Justin R

@thefireremains.bsky.social

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I write musicals for a living 🎵 Proud cat dad 🏳️‍🌈 and 🎮 and 👻 On the hunt for chill fiber vibes 🧶

Me with a standee of Little Death, very excited for the movie
A can of SPAM in a "limited edition" Hello Kitty themed packaging
Nama Stap, a piece by Igshaan Adams depicting (through textile) desire lines of the Nama people
A tiny baby on picture day in a Hawaiian-ish shirt
Kris from video game Deltarune drinking Alphys' favorite punch in front of her and throwing the cup at her feet mockingly
Me hiding behind the merman on the red and yellow cover of Queer As Folklore, a wonderful book by Sacha Coward
A group of six people in front of a Barnes & Noble step and repeat wall holding each other in photo pose. On the right, in a sunny robe and smile is me, and in the middle left (with signature pink mask stating "Love Is Real") is Chuck Tingle
A man is pulled into a dark and distant hell by shadowy figures with long pointy claws (spoilers for the movie Ghost)
A 30-something gay dude in a white tile bathroom playing with the afternoon backlight. He has a big dangly rainbow earring and a bright yellow tank and his mustache is back again. You can't see the jigglypuff hat, but it's there in spirit
A mocktail sitting on a table under a violet light that says "naughty corner"
A lamp with many radiating panels reflecting the contents of a housewares store and also my face and body
And iced coffee and a book (Fredrik Backman's My Friends) overlooking a sandy alcove in a gay seaside town
A beautiful puppy (Great Pyrenees mix) laying on her back at my feet looking up into the camera, hoping for scritches
A first-person video of me walking down the sidewalk and getting mauled by an inflatable red tube man
A very skinny black cat laying on a brick walkway
An empty theatre (it's 10am) with one viewer about to enter the Backrooms. Not pictured: the friend taking the picture.
A bearded man (me) in profile wearing a lavender top and a yellow kerchief, smelling multiflora roses in the woods.
A toilet paper dispenser in a roadside men's bathroom with graffiti reading: Send Poop Pics. A phone number is written below.
Me and a friend in front of a statue of a multi-colored sheep whose body is a ball of yarn.
The cover of the book "I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend For $200", standing on a table next to a (mostly) finished iced coffee.
A bearded man with salt and pepper coloring holding his face in front of a window with twinkle lights around it. Above and beside him, the walls are a deep green color called "arugula".
Lady Gaga singing about Judas.
Two crudely drawn french people being tired
A picture of a coffee (mexican mocha cold brew) and book (Breakfast of Champions) on a table in a screened-in porch. A black cat perches on a couch making enemies with local wildlife.
A video of a black cat trying to steal various costume earrings from a jewelry box
A black cat hanging off the edge of a lap, stretching out his arm in the laziest move imaginable
Tobias in a crowd screaming "there are dozens of us. Dozens!"
Five awesome people in active wear and tutus in front of a painted sign reading "Greetings from Asbury Park NJ"
A black cat lying on his back on the cool hardwood floor, hind legs splayed out
An image from the comic Ariel Needs Legs by Neil Cicierega in which Ariel and Prince Eric are walking along the beach and he is telling her "however Flareon is the only fully evolved fire-type pokémon that cannot learn solar beam" (which, at the time, was correct)
A party sign with colorful balloons printed on it. Written across it in blue dry-erase marker is the phrase "Line Starts At Bathtub" and they have added soap bubbles because why not?
Yoko Kanno dancing with a keytar while she and the Seatbelts play Tank!
Marquee outside a Brooklyn theatre reading: Kings - Yoko Kanno with Seatbelts - Sold Out
View from under a weeping cherry tree
Me in the Botanical Garden walking toward a camera I totally didn't set up myself, in my paisley brown pants, green mushroom shirt, floral robe, mushroom bag and beads. I even do a li'l twirl at the end so you know I'm a fun guy.
A collection of streets signs featuring a "no left turns", "one way", and "Ketchum St."
A black cat putting his front paws on my leg as if to say "give me scritches?"
Comedian Richard Lewis drinking a Bokū juice box: the juice box for adults
Me trying to take a long distance selfie with Mario and Luigi in the Mushroom Kingdom, at Universal's Epic Universe park.
My humanoid-form Ditto encountering his first Goomy, the purple and green slug pokémon, who will become his neighbor and eventual best friend. Goomy is currently saying "Goo?!" and it is adorable.
A hotel across a misty lake, giving real Silent Hill 2 energy
View of Disney's Carribean Beach Resort from the bridge. There is a yellow resort building across the water, which is dotted by lillies and surrounded by palm trees. The sun is just beginning to peek over the horizon and it is conpletely quiet and still.
Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin hiding under some roots from the Nazgûl
A newly-generated logo for Pokémon Pokopia with the replacement text: "be gay, do crime". The O is a pokéball and the I is dotted with a ditto face. The text sits on a pixelated green ditto shape against a backdrop of a pokémon village.