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Erin Banneret
@banneret.bsky.social
790 followers 1.6K following 4.6K posts
she/her, thirties, based in the bay area; an analyst, reinitializing writer and too much more besides
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True, though I should say, I straddle the line between this and the Soft One.
Test results: "You are... The Sensualist, 100.0% match. You are a seeker of sensation, drawn to the symphony of touch, taste, scent, and sound. Whether you're orchestrating an experience or immersing yourself in it, your focus is on heightening every sense. Soft fabrics, warm oils, or the whisper of breath against skin — these are your tools or your delights. You crave connection through the body, finding beauty in the slow, deliberate exploration of pleasure. For you, BDSM is a canvas where every stroke, every texture, every shiver tells a story."
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
banneret.bsky.social
Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs. (Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
GIF of a scene from the 2005 film, Four Brothers, where the titular four brothers are holding hands and saying grace over Thanksgiving dinner in the dining room of their childhood foster home. They are all visible in a circle, from left to right; Garrett Hedlund as Jack Mercer, Andre 3000 as Jeremiah Mercer, Mark Wahlberg as Bobby Mercer, and Tyrese Gibson as Angel Mercer. They are lit from above, the scene is sad but familial.
May 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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We've been here before, under the milky way.
Screenshot of a Vincent D'Onofrio tweet from April 21st, 2019. "Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time. I want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time."
May 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
banneret.bsky.social
Oh, it does! Case in point:
Screenshot illustrating the "Say hello!" affordance on a follow back notification, in the Bluesky Android app.
July 23, 2024 at 12:06 AM
banneret.bsky.social
Bright and joyful! I'm also wearing a cute, comfy shirt.
Erin's shirt is pastels on a space background. The background is navy. but under the lighting it looks black. In the center of the shirt there is a small stylized planet with homes and trees around the outside, and a stump with two cute creatures sitting on it at the top. Above that is the text "Wholesome Games" in yellow, writ with stars in the shape of letters, joined by lines a la constellations.
July 16, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains
The album cover for the 1997 album "Transmission" by The Tea Party. It is black witn a red undertone, and a painted fire in a rectagular box on the right side. The fire descends from yellow to red, then to black. Beneath the fire, in the lower right, are the band name and the album name in red capital letters.
May 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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A start, at least.
Erin, a blonde woman with grey blue eyes and silver half-rimmed glasses, wearing a purple racerback tank, and rendered in Stardew Valley style with some creative liberties taken.
March 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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Both. A in the quote frame, B when I open the post.
Screenshot of post quoting a post where worm emoji spell out DUNE. The quote post has two screenshots of the same post from another device, A and B, where A also shows DUNE and B has formatting errors which offset some emoji. A screenshot of the quoted post from the other screenshot attached to this post, opened with worm emoji spelling out DUNE, but some are offset and the post can parse as "DUNE" or as "PHNE."
March 6, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Who are the other three, though?
Screenshot of RAADS-R results, with a total score of 18, which is under the threshold of 25, which purportedly indicates the respondent is not autistic. Includes language subtotal of 3, social relatedness subtotal of 9, sensory/motor subtotal of 4, and circumscribed interests subtotal of 2.
March 6, 2024 at 3:55 AM
banneret.bsky.social
Rusty really is a great NBA Youtuber.
A screenshot from a Rusty Buckets video, with a young brown haired man (Rusty) speaking into a microphone against a background of a folding screen, a mustard couch, artfully selected accent pillows, a corner plant, and wall art collage of iconic NBA images. There are subtitles at the bottom of the image that capture his statement, "...feel like the ball size difference is ultimately fairly inconsequential..." which is in reference to the WNBA and NBA regulation basketballs, in commentary on upcoming All-Star Weekend three point charity exhibition between WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu and NBA star Steph Curry.
February 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
banneret.bsky.social
It was cold blooded murder, the practicalities do not change that!
January 18, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Post a 5 ⭐ album and nominate 6 others to do the same (in my case, I shall label my nominations "to whom they may concern" and fire them indiscriminately into the night)
The album cover for Ophelia (1998) by Natalie Merchant. Her name and the album title are in brown text on a yellow strip at the top of the image. The artist herself is lounging on a yellow divan, clad in a long black dress which complements her hair and is offset by her white shoes as they dangle off the furniture. She is looking over the shoulder toward the camera.
