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Esme Rylan
@esmerylan.bsky.social
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Trans woman, nursing home social worker, obsessive music nerd, undisputed Jump Showdown champion. She/her
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Been a while since I did one of these and it feels wildly inaccurate? Seems to be very strongly based on likes and reposts, there's no way Rowan, Val, and Travis should be that far out from the center. 🤔
Skircle interactions chart but it feels really inaccurate somehow?
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I love that this is the result I got, because it's so NOT what anyone would expect from my posts on here.
The Innocence Test *back button* Corrupted (57) you're probably either in your 20s or a really rebellious teenager. whichever way, you seem like a good time. come to our rager this weekend?
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Wound up with nice armor at the end of this map. 😝
Screenshot from the end of MAP11 of Anomaly Report, taken in DSDA Doom. Doomguy faces the exit switch, which is embedded in a brown wall; there's a medkit in the left corner and two signs that say "EXIT" to either side, atop the wall. Behind is a blue sky with wispy white clouds and mountains, and directly behind the switch is a rocket (this gets blown up when you hit the switch). Doomguy's holding a super shotgun. There's an "AUTO RUN ON" message in the left corner of the screen because I accidentally hit caps lock a couple times. Stats in the bottom right corner above the status bar: TIME 125:22 (this is overall for the WAD) 25:44.60 (for this map) K 144/144 I 2/2 S 3/3 In the status bar: 22 AMMO 100% HEALTH 69% ARMOR
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Forgot I changed my look again a few days ago.
My ACNH character in front of my house. I'm wearing a white hat, black-rimmed glasses, a tuxedo jacket, and a pearl skirt. There are pink roses all around the house and two signs to either side of a red zen pillow. Rows of pine trees and soft-serve ice cream lights are visible in the foreground.
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Music League put a Tyler Perry soundtrack in my weekly chart, I don't think anything's ever been quite this wildly out of place on one of these before. 😝
5x5 chart of my music listening for the past week, based on LastFM stats. Top row: Allie X; Charles Lloyd; Meredith Monk; Frank Turner; Arve Henriksen (Haihara) Second row: Dobrinka Tabakova; Sokratis Sinopoulos; Jakob Bro; Mavis Stapes; Rosalia Third row: FKA Twigs (Eusexua rerelease and Eusexua Afterglow); Hüsker Dü; Moor Mother; The Last Dinner Party Fourth row: Juana Molina; Arve Henriksen (Uncharted Waters); Jean Dawson; Kali Malone; Danny Brown Fifth row: Angelo Badalamenti (Fire Walk With Me soundtrack); Black Sabbath; soundtrack to Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, because of a Dionne Warwick (well, actually Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, and Dionne Warwick) song in Music League; Magdalena Bay; Anna von Hausswolff
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I'm sorry, I think you meant to say the BEST album cover ever. 😝
YouTube thumbnail with the text "WORST ALBUM COVERS!" in big yellow all-caps text across the bottom, the left side shows the cover of Fleetwood Mac's Mystery To Me- where a strange ape-like creature is licking cake icing from its finger, you know it's cake icing because the cake is sitting in front of it, also this is taking place on a beach with an ocean behind the ape- and on the right side is a white guy with glasses and a mustache making a disgusted face that looks like Warren from the fighting game Power Moves, a.k.a. Deadly Moves. If you remember Giant Bomb's classic series Ranking Of Fighters you know what I'm talking about.
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Picture of the top of the Buff Bean outfit in Fall Guys. It's orange and full of fake muscles. Also there's a red valve on the side of the head for some reason?
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Got an ad for a rewards card and I want to know who actually thinks this sounds like a good deal.
A credit card ad I got in my email: Earn up to $24 back in statement credits on eligible purchases through 01/31/2026 Activate and earn $8 back in statement credits each month after you spend $300 on purchases with your card from 11/01/2025 (or the date you activate, whichever is later) through 01/31/2026. The maximum statement credit you can earn during the full promotional period is $24.
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Trying something different for lunch today.
Open box for a Deep Indian Kitchen butter chicken microwave meal.
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Nice. 😝
Screenshot from my weekly LastFM stats. #5 Top Artist Charles Lloyd Scrobbles: 28 Listener bracket: Top 0.69% View Artist's page View Artist in your library
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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And here's the weekly version. The bottom two rows and part of the middle row are entirely from a single Music League playlist.
5x5 chart of my last week's listening based on LastFM scrobbles. Top row: Gyorgy Kurtag (yes, the wrong one); Mon Laferte; Natalia Lafourcade; Liz Story; Bob Dylan Second row: Charles Lloyd; Marina; Sokratis Sinopoulos; Meredith Monk; Florence + The Machine Third row: Iiris Viljanen; Dave; Bruce Springsteen; Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack); Arctic Monkeys Fourth row: atsuover; Black Sabbath; Blondie; Chic; Damen Elliott (LastFM fails to mention the vocalist on this song is Dionne Warwick) Fifth row: Ezra Furman; James Blake; Marianne Faithfull; Missy Elliott; Outkast
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Did a monthly 5x5 listening chart, obviously slightly inaccurate since I'm still listening to this Dylan album right now but it's as close as I'm going to get without staying up all night. 😝
5x5 chart of my most-listened albums for October based on LastFM scrobbles. Top row: Charles Lloyd; Gyorgy Kurtag (STILL the wrong album, should be the Pierre Laurent-Aimard recording); Neko Case; Marina; Natalia Lafourcade Second row: Dobrinka Tabakova; Mon Laferte; Sokratis Sinopoulos; The Last Dinner Party; Lola Young Third row: Sudan Archives; Meredith Monk; Fred Hersch; Lucy Dacus; Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith Fourth row: Liz Story; PinkPantheress; Bob Dylan; Rolf Lislevand; Wolfgang Muthspiel Fifth row: David Gilmour; Björk; Chick Corea; Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco; Steve Tibbetts
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Someone left this comment on my LastFM profile, and since I'm Old and Out Of It, I need to know: is this a meme? A bit? What's going on here?
Picture of the shoutbox (comments section) for my LastFM page. A user named ccortex, whose avatar is a blonde anime girl with eyes spaced so wide they're nearly at the sides of her head like an insect's, has left the following baffling comment: "I an seeking asylum in longshen of guangxi provinence". My ACNH avatar's "What the fuck?" expression has never felt more appropriate.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Could've sworn I posted this picture the last time I was at B&N but apparently not. Anyway, I'm reading more of this book now.
Cover of the book Taste In Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians, by Alex Bleeker & Luke Pyenson. The picture below the title shows a guy eating ramen with chopsticks in his left hand and a big long noodle dangling from his mouth; a picture of a tour bus covers his head from just above his nose. Pictures of a guitar and amp separate him from a man with shoulder length hair eating oysters. The pictures are entirely in blue and yellow- the guys and their food and the amp are blue, the bus and guitar (and the noodle) are yellow. At the bottom more text reads: FEATURING STORIES FROM... Robin Pecknold (FLEET FOXES) Natalie Mering (WEYES BLOOD) Mark Ibold (PAVEMENT) John Gourley (PORTUGAL. THE MAN) Lily Chait (TOURING CHEF TO BOYGENIUS AND PHOEBE BRIDGERS) and many more
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Didn't get around to making one of those 5x5 charts until just now, so the last 6 hours or so since I got home from work are heavily represented here. Also you can blame Music League for Alex Warren's unexpected return appearance.
5x5 chart of my last 7 days of listening based on LastFM scrobbles. Top row: The Last Dinner Party; Sokratis Sinopoulos; Sudan Archives; Dobrinka Tabakova; David Gilmour Second row: Björk; Chick Corea; Steve Tibbetts; Meredith Monk; Charles Lloyd Third row: Lily Allen; Natalia Lafourcade; Hüsker Dü; Bar Italia; Zehetmair Quartet (Brahms String Quartet Op. 51) Fourth row: Demi Lovato; Iiris Vijanen; Cynthoni; Lucy Dacus; Marina Fifth row: Mei Semones; Alex Warren; Ben Folds; Bic Runga; BNYX
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Got a Halloween mask in Brighter Shores by beating up 50 Ghouls. 😝
My character in Brighter Shores wearing a Ghoul mask, which is just a transmog for my existing helmet. The area name at the top reads "Old Street East". There's a Deathcrow sitting on the ground behind me and a random NPC to the right. In front of me there's a lamppost, a bench, and two big pumpkins marking the entrance to the building where the Mask Maker's hanging out for the Halloween event.
