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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · 7d

The hum came first: a metallic whisper behind every broadcast, waiting for the ear to yield. In Videodrome, Cronenberg's signal infects through screens; today, it loops in podcasts, X rants, earbuds that never sleep.

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Videodrome

THE SIGNAL THAT EATS ITS HOST

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · 25d

Terminator 2: No Fate But What We Teach.

We keep telling ourselves there’s no fate but what we make. But what if fate is the system's illusion, a loop designed to make refusal look like authorship?

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Terminator 2: No Fate But What We Teach

Authority cloaked in a uniform. Fragility sinking in steel. What our machines inherit is never neutral.

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Sep 24

Sherlock Holmes: A Board of Shadows. Exploring the chess of sacrifice, where lives are moves and myths adapt. From pawns to kings, how does the game erase its own? #FilmAnalysis

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Sherlock Holmes: A Board of Shadows

A Study in Sacrifice

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Vi & Reese Papa 🐶 @brettbobculbert.bsky.social · Sep 16

Going to need a bigger boat.

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Velvet @velvetpantheon.bsky.social · Sep 16

I’ve been clawing at sheets,
frantic,
losing sleep.

It takes a big, big god
to fill me—

with love bold enough,
vast enough,
to fill my Queen
of Cups.

#Poetry #Poem #NSFWLines
#NSFWPoetry #Erotica #EroticPoetry

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Sep 16

The film doesn't ask how we survive. It asks how we go, and who notices when we do. A Quiet Place: Day One is a study of how grief and ritual turn a city into a dying organism. It's a story that finds its rhythm in the hush.

A Quiet Place Day One

Her Silence, Her City: Dying at the End of the World

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Lost on Familiar Shores

How Jack Sparrow turned empire’s grief into charm

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · Sep 11

I am the brackish tumbling
that tickled your shores—
welcome, witnessed,
a change of pace.

Barren of footprints
as the season turned.

I’m pulled back
by the gravity of your darkness,
drawn deeper
into myself—

to remember
I am more
than any high tide.

#Poetry #Poem #SkyPoet
#BlueskyPoetry

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Jazz, The Hierophant. @cherished-stardust.bsky.social · Sep 10

A broken will at a rainy day’s dawn

Still wants to see the sunlight illuminate nature’s beauty

Unfairness at life hypocrisies

Still doesn’t change the wide open field’s almost #unbearable grace

As new days rise, their wonders at least won’t be defeated

#vss365 #poetry

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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · Sep 3

The cultural landscape of Anthropocene

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Jazz, The Hierophant. @cherished-stardust.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s hard to think “normally”

When every word that really wants to come out speaks of hidden pain

Pain hidden to make others comfortable

Or words of love too much to bare

Why interact when my feelings turn cities to ruins?

Speaking alone is bitter but better

#vss365 #poetry

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Superman has always been less about flight than about weight:
the lies he tells, the flags he’s forced under, the labor he’s squeezed into.

My new essay asks: what happens when even hope is branded? #Superman

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Superman 2025

The Sound of Compromise, The Refusal That Remains

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · Aug 27

I make it a point to notice how often I’m asked to disarm myself with self-deprecating jokes, just to make others more comfortable with my energy.

What other people need to believe about you, and what you need to believe about you, are often different.

#ThoughtJournal

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Aug 28

Framing Monsters: Wednesday. From 1964 black-and-white crypts to headless dolls & dragon tears, explore how the Addams Family's vigil for the strange endures.
#Wednesday #Gothic
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Framing Monsters: Wednesday

Elegy tolls in laughter, irony, and brand

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Aug 19

Interstellar and the Inheritance of Gravity. From Cooper’s earthbound chase to the moon’s erased wonder, it’s a test of survival’s cost. Does gravity forgive?

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Interstellar and the Inheritance of Gravity

The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Aug 12

RoboCop's myth: man inside the machine, but consent's the real glitch. Explored the 1987 & 2014 films in my new Substack series, 'Satire Meets Predictive Policing.' What haunts you more: the body horror or the system? #RoboCop #Dystopia

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Robocops: And the City That Sold Its Soul

The satire, the spectacle, and the systems that survived the credits.

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Alien: Earth arrives Aug 12, so I probed Alien & The Thing’s frozen, claustrophobic dread. This essay unveils how systems, not just creatures, haunt us. Corridors hide traps; trust burns away. Hyped for xenomorphs? #AlienEarth
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Alien & The Thing: The Systems That Let the Monster In

A dual dissection of systemic abandonment and the horror of suspicion, in space, and in the ice.

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Been thinking about Dune 2: Stilgar’s hope, Chani’s defiance, Gurney’s memory. Prophecy shapes Paul, but who shapes the myth?

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Dune 2 and the Myth That Chose Him

Power, prophecy, and the silence that shaped Paul Atreides

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Jazz, The Hierophant. @cherished-stardust.bsky.social · Aug 6

Roaring stars in silent skies

All we have to do is look up

Conversations on fresh grass with three minds connected that wonder

What would it be like to escape the sass of who would decide to rule them

#vss365 #poetry

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Aug 4

It’s not about the hero’s journey. It’s about the silence that let it happen. Paul didn’t choose the myth. The myth chose him.

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just published a piece on Primer,
not about time loops, but identity loops.
About performance, curation, and the people who don’t get a retake.
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Primer: The Lie Rehearsed

Performance, Paradox, and the Loops That Build a Man

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · Jul 29

Keep up, darling. Give
Me a run for my money.
Knock me off my feet.

#HaikuFeels - Keep
#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Poem

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Offscreen Shaman @offscreenshaman.bsky.social · Jul 26

Revision Loop 000:
Step 1: Garage entry
Step 2: Regret tweak
Step 3: File erase.
Primer’s loops
Tue 9 am.
Start with Timecop x Tenet bit.ly/44NczX8
T-67hrs.
Why loop?
#Primer #TimeTravel

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beb @itsbebhere.bsky.social · Jul 24

hike

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· 𝕸𝖚𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖎 · COMMS OPEN @muccegai.bsky.social · Jul 24

Old book covers I made as studies and never posted here, I think.

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