December 22, 2023 at 11:18 PM
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This drives me crazy, look, the cover on the right is perfect, but now we get this stuffy, conventional thing on the left!
Screenshot of two different covers for Becky Chamber's first novel, "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet." On the right is the original cover with slanted green text evoking motion, the image depicting a ship making the journey to a small and presumably angry planet. There is a blurb from Ann Leckie in the lower right corner, appropriately, "Great fun!" On the left, we are confronted with the new style of cover which is staid white and black text over a starfield. A back silhouette is standing on a hill at the bottom of the cover, presumably staring into space.
December 19, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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A short king coifed in curly black hair, Spencer Agnew, in the character of the Chosen playing Trival Pursuit Try Not To Laugh Edition with the Chosen (off screen) stating "No, it was the NBA. Oh, I'm being told it is like the WNBA, but all dudes." There is a comical oversized disc with yellow and green slices to his right (the viewer's left) and he is sitting in front of a set mantlepiece with painted bricks. Finally, Spencer is wearing a sharktooth necklace, a three wolf moon shirt, and dark sunglasses, despite filming indoors.
December 7, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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Oh no, the Super FX chip would absolutely result in a more drivable vehicle.
Loading splash screen from the 1994 SNES game, Stunt Race FX, which used the Super FX on-cart coprocessing chip in order to create crude 3D polygonal graphics. The splash screen does not utilize this feature, but instead displays "Stunt Race" in a neon yellow vaguely sci-fi script where the "S" looks like an "S" a "5" and a "7", then a horizontally stretched "FX" below that in magenta with a teal border, and finally four rendered cartoony all-terrain vehicles arranged in a diamond with an angry sixteen wheeler facing head on in the back, two other vehicles in front - blue ATV on the left, red race car in the middle - and a small, awkward yellow bufgy floating in the upper right. All the cars have eyes in their lamps reminiscent of the shaped orb eyes from the 90s Chevron mascot cars. The whole thing is bizzare and presented on a diagonal checkerboard of two alternating less-saturated blues.
November 4, 2023 at 4:36 PM
banneret.bsky.social
Same energy.
Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes, palms flat against an anime poster featuring three magical girls and looking at the camera. In the original context he is either about to say "moe" in a slightly serious fashion or has just done so.
October 17, 2023 at 8:41 AM
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Fine.
Comic panel with Coagula stating "So I guess I'll just have to give up the Superhero business and go on being myself." The speech bubble is above a zoomed in shot of the golden button on the lapel of her brown jacket, which reads "Put a Transsexual Lesbian on the Supreme Court"
October 13, 2023 at 2:53 AM
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No, no I don't think we shall.
Screenshot of a Brooks Brothers nudge email on mobile, with the subject line, "Let's do this again"
October 2, 2023 at 6:46 PM
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Thank you! I've only tried a few and sparkly seems to fit me.

Here is my hand, in turn.
Erin's right hand, digits lightly spread upon a dull aubergine sheet. Her nails shine with a sparkly pearly, slightly blue polish applied inexpertly - unicornicopia.
September 30, 2023 at 6:55 AM
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Reskeet with an album you still know every damn word to, fellow olds who still remember listening to albums 🤔
Album cover for Tranmission, by The Tea Party. Predominantly black with red text and a vertical panel reminiscent of flame.
September 30, 2023 at 2:07 AM
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Quote skeet with a game that is nostalgic for you.
Greyscale screenshot of a Macintosh Plus/SE title, Scarab of Ra, which was a first person, permadeath, dungeon (pyramid) delving exploration RPG. There is a lioness in the viewport, and several side paths are visible in the distance.
September 29, 2023 at 4:18 PM
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I do have something to share, though it is but early and small...
A pale woman's round rear, adorned by navy Wonder Woman booty shorts trimmed in yellow, the winged W logo in red below a false pocket. She is laying on grey and red sheets in dim light, a strip of her waist is visible above the shorts. Some of each leg is visible, the right knee planted to lever her rear up and toward the camera.
September 28, 2023 at 7:15 AM