Raccoon Fink (aka Benjamin Reed)

@rangerrick.bsky.social

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F/LOSS geek • general nerdery • way too into collecting (and sometimes even drinking) whisky • I write electronic/ambient/dungeon synth music as Raccoon Fink • he/him https://music.raccoonfink.com/ https://linktr.ee/RaccoonFink/

First: the post I’m replying to: “786 words to go.” Just below it, @katynotie.bsky.social posting, “I'd say the hardest thing about being a writer is the writing.”
Picture of a bumper sticker, featuring a cartoon bunny driving a car with sick flames coming out the back. It says, “I’m on a very serious mission to get a tiny treat.”
Hand-written sign that says: Tortorella, want your clothes back? Call 1-800-CANESN6
ESPN logo facing so the bottom of the “E” is along the blue line
EcoFlow battery in the foreground, Oster toaster behind
Carrot Weather showing the current Raleigh temperature as 97° feels like 103° Under that it says: It’s hotter than Vulcan’s sweaty ass crack.
Our reciprocating fan with a mister attachment.
A computer chip, pins facing up
Directions from Cape Fear seafood to Lenovo Center. Also I’m currently listening to The Adventure Zone podcast.
Back of my car with a canes flag, and we’ve got a battery and 4 fans going
Red tee with a yellow hammer and sickle. The shirt is called “The Communist Party” and it features famous communist leaders partying. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, and Che all have red solo cups in their hands. Marx is throwing horns with both hands and wearing a lampshade on his head.
A 1972 sticker for Ranger Rick’s “Nature Club Member” featuring a cartoon raccoon in a ranger hat
My diversity hockey shirt from Hockey By Design, laying along the back of our couch.
A vaguely green t-shirt with more bacon than collar. All the edges are worn and have holes, the underarms have big holes. It’s only a matter of time before it should get burned in a proper Viking funeral.
DraftKings receipt showing I bet $1 and received $10
Picture of a CVS. In the foreground is a forklift parked in a spot just like a normal car.
Wedding photo. Me looking dapper in my tux and Cynthia glowing in a beautiful lace dress. Behind us is Moore Square, behind us is a Canes banner with Rod Brind’Amour holding up the cup.
Photo of a set of 16 tasting bottles for the Fass Sprache wood types rum tasting. One spirit aged in a multitude of wood types to see how each influences the flavor.
Red t-shirt with Canadian House of Pizza and Garbage in both French and English, in a logo reminiscent of Canadian Tire mixed with a common pizza place sign style
There’s a guy who wears these giant air-filled suits to games and he’s got something written on it this time in black tape and I have no idea what it means
A classic painting of Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler
Rod Brind’Amour being interviewed, making a kind of weird close-mouthed grin, holding a fist up like he is shoving it somewhere
Picture of Aho getting interviewed in the postgame tonight. He has a mustache and decently long hair below the neck, but the cheeks and chin are still pretty patchy.
That _It’s Always Sunny_ meme of the crazy guy with a bunch of paper and red string connecting it all together. Pretend I bothered to photoshop hbo max, tnt, espn, and so on onto it.
Lower Decks title card: “Boimler’s Penis Replicator Mistake” “Part 1”
Voyager title card with the caption, “Threevix”
Crop of the boards along the ice at a hockey game. Which are always covered with ads. There’s a linesman nearby in his black and white stripey red shirt. To one side of him it says “cat” and to the other, it says “bodyarmor”
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Poster for Naked Lunch (1991)
Chris Farley swinging his arms in the “van down by the river” sketch
Rally towel with a fake noise meter maxed out at 120 decibels, which says: LOUD Repeated, long term exposure to sounds at this level can damage your hearing. Uhhh no, not “long term” more like “within 10 seconds.”
Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea on their XX 20th anniversary tour. He’s doing that “oh yeah” face with his eyes closed, strumming a beautiful black Gibson electric guitar. He’s backlit by lights piercing through fog machine fog.
Goofy “I’ll fuckin do it again” meme
Headline: Religious-sign-maker convicted on child porn charge from the Courier-Tribune, April 30th 2026 The article's photo is of a terrible Wil Wheaton impersonator looking very awww so sad he definitely regrets what he did! But it's not Wil Wheaton, of course, it's some shitty dude named Lucas Timothy Hunt. The article text says: Asheboro man behind the popular "Thank You Jesus" yard signs has pleaded guilty to a charge related to possessing child pornography. Lucas Timothy Hunt, 26, of Danny Bell Road pleaded guilty Wednesday, April 29, in Randolph County Superior Court to felony third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, which is possession of child pornography. He originally was charged with second-degree, which involves participating the dissemination or duplication of child pornography. In February 2025, investigators found that Hunt had a video of two "pubescent" underage girls on a couch engaged in oral sex, according to his arrest warrant. According to the assistant district attorney, the video was shared at least six times. Hunt was sentenced to three years on supervised probation and will be required to register as a sex offender for 30 years. Hunt is the founder of the "Thank You Jesus" organization, known for placing yard signs across the region. Following his arrest, the Civil Air Patrol - where Hunt served as a volunteer - suspended him. The organization said at the time that the alleged actions were "inconsistent with our core values" and that protecting its cadets was its top priority.
From Resident Alien: “this is some BULLSHIT”
photo of my screen showing the intro to the tutorial level. Close-up of a face with smooth skin and nice lighting
A city sign that says: <CITY NAME> WELCOME POPULATION <POP> …except instead of the real city name it says “FART CITY” and for population, it says “ME”
Two weather alerts I got overnight, one hour apart. First came a frost advisory, next was a fire danger warning.
Lenovo Center in Raleigh, NC - the Carolina Hurricanes are playing the Ottawa Senators
Weldon Mills limited edition 2022 single barrel The All Malt bourbon whisky. 55.75%
The George W. Bush photo of him being notified about the second plan
Cake decorating supplies on a shelf that I am pretty sure is just for storage, and not sale. It’s a big ol’ 14lb bucket.
that meme of the guy in Captain Phillips who has captured their boat, and is pointing at his eyes, saying "I am the captain now" except it says: LOOK AT ME I AM THE HOST NOW
Tweet from Bear Knee Sanders @LeBearGirdle [Dentist waiting room] Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- Other patients: teeth, TEETH Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
PSA about texting while driving featuring Mike Maniscalco and Stormy the Pig in a golf cart. Stormy is driving and texting and Mike keeps yelling at him about paying attention to the road. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The giant floating head in Zardoz (1974)
Ruby Ibarra asks a person in a blow-up No-Face suit if they’re ready to party, and then starts in on a song. The video pans across the band and back up to No-Face dancing on the balcony of a building in the Loreto town square.
View of a table with a laptop set up to stream the Carolina Hurricanes with a view of the ocean in the background. Not pictured: Cynthia’s on a deck chair to my right. Pictured: part of my deck chair and my bare feet. Stop staring you fucking internet sickos.
Gigantic baked potato covered with pulled pork and cheese. It’s in a takeout container, sitting on a picnic table.
A screenshot from Google Lens translating Arabic to English: The cunning, malicious, and great oppressive enemy, the hateful, second madness who conspired with the first sorcerer, and the two of them tormented me with jinn and made me know jinn and sorcery, while the first sorcerer was still alive. So, the madness and the heat, at night and at day and at night, all of them after me with jinn, and all of them expose me to the jinn, and all of them torment me with jinn inside every drop of blood inside my whole being, and inside every bone inside my whole being, and inside every strand inside my whole being, and inside every muscle, and every branch, and every hair inside my whole being, the enemy, the modern, ridiculous, cunning, and ' cowardly, weak, madness, used jinn from the black hell, jinn who know C the rough and the human, and make the jinn and the human, and accept the jinn and the human And the jinn and mankind, even if the creature were forbidden from iron, and everything inside his body, every drop of blood inside his body, all forbidden from iron, on every bone inside his body, all forbidden from iron, and every vein and the smallest
Scoreboard with shootout markers in green for goal, red for miss.
The twin peaks opening scene, with a thematically-appropriate overlay of text that says, in all-caps: “I tried but only made it through half a season”
Screenshot of a spam email from someone named Mariah Carey selling a database of contact info for finance professionals.
A Christmas tree, stripped of all its limbs. All that remains is a trunk with a few sad bits clinging to it, and the gaping maw of a living room window, ready to claim its final sacrifice.
A bottle of shampoo that says “Not Your Mother’s Naturals”
Yellow crocus popping up from the ground. READ THE ROOM you just know we’ve got at least one more frost coming.
A photo of me as a kid in front of a “drum” set made up of a red wagon, a can of soda on a stick, a paper cup on a stick, a paint can, and a plant pot. Taped to the wagon is a torn out piece of spiral notebook paper that says “Ben’s BAND”
A pretzel knot on a plate with some gulden’s mustard. Nice dark crust and soft in the middle. So good!
Stephen Tobolowsky as Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day. Nerdy, balding guy with dark-rimmed glasses.
A fake “Dark Souls III” screenshot with the caption “UNCRUSTABLE RECRUSTED”