Claire, late-stage Arctic Monkeys enjoyer

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Any pronouns. Crippling FOMO (see following count). #KFBF. 📚 Case File Compendium Vol 2 + We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball 📺 Too many. Anticipating burnout. 🎮 Adventures of Elliot + Denshattack https://linktr.ee/castoffcrown

screengrab of my down/up load speeds on Google's Speed Test. (290.7 Mbps download, 44.9 Mbps upload)

Mason Greenwood during a Marseille game on the left, Garnacho during a Chelsea game on the right. The AS Roma club crest is in the middle. Underneath in white text on blue background is '#577 Roma Deep Dive: 'Roma to sign Greenwood or Garnacho'.

Lionel Messi handing a football trophy to Donald Trump.

Off to kms ✌🏻

Screengrab from ACNH. Teddy is speaking to 'me', saying "I'm off to patrol Jonestown! Claire, I'm leaving that sector over there for you."

FYI: 'I' am wearing full wetsuit and snorkel with baseball cap and sports bag while we're stood both in the winter snow.

A black screen with the simple, italicized words 'The End' in white text. It is shown after rolling credits in BOTW.

Partial screengrab of my Letterboxd Year in Review.

Films Logged: 207
Films Reviewed: 16
Hours Watched: 495
Most Watched Actor: Vicky Krieps
Most Watched Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

I (bad) pic of my tv set up. You can see my Xbox Series S and Switch 2 but most prominent in this badly taken photo is the scene that was playing on my tv about five minutes ago in Phantom Thread. All we see is the 'WOODCOCK, LONDON' label from a garment. However, the camera is just panning away from it, meaning we see 'OODCOCK, ONDON'.

Oddcock on Don is never leaving my mind ever again.

Album cover for What Kinda Music by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes.

Film poster for The Wailing (2016, directed by Na Hong-jin)

Poster for the 1971 film "Le Mans". It features Steve McQueen with his hand aloft which I suspect means he wins Le Le Mans race at some point but I'm very ignorant of 'old' films and any associated tropes so it could go either way at this point..

Most to least recent: Phantom Thread (5*), Mexican Bus Ride (4 and a half), Frank (four stars), Phantom Thread

Punch Drunk love poster

Left (most recent) to right: Look Back (five stars), Radiohead: In Rainbows Live from the Basement (four and a half stars, liked), Hundreds of Beavers (four and a half stars, liked), Yakuza Graveyard (four stars).

Cropped screengrab of the bsky notifications tab showing 30+ new notifications.

My last four watched from Letterboxd. Most recent to least arenas follows: Grand Theft Hamlet, Second Virginity (Japanese film, four stars)), Kamikaze Girls (liked, five stars), Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (five stars, rewatch.)

A screen shot of my MVP post-match screen. It's the default skin of The Punisher (who I cannot stand in other media lol). 26 kills, 11 deaths.) Clearly people were really on their game /s.

My last four watched on letterboxd. Starting with most recent: The Bonfire, (unrated), Ghost in the Shell (rewatch, 4 and a half stars), La Haine (rewatch, liked, five stars), and Drive My Car (liked and five stars)

The lead item from The Guardian's minute by minute coverage of the Spring Statement. It reads:

250,000 more people, including 50,000 more children, will be pushed into relative poverty by benefit cuts, DWP says

"The Department for Work and Pensions’ impact assessment of the health and disability benefit cuts also says that will put an extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, into relative poverty.

The potential impact of these reforms on poverty projections has been estimated using a static microsimulation model. Using this model, we estimate there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty after housing costs in 2029/30 as a result of modelled changes to social security, compared to the baseline projections."

Relative poverty is defined as having a household income below 60% of the median."

A screengrab of my #MHWilds OC mid dialogue. How do I describe them? The jawline you could literally use as to sharpen your dual blades? The luscious dark lipstick you want to be? The um...blue?? (colour theory has never been my thing) hair you are dying to run your fingers through.

Tldr- they're handsome and beautiful. With dark red lipstick and blue hair and piercing blue eyes with long eye lashes that don't make his eyes look like they're the sunken place (unlike a certain US Vice president).

My last four watched on my Letterboxd account. They are from left to right, in order of most recent:
- Football Armed du KGB (the English version I watched is on Magellan TV, I'm so fucking tired so I can't remember the exact title but if you search 'Soviet football' it'll come up. I'm sorry 😞). Rated three and a half stars.
- Pyongyang s'Amuse (English title is Have Fun in Pyongyang, also available on MagellanTV under this title). Rated four stars.
- Big Daddy. Rated three and a half stars and Liked.
- Floating Weeds (the 1930s version), read four and a half stars and Liked.

Cover of The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

Cover of The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Cover of The War Is Dead, Long Live the War - Bosnia: The Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy

Cover of My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd.

Cover of Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

A screen grab of Batya Ungar-Sargon's quote tweet of a video of Musk doing two Nazi salutes (sic). In her tweet she says: "As a person with a *strong* track record of criticizing Elon Musk, I feel extremely confident asserting that this was not a Nazi salute. Elon Musk is a friend to the Jews. This is a man with Aspergers exuberantly throwing his heart to the crowd. We don't need to invent outrage.".

An extract from David Harvey's companion book to Karl Marx's Capital. The highlighted (in red) text reads: "Capital is not a thing, but rather a process that exists only in motion. When circulation stops, value disappears and the whole system comes tumbling down. Consider what happened in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, in New York City: everything came to a standstill. Planes stopped flying, bridges and roads closed. After about three days, everybody realized that capitalism would collapse if things didn’t get moving again. So suddenly, Mayor Giuliani and President Bush are pleading the public to get out the credit cards and go shopping, go back to Broadway, patronize the restaurants."

Screengrab of my Letterboxd Last Four Watched, left to right, with the left being my most recent watch is: Glass (1958), the. Extinction by Salome Lamas, Monster (omg I cant remember any dates and this is my second attempt trying to post this but it's the one with Charlize Theron literally slaying ok) and finally Papillon, yes the original as it's is only one version. 🫠

German poster for the 1977 Soviet WW2 film, The Ascent ('Aufsteig')

A cropped screengrab of the posters of my favourites on Letterboxd. Left to right they are: Phantom Thread, Parasite, Call Me By Your Name, Perfect Days.

A photo of my copy of the book 'Burn Out: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat' by Hannah Proctor. You can sort of see half of my thumb as I'm holding it but thankfully not my Proper Nailbiter's Thumbnail.

A screen grab of Randy's character status screen from the video game The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero.

A screengrab of my Recent Activity on Letterboxd. It displays the four posters of the last four films I've logged as well as star ratings underneath. Left (most recent) to right they are Mobile Suit Gundam II (four stars), La La Land (five stars, rewatch), Carnival of Souls (four and a half stars), and If The Streets Were On Fire (five stars).

A screengrab of my Recent Activity on Letterboxd. It displays the four posters of the last four films I've logged as well as star ratings underneath. Left (most recent) to right they are Sullivan's Travels (four stars), Stalker (five stars, rewatch), The Thing (five stars) and Grace (2023) (three and a half stars).

cover of The Table Football League by Chris d'Lacey

Cover of The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

Cover of the manga Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki.

Cover of The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Cover of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman

Cover of Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,689,707, Claire ‪@castoffcrown.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 23, 2023"

Cover of Revenge by Yoko Ogawa

Cover of When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Cover of City of Thieves by David Benioff

Cover of Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

cover of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.