Robert Hill

@vonotar.bsky.social

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Navy & Army Veteran. Elsecaller. Tolerated by cats. Humanist. Please support mental health. Would rather be in Ankh-Morpork. Pro democracy, Pro NATO, anti Trump/Musk/Putin. Zero tolerance for MAGA. Veteran Against Trump Drank Potato

Lone Wolf #1, Flight From the Dark, by Joe Dever and Gary Chalk. Original US paperback edition.
Jabba the Hutt, an orange-faced crime lord lizard thing that sleepily boggles at more or less everything.
Two Ravens on top of a utility pole, beaks open in the Austin, TX heat.
Iconic photo of Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag on the Moon. But an insecure, raging narcissist sent his essence back in time to make the photo all about him. This is why the Moon's haunted.
The myth. The legend. The SCORCHED EARTH main screen. A windows 95 program with an era appropriate rendering of a mountain against a sky that shades down from purple to pink in conspicuous horizontal bars. To the right is a menu with options such as player count, physics, landscape, weapons, etc. All the things you can tweak to make your tactical tank experience the best it can be. If you remember this, it's time for your painkillers.
Time to return to the classics. From the hellsite before it rebranded: RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the gods. Time is a flat circle.
A rain-soaked raven perches on a power line next to some equally