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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole

@chrismole.bsky.social

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Writer (Brigantia, The Black Rubric), letterer (The Phoenix), musician (Powerhouse), raconteur, bisexual. He/him. Avatar by @frogapples_🍎! Website: www.chrismole.co.uk

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · Nov 8

Pinned post time! I'm Chris Mole, a writer, letterer and editor from Sheffield. My works include BRIGANTIA, THE BLACK RUBRIC, a ton of PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL COMICS and the toilet-themed anthology SECRETS OF THE MAJESTIC. Plus I'm a pretty mean guitarist if I say so myself..! 💪

The cover of Brigantia Vol. 1. A pagan goddess stares hopefully out at the viewer.

The cover of Brigantia Vol. 2. A pagan goddess is menaced by evil forces.

The cover of Secrets of the Majestic. An ominous-looking bench in a fancy toilet.

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 6h

Got tickets to go and see it next week when it's properly out and I am excited!

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, this game 😍 #GhostOfYotei

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 4d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 7d

I remember watching a low quality rip of this song on YouTube in 2006, before a Japanese Studies class at University, and absolutely losing my mind at the 4-minute (and INCREDIBLE) guitar solo duel they added into the middle. Do yourself a favour and listen to it!

(the song is called みかんのうた!)

A screenshot of Spotify playing a live version of the song みかんのうた by Sex Machineguns

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 11d

Okay, yeah, this game is aesthetic as shit 👌✨ #GhostOfYotei

A screenshot of a snowy mountain trail dotted with bright red torii gates from the game Ghost of Yotei

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 12d

The Midnight were absolutely phenomenal last night, first sold out crowd of the whole tour in Sheffield too! 💪

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 17d

I think it's fair to say this is one of maybe two times where I have felt like I'm actually good at games, and I am now very done with this nightmarishly hard game (poison Cogfly spam ftw) 💪💪💪

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 20d

Apple did a phenomenal job on my FF Tactics styled portrait way back - strong recommend whenever they're open for commissions!

Apple 🍎 @frogapples.bsky.social · 21d

Final Fantasy Tactics Remake is out!

the original was amazing so I recommend it!
anyway here are my favorite FF tactics Portraits I've done -w-

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 21d

I know I'm late to the party, but - Longlegs 😬 Really enjoyed that, utterly mental Nic Cage and all!

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 22d

No official Shocktober this year, but we're marking the start of Spooky Season with the original RINGU (which I don't think I've actually watched before!)

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 23d

Truly, I have spent at least 3 hours dying to this boss and I am having a shitty time, even if I eventually beat her the satisfaction will not outweigh how much this is pissing me off

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 23d

Why the fuck am I playing this game again

A screenshot of Hornet from Silksong dying at the hands of Skarrsinger Karmelita yet. Again.

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 24d

I deeply enjoyed how incredibly restrained your quotes were in this given that you could have been (and probably wanted to so, so much harsher 😂

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

It was genuinely a hockey pilgrimage 🙏

A photo of the exterior of Consol Energy Center (now PPG Paints Arena) with snow settled on a statue of Mario Lemieux outside it

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

My entire trip there was like a big warm hug (despite the massive snow drifts) and I want to go back so badly!

A photo of the snowy Pittsburgh skyline.

The city of Pittsburgh at night, lit up beautifully.

A mural inside Primanti Bros in Pittsburgh depicting the sporting legends of the city.

A "Welcome to Pittsburgh" sign at Pittsburgh International Airport.

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

Okay but this made me almost tear up because it's nearly ten years since I went there and I miss Pittsburgh so much 😭 youtu.be/h2lw0LSWYlA?...

Pittsburgh - the most surprisingly wonderful city in America.

YouTube video by Attaché

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

Possibly the most aggravatingly difficult part of an extremely difficult game - I'm reminded of why I don't play shit like Elden Ring 🥲

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

Thank christ that's over, never again

A screenshot of the Festival of the Flea leaderboards from Hollow Knight: Silksong, showing that Chris has the high score at all the games

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

Am I enjoying myself? No, not at all. Then why am I doing it? Because every enemy in Act 3 appears to hit 200% harder and I will die very quickly if I don't upgrade the needle again. But that said, I am very close to my breaking point of absolutely rage-quitting this game 🤬

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

I just got 64 FUCKING SECONDS on Flea Dodge. I needed 66 to win and never have to do this minigame ever again.

I am going to put the controller through the TV if this continues.

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · 26d

I have never in my life felt the desire to flame a game developer, not once.

These flea minigames in Silksong are pushing me to the absolute brink. This is actual sadism and I am ENRAGED.

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · Sep 23

My power of "recognising actors in things" has never been tested so sorely 💪

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · Sep 23

We put the first episode of Goodness Gracious Me on for a comfort watch and got to the "going for an English" sketch, at which point I said "wait, hold on... is that waiter @neilnewbon.bsky.social?"

LO AND BEHOLD 🤯

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Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole @chrismole.bsky.social · Sep 23

First full (ish) practice in almost 10 years with the Northern Oak crew last night and it's amazing how quickly things come back to you! #Reunited

A photo of Chris and four of his bandmates in a practice room, in black and white

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · Sep 18

Reminds me of a line in The Blackberry movie, of all places, that "good enough" is the enemy of humanity.

And a good reminder that the Luddites were badasses who didn't oppose technology out of some misguided attempt to hold back progress, but because they actually *cared* about the end product.

Screenshot from the article reading: "This is why you'll hear artists talk about the 'good enough' principle. Creative workers aren't typically worried that AI systems are so good they'll be rendered obselete as artists, or that AI-generated work will be better than theirs, but that clients, managers, and even consumers will deem AI art 'good enough' as the companies that produce it push down their wages and corrode their ability to earn a living. (There is a clear parallel to the Luddites here, who were skilled technicians and clothmakers who weren't worried about technology surpassing them, but the way factory owners used it to make cheaper, lower-quality goods that drove down prices).

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