Robot Mel
@robotmeile.bsky.social
Queer, Goth Librarian and Geek. Loves plays and knitting (they/them)
Fandom obsessions BSG, SOA, Chucky, X-Files, Resident alien, Star Trek, Xena, Twin Peaks, The Untamed, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Mary, Gillian Anderson
Fandom obsessions BSG, SOA, Chucky, X-Files, Resident alien, Star Trek, Xena, Twin Peaks, The Untamed, Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Mary, Gillian Anderson
Paris! For the second time this year!
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Paris! For the second time this year!
Aberdeen has a couple amazing ruined castles too! This one was one a short bus ride from the con!
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Aberdeen has a couple amazing ruined castles too! This one was one a short bus ride from the con!
New book by Pu Songling arrived in the post this morning! So excited to read this!
Also booked our Paris trip for next week!
It is good to have time off!
Also booked our Paris trip for next week!
It is good to have time off!
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New book by Pu Songling arrived in the post this morning! So excited to read this!
Also booked our Paris trip for next week!
It is good to have time off!
Also booked our Paris trip for next week!
It is good to have time off!
A finished knitting photo!!! (I’m so behind!) this one was using yarn I bought in 2020 that didn’t look right in st-st but is perfect for a textured pattern. I used the Maema cardigan pattern again but did the stitch over the whole thing. Which made a great texture.
November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A finished knitting photo!!! (I’m so behind!) this one was using yarn I bought in 2020 that didn’t look right in st-st but is perfect for a textured pattern. I used the Maema cardigan pattern again but did the stitch over the whole thing. Which made a great texture.
I have been playing this video game for over THIRTY years! Today I beat it on hard for the first time! I am the one true master of magic! 😂
(If anyone else still plays it was all white with halflings starting)
(If anyone else still plays it was all white with halflings starting)
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I have been playing this video game for over THIRTY years! Today I beat it on hard for the first time! I am the one true master of magic! 😂
(If anyone else still plays it was all white with halflings starting)
(If anyone else still plays it was all white with halflings starting)
Out with friends last night to see Frankenstein at bfi imax. Which meant we had to walk across Waterloo bridge during a massive thunderstorm! Which was definitely the most Halloween thing to do! And one point two dark night style Batmen rode past on bikes. It was awesome!
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Out with friends last night to see Frankenstein at bfi imax. Which meant we had to walk across Waterloo bridge during a massive thunderstorm! Which was definitely the most Halloween thing to do! And one point two dark night style Batmen rode past on bikes. It was awesome!
Got the kids some costumes for Halloween! Bride!Chucky says he’s too old for this bull shit! 😂
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Got the kids some costumes for Halloween! Bride!Chucky says he’s too old for this bull shit! 😂
Talk at the Bart’s pathology museum tonight!
And a random Roman sarcophagus on the stairs because London!
And a random Roman sarcophagus on the stairs because London!
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Talk at the Bart’s pathology museum tonight!
And a random Roman sarcophagus on the stairs because London!
And a random Roman sarcophagus on the stairs because London!
Today is one of my favorite days of work! The semi annual visit by Queen Mary students to look at our medieval documents! In particular 3 at the time of the Black Death!
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Today is one of my favorite days of work! The semi annual visit by Queen Mary students to look at our medieval documents! In particular 3 at the time of the Black Death!
Things I can’t explain if someone asks me, How was your weekend?
Well I went to a concert at a comic con by the actor who played my favorite video game character of all time and he sang songs that he wrote for that character and I cried! Troy Baker’s songs for Joel was healing 🖤
Well I went to a concert at a comic con by the actor who played my favorite video game character of all time and he sang songs that he wrote for that character and I cried! Troy Baker’s songs for Joel was healing 🖤
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Things I can’t explain if someone asks me, How was your weekend?
Well I went to a concert at a comic con by the actor who played my favorite video game character of all time and he sang songs that he wrote for that character and I cried! Troy Baker’s songs for Joel was healing 🖤
Well I went to a concert at a comic con by the actor who played my favorite video game character of all time and he sang songs that he wrote for that character and I cried! Troy Baker’s songs for Joel was healing 🖤
Since my autism diagnosis I’ve been reading a LOT of old Star Trek books about Vulcans. Half of which are new to me. All highly enjoyable! Currently reading the price of the phoenix which is the gayest of gay Spirk books! Alternating with more modern queer books but I’m really enjoying these!
October 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Since my autism diagnosis I’ve been reading a LOT of old Star Trek books about Vulcans. Half of which are new to me. All highly enjoyable! Currently reading the price of the phoenix which is the gayest of gay Spirk books! Alternating with more modern queer books but I’m really enjoying these!
My uncle is on the back of the soft cell album. I don’t think this is an apocryphal story as he didn’t like the band! 🤣 but was living by them in soho at the time.
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My uncle is on the back of the soft cell album. I don’t think this is an apocryphal story as he didn’t like the band! 🤣 but was living by them in soho at the time.
80s Star Trek novels FTW again! Just an 8 foot tall he/him tentacle monster flirting with Sulu! (Sulamid have 12 genders all male. With Garrick adding, especially the ones who bear children)
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
80s Star Trek novels FTW again! Just an 8 foot tall he/him tentacle monster flirting with Sulu! (Sulamid have 12 genders all male. With Garrick adding, especially the ones who bear children)
Today was all about the wonderful human Doug Jones!
October 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Today was all about the wonderful human Doug Jones!
And Chucky vs Megan! She came prepared!
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And Chucky vs Megan! She came prepared!
Three photos with Doug Jones! I asked if we could do monsters instead of dancing for the last one and it is definitely my favourite!
He did not mind I was dressed as Chucky!
He did not mind I was dressed as Chucky!
October 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Three photos with Doug Jones! I asked if we could do monsters instead of dancing for the last one and it is definitely my favourite!
He did not mind I was dressed as Chucky!
He did not mind I was dressed as Chucky!
Doing our part to end the Chucky Devon Sawa feud! He’s a hugger! 💜
October 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Doing our part to end the Chucky Devon Sawa feud! He’s a hugger! 💜
Chucky and me already to go meet his favourite victim! And my favourite husband of vulcan 😂
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Chucky and me already to go meet his favourite victim! And my favourite husband of vulcan 😂
Today I went to the Satanic flea market to get a new dress from my favorite goth designer (also autistic) and then I discovered the autistic punk and bought his anti fascist grimoires, and then I check his insta when I got home and he’s also a Trekkie! Sometimes interests are a circle!
October 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Today I went to the Satanic flea market to get a new dress from my favorite goth designer (also autistic) and then I discovered the autistic punk and bought his anti fascist grimoires, and then I check his insta when I got home and he’s also a Trekkie! Sometimes interests are a circle!
"you know, we as gay people, we get to choose our family"
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"you know, we as gay people, we get to choose our family"
My beautiful prizes from the good omens kickstarter arrived! Huge love to Colleen Doran for this utterly gorgeous book! I’ve been a huge fan of Colleen’s work since warp graphics published A distant soil! And she really has outdone herself on this one!
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My beautiful prizes from the good omens kickstarter arrived! Huge love to Colleen Doran for this utterly gorgeous book! I’ve been a huge fan of Colleen’s work since warp graphics published A distant soil! And she really has outdone herself on this one!
My train home was delayed an hour! But I got to see some pretty ivy! I read all of Star Trek lower decks second contact which had the Best ND compliment ever! And I bought two books online!
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My train home was delayed an hour! But I got to see some pretty ivy! I read all of Star Trek lower decks second contact which had the Best ND compliment ever! And I bought two books online!
Today I spent all day researching the penny dreadfuls we hold for a talk on Thursday! I strongly suspect this will become an exhibition at some point in the not too distant future.
October 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today I spent all day researching the penny dreadfuls we hold for a talk on Thursday! I strongly suspect this will become an exhibition at some point in the not too distant future.
Just another Star Trek novel from the 80s where Kirk and Spock have a conversation about pronouns and it being totally cool to have one that doesn’t match your biology! 💜💜💜 A.C. Crispin in Time for yesterday
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Just another Star Trek novel from the 80s where Kirk and Spock have a conversation about pronouns and it being totally cool to have one that doesn’t match your biology! 💜💜💜 A.C. Crispin in Time for yesterday
Great seat for Mary Page Marlow at the old Vic but I really can’t recommend it! There was nothing truthful there! Why are west end producers making plays of men trying to tell women’s stories instead of producing plays about women written by women! So many disjointed cliches!
September 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Great seat for Mary Page Marlow at the old Vic but I really can’t recommend it! There was nothing truthful there! Why are west end producers making plays of men trying to tell women’s stories instead of producing plays about women written by women! So many disjointed cliches!