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Pat Ashe

@patrickashe.bsky.social
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Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.

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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sometimes your daughter won’t go to bed so in your tiredness you make poor choices online during hour 6 of her refusing to go to sleep and then weeks later a giant Blitzball plush turns up on your doorstep.
My hand holding a very big Blitzball plush against a green wall.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The person sending you two copies so you can “pass one on to a friend who might also like it”.
Two copies of Mike & Gaby’s Space Gospel by Ken Russell on my colourful bedspread.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What could be better than one copy of Ken Russell’s most likely bad debut novel you impulse bought?
A copy of Mike & Gaby’s Space Gospel by Ken Russell on my colourful bedspread.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New hobby - pestering my local cinema to screen films that only like 5 people will want to see.
Me in the Instagram comments of a post about Amanda Kramer’s new film By Design asking my local cinema to screen it.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Went to the local produce fair, saw a pig made of vegetables.
A pig made out of various vegetables next to a certificate ranking it first.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do hope the rerelease of The Devils leads people to looking at the rest of Ken Russell's filmography like his masterwork Mindbender, the film based on the life of Uri Geller.
A film poster for Mindbender, a film by Ken Russell that tells the life story of Uri Geller.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate being all young people need to learn to pirate properly but young people need to learn to pirate properly.
went to go rewatch twin peaks to make myself feel better about being sick and my google drive link has expired
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Love to see a game really determined to hit every currently popular genre going. Hopefully you get to pick from 3 upgrades at regular points throughout the game.
Junji Ito-inspired cozy paranormal cleaning game Dust till Dawn announced for PC
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Firing up the torrents as we speak:
Screengrab frpm Letterboxd showing the synopsis of a film. The text reads:

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové...

1970 DIRECTED BY
Oldřich Lipský
95 mins
Synopsis
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician’s research there will be no atomic bombs.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Talking to my partner about the possibility of going back to Japan one day, remembering the excitement of that first night on our trip there of stumbling across the car park from the Yakuza games.
A car park in Tokyo covered in adverts for host clubs.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A black screen featuring white Japanese text.

Underneath the translation reads "This film is dedicated to all women who love baseball".
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Imagine owning a Blitzball cushion, that’d fix so many things in your life.
A hand holding a large Blitzball cushion.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finally admitting to myself that I will never fit into this t shirt and I should get rid of it after years of it hanging in my wardrobe unworn.
A black t shirt with a photo of Vince Vaughn in the Psycho remake. The text reads Psycho and “Check in. Relax.Take a shower.”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New desk has a bizarre glass viewing panel into one of the drawers and I didn’t know what to put there so currently I have the Snorlax plush I’ve had since I was a kid lying in state.
A glass viewing panel on a desk, Snorlax is peacefully resting in the drawer.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Went out for fried chicken at lunch and had deep fried sweet potato for pudding. Lovely stuff.
Some slices of battered and fried sweet potato next to a bowl full of vanilla ice cream.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
mfw I take the bins out
A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics showing a character who has made the greatest contribution to a battle. It is a character with my name.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Social media lets you see worlds beyond your imagination, lives you could never believe.
A screenshot from a Tiktok captioned “I’m gonna visit every Cex in the midlands Part 6”.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me this weekend:
A screenshot of that great Hard Drive article "Huge Earthbound Fan Excited To Play It For Time" but it's been edited to say "Huge Final Fantasy Tactics Fan" and my face have been crudely photoshopped into the image.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A photo of some text from Gush by Yo Hemmi.

The text reads:

“At this point, my obsession with sequences of events kicked in again. Cheese + Woman + Shoplifting → Earring → Me → Bridge + River → Parasol + Woman + Me → Humpbacked bridge → Cheese + Sex → Water → Granny → Then what? I wondered what was coming next.”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Dreams can come true.
The Skies Of Arcadia Legends title screen on a crap CRT I got off Gumtree and carried home in the rain.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Reading about a mural and about the mulai.
A copy of J L Carr’s A Month In The Country and Munir Hachemi’s The Mulai on my brightly coloured duvet cover.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
All ready to gawp at the majesty of the universe in an old baby formula box.
Me holding a Cow & Gate box poorly turned into a pinhole viewer. Please ignore the state of my garden in the background.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Why yes, please come look at my game collection."
A photo from the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology showing lots of different animals preserved in jars.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Tarkovsky holding his hand on his forehead and saying “poetic cinema”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Bulbasaur in Pokopia saying “Let’s get this place humid!”.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yesterday my phone told me to delete some duplicate images to save space and honestly I don’t think my phone gets what is important to me.
Ten identical images of Saejima’s old boss in Yakuza 5 looking haggard.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thinking about the best videogame cover art again:
The Japanese cover for Flipnic which has some pinball bumpers in a white void with some animals dotted around. Text on the cover reads "Flipnic is an enjoyable simple-action amazing pinball game for you." The pinball is the o in enjoyable.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In case you wanted to see the rat puppet and which book it was.
A lovely rat puppet sat next to a copy of Lem’s Mortal Engines on a green cord sofa. A yellow and red cushion can be seen to the left of the photo.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A meeting of circle club.
A small owl puppet wearing a circle on his head staring at a squirrel puppet also wearing a circle of their head.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
One of the moments in Otomo's Cannon Fodder that I can't stop thinking about is the protestors demanding an end to using toxic gunpowder in the shells.
A screenshot from Cannon Fodder, a segment from the film Memories showing a huge structure, the words "No Conquest Without Labor" are written on the building.

Dialogue reads: "We demand they use nontoxic gunpowder!"A screenshot from Cannon Fodder, a segment from the film Memories showing people handing out flyers to a crowd.

Dialogue reads: "We deserve the right to work under safe and healthy conditions."A screenshot from Cannon Fodder, a segment from the film Memories showing a group of protestors in gas masks holding banners and signs.

Dialogue reads: "However, the gunpowder we now use contains harmful substances."
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Really levelled up as a white guy who works in games today.
A test voucher for the Japanese Language Profiencey Test on a table, there is some info on there and picture of me.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
One of the best places we went in Japan was the Naramichi Toy Museum which was full of weird toys a bit like these. I think they were very confused and grateful as to why two English people had come to their tiny museum.
A wooden toy of two people pounding mochi operated by hand.A wooden toy where a cat tries to catch a mouse.A wooden toy where you pull a string down and a lady puts on a fox mask.A drawing of a toy which shows a man riding a mouse on a board on wheels.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back at it again:
A screenshot from Letterboxd:

The text reads:

"Galax Man-Doll 1984 
Galax, omul păpușă 
Directed by Ion Popescu-Gopo

The story of Galax, a robotic ‘man-doll’, artificially created out of wood and computer circuitry, Appearing to come to life, it becomes a rival for the affections of Marie, a young student and an issue for university authorities."
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
bsky.app/profile/axio...
A tweet:

“Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting "Better things aren't possible"”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
John Lewis trying to flog me Ozma from FF9 for half price.
Instagram ad showing me some kind of swirling orb for sale from John Lewis.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The pacing of the Final Fantasy 7 remakes summed up in one image.
Yuffie walking down a dimly lit corridor in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth saying “Ugh, can anyone explain to me why we're even taking this detour? Anyone?”.

Cloud is following her with a glowing purple sword.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Screenshot from a Guardian article:

This forms one half of Farage's essential dilemma: as one Reform MP quoted in the Times reportedly said of Makerfield voters' reaction on the doorstep: "We were either too racist or not racist enough."A Dril tweet from 2017: 

turning a big dial that says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Bought one of my favourite films on 4K from the US as I was bored of waiting for it to come out here.
A copy of Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel on 4K put out by Deaf Crocodile Films.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Leave me alone.
Weird horrible drawing of Andy Burnham that looks like it was made on some rubbish picrew type website.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As ever, following @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social is a danger to your bank balance. There you are browsing Bluesky to avoid doing some work and they randomly drop the name of a very interesting sounding book which you then end up buying.
A copy of The Age Of Wire And String by Ben Marcus on my desk.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A bold new day for brushes in this house.
A photo of my hand holding my five new brushes on my yellow stairs.

A dustpan and brush.
A small brush.
A dusting brush.
A long duster.
A radiator brush.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Whoops, been on ebay again.
A copy of Noon: 22nd Century by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky on my kitchen table.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
bsky.app/profile/bolt...
Chadley the cool robot child who loves intel from the Final Fantasy 7 remake games.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In other news I just got a copy of Yes No by Jan Pieńkowski in "very good condition" and it's delightful.
A cartoon drawing of a dead flower with the word "dead" in the top right corner.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I really want to double bill it with the Aleksei German version, it looks like such a vibe.
Pierre Clémenti in Hard to be a God wearing an amazing grey crimped wig.Werner Herzog in Hard to be a God sat at a desk watching scientists discussing something on a big screen.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Anyway here’s a DVD of a 2008 adaptation of Prisoners Of Power/The Inhabited Island by the Strugatskys I just bought off Vinted for £1. Also still haven’t watched that copy of Stalker I bought years ago.
A DVD of a film called Dark Planet in my hand.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Shithole country:
There are now no remaining functional revolving restaurants in the UK.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Like what are you talking about:
A social media post:

"knowing that the original dragon quest 12 was canceled for this just leave a sour taste in my mouth. the idea of the original dragon quest being too bold for the series so you just scrap the entire game and show us something that plays its extremely safe does nothing for me."
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Told you’d I go to a park, a bookshop and eat a big sandwich.
My daughter outside York Minster, Dr Tot from Final Fantasy 9 is covering her face.A copy of Priandello’s Short Stories on a picnic blanket.A chicken parm sandwich being held my hand. York Minster is visible in the background.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If anyone needs me I’ll be spending most of today in this shady cut through near my house.
An shady alley, on both sides are old stone walls that are slightly mossy, there are some leaves on the ground.

At the end of the alley the warm and horrible sun can be seen.
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