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Val
Trans woman, she/her, podcaster for @FlyingPodcastle.
Aug 23, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
Went to a castle today. ImageImageImageImage The twenty-first century — mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on earth, the ocean. ImageImageImageImage
Sep 22, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Just gonna assume the music discourse today is about the Gramophone Awards. Watch this space as I develop takes about the Gramophone Awards Alright let’s get into it

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Sep 18, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
I love it when my skellington fleet’s plan comes together ImageImageImage This is how I announce I finally began a Necron campaign like I have been building to all quarantine
Sep 16, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Lying here tying to come up with a more interesting and off-beat answer than ‘Frasier,’ but that pilot manages a bundle of exposition doled out scene by scene establishing the premise while remaining whip smart funny. The Eddie setup/punchline! That’s pilot stuff They manage the whole transition from Cheers (living in Boston, married to Lilith) to Frasier (living in Seattle, very divorced) and the introduction of the character to new audiences in his opening monologue.
Sep 8, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
Man it has a lot of factions now Image Last time I tried this it was just Starfleet and Klingons. Had to custom a Vorta
Sep 8, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
How many people calling this election the last election called the last election the last election A certain level of apocalpytic language is warranted but that stuff doesn’t scan for me. ‘If we don’t win in November 2016, that’s it! Democracy’s over and we’ve lost everything’ is a deeply and I daresay unworkably pessimistic premise.
Sep 7, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Lot of Reylo fanvids on the YT these days that incorporate Rise of Skywalker. Make a lot of use of that 'force dyad' stuff. And maybe as I'm tired after a long day of not doing much like I always am I'm suddenly more receptive to this stuff as some pop croons under it The In Hindsight crowd are gonna make the sequel trilogy look better. Give 'em time. The argument Continues
Sep 5, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Wolf 359 kitbash ship classes. We’re ranking ‘em. This isn’t all of them, but it’s most of them, chosen judiciously, by me I will run through some image examples. All taken from Ex Astris Scientia. First, the Cheyenne:
ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/wolf3… ImageImage
Sep 2, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
This is the third time I’ve heard a story like this and it’s always a Marvel comic. Which may just reflect how Marvel is adapting things I’m more likely to hear of, but even so They have been accused of ripping off Star Wars fan art so often in their comics that in one case where someone was 3D printing his own designs for tabletop use the comic that copied him retained the supports, floating beneath the ships
Sep 2, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Think we can now see that GRRM’s choice to not make A Song of Ice and Fire a trilogy was, in retrospect, a mistake Feels compounded by the fact the books suddenly run out of steam after the third one. He had three of these books in him but he decided to go for seven
Jul 20, 2019 13 tweets 7 min read
So the news that Seven of Nine is going to be in the Picard show has already raised the question for those who don't know Voyager should they watch it or not. I decided not that anyone asked to write a thread of episodes important specifically for Seven you could watch. "Scorpion" and "Scorpion, Part II." This two-parter - ending the third season and beginning the fourth - is one of the first and one of the best of Voyager's Borg stories. This is how the character of Seven of Nine was introduced, though she doesn't show up into Part 2.