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High Emperor of Mars, Govenor-general of Vega and Lord Protector of all the Centauris // he/him // ❤️🖤
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A Thing I've Played

Outer Wilds

This is.. so good.
You play as the inhabitant of a (very small) solar system, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And that's all I can say without spoilers.
A Poster for Outer Wilds. It shows in an oil-painting-style the protagonist roasting marshmellows in front of a campfire in a forest, with the spacecraft parked next to him. In the sky some of the planets of the game's solar system can be seen.
October 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A Thing I've Read 15/2025
Shift (Silo II), by Hugh Howey

The second book of the Silo trilogy is just as much of a page-turner as the first one.
It starts in more-or-less current times and expands along several locations and timeslines on the background of the setting, ...
The cover of Shift, second book of Silo-trilogy, by Hugh Howey. In blue and white colours, it shows a walkway between two slanted walls made from large elements. On the end of the corridor there is a double-door, above which a bright white light illuminates the scene. Two thirds of the way the silhouette of a person can be seen, moving towards the door. On the lower edge of the cover the author's name is written in solid white letters, and above that the book title, starting solid white on the bottom and being overlayed towards the top with a CRT colour matrix.
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A Thing I've (re-)Read 14/24
Stories Of Your Life and others, by Ted Chiang
After Eclipse I felt a need to re-read the titular Stories Of Your Life, which was the inspiration for Contact, which was an inspiration for Eclipse. And then I already had the thing open, so why not.
The cover of Stories Of Your Life and others, by Ted Chiang. It shows the title in the middle and the author in the bottom in big yellow block-letters, the lines filled up by thick yellow blocks, in front of a white root-structure on black ground.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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A Thing I've Read 13/25
Wool (Silo I), by Hugh Howey
The world is a giant underground silo. The outside is toxic. The order of society must be preserved at all costs, lest humanities last outpost crumbles to dust. Of course nothing goes ever wrong.
The cover of Wool, by Hugh Howey. In the fore-to-midground a barren, rocky landscape is seen, with hills rising to both sides of the cover. In the middle, and in some distance, stands a human figure with its back to the reader. A bright light shines into the valley. The further up one looks the more the view is overlaid with CRT matrix, its red-green-blue slits clearly visible on the upper side. In the lower part, laid over the rocky terrain, is the name of the book written, with a similar effect: bright on the bottom, a CRT-matrix clearly visible on the top of the letters. The author's name is written in bright letters below.
September 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A Thing I've Read 12/25
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

I've decided to read this one after the good people of Poltergeist announced a larp based on it and a lot of people were very excited, and now I do see why.
The cover of Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. In front of a dark blue night sky with golden stars stands a column, on which a (a statue of a?) faun stands upright with one hoof, the other raised in the air. The faun has pale skin and blond hair on its head and its lower body and legs, and it's playing a double-ended flute. Along the bottom of the cover are the stylized swirls of a roaring ocean. The name of the author is printed on the top, the name of the book on the bottom.
September 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A Thing I've (re-)Read 11/25
Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The second time around this book continues to be an absolute fever dream, but knowing what's coming (and maybe a few hours of wiki-binging beforehand) really did help to make a lot more sense of everything.
The cover of Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir. In the background the gray of a dead planet in front of stars, with blue veins across it and a blue star barely flaring across its lower edge. In front of that the protagonist, Lady Harrowhark, The Revered Daughter, a young women with short black hair and a skull painted on her face, clad in black garments, bones forming a ribcage over her chest, and a white coat slung over her shoulders. Across her back she carries a large, two-handed sword. Around her are rather less than more complete skeletons, skulls and bones pieces, floating around her and her outstretched hand.
September 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A Thing I've Listened To
The Watcher in the Rain, by Alec Worley

I think someone recommended this w40k audio horror story to me, at some point? Anyway, I've finally managed to listen, and it's a solid story with excellent production design, ...
The cover of The Watcher in the Rain, by Alec Worley. It shows a view of a city in the Gothic architecture elemental to the w40k-setting in pouring rain, with a figure standing on presumable the top of a roof in the foreground. A giant eldritch entity is reaching for it from the background.
August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A Thing I've (re-) Read 10/25
Faery Apocalypse, by Jason Franks

