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Nicholas Thurkettle - Voice Actor
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Actor/Writer/Filmmaker. Shakespeare junkie. Road tripper. Cat lover. Profile pic by @missluuna.bsky.social linktr.ee/nthurkettle
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This is a good starter pack of inspirations from movies and shows that I love for my performance as Pinnec in "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment." I love the stern-but-secretly-warm-hearted-veteran-warrior trope and it seems to suit my voice.
William Adama from the 2000s scifi TV series "Battlestar Galactica" Baze Malbus from the "Star Wars" movie "Rogue One" Lt. Worf, as seen in the "Star Trek" series "The Next Generation"
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I would love to have listened in at the Hasbro meeting where they decided that the characters in the classic family board game Clue needed to look more horny.
The board game "Clue" with the box art depicting cartoon versions of all the characters
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Seriously, my excitement when I first saw the artwork and knew I would get to voice a character this FIERCE. #hyrulewarriors #ageofimprisonment
Character profile screen of the Rito Warrior Pinnec from "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment," showing their experience level, health statistics, gear, and items. Screenshot from "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment" depicting the unlocked character Pinnec in an action pose swinging a spear. Descriptive text reads: "A battle-hardened Rito veteran who once regarded Raphica with contempt. Over time, however, he has come to respect the young elder, and is now one of his most ardent - and senior - supporters"
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Dental cleaning this morning and the dentist was satisfied with the state of things so naturally I am triggering a tooth hygiene BRUTALITY right after.
A to-go coffee cup and bag labeled Sidecar Doughnuts & Coffee sitting on an outdoor patio table
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Here we go! I know this announcement has had some stutters; but I wanted to ensure I was respecting Nintendo's wishes for promotional efforts. So here's confirmation that my role in "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment" is as the Rito Warrior Pinnec! #hyrulewarriors #ageofimprisonment
In-game screenshot from "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment" showing a character selection screen. It highlights "Pinnec - Rito Warrior" with the following descriptive text: "A battle-hardened Rito veteran who once regarded Raphica with contempt. Over time, however, he has come to respect the young elder, and is now one of his most ardent - and senior - supporters"
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Rewatched the last "Mission: Impossible" and it's hilarious how Esai Morales's Gabriel goes full sneering villain camp amidst the Messianic self-seriousness. There's a bit where he slams a gate with a smirk that reads: "Yes, your one weakness...METAL BARS! SEE YOU AGAIN, ETHAN HUNT!" (scurries away)
Gabriel, played by Esai Morales, wearing a tuxedo in a shadowy closeup from the movie "Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning"
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Final River Cruise views! (3/3)
View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river View of downtown Chicago's skyline from a boat that has just emerged from the river into Lake Michigan; the skyscraper lights reflecting in the water
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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More River Cruise views (2/3)
View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river as the boat passes under a raised drawbridge View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river near the Lyric Opera Bridge, with the moon glowing through a break in the clouds. A couple bundled up for a chilly night takes a selfie during a river cruise, with Chicago's famous Sears Tower visible behind them A couple holds one another as a river cruise boat passes by a compound drawbridge
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Downtown Chicago still holds magic for me, so part of my anniversary celebration with Claire involved taking a river cruise complete with tales of ghosts and mobsters. (1/3)
View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river, with the Riverwalk and another boat visible. View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river, including the famous "Corncob Towers" and Smith + Wollensky's Restaurant View of downtown Chicago from a boat on the river
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I wouldn't call this a fully-gourmet restaurant, but everything was rich and tasty, they made a tremendous Beef Wellington, and this gentleman would come to your table if you were celebrating a birthday or anniversary.
A bagpiper playing in the middle of a restaurant dining room decorated with Scottish paraphernalia.
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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As a man who grew up before we knew much about the autism spectrum or how food sensitivity could link to it, I have LOTS of negative childhood memories as the underweight "picky eater." Every taste introduced to my palate was a win. So I'm celebrating my first taste of haggis as a BOSS FIGHT VICTORY
A man is about to place a piece of bread smeared with haggis in his mouth.
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The One Where RacheMonOebe Grows a Third Arm
A stillshot from an AI-generated attempt at ripping off the characters and style of the sitcom "Friends," featuring a freakish third arm holding a guitar and seemingly growing out of a character's back.
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Claire had the inspiration that we should cap off our Gomez/Morticia cosplay by having a sword duel at our friends' party. Important to note that I have never done ANY sword work as an actor. The fact that we were able to put this together that morning shows you what a great teacher she is.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Chicago definitely knows from coffeeshop vibes.
The interior of a coffeeshop with an exposed brick wall and a neon fixture reading "Electric Mud."
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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That's a bonafide Deep Cut Gomez! Thanks :)
A couple cosplaying as Gomez and Morticia Addams
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Halloween party last night so Claire finally got the couples' cosplay she's wanted to do since we started dating. There may also be video of us having a swordfight in the backyard.
A couple cosplaying as Gomez and Morticia Addams
October 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Hey, we landed another one! "Pizza Time Pizza" is getting some real festival love out there - the Idyllwild fest happens in March; I love a road trip into the mountains, let's go!
Graphic of laurels with the text Official Selection IDYLLWILD International Festival of Cinema 2026
October 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I'm watching "Galaxy of Terror" on Shudder and it's like a missing link in the "Alien" franchise - Roger Corman ripping off the original for pennies on the dollar only the production designer is JAMES CAMERON and he's clearly workshopping stuff he'll use later in "Aliens." Plus baby Robert Englund!
October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Post-"Star Wars" everyone was rushing to make their own space epics and while a lot of things "failed" financially they're beautiful relics of a moment. Around this time Disney also had "The Black Hole" - another movie whose techniques nobody would follow up on but has such a gorgeous look.
Still from the Disney movie "The Black Hole" featuring a control room that looks into a starfield with planetary bodies
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Saw a production of the musical version of "Little Women" on Saturday. I still remember most of Professor Bhaer's lines and melodies from the two times I played him. This pic is from the second time, back in '16 at the Chance Theater. I'm too old for the role now but I always loved doing it.
On a theatrical set, a scholarly-looking man in 19th-century clothing looks at a woman in a dress who has taken his umbrella.
October 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Busy week on the personal front last week so I didn't get to share this - "Pizza Time Pizza" is coming back to the Midwest and back to Wisconsin and November's Weyauwega Film Festival! Hope this means Claire and I get to quest after more cheese.
Decorative laurels reading "Official Selection - Weyauwega International Film Festival - 2025" Poster for the short film "Pizza Time Pizza," depicting the distorted face of a screaming man being pulled into a cosmic void with a clock and a pizza, with the caption "It's Always Time For Pizza."
October 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"I tell the kid we all float down here, kid says 'with your belly I can see why!' I don't get no respect..."
A mannequin of a balding, elderly horror clown making a pleading gesture
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Cast/crew/friends screening tonight for a no-budget indie feature called "Cell" that I have a juicy part in. I shot my scenes 2+ years ago and finally get to see how they fit into the finished product. Lots of great feedback on my work! And the filmmaker gave me a little cartoon of my character.
A man takes a selfie outside a tiny studio building A man takes a selfie at a small, private movie screening inside a converted studio space A cartoon rendering of a sad-looking man in a brown suit, with a speech bubble reading: "Like a creosote bush rolling down anything but a desert..."
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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It looks like the story that's emerging is about a superfan, who's been procrastinating on finishing her final college paper so she could see the pop group she worships, finding out that a member of said pop group did something abominable and how can she possibly write a college paper now?
Screengrab of text, it reads: The taunting graphic showed her once again that her phone had no signal. What had gone wrong? A tower down? Sunspots? A service provider maybe exaggerating just a little bit in advertising about their network? Perish the thought. Perish Alicia’s academic career if she couldn’t find a signal and get her paper turned in. Maybe this predicament was a little her fault. She had begged for permission to turn in her report remotely so she could tend to urgent family business. She had also, just slightly, exaggerated about the urgency of that business since the business was that her sister had scored tickets to Phantasm and you couldn’t expect her dull Professor to understand that the pop group Phantasm was the most important thing ON EARTH. She had tried writing some crucial passages of the paper on her phone while her sister drove them home from the Phantasm concert at 2:30am as their clothes stuck to their bodies from sweat and their voices could only bark and squeak after two hours of screaming their love for Phantasm. And that was arguably, ARGUABLY her fault as well. But the lack of phone signal as she needed to look up the citation that would prove she was not just pulling assertions out of her butt? This was not her fault at all. Instinctively she started typing out an email to her Professor, only to realize - 1) it was 2:30am and if he was checking email he was a bigger loser than she thought. And 2) Sending an email was ANOTHER thing she couldn’t actually do because she had no signal. Honestly, how does anyone live without signal? Seated in the passenger seat under the glow of a gas station light, Alicia made nervous nibbles on her lip. Her sister Tabitha was inside, paying for the fuel, picking up some beverages, and questing for the most unassailably perfect salty snack for the moment. The only sound was the buzz of the overhead lights, the rare passing car, and a kind of quiet scream somewhere in her brain. Screengrab of text, it reads: 40 minutes to reach home, probably. Tabitha would flop onto her bed and pass out. They had promised to take out the trash and recycling as part of the covenant for borrowing their parents’ more reliable car, and Alicia would need to handle that. Alicia would also need to soothe Trumpet the dog who would be extremely excited about all of this. Maybe by 3:30am she could get to work. 9am, the paper was due. The last paper of the last class and then Alicia would be a student no longer, she would be a graduate. If she passed. That “If” was a motherhumper. This paper would make the difference between a passing grade and a failing one. And her cold-ass, arrogant old professor was an absolute Nazi about the stupid Nazi syllabus. Tabitha SMACKED the window by Alicia. Alicia bit her lip from the surprise. She lowered the window. “Ow, fuck, you made me bite my lip.” “I need money,” Tabitha answered sullenly. “I think I’m bleeding, am I bleeding?” Tabitha didn’t have a window to smack anymore so she smacked the front windshield. “I need money, the stupid guy said the card reader is down.” “You don’t have cash?” Alicia wondered if the lack of phone signal was connected to the busted card reader or if multiple technologies were breaking simultaneously and maybe the end times had come. “Bitch,” Tabitha responded impatiently, “You know I only carry cash to buy weed with.” “Then use your weed cash, fuck I can buy you weed tomorrow.” Screengrab of text, it reads: “I spent the weed cash on the weed we smoked for the concert!” Pleasant pieces of the past rolled forward into her consciousness. “Oh yeah,” Alicia chuckled. She reached into her shirt and pulled a wadded $20 bill from her bra. “Oh God, don’t hand me your sweaty boob money,” Tabitha grumped. “It’s what I’ve got, take it or leave it.” Tabitha took the money between two fingers. “I’m going to tell him where this came from. That’s my revenge on you.” And she walked back into the gas station. Alicia was in a haze. She related to that buzzing sound from the power lines. Her hearing might be permanently damaged. It was a worthy sacrifice to Phantasm. Then her phone pinged. And pinged again. And again. It vibrated, too. Again and again and again. Text notifications were pouring in, mostly from her group chat with fellow Phantasm appreciators. Gushing about the concert, no doubt, but this wouldn’t do. Alicia needed to find that citation link. But every time she tried to type in her browser, another text would fly in. One caught her eye, flooded with crying emojis and skulls: “I CAN NEVER LISTEN TO THEM AGAIN!”
October 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Tokyo Noir. Speakeasy in Long Beach. Food and drink both excellent. Recommend the Astro Boy cocktail.
Low-light closeup of a whiskey cocktail with lemon peel garnish in a speakeasy-style bar.
October 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM