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Strange Ian

@ianstrange.bsky.social

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Making a '20s pulp horror roleplaying game at strangeaeons.substack.com. Lovecraft meets Indiana Jones. Big fan of creepy old photos - will be posting some here.

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 12h

"the Russians consider her the world's most dangerous assassin. Her codename... Ass"
"..."
"your thoughts, Bond?"
"...ish that short for ashashin?"
"no."

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 12h

"ah monsieur Bond... you may call me Pussy"
"well that'sh perfectly normal"
"Tits Pussy"
"...okay pack it up"

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 12h

I'm laughing pretty hard thinking about the character who gets rejected as a Bond girl because her name is too horny

Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 16h

Rejected as a Bond Girl for having too awkward of a sexual innuendo name, she made a career as a pulp writer instead.

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 12h

First Soviet nuclear tests took place in Heaven

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 13h

What would happen if Wonder Woman, presumably a pagan and worshipper of false gods, snagged Jesus Christ in the truth lasso? Could He convince her to accept Him as personal lord and saviour?

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

once Jesus Christ is firmly established as a DC character we can at last start having some important power level conversations

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 20h

Holy shit.

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 13h

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

China declining to become a maritime power after Zheng He's voyages in the 1400s and instead just burying the records and pretending the whole thing didn't happen

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

I would relax and calmly await the proof that I'd be confident was incoming

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

i made a thing that hopefully makes this clearer or is at least fun to play with: sgd.fyi

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Karl Urban as Manchester Black

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Could easily imagine the next Superman movie being What's So Funny About Truth, Justice And The American Way?

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Watched the Gunn Superman the other day - good movie, also very much haunted by the ghost of the Authority. Has an Authority character in it as a villain ofc

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

I have been reading this and I'm mostly confused about why the characters don't just form the Authority. Like what are they fighting about

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 4d

Happy The Power Fantasy #12 day.

Cover of The Power Fantasy #12, where Etienne plays with toys.

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thumping the table and howling like a cartoon wolf

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

(chomping cigar) listen kid, I've had adventures so erotic they'd make your toes curl. Your little jungle romp ain't gonna cut it

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

More erotic than Barbarella? Because Barbarella has Jane Fonda in it

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

Very bold claim... unconvinced that the most erotic adventure of all time would feature Tarzan the Ape Man in any capacity

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

Found this in a 1981 Conan the Barbarian comic book. I salute you across the gulf of time, Horny Enough to Cut Out a Newspaper Ad Kid.

Ad for Tarzan the Ape Man starring Bo Derek and Richard Harris, with the line “The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time” and art of Derek in a straw bikini swinging on a vine against a white background

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

hulk thought hulk alone...

Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 1d

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 2d

Creature on a mushroom, 1850s sketch by Francis Elizabeth Wynne #FungiFriday 🍄

Painting of a small humanoid creature with green skin and little horns sitting on a mushroom and looking over his shoulder

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Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the flail is super interesting! It was definitely a thing in agriculture, where simple flails were used for threshing wheat, and there are reasonably reliable* depictions of its use as a weapon. It's plausible that there were attempts to create a military version, but it prob. never took off.

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 2d

Derek Walcott's OMEROS

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 2d

They must immediately bring back Shasta, the Living Mountain