The artist is Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.

It does look kinda big; might be worth trying to prioritize the "important" bits (probably the top half?) so we at least get part of it finished. Looking forward to helping out again!

Still reading The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. It's still fine, I just haven't been reading more than 5-10 minutes a night.

Fanart of artist rendition:

I have the sound of this stuck in my head now, thanks.

Link to the game is kinda hidden in the article: https://dreadxp.com/vile-is-banned/.

Did a quick search, looks like ExeKiller, which isn't out yet. Hope you find something good to play in the meantime!

And then Loki got preggers, and gave birth to Sleipnir, an 8-legged horse that Odin rides around.

You might have a look at Darebee workouts/programs. Can search by 'upper', 'abs', etc to cut out a lot of stuff your foot might have trouble with.

I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can't get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA's site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.

I would add The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) to your Funny and Spooky list. I'll also second the The Fog (1981) suggestion.

Hackers.

Would add The Void for movies and Dredge (which is on sale) for games.

ETA: In other media, The Lovecraft Investigations is a full cast audio drama re-imagining of several Lovecraft stories. Recommended!

I finally watched it for the first time very recently, so I appreciate you and your coincidental timing.

Working on the new T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver.

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Read since last time:

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy (fantasy horror, novella) | bingo: creature, minority author, short, LGBTQIA+ lead, alliterative, cover

A wanderer visits an anarchist commune that's protected by a preternatural being.

I think I'd put this in the "fine" category; not sure if I'm interested in the sequels.

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (space opera-ish mystery, novella) | bingo: creature, different continent, minority author, orange, short, award

A prickly detective and a sentient ship discover and investigate an unusual corpse.

Intentional Holmes and Watson vibes. Cute enough, but the mystery felt a bit secondary.

100% agree; I was so bummed Riddick was just inferior Pitch Black. The animated one, Dark Fury, was fun, though, iirc.

This is correspondence and such that's been sitting around in a warehouse for however many years, untouched.

I think one of the tricks is to purposefully plan time to cook that's not right before you're planning to eat, so it's an activity/hobby, not a necessity. If I have to cook when I'm hungry, I'll probably just make do instead, but if I say "ok, Saturday afternoon, I'm gonna make a pot of soup, because that'll be delicious later," it's a lot less dreadful, imo.

Not OP, but I would have thought a basic pantry included staples like rice, cheap dried beans, and pasta (probably elbows or shells, since they're pretty versatile).

I'd also do mac & cheese, the same as theirs, but with different seasonings: a little sauteed, minced onion or a dash of onion powder; a tiny bit of mustard for creamier cheese sauce; and a dash of black pepper.

PS: This is great! I hope you do these regularly.

Iirc from my time on kbin, posts are for the "microblog" part, i.e. the part that interacts with mastodon.