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Ashley J Johnson🎙️

@thatjackanapes.bsky.social

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Co-host of Film Broads podcast, ttrpg addict, filmmaker, audiobook producer/narrator, writer, she/her, queer 🌈

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Aug 6

THE BRIGHT SWORD x LADY MACBETH

Abandoned at the court of young King Arthur, Morgan finds a surprising ally in the man who destroyed her family: the sorcerer Merlin. But when justice clashes with survival and love is threatened by duty, courtly life can be a real witch.
#questpit #W #A #HF

A graphic with cutouts of figures from classical art. On the left side is a man in black robes, carrying a book, his head out of frame. On the right side is a woman in a jeweled green gown and a white cape, her head out of frame. Between them in streaky red writing is the title "Witch, Fairy Queen" and below that, in medieval-looking lettering it says, "You ruined my life, motherf**er. Teach. Me. Magic."

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9h

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 2d

I used to do audiobook work through ACX, but for various reasons I can't deal with them anymore

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 3d

I have been meaning to do that one for ages!

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Where at?

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 3d

two men wearing headphones and holding microphones one of whom is wearing a hat that says nirvana

Alt: Trixie and Katya (out of drag) simultaneously say "Hi Gay" and then lose their shit

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tams @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“This two-handed soldier’s sword was huge and aberrant and frankly malicious, and utterly your responsibility.”

A drawing of Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb series, dressed in hospital clothes while hugging a glowing two handed sword and crying, her gaze a little lost.

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tams @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 9d

My first-ish take on Ianthe Tridentarius

A drawing of Ianthe from The Locked Tomb saga, who is sitting while looking at the camera.

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 9d

I want to watch Twink Peaks

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 10d

You're too kind, Dennis!

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 11d

Welp, she's got slime in her hair. Time to break out the peanut butter

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Film Broads Podcast @filmbroadspod.bsky.social · 13d

September 30th / October 1st

Rupert Everett as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999

Victor Jory as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935

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CNN @cnn.com · 13d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 17d

I am quite the aficionado of King Arthur films in this vein, if I may say so. Adding to those already mentioned I have to recommend Sword of the Valiant (1984), and Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997). Neither is good, both are amazing.

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 18d

Don't worry, I'm still fun

A photo of Hades 2 downloading on a steam deck

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 19d

I have a new washing machine getting delivered tomorrow and it feels like my birthday. I have achieved Maximum Housewife

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 19d

Need to escape the horrors? Come listen to us talk too long about horny Athenians!

Film Broads Podcast @filmbroadspod.bsky.social · 19d

It's a bisexual theater kid's dream--make that A Midsummer Night's Dream. The episode is available to listen where you do that!
#shakespeare #podcast #filmsky #frolicking

a woman with long blonde hair is laying on a bed with feathers and flowers

Alt: Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania in the 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream, asleep in a giant bird nest full of feathers, looking more beautiful than any human has ever looked.

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 19d

I'm picking up what you're putting down, but David is a small business owner

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 23d

My three-year-old has been mainlining Halloween animatronics videos for weeks. We took her into Spirit today and it was like we were at Disneyland

A preschool girl in a lime green skull mask

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · 25d

It really is rough trying to cut back on that retail dopamine!

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's your mystery baby sir

#wipsnips #writesky #amwriting

“My name is Cadoc,” he said compassionately. “I am a priest.”
“I am Morgan,” she said, and then didn’t know what to say after it. Cadoc did not seem to expect more.
“Tell me, Morgan, who would want harm done to an innocent child?”
“A king,” she said, her voice failing her.
“Are you the mother?” Cadoc asked, and Morgan realized she had no way of knowing whose baby this was. There was a one in thirteen chance that he was Lydia’s, but even in that unlikely event she couldn’t possibly bring the boy to Camelot.
“No.”

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Over the years I have had the pleasure of conducting a few interviews with Rodney Sauer, one of the few people living in the US doing the work of cataloging and performing silent film music today. In this first interview he talks a bit about how theaters would determine what pieces to play.

February 6 2020 - Interview With Rodney Sauer - VSO Goes Back to the Movies

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's funny that days after I posted this, Milo coincidentally put up a video that references this exact conspiracy theory

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Aug 22

Had to do a double take when I saw Audible promoting a book like this. @miniminuteman.bsky.social do you know what this guy's deal is? I notice he's been bumped by the likes of the esteemed Graham Hancock.

A screenshot of the audiobook cover of "The Giants Who Ruled America: The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up" by Richard J. Dewhurst. Narrated by Nick McDougal.

Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Sep 3

We took our toddler yesterday! Spirit opening is a big event in our household

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Ashley J Johnson🎙️ @thatjackanapes.bsky.social · Aug 28

The second picture is just a room full of drag queens, and that's why drag queens have more fun