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James Brophy
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Artist, Photographer, Trainer, Occasional Writer, Problem Solver. Organizer of Events That Would Probably Make Your Dad Blush.
Stoneybatter. Dublin. Ireland.
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Watcha thinking about?

Just space stuff.

#SilverSurfer #ActionFigurePhotography
The marvel legends 2025 silver surfer action figure against a royalty free image from a Nasa space telescope. Toy pic and comp by James Brophy.
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I have these star trek memes and I was mad with power...
Chief obrien stares in ah jaysus
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The Orville.. origional?
Jeffrey Combs as a corrupt cop in Far Beyond the Stars Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 6, Episode 13. Beside him is a button prompt for Doubt. Like the L.A.Noire meme.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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"You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?"
Pump Up the Volume. 1990. A political thriller in a school. The voice you are waiting for might just be your own. Patlabor 2: The Movie. A political thriller in an anime. Society is a contract. Read the fine print.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Share an awesome 70s movie!

Get Carter (1971)
Carter, our cockney anti-hero, is tough, self-assured and remorseless. Also unflappable as he walks two men who have come to rough him up out of a house and on to the street at the buisness end of a shot gun, while nude.
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Libertarianism has allways been VERY white and largely ignorant of history unless that history is about a white person experiencing injustice... or being momentarily inconvenienced by burocracy.

Its heavily compatable with the idea of free speech, which means its allways had a nazi problem.
Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance is a concept that addresses a seeming contradiction within the idea of tolerance, the acceptance of different views and practices. Popper discussed this paradox in his 1945 book, 'The Open Society and Its Enemies.' The paradox is based on the observation that if a society is tolerantly indiscriminate and extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, the ability of the society to be tolerant will eventually be undermined and destroyed by the intolerant.
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Here are Aunt May and M.J. wearing the same suit at two difrent points in its history complete with a chest piece that presumably isint doing anything to their internal organs.

This was a such a fun moment in the writing, I needed a "no prize" explanation.

Replica suits made the most sense.
Aunt may removes her helmet inside a mark one iron man suit and says: HOW CAN POOR IRON MAN STAND TO BE COOPED UP IN THIS ALL DAY? Also in a mark one Iron Man suit, but painted gold, Mary Jane replies: I WAS DIGGING IT. IT'S KINDA LIKE BEING YOUR OUR OWN SUV.
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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That's octocon over for me this year. Headed home.

Gonna try for the dead dog on Monday. See you there. #octocon
Dead Dog: Mon 13 October - nearest LUAS (red line) Tram stop: Jervis. Then cross the river (over Capel St bridge). Venue is then straight ahead -on your left. On Monday, October 13th, starting from 12:00 and lasting until it ends (usually) around 16:00, the traditional post-Octocon, Dead Dogs will once again be hosted by Dave Lally at the Porterhouse on Parliament Street (in Dublin 2) for people to enjoy a post- convention chat. Real craft ales and hot food available. Pub tables have been booked. For web Map: "D02vr94"
October 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Reccomended from the pannel the Michael Carroll & PJ Holden colaberation Judge Dread: Every Empire Falls.

The other artists in the book are Paul Davidson, Colin MacNeil, Henry Flint and last but certanly not least the last Dredd art by Carlos Ezquerra.

@octocon.bsky.social parody art by me. 😄
Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls Writer Michael Carroll Paul Davidson (Illustrator), Colin MacNeil (Illustrator), Henry Flint (Illustrator), Paul j holden (Illustrator), Carlos Ezquerra (Illustrator) A parody illustration of every empire falls cover with Octocons, octopus mascot Octo as a judge. The text reads: Judge Octo: Every Empire Floods.
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Be sure and check out the Weekly Comic: Terran Omega at patreon.com/pjholden its free but comes in color for £1.
Terran Omega NEW Weekly Comic: Terran Omega page 1 NEW Weekly Comic: Terran Omega page 2 and 3
October 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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On now @octocon.bsky.social (2000) A-D: Discussing Comics with Michael Carroll www.michaelowencarroll.com and PJ Holden @pauljholden.com

