Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)
I love its expression.
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Film & TV Studies Teaching Fellow interested in the gothic, theories of authorship, postmodernism, post-classical style & robots. Tony Scott evangelist (he/him/his)
Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)
I love its expression.
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS BLOWING SOAP BUBBLES P2- FRITZI : NANCY --- NO BUBBLES IN THE HOUSE P3- NANCY IS VERY UPSET AND DETERMINED TO CONTINUE TO BLOW SOAP BUBBLES P4-NANCY HAS JUST OPENED A WINDOW JUST ENOUGH TO BLOW SOAP BUBBLES OUT THE WINDOW
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 09,1948
At a fringe event in Manchester one member sought to bring some hope, boasting that Keele University Conservative Society now had its biggest membership in a decade. โWe now have 11 members,โ he said.
09.10.2025 13:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Left my office to be confronted by this - surely a sign to go all in on Untitled Goose Studies and leave Film Studies behind?
08.10.2025 14:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Untitled Goose Game might be my favourite text to teach
08.10.2025 11:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Another term of teaching Transnational Action Cinema means another screening of Police Story 3 and Maggie Cheung throwing her shoe at Jackie Chan and using "your mum" as a comeback. The action is pretty good too
06.10.2025 10:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Youtube also appears to have the entire Hildegard docudrama, with Routledge as Hildegard von Bingen youtu.be/ue0yOfBgudg?... which I appreciate might be a bit niche but is worth a look if my memory serves
03.10.2025 18:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0youtu.be/aY2rLolZ0hc?...
Such a simple bit of physical comedy, masterfully played every time. The shift in pronunciation of "dawgs" also a wonderful little class observation. An unmatched comic character
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS TEACHING HER DOG TO SIT NANCY: SIT NANCYโS DOG DIDNโT SIT P2-NANCY : SIT - - SIT - - SIT NANCYโS DOG IS STILL NOT OBEYING. P3- NANCY SAYS VERY LOUDLY, SIT P4- NANCY IS SURPRISED TO SEE HER DOG SITTING UP IN A CHAIR.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 03,1962
Just in case Elon's seal of un-approval isn't enough, believe me that Dead End is perfect Halloween viewing for kids and young people - especially (but not only) if they identify anywhere on the queer or neurodiverse spectrum
02.10.2025 11:34 โ ๐ 61 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- SLUGGO IS DOG SITTING FOR NANCY SLUGGO: OH, WHY DID I PROMISE TO MIND NANCY'S DOG FOR HER! NANCYโS DOG IS HOWLING: OWRR OWWRRRR P2- SLUGGO: AW, PIPE DOWN- NANCY WILL BE HERE SOON P3- SLUGGO SEES A MOP,AND HAS AN IDEA P4-SLUGGO: I TELL YA I'M NANCY NANCYโS DOG DOES NOT BELIEVE IT NANCYโS DOG: OW OWWRR
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 1,1945
Exactly what I'd expect from the 17th wokeist university
30.09.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Alien Earth is such a treat for Resurrection and Covenant fans
28.09.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I also think I would struggle to get the level of funding required for Edmund Burke to be able to come and do a talk, although if they make allowances for remote talks I think Parker Brothers might have the answer
28.09.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A L I C N
C A I T โข
the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry
26.09.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 5680 ๐ 2793 ๐ฌ 54 ๐ 180Feel a bit called out by Netflix putting a cheery "we think you'll love this ๐๐" on Birth/Rebirth along with the description "a pathologist... brings a child back from the dead with increasingly horrific consequences"
27.09.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The dragon from the 1958 Mugnaini-illustrated edition of 'Beowulf'.
#BookologyThursday #dragon #monster #folklore #legend
Del Toro vs Godzilla to help with the art block
23.09.2025 23:38 โ ๐ 1590 ๐ 402 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 3IT'S ACTUALLY AN EASTER EGG! A REAL EASTER EGG! Not sparkling mise-en-scene!
24.09.2025 15:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photographic evidence of the Gulp Shitto0.plt file, surround by more sensible files such as Install.bat
Was just browsing the files of my copy of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (steam download) and there is a file named Glup Shitto0.plt which I promise I did not create
24.09.2025 15:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If you are not listening to this you are missing out on the adventures of a vegetarian edwardian railway detective read by a pre-sherlock Cumberbatch
22.09.2025 15:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Any of you who remember my various posts about Benedict Cumberbatch reading thrilling Stories of the Railways, I have good news! You too can listen to Benedict Cumberbatch reading thrilling stories of the railways - no purchase necessary! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
22.09.2025 15:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 14,1946
Thicc Satan
Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers
Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant
William Blake: or thicc Satan
Wordsworth: or what???
Blake: I have produced a sketch-
Anyone else out there who teaches/researches games but is not, in fact, good at games? It's weird because I think I'm actually pretty "good" at films and prose, but my basic gaming competence is limited
19.09.2025 21:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Our horror project still has a way to go, but your generosity pushed us to ยฃ1,155! I realise this is a tense time in the world, so donations are held with love and appreciation. Every little bit counts, ยฃ1 or ยฃ5. And if you canโt contribute, please share ๐ฉฐ๐ฉธ we thank you!!! gofund.me/8a713e1ff
19.09.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Bought a cheap second hand wheel + pedals combo to have some variety in peripherals for my games teaching and it has very much confirmed that I should never be allowed behind the wheel of a vehicle
18.09.2025 13:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0a panel from the Matt Fraction David Aja run on Hawkeye that depicts a newspaper front page that says Everything Awful Oh God Somebody Do Something
more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now
17.09.2025 23:40 โ ๐ 1706 ๐ 597 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 14So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless theyโre being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless theyโre overextended.
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