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Sapphire Purcell

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Occasional author, goth, trans woman, eccentric weirdo, and vtuber from Australia. I stream obscure and forgotten games with a focus on retro titles! You should follow me. I'm funny. https://www.twitch.tv/sapphysecret https://linktr.ee/SapphyLinks

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 12h

I once read a tweet that said "Gamers are not an oppressed minority, but they should be." And I think about that a lot when I see shit like this.

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 17h

Day 12. 'Forbidden Siren' (2006, dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi)

If I call this movie mediocre, I'm being generous. Because it's adapted from a video game series I like, I want to be generous... But it's all so predictable and stuffed with both narrative and editing cliches. It's just such a disappointment

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 21h

Bootlegger rats running a squeakeasy

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 20h

That looks real good...

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh, we finally ditching the prime directive? 😜

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

You've already shared a bathroom with a trans person. You just didn't know it.

It was me. I am in all bathrooms at all times. I am inescapable. I am unstoppable.

This is a common side effect of spironolactone.

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

I remember my first encounter with the D&D rules was the video game Neverwinter Nights, which used Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition (the sixth edition of the rules) and I played it on my computer running Windows 98 (the 9th edition of the Windows OS).

We live in a world where numbers are meaningless!

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

(Not to be confused with Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, which was only the 9th edition of the game)

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

I love playing Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, the 10th edition of the game!

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

#TextingCarmilla 70

A text message exchange between the characters Carmilla and Laura, as depicted in the webseries 'Carmilla'. Laura is referred to as 'Creampuff' in Carmilla's contacts.

Creampuff: Where are you? Are you okay? You never came back to the dorm, last night.

Carmilla: I'm fine. Just met this girl at a party and lost track of time

Creampuff: CARMILLA! WHAT

Carmilla: Relax, Creampuff. It's not like that. I was just drinking her blood.

Creampuff: Oh. Um. That's good! I think...

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 1d

Day 11. 'Reincarnation' (2005, dir. Takashi Shimizu)

A horrifying concept. A decent twist but then a weak ass ending. A little too ambiguous for my taste, but full of the foreboding atmosphere and looming dread I love and that J-Horror does so well. Ultimately I wanted to like it more than I did.

Theatrical poster for the film 'Reincarnation'

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 2d

Day 10. 'Marebito' (2004, dir. Takashi Shimizu)

What if 'Chobits' was a horror movie instead of a romance series? It'd be weird. This movie is weird. One of the better uses of an 'unreliable narrator' I've seen in film though. Definitely a horror fan's horror film - both original and derivitive.

Theatrical poster for the 2004 film 'Marebito'

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 3d

"English billionaire who bought a Scottish castle and moved to Scotland interferes with local Scottish politics so it better suits her."

We used to call this colonialism.

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 3d

Day 9. 'Kyofu' (2010. dir Hiroshi Takashi)

Another strange one. Borders on surreal. Almost a lynchian quality to it. If it were released today, it'd be called "art horror" and probably be released by A24. I don't know if I liked it or even understood it, but I was definitely captivated by it.

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

Streaming day 3 of spooky season! Will we finish Resident Evil? To quote a wise moose, "This time for sure!"

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Twitch is the world

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

Coincidentally "Fuck It, Can I?" works as a title for this story.

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

No reason we both can't...

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

My wife did not like this skeet and asked me why I would put something like this out in the world.

It's because I refuse to bear the burden of my unhinged idle musings by myself.

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

If you put your smart watch to vibrate every time you received a spam e-mail, message, or phone call, you could make it a vibrating cock ring.

I'm not saying you should, I'm just saying it's an option open to you.

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

Oh and while I'm still on 'Dark Water' I want to add that Hitomi Kuroki and Rio Kanno (only seven years old at the time) give incredible performances in this movie. In a film like this, bad performances would have killed it but those two nailtag hashed it!

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

I hadn't plan for this to be a full month of J-horror and I'll run out of ones I want to watch before the end of the month, but right now I'm just really in the mood for J-horror.

I never grew out of my teenage japanophile ways.

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 4d

Day 8. 'Dark Water' (2002. Hideo Nakata)

An under appreciated genre classic. A film of modern ghostly horror and heartbreak. Seriously, this film is a constant one-two punch of scares and tragedy right up to the last moments. It can make it a hard watch if you're sensitive. A brilliant piece.

DVD box art for the 2002 film 'Dark Water'

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 5d

Homosexual. Heterosexual. Doesn't matter. Everybody is Ardeth-sexual.

Watching 'The Mummy' and after all these years I am still in awe of just what a masterpiece this film is.

Picture of the character Ardeth Bay played by Oded Fehr in the film 'The Mummy Returns'

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Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 5d

Obvously this is a joke. I would never forget what I'm searching and then just search thicc xenomorph instead. That's unhinged.

Thicc xenomorph is what I wanted to search when I opened Google.

Sapphire Purcell @sapphyskys.bsky.social · 5d

Opens google
Immediately forgets what I wanted to search for
Shrug
Search for thicc xenomorph instead

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