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Laura E. Hall
@lauraehall.bsky.social
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Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games & escape rooms, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she

PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)

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He's just like me fr (I'm writing this post by candlelight while lightning crashes outside my tower window)

#frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social
A screenshot from Twitter. User bloodfangs says, "guillermo del toro has the imagination and creativity of a woman who spends her time maladaptive daydreaming in her bedroom about meeting her soulmate in the most gothic situation imaginable and that's why I love him so". Posted October 19, 2025
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Happy Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is Streaming Day to those who celebrate (me!!)
A poster for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein depicting the monster carrying the bride. It is captioned "Let us be monsters together" and has the artist names, Oscarr Isaac, Jacob Elorde, Mia Goth and Christopher Waltz, a film by Guillermo del Toro, and says Now Playing in Select Theaters, Netflix November 7.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The log lady from Twin Peaks facing the camera. She is a woman wearing a heavy sweater and glasses. She clutches a log in her arms protectively. She is saying, “one day, the sadness will end.“ Director David Lynch from one of his daily weather report videos. He is turning to a window, looking outside and saying, “but I don’t think today’s the day.“
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story. First panel: Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“ Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!” Second panel: Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!” Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!” Third panel: Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!” Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!” Fourth panel: Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!” Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Still the greatest endorsement of all time
A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape
October 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Real (me guarding a slug on a busy path, with the added bonus of being able to say, “Slug!” and pointing it out to everyone passing by)
Two feet stand next to a slug in the middle of a dirt path
October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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After almost 20 years together, my sweet old gal Evey passed away early this morning. A piece of my heart is missing now, but I'm grateful I was able to be with her in her final moments and help ease her passage
A sweet tabby cat sits quietly in a sunbeam, glowing like a little angel A very young tabby cat sits with her tail curled up protectively around her paws
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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For context, these are the ones I’ve seen
Paul Frazee quotes a Louvre of Bluesky post with the word “waffles” and rts himself saying “Ready to die on the hill of "social media doesn't have to suck"” Jay of Bluesky says “Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles” with a photo of a waffle
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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People are upset about changes to the TOS and how some moderation choices have been handled as the site has grown. A lot of people will reply to anything staff posts with comments about it. Staff are talking about waffles etc, a ref to the attached post, which is itself a riff on a different meme
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” Jay @jay.bsky.team: “Too real. We're going to try to fix this. Social media doesn't have to be this way.” October 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM Coolee Bravo @BravoCoolee: “Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.” 1:34 pm • 23 Oct 17
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Soooo much fun playing DASH (Different Area, Same Hunt) in PDX today, a day-long puzzle hunt that runs in multiple cities simultaneously. I had a great time stretching my muscles (physical and mental). The last one took place in 2019 and I’ve missed it so much!
People solve paper puzzles on a picnic table. The puzzles are out of focus but are labeled “expert” difficulty
September 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Playing Strange Jigsaws on stream! Come hang and watch me utterly fail to solve puzzles and/or jigsaws: twitch.tv/FloraFaery
A pink fairy character in front of a jigsaw puzzle game
September 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Just a heads up, this one has a shipping address issue
There was a problem with some of the items in your order (see below for more information): Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer Refreshing Gel, Clean Scent, 1 Fl Oz Delivering to c/o Media Specialist (Shanna Miles), Gift Registry Address c/o Media Specialist (Shanna Miles), Gift Registry Address, HAMPTON, GA, (Full address hidden for privacy) We're sorry. This item can't be shipped to a Wish List or gift registry address.
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This isn’t a meme, I just think he’s neat :3
A little brown doggy with its pink tongue hanging out waits outside a doorway, wearing teeny tiny crocs on its feet. It looks pretty happy
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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:3
A post by alek @mogvvai. “This guy got on the bus and just stared at me and Lulabelle on my lap for a solid 30 seconds then goes "are you allowed to have dogs on the bus" and I just shrugged thinking he was gonna give me shit or something but then he pulls out a chihuahua out of nowhere”
August 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I'm sick, so no coworking stream today! Send soup
A lil guy, maybe a Sylvanian Families animal? He's wearing an old-timey diving suit and sitting expectantly at a table with a spoon in his hand, chanting, "Soup! Soup! Soup!"
August 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Today, August 10, in 1988, the front page story of the New York Times is about 11-year-old hacker Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy, who brought down 1,507 computer systems, causing a 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange (Hackers, 1995) #HackThePlanet
A young man says, "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." The cool group of hackers he's talking to turn to him, and a cool Black teen in a patterned shirt looks impressed. “Zero Cool…crashed 1507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Front page of the New York Times, August 10, 1988.“
August 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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In Peak there's a plushie named Bing Bong that you can carry with you as you climb. It takes an inventory slot and you can't eat him. And yes. Yes, I will protect this scrungly little gremlin with my life. So rude (complimentary) of the devs to make something laser-targeting that type of player (me)
Two disembodied blue hands hold a scrungly little plushy, a real little guy. It's kind of like a frog or a chicken with wide eyes on either side of its head and dangling limbs. Maybe lips or a beak? And he has a propeller beanie because of course he does. Its name is Bing Bong and I love him
August 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Technology should have stopped here tbh
A hand holding a knockoff iPod Nano. It has a small screen showing an mp3 of Golden from Kpop Demon Hunters playing
August 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This fellow
A grid of orc-like humanoids with gnarled faces and red eyes A hairy orc monster, Crungus, with a wrinkled grey and green body and red eyes
August 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Nintendo announced a new Katamari game in their latest direct, Once Upon A KATMARI! There's also this cute music video for one of the new songs, Eeja Eeja naika by Kocchi no Kento
August 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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It's less than 100 days until October 31, so now's a great time to sign up for my 100% free newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween. Every day of October I send an email with fun, cute, cozy and/or spooky seasonal stuff to get you into a Halloween mood 🎃 Sign up here: buttondown.com/31daysofhall...
August 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Happy birthday Max!! 💛💛💛 Love, your biggest fan
A woman holds an adorable little red puppy on her lap while she smiles A puppy trading card featuring the cutest little puppy ever, Max
July 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Help the Tamagotchis can kiss now
Two Tamagotchi Paradise units. They're egg-shaped cute plastic toys with small buttons and characters on a screen. Here, their round tops are removed and they're connected to each other
July 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Uh oh...there's a new type of Tamagotchi...AND it has a little built-in spinning wheel
An image showing the Tamagotchi Paradise, an adorable egg-shaped toy with a spinning wheel on its side. It also shows an illustration of a cartoon character evolving into different phases
July 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Gandalf the Grey Sweatpants
A car with a license plate reading “GANDILF”. There are stickers of moon phases and runes, and a reference to Gandalf’s horse in the Lord of the Rings, Shadowfax
July 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM