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Joel Hopton
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on here now | writer/reader/fivewhofans guy | co-writer/producer: @afarseries.bsky.social
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SMILEY SMILE by The Beach Boys
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Here's my Bluesky Wrapped for 2025

- I scolded 64 other users (top 72% of Bluesky users)
- I was scolded by 112 users (top 54% of Bluesky users)

- I explained the joke to the original poster 14 times (top 62% of Bluesky users)

Get yours at bskywrapped2025.bsky.app
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
The hero's journey circle but it says THE FOOL'S ERRAND and the guy on the top has a little jester's hat. Stages are Opportunity to gain Supernatural prank Unheeded Advice Slip 'n' fall (intensification of error) Helper (who always lies) Old man (mistaken for wise) Helper (who also always lies) Hall of mirrors (confrontation with the self Stumbling through the thorns The Unforgivable misunderstanding Rejection of the goddess Coming home before he's supposed to
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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"kick it! the ball!!!"
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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A black and white newspaper photo of a person in a Chuck E. Cheese costume shaking hands with Alan Jardine, who is looking into the camera with a visibly annoyed expression. The caption reads "Chuck E. greets Al Jardine of the Beach Boys at the Harrisburg, Pa., Pizza Time."
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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about to Do It* Again (Remastered 2001)

*read about the Beach Boys, the lamest, coolest, sellout-est, strangest, saddest, most joyful rock and roll group in history 📚💙
Hardback copy of Surf's Up: Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys by Peter Doggett
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Rise of Skywalker screenshot: Somehow, [DOCTOR WHO] returned...
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hotshot Peasant Has Window
Hotshot Peasant Has Window
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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afarseries.bsky.social
Magic isn’t just whimsical frippery.

Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No?...
October 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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The Uncanny Valet
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Oct 11
our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so
October 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.
Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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when there's a mangled body in a ditch
a man and a woman soyfacing with glee surrounded by confetti, from the Patreon of the True Crime Obsessed podcast, I guess. the three membership levels are non-garbage person tco after party no (ads), bitch!
July 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Edited photo of Barack Obama placing a medal around the neck of a second Barack Obama.
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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afarseries.bsky.social
The wait is over! The proof of concept for our new fantasy series, Afar, is OUT NOW! A polite knight and an irritable wizard are faced with a terrible adversary... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kj0...
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings
YouTube video by Afar
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September 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🚨NEW VIDEO OUT NOW🚨
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings

A polite knight and an irritable wizard are faced with a terrible adversary.

youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No
Afar: Gremlins and Grumblings
YouTube video by Afar
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September 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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You can watch this amazing short right here, right NOW!: youtu.be/2kj0LZIT6No?...
September 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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afarseries.bsky.social
Introducing the Gremlin! Gremlins are not intelligent enough to cause serious harm, but they will ruin your day in oddly specific ways that are borderline pathological.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube tomorrow! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Addresses in England are like "Cruikshank's Vinegar Baths, 23-27 Whooping Cough Lane, Quessex"
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
Addresses in the USA are either "20352 Main Street, Bullhorn PA" or "Cheesecorp Head Office, 1 Cheese Plaza"
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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What the country needs right now to bring us all together is a disappointing Winter Wonderland.
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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afarseries.bsky.social
Introducing Wilkin! An irritable wizard who's only out for himself, Wilkin just wants a quiet life. The realm has other ideas.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube this Saturday! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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afarseries.bsky.social
Introducing Archibald Oakheart! Friendly, loyal and psychotically polite, Archibald is an elected knight on a perilous journey.

AFAR: GREMLINS AND GRUMBLINGS launches on YouTube this Saturday! For more information, visit: www.AfarSeries.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM