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Ro, The Viscous Spinster

@boredoftheoldone.bsky.social

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My mind dump: stuff about my life, hobbies, interests mixed in with angry politics. If you follow for one thing, be prepared for the other. No bigots inc. TERFs, so not a fan of this mutation of 'Labour' Banner: a frog on a log Avi: me leaping in air

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 11h

Rewatching Stranger Things and the first season (which I still love) is basically a macabre, non sexist, non racist Enid Blyton adventure, isn't it?

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 11h

a girl in a pink sweater is raising her arms in the air while standing in front of a group of people .

Alt: a girl in a party hat throws down a punch bowl in exuberant celebration

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Ginny @ginny65.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone in the Malvern area- a friend’s daughter and her husband are looking to rent a house there. They have an elderly springer spaniel. Both have good jobs and are decent folk.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely. Death, including violent death is 100% part of the natural world and almost certain when we get involved.

But that last scene, with Hazel... I defy anyone with a soul not to well up a bit.

Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 12h

It's mine too. I honestly think its beautifully crafted. Four parts that are seperate but lead perfectly on from the rest. Proper charactor arcs, action, threat, justice and redemption.
And you can feel the love he has for the countryside itself on every page.

Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, which was a real shame because I like the actor. Just a terrible rewrite all round. I was really looking forward to it, because they gave it enough time and episodes to do the whole story, pretty much as laid out in each part of the book. The OG film, though horrific in parts, had real charm.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 12h

(Should feel shame tbc)

Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 12h

I don't see why you should? It's a skill and in audio books helps massively with a large 'cast' of characters and one narrator

Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 12h

It was fucking bizarre. They make out Efafra to be a gestapo lead concentration camp (to the extent it's in an old airforce base), but apparently they are flummoxed by the others running along a minor road.
Plus they did my boy Kehaar dirty, which I will never forgive them for.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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juux @juux.com · 17h

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James @Jmes_80
What fucking weirdo sets fireworks off early October? Dogs shit itself and knocked the Christmas tree over.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 18h

a cartoon man with a mustache is sitting in a chair and the word seconded is written below him

Alt: a cartoon man with a mustache is sitting in a chair and the word seconded is written below him

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 18h

The 12th circle of hell. Mild mockery.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 18h

'Tormentting' seems to have becomed diluted since the time of Dante

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Spooky Scary Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 19h

Three cheers for the inflatable frog!

Headline from the (extremely right wing) Daily Telegraph: "Unmasked: Inflatable frog tormenting ICE is non-binary ‘Antifa terrorist’"

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 20h

Post you from a different era

A decade ago doing guest vocals for Saltwater Injection at Focus Wales, when I made an appearance in the local press which would go on to be taught in journalism courses as an example of the dangers of ineffective communication between departments

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Sarah Todd Taylor @sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social · 20h

Also, this utter UNIT of a robin on our feeder.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 21h

Think as more people follow more people and see what a shit show that makes their following feed, they are switching to lists or the mutuals feeds.
I think I post to about 30 people now, but honestly I prefer that.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 23h

He does it in a soft welsh accent which completely throws you at first, then the implied threat comes through and it's even more terrifying for it. And when he loses it... just superb.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 23h

I've only read it once because it hit me hard (the monkey bit in particular), whereas I read/listen to Watership Down at least once a year. It's my comfort blanket.
If you haven't heard the audio book with Peter Capaldi, I highly recommend (imo he only gets 1 voice wrong) & his Woundwort is genuis

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 1d

They made some great casting choices but the amination was terrible (they used american jack rabbits as reference and Watership Down wasn't even a hill - it actually looks almost exactly like in the OG film) and the story adaptation woeful. They cut the escape from Efrafa on the river ffs.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 1d

He's got black, asian and LGBTQ people telling him directly, 'please don't do this, it makes me feel threatened' and he's wailing 'but what about the white boys! My stickers!'

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Presented without comment.

A screenshot of me trying to prove a transphobe is actually an AI bot by instructing it to write a limerick about potatoes.

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Ro, The Viscous Spinster @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social · 1d

For christ sake. Whatever your roots you don't live around the 'working class' whatever that means anymore. I live a estate that is still 60% council housing, and right here, at this moment, this flag is just a big 'fuck off' to the asian family across the road and the black family 9 doors down.