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ItIsStevenRhodes

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Hello. Come in. Cup of tea? Sorry about the blood on the handle. I draw, I paint, I am autistic, I drink Yorkshire Tea. Is that everything? I think that's everything. (He/him)

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 12d

A drawing of mine (ink & coloured pencils), in a white frame, stood on a bookshelf.
The drawing is of seven very tall trees, in fact we can only see the trunks. The ground they are on isn't drawn, just implied, so it's just the trees resting on whiteness. The three trees Furthest away do not have black ink outlines or shading, just pencil colours, so they seem mistier and further away. Between the closest trees there is a serene, smiling human head, eyes shut, resting on its side. Hair is stylised clumps of blur, like little hills. The head itself must be pretty big because we see very small silhouettes of people dotted about the forest floor, taking an interest in this mysterious head. Impossibly, one of these tiny people is stood quite far up a tree trunk, pointing toward the head.
The bookcase the picture is standing on, if you're interested, shows Monstrous Regiment and The Wee Free Men, both by Terry Pratchett, and Seeing Things by Oliver Postgate. Also visible are a white wire and a human tooth.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1d

More than happy to murder it. Delighted.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1d

Just seen this *after* I send my immediately-trivial-seeming Doctor Who reply... Hope you're all okay and sending best wishes

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1d

Just had a listen to this one. I'm glad you mentioned neurodivergence with regard to The Doctor's Response... I'm autistic and have long seen familiar traits in the 13th Doctor. Her response to Graham is honest & no-frills, but not uncaring, and I saw myself in that response.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1d

And this painting is *also* now on display, and on sale, at The Yard Gallery in Sheffield. You can go in and look and buy it and everything. Hours of fun.

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 24d

Good morning. Here's a new painting called:
'Well, well, well, if it isn't the universe'

A flat, open, low horizon landscape, dark red ground. Stylised dark red mountains in the background, under a sky that fades from bright pink and yellow through to dark blue. A few stars are out. Walking towards the viewer is a cluster of six connected, cream coloured ovals on thin legs. The ovals contain a few red and pink spots.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1d

This painting is now on display and on sale at The Yard Gallery in Sheffield. Go and look! And buy it, if you want. Or not, I'm not your mum.
Or am I?

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 21d

New painting called:

The Inside-out Crowd

Acrylic painting.
Desert-like landscape with stylised mountains far away on the horizon. Bright blue sky with a bank of huge clouds. On the foreground - in the middle of the desert, a tall house. Actually more like a kennel or a birdhouse. It's pink and has a circular window near the roof on the two sides we can see. At the bottom on the front, a curved entrance. Above the entrance, the number 176. Out of the windows fly loads of birds. A little way from the house, a person stands looking away, and a few birds are starting to fly out of their head, as with the house.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

I will try and remember this

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

I have to say, I was not much of a fan of the last Dr Who episode, The Reality War, at all... until, very specifically, its last 16 minutes, which was the best 16 minutes we've had in ages. Basically from Jodie through to Billie. Watching it again now & it is (to quote Jodie) "ABSolutely beautiful."

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

It's that slightly echoey saxophone break! But also, everything else too.

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

I've awarded this the Big Three. I have liked it, reposted it, and replied to it, albeit just with a summing up of what I've done.

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 2d

Eeeegggggg
soldiers
cheese on toast, cheese on toast
eeeggg
soldiers
cheese on toast, cheese on toast
ohh breakfast time's the meal i love the most
eeeggg
soldiers
cheese on toast, cheese on toast

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Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 2d

"What is missing from these statistics is the number of non-binary people and young people who are still unable to have their gender legally recognised." Read 👉 buff.ly/9L45iVj #GCNnews

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

7th January 1983! (Just looked it up) so: released in the echoes of the previous Christmas

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

No need to click on the needlessly worrying headline then - thank you :)

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

Blue Velvet is one of those songs I can't quite bring myself to believe anyone likes. I like lots from that era, but every element of this is awful
#totp

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

SO much more fun. I haven't watched the 1998 ones yet this week and there's a chance I might just skip them

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

I have no memory of it, but I think I prefer it to Vanilla Ice.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

(I will stand by this, even if you remind me of one I like more)

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

Talking of 1990 albums, this is the best one
#TOTP

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · Jan 18

Since Betty Boo has been on TOTP again, a reminder that Boomania is absolutely, unironically, fucking brilliant.

Betty Boo's 1990 album, Boomania, on vinyl.

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

After U Can't Touch This, I remember everyone at school being disappointed with this - MC Hammer, his friends and their chairs, all being dreary
#totp

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: the army frowned on Captain Hollywood's choice to appear on TOTP ("it just isn't done") and he found himself demoted to Private Hollywood within days.
#totp

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

"After retiring from music, Keyboard became a legendarily extreme librarian and goose strangler."
- Where Are They Now And Will They Stay There (Published 1990)

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

I once wrote all the words to You Can Call Me Al on the back of a beer mat for someone. I wonder if they still have it. I wonder why it even happened
#totp

ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 2d

JIMMY KEYBOARD (feat. Paul Young)

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