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Craig G

@derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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#Music lover, #rambler, #gig and #festival goer, #scifi #geek #gamer and #beer drinker from #Derby #UK. Mainly posting random thoughts about #nerd stuff, #anime, #TV […] [bridged from mas.to/@derbadian on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
Not a great photo, taken through the window of a speeding bus (hence the blur at the bottom). But the pretty rainbow was a slight reward for getting soaked in a sudden torrential downpour on my walk to the bus!
A vivid rainbow arcs through a pale blue sky down behind a stand of green trees
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
As a timeline cleanser, this is Daisy who belongs to a neighbour of mine. Super friendly 😍 #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Giving a neck scritch to Daisy, a very pretty, small striped tabby cat. She has a pink colour with her name on it and a bell.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
Happy new Taskmaster day to all who celebrate! 🥳 #Taskmaster #TV #Comedy
Series 21 of Taskmaster tonight at 9pm

As we're sure you know, a new series of Taskmaster starts tonight at 9pm. Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne are back again for unadulterated chaos, this time joined by Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026
Happy First Contact Day to all who celebrate 🖖🏻 #StarTrek #FirstContactDay
An image, mostly in blue which says: "Star Trek First Contact Day, April 5"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026
#SilentSunday
A wooden bridge across a small stream, in the stream somebody has created a small rock pile. On the other side of the bridge, the ground rises up some steps amongst reddy brown leaf fall from trees. 

