Dr Ben Sayle (100/100)
@bensayle.bsky.social
Writer. PhD in International History. Other interests include TV, film, gaming, and literature. Playing Hundred Line (not spoiler free, endings 100/100).
The Federation did its best but it simply failed to close the fashion gap.
They don’t wanna hear this but Zeon had drip
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Federation did its best but it simply failed to close the fashion gap.
Hundred Line spoilers. I like to think the reason Shion never turns up in the Box of Blessings route is he's so disinterested in boxes that he'd rather die alone than have his final days revolve around them.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Hundred Line spoilers. I like to think the reason Shion never turns up in the Box of Blessings route is he's so disinterested in boxes that he'd rather die alone than have his final days revolve around them.
Kind of unrelated but there's a critique of Yang and friends to be had over how often they blame the Alliance's decay on 'the people' just not caring when we see from the coup and below how far from the case that can actually be.
LoGH fans: do you say "we unwanted the food-crisis!" when groceries get low at your place?
we do at ours
we do at ours
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Kind of unrelated but there's a critique of Yang and friends to be had over how often they blame the Alliance's decay on 'the people' just not caring when we see from the coup and below how far from the case that can actually be.
Watching Don't Look Now a week after Possession was a bad call because the former really lacks dread when you're going down from an 11 on the Nightmare Scale.
Possession is the only red flag movie that exists for women.
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Watching Don't Look Now a week after Possession was a bad call because the former really lacks dread when you're going down from an 11 on the Nightmare Scale.
Howard Hawks in Red River & John Ford with The Searchers toy with Dark John Wayne who maybe needs putting down, but ultimately back away.
Red River's third act all but telegraphs the ending while Searchers plays a double act between subverting the archetype & playing it somewhat straight.
Red River's third act all but telegraphs the ending while Searchers plays a double act between subverting the archetype & playing it somewhat straight.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Howard Hawks in Red River & John Ford with The Searchers toy with Dark John Wayne who maybe needs putting down, but ultimately back away.
Red River's third act all but telegraphs the ending while Searchers plays a double act between subverting the archetype & playing it somewhat straight.
Red River's third act all but telegraphs the ending while Searchers plays a double act between subverting the archetype & playing it somewhat straight.
4Kids Dub of Hundred Line where Eito Aotsuki calls them Pee-Ew-mans.
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
4Kids Dub of Hundred Line where Eito Aotsuki calls them Pee-Ew-mans.
Kurara and Takumi at the scene in Drive where Ryan Gosling says "I drive."
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Kurara and Takumi at the scene in Drive where Ryan Gosling says "I drive."
Donald Trump issuing an executive order reversing the McWexler divorce.
Vince Gilligan on what Saul Goodman is doing now post-‘BETTER CALL SAUL’:
“I think Trump pardoned him, I think he’s out that’s what I think, kinda tracks doesn’t it?”
#BetterCallSaul #VinceGilligan #SaulGoodman
“I think Trump pardoned him, I think he’s out that’s what I think, kinda tracks doesn’t it?”
#BetterCallSaul #VinceGilligan #SaulGoodman
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Donald Trump issuing an executive order reversing the McWexler divorce.
This is something you'd get in a Discworld book except it'd be a chocolate coin and, in the end, they restore the original motto over whatever grandiose or high-minded phrase replaced it.
And then in the afterword you'd get told the real-life inspiration like below.
And then in the afterword you'd get told the real-life inspiration like below.
The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is something you'd get in a Discworld book except it'd be a chocolate coin and, in the end, they restore the original motto over whatever grandiose or high-minded phrase replaced it.
And then in the afterword you'd get told the real-life inspiration like below.
And then in the afterword you'd get told the real-life inspiration like below.
The Smiling Friends style is far from the artstyle I want to go for but it is nice to draw something from a reference and not end up feeling a little like Homer and the barbecue.
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Smiling Friends style is far from the artstyle I want to go for but it is nice to draw something from a reference and not end up feeling a little like Homer and the barbecue.
One great bit of the Ed and Norma plotline in Twin Peaks is Ed stays with Nadine because of guilt about what happened to her but partly he knows she could rip him in half with one hand.
when my oafish husband steps on my completely silent drape runners, ruining weeks of hard work
Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One great bit of the Ed and Norma plotline in Twin Peaks is Ed stays with Nadine because of guilt about what happened to her but partly he knows she could rip him in half with one hand.
When the Navy Department's pie-chart guy uses a very inappropriate topic to show off the six months he spent as a propaganda cartoonist.
Pie charts usually have such low information density that they are worth avoiding, but these ones from a classified December 1945 report by the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan on the "medical effects" of the atomic bombings carry much more information than was perhaps intended... wow and yikes.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
When the Navy Department's pie-chart guy uses a very inappropriate topic to show off the six months he spent as a propaganda cartoonist.
"The hair covers the ears," me when I keep drawing the ears weird and uneven so I go 3D chess-mode.
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"The hair covers the ears," me when I keep drawing the ears weird and uneven so I go 3D chess-mode.
Finished Dodger by Terry Pratchett. Has the usual Late Pratchett problems (at no point does the protagonist seem even inconvenienced in the slightest) but otherwise fun to read.
You can see Vimes & Vetinari in Pratchett's (for lack of a better word) adaptation of Robert Peel & Benjamin Disraeli.
You can see Vimes & Vetinari in Pratchett's (for lack of a better word) adaptation of Robert Peel & Benjamin Disraeli.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Finished Dodger by Terry Pratchett. Has the usual Late Pratchett problems (at no point does the protagonist seem even inconvenienced in the slightest) but otherwise fun to read.
You can see Vimes & Vetinari in Pratchett's (for lack of a better word) adaptation of Robert Peel & Benjamin Disraeli.
You can see Vimes & Vetinari in Pratchett's (for lack of a better word) adaptation of Robert Peel & Benjamin Disraeli.
Never read that Marvel/DC crossover book, but love that apparently they visit each other's universe and the Avengers think the Justice League are fascists while the Justice League are like "wow, this world *sucks*! These guys must be terrible at their jobs."
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Never read that Marvel/DC crossover book, but love that apparently they visit each other's universe and the Avengers think the Justice League are fascists while the Justice League are like "wow, this world *sucks*! These guys must be terrible at their jobs."
"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women," James Conant when asked what to do about communist teachers.
Although it does create some unintentional humor, such as James Conant, nerdy administrator, automagically morphing into Conan, barbarian.
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women," James Conant when asked what to do about communist teachers.
Little Shop of Horrors remake got me really bummed me out.
:(
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Little Shop of Horrors remake got me really bummed me out.
Rupert Pupkin's looking rough these days.
thinking about this disguise George C. Scott dons in Hardcore and cracking up
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Rupert Pupkin's looking rough these days.
I get in theory why they sanded Cersei's edges down in the show but the book version's reign/spiral is some of AFFC's best stuff.
"My Queen, is this you talking or the wine?"
"Qyburn...I *am* the wine."
"My Queen, is this you talking or the wine?"
"Qyburn...I *am* the wine."
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I get in theory why they sanded Cersei's edges down in the show but the book version's reign/spiral is some of AFFC's best stuff.
"My Queen, is this you talking or the wine?"
"Qyburn...I *am* the wine."
"My Queen, is this you talking or the wine?"
"Qyburn...I *am* the wine."
The four routes of Fire Emblem Three Houses,
-Bonapartist Pride Parade.
-I went to therapy & got a free copy of Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' with my prescription.
-Verdant Libs.
-Papal infallibility is valid if the Pope is pretty.
-Bonapartist Pride Parade.
-I went to therapy & got a free copy of Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' with my prescription.
-Verdant Libs.
-Papal infallibility is valid if the Pope is pretty.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The four routes of Fire Emblem Three Houses,
-Bonapartist Pride Parade.
-I went to therapy & got a free copy of Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' with my prescription.
-Verdant Libs.
-Papal infallibility is valid if the Pope is pretty.
-Bonapartist Pride Parade.
-I went to therapy & got a free copy of Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' with my prescription.
-Verdant Libs.
-Papal infallibility is valid if the Pope is pretty.
Doing Killing Game route right after Retsnom was great because it meant getting two different styles of top-tier banter from Takumi and Darumi.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Doing Killing Game route right after Retsnom was great because it meant getting two different styles of top-tier banter from Takumi and Darumi.
Just a trio who love the movies and have nothing else in common, especially not Mother Issues.
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Just a trio who love the movies and have nothing else in common, especially not Mother Issues.
Reposted by Dr Ben Sayle (100/100)
"Three tickets to Only God Forgives please."
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"Three tickets to Only God Forgives please."
"Three tickets to Only God Forgives please."
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"Three tickets to Only God Forgives please."