Ben L-C

@benglc.bsky.social

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Comedy, storytelling, Buffy, that sort of thing (he/him) https://benlundconlon.com/buffy-show

Cover of Tales From Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin, featuring a small image of a ship under full sail with a dragon figurehead, superimposed on a background of some wizards with robes and staves walking through a great woodland
The cover of Uprooted by Naomi Novik, black and white with foiled gold embellishments, featuring a stylized tower standing a distance from a wood with winding brambles and a single red rose.
Photo of a large can of Kirin Beer on an airport chair
Photo of the main train shed at the Tokyo Railway Museum, featuring a turntable in the centre with a large black steam engine on it, surrounded by many other historical engines and rolling stock
Photo of the entrance to the Tokyo Railway Museum
Cover of Old Tales of Kyoto, compiled by Walter Dawes. It is a hand-bound book with visible black stitching, and the cover features a cartoon-like illustration of Tsunami cutting off the arm of the demon of Rashomon Gate
Japanese bullet train pulling into the station with its long pointy nose
The cover of At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard. A humpback whale with stars and constellations along its body swims amongst the stars of the sky
Cover of Folk Tales From Nepal: The Stolen Image and Other Stores, by Kesar Lall, featuring an image of a Nepalese deity with green/gold skin, sharp fangs, a third eye and an elaborate headdress of red/orange feathers
Cover of The Sanctuary by Andrew Hunter Murray. It features a view from a cave by a body of water, a lone figure is silhouetted looking out at a wooded island. Richard Osman provides the recommendation ‘A brilliantly clever thriller by a brilliantly clever author’
Screenshot of a tweet by @BenGLC featuring a photo of the back of a Vauxhall van which says ‘Bi Turbo’, with the caption above reading ‘Pansexual, or’
Screenshots of an exchange from Buffy the Vampire slayer: Buffy: “Are you drunk?” Giles: “Yes. Quite a bit, actually.”
Screenshot of a short Twitter thread by @BenGLC, the first tweet consists of two screenshots from TV shows: in one Giles and Wesley from Buffy stand side-by-side in dinner suits, Wesley holds a small piece of paper; in the other Frasier and Niles stand side-by-side in dinner suits, both holding small pieces of paper. Ben has added the caption: ‘Hang on a second, I’m working on something here’. A follow-up tweet from Ben adds ‘Let's add a character that's more Frasier than Frasier. Let's add a character that's more Giles than Giles.’
Promotional image for Ben Lund-Conlon’s show ‘Lies, Damned Lies & Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, featuring Ben as Giles standing over a leather-topped writing desk, with books, a wooden stake and a yellow ‘Kiss the Librarian’ mug
Photo of a beauty parlour in London called ‘Effulgent Beauty’
Screenshot of a tweet by @BenGLC from October 2016, reading ‘So nice that @CosmopolitanUK have a hashtag for the barrage of racism and far-right politics in this country at the moment #fashfest’ with a picture of a billboard advertising a Cosmopolitan (the magazine) ‘VIP Show and Party’, including the hashtag ‘#fashfest’
Cover of Brothel in Pimlico by Roy Brooks, featuring a cartoon on a pink background, of an opera singer dangling a carrot on a stick from a first floor window, with a milk-cart-pulling horse and some small lively dogs all reaching for it. Roses climb the wall.
Cover of The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin, featuring a small image of a woman reaching up to red and gold dragons, superimposed on a background of some wizards with robes and staves walking through a great woodland
Cover of Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About by Margaret Read MacDonald, featuring a stylised green print-style artwork depicting peaceful fields versus images of war such as soldiers and guns, on a yellow background
Cover of Conversations with a Machine by Ruth Irwin. It features a stylised peregrine falcon on a green background
Phot of a sign reading ‘Welcome to East Street Surgery. Please arrive yourself if you have an appointment’ with an arrow pointing down
Cover of The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard. It features the top half of a stylised yellow sun on a black background
Cover of The Three Ravens Folk Tales by Eleanor Conlon & Martin Vaux. It is red with white illustrative icons of a key, a dagger, an hourglass, leaves, mushrooms and other bits and bobs from the natural world. Central are three black ravens.
6 panel galaxy brain meme. Panel 1: 'Octopuses' Panel 2: As 'octopus' ends with 'us' the pural should be 'octopi' Panel 3: 'Octopus' is derived from Greek not Latin, so the correct plural is 'octopodes' Panel 4: 'Octopus' is now an English word so it is fine to use the standard English pluralization 'octopuses' Panel 5: Language is constantly evolving, nothing really matters, 'octopuses', 'octopodes', 'octopi', do whatever you want Panel 6: screenshot of @elksneedle's tweet: I still say octopi because I'm waiting for someone to say "um actually the word octopus is derived from Greek not Latin so the correct plural form is octopodes" so that I'll get to say "octopodes nuts"
The cover of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. It features a stream of water, and in it are an unravelled cassette tape, a broken pocket watch, a lighthouse, a golden apple and many pink birds
Screenshot of a menu in MS Excel, with the highlighted phrase ‘Filter by Selected Cell’s Value’
Guy Henry, Jonathan Aris and Tobias Menzies
Ralph Ineson, Andrew Brooke and Craig Parkinson
Kyren Wilson and Jacob Hawley looking similar
Dan McKee looking like an older Steve Davis
Dominic Dale and Rob Brydon looking similar
Tom Allen and Peter Ebdon looking similar
Hossein Vafaei looking like Omid Djalili
Jake Lambert and Jack Lisowski looking similar
Gary Wilson, Jordan Brookes and Barry Ferns all looking similar
Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins and Seán Burke looking similar
Mark Allen and Marek Larwood looking similar
Steve Pemberton, John Higgins and Stuart Bingham all looking similar
Martin Gould and Andy Askins looking similar
Anthony McGill, Adrian Scarborough and Mark Gatiss all looking similar
Mark Davis and Henning Wehn looking similar
Ronnie O'Sullivan, Elis James and Phil Ellis all looking similar
Stephen Maguire and Kevin Bridges looking similar
Mark Selby and Stuart Goldsmith looking similar
James Acaster and Steve Davis looking similar
The cover of The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss. It features a slim, dark-haired figure on a narrow path, reaching up to the crescent moon with one hand and holding a bottle with the other. In the background there is an inn with a light at one window and a small hill with the remains of a white, dead tree at its peak. All this is framed by holly and daisies.
Cover of The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, featuring a waifish girl with white hair silhouetted in front of the moon. In the foreground are sparse blossoming apple trees and in the background a faint skyline of old-fashioned academic buildings
Cover of The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, featuring a red-headed man brandishing a sword in a clearing between autumnal branches, bolts of lightning come from the words of the title
A screencap from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series 1 episode 7 ‘Q-less’, showing two humanoid figures with blue cloth bags over their heads
Screenshot from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life featuring Graham Chapman and Eric Idle as the Protestant couple discussing their prudish sex life while endless numbers of children stream out of their Catholic neighbours’ house
Cover of Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki, featuring a stylised Japanese scene of a house by a bridge with mountains and a large red sun in the background
Promotional image for Ben’s set at the Hyperfixation Presentations, featuring @BenGLC’s profile picture of him dressed as Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, holding a book alongside a ‘Kiss the Librarian’ mug, next to an image of Buffy and Giles holding the ‘Vampyr’ book. The caption reads ‘Ben Lund-Conlon x Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
Cover of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, featuring a cloaked figure standing in a gap between green trees
Audiobook image for Alan Partridge: Big Beacon, featuring Alan in a fisherman’s getup, pipe between teeth, and a lighthouse in the background
Audiobook image for Alan Partridge: Nomad, featuring Alan attempting to look outdoorsy, with a not-quite keffiyeh and a fish speared on a Swiss Army knife
The cover of Treacle Walker by Alan Garner. Navy blue with gold text, featuring the Uffington White Horse
The cover of The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik. Black with gold detailing, featuring eye motifs above a skyline seen through a gate
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau, featuring a crowded thicket of native fauna
Photo of the Milky Way in the night’s sky, looking almost, but not entirely, unlike Sophie’s ‘cosmic’ brownie
Screenshot of a tweet by @BenGLC, reading: *The Clash voice* 🎶 Pin to taskbar, pin to taskbar 🎶