Taken 04/04/2026 at Cotton Brook, Staffordshire.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026
Just got home after a lovely 8 mile walk around Alton in Staffordshire (near Alton Towers, you could actually hear screaming from the rollercoasters!) This is a wire sculpture of a fairy in a tree, somewhere between Oakamoor and Cotton. #Photography #Sculpture #Walking
A wire sculpture of a fairy holding onto a tree with one hand and foot. She is wearing a flower hat and her gossamer thin wings are just visible
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026
If people say Brits are obsessed with the weather, they're correct. It was 20C last week, today it's 7C and alternating between hail/sleet, gale force winds and bright sunshine. #UK #Weather
The cover for the single version of Four Seasons in One Day by Crowded House
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026
Assault rifles: Not banned in America. Tonka beans: Banned in America. How are you supposed to make sense of a country like that? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyway, have a great weekend lovely people of Mastodon. Chin chin! 🍻 #Beer #BeersOfMastodon
Holding up a can of Brew York Salted Caramel Tonkoko, a 4.3% salted caramel, tonka and vanilla milk stout.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
Bought a couple of super cheap records on sale at Rarewaves for a tenner and got sent this instead, which from the receipt in the packaging I believe was supposed to go to a guy in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sorry buddy, if you got what I ordered, I probably got the better […] [Original post on mas.to]
The cover of Iron Maiden's "Somewhere in Time" features a muscular, cyborg-enhanced version of their mascot, Eddie, set in a futuristic, Blade Runner-inspired cityscape.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
"just" $2,259 PC gaming needs a reckoning, it's becoming unaffordable for the majority of people. Guess I'll just stumble on with my getting on for 10 year old PC 🤷🏻‍♂️ #PCGaming
A screenshot from Tom's Hardware tech deals with a gaming PC "on sale" for $2,259
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
Just re-read a 1957 Isaac Asimov short story called Profession. In this story people don't learn anything, they have a technology where they are just given the knowledge. The technology doesn't work on the main character, who has to learn "the old fashioned way", by […] [Original post on mas.to]
The cover of Astounding Science Fiction from July 1957 featuring Profession by Isaac Asimov.  The cover is a hand drawn picture of a space port in an art deco style of a crowd of people, one in a green space suit.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
Tales of my weird brain 226: Weird songs I sing in my head. A couple of examples. When I read something about a nepo baby, my brain sings "I'm a nepo baby, so why don't you kill me". To the tune of Beck's Loser. Another one, an extremely niche UK one. The main […] [Original post on mas.to]
The album cover to Mark Morrison's Return of the Mack which has been altered to say "Return of the Hat". He's sat in a blue velvet chair wearing black leather and sunglasses, holding up a pair of handcuffs. On his head is a green bucket hat.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
Koupen-chan is about the cutest damn thing I've ever seen. Super short slices of happiness. Look up "kawaii" in the Japanese dictionary and there should be a picture of Koupen-chan. #Anime #Kawaii
A screenshot from the Koupen-chan anime.  A cute cartoon penguin with closed eyes and red cheeks.  The subtitles say: "When you smile, I get super happy too!"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
The only time I remotely miss Twitter is on International Women's Day when Richard Herring used to raise money for charity by replying to all the idiotic men asking when International Men's Day is (it's 19th November). Anyway, happy International Women's Day to all […] [Original post on mas.to]
A screenshot from Mad Max Fury Road with Furiosa in her vehicle. The subtitle says "men yelling indistinctly"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026
A chonky new visitor to my garden. He looks like he will f*ck you up if you look at him the wrong way. #CatsOfMastodon
A low-res zoomed in photo of a chonky black cat lying on the ground. His eyes look like he's peered into your soul and decided you're worthless.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
I forgot what an absolute cracker this album is, not a bad song on it 🤘🏻 #Music #Vinyl #NowPlaying
A record player with a copy of Editors The Back Room ready to play. Just behind is the album cover which is a black and white photo looking through arched walls disappearing into the distance.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
I am really enjoying Journal with Witch (Ikoku Nikki), anime that feels like it was written by an actual adult. It's about grief, family, relationships and the expectations adults put on kids, kids put on adults and society puts on everyone. The conversations […] [Original post on mas.to]
The title screen for Journal with Witch.  Makio is sat on an office chair at her desk, surrounded by piles of books and folders, Asa in her school uniform stands to the side holding up her journal.  There is sand under their feet and cacti in the foreground and background.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
Not many Bandcamp Friday purchases today, just got the two Castle Rat albums. I had been holding out for the vinyl, but they had sold out when I saw them on tour and thanks to *you know who* it's prohibitively expensive to get anything from the USA now. Oh, I also […] [Original post on mas.to]
The cover for the Castle Rat album The Bestiary.  In a snowsy landscape, a flame haired woman in a metal bikini sits on a white unicorn and holds a sword aloft.  Behind her, standing with arms outstretched is a wizard with long white hair, holding a staff.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026
Well it's transfer deadline day. Again. #Football #TransferDeadlineDay #MastodonFC
A picture from a few years ago when Sky made the incredibly bad decision to let reporters mingle with fans outside football grounds. In this case it led to this guy having a purple sex toy shoved into his ear.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
Update: Got it working! Update Light Gun firmware ✅ New dedicated Light Gun MiSTer install ✅ Custom startup script automatically loading Sinden drivers ✅ NES and Master System work great, SNES and Megadrive still need a few tweaks, haven't tested out the PSX, Saturn […] [Original post on mas.to]
A black Sinden light gun pointing at a TV playing Duck Hunt on the NES
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
I know there are more important things going on in the world, but every now and again I remember that someone made the stupid decision to put Walkers cheese & onion crisps in blue bags and salt & vinegar in green bags and I'm annoyed all over again.
A blue bag of Walkers cheese & onion crisps and a green bag of Walkers salt & vinegar crisps
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026
I got rid of all my physical media years ago, ripped it all first of course. I couldn't let these go though, the spine design and the content of these are superb! #RedDwarf #DVD #PhysicalMedia
A set of Red Dwarf DVDs from Series I to Series VIII. The Red Dwarf logo is cleverly spread out over each DVD to be revealed over the complete set.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
#SilentSunday
A dog in mid-air jumping to catch a snowball at a snowy Solomon's Temple, Buxton, Derbyshire. I can't take credit for this photo, I found it on the internet and loved it!
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026
Have a great weekend lovely people of Mastodon. Kanpai! 🍻 #Beer #BeersOfMastodon
Holding up a can of 5% Japanese Rice Lager from Bluntrock Brewery. The can design has the brewery mascot at the centre of pink starry sections with Japanese text.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
Just watched Sisu: Road to Revenge (Sisu 2) and if anything it's more gory and violent than the first film. The violence is almost cartoonish but immensely entertaining. I loved it, perfect popcorn movie! #Movies #SisuRoadToRevenge
The movie poster for Sisu: Road to Revenge has the main character holding two machine guns. Below him is a Soviet Union checkpoint on fire and a white fluffy dog!
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026
Have a great weekend lovely people of Mastodon. Enjoying this fabulous beer right now, a collab between New Bristol Brewery and Brew York. Chin chin! 🍻 #Beer #BeersOfMastodon
Holding up a can of winter spiced ginger cake stout, a 6% collaboration between New Bristol Brewery and Brew York. 

