rest of the space has three cats walking around. Ozzy, brown and white with long hair, Artemis, long black hair, and Gordon with short orange hair.
December 16, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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Well then
A washington post tool used to check human or dog likelyhood of a name says Gwen is "mostly dog" and that "In a stadium of 100,000 people and 100,000 dogs, 25 dogs and 9 people would be named Gwen."
December 14, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Alex White mentions (correctly) in this article about Rogue Incursion that Alien is a punk setting, I'm wondering if "Analog Punk" would be appropriate.
“One of the things you have to know with Alien is that it’s a punk setting,” White says. “There is an element of rebellion in the way it’s written. There’s an element of displeasure with the modern world. Whenever people say, ‘What’s it like to write Alien?’ I’m like, you live there, man! Do you have health insurance? You know what Alien is! You’ve met Weyland-Utani; have you shopped at Wal-Mart!?”
December 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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Mail arrivals today, Blade Runner and Godzilla x Kong were my only two Black Friday bluray pick-ups this year and Romulus just released. Very excited to dig into all of them! I haven't seen Blade Runner in years or the Final Cut, missed Godzilla in the theater and Alien Romulus is Alien Romulus.
4k blu rays of Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Alien: Romulus sitting on a shelf.
December 5, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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I hate that the non-4k version of Alien: Romulus has a nicer cover.
Alien Romulus blu rays on a shelf at Wal-Mart. Both have the same art of a woman bathed in red light trying to pull a face hugger off her face. The 4k has a red background to match the light but the regular had a black background.
December 5, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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Something that's not horror! Titanic (1997) is a fucking incredible film, has been a favorite ever since I was little admiring the ship and I've only appreciated it more as a whole since. The love story is sweet and I still can't get over the ship holy shit. This sparked my obsession with Titanic.
Post for Titanic, the front of the ship is in the front and Jack and Rose are holding each other at the top of the image. "Nothing on Earth could come between them."
November 28, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Oh yeah forgot I did this.

[REC] (2007) My second favorite found footage film behind only The Borderlands/Final Prayer. I'm not a big zombie movie fan but this is so well made and really makes you feel the claustrophobic terror of being trapped in a building with them and nothing to defend yourself
Cover for "The [REC] Collection" a white woman's face is bathed in red light, hair is messy. An outline implies it's being viewed through a VHS recorder.
November 28, 2024 at 1:51 AM