AC Fick 📚
LightNews LightNews
banner
acfick72.bsky.social
AC Fick 📚
@acfick72.bsky.social
1.4K followers 560 following 2.4K posts
Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
🤴🏽📚🤓📖📝☕️🌍
An isolate losing hearing and sight in the twilight of this incarnation. Embracing ennui.
Posts Replies Media Videos
acfick72.bsky.social
Memories may be beautiful, and yet, what’s too painful to remember . . .
Monochromatic still from THE WAY WE WERE showing Robert Redford in a bulky knit sweater.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
Did someone say bulky knit?🧣
Lenny Kravitz wearing a massive knitted scarf.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
🤭
Still from SHAMELESS (UK) showing Rory McCann as the priest, standing in Yvonne’s superette, saying, “God works in mysterious ways.” Fixing a penis but not paralysis? There is New Testament precedent of focusing on ‘the lame’ rather than the impotent, but . . .
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
Indeed. 😔
Film still from Denys Arcand’s LES INVASIONS BARBARES (2003), showing Rémy Girard as Rémy, a history professor dying of cancer in Montreal, saying, “Cretinism does not sink any lower.”
November 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
BAUMGARTNER by Paul Auster; WHAT WE CAN KNOW by Ian McEwan; PAPER BOAT: POEMS by Margaret Atwood; AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien; WILD DEER by Ethelreda Lewis; HOW THE WORLD EATS by Julian Baggini; AZADI by Aundhati Roy; ON FIRE by Naomi Klein; DIFFERENT by Frans de Waal; Sturluson's PROSE EDDA.
Still from Pedro Almodóvar's LA CONCEJALA ANTROPÓFAGA (2009) showing Carmen Machi as the titular character, Chon, a municipal politician in Spain, talking to an unconscious woman whose head is slumped on the table (she has accidentally drunk gazpacho laced with sedatives, and only her hair can be seen); this film has an intertextual relationship with Almodóvar's LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (2009) in which it features as an unfinished film within the film, which unfinished film references a scene from MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS (1988). Chon is explaining her sexual fetish for men's feet related to a casual sexual encounter on the street while taking cocaine (a pile of it can be seen on the table in front of her) and says, "Every night, before going to bed, I do a bit of self-criticism."
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
Indeed.
a grinch is reading a book and says loath entirely
Alt: GIF of Jim Carey as the Grinch reading a book, saying, “Loathe entirely!”
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
🧠🧼🧽🚿
Still from Pedro Almodóvar’s LA CONCEJALA ANTROPÓFAGA (2009) showing Carmen Machi as Chon, the titular character, saying, “I’m sick of everything”. Still from Sidney Lumet’s NETWORK (1976) showing Peter Finch as Howard Beale, the deranged anchorman, saying ‘You’ve gotta say “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!”’ Still from Paul Thomas Anderson’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) showing Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview saying, “There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.” Still from the BBC’s CRANFORD (2007) showing Eileen Atkins as Deborah Jenkyns saying, “We will repair to our rooms and consume our fruit in solitude.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
🤮😵‍💫😵☠️⚰️🪦
Still from MINE VAGANTI showing Alessandro Preziosi as Antonio Cantone, saying, “I’m sorry for all of you.”
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
The storm breaks, rolling over from the south.

🌳🚁🌍⛈️
Cumulonimbus clouds on the northern horizon over Sandton, where the G20 summit is beinng held. Dark clouds roll in fromnthe south, seen here above the lift shafts of the art deco building downslope. Thunderclouds directly overhead, grey. Rain and hail hitting the windows obscuring the trees south of the Late Imperial Library. Traffic jamming south of the Late Imperial Library as the rain and hail pelt down.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM