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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Artober 8: If you think the ants are big, wait until you get a glimpse of the creature that eats them in...Oligarchy Of The Aardvarks!

Ink drawing of an ant's head, face on. Above it, it says, "08: Empire Of The Ants".

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 11h

There's a mildly interesting twist in the final act, but it's not enough to override the high-pitched whistle and/or human-like screaming that announces the ants' presence. Which is, like, most of the movie.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 11h

A throwback to '50s creature features, complete with iffy blue-screening of "giant" ants (which are clearly behind glass) and across being gently nuzzled to death by big ant puppets.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Movie 8: Empire Of The Ants (1977). A developer takes potential customers on a tour of her dodgy holiday home development, little realising that the local ants have had a taste of that sweet, sweet nuclear waste.

DVD cover for Empire of the Ants, featuring the principal cast being lightly menaced by giant ants, while a drum of radioactive waste leaks green ooze onto the floor.
Tagline: "It's no picnic!"

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Worlds Lair @worldslair.bsky.social · 15h

From classic TTRPGs to social deduction games (and even one top secret playtest) there's something for everyone to enjoy! Sign ups go LIVE at 12pm BST tomorrow (Friday 9th Oct) so make sure you head to the links in the bio to bagsy your seat before they all get snapped up! vist.ly/5mjvf

Orange tabletop RPG dice among colorful foliage with a text reading 'What games are we running?'

Promotional images for Orbital Blues and Daggerheart role-playing games.

Text with 'Vaesen' and 'One Room One Shots' with descriptions.

Person with a top secret stamp and TTRPG announcement details.

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outsidexbox @outsidexbox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

October races on towards the heart of spooky season: Halloween! And in the two weeks leading up to that: Hallowstream! We're jazzed to share this year's streaming schedule, kicking off on 19 October 🎃

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Artober 7: Tom the diver was having a nice old time in the dark depths. Sure, the unknowable horrors were everywhere down here, but at least it was quiet.

Pen and ink drawing of a deep-sea JIM suit. Coincidentally just the top half. Beneath it says, "07: DeepStar Six"

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The underwater scenes were cute - like something from Red Dwarf or Thunderbirds. Weird seeing Ferris Bueller's mum in a more serious role, though (which I'm now rewatching, naturally).

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Movie 7: DeepStar Six (1989). A deep-sea research team hurry to install a nuclear missile platform on the ocean floor, only to accidentally break into a cavern and unleash an ancient aquatic horror. Pretty by-the-book monster movie, but I thought it was fun enough. A bit coy with the gore, perhaps.

DVD of DeepStar Six, rated 15, from Take One. Features the name of the movie across the middle. Above it, there's the bisected body of a diver in a deep-sea JIM suit, blood streaming from it. A toothy monster rises up from the depths beneath it.

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Worlds Lair @worldslair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're pleased as punch to announce that @iamloufryer.bsky.social is joining us at World's Lair to run some incredible TTRPG sessions with @moonshineadventure.bsky.social Table sign ups open THIS FRIDAY at 12pm BST, so grab your Day Tickets to be the first to bagsy your seat! vist.ly/5mf6t

Person with short curly hair and glasses, colorful poster text surrounding.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Artober 6: The alien had finally had enough, and brought out the equivalent of a spray bottle, used to scold Grapthonian Hypercats when they misbehaved; she quickly found out that humans were made much less solidly.

Ink drawing of the humanoid insectile alien from They Have Returned, firing a weapon that looks a bit like a spray bottle, unleashing a bolt of electricity. Underneath it says: "06: Interceptor Force 2: They Have Returned".

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

then pulling out giant Science Guns that liquidise it briefly before it gets back up again. Interspersed with CGI that would be embarrassing even in 2002. I know it's a TV movie, but even so. It's no Sharknado, that's for sure.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vaguely familiar faces alpngside a lead who was hired more for his martial arts skills than his acting, all running around differently coloured but otherwise identical hallways firing guns at an alien that can't be killed with bullets,

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently the sequel to a Sci-Fi Channel movie I've not seen, it wants to be a mix of Independence Day, The Thing, Predator and GoldenEye, but is unsurprisingly weaker than the sum of its parts.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Movie 6: They Have Returned (Interceptor Force 2) (2002). When a shape-shifting, near-indestructable alien crash lands in Russia and rigs a nuclear plant to blow, an elite squad of American soldiers is sent to defuse the situation.

DVD cover of They Have Returned, rated 15 and "starring Olivier Gruner". Features Gruber's face in have shadow, overlaid by the stars and stripes, while two CGI warplanes fly along at the top of the image. Tagline: "An elite aviation force, a deadly alien enemy...only one winner."

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Artober 5: As the car careened over the dam, the rats liked up along the edge and began to sing, high and loud; a lament for their worthy foe, fallen in a battle outside of their ken.

Ink drawing of a rat's head and front paws, looking to the left of frame.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mostly picked this one out of the stack for today because of this week's Mom Can't Cook: Extra Helpings, with Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension doing basically the same story much better in 23 minutes and on a way lower budget, so... 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was in my regular VHS rotation when I was a teen, so I remembered it being...better? Basically Stepford Wives for teens, starring people clearly in their mid-20s spouting "hip" lines that no teen has ever said (at least Brick was doing it on purpose). Decent soundtrack, though.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Movie 5: Disturbing Behavior (1998). Steve's family moves to a new town after a tragedy. While he quickly makes new friends in the school outcasts, he's warned away from the creepily well-behaved Blue Ribbons, who they claim are brainwashed. Are they paranoid, or actually correct?

