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aka @amancalledprak - I like tabletop RPGs, housing law and overthinking genre fiction. #MeFite
Last toot needs an #eastangliangods tag too.
Couple of days to go, yet, but if they fuck up "American Gods" I'm gonna set my car on fire.
"No Mr, just Wednesday" #americangods
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Fascinating short piece on accounting for the oddness of The Wind in the Willows, a book which has always perplexed me a great deal.
https://blog.oup.com/2010/08/wind-in-the-willows/
I wrote my own rather (massively) less well-informed speculation a few years back, without having read the link above.
Is Dishonored 2 still shit on PC or have those known problems been patched and resolved?
@CobaltVelvet Fantastic! Makes me want to get back in the cockpit and do some proper exploring.
@Frankenbeans A very worthy project. Fresh horseradish is so much better than the preserved alternative, and so much harder to obtain (at least so I find) that this is surely a sound investment of energy and growing space.
Horseradish, year two.
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Donating is grand; boosting this, even, will be helpful, to get the message around.
Currently here, in Bristol. Just mooching around. But what it makes me think of is how much I'd love an app that provides a "history" layer to our electronic maps. It could provide links to Wikipedia articles, books, public records, old pictures etc. Maybe have an oral history component, allowing users to submit their own recollections or family stories as well as tag sources.
Is there anything remotely like that available?
How do you dress for a work presentation when only half the audience knows your gender? It's in a small town, you'll have to use the men's toilets and it distresses the local blokes if you look "too femme". However, you'll also need to discuss said gender with several work people and you'll need to look "femme enough" for those conversations go smoothly. If your choices make too many people uncomfortable there will be consequences. Does Miss Manners have an etiquette guide for this situation?
I am very pleased to have had an interesting conversation about TV and memory today with @DaveHiggins and @jlward. It made my day more cheerful and I learned some new things. 😃
We had no idea who or what Doctor Who was. We just stumbled onto the show, jumped in, and started watching. We were so confused when Tom Baker died and changed into a completely different man. Seriously. We walked around the house for weeks trying to figure that out. And this was pre-internet so unless you knew someone in real life, you were out of luck.
@jlward @DaveHiggins Yes, lack of context would be particularly puzzling in re Who, because it's always been an odd show in many ways. Even with context, I think it's often misunderstood as a cult sci-fi show, when it's actually a sort of sui generis popular family fantasy. I have one IRL friend who I've had to mute on Facebook now that Who is back on, because he'll endlessly criticise it as if it should be Blake's 7 or something. It gets a bit wearing!
@DaveHiggins The comedy medical history podcast Sawbones did an episode about it last Halloween, which was pretty good: http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-ghostwatch
@DaveHiggins I do need to go back and rewatch the McCoy stuff. There was some really interesting story and character building, and Ace blew things up.
Ghostwatch's problem was that, although it was on after the watershed, and in a drama slot, it was advertised in a was that led lots of parents to let their children stay up. I think there was a piece in a medical journal some years after, about a couple of children potentially having PTSD as a result.
@jlward @DaveHiggins My own Berenstain Bears is Scalextric. I was convinced for years that they'd changed the name from Scalectrix at some point.
@DaveHiggins I also just looked up that cactus Tom Baker. That's pretty creepy. Definitely sets of my trypophobia.
@DaveHiggins @jlward My sister had a tea-towel designated for hiding behind during frightening Dr Who bits. I was nervous of going in the sea for years after the "haemovore" episodes (The Curse of Fenric), due to a lurking fear that those long marine vampire claws might pull me beneath the waves.
Of course, when we're thinking about terrifying alternate shared reality, let's not forget Ghostwatch. A quarter century on and I still can't watch clips of that without freaking out.
