Aran

Aran

@aran.bsky.social

An animal bit him, and then he became that animal Co-creator of the @weirdmedieval.bsky.social podcast

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Can't wait for Milwaukee to add giant statues of Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans.

Steve Senski's Watching Night Gallery@stevensenski.bsky.social

A lifesize bronze statue of Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert is coming to Chicago's Prudential Plaza in 2028. The statue will be installed outside of the plaza's north entrance. It will give fans a chance to sit in two theater seats & take a photo with the bronze figures of the legendary film critics.

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no not Josh O'Connor!! Josh O'Connor isn't James Bond he's a little baby rabbit someone turned into a real boy!

Callum Turner, Jack Lowden, and Josh O’Connor will all apparently be doing their final screen tests to play 007 in the next week.

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wīg-hūs, n.n: battle-house, war-house, a tower or fortification. (WEE-HOOS / ˈwiːj-ˌhuːs) Image: Icelandic Physiologus; Iceland (Westfjord districts), c. 1200; Copenhagen, Arnamagnæanske Institut, AM 673 a 4º, f. 9v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

I’ve said this many times but the actual smart move would be to make 4 movies with wildly different styles and tones. The Ringo Movie should not feel like The George Movie because their subjects are very different people!

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Almost every contestant on the Celebrity Traitors: God I'm having a great time here. Ross Kemp: I'm a bear tied to a stake. They're trying to break my mind. But they can only do that if you let them. I won't let them. I won't. I fucking will not.

Went on an ad blocking spree on Instagram last week and I am proud to say that I have defeated the algorithm. This thing can’t lay a GLOVE on me

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Today's the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Strong case to be made that Braveheart is fundamentally a very racist film about celtic peoples in general with how the Irish are also portrayed and how Robert the Bruce is almost completely anglicised

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD@charltoncussans.bsky.social

The portrayal of the Scots in Braveheart is extremely racist against the Scots.

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“Hannah Fry is smart.” “We need something to show us while they are back at their lodgings.” “I dunno let’s give her an abacus.” #CelebrityTraitors

Catching up on the Celebrity Traitors, a little worried that they won’t recapture the magic of the first season and BY GOD, IS THAT RICHARD E GRANT’S MUSIC??

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One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

I’m not surprised that this year I’ve read two books about quirky immortal androids in a will-they-won’t-they-ship chasing each other up and down history. I AM surprised that the one I preferred, in almost every way, was the Warhammer 40k tie in novel

To paraphrase the author, they’re like a couple which keeps getting together, hating each other, breaking up and getting back together again

Growing up in a hippieish family really gave me a false sense of how easy it is to find gooseberries

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I love how there's a perfect correlation between this perspective and the argument that medieval serfs had it good because of all the religious holidays. "Oh, they only spent a third of the year working on their Lord's fields" okay, what did they do about their own fields?

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Starting with The Magician’s Nephew (deeply weird dreamy cosmic prequel) always suggested they were doing something interesting but has me sicko laughing, it might have the sauce

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE 🪩 Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is a rock inspired fantasy nodding to David Bowie and The Who. “Narnia is literally a world made out of music,” she tells Empire. “And rock ’n’ roll to me felt like a world made out of music.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

I grew up on Narnia, I’ve read the books, seen every filmed adaptation, there’s one audiobook of Wardrobe that’s basically burned into my brain. I really truly do not need another ploddingly faithful adaptation thank you

Anyway this is my covert pitch to be cast in the second movie: I want nothing more than to voice an animated beaver who really makes a meal out of “Aslan… is on the move”

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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

The dril candles tweet but it’s me staggering out of the British museum gift shop carrying a mountain of merch

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What I love about the people answering “negative” is they are basically saying “the last thousand years? I don’t care for them”.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk

As the Bayeux Tapestry opens to the public at the British Museum, what impact do Britons think the Norman Conquest had on British history? Positive: 25% Neither: 25% Negative: 6% Don't know: 44% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

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Papa, did you have short form video as a child? Yes, son, we did. Harry Hill would come on TV and show you the short form video. People would send it in to him and he would compile the funniest possible content