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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Three Human Skeletons", edited Polaroid photograph, dated 1977-1997, by Dutch visual artist Aat Veldhoen (1934-2018). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-F-2016-147-1971.

Image showing three human skeletons standing on each others' shoulders, against a dark background, on the left side of the image. The right side of the image is covered in a multicoloured field in pastel shades.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You will be visited by three spirits.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Why do I like to live in Copenhagen? Because it's so peaceful here.

Image of the monster from 1961's "Reptilicus", with the caption "It's been 23,858 days since Copenhagen's last kaijuu attack".

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Well, the French certainly seemed to think it was an opera, when this performance was put up in Paris in the 1950s.

1950s French theater poster for a performance of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" at the Empire Theatre in Paris, clearly listing it as an opera.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

With English text, for convenience:

English translation of the Portuguese original.
Panel 1: "If dragons existed, would they have two or four legs, in addition to wings?"
Panel 2: "Unless they were aquatic... In which case they would have fins..."
Panel 3: "And then they wouldn't breathe fire either... or would they...?!"
"Could you be quiet??"
Panel 4: "I'm in the middle of something important here!"
"Dragons are important too!"

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

He was also great in Night Court. Truly funny as sad sack Bob Wheeler who always got into trouble.

Brent Spiner as Bob Wheeler and Annie O'Donnell as June Wheeler, in an episode of Night Court.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

And now I had to dig up this, which really made me feel old (That's Mazinger Z in the middle).

Image of a shop selling anime-themed merch for three vintage giant-robot anime. The merch in question: walking canes.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

Image of King Ghidorah, the three-headed dragon kaiju.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

"The Duellists" (Ridley Scott, 1977) with Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine. A story of one man caught up in another man's obsession, as they fight a series of duels through the years of the Napoleonic Wars and after. Keitel is an absolutely brilliant villain as the psychopathic Feraud.

The duel that starts it all, with d'Hubert (Carradine) on the left and Feraud (Keitel) on the right.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

"Der Rächer" (The Avenger), later cast of a 1914 sculpture by German sculptor Ernst Barlach (1870-1938). Barlach's pacifism as a result of his experiences in WWI, and his Expressionist art (denounced as "degenerate"), led to him being persecuted by the Nazis. In the Tate Gallery, ref. no. T00951.

Bronze sculpture of a man wielding a sword two-handed. He is bent forward against what appears to be a strong wind, about to strike with the weapon.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"The Thing" (1982) did extremely poorly at the box office. For an estimated budget of $15 million, it grossed less than $21 million worldwide. And it's a bona fide horror/s-f classic.

Movie poster from "The Thing", showing a backlit figure in polar clothing, with rays of light emitting from where their face would be.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

"Slattenlangpat" (lit. saggy-long-teat), a fae critter from Danish folklore. Described as having breasts that sag all the way to the knees, which she would sling over her shoulders to run, when fleeing from King Volmer's Hunt (the Danish equiv. of the Wild Hunt). Possibly once a pagan water deity.

Carved wooden figure of slattenlangpat, the base of a church pulpit, in Denmark: a monstrous female figure with saggy breasts, a canine face, and a tail.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Lunchtime: an example of how you can make smørrebrød (Danish open sandwiches) without fish, meat, or cheese. If you replace the butter and mayo with vegan alternatives, this is completely vegan.

On the right, a "tomatmad" (slices of several different tomato varietals, topped with mayonnaise and chives). On the left, a "kartoffelmad" (slices of cold boiled potato, topped with mayonnaise and chives). All of this on rye bread.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Bodacious Space Pirates was the most wonderfully inconsequential but entertaining anime of its time. It was light-hearted fluff, but worth watching, and it's a shame that it seems to have drifted into complete obscurity.

Illustration of the ensemble cast of Bodacious Space Pirates.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Yeah, that's absolutely the entrance to Castelvecchio. I looked for photos that matched the approximate angle and showed the same features, and found these:

View of interior of the approach to Castelvecchio.

View of the exterior of Castelvecchio, with the approach on the right.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I have no idea what the point is, but if you search "half gloves", you will find that those are a Thing You Can Buy. Maybe to cosplay anime characters?

Screenshot of a glove of this type, from Amazon.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I love Charlie, but sometimes she's a bit slow on the uptake.

Panel from "Side Quested": Charlie reading Boopsie's journal of the first quest, and complaining that there is nothing in there about her birth mother — despite the fact that the journal just introduced a hitherto-unknown but obviously powerful person, Chloé, details about whom were immediately obfuscated by magic.

It's RIGHT THERE, Charlie.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

An example of this exception to the rule of tincture, with sable: Albania.

Flag of Albania: A double-headed eagle sable, on a field gules.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"Sanju Mariko" (傘寿まり子, "Mariko at 80") by Yuki Ozawa. The story of an elderly mangaka who runs away from her family to live in a manga café. Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the "Best General Manga" category in 2018. Total of 16 volumes, great manga.

Cover of volume 1 of "Sanju Mariko", showing Mariko smiling and curtsying.

Cover of volume 15 of "Sanju Mariko", showing Mariko in traditional clothing, holding a cat and an open book.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Like this, only with absolutely no charm.

Scene from "The Princess Bride", with Inigo, Vizzini, and Fezzik — but it has been desaturated to the point of being almost black-and-white.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Me at the start of 2024 / me at the end of 2024

Yajirō Shimogamo from "The Eccentric Family", in his human form.

Yajirō Shimogamo from "The Eccentric Family", in his frog form, depressed and sitting at the bottom of a well.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

Revolving dispenser holding three bottles of liquor, plus some shot glasses.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

Simon from "Tengen Toppa Guren-Lagann". I won't say why (spoilers), but the ending of the series makes it clear that he would have been able to give up the One Ring.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Gold finger ring set with a diamond, 14th century, found in the garden of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Remarkably modern-looking for a piece of mediaeval jewelry. In the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Museum reference: H.NJ 68.

Plain gold ring, with a pyramidal setting holding a pyramidal-cut black diamond.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Soviet commemorative lapel pin featuring the Soyuz-Apollo docking in 1975. In the Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK. Classmark: CCA.54.1090.

Metal badge with enamel. The badge shows the Soviet and US flags above their respective spacecraft and their names, and the year 1975.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

"Death and the Scientist", woodcut, c. 1980, by German artist Josef Scheuplein (1916-1998). Part of a series titled "Totentanz" (Dance Macabre). In the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, Germany. Inventory number 2020/252.3.

A woodcut showing a scientist tinkering with a device, apparently a microscope. Above him looms the figure of Death.

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Je suis optimiste quant à mes chances.

Les personnages des séries télé américaines "High Potential".

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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

If you see this, post your favorite character smiling.

Oji-san smiling while scratching his chin, and with his characteristic squint. Picture from one of the two OVAs of the manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (ヨコハマ買い出し紀行).

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