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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If my murdered body ever washes up on a boat, during a major storm, this is probably what it'll look like.

A partially clothed skeleton, in the remains of a wooden boat, that appears to be relaxing and reading an open book spread across its lap.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She thinks it's a good time to travel.

Earth climbing into a flying saucer, announcing "I'm outta here", while an alien watches.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That graphic immediately brought this movie poster to mind.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Update: The ice cream was too pricey, so we had pie.

A plushie alien poking out of a purple backpack, eyeing a McDonald's pie.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm being informed that I want ice cream.

Plushie green alien, poking out of a purple backpack, in a hospital hallway.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's hoodies in my part of the world.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hate it when I pack so quickly I forget my cake.

From a board in a "find the objects" game, where our heroine has gone to the house of a guy who left their date very abruptly, to discover emptied draws and a fancy two tier cake sitting on the coffee table, along with phone, elephant, and books.

Also visible is cylindrical pillow, basket, and cat.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Feel free to open a dialog with me or my child at any time you wish.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Reese has started writing the Great American Novel(tm) It's the story of a small alien, stranded on Earth, so, probably on par for most GAN attempts.

A small, green alien, leaning over a blank notebook page, with a pen in hand.

A small, green alien admiring a page full of text. The pen is now capped and laying across the notebook.

A small, green alien rewarding his hard work with a couple of cupcakes.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I need to look up where the Victorian technology books fall in the Dewey decimal system.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It wasn't mine, but it was the first computer I ever used. It was upgraded to a disk drive at some point.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm being informed that I need to go get a Labor Day cake.

A group of six green aliens, two big and four little, staring at the camera.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The perfect pet for my apartment dwelling Sims.

A group of three chickens pecking at the decking of an apartment balcony, next to some furniture.

Fortunately, they don't roam around from that area.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's publication date says 2020, but I suspect it got a new cover slapped on it recently. That or a human made some... interesting choices.

The cover to an edition of As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner.

On it is a man wearing a leather jacket, is hovering slightly above the ground, alone in a scenic wilderness, gazing towards a colorful sky.

I assume the Burden family, their cart, and the coffin are somewhere behind him.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not my best score, but I currently have four words that nobody else has used. Playoutlier.com

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So, I looked at the brand's website. Also no sign of these pencils. If there wasn't a pack sitting right here, I'd start wondering if I was hallucinating.

Either a pack of Cra-Z-Art premium colored pencils or the a picture of Captain America on the back of a coloring book.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Waiting for Marvel to announce that it's crucial to solve every third puzzle to understand Doomsday.

A Marvel Variety Puzzles and Activities book I picked up in the supermarket for $1.

On the front is Iron Man's helmet, surrounded by some of the types of puzzles you can find inside.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not sure, but I think it was one of these

The soundtrack album for The Crow (1994)

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft! *whirring noise from the direction of Providence*

A cute, cuddly, Cthulhu, wearing bunny ears, surrounded by two cute unicorns and a pastel llamacorn.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They did, eventually, add art to the covers. This wasn't always an improvement.

Cover art for a Penguin edition of The Day of the Triffids, where the artist decided that Triffids are furry pineapples with three stumpy legs and bent clarinet coming out of the leaves with a long thin brush for cleaning straws coming out of that.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Should have checked more carefully. I thought I'd borrowed Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from the library, but I seem to have grabbed his cousin Fred's version.

DVD cover that was trimmed down, turning Alfred into Fred.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As taught to us by this children's cookbook.

Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown, which is an award winning book about soldiers conning the locals.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A few months ago I asked reddit for naming suggestions for these three, and got the suggestion to use spaceship names. After much debate, and a lot of procrastination, they're now Nostromo, Gilgamesh, and Clear Air Turbulence* *The latter is the cat. I'm not sure which is which for the other two.

A pink bunny, a grey cat, and a brown bear, all dressed in spacesuits.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not entirely sure Walgreens knows what "out of stock" means.

A sign on a Walgreens shelf declaring that the item that goes in this spot is temporarily out of stock.

Visible behind it are three of the folders the price tag, hidden by the sign, says go there.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Found slightly smaller alphabet beads

A cube shaped bead with a pink P on it, next to a slightly larger flat, round bead with a gold P on it.

Four small Ikea aliens wearing name necklaces and fluffy ponytail holder skirts.

From left to right: Ripley, Rita, Ghoti (Fish), and Piece.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The picture of Galway her friend saw.

A picture of James Galway, holding a flute.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The best film adaptation of the Odessey, wrong answers only.

Scene from The Thing. A man is sitting at a desk, recording a log of what's been happening. At the bottom is a caption reading "Nobody trusts anybody now. And we're all very tired."

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Figured I'd set up vaccination appointments while I thought of it and was greeted by these required fields Don't know if this is Walgreens decision or if they come from above.

An electronic form on Walgreens website that has required fields for name, sex assigned at birth, race, and ethnicity.

None of these, except the patient's name, seem relevant for a flu shot.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Honorable mentions to The Crow soundtrack and Awake, but this immediately came to mind.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

He was promised space aliens. Got spiders. Technically, they're alien spiders.

An Ikea alien reading Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The alien now staring at the camera with a look of betrayal.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For when your musical track needs something, but you're on a tight budget, Dollar Tree is here for you.

Cheap looking, but functional, cow bells.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Some brands you just don't expect to do tie-in products

Ad for the limited edition King of the Hill WD-40 Can

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm sure there are a lot of reasons behind it, but this sink hardware was a choice.

Tiny corner sink with a very tall curved tap and levers that hit the walls.

There was a lot of water splash and there are marks in the paint where the levers hit it.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Despite the evidence, I do trust the doctors here.

Two of the things I brought to the hospital, a Doctor Who collection of the complete run of the ninth and tenth doctors and a micro Plague Doctor.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Somehow got charged senior fare carrying this bag.

An orangey brown tote bag with two plushie toys poking out of it, the top of a green alien's head and the fallopian tube of a small uterus.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's been awhile since I read this, so I'd forgotten this rather unfortunate character name. No idea if had the same meaning in the Soviet Union of the 1930s.

Photo of a page from The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, revealing one character has the name "Fagot"

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The space exploration collection in this library

Three books about space exploration, sandwiched between a book about commercial driver's licenses and a handbook for growing cannabis.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Not sure, but I'm getting suggestions.

Small green plushie alien looking hopefully at the camera, while holding most of the Alien franchise.

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Steam Powered Cthulhu @lostshadows.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ah yes the dreaded freshman 15, inches

Ad for a game with a college theme, featuring a woman progressing through three panels.

In each panel she's standing in the same spot and in the same pose, as her outfit and surroundings change, and she gets taller.

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