Cover of the DVD of Disturbing Behavior, rated 15. The title runs across the middle of the image. Above it, the main cast of James Marsden, Katie Holmes and Nick Stahl look slightly off camera. Below, Marsden helps a dazed Holmes along a corridor, her arm over his shoulder. A text box says "Including music video Got You Where I Want You by the Flys"

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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The all time classic

Ye @kanyewest tweets ‘I will never a make a diss record’. Ryan Pequin quote tweets: ‘When Mario starts to doubt himself during a speed run’

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Presumably they knew he'd ignore a more ephemeral message, but exactly how they'd got the skins in there while he was actively punching it was beyond him. He chalked it up to spooky vampire nonsense and snapped the seal on the envelope.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Artober 4: Ellis plucked the letter from the stinking remains of the punch bag, trying to block out the overpowering scent of death from the coyote pelts within.

A pen and ink drawing of a letter sealed with wax, which bears a seal of an eye surrounded by four dots.
Underneath it says "04: Vampire The Masquerade session zero".

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After five disparate kindred receive similarly threatening letters to capture their attention, they find themselves forced into a road trip to the middle of nowhere to find something called a Blood Grail before anyone else. I'm sure that'll end well.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Movie 4 (only not really as I rolled straight from a ten-hour shift into the game): Vampire: The Masquerade session zero.

The front of a box of vampire the masquerade discipline and blood magic cards, featuring a femme presenting face looking vacant and melting in a pool of blood magic, I guess

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Artober 3: The fox rolled their eyes and managed a four-legged shrug. If the boy wasn't going to follow their sound advice, fine. But no need to swing the axe at them.

Pen and ink drawing of a fox's eye, with the text "03: The Green Knight" underneath.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful and weird, but it lost me in the final act. Tl;dr - knightly chivalry is stupid - I'm Team Cowardice & Shortcuts. Kick the Green Knight in the conkers and head for the hills, possibly with a cheeky Molotov over the shoulder for luck.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cue a classic long-term project - sits around for most of a year, then goes on a dreamlike journey in the last week or so.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Movie 3: The Green Knight (2021). Gawain takes up the offer of a game with the Green Knight, to land a blow upon him in and receive the same blow in return after a year. Gawain lops his head off, naturally.

Blu ray for The Green Knight, with Dev Patel as Gawain raising his axe and yelling against a red background and the title in yellow.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The wearing of their comrade's skin was thus seen as a barbaric declaration of war back on the Red Planet.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Artober 2: While the costume for the "sacrifice the Martian" hazing scene had been innocently dug up from the BBC props department, it was regrettably the actual husk of a real Martian who perished, lost amid the aisles.

Pen and ink drawing of the martian costume from The Stone Tape, a humanoid creature with big black eyes and a radio-like device on its chest, from which protrude two long antennae. Below, it says 02: The Stone Tape

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An interesting concept and some decent performances, but it does suffer from its age - any discussion about their rivals is inevitably wildly racist, and their treatment of their one female co-worker is pretty abhorrent.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When they discover one room is seemingly haunted, they soon work out that it's actually a recording of psychic energy in the stones themselves. Sensing the answer to their problems, they begin to meddle...

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Movie 2: The Stone Tape (1972). An electronica company (wholly staffed by the Worst Men Ever...and Jane Asher) move into a dilapidated castle to develop a new recording device to outdo their Japanese rivals.

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The old man, Arthur, unclipped a ring of blank silver keys from his belt and, holding them aloft, started to chant on an ancient tongue. The air hummed with divine energy as the metal began to glow...

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Artober 1: The plumber, after several minutes of tapping any prodding, sat back on his heels and inhaled sharply through his teeth. "Well, seems like the whole system is haunted," he says. "Normally, it'd be a very expensive call-out, but luckily you called just the right fella."

Ink sketch of a set of metal and plastic plumbing pipes, with the marker 01: Ghostwatch.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

..and actors that were probably less immediately recognisable 30 years ago, the gaslighting of the audience when there's a haunt occurring, the glimpses of the entity throughout... It's so well done , even looking at it three decades later.

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Movie 1: Ghostwatch (1992). The influential (and controversial) faux broadcast, allegedly investigating a house in West London, haunted by an entity known as Pipes. There's a lot to say about this - the mix of legit presenters (Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, etc)...

A Haunted double feature DVD, featuring Ghostwatch and The Stone Tape

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Andrew Robeson @andrumonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's that time of year where I lose my mind trying to fit a horror movie and a sketch every day for a month around a distinct lack of time. Anyway...

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Matty @zagrebista.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Spooky Season!

The Playstation can produce mind-boggling effects skellingtons

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

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Wales Interactive @walesinteractive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eyeing up any spooky games for Halloween? 👁️ 👁️ Look no further than Dead Reset 👇https://store.steampowered.com/app/1346840/Dead_Reset/

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?

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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Resident Evil stuff I couldn’t get done in time for the anniversary 💀🗝️🧟‍♂️🥪☣️

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