On a whim I've re-read this story of a bunch of mortals visiting faeryland and bringing all sorts of doom to it.
Still a good and easy read, but obviously a rather dark one.
The cover of Faery Apocalypse, by Jason Franks. It shows an idyllic scene in front of a setting sun, the orange glow illuminating trees and hillsides. The hills emanate a blue sparkly glow upwards.
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A Thing I've Read 09/25
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
A collection of four dystopian novellas that's been on my list for ages, and they've not aged a day since release. Especially the titular radicalized, about an armed uprising against the US healthcare system...
The cover of Radicalized, by Cory Doctorow. On a red background in white letters the author on top and the title on the bottom, and between them in a two-by-two grid four white circles with black icons in them representing the stories: a slice of bread with the "forbidden"-sign on it, a superhero silouette, a pill with the hand of a drowning person reaching up from the bottom, and a skull with the white parts represented by human silouettes.
August 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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A Thing I've Read 08/25
Wir waren jung und unerschrocken: Skipper von Traditionsschiffen erzählen von Martina Boetticher
Eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Lebensgeschichten aus der Traditionsschifferszene, wie das damals(tm) so war und wie das heute alles schwieriger ist.
Das Cover von Wir waren jung und unerschrocken: Skipper von Traditionsschiffen erzählen von Martina Boetticher. Es zeigt ein augenscheinlich altes Photo eines Traditionsseglers, mit viel Film-Grain, auf See mit gesetzten Segeln.
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A Thing I've Watched 06/25
Love, Death, and Robots S04

It was... alright? I feel a bit like the concept has run its course and maybe it's time to get off the horse while it's still alive.
A poster for Love, Death, and Robots, Season 4. It shows on a black background three candy pieces: a heart with the letters L and V, a cross with the letters D and T on one arm, and VOL and 4 on the other, and a block with two eye-like holes with the letters R, B, T and S. Above it the line "Volume F*** / May 15".
July 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A Thing I've Watched 05/25
Porco Rosso
The poster for Porco Rosso
May 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A Thing I've Watched 04/25
Nimona
The poster for Nimona
May 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A Thing I've Read 04/25
Machine Vendetta, by Alastair Reynolds
The third and so far last Prefect Dreyfus Emergency brings me finally back to the point of having read everything Revelation Space.
The Cover of Machine Vendetta, by Alastair Reynolds It shows the silouette of a man from behind, looking at a floating, glowing ball, almost a miniature star, surrounded by floating displays full of numbers.
March 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A Thing I've Played: Assassin's Creed Origins
On the one hand, there's not a lot to say. It's an Assassin's Creed game. It's set in Ancient Egypt in an attempt to tell the story of how things came to be, backfilling the series-defining artefacts away from being biblical into being ancient.
March 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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A Thing I've Read 03/25
Frostbite, by Nicola Twilly
A book about refrigeration, the history thereof, and it's impact on every single part of the food chain.
A good read, with tons of interesting things to learn along the way.
The cover of Frostbite by Nicola Twilly. It depicts title and subtitle, and author, separated by a giant block of frozen berries.
March 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A Thing I've Watched 03/25
Arcane Season 02
How dare, Riot. HOW? DARE!?
The second season is every bit as excellent as the first one. Animation, music, story, style, everything.
A poster for Season 2 of Arcane It shows from bottom to top Vi swinging power-fists, Caitlin aiming her rifle at something off-picture, Ambessa looking grim, and Jinx looming over all of them.
January 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A Thing I Watched 02/25
Arcane S01 (re-watch)
This thing holds up as perfectly on the second run as on the first, and oh boi did I forget how constantly hard-hitting this was.
Hopefully I'll now manage to ge relatively quickly into S02, finally.
A poster for Arcane S02 It depicts in its middle Jinx performing a finger guns-gesture, surrounded by mirror shards depicting the rest of the cast.
January 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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A Thing I Watched 01/25
Never Mind the Gig Work… Here’s the Coffeebots!
A "reconstruction of the filmed version of a puppet play that was never performed" by the c-atre collective, this open-source play (link below) follows a group of coffee-bots unhappy with their working conditions...
The thumbnail of Never Mind the Gig Work… Here’s the Coffeebots! It shows part of the main characters, puppets made of upcycled Bialetti cans, performing as a band on stage.
January 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A Thing I've Read 02/25
Terminal Boredom: Stories, by Izumi Suzuki

A (translated) collection of science-fiction short stories, none of which is actively bad, but also none of which really connected with me. I also found them pretty uncomfortable at times.
The cover of Terminal Boredom: Stories, by Izumi Suzuki. An black-and-orange photograph of a japanese woman crawling onto a tatami-mat from the right, next to her on the upper end a stack of magazines sprawling on the ground. Author and title are overlayed in white font.
January 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Well.
Ramoma Flowers, as portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Ramona Flowers, as portrayed in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
December 25, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Her, and Oh, The Heartbreak.
Final Fantasy 7's Aerith Gainsborough, in both her original form and the remake.
December 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Specifically her, but she is appreciated in every appearance.
Jaheira, of the Baldur's Gate series, as depicted in Baldur's Gate 2.
December 24, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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This useless himbo.
The Locked Tomb-series' Gideon Nav, as depicted on the cover of Gideon the Ninth.
December 24, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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a gif of a bg3-based animation, star of the show is Karlach dancing in the background.
December 23, 2024 at 9:23 PM