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Michael
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As and when I use this app, it'll mostly be for indie tabletop RPG design thoughts. Mostly quiet for now though, being off social media has been good for me.

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She/Her, He/Him, Ze/Hir, Ve/Ver, Xe/Xem, Ae/Aer
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Egg.
Surrealist painting of a giant egg that's broken open on a beach. Each half of the shell forms a cliff covered in trees and houses, the "egg white" is actually the sea spilling out over the beach to form an inlet in the foreground, and the "yolk" is the sun hanging perfectly framed between the two halves.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I love discovering a surrealist painter for the first time. Have you *seen* this Vasko Taškovski guy?
Surrealist painting of a brown horse with flaming golden hair and some sort of alien armour fighting a weird lil beardy, tentacle-y guy who just hatched out of an egg. Surrealist painting of a weird structure made out of a mix of bird-like parts, bones, branches, shells, rocks and who knows what else, standing on a beach with bright blue sea and sky in the background. The key features include an eye near the middle and what appears to be a human woman, dwarfed by the structure, leaning against one of its spiky... legs? Surrealist painting of Icarus, legs stretched out to the right and turning into islands, torso represented by an egg breaking open to let out blasts of white light or force which form the wings, and a head that's a uniform white sphere, maybe a moon. Surrealist painting of a whole lot of elements that we've seen in the other paintings, notably islands, architecture, shells, ovals and the piercing blue sky, all spiralling around a central point.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Also this, which is a completely different genre and I was actually aware of it at the time! I saw Manecas live when he was touring the UK to promote the album, and the interplay between his guitar parts and the Venezuelan harpist blew my mind.
Album cover for Paraiso di Gumbe by Manecas Costa: a smiling Manecas, holding his guitar casually, stands in the centre of a plain yellow-orange background with the title and his name in darker orange in the top left.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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What perfect album came out when you were 16?

I was completely unaware of any of these in 2003, except maybe Hail to the Thief, which I still didn't buy until I was at uni.
Album cover for The Ugly Organ by Cursive: a pale green background with 4 gold circles (each with a red ring around it) at the top, and a piano/organ keyboard with jagged edges that look a bit like teeth across the middle. Album cover for The Desert Sessions 9 & 10: Against a black background there's a close-up on the face of a carved figure with a long nose. "Desert Sessions 9" is written down the left, "I See You Hearin Me" down the right. Half of the cover is obscured by a sticker with details of the musicians who took part, the singles and bonus features, and some review quotes. Album cover for Hail to the Thief by Radiohead: a painting of a hill made out of brightly coloured sections that recall neon signs and billboards, advertising single words that range from "TV" and "meat" to "armed," "fear" and "anti." At the top of the hill, some dark paint trickles up off the top of the painting, under a black box with the band name and album title. Album cover for De-Loused in the Comatorium by the Mars Volta: a bald, golden head lies on a plate on a stainless steel table in what looks like an operating theatre. The head and plate are surrounded by surgical implements, and a gurney is visible in the background. The egg-like head's eyes are open and a cone of white light is pouring out of its mouth towards the top left. A yellow sticker displays the band name and album title, along with a silhouette of what looks like it might be a puppet going limp.
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A vicious fight has broken out on the comments wall of the local community cinema...
A card labelled "Watershed Comments Card" is stuck to a notice board. The original comment was "too woke" but a second writer has added the response "Your dad paints roundabouts"
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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My hair got pretty wet on the way into town, but fortunately I managed to find a sunny spot to dry it off
Michael, a short-haired white person wearing a dark green raincoat, is outlined against a giant glowing model of the sun suspended from a cathedral ceiling.
October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Jekyll and Hyde said Trans Rights.
A paragraph from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that reads: "And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance, I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine."
September 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Jekyll and Hyde said ACAB.
An excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that reads: "and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which may at times assail the most honest."
September 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The classics are classics for a reason.
A paragraph from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that reads "'If he be Mr Hyde,' he had thought, 'I shall be Mr Seek.'"
September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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LMAO my most used squad has more than 3 times the number of games played than any other squad. Genuinely can't remember if that's because I was having trouble getting it to work or if it was just my favoured squad while I was learning the game.

(Or if I just played it a lot for fun!)
The Statistics screen from the video game Into the Breach. There are sections with some overall stats, my top 5 highest scoring games, which enemies I killed most of and lost the most pilots to, the stats for my most used Time Traveller pilot (Morgan Lejeune) and, most relevantly, my most used squad. The squad is called the Zenith Guard and I've played exactly 400 games with them.
September 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Hell yeah you better believe I 100% completed Into the Breach!
Page 1 of the Squad Selection screen for the video game Into the Breach, showing 3 blue-and-pink medals and 3 golden coins next to every squad. Page 2 of the Squad Selection screen for the video game Into the Breach, showing 3 blue-and-pink medals and 3 golden coins next to every squad.
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Me when Austin starts talking about Poison Elves on the latest FatT episode:
The classic, unadulterated sickos.jpeg image of a grinning, unshaven man wearing a jumper marked Sickos staring through a window and exclaiming "Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!"
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Robin, Robin and Robin.
Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon all dressed as Robin.
August 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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You know, a *vacuum* cleaner.

Vacuum. Like space.

(From the Hunter × Hunter fandom wiki entry for the Phantom Troupe.)
Screenshot of a bullet point from a wiki page listing "space-related characteristics." I have underlined the entry "Shizuku's Blinky being a vacuum cleaner."
July 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Parody of the Star Wars opening crawl with the names altered as follows: "RETURN OF THE JED.BE Luke Skywalk.nz has returned to his home planet of Tatooi.gov in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Sol.fr from the clutches of the vile gangster Jab.ac.uk the Hutt. Little does Luke know that the GALACTIC EMPI.EDU has secretly" At this point the bottom of the screen cuts off any remaining text.
June 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It's great that after all the thought and effort the #FriendsAtTheTable crew regularly put into describing their characters' looks, as soon as I heard Hye Malis was running an outdoor stall my brain overwrote all previous descriptions with this image.

...Sorry, Ali.

#Realis
A cartoon of Lucy from Peanuts sitting with her feet up on her psychiatry stall has been edited so that the stall's signs say "Psychic Help, 5 Loops. The Syzygist is: IN."
February 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM