Stephen

@godofhammers.bsky.social

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Prescriptivist on the streets, descriptivist in the sheets. En-fucking-thusiast of tmesis. Petrichor fan. Skeleton-to-be. Kinsey 4.

A pull quote in SFX magazine from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds producer Henry Alonso Myers. It reads: "When we started talking about a ghost story, we felt we hadn't seen that in Star Trek"
A split box of two pictures. On top is a mass of plants that are green around the edges and the spines of the leaves, but with prominent pink blotches within the leaf. Below is an unflattering photo of Victoria Coren-Mitchell on my TV wearing a green dress with floral pink blotches.
LIVE: Excitement as new M&S store opens in Weymouth today
The cover of Big Finish's Seventh Doctor Adventures - "Fixers", a digital montage showing Sylvester McCoy, Sara Griffiths, grass, a motorbike, the TARDIS in a bubble and the TARDIS central console at an angle that makes it look like the time rotor is the head of Count Binface
The king travelled down to Portsmouth to meet his bride, and reported to Clarendon that 'her face is not so exact as to be called a beauty though her eyes are excellent good, and not anything in her face that in the least degree can shock one'. From The History of England, Volume III: Civil War by Peter Ackroyd
Cillian Murphy in Sunshine, Josh O'Connor in Challengers, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed, Charles Vanel and Yves Montand in The Wages of Fear, and Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men
"This week six years ago, you logged Lord of Illusions The Siege of Jadotville LA 92 P.S. I Love You"
"I still love The Killing Moon. The lyrics are mysterious and it’s open to interpretation. It’s got a timeless quality. Years after it was a hit, we got an email saying this bloke wanted to use the song in a film, Donnie Darko, which we didn’t think would go anywhere, so accepted a one-off £3,000. Then when the director did the director’s cut he replaced The Killing Moon with Never Tear Us Apart by INXS. Aren’t some people knobheads?"
Footnote: Not every head is Anthony Head's head. While it is true that Anthony Head's head is Anthony Head's head and therefore it is without a doubt an Anthony-Head's-head, supposing the possibility of other Anthony-Head's-heads which somehow... And it goes on like that. For ages.
An episode title screen from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, reading: "Walkies!"
The cutest little beagle you ever saw with ginormous ears
A Star Trek TOS episode title screen: "The One With The Stripper"
"His famous digital creation Brooklyn Bridge NFT is expected to generate over $69,000,000!"
Buffy Summers, the vampire slayer, holding a stake
The BBC website page for The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney, listing four upcoming episodes.
This isn't really a public message but if you need alt text it's a grey Philips 390 Pocket Memo dictaphone, the sort of thing you imagine Michael Douglas would smarmily talk into in the opening scene of an 80s thriller. Beside it is a tiny cassette tape that's only slightly taller than a 50p, upon which is the profile of the late queen
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming - the title is set at the bottom of the cover in something like Garamon on a silver background. A white strip above indicates it is in the Penguin Modern Classics range. The other 80% of the cover is one black-and-white photograph of Sean Connery in a suit looking bored and holding a pistol with a long barrel to frame his face.
Buck Meek, holding a white guitar, performing in Manchester earlier this month
A group of people in medieval-ish clothing wade through mud to some kind of stone trough
James Bond: "I thought the whole thing would be tasteless, tawdry and a bit phony. In the end we stayed for a week. The great thing about Disneyland is that it works. The moment they walk through those gates and find themselves in the Town Square and Main Street, the visitors know that they're going to have one hell of a good time. The rides are a knockout, and it does become wonderful."
Screenshot from the Letterboxd app showing three lists of films that use London Calling to indicate a scene in London, including Get Him To The Greek, The Conjuring 2, Die Another Day and more
A blue-screen error message of the Windows 10 style. It is headed "Automatic Repair" and says this function "couldn't repair your PC"
A photo of a computer screen, with vintage blocky icons and thick blue headers in the Windows 95 style showing file transfers between music folders including artists such as Haim, How to Destroy Angels, Weird Al Yankovic and Aimee Mann
A stuffed toy giraffe, somewhat bipedal, with very long legs, less long arms, and no neck at all. However, it is identifiable as a giraffe by its distinctive pattern and ossicones
A photo of a laptop screen showing an installation window to one side while the Linux Mint system monitor shows a live graph of CPU usage with one line at 100% for a minute, and a frenzied patch of CPU activity that brought it to a standstill
A very dark and shadowy game screenshot showing a figure aiming a gun amid an industrial sci-fi corridor with clanking metal doors, all rendered in lo-fi pixel art
Close up of a lined notebook on a page headed SIGNALIS, listing frequencies for Moon and Sun
"In North Korea, where photos published by the state media are believed to carry great symbolic weight, it is rare for individuals other than Kim Jong Un to be positioned equally prominently in the frame."
Vin Diesel, with a genuine Fast & Furious line of dialogue as a subtitle: "I'm one of those boys that appreciates a fine body, regardless of the make."
Screenshot from ER showing Dr Benton in surgery, with the credit "Directed by Quentin Tarantino"
An Instagram post from @gorbachev_alexandr, purporting to show a video of Tom Cruise. Over the video it says "Tom Cruise grabbed a 60lb camera and jumped into the swamp because the crew was 'too scared' to film it." A caption to the post suggests this happened while filming the "new" Mission: Impossible
Ethan Peck and his bare chest playing Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Darkness.
A mug containing a brownish liquid
FILMS STEPHEN WATCHED FIRST IN 2025 1. Sinners 2. Little Miss Sunshine 3. 28 Years Later 4. Weapons 5. In The Line Of Fire 6. The Searchers 7. Before The Devil Knows Youʼre Dead 8. The Lion In Winter 9. Black Bag 10. Final Destination: Bloodlines
A snowy mountain at night, with the image of a man wearing a Santa hat.
Disney+ episode list for Lost. 3. Tabula Rasa: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island. 4. Walkabout: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island. 5. White Rabbit: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island. 6. House of the Rising Sun: A group of people are trapped on an unknown island. 7. The Moth: Survivors struge to free Jack when he's buried alive.
A photo of a dusty computer monitor showing stats for a text document: 112,102 words, 524,043 characters, 06:55:11 reading time
A stitched representation of yellow wellington boots with the letters RNLI on them
A Christmas tree in a dark room, sparkling with too red, green, yellow and blue lights, topped by a Super Mario star
Two black socks, one marked PORT and the other STARBOARD
Screenshot of the BBC news homepage, with the headline: "Dick Cheney, former US president who helped lead 'war on terror', dies aged 84"
An illustration of Prince Philip, lying on his side behind the wheel of a car looking distressed with his glasses halfway down his face
A comic book panel, showing two male figures from behind on the deck of an 18th century ship, with sails and rigging around them. One points into the distance at an orange dinghy, asking “Is that a boat?”
An EPG displaying an episode of The Simpsons. “Treehouse of Horror XXXIV: In the 34th Halloween special, Bart is turned into an NFT, Lisa asks…”
A cocktail menu listing drinks based on films including Blade Runner, Mulholland Drive, The Great Escape and many more. Each includes a key to the kind of alcohol used, the size of drink and the price in yen.
A tweet from Brendan Hodges. “Listening to the McQuarrie Empire spoiler special and he sounds positively haunted. Talks a lot about the Final Reckoning first act issues, how he feels 'low', how hard production was, is amazed any of it works at all. I feel for the guy. Wish more filmmakers would be this honest.”
Bookshelves packed under a tall roof as a model train runs above customers' heads.
A Bläsverk lamp from Ikea - atop a wide blue base is a thin blue pole, topped by a white bowl shade that is covered by a blue bowl.
Silverstone 1979 information brochure. The paper is discoloured from age but it features a line drawing of a single-seater racecar and a motorbike. It bills Silverstone as the "world's fastest grand prix circuit". The brochure is sponsored by Esso, "the cat's whiskers"
On the shoulder of Penny Robinson perches a clearly computer-generated alien that looks as if a monkey had sex with the Crazy Frog. It is lit far more brightly than anything else in the scene.
A cropped screenshot of Instagram's Explore grid. In the centre is plain text that says "4 Signs That S*ggs Is A Major Issue In Your Relationship"
An Amazon listing for a bong in the shape of an old man's specifically, more specifically Captain Tom of Covid fundraising fame
A screenshot showing uBlock Origin settings, which has blocked 19,818 elements, trackers and ads since installation.
Formula 1 cars as photographed on a television screen. A team radio message from Max Verstappen reads: "Charles just rammed into me on the straight!"
A screenshot from Doctor Who, The Shakespeare Code, with a smiling David Tennant captioned “Good old JK!”
Doctor Who Magazine production notes, 29 April 2004. "Equally, it was worth asking JK Rowling to write an episode. Yes, I really did."