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On the left is a picture of Rio Citrus, a Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters toy of a sherbert-blue bird. She's a small bird wearing a white and blue skirt decorated with musical notes, a dark turquoise scarf/neckerchief, and a greenish-cyan cowl/hood which has a dark turquoise stem of a quaver musical note protruding (so the bird's head is effectively the ball of the note). To the right is the bird's name in blue text, given both in Japanese and English. As with the last time I made this same tenuous joke, this image is screencapped from a video by @sweetsylvanians on Youtube.
A copy of Mantis, subtitled "the international art + comics zine". It's a hand-made zine in a tall format, 28cm high by 14cm wide. The pages are punch-holed through and then held in place with screwed-together metal thingies, it looks cool. The cover is mostly blue & red, abstract art - several clouds or speech bubbles of different shapes, each with three dots inside - that looks like it could be screenprinted (lots of overlaid patterns & transparency), but is digital and very nicely printed. The title is in green. The zine is lying at an angle on a bland wooden table, next to a monstera plant cutting in a small glass container of water, its glossy green leaves reaching above and just in front of the zine.
Unflattering photo of me in bed
Circular logo of an anthropomorphised cat walking a dog in a park (it was based on her real pets, not my idea), with text "Pawsome Pals".
Screencap of a Monchhichi phone game. Background text says "Premium Monchhichi Roulette", it's like a spinning fruit machine game with three different characters in a row. Foreground text says "Get!!" with the winning roulette character beneath, which is a vampire version of the Monchhichi character with little fangs, dressed in a pink shirt, blue suit and purple top hat & cape. Beneath that is a score (112) and a "continue" button in Japanese.
A puppeteer dressed in red is onstage manipulating the marionette Pink Cat (a tall pink cat with beautiful big eyes, a pink handkerchief and pink high heels), Pink Cat is leaning their head back while stamping a foot in time to the backing music.
A picture of a disinguished elder cat called Mr. Pickles. He is black with a white chest and legs, some white hairs amongst the black showing his age. He is sat on the corner of a low garden border wall, behind a flower bed with some green foliage and small indigo-coloured flowers.
A unicorn Beanie Boo toy with pink & blue fur and yellow hooves, wearing a black eye mask. It's standing on what looks like the arm behind a computer monitor, in front of NASA's CAPCOM communications desk.
A copy of the Joe Vitale LP "Roller Coaster Weekend". The album cover shows Joe in the seat of a rollercoaster going around a track, with a big grin on his face, hair looking amazing, wearing a black tank top featuring a big print of Willian Neal's weird hybrid-armadillo-tank illustration from the ELP album "Tarkus".
A one-page panel from the book. A person is walking with their fluffy dog, saying "Let's go home", with some city buildings behind. Above them, a large flying saucer hovers above the mountains in the distance, next to a huge, bright full moon.
A yellow Sylvanian Family snail in front of a yellow piano.
Some pokemon dude, honestly I don't know, I'm just trying to join in. But it's a Pokemon 30 year logo with some sort of blue guy wearing a ruff, with blobby arms & leaf-like legs.
bluesky notification saying "Dale from the Lodge followed you"
A retailer's image of some "magic worms" (fuzzy toy worms on an "invisible" transparent thread). There is a large purple one, then ten smaller ones of various other colours in rows beneath it.
A nighttime photograph of some graffiti on a brick wall beneath an underpass, with yellow light reflecting off the black road. The graffiti letters look like they say HT but actually it's probably KT, I only realised that when I got home and looked at the photo properly.
A copy of Ding Pao-Yen's book "Console 2073" is photographed next to a large French dictionary, both of which are on a neutrally-coloured woollen blanket. The cover of Console 2073 shows a character seen foreshortened from below, walking through a scene (representing the VR world in the comic) of floating keyboard keys, consoles and wires, compact discs and coffee shop signs.
