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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 14h

And now a correct sentence too hyperspecific for you to have anticipated today: Judas Priest's faster/heavier songs make great "the part in the video game where the lava lair is collapsing and the hero needs to escape" music.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Down a rabbit hole of youtubers who extreme-hike to and through the ruins of the ancient world and just casually free-climb into mines from the time of the Pharaohs or into literal ancient tombs

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Swiwwel @swiwwel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Twiggie THE ROACH 🔞 @twiggietime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love fall I love soup and pumpkins and ghosts and skeletons and I love wearing hoodies and slippers and fuzzy socks and I love eating apples and making roasted potatoes and crunching leaves with my big stompy boots

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I remember an interesting video that talked about how Eminem and Marilyn Manson were the last "moral panic" music stars because right afterwards, myspace and everything that followed fragmented the music scenes to such a degree that mainstream self-appointed moral guardians would never keep up.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"You don't actually want [follow-up to series from your teenhood], you want to be a teenager again" is always such a condescending-ass take. It gives "I'm miserable and projecting". Don't use someone's desire for a new video game or something as an excuse to pretentiously thinkpiece their life.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tickles me that the phrase 'singer/songwriter' bears to mind a very specific style of music. It's like if you said 'game dev/programmer' and it would bear to mind a whole particular genre of game.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone who just read Seed Of Treachery said they "would read a Curren side novel where he's hunting bounties but doesn't have to deal with the one two punch of dealing with a protagonist and strange eldritch mind meddling"

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To gain access to the dream theater you have to obtain a sleep token

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remembering that period of the pandemic when we were counting the global infection rates via the repeated edits of that Animaniacs song

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tumbled through three days off work being sick AF, but yesterday and today I did manage to get some solid work done on a few important scenes in A Song For The End Of The Universe, so I can't say the time off was wasted. And yes, starting to feel better now! #WeeknightWriters

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

According to a friend in Wisconsin, absolutely insane things happening in the local races rn

Image of some Discord posts where a local political ad is described. It is filmed in the Backrooms, the protagonist is searching the backrooms for the Epstein files, other GOP candidates are there as well, then the person goes down a corridor and Tom Tiffany starts zooming at the camera like a Backrooms monster. The poster then posted a gif of a kitty looking terrified.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching a youtube playthrough of the Crash Bandicoot 2 Carnage mod because @caddicarus.bsky.social led me here and lol I'm sure as fuck not going to play this psychotic kaizo thing for myself

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you write a book you actually write several books. There's the one you know you wrote. Then there's the one your readers bring their experiences to. This is a big part of the magic. As soon as it goes out into the world, your book multiplies & becomes many versions of itself, all equally valid.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mamdani is giving away 70,000 tickets to the opera and the Met website is having to hold people back in a queue to not crash, meanwhile hack newsrooms are still trying to both-sides him with the party whose platform is "we will destroy everything you hold dear about the human experience"

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Sailor Geek @sailorgeek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No but I do think it's really neat that the Joker is now voicing duck Batman, I'm here for it

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me or does Silent Hill Townfall's attempt at depicting 1996 computers kind of hella overshoot? These are less like email clients from the mid 90s and more like the text interfaces on the computers in the first Alien movie. Like my family got their first computer in the late 90s & it wasn't THAT

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getting a small amount of writing accomplished today now that the drop-dead tiredness is gone. Actually got a bit of sleep last night. It's very lucky that this started right before a three and a half day period without shifts at work, or else this would be beating the Mario coins right out of me.

