Shallowthing
@shallowthing.bsky.social
Not even a writer any more.
Has there been – or will there ever be – an episode about the UK version of the Zoids toyline? I loved it so much as a kid, and it maddens me that it's never been reissued.
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Has there been – or will there ever be – an episode about the UK version of the Zoids toyline? I loved it so much as a kid, and it maddens me that it's never been reissued.
Oh no. Are they going for the latter-day “Some Transformers are wearing masks for some reason, or have been mutilated” angle? Rather than the original, far more inclusive “Some Transformers just look like this; no reason to even mention it” approach?
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Oh no. Are they going for the latter-day “Some Transformers are wearing masks for some reason, or have been mutilated” angle? Rather than the original, far more inclusive “Some Transformers just look like this; no reason to even mention it” approach?
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The point of computer is not having to speak words. This should be illegal
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The point of computer is not having to speak words. This should be illegal
They've certainly got *me* excited, anyway. Missing Link Sunstreaker is the first Transformer I've bought since... well, Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper.
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They've certainly got *me* excited, anyway. Missing Link Sunstreaker is the first Transformer I've bought since... well, Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper.
All great choices, but for me the huge-honking-obvious "We can dream, can't we?" contender has to be Jetfire. The character means more to me than any other except perhaps the Dinobots, and how incredible would an already amazing toy be with extra range of motion in the hips and ankles?
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
All great choices, but for me the huge-honking-obvious "We can dream, can't we?" contender has to be Jetfire. The character means more to me than any other except perhaps the Dinobots, and how incredible would an already amazing toy be with extra range of motion in the hips and ankles?
Wow, I've been mishearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' worse than I thought.
July 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Wow, I've been mishearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' worse than I thought.
He looks very nice, but I didn't buy him. He didn't appear in the western Transformers fiction at the time, so I have zero emotional connection to the character. I'm very happy with my Missing Link Sunstreaker, though.
July 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
He looks very nice, but I didn't buy him. He didn't appear in the western Transformers fiction at the time, so I have zero emotional connection to the character. I'm very happy with my Missing Link Sunstreaker, though.
And 'Angel Witch', by the band Angel Witch, from their debut album Angel Witch.
June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And 'Angel Witch', by the band Angel Witch, from their debut album Angel Witch.
If not, do the contents of the original spreadsheet still survive at all? Is there any way we can see them? We used to be able to, and I enjoyed reading the stuff that never made it through to the main account.
June 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If not, do the contents of the original spreadsheet still survive at all? Is there any way we can see them? We used to be able to, and I enjoyed reading the stuff that never made it through to the main account.
When you say that the old form stopped working, exactly how broken is it? Are those first 300,000 fesses just gone? Is that the reason for the regular “Fesshole is looking for YOUR confessions” posts now?
June 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When you say that the old form stopped working, exactly how broken is it? Are those first 300,000 fesses just gone? Is that the reason for the regular “Fesshole is looking for YOUR confessions” posts now?
The pandemic taught me that all the people I thought were my friends were actually just people who went to the same pubs and clubs.
May 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The pandemic taught me that all the people I thought were my friends were actually just people who went to the same pubs and clubs.
I once saw a thing that said something like “Golf only exists because men are too fragile to admit they want to go for a walk with their friends.”
May 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I once saw a thing that said something like “Golf only exists because men are too fragile to admit they want to go for a walk with their friends.”
You said you had something like 300,000 confessions – so many the original form stopped working. Did you lose access to it or something? If not, maybe you could dip back in and publish some fesses that aren’t from adults who have difficulty toileting and people who won’t talk to their partners?
May 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You said you had something like 300,000 confessions – so many the original form stopped working. Did you lose access to it or something? If not, maybe you could dip back in and publish some fesses that aren’t from adults who have difficulty toileting and people who won’t talk to their partners?
All the ones that only have cartoon-accurate versions. Hopefully we'll get more toy-accurate ones instead!
May 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
All the ones that only have cartoon-accurate versions. Hopefully we'll get more toy-accurate ones instead!
Nothing is more disappointing than when a podcaster you like decides to be a YouTuber, and their podcast just turns into the audio taken from their videos, including them making repeated references to stuff you can’t see, and never explaining what it is. Rather bigger downgrade.
May 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Nothing is more disappointing than when a podcaster you like decides to be a YouTuber, and their podcast just turns into the audio taken from their videos, including them making repeated references to stuff you can’t see, and never explaining what it is. Rather bigger downgrade.
MP-10 – the Takara one, with the correct darker colours – is far from perfect, but remains the best of this bunch. I've found all subsequent attempts disappointing.
May 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
MP-10 – the Takara one, with the correct darker colours – is far from perfect, but remains the best of this bunch. I've found all subsequent attempts disappointing.
I'm not bothered about Ultra Magnus, but I'd buy a full set of Missing Link Dinobots. Missing Link is the most excited I've been about official Transformers since the Shogo Hasui days of the Masterpiece line.
April 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I'm not bothered about Ultra Magnus, but I'd buy a full set of Missing Link Dinobots. Missing Link is the most excited I've been about official Transformers since the Shogo Hasui days of the Masterpiece line.
This was all a decade or more before Fury Road. Now, when I think back, I sometimes wonder that when somebody did something that would now be accompanied by a cry of “WITNESS ME”, I was the poor bloody witness they’d have been referring to, whether I wanted to be or not.
March 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This was all a decade or more before Fury Road. Now, when I think back, I sometimes wonder that when somebody did something that would now be accompanied by a cry of “WITNESS ME”, I was the poor bloody witness they’d have been referring to, whether I wanted to be or not.
Then there was the time I arrived for a party to find the stairwell strewn with plaster. The ceiling above had fallen in due to a water leak. “What’s with the plaster all over the floor?” I asked when I got inside. “What plaster all over the floor?” came the reply. They hadn’t even noticed.
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Then there was the time I arrived for a party to find the stairwell strewn with plaster. The ceiling above had fallen in due to a water leak. “What’s with the plaster all over the floor?” I asked when I got inside. “What plaster all over the floor?” came the reply. They hadn’t even noticed.
Like the guy who inexplicably had one of those big Victorian-style cast-iron bed with the wheels. When he moved out he disassembled it, reassembled it in the street outside, piled all his possessions on top of it, and then just wheeled the whole lot away, never to be seen or heard from again.
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Like the guy who inexplicably had one of those big Victorian-style cast-iron bed with the wheels. When he moved out he disassembled it, reassembled it in the street outside, piled all his possessions on top of it, and then just wheeled the whole lot away, never to be seen or heard from again.