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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 13h

Same here. I only watched the first one and lost interest. Enjoyed the book though!

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 13h

Yes! I used to watch the extras to drift off to sleep when I was 15/16. I found them really comforting.

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 19h

I'm sorry. Just coming out of Covid now and it sucks :( hope you feel better soon

Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 1d

It really is! I will treasure them

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 1d

(I had these DVDs as a teenager, but lost them somewhere along the line. Feels good to have them back again!)

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 1d

PHYSICAL MEDIA SUPREMACY

A paper insert from the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring DVD collection

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 1d

I just picked up the entire Lord of the Rings Extended Edition collection in a charity shop. Pristine condition. £4. This is the kind of small victory that will carry me through my day

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 3d

Shaping your game narrative - 15 October

Join our expert panel of games writers/narrative designers for this free online series of talks + Q&A, sponsored by @articydraft.bsky.social

Non-members welcome too!

Find out more + register:

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Photo of the speakers from left to right: Kim MacAskill, Will Aryitey, George Lockett, Rose Behar and chair Ben Sabin

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit with a crown pin on his jacket is blowing his nose

Alt: a man in a suit with a crown pin on his jacket is blowing his nose

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 2d

Do you like not being able to eat properly for a week? Sneezing uncontrollably? Waking in the night with the feeling of being suffocated by your own phlegm? Then boy, do I have the Covid variant for you!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

Haha, I thought you were joking! It's very intriguing

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

What he said!

Chris Brandrick @brandrick.bsky.social · 3d

btw, go play Pikmin 4 if you haven't yet. it's superb.

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

I'm just saying it would really redeem my shitty day if it turned out to be Pikmin

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

a group of purple worms are standing next to each other on a green field .

ALT: a group of purple worms are standing next to each other on a green field .

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 3d

Here we go again

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. He’s probably going to get a decent amount of attention from being ‘cancelled’ over on X.

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

Also: this sucks for all the other writers working with them.

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

This is about Bitmap books in case you’re wondering. I’m glad the charity will still get *some* money, but I don’t like charities being used a tool for atonement

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

Promising to donate 100% of the profits from a book to charity in order to overcome a PR disaster, then reversing that decision is one of the wilder things I’ve seen on here recently

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 3d

Shockingly bad. I couldn’t believe it when I read it this morning

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my goodness, so many things. But mostly: stretch as much as you can, try to keep sight of your own worth.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 5d

This afternoon: cat escaped into the loft, everyone panicked, I pulled something in my side running up the ladder to help. Caught the cat before she fell down a hole and attempted to bathe her (disaster) and then son suddenly got a massive nosebleed

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Aaahh!!! Real Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social · 5d

A newsletter in which I overthink a trashy reality TV show:

Silly Thoughts, volume 6

romantical

meganbidmead.com

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