The can design is a chimp wearing a space suit, looking out of a window with a large orange sun above mountains and trees.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
I have watched pretty much every version of A Christmas Carol from the 1951 Alastair Sim film up to modern ones, and I say unironically that The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best version. Fight me. So I've just watched it again for the umpteenth time, still got a […] [Original post on mas.to]
The poster for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge walks through a snowy London night, above him are the Muppet cast of the film.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
@astifter Right here. Maltesers, Galaxy (Regular) and Bounty are overlaid since the numbers each year have been identical for each type.
Time-series data showing how the distribution of chocolate types has changed over the years
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
By "popular" demand, I present... the Chocolate Bar Chart! Also, welcome to all my new followers (I am slightly overwhelmed) and please don't expect this quality of content all year round! 😂 #Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation
A bar chart showing the number of each chocolate type per year in a tub of Celebrations.  The bars are made up of pictures of each chocolate bar type.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
@MintSpies *Coughs* Bounty, Galaxy (Regular) and Maltesers are all overlaid. I used your toot for the Alt text 😂
Time-series data showing how the distribution of chocolate types has changed over the years
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!? Anyway, the 2025 results are in: Bounty x5 Galaxy x5 Galaxy Caramel x5 Maltesers x5 Mars x9 Milky Way x9 Snickers […] [Original post on mas.to]
All the chocolates in a tub of Celebrations laid out in vertical lines by chocolate typeA pie chart with the different coloured sectors representing the number of each type of chocolate
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
I'm enjoying May I Ask for One Final Thing so much! Each episode makes me laugh out loud at some point, just great fun! #Anime #MayIAskForOneFinalThing
Scarlet in her customary red dress and knuckle dusters, grabs the pink hair of Terenezza.  The text says: "I'd like to punch you repeatedly in the face right now"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025
"Five Billion Dollars" #BBC
Mike Myers as Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.  One eyebrow raised, with his little finger against his lips.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
Have a great weekend, lovely people of Mastodon. Chin chin! 🍻 #Beer #BeersOfMastodon
Holding up a can of Judicious, a 4.8% "juicy pale" from Kirkstall. The can design is brightly coloured, with a parrot, orange halves and other fruit.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
Finally had chance to put my tree up and deploy my home made John McClane crawling through an air duct baubles. Yippee ki yay! #Christmas #DieHard
A square bauble made from card and kitchen foil with a picture of John McClane stuck at the end to make it look like he's crawling through an air duct.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025
What am I supposed to say to this? Yes, I loved receiving a bill, made my fucking day!? Look, I've been through audits, I know that companies have to try and get feedback. But an energy company is unlikely to get much feedback fit to show to an auditor!
A screenshot from an email from British Gas. There's a picture of a guy in an orange hoodie looking at his laptop and below it says: "We'd love to know more about your recent experience of receiving a bill."
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025
Happy 1st December. I see your chocolate advent calendar* and I raise you this PiHut maker advent calendar! It has a Pi Zero and various LED blinky projects to do, looking forward to this! (*I have a chocolate one too) #RaspberryPi #AdventCalendar
The front box of the PiHut maker advent calendar box is mainly white with faint grey circuit board traces and red and green spots. The calendar name is "Let it glow"Inside the box are 12 numbered smaller black, red and green boxes. The boxes have tiny white designs of circuit boards, traces, chips and various other electronic components.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025
Umm, I think you mean "rheostat" #TV #Subtitles
A screenshot from James May's Shed Load of Ideas on Quest. James May and Sim are in a workshop trying to fix a toy train.

The subtitle says "We've had a bit of a fiddle around and we isolated the problem to the controller, the rear stat"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025
Have a great weekend lovely people of Mastodon. Chin chin! 🍻 #Beer #BeersOfMastodon
Holding up a can of Make My Day, a 4.6% hazy pale from Dark Revolution. The can design is mostly black with a silver zombie-like head with eyes and tongue popping out and the pink brain exposed.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025
Just about got my post out before Cloudflare shat the bed. Has anyone tried turning it off and on again?
An error code 500 "internal server error" screenshot showing a big red cross and London Cloudflare Error
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025
What a great night we had at the Bodega Nottingham last night watching Castle Rat and Margarita Witch Cult! That was a hell of a double bill! 🤘🏻 My only disappointment is that Castle Rat had sold out of all the vinyl they had brought on tour, but I got myself a […] [Original post on mas.to]
Castle Rat taking the applause at the end of the gig. The lead singer has one arm raised with the other on her guitar.Margarita Witch Cult on stage. The guitarist is leaning forward with his eyes closed and the bass player looks down to the ground.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
It's November 5th so I watched V For Vendetta again, I do most years. Cried at the story of Valerie again, it gets me every time. Such a great book, such a great movie adaptation. #VForVendetta #November5th #BonfireNight
A panel from V For Vendetta. V is at the centre of various horrific dictators with arms outstretched, the text says "We've had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact."
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
In my watch/rewatch of Star Trek TOS, I just watched S01E18 - The Squire of Gothos A Q-like being (now confirmed in Strange New Worlds to be the son of John de Lancie's Q) plays with the crew until his parents arrive to send him to bed without supper What a fun […] [Original post on mas.to]
Lieutenant DeSalle on navigation and Sulu in the pilot's chair on the bridge of the Enterprise. Sulu holds his blue cup in his hand, while DeSalle puts his on the console in front of him.
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
I started watching May I Ask for One Final Thing? (Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai shitemo Yoroshii deshou ka), purely based on the title of episode 5: "May I Clobber This Asshole Prince?" 😂 It's not exactly subtle, it's about a woman who wants to punch people in the […] [Original post on mas.to]
A screenshot from May I Ask for One Final Thing? episode 1.

Scarlet el Vandimion, a silver haired woman with blue eyes wearing a bright red ballgown with black bows holds up her fist.  The subtitle says: "May I knock that bitch on her ass?"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
Divisive!? No, it's bag in, water, bag out, milk and I will hear no argument about it! 😂
A YouTube screenshot from the BBC quiz show The Wheel, with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith from the League of Gentlemen and Inside No.9 fame.

They are debating a question which says: "The UK Tea and Infusions Association recommends what process for making tea with a teabag in a mug" and the options are: 

Water, milk, bag in, bag out
Milk, bag in, water, bag out
Bag in, water, milk, bag out
Bag in, water, bag out, milk
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
In my watch/rewatch of Star Trek TOS, I just watched S01E16 - The Galileo Seven. Spock and his team leave on a shuttle and get stranded on Taurus II, a planet inhabited by unconvincing hairy monsters with unconvincing giant spears. Kirk searches for them, all the […] [Original post on mas.to]
Popping up behind the shuttle craft Galileo is a giant hairy monster holding a "rock" aloft ready to throw
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
I saw Panic Shack tonight at Nottingham Rescue Rooms. They were great, as they always are! #Music #LiveMusic #Nottingham
The lead singer and guitarist of Panic Shack are bent double, the other guitarist and bass player are on their knees playing
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025
Grin Low Woods near Poole's Cavern, Buxton, Derbyshire. #FootpathFriday #Landscape #Photography
A wide path covered in fallen leaves curves off through the woods into the distance
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025
Alt Shift X has a new video up on YouTube about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. I've read the novellas, but some time ago now, so a brief non-spoilery primer was useful. I love his description of House Targaryen, says it all really! #HBO #TV #GameOfThrones #AKOTSK
A screenshot from Alt Shift X's Knight of the Seven Kingdoms YouTube video. 

A blonde haired Targaryen is on the left of the screen amongst a host of other characters.

On the right is an image showing some House of the Dragon characters and the caption says: "House Targaryen - incesty blond people"
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Craig G @derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025
In my watch/rewatch of Star Trek TOS, I just watched S01E15 - Shore Leave. The crew beam down to an empty Earth like planet which turns out to be a pleasure world that creates anything you desire. For Kirk that's fighting an "Irishman" who was his academy nemesis […] [Original post on mas.to]
"Bones" McCoy is accompanied by two scantily clad ladies in bright yellow and pink fluffy bikinis and unsurprisingly he looks delighted!
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