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NightflyerJen
@nightflyerjen.bsky.social
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Sci-fi/fantasy/horror fan. Former hairy dogmother. Likes cute animals, crochet, reading, science and arts. She/her.
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nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I'm not defending that guy, but there's one Jolly Roger that I tend to associate with freedom... yeah, I'm weird.
October 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Characters from the TV show "Highlander" in a still from the final episode: from left to right, Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson, Peter Wingfield as Methos, Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda, and (seen from behind) Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod. Joe, Methos and Amanda have champagne glasses in their hands; Amanda has two and appears to be passing one to Duncan. For those unfamiliar with the series: Amanda was an unrepentant and incorrigible thief, so it's not a big stretch to imagine her coming up with a ridiculous scheme to rob the Louvre and roping her friends into helping, which is why they're a reasonable "right answer" to "Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only." They're probably drinking to their successfully pulling it off. 😉
October 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
"Have you said 'thank you' even once?"
This is an image from Star Trek: the Next Generation. In the attached still photo, a Cardassian (a vaguely reptilian looking alien) interrogator (named Gul Madred, portrayed by the excellent David Warner) leans close to intimidate Captain Picard (played by Patrick Stewart.) Gul Madred was attempting to break Picard through torture, abuse and deprivation; he ultimately failed. This is the episode where Madred tries to bully Picard into saying there were five lights-- a deliberate lie, since there were in reality only four lights. Whether or not Gul Madred would fit right in amid the current Administration, and where, is probably an exercise best left to the viewers of this post.
March 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
*gulp* Well, I think it might be done... #altidance #dtiys @sephiramy.bsky.social

I won't say it's *great*, but I had fun, and it made me stretch and learn (I usually use speckle brushes instead of cel shading but I think it worked okay.)

Thanks for the challenge, and belated happy birthday!
A "draw this in your style" challenge, based on @sephiramy's work. A serpentine woman is dancing, her long black hair flaring out as she moves. She's wearing a purple-and-silvery dress, torn fishnet stocking, and black high-heeled shoes. There are brown and gray diamond patterns on her arms, shoulders, and face.
January 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Apologies-- I forgot to check for alt text before I reskeeted @straczynski.bsky.social 's post. Since accessibility's important, I'm going to see if I can manage it.

