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@ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social

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mainly here to talk about fan music videos. If I randomly talk about weather/climate: I have a PhD in atmospheric science and worked as a researcher for 15 years. Also fuck terfs and free Palestine. But I'm really here to talk about fan music videos.

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Oct 22

Here are my fanvids!
On youtube: www.youtube.com/@fray-adjacent
On Archive of Our Own: archiveofourown.org/users/ultrav...

uv catastrophe (fray-adjacent)

Hello, I'm a fanvidder in the UK. Feel free to comment & subscribe!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 1d

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 4d

oh no now I am also having Thoughts, the first of which is how is lionsgate getting away with using the music in the vids to promote their IP

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 5d

lololol I love it

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 7d

Listening to The Charade now. A perfect song

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 7d

yeah I was so sad and shocked at the news! I'm the same, Black Messaiah is my favourite album of his -- and a favourite in general.

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 7d

our supermarket had christmas stuff out in SEPTEMBER. I'd never seen it that early before 😩

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 7d

oooh these sound like excellent trousers! But viewing german new years batshittery requires warm clothes, first and foremost!

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 9d

Also I'm putting in a formal request for you to wear these on NYE

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 9d

oooh nice! Did the sequins take the colour as well?

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 9d

I had the same discovery during the festivids watchalong a couple of years ago! There were a few Severance vids and I was like, gosh this media mogul family is not what I expected, maybe I should look this show up

fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 10d

happy anniversary!

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 16d

nooo that is terrible, and those are ridiculous legal requirements. they should be based on what conditions are safe, not the fact that the employer is working on it!

On another note, I love that 16 C = 61 F. It's a nice touchstone I use to roughly convert in my head if temps are near those values

fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 17d

ME TOO!! I don't want that daylight at 3AM in the summer, but I do want it at 8AM in the winter.

fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 17d

holy moly! festivids all-star here!

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 18d

I changed my festivids sign up last minute. Here's my letter! It thins out toward the end, so I might write more later: frayadjacent.dreamwidth.org/119141.html

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 21d

YES I love this for you

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 25d

read this and got myself a cheeky second cup of coffee in bed

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 27d

40 minutes in and it's very good as expected. And also topic-wise not at all what I expected 😂

fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · 27d

been waiting over a year for another Shaun video essay, and it's...four hours and called The War on Science, a topic that does not give me any strong emotions at all 🙃

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Sep 22

think in those terms when I ask myself why I’d want to be a citizen of this godforsaken place (ie literally any time I hear about anything the reform or labour parties are doing)

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Sep 22

this place and the people here. It’s counterintuitive to me to approach it that way because official approval of the state is very separate from community belonging in my mind. But mentally it has been helpful to

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Sep 22

I decided a while ago to finally apply for citizenship next year (with the new ten-year rules I have to wait till March 🙄). I thought of it at first as a practical way to keep options open but lately have been trying to think of it in terms of making the UK my home and the things I love about

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Sep 20

It doesn't seem small and selfish at all fwiw. Solidarity <3

fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Sep 19

fucking hell, that's awful. I'm so sorry 💜

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fray 🇵🇸 @ultravcatastrophe.bsky.social · Sep 19

Yeah that’s what Boots are charging here as well. I’ll probably go there anyway as it’s the most convenient spot for me