Temple Phoenix

TF... Nation? 👀👀👀

The new book The Isle of Pelops, with a typically gorgeous cover by Eleonor Piteira

The whole Aegean line - the core book, Book of Heroes, Book of Empires, The Isle of Pelops, GM screen and the Athenan and Kretan dice sets

Ayyy, a new addition to my favorite Greek mythology TTRPG, Aegean

I love this game; the sense of time and place, the communal city management subgame, trying to make sure that your hubris doesn't overshadow your glory so that the gods can't fuck you up...

So a few weeks ago I had to undergo a bunch of tests for cancer and today they came back negative \○/

Apologies if I've been a little quiet lately!

The Transformers Missing Link Prime family - Optimus, Sentinel and Nemesis

I'd like you all to welcome the newest member of the family

I love that the Missing Links are getting progressively more buckwild bios

Sentinel Prime: ye olde leader

Cordon: convict sent to Earth as an alternative to jailtime

Nemesis Prime: the AI from the titular Deception ship put in an Optimus body for... reasons

Me when my Raccoon City landlord is explaining that to use the laundry room in the basement I simply need to retrieve three medallions and a fuse

Oh they're having yet another go at a G.I. Joe movie; they must feel confident that they have somebody that people really love writing the script this time

Let me just take a big mouthful of this coffee while I look up who it is

Giovanni Nosferatu; a reflection but no soul

The locations in this are fabulous, either mist-laden and haunted or sleek and corporate

The free-spirited hitchhiker who represents the counterculture alternative to consumerism

The children of the night in this are CARS. CARS! It's so awesome

Checking out ...Hanno cambiato faccia (1971), which is Dracula only set in the world of Italian business

The villain is now a rich guy named Giovanni Nosferatu and the real vampiric horror is the inescapable and inexhaustible hunger of capitalism

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When I see anyone choosing to participate in food discourse in this, the year of our lord 2026:

We went to see Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die then left to grab some food before walking right back in to watch Cold Storage; the ticket guy was like 😮

'S been a good weekend for modestly-budgeted sci-fi movies
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Come to Birmingham this summer if you want your ass kicked... by how cool and fun and welcoming the TFN gang are!

Meet all the best folks... and also meeeeeeeee 🎉🎉🎉

The Young Avengers Epic Collection: The Children's Crusade

Read this tonight and boy howdy does it still hold up; great stuff

Also with one volume left to go, it sure seems like they're rushing to get the entirety of YA collected in Epics before, say... a certain conspicuously unfilled movie slot next summer huh *whistles innocently*

A jar of Sweet & Intense Sour Cherry Curd

Y'all KNOW what day it is

Been saving this for MONTHS all ready for Sweet Lady Pancake

One of the things in my feed this morning was a video from someone who'd "fixed" Jason and the Argonauts by using AI to make the skeletons move more smoothly and I think my eye actually twitched like an annoyed person on a sitcom

It has been NINE MILLION* YEARS since I went to a TFN concert and my body is ready

*eight

The Kotobukiya statue of Gallica from Metaphor: ReFantazio

The statue from behind

Closeup of the statue

Overhead view of the statue showing the wing design

Had enough free time to carefully assemble this this afternoon!

It doesn't really show up in the photos but there's a really nice translucent/glitter effect on her wings that looks great in-hand

Really wish I could do Manchester this year but it's in the middle of busy work time and a bunch of other expenses 😔😔😔

ONE year I'll manage it...

*books Wednesday and Thursday hotel room ready for Main TFN*

*double-checks it's the right week four times because it being July is still throwing me off*

Boy oh boy I could sure go for some fun robot pals time rn

The idea that TigerSharks has never warranted a DVD release but could somehow still justify a luxury toyline is funny to me

Mm-hm, the link between "Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that from when I was seven" and "I want to pay - factoring in shipping - the best part of a hundred bucks for that thing" is only going to exist for a vanishingly small number of people

And those people are the gacha game whales of the toy world

A little cat curled up on a bed

The ammonite is a type of extinct cephalopod that lived from the Jurassic through to the Paleocene period

The Sauvage King, a scenario collection for the Pendragon 6th Edition TTRPG published by Chaosium

New Pendragon release, babyyyyy

A thing I really appreciate about this line is that they've been making sure that all the adventures they release can be run even if you only have the starter set instead of the full core book

How could this happen to me?
I'VE MADE MY MISTAKES

Finished up Wonder Man and that was freaking GREAT

Exactly the kind of thing I've wanted them to do with the shows; a non-superhero narrative but still using the superhero universe

No traditional villain-based plot structure, just the relationship between two guys and some fabulous acting

A few months back there was a guy at the next table droning on and ON about crypto to his obviously bored friends until one of them shut him up by shouting in the peppiest Informecial Guy voice you've ever heard "FINALLY! A currency JUST for paedophiles!"

My own friends had to stop me from choking

There's been a big online argument between the 'let people enjoy things' and 'let people hate things' crowds the last few days and tbh both camps are missing the more reasonable stance that is 'love and hate whatever you want, just try not to be a weird dick in other people's mentions'

Nexus Prime won't see your comments, but all your friends who turn into three different kinds of nothing will

Paramania: An abnormal pleasure in complaining.

Oh wow, they diagnosed the Internet

Not me platting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

hahaha WHOOPS

Yeah, I guess you could say I had fun with this one