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AstridTheHorrorGirl @astridcraft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The artistry, the creativity, the ingenuity, and the genius of so much art that comes out every single month in movies, games, books, music and television is absolutely staggering. It's worth it to celebrate the greatness of humanity as shown through our arts. Accept. No. Imitations.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Most of my "media hot takes" are actually for maligned stuff that I find reasons to like rather than dislike. For example-

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Actually, maybe existing in a semidelirious sleep deprived miasma is the perfect personal ambience in which to watch me some Silent Hill Townfall

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm sick so I spent the night nestled up under a blanket and watching a movie, in this case Sinister. Enjoyed it as hybrid trad cinematography/found footage horror. Am amused by how the monster's M.O. basically makes Sinister a feature-length Supernatural ep without Sam and Dean. Spoilers below

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

and when Marvel surprised everyone with the golf spinoff, The Fantastic Fore,

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It'll be funny if The Kyre Crucible ends up being bigger than Seed Of Treachery once the reformatting for print gets done, and it's looking like it will be. Crucible was originally pitched as a novella. I'm like if The Tale Grew In The Telling was making people now

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like how the Gamma Ray songs that sound like they'll be light happy romps (The Heart Of The Unicorn, Shine On/Rising Star, Shine Forever etc) are the ones most likely to rip your skin off your face while they kick your ass into next week

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Holy shit @allieinchains.bsky.social's My Restless Temple is completely GOATed (made half my order from @fiadh.bsky.social early because I wasn't going to let the physical edition get away from me) If you like power metal with Various Influences(tm), you need this fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/my-res...

fiadh.bandcamp.com

My Restless Temple, by Alicia Cordisco

11 track album

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't you ever let someone deny the validity of your creative work. Shut them down and cut them out like a cancer. You're doing it and they're doing nothing.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Musically & lyrically I prefer Nightwish's early astral-dreamer and middle tarot-goth eras to their later "Tuomas read The God Delusion and it is now his entire personality" era, but goddamn if Floor's numerous live albums from this period don't come to fuck, S-tier performances all around.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Architects readers tend to be on team Ashy Needs A Hella Hug (there are hugs but damn does he have to fight her way to those hugs) #WriteSky

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had a dream that I found a Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Choose Your Own Adventure book with the classic nightmarish art and man, I wish that was real

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dangerous. The lost seeing-stones are not all accounted for; we do not know who else could be watching.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would tell aspiring writers to 100% find a community that's open to reading your scenes, because nothing gets you to buckle the fuckle down and refine the hell out of it like the knowledge that other eyes are going to be on your work in short order.

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Random memory from the pandemic when I saw a news thing about "they're closing the cemeteries" and my first thought was uhh...what kind of apocalypse is this again

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a Canadian I'm gonna be an honourary European soon and I think that's neat

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well I went ahead and posted the article where I make the completely sincere argument that the closest thing to Mass Effect's Reaper indoctrination in our modern world is Elon Musk's X thegamerslookingglass.com?p=1101

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Reaping The Whirlwind: Mass Effect’s Reaper Indoctrination And The Perfection Of Propaganda – The Gamer's Looking Glass

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Neat, I can still do 19 hours on four hours of sleep with enough cosmic go-juice (marketed as caffeine in most places) but I'm starting to perceive other dimensions so time for bed 👋

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

An app that makes an ominous sound every time you overspend. They can call it a credit chord

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Walking Dead fell off hard but I'll always give late-stage TWD credit for the Iron Maiden scene. Hits on multiple levels given When The Wild Wind Blows is from The Final Frontier, which in the show's timeline would have been one of the last pieces of human media released prior to the apocalypse.

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eileen the Crow

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As we talk about the new Nintendo release promo feelies, I just found out about Circuit City's Star Fox Adventures "survival kit" from 2002 including PROMO TOILET PAPER and I'm losing my FUCKING mind

A photo of a Star Fox Adventures "survival kit" given out in 2002 at Circuit City, including a bottle of "Fox Fuel" (no idea what's in that), a lanyard, one of those things that thirteen year olds hang on their bedroom doorknob to express MOM DON'T YOU DARE ENTER, and SFA TOILET PAPER WITH PROTIPS ON IT. HELP ME

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Saw a bumper sticker that said TAILGATE ME HARDER DADDY

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would wear a shirt that said "Yes, I Really Do Need All These Iron Maiden Live Albums"

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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Metroid Ravenous won't have speedruns, it'll have mukbangs

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