Paul Carroll of @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social moderating.
Saturday, October 11, 2025 16:00 (2000) A-D: Discussing Comics with Michael Carroll and PJ Holden Shannon 2 + Alpha Stream, Duration: 60 mins Michael Carroll Paul Carroll (moderator) PJ Holden In-person only, Panel, Comics, Creatives, Two much-beloved Irish comic creators, Michael Carroll and PJ Holden, sit down to be grilled by Paul Carroll on the A- D (and probably other letters, too) of comics and their careers. A photo of the pannel (2000) A-D: Discussing Comics with Michael Carroll and PJ Holden On the pannel table: Michael Carroll PJ Holden Paul Carroll (moderator)
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Good craic at @octocon.bsky.social today.
OCTOCON THE NATIONAL IRISH SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION www.octocon.com Books Comics Movies Anime Fantasy Horror Science Fiction A gathering of people who love all of the above, Join us! OCTOCON Saturday, October 11, 2025 14:30 How Irish SFF Reflects Irish Society Shannon 2 + Alpha Stream, Duration: 60 mins Pannelists: RB Kelly Jack-John Kirwan Shauna Lawless lan McDonald Deirdre Thornton (moderator) In-person + streamed, Panel, Ireland, Literature, Society, As we know, science fiction and fantasy in Ireland doesn't just mean leprechauns and banshees. Ireland has a long tradition of writers of the fantastical and science fictional - from Sheridan Le Fanu and Lady Gregory to lan McDonald and Ruth Long - as well as a unique history which provides plentiful material for SFF writers. So how does the current Irish SFF scene represent Ireland today, and how can it be supported and promoted as it deserves? 5 people sit at a pannel table with microphones and table cards that identify them. RB Kelly RB Kelly Jack-John Kirwan Shauna Lawless lan McDonald Deirdre Thornton (moderator) How Irish SFF Reflects Irish Society Shannon 2 + Alpha Stream, Duration: 60 mins
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Incredible Sketches available from @pauljholden.com today at @octocon.bsky.social
A sign over two gorgous pencil sketches. The sign reads: HARDBACK GRAPHIC NOVELS €25 PAPER BACK GRAPHIC NOVELS €15 A4 head sketches Pencils- €50 Inked- €100 paypal: pjholdan @ gmail-.com FRIENDS + PAMILY
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Loved the film. It had an amazingly good action figure line too. The Deep Eyes designs are classic.
The deep eyes search and destroy unit armour in final fantasy the spirits within. Grey metallic scifi armour with haunting glowing blue circular eyes.
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Horror for the spooky season!

Did you see the new Mickey shaped pumpkins?
A display stand in the dublin Disney story with massive plastic pumpkins with mickey mouse ears and faces.
October 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Name a fictional comedian who would go to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
Arcade, failed stand up comic, assassin and builder of increasingly complex death mazes. Looks down upon spiderman from a massive tv screen. Gambit, cyclops wolverine and storm are cuffed to a wall beneath it. He says Welcome one and all. Image is from spiderman and the x men vs arcade for thr Super nintendo.
October 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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God damn. I still hear that voice clip.
Perswadeatron image from Syndicate Wars.
September 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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His Girl Friday (1940)

I love how its just free on YouTube. One of the greatest comedies ever made and its out there for free.
CARY GRANT, ROSALIND RUSSELL In HOWARD HAWKS' HIS GIRL FRIDAY. With RALPH BELLAMY & GENE LOCKHART. Based on a play by CHARLES MACARTHUR. A COLUMBIA PICTURE. Directed by HOWARD HAWKS.
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The lobby card for Arsenic and old lace. Warner Brothers. The villans toast over a tied up Cary Grant.
September 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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what movie do you consider "perfect?"
From the movie Pump Up the Volume. Pirate radio DJ Happy Harry Hard-on talks into a microphone: You're an unscrewed-up reaction to a screwed-up situation. Feeling screwed up in a screwed-up place... in a screwed-up time does not mean that you are screwed up.
September 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Everyone post a Batman!

#BatmanDay
"Epilogue" (2005) Justice League Unlimited Batman sits with Ace. A child with horrific reality altering powers. Ace knows he has been sent to kill her but she also know that Batman would never do that. What she needs is an ally, someone who understand what it is to be a child is a terrible place. Batman offers his hand. She takes it. Image by @HistoftheBatman
September 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Foundation (1951)
by Isaac Asimov

Also somehow right now by @theonion.com
A photo of a man looking through blinds at the outside world. The caption reads: Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away. the ONION
September 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Antifa terrorist
The Rocketter. Created by Dave Stevens. Go read the comics, they are awesome.
September 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Yeah, that was my thought too. I like the idea of little historical guys taking on Doctor Doom for his crimes against art.
3 panels from the American comic book Iron Man #249 Panel 1. Victor Von Doom stands in front of a painting of a ballet dancer. He remarks: A RENOIR. I HAVE THREE. MYSELF. I HAD FOUR, BUT I ORDERED ONE BURNED. Panel 2. Outraged Tony Stark in a white suit, through black curly hair and moustache reacts in shock: WHAT..? YOU HAD A PRICELESS WORK OF ART DESTROYED! IN HEAVEN'S NAME, WHY?! Panel 3 Doom looks over his shoulder and retorts: IT DISPLEASED ME.
September 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Hell yes. Kei and Yuri say #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Kei (a sallow skinned red head) and Yuri (pale with black hair) agents of the WWWA code name Lovely Angels, better known as The Dirty Pair.
August 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM