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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 12/10/2026

This was a fucking disaster and I hate myself for the mess that I have made, but I did, in the end, produce something almost kind of edible and curry-like.

Japanese style pork curry over rice on a paper plate with disposable cutlery.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 08/10/2026

Also in this episode: Richard Riehle, who always makes me think "oh hey, it's Wilford Brimley" until he starts talking.

Spencer Garret and Richard Riehle in the 1998 episode of Columbo, Ashes to Ashes.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 08/10/2026

As of this episode Columbo's nameless basset hound is 26 years old and still as spry as ever.

Columbo (Peter Falk) chasing his nameless basset hound as it enters a crime scene dragging its leash behind it.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 28/09/2026

The 9 games that shaped my taste. With the exception of Runescape I still play all of these fairly frequently. If there had been a tenth slot I would have also included either Zoids: Battle Legends, or Custom Robo. Crystal wasn't my first Pokemon, but it remains my favorite to this day.

Pokemon Crystal Version, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2, Sid Meier's Civilization III, Rome: Total War, Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee, Runescape Classic, Shining Force, Zoo Tycoon, Super Smash Bros.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)

Darby Hinton as a shirtless Cody Abilene, doing a karate pose in Malibu Express (1985).

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 22/09/2026

Without downloading new pics, where are you mentally?

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully with the caption [Disgusted Sigh]

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 21/09/2026

And for good measure, 9 of the first manga I read as a kid, mostly in Shonen Jump or random volumes found at the used bookstore.

Flame of Recca, SandLand, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon Adventures, Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, Shaman King, Cardcaptor Sakura

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 21/09/2026

Not all of these would make my all-time fave list, but these are the ones that I was exposed to first and which stoked my love for anime and manga. I debated about putting Kenshin on here given how it has been tainted but it was the first anime I ever got personally invested in.

InuYasha, Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Shaman King, Dragon Ball, Mobile Fighter G-Gundam, Pokemon, Ninja Scroll

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 19/09/2026

I don't care about your big 3 - what were ur Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler covers the month you were born? What the fuck was going on at Hustler in the 90s?

Playboy magazine cover from August 1993 featuring Dan Aykroyd as a Conehead

Penthouse magazine cover from August 1993 featuring Leslie Nielsen

Hustler magazine cover from August 1993 featuring a model dressed in nothing but strings of pearls, and an article about holocaust denial.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the one ring:

Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo. He is looking intently at someone to the right of frame and holding his trademark cigar.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 12/09/2026

I would pay stupid amounts of money to see this scene recreated in live-action. (or high quality animation)

A full-page illustration from American Vampire. In it a man underwater in an old-timey diving suit in the foreground is startled by the appearance of a naked, bestial vampire. The vampire has large bony claws, a distended jaw, and huge fangs. He is saying "Hello, Motherfucker! Got any candy?"

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 05/09/2026

That’s the survey the map thing is based on, but the weighting in the new one is done by AI, and there are additional questions ”written” by AI.

Answer all 122 questions from the original Harvard Dialect Survey and 26 supplemental questions added by Al.. The map updates in real-time as you answer questions.
Note on sources: This extended quiz contains all 122 questions from the official Harvard Dialect Survey, plus 26 extra dialect and pronunciation questions (such as "coyote," "theater," or "genuine") modeled from other linguistic sources and studies.
An Al coding agent added these questions and their weights during the construction of the full quiz
0 of 148 answered

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 05/09/2026

I hate when games make a villain objectively correct and then don't let you side with them. Justice for Vegiemon.

A screenshot from Digimon: Cyber Sleuth. A Digimon called Vegiemon is yelling "The police are the enemy! The police are the enemy!"

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 02/09/2026

That's no ghost! That's retired fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin!

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasking a guy in a ghost costume.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 02/09/2026

Hell yeah, Shining Force mentioned. Tao best girl, Guntz best Dillo-man. Best rpg of all time.

The roster of recruitable characters from Shining Force, including Max (the default name for the player character), Luke, Ken, Tao, Hans, Lowe, Gong, Gort, Mae, Khris, Anri, Arthur, Balbaroy, Amon, Diane, Zylo, Pelle, Jogurt, Kokichi, Vankar, Guntz, Dominngo, Earnest, Lyle, Bleu, Musashi, Alef, Torasu, Adam, and Hanzou.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 02/09/2026

I spoke too soon! Both Falk's hair and Shatner's mustache keep alternating between dark brown and light grey throughout this entire episode.

Peter Falk as Columbo, this time with mostly brown hair.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 02/09/2026

They really did let Peter Falk dye his hair for exactly one episode and then made him go back to grey, that's hilarious.

Peter Falk as Columbo, with a full head of grey hair, after having a full brown dye-job in the previous episode.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 02/09/2026

In This Episode: Captain Kirk uses the Holodeck to play Rush Limbaugh.

William Shatner as right-wing talk radio host Fielding Chase in the Columbo episode "Butterfly in Shades of Grey".

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 01/09/2026

This came to me fully formed the last time I witnessed a certain recurring argument on the Star Trek forums, and now I must inflict it upon all of you.

The 'Gee Bill, Two Wieners' meme format but Lt. Worf from Star Trek is photoshopped over Bill. The Text reads "Gee Worf! How come your mom lets you have *two* wieners?" to which Worf replies "We do not discuss it with outsiders".

I am very sorry.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 31/08/2026

This is what it looks like unlocked.

My phone screen, with a custom skin and app icons patterned after the LCARS operating system from Star Trek

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 31/08/2026

This guy will have three lines of faux-Elizabethan dialogue about how honored he is to die for his battle-brothers and then get exploded by an evil wizard, and it’ll probably be exactly as cool as it sounds.

Klord Empion, Chapter Master, Ninth Chapter

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 28/08/2026

how it feels to follow me (probably)

An image from Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah (1991) of a woman saying "This is pretty much terrorism. You've gone too far."

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 28/08/2026

They said the live-action Urotsukidoji adaptation could never work, but he showed them.

An image of an anime man with glowing energy shining from his crotch.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 27/08/2026

Spotted while running the burrito taxi.

Bandit stickers on a utility box. One is a picture of Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused and reads “You ever tried DMT? Be a lot cooler if you did.” Another just says “Kill Zuck Kill Musk Kill Altman”

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 22/08/2026

"If you believe everything a cop tells you, you're a damn fool." He brought me back around, this episode is excellent.

Columbo shrugging, palms up, after admitting that he lies to his chili guy.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 22/08/2026

Peter Falk wrote this whole episode so that he could make out with Faye Dunaway. I had noticed that there were zero mentions of Mrs. Columbo so far in this one but I did not expect him to go this direction. What a sly dog.

Faye Dunaway kissing Peter Faulk in an episode of Columbo that he wrote.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 22/08/2026

C'mon man, you gotta leave at least a little grey around the temples. Give it some plausibility.

Columbo in 1993 with a bad Just For Men dye job.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 22/08/2026

Nameless Basset Hound spotted, the surest sign of a quality Columbo episode. This one was written by Peter Falk, so it's loaded with fun Columbo-isms; using an ashtry to hold eggshells, showing up to a crime scene in his pajamas, it's great.

Columbo and his nameless basset hound, which is canonically 21 years old as of this episode (It's All in the Game, 1993) and looking fantastic.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 19/08/2026

Went out to do some laundry and found this neat partial lizard skeleton. Probably an Anole given the size and skull shape. Not sure what I’m going to do with it yet but it might make for a neat element for a miniature or diorama.

The skull, spine, and partial pelvis snd leg of a small lizard.

A view showing the other side. The bones are entirely dry and fleshless, with lots of teeny tiny ribs.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 19/08/2026

I'm watching The Doomsday Machine episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre and just a few minutes in I thought I recognized a voice. It's hard to make out in this quality, but that nameless reporter is Mike Farrel: BJ Hunnicutt from M*A*S*H.

A still from Doomsday Machine (1972) as featured on Elvira's Movie Macabre. A press pool is asking questions about a mission to Venus and the reporter who we see speaking is Mike Farrel, who played BJ Hunnicutt in the mid-to-late seasons of M*A*S*H.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 18/08/2026

If any of my Austin followers are interested in helping me avoid homelessness, I am putting my banjo and guitar up for sale. They are a Gold Tone CC50RP and an Epiphone Casino. The banjo is in great condition, the guitar is good except for the pickup toggle which needs to be fixed. DM for prices.

A Gold Tone CC50RP Banjo. It has a full-walled resonator and sounds amazing, but I have never had the time to get good with it.

A close-up of the model and serial number on the banjo.

An Epiphone Casino hollowbody electric guitar in the "vintage sunburst" style made famous by the Beatles. It is in good condition but the toggle to switch between the two sets of pickups needs to be repaired.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 12/08/2026

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

Son Goku crashing his entire body through King Piccolo, blowing a Saiyan child-sized hole in his torso.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 12/08/2026

Post your favorite Disney princess Wrong answers only

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 04/08/2026

In this time of endless sequels, remakes, and reboots, when will we finally get what was promised?

Coming Soon
Phantom Empire II
"The Land Where Time Said Fuck It!"

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 03/08/2026

Found what I thought at first was a wing from an RC airplane outside, but no, it’s a lighter!

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 03/08/2026

I don't know if people know this, but you can just make a little guy, and then he exists.

A miniature I kitbashed and painted for a friend's Dungeons and Dragons character. He's a Warforged paladin of Lathander, inspired by Warhammer. Visually, he's a very rusty robot man with a walking stick of bleached bone strung with prayer talismans, which also adorn his armor/body. His head is a metal skull with a speaker grille for a mouth, and he is wearing a fancy red hat.

A side view showing the prayer tags on his pauldrons, which are actually satyr shields painted to look like bronze and bone instead of wicker.

A rear view, showing the boiler apparatus on his back which provides him with power, as well as the hoses I scavenged from a lego scuba tank.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 02/08/2026

"Bread and Circuses" is a Parallel Earth episode, so not one of my favorites, but this fake-out gag with a matte painting is just such a great little moment.

A shot from "Bread and Circuses" showing a matte painting of a gladiatorial arena.

The camera pulls away from the painting, revealing it to be an in-universe matte painting on a TV set.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 01/08/2026

In the Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles, Doctor McCoy describes the tribbles as "bisexual, reproducing at will", and that's not a power I knew bisexuality gave you. Brb, gonna create a homunculus.

Doctor McCoy explaining that Tribbles are bisexual to Captain Kirk.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 28/07/2026

I love that Spock is, demonstrably, in-continuity, a very special genius with a special brain, but also his first reaction upon encountering a mysterious energy being is sometimes to try and poke it with his finger. He's not even wearing gloves!

Spock poking his hand into a fiery looking energy blob thing.

The energy blob thing explodes and hurls Spock backwards.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 27/07/2026

"The Devil in the Dark" is one of my favorite TOS episodes. The Horta is very cool, and it's the first non-humanoid alien we encounter that isn't a nebulous energy being. It's also a great Spock episode, in which he is borderline insubordinate in the interest of science and preserving life.

Spock looking offended after having been accused of growing more human all the time by Kirk.

Spock mind-melding with the Horta, a blob-like alien which secretes a powerful corrosive substance to tunnel through solid rock, and which looks like a huge slice of burnt pizza.

A full shot of the Horta, again looking like burnt cafeteria pizza.

A pile of "silicone nodules" which turn out to be Horta eggs.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 25/07/2026

"Arena" is such a good episode, it's kind of sad that the only part most people remember/know about is the couple of awkward punches at the beginning of the fight with the Gorn. It hits all the classic Trek themes and gave us one of our first actually alien-looking aliens to boot.

Captain Kirk, Spock, and a blueshirt trying to reach the Enterprise while under fire from an unseen enemy on the planet Cestus III in the Star Trek episode "Arena".

A guy from Cestus III with big burns on his face.

Kirk hitting the Gorn with an awkward ax-handle blow in the only moment from this episode anybody ever talks about.

Kirk deciding not to kill the Gorn after blasting it full of diamond shrapnel at close range with an improvised cannon.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 25/07/2026

"I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose." -Spock, anarchist icon

Mr. Spock in The Squire of Gothos, having just delivered a sick burn to the Squire himself.

The Squire of Gothos, a being of great power who has kidnapped the bridge crew of the Enterprise because he has a special interest in Earth's martial history. He is dressed as an 18th century european aristocrat.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 25/07/2026

They don't do it very often, but it's cool when Trek acknowledges the dangers of beaming down into unknown conditions by having the away team wear safety equipment like these oxygen masks, or the life-support belts from an earlier episode.

Dr. McCoy and Karl Jaeger wearing oxygen masks and taking atmospheric readings in the Star Trek episode 'The Squire of Gothos'.

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MC_Lovecraft @mclovecraft.selfhosted.social · 24/07/2026

I picked these up a few years ago and I always take the mushroom one with me on hikes.

A pair of field guides I picked up at HEB, one for native Texas wildlife, and the other for common North American mushrooms.

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