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Angus Dunican

@angusdunican.bsky.social

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Actor/Comedian/Writer/Hot Dad Very old special: http://bit.ly/45AAMxa My Doctor Who: http://bit.ly/3XeATtL TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@angusdunican_comedy?_t=ZN-8v7oZrnRHEM&_r=1 Rep: @bccreativelondon.bsky.social More: www.angusdunican.com

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · Nov 29

Very excited for this one. My latest outing for @bigfinish.bsky.social coming in December
FEAT: The Man Himself

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 53m

I mean, that’d be nice also! Sadly, with the kids in the equation, not being around for bedtime needs to be compensated for so that I can remain their LEGO buying sugar daddy x

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 2h

@rosieisaholt.bsky.social thought you were tremendously funny last night. Bravo

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 3h

WHAT A PULL!!!

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 3h

Me when I see a Druid

John candy as the half man half dog ‘Barf’ in SPACEBALLS.

He is looking to camper and saying

‘FUNNY, SHE DOESN'T LOOK DRUISH.’

CONTEXT:

He is taking about princess Vespa who come from a planet called Druidia - her father is ‘King of the Druids’

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 4h

The dramatic arc of ‘The Twat’ is very important for group cohesion in a cast.

One of you getting to see the REAL them (either ‘alright actually, just a bit brash’ or ‘EVEN MORE OF A TWAT!’) is an important turning point in hushed discussions of The Twat

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 4h

I really want to be in a play.

I want to rehearse for 3 weeks, meet some great people (and one twat) & then do 7 shows a week (2 matinees) for a month or so.

I want to drink after the show with my pals, collect some funny stories, then wave it all goodbye and go look for another

God I want that

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 5h

‘Not bothered about me, right? That's what makes it great.’

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 5h

By the same token

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 5h

YES!!! That’s the shit. Well done

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 6h

I have actually heard it IRL, to be clear, but i did think they were pod people

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 6h

Woke up with ‘didn’t The Sea Hag from Popeye have a vulture named Bernard!?’ As my brain’s opening gambit for the day but that’s all I got.

Section of an illustration showing all the characters in the Popeye universe. The sea hag (a tall, grotesque woman in a black dress and headscarf) and her vulture Bernard, stand amidst other characters like
ALICE THE GOON, HAM GRAVY, POOPDECK PAPPY and many other obscure figures

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 7h

He was an elder chaos god who worked through Rod

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 15h

Who else are the great bird sidekicks/familiars from fiction?

Gracious, the great green bird from ‘Noggin the Nog’

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 15h

Even though it probably predates it, I consider this to be memetic ground-zero for that…

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 15h

Full video here (worth your time).

youtu.be/uHMNGMFZQeQ?...

Mythology, Autism, and Star Trek's "Darmok"

YouTube video by Astrid Lundberg

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 15h

Plz forgive another post about Astrid Lundberg (@oddpride.com)

In my youth, I was chided for writing from an assumed position of cultural literacy; that everyone had seen/read what I had

Here, Astrid compellingly makes the case that this is a facet of neurodivergent communication to be cherished🧵

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 23h

I quit all socials for all a month and then proceeded to absolutely ruin the inbox of about 30 friends with a deluge of warmed-over takes and memes

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 23h

It’s an honour. You are a load-bearing human

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 23h

I must presume that whoever thought of applications launching upon startup was not a parent. The idea that we want ANYTHING to happen - first thing - before we’re good and ready could only have been thought of by someone who actually fucking sleeps,

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite of these was my winky flat in Deptford.

Not only were there constant wall-scrabblings but also distinctly separate squeaks and chitters.

It turned out that the rats in the walls were actively fighting a turf war against an incursion of squirrels for the back half of the flat.

andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 1d

Just heard scampering noises between floors and I'm thrilled and terrified. What will it be? Will it fall through the ceiling into my lap? Will we be best friends or will I get rabies?

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Totally. It’s weird because, for some, there’s this creed that ‘clarity is king’ and that behavioural normalcy comes second to establishing facts and stakes.

But…just have them both
talk about a parent as ‘mum’ or ‘dad’. Then we get the shared relationship AND bonus info about their background

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere, out there, is the one person who actually calls their sister ‘sis’ and they are single-handedly supporting the fragile verisimilitude of a thousand terrible scripts.

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Good people working on this

The Holmwood Foundation @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social · 1d

We’re off for the night but we’re at £2,772 funded! 🔥

Would love to get to 5k ASAP so we can announce one of our new members of the cast if you can help!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two

Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!

www.kickstarter.com

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, it feels as though the damaged immune system of western culture simply can’t deal with the constantly mutating threat these microscopically small men routinely pose.

Occasionally, though, our white blood cells knuckle-up and go to work.

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GOOD! Alex Jones, loser extraordinaire, loses again.

Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

Lawyers for conspiracy theorist loser warned his website and assets will end up in the hands of his ‘nemesis’ and be ‘destroyed’ unless the justices get involved

go.stonking.com

Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 2d

I think, as always, it began as a joke.

Performative over-reaction to some foible, e.g. the ‘backwards’ toilet paper thing. But the subject of that ‘joke’ is the presumed observer and their over-powering neurosis RE: this foible.

This wanton self-assertion has, now, been accidentally normalised.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d

People being performatively outraged/neurotic/judgmental about things other people do that don't affect them in any way has got out of hand in the social media era, I think.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

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