Three Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters rabbit cradle baby figures (from 40th anniversary cottontrail rabbit family set), photographed against a blank white background. They are all wearing the same nightdress with a lace-trimmed hood, lace trim hem and large yellow bow, however one nightdress is blue with a cloud pattern, one is pink with a cloud pattern and one is light green with a forest pattern.
A Sylvanian Family / Calico Critters Flora Rabbit cradled baby is playing a small drum, they are wearing a pink beret and pink, turquoise & yellow dress. They're stood in front of a brown & white conical sea shell that looks a bit tree-like, & is stood upon a low pile of blue, green, black & clear glass pebbles. Some silver & gold icicle-shaped tinsel hangs in the background like forest (or aquatic) fronds.
A ceramic (?) model of Santa Claus stands holding a what looks like a fawn, beside him, part of the same model is a small cherubic child in a red Santa cloak holding what looks like a small fire hydrant (?) or perhaps it's a reliquiry containing the holy bones of Rudolph (unclear). Next to these two is a small plastic dinosaur (velociraptor?) looking aggressive. This festive trio stands dramatically in front of a backdrop of two multicoloured gloves that have a soft pastely felted wool type of finish.
Screencap of a Twitch notification telling us we've got the "WorldOfTanksBenedict emote" emote drop. The emote is a tiny picture, presumably of Benedict, wearing a santa hat.
A photo of the book "Not Ready For Life" by Ding Pao-Yen (Glacier Bay Books). The cover of the book shows two school-age children holding strange objects that look like carved totems. The envelope the book came in is visible behind, it has nice ink stamps of the Sendai Books logo (it looks like a goose in flight, viewed from above, but the wings also show protruding leaves as of fanned pages of a book) and a cute one of Ghibli's Totoro holding a sack.
Poster for "Slappy and the Stinkers". Five children are on some sort of big tricycle thing, their teacher left behind holding his foot in pain, in the foreground a sealion looks coy (it has its tongue out like blep).
An image of a Sylvanian Family baby, dressed in a pink & yellow snail costume, against a white background. Text to the side gives the character's name in Japanese, then beneath in English.
A low resolution screen cap of Sweep, a famous puppet dog from The Sooty Show, travelling at speed (his ears are flying behind him) on a car that is made out of a huge bone (with wheels, license plates, and a driver's wheel/steering column).
Photo of a Steam Controller lying atop a package of sachets of Plenvu Oral Powder.
Fuzzy selfie of two grinning middle-aged people. I'm wearing an In Bed With My Brother "Philosopy of the World" t-shirt (which was a great, chaotic Shaggs-inspired show at the Edinburgh Fringe), Martin Wong is wearing a hand-drawn (!) Beat Happening "I <3 Olympia" shirt, where the heart is replaced by a cat's face! K Recs have 1 (one) still in stock on their website btw
The Linda Lindas on stage at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow. They are bouncing about the stage very boisterously.
A screencap from the Netflix show My Melody & Kuromi. My Melody (a white rabbit wearing a pink hood & collar) is sat in a peaceful woodland clearing, holding a cup of tea. A small pink teapot is resting on a treestump, & they also have a small wicker basket with them. Subtitle captioning text reads: "When you don't know what to do, it's best to take a little break."
A screenshot from the Netflix show My Melody & Kuromi. It shows a framed picture of My Melody cutting up a fish, it has a pastel yellow frame, and is hanging on a wall decorated with pastel-pink wallpaper with a pattern of strawberries & hearts. Subtitle translation text on the screen reads "There's nothing more boring than hearing about someone else's dream."
A screenshot of the Revenant character (in white bridal-style dress, with floral headpiece) sitting on the edge of a cliff, with her back to camera, looking out over a grey sea.
Bluesky age verification prompt message shown when trying to access my messages. Text also reads "Don't worry! All existing messages and settings are saved and will be available after you verify you're an adult."
Colourful poster headlined "Small Press Day 2025", listing about 20 creators appearing at the event, surrounded by several colourful comic characters of different types. Event is at The Counting House, above the Pear Tree on West Nicholson Street (opposite Lighthouse Books).
Two cassette tapes with nice colourful artwork, against a floral fabric, each tape also has a sticker next to it. One tape is called Apres Skweee & has a sticker with the “famous” skweee toothpaste tube logo, the other tape is Jardinage Nocturne by Smackos, the sticker is reflective (hologram) silver with text saying Legowelt, with a cool cyborg wolf holding a small synth (or keyboard controller) like a gun.
A pic from Facebook, someone is asking if anyone has found their dog’s teddy. The pic is of a tired-looking dog with “sad” eyes on a pavement, holding a large brown teddy in their mouth while looking towards something off-camera.
Again it’s a selfie with a ball-shaped plushie of Luna the cat from Sailor Moon held in front of my face so it looks like my head. Behind me on the wall is a purple yoga mat decorated with tiny white dots (which is an artwork by Eye).
Selfie in front of a (v bright) window, I’m holding a ball-shaped plushie of Luna from Sailor Moon in front of my face so it sort of looks like my head.
Cover of the novel E.T. - The Book Of The Green Planet. ET is peeking from behind some lush alien flowers, in the foreground is what looks like a tiny harp with some piezo pick-up mics connected to a silver surface, presumably jamming some cool alien sounds.
The famous "Elmo on fire" meme (a picture of the puppet Elmo looking upwards with their arms held aloft, a wall of flames behind them), I've added text reading "rejection sensitive euphoria", this is in an "Old English" font that has a bit of a heavy metal vibe to it.
Yellow CD booklet page with a red monochrome photo of young Charli, the colours are very over-saturated & intense, there is a lot of text with her Thank Yous, which includes lots of unselfconscious teen slang like, ie. "Brrrappp - get crunk!"
Vinyl LP cover of first album by 60s band The Cake. It has CAKE in large decorative white text over a monochrome photo of the 3 female band members but with stripes on their clothing in colour (a raspberry mauve & yellow). The LP sounds a lot better on vinyl than on youtube, really dynamic & lush arrangements
Five vegetable Jamaican patties in their packets in a pile on a plain table with a Sylvanian hedgehog pizza dad next to them. He is extremely furry and is wearing a yellow top with red necktie over a green & white checked shirt & trousers, plus a brown apron - kinda “Italian rustic” I guess.
Tiny Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters bunny baby/newborn, wearing a close-fitting strawberry-patterned wrap & an outsized Santa hat meant for an adult - it makes them look a bit like a red-capped mushroom. They are stood amidst the needles of an xmas fir tree, with a few white fairy lights & a couple of festive baubles around them.
A Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters hedgehog is wearing a red & white santa suit, riding in a red & gold sleigh across a snowy-looking landscape of wooly batting/padding fabric and hedgerows of silver tinsel. In the foreground, the sleigh is being pulled by a tiny rabbit baby driving a car shaped like a pink swiss roll cake with white frosting edgework. Text in red reads “Happy Holidays” accompanied by two small sprigs of holly.
A nativity scene of Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters. A cradled newborn bunny is wearing yellow silky bed dress and nightcap, lying in an opened vintage matchbox with a design of a fuzzy wild cat on its lid. Around this crib are three babies, a black midnight cat and a lamb, both in pyjamas & nightcaps, plus a bunny in lilac romper. Behind them is a wall of tinsel, with the floor a white paddng fabric which looks like snow. A metallic multi-pointed star hangs in the top left foreground, above the manger.
A person's hand holding a toy koala in front of the camera. The koala has grey fur, green trousers and a plaid/tartan top. A black dog (working cocker spaniel) called Missy is sitting in shot, she is very interested in the koala.
A paperback copy of Kyoko Okazaki’s manga Pink, photographed against a lilac scarf. The cover shows a line-drawing of a very dainty, demure-looking young woman, in a billowing skirt & boater hat with cute bow, leaning forward while clutching a suitcase at knee-level with both hands. The colours of the cover are predominantly white and a pastel peach-adjacent pink.
Two Sylvanian Families “Baking Baby Party” figures in close-up by the touch-pad of a laptop. One is a newborn rabbit figure in a strawberry coloured wrap, driving a tiny pink car that looks like a strawberry swiss roll, with white fondant edging. The other is a larger baby rabbit in a lilac romper with lacework ruff, wearing a high teapot on one ear. Text reads ‘Stop glamorising “the grind” & start glamorising whatever this is’.
A photo I stole from ebay of a vintage Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters figure of a baby frog (Iris Bullrush), they are wearing a pink romper with white frills at the neck, and they look despondent. They're stood on white & grey carpet in from of a dark grey background. Text added above them reads "me as a baby contemplating the frogology of self" (a reference to the song "Fairytalez" by Gravediggaz).
Poster for event "To End The World As We Know It", listing the music programme of Chuquimamani-Condori, Rashad Becker, Sunik Kim, Nat Raha & Ailie Ormston" against a red background with what looks like a part moon.
A screenshot from an Ebay "Recommended For You" theme titled Dolls & Doll Playsets, showing images of a few current live auctions for Sylvanian Family collectible figurines and domestic display dioramas.
Alice Longyu Gao performing Clingy. They’re on stage with a harp, singing into a headband microphone so their hands are free, a screen behind shows footage of them in the street. For much of the clip they’re stood in profile making expressive movements with their hands. There is a strong light sweeping atmospherically across the audience and a couple of people are holding up their phones to film.
Alice Longyu Gao on stage singing, with a harp to their side. A busy crowd is dancing, the crowd and Alice are jumping and rapid strobe lighting begins when the “i love it” part comes in.
The widely-shared photo of Janey Godley standing outside the Turnberry golf resort owned by Donald Trump. Approached by a police officer, she's holding a hand-drawn placard which says "Trump Is A Cunt".
A blue-skinned humanoid figure with bare breasts and the head of a deer stands in the left-hand foreground, before a green tree. A little further back, two nuns are pictured running into the scene from the right. A distant yellow & green fairy-tale castle dominates the central background, and three rabbits (two wearing what look like large diamond rings as collars) cavort amidst the centre area.
Sleeve features a vibrant, & dense but fluid, stylised cartoon painting of an elephant in a flower-rimmed top hat and dinner suit driving an old-fashioned roofless motor car through thick vegetation. The nearest wheel arch acts as the hair or headpiece of a lightly smiling face that replaces the wheel. Several birds, butterflies & rabbits populate the background trees & high foliage around the car. Everything is rendered in pleasingly-serene greens and blues.
Sleeve shows a peaceful pastel drawing (mostly in warm turquoises, greens & blues) of the close-up surface of a pond. There are several lily pads plus a couple of pale violet water lily flowers, and a couple of closed red & white flowers with long stems. At the top left, a portrait of a smiling face (presumably Art) is blended subtly with the water, as if he is appearing as a ghostly vision or benevolent omen.
Sleeve is white with a cartoon drawing of a strange character (Stumpy?) and band name in hand-drawn black bubble text beneath it. The character is entirely rec with huge eyes with diamond pupils, big open mouth with two mismatched front teeth, black hair with two balls (like a bun) on top. It has arms & feet but no neck, waist or legs. It has not been drawn by a professional artist but it has a lot of weird charm, could make for a nice unusual tattoo.
LP sleeve shows a very cute owl peering from a hollow in a tree, it has one eye closed. Sleeve layout/design is unsophisticated but nonetheless looks v cool, text at top reads “MOOD jazz IN HI-FI” with “jazz” in a bolder font, with one z unaligned, presumably to represent the wild and uninhibited nature of the music (LP contains sexy hammond organ slow jams with double bass accompaniment).