Original is here: bsky.app/profile/stra...
THE RULES OF THE NEW ARISTOCRACY It doesn’t matter how much food costs increase, doesn’t matter if vou can only afford fast food, we will always be able to buy steak. And we will invest heavily in fast food stocks to ensure we make money off this. Doesn’t matter how much gas costs, we will always be able to afford it. In addition to poor food choices and health coverage, your kids will grow up without proper nutrition which will cause them problems on every level, from physical to educational difficulties. Our kids will grow up straight and true and healthy. It doesn’t matter how much an education costs, doesn’t matter if your kids can’t afford to go to college or come out with massive debt, we will always be able to send our kids to university. And because a lot of our income is derived from tax incentives and taxpayer-fundeded bailouts your taxes are sending our kids to school. But you do not have the right to any of our money to send your kid to school. If you or your kids want to start a business, you will find that because we’ve sucked all the money out of the economy, there is simply no available cash around to help you finance your startup. (Unless you want to go to your friends online at sites like Indiegogo, and isn’t that just cute?) We just cut our kids a check and tell them to go have fun. Your kids are born with a glass ceiling above which they will almost certainly never have the opportunity to rise. Our kids are bom with a marble floor beneath which they will never be allowed to fall. If you accidentally provide incorrect information on your tax retum, you could lose your house, your possessions, and your livelihood. We lie all the the time on our tax information and none of us ever have to deal with this. We squirrel away billions of dollars in overseas accounts and do all we can to ensure that your money never leaves our control because we’ll doubtless need to scoop out more of it soon. You live in a Company Town; we pay you to work for us, while making sure that we own all the stores in town that sell our goods, the doctors offices where you go in town, the restaurants where you eat, and that we charge you just enough to make sure that at the end of the week you don’t have any leftover money to squirrel away, so you can never leave the company town, can never get ahead, and can never risk criticizing the company town. You work for us. We own the town where you live. We own you. If one of you takes a hundred dollar bill from the cash register, you will go to jail. If we take billions out of the savings of ordinary people then crash the economy, costing thousands of jobs, not one of us will ever be prosecuted. Because the New Aristocracy is above such things. So we’ll just keep on doing it. Enjoy the ride. Your local police belong to us now. We’ve militarized them into soldiers who treat you like terrorists. If you speak against us, we will ensure that you are tear gassed and beaten and handcuffed and caged into “free speech zones” designed to make you forget that the whole country was supposed to be a free speech zone. But now you have free speech only when and where we say you can have it. Meanwhile, we can say and do pretty much anything we want, to you or anyone else, and get away with it. If you happen to figure out our game and talk about it, we will accuse you of Class Warfare, in order to distract anyone from realizing that yes, there was a class war, that it was against you, that the war is over, and we won. Yes, you get a chance to vote for congresspeople and senators and presidents. But only after we’ve decided, Iong before the first ballot is ever cast, which candidate we will finance. Those we like, those who will give us what we want first and foremost, we will finance and you will get to vote on one of the two pre-screened candidates we have given you. If we don’t like them, if we think they will challenge us, we will not finance them and you will never have the chance to vote on them. Because you don’t get a real vote in the New Aristocracy. We own the White House. We own Congress. They pass the bills we write for them. They make the laws we want them to make, and make sure that they only limit you, never us. We own the courts. We own the lawyers. They are the club we use to beat you into submission. There are no Democratic or Republican Senators, or Congresspeople or Presidents. Those parties have not existed for decades. There is only the Party of the New Aristocrat. The rest is Kabuki theater. It is Mexican Wrestling. It is the illusion of choice, of difference, of democracy. This is not a democracy. It is a monarchy of money. In that monarchy, we are the Aristocracy, the royalty, and what we say, goes. If you dump trash illegally, you will be fined and potentially arrested. If we dump hundreds of tons of toxic waste into rivers and streams, none of us will ever be arrested and if we are fined, we will simply raise our prices so that you are the one to actually pay for what we did. We are the New Aristocracy, and we do not pay fines. We are the New Aristocracy, and we are immune from prosecution. We are the New Aristocracy, and we find your poverty and your powerlessness and your struggles disgusting. You are beneath us. Understand something: we don’t want you to succeed. We don’t want someone coming along to slice the pie into smaller pieces. We want to ovn all of it. If we really wanted more of you where we are, do you think we would Inve spent the last thirty years consolidating every major company into smaller and smaller groups owned by fewer and fewer people? We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. We got our money the old fashioned, Medieval way: our parents gave it to us. We were born into the wealth that we stole from you and your family over the last fifty years. You were not born into anything other than poverty and struggle. You will never be us. You will never have our our advantages. And we like it that way. We like that you peer through the bars of your cage to all that we have. We like that you think you can have it yourself one day. Because that illusion keeps you on our side. But you wiil never have those things. We’ve made sure of that. Because what you’re looking at is ours, and we do not share. The world we have carefully constructed for you is like one of those boardwalk games of chance where if you knock down the big pins with a baseball, you win a huge prize. But the pins are weighted and positioned so that you will never, ever knock them down. Yet you’ll keep paying anyway, and keep throwing, until you exhaust yourself and your wallet. And we like it that way. We don’t want you to have opportunities, we don’t want you to have an education, we don’t want you to have a voice in what happens to you, we don’t want you healthy, we don’t want you to do anything but be frightened, helpless, docile consumers who will eat and watch and buy what we tell you to eat and watch and buy while we keep all the good stuff to ourselves. Because you’re not in our club. Because we are the New Aristocracy. And you are the New Peasants. And we very, very, very much like it that way. An essay by J. Michael Straczynski
January 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Umm, my wacky Muse insisted that was a *prompt.*

Sorry it's so rough, but I was in a rush to get it done before the inspiration left me. 🤣
This is a rough and hasty sketch of the Deep Space 9 crew as Muppet characters, except for Alexander Siddig as Bashir (who was drawn very badly, I admit. I'm not always good at drawing humans.) Sam the Eagle is Odo, looking on disapprovingly. Janice is Jadzia Dax. Animal is Worf. Miss Piggy is Kira, brandishing her Bajoran phaser. Kermit (with a goatee) is Sisko. Gonzo is Quark (with Camilla the chicken as a Dabo girl at his side.) Bashir is looking on, with a shocked and anxious expression. And in the foreground, the Swedish Chef as Miles O'Brien is tossing a wrench behind him, his repairs finished.
December 7, 2024 at 8:48 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Of the three rotating storylines, I was most interested in the one with Dracula, who was played by Michael Nouri.

Considering I was probably seven when it aired... I am old. 😭
This is an ad for a 1970s TV show titled Cliffhangers! It featured three serial stories: Stop Susan Williams (who was a journalist and is pictured with a camera); The Secret Empire (which had both Western and futuristic elements, if I remember correctly) and The Curse of Dracula (who is shown as a looming, caped figure above the image of an explosion.) The ad promises "Three different suspense thrillers in one action packed hour!"
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
The canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about
Three men, each standing in front of color blocks resembling the American flag. An older man in a black motorcycle jacket and fingerless gloves is backed by a field of red; he's Frohike. A younger man with long blond hair and a punk t-shirt stands backed by white; that's Langly. A third man looks dapper and dignified in a suit and neatly-trimmed beard before a sea of blue; he's Byers. Together they investigate conspiracies and oddities, fighting to let the truth be known and always believing in helping others and doing the right thing... as the Lone Gunmen. And I don't care *what* that crappy vindictive episode said-- they're NOT dead. They're still out there, doing their best and fighting the good fight... if only in our hearts.
November 16, 2024 at 3:51 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Sooo... friends and I are doing a Babylon 5 rewatch, and we're in season 4. I see a meme popping up on the timeline, and think, "didn't we watch this scene recently?"

(Please be nice, I'm nervous about sharing my sketches 🥴 )
This is a sketch of two Babylon 5 characters, Londo and Vir. Both of them are aliens from Centauri (which means they have fancy crests of hair fanning out of their scalps; other anatomical differences are hidden.) Both are wearing fairly elaborate robes, though I simplified them for the sketch. Londo is saying, "Vir, I think we're gonna have to kill this Cartagia guy, yes?" Vir is staring, dumbfounded, at the suggestion. I highly recommend watching Babylon 5, it's *amazing.*
December 27, 2023 at 5:41 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Um, is this a good time to mention how your pfp reminds me of Ron Sweed, aka "the Ghoul"?

He was a horror movie host back in the 70s-80s in the Ohio-Michigan area, with a chaotic counterculture-ish vibe.

(I mean that in a good way, of course. 😁 )
This is a promotional picture of the late Ron Sweed, known as the horror host "the Ghoul" to fans in the Ohio and Michigan area. Here he's wearing a frizzy short-haired blonde wig atop his head, his trademark sunglasses with one lens missing, and a bushy black (probably fake) mustache and vandyke beard. He is grinning with his usual mischievous glee. He's also wearing a white lab coat, like a mad scientist, with a variety of pins and badges on the lapels. With him is a stuffed animal of some sort, with its back to the camera, wearing a "Ghoul Power" t-shirt and a hat with badges I can't read. The toy appears to be hanging from some sort of rod-and-chain gadget that I'm not sure how to describe, but it looks sort of like a leash of some sort. The Ghoul is holding the rod.
December 15, 2023 at 5:06 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
Right back at ya, Tammi!
Caption at top of image reads "Internet Hug." The center of the image is filled by a stick-figure person who is smiling, their arms stretched wide in an invitation to hug. Caption at bottom of image reads "please wrap arms around monitor now."
November 27, 2023 at 10:38 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I think that's why we're seeing pushback, like proposed TikTok bans, Musk's enshittification of Twitter, uneven/unfair application of moderation on Twitch. But I get the feeling that genie is out of the bottle, and won't be so easily contained again.

/end
This is an image from the science fiction movie Serenity. It shows Mr Universe, a computer and communications expert, in front of his many monitors, speaking the following line (captioned underneath): "You can't stop the signal, Mal."
November 20, 2023 at 11:09 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I get that urge too. 😁

Had to rent a car once, when mine needed fixing. The only one available was a Kia Soul. First words out of my mouth: "it's the hamster car!"

(There was a series of TV ads with life-size hamsters driving the car.)

Yeah, I got a *look* from the rental guy. 🤣
A still from an advertisement, featuring one large hamster at the wheel of the car, while the other happily looks out the car's window. A Kia Soul is parked in front of a building with fancy pillars, indicating class and refinement. In the background, there are free-standing chandeliers and ballet dancers. In the foreground, there are three human-sized hamsters posing in front of the car, dressed in bright, oversized rapper-style outfits.
November 13, 2023 at 12:20 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I'm so sorry. Sending hugs and love...
Two dogs are wrapped in a blanket. One dog puts its paws around the other dog, resting its head on top of the other dog's head, giving it a hug.
October 30, 2023 at 3:43 PM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I wish I had words to help... but I don't. Sending good vibes instead:
Two cats are sitting on a window seat, looking out the window. The black cat is hugging the second, spotted cat.
October 23, 2023 at 3:23 AM
nightflyerjen.bsky.social
I still remember being spellbound the very first time I heard this (on vinyl... yes, I'm an old fart.)
The cover from Cyndi Lauper's third album, titled "A Night to Remember," featuring Cyndi with a spiked hairstyle, colorful jacket and diamond-patterned Capri pants, standing at a microphone on a city street.
October 22, 2023 at 9:52 PM