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Chris Fischer
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Curator of @Tikitrocious.bsky.social. On here & Mastodon.Social as @SurlyByDefault. https://linktr.ee/christopher.fischer
[Twitter/X Locked Jan 2025]

A middle-aged white guy who is casually into the fandom/gamer/myth & folklore/HeyScoops spectrum.
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Some of you just started following me and look like you might NOT be random Ethno/Crypto/Porn/Propaganda bots.

(Cryptid porn bots welcome.)

I'm Chris, a middle-aged white guy who is casually into the fandom/gamer/myth & folklore/HeyScoops spectrum.

I also run @tikitrocious.bsky.social.
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A lady aerialist pilots a hot-air balloon to find her Uncle. He doesn't want to leave Nebraska Charms, fabulous inheritance be damned, so he coaches his brother-in-law to take his place. Laugh to 1950's “Hot Air on Cold Plains.”
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wordle 1,635 6/6*

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December 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! With coded notations and eerie hints of the future, the ‘63 drawings of Rusty Osmond (age 6) show Three-Mile Island and crop tops. Coincidence? Stare at the refrigerator of “The Paranormal Papers Presents: Crayon Prophecies (1982).”
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A man loses three generations of family to gang violence. Freed of everyone that held him back, he begins a life of fun and excess. A bar-room bet finally leads him on the path of... justice? See 1968's “5-to-1 Against Vengeance.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Wordle 1,634 3/6*

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December 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A photo developer is abandoned due to strange poltergeist activity. How can something so small contain something so maddeningly inconclusive? Dive into minutiae with “The Paranormal Papers Presents: The Naperville Fotomat (1979).”
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Four drunken Birmingham (UK) partiers take a long ride home, and tell tales of terror about the bus. Are their tales complete fabrication, or does a sinister truth tie them together in 1997's “Double-Decker: Omnibus of Terror”?
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Marty Shine inherits a vineyard in the old country, and must match “wits” with a local vampire. Will romances second-Countess-twice-removed Elana, and Timmy the Ox bests a wolfpack at drinking in 1939’s “Two-step to Transylvania.”
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! A cabal of aged rock & rollers secretly controls the world. An infamous cat burglar steals from the guitar collections of the powerful, hoping to find clues to her father's identity. Enjoy 1982's rock opera “Axe a Cat No Questions.”
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Future archeologists excavate a burried Western-themed steak house. They mix valid philosophical musings on the nature of 20th century American culture and incompetent misunderstanding about “The Universal Meat Chapel (2003).”
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! In a big city with rampant crime, the best burglar’s safehouse is robbed three times in the same week. He moves to the suburbs thinking it will be easier, then learns the folly of thinking “The Emeralds Are Always Greener (1994).”
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Two stoners drag their childhood friend on a European tour. When the two lads land in a Greek prison, their friend proves he's not that straight-laced. He rescues them with the aid of a beautiful archaeologist in 1984's “Dig Out.”
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! The son of a serf runs away to Manchester, but must sneak back to his home when his father dies. Sick, broke and owned by the land, can he pay off his father's debts and bury him proper? It's 1976's “Coffin' Up Expenses.”
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Irregular mystic rings and magic swords that have slight imperfections? Jason is hired for an unusual shop at the discount mall, falls in love with his manager Miss Anviltop, and discovers “The Treasures of the Outlet Mall (1994).”
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Wordle 1,630 6/6*

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December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Fiji mermaids homestead a reservoir in Contra Costa county. When a Napa Valley tour bus takes a wrong turn, the inebriated excursion and the immigrant cryptids form an incredible friendship in 1997's “Upstream to Wine Country.“
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wordle 1,629 5/6*

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December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When a Naval doctor performs experiments on an Irish nanny, it cures her gout, but a string of murders near the cannery can only mean one thing: S̷h̷a̷r̷k̷s P̷o̷r̷t̷u̷g̷u̷e̷s̷e̷ Selkies! See Hubris’ 1936 “Groom of the Wereseal.”
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! He never outright causes accidents, but his record of tickets and citations and phenomenally high insurance cause him to change his name and relocate to San Francisco. Police have no clue about “The Moving Violator (1985).”
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Wordle 1,628 2/6*

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December 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A devotee of the twee and tacky decides to postpone university to travel in search of the campiest Americana. He strikes unexpected finds in life lessons, plastic flamingos, and love in 2005's indie darling ”Kitsch-hiking Route 80.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee! The stakes are high! A friendly upper-class wager as to the quality of the family French chef spirals wildly into a 16 course meal—at a staggering 12 miles per hour! in Smithwick-on-Naddle's 1956 “Lord Dampercharm's Dining Car.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Wordle 1,627 3/6*

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December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! With adults instead of lustlorn teens, heirs to opposing Italian fashion houses fall in love. There’s a catwalk, a duel, clergy, and Shakespearean poisoning and stabbings aplenty in 2002’s “Two Blouses, Both Alike in Vanity.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A Town Hall burns down during July 4th fireworks. Old Man Hollins volunteers to build the town a new hall, but the resultant structure is odd to say the least, and politics will never be the same. See 1957's “Our Houses Shape Us.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM