JP Asher

@jpasher.bsky.social

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Somehow a streamer / 🌀 Dreamcast / Luton Town fan / veteran / formerly journo, newspaper editor, PR / languages: English, français, tiáșżng việt, ŚąŚ‘ŚšŚ™ŚȘ, portuguĂȘs, æ—„æœŹèȘž / she/her / đŸłïžâ€âš§ïžđŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ / twitch.tv/jp_asher

A sign saying New Hope Church, where letters spell out “God says homosexuality is in”. In the foreground, two young men hold up the letter “s”, the implication being that they removed it from “sin” to make “in”. The two men grin at the camera roguishly.
Monsignor Martinez from King of the Hill wearing a wedding dress and crouching as he dual-wields pistols in a church with a determined look on his face
Partick Thistle mascot Kingsley and Rangers mascot Broxi
The cover art of Above the Law’s record Untouchable. Four African-American men wear suits.
General Zod and his allies are imprisoned in that shard of glass that flies through space
A hand holds two pills next to an oestrogel pump-pack
PokĂ©mon character screen saying “so you want to me the girl, right?” With the pointer pointing to “YES” in capital letters. A long-haired girl in a skirt looks delighted.
The doctor from Peep Show says “you’ve had your fun with the deportations. There’ll be no more deportations today”
A clear-skied view of Alpine mountains, with the Matterhorn on the right
Matterhorn at dawn
A BBC News website article in which the opening line reads: "Steak, mashed potatoes and deserts [sic] for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful."
Renders of the head and shoulders of the character Mao from Shenmue’s development, showing her looking happy, pensive, shocked, sceptical, angry, and so on.
Two cardboard boxes, one of them an obnoxiously long and narrow one, in a house’s doorway. The long box is leant up against the door and the smaller box, which is square, is stood next to it. The walls and door are white and the floor is brown laminate flooring. There is a brown, green, red and black patterned doormat under the long package.
A blue a4 certificate on which is written, among other things, “rĂ©publique française - diplĂŽme d’études en langue française - DELF B2” and the details for John Patrick Asher
A Japanese Dreamcast magazine cover, showing an anthropomorphic Dreamcast girl in an orange dress dancing while representations of previous Sega machines look on while encouraging her.
Résultats de DELF B2 - compréhension orale 24/25, compréhension écrite 23/25, production écrite 25/25, production orale 13/25, totale 85/100
A Sega Saturn controller and console, next to a Dreamcast in a wooden TV stand
A sky news headline saying “Starmer and Farage defend sandwiches”, with a picture of the dear toolmaker’s son himself giving the sort of double thumbs up the geography teacher gives everyone on sports day, surrounded by high-vis-clad acolytes
A Mick Harford poster showing him in Luton Town’s snazzy 1991-92 home kit and surrounded by stats and facts, chief among them 217 Luton appearances, 92 Luton goals and two England caps, in a black frame with a white mount.
Ryo Hazuki in Shenmue holds up the sword in the dojo and says “But why’s a sword with no handguard in this box?”
Mark Stein, wearing the 12 shirt, holds his brother Brian Stein aloft after Luton’s 3-2 League Cup final victory over Arsenal in 1988, in which Brian scored two goals, including the winner
A young girl in nightclothes in a rustic Dourdogne bedroom in a video game with a watercolour art style. She is saying “je
 je me rappelle Ă  quel point c’était difficile les premiers jours. Loin de chez moi
”; in English (my translation), “I
 I remember how difficult it was those first days. Far from home
”
A scene from King of the Hill. Dale Gribble, a white guy, says: “Hey, do your people even celebrate Thanksgiving?” John Redcorn, a Native American, replies: “We did. Once.”
Ryo honks the horn obnoxiously in his forklift while using it to block the door of the Alpha Trading Office in Shenmue
A fen landscape, with the morning sun reflected off the surface of the calm water.
Publishing for Shenmue III transfers to ININ Games November 19, 2024 – ININ and YS NET announces that the publishing for Shenmue III will officially transfer to ININ Games as of today. Following the previous collaboration on Air Twister, this will deepen the relationship between ININ Games and YS NET. Known for their commitment to celebrating beloved titles, ININ Games is excited to shepherd Shenmue III into its next phase. This collaboration marks the beginning of a new chapter for Shenmue III, with ININ Games working closely alongside YS NET to honor the series' legacy while ensuring its accessibility to even more fans around the world.
The front and back of the chawan sign paper in Shenmue II
Stickers on top of a grey Asus laptop. They include, from top left: a Dreamcast design; a Hazuki tiger; a phoenix design; a Vietnamese woman in ao dai next to a map of Vietnam and lotus flowers; a dragon design; the Great Wave off Kanagawa; a Sega Saturn design; Ryo and Shenhua from Shenmue; a sticker saying “Powered by 東æ–č Super Eurobeat!!”; and the logo and wordmark for the Feisar team from Wipeout.
A scene from a football match with yellow and black-and-white teams.
A scene from a football match, with players in yellow kits and black-and-white kits.
Two teams walk out onto the pitch at an English non-League football ground, Westwood Road in St Ives, Cambs.
A black steam train goes past a car park, puffing white smoke as it goes.
Ian Holm as Ash in Alien (1979)
A wood and brass TV stand’s two shelves. On the top shelf are a grey PlayStation 1 atop a black PlayStation 2 and a white Dreamcast. On the bottom shelf are an NES Mini, SNES Mini, GameCube and Nintendo 64, along with a box containing N64 cartridges.
A league table in Football Manager 2024, showing Luton winning the Premier League unbeaten, with 108 points and with a goal difference of 124.
Top three games: Football Manager 2022 with 1,966.7 hours, Football Manager 2024 with 1,499.4 hours, and XCOM 2 with 654.2 hours
A rectangular chocolate cake cooling on a metal tray, with white icing on top
A rectangular chocolate cake cooling on a metal tray
Rich brown chocolate cake batter in a clear bowl with a wooden spoon sticking out of it
Four smiling children hold up big red poppies while wearing yellow T-shirts; three of the shirts say “future soldier” and the other says “my mum and dad are veterans”
Two shiny white Dreamcast consoles, one on the floor and the other leant up against a piece of furniture.
A portrait-shaped photograph of a heavily vegetated landscape, looking down towards a valley with green mountains in the distance. Trees are on each side of the picture, and the viewer is looking through the gap. A small house’s roof is visible below us on the slope, with clothes hung out to dry outside.
Tintin says: “Hey, I finished the escape game, I want to leave!” An angry face behind the door says: “sir, this is a psychiatric hospital”
Kent Brockman reading the news for election coverage
The PAL box for Shenmue II on Dreamcast.
A page from a French textbook showing different topics for discussion, one of which is “La femme la plus sĂ©duisante de la planĂšte”, accompanied by a drawing of a woman wearing a bikini and a crown
Send me the biggest Lib Dem poster you have. No, that’s too big.
Cover art for Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast, showing the main characters Vyse, Aika and Fina.
Two Sega Dreamcast consoles.
Two mixing bowls containing cake batter and chopsticks.
The contents page of the Luton Town programme, with Manchester United mislabelled as Sheffield United
Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road, viewed from the corner of the Main Stand.
A screenshot from Football Manager 2024, showing Pro Vercelli winning the Serie A title on the final day, by a single point over Milan, after beating Sassuolo 4-1.
Part of the Mail on Sunday front page of December 3, 2023, with the misspelling “sons’s” circled.
An arty postcard showing drawings of two men and a woman, and next to the postcard a smaller round green object with a Phoenix design.
A black T-shirt with a Channel 4 logo in Italian colours, a design that was used with 1990s British TV coverage of Italian football
The top portion of the front page of the Scottish Sunday Express. Under the Scottish masthead and flag are the words “the big switch on - millions to tune in for Lionesses”, and Alessia Russo in her England kit
A scene from the show The IT Crowd in which two men, Roy and Moss, are at a football match and not enjoying it. Moss says: “Hooray. He’s kicked the ball. Now the ball’s over there. That man has is now. That’s an interesting development. Maybe he’ll kick the ball. He has indeed and apparently that deserves a round of applause.”
The search button on Bluesky, looking rather like a frying pan or maybe a cup of coffee viewed from above.