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Incredible juxtaposition of posts on my timeline.
Screenshot of two posts on my Bluesky timeline. Reposted by vampironique emma houxbois Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com 59m The Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist 29 replies, 521 reposts, 1.6K likes Reposted by Adrienne Arcanineties @arcanineies.bsky.social 4m Conspiracy, gotta make plans with friends Quoted post by Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social 5h What makes something a heist as opposed to a theft? Is it simply how cool it is? 1 repost, 1 like
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The best arcade game ever made. 😝
A Ms. Pac-Man arcade cabinet.
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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So there's a problem here: this isn't what the Icon of Sin looks like in Doom II. Anyone who's played the game knows he's just a wall texture, and you shoot rockets through the hole in the texture's head to hit the "brain" (actually John Romero's head). He doesn't have a body until Doom Eternal!
YouTube short titled "Icon of Sin vs. 1000 Zombie Rifle- Doom Classic ..." with 306K views. The image shows a field of Zombiemen, some of them just gibs and blood splatters, facing off against a fully ambulatory Icon of Sin with big tusks and clawed hands- a sprite that does not exist in Doom II.
October 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Poster for Jacques Tati's 1967 film Playtime. White background, the film's name superimposed over multiple lines in abstract grids and rectangles evoking skyscrapers, small human figues below, the words "un film de jacques tati" at the bottom.
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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So if Nintendo sues people who make fan games and run ROM sites, will they go similarly scorched earth on a game that blatantly steals ACNH character models, which is up for pre-orders on PS5?
Screenshot of the "Games to wishlist" section of the PlayStation Store Collections tab. The focal point here is Anime Village Online, which shows a player character model that's a direct lift from Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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...but WHY? 🤔
YouTube thumbnail showing the cover of Taylor Swift's new album The Life Of A Showgirl, with Ben Shapiro's scowling face superimposed over the right-hand side. Text below reads: Ben Shapiro Reviews Taylor Swift's New Album 'The Life of a Showgirl' Ben Shapiro (checkmark) 4.3K views 36 minutes ago
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Let's play a game! How long do you think it takes this YouTuber to get to the album referenced in the clickbait title?
YouTube thumbnail of a white man in a gray T-shirt with the logo of the defunct chain Peaches Records and Tapes on the front, kind of facepalming but it's more like his hand is covering his right eye and nose as he looks at the camera instead of the record sleeve he's holding. He's sitting in front of two sets of shelves full of vinyl records and CDs. Superimposed text reads "I Was Embarrassed To Buy This Album" (directly over him) and "and more vinyl finds" (to the right). Title and description below: I was Embarrassed To Buy This Album (and more vinyl finds) Robert Fithen 4.8K views 20 hours ago
September 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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That first one especially... ouch.
Three choices of boons from Chaos in Hades II: Expiring Celerity- Epic If you have not cleared 2 encounters in 120 sec. you take 500 damage Afterward you move and sprint 25% faster. Atrophic Revival- Rare For the next 4 encounters you have -28 health Afterward, whenever you exit a location, restore 10 health. Atrophic Revelation For the next 5 encounters you have -23 health Afterwards, you channel your Omega moves 17% faster.
September 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Box art for the original WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! for the Game Boy Advance. It shows the game's cast (clockwise from top): Wario, Orbulon, Dribble, Crygor, Ana, 9-Volt, Jimmy, Mona, Spitz, and Kat. Text bubbles to either side of Wario's head say "Instant Action!" and "Infinite Fun!".
September 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM