Aaron Jacobs
@ajacobs.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood Jewish communist. Hope you like weird books, bad dungeon synth and worse movies.
He/him, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights
He/him, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights
Spent yesterday at the Auckland museum and while this is first and foremost a really beautiful representation of the three manu that guard Pukekawa, my jrpg-poisoned brain wants to know what reconfiguration will unlock the secret boss under the building.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Spent yesterday at the Auckland museum and while this is first and foremost a really beautiful representation of the three manu that guard Pukekawa, my jrpg-poisoned brain wants to know what reconfiguration will unlock the secret boss under the building.
Cracking open Book of the Long Sun for the weekend
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Cracking open Book of the Long Sun for the weekend
They made a gat-dang found family buddy cop comedy out of the Predator franchise and it ended up being one of the best yet. What a time to be alive. I really loved it. Great soundtrack, goopy monsters, kinetic action scenes, didn't lose itself in The Lore, very close to a tight 90. Fantastic.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
They made a gat-dang found family buddy cop comedy out of the Predator franchise and it ended up being one of the best yet. What a time to be alive. I really loved it. Great soundtrack, goopy monsters, kinetic action scenes, didn't lose itself in The Lore, very close to a tight 90. Fantastic.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Half the antagonists from FMA probably fit this bill for me but especially homeboy here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Half the antagonists from FMA probably fit this bill for me but especially homeboy here.
Mary Beard live is such a treat. I'm always going to be a Roman history nerd and she is so perfectly attuned to what I love about it, the normal people, instead of HARD MEN DOING STOICISM AND SHIELD WALLS AND DECISIONS. Failed poets, chariot circuit stars and roguish housewives are more fun by far.
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Mary Beard live is such a treat. I'm always going to be a Roman history nerd and she is so perfectly attuned to what I love about it, the normal people, instead of HARD MEN DOING STOICISM AND SHIELD WALLS AND DECISIONS. Failed poets, chariot circuit stars and roguish housewives are more fun by far.
okay I try not to judge anything by its cover but sometimes I pick up an album based on the art and I am justly and rightly rewarded
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
okay I try not to judge anything by its cover but sometimes I pick up an album based on the art and I am justly and rightly rewarded
I gotta say, I'm only like 20% into this book so far, plenty of opportunity to flub the landing or disappoint or whatever, but the opening chapters have gripped me in a way I've not felt since reading Perdido Street Station or The Pastel City for the first time. The prose and character of the world.
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I gotta say, I'm only like 20% into this book so far, plenty of opportunity to flub the landing or disappoint or whatever, but the opening chapters have gripped me in a way I've not felt since reading Perdido Street Station or The Pastel City for the first time. The prose and character of the world.
Once again vividly reminded of Marc Ellis's 2017 lecture, as I have been with increasingly frequency over the last couple of years.
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Once again vividly reminded of Marc Ellis's 2017 lecture, as I have been with increasingly frequency over the last couple of years.
Continuing my B5 rewatch - ah man, I forgot about the TECHNOMAGES. No show today would dare have a cabal of space wizards show up, quote Gandalf directly and then put a curse on a foe's radio to play opera singing all night. We've fallen so far as a civilisation.
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Continuing my B5 rewatch - ah man, I forgot about the TECHNOMAGES. No show today would dare have a cabal of space wizards show up, quote Gandalf directly and then put a curse on a foe's radio to play opera singing all night. We've fallen so far as a civilisation.
Without having intentionally sought them out, like half the books I've read recently all ended up dealing with cannibalism. I choose to interpret this as the universe telling me I should watch Ravenous again. I figure this is a safe choice because most of us should be (re)watching Ravenous.
October 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Without having intentionally sought them out, like half the books I've read recently all ended up dealing with cannibalism. I choose to interpret this as the universe telling me I should watch Ravenous again. I figure this is a safe choice because most of us should be (re)watching Ravenous.
I'm not going to say I'm not a big dumb nerd who hasn't teared up at some particularly well-written emotional beats from Abnett, Wraight and Dembski-Bowden, but I cannot get my head around people who take 40k dead seriously when literally all the Deep Lore boils down to this decade-old tweet:
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I'm not going to say I'm not a big dumb nerd who hasn't teared up at some particularly well-written emotional beats from Abnett, Wraight and Dembski-Bowden, but I cannot get my head around people who take 40k dead seriously when literally all the Deep Lore boils down to this decade-old tweet:
POV: I've learned something new about a Warhammer faction and your day is about to be ruined
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
POV: I've learned something new about a Warhammer faction and your day is about to be ruined
I finished Moonflow in pretty much one sitting today. It was great. Gnarly, gooey, horny piece of queer fungal splatterpunk. As a straight cis dude, there's an outspoken "you've never seen the soviet masterpiece STALKER?!" guy sequence that hit me like a barbed arrow. Splendid.
September 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I finished Moonflow in pretty much one sitting today. It was great. Gnarly, gooey, horny piece of queer fungal splatterpunk. As a straight cis dude, there's an outspoken "you've never seen the soviet masterpiece STALKER?!" guy sequence that hit me like a barbed arrow. Splendid.
Hit the fucking motherlode out used book shopping today.
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Hit the fucking motherlode out used book shopping today.
First, I can feel myself aging into dust.
Second, kid who discovers WOD and thinks it's a historical window into 97-05 is a charming and lovely idea.
Second, kid who discovers WOD and thinks it's a historical window into 97-05 is a charming and lovely idea.
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
First, I can feel myself aging into dust.
Second, kid who discovers WOD and thinks it's a historical window into 97-05 is a charming and lovely idea.
Second, kid who discovers WOD and thinks it's a historical window into 97-05 is a charming and lovely idea.
I dunno man it probably has nothing to do with most of the platforms being flooded with ai slop and either infested with and/or run by nazis.
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I dunno man it probably has nothing to do with most of the platforms being flooded with ai slop and either infested with and/or run by nazis.
I hate this shit. If the tent is big enough to fit nazis, it's just a nazi tent.
July 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I hate this shit. If the tent is big enough to fit nazis, it's just a nazi tent.
bout to take my wife who has never seen Hard Boiled to catch a big ol' retro screening at a proper cinema
July 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
bout to take my wife who has never seen Hard Boiled to catch a big ol' retro screening at a proper cinema
4 favourite books. I waffled back and forth on Dune Messiah for a couple of minutes but I've re-read all of these more than it so had to give it the congeniality prize, along with Shadow & Claw and The Truth.
July 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
4 favourite books. I waffled back and forth on Dune Messiah for a couple of minutes but I've re-read all of these more than it so had to give it the congeniality prize, along with Shadow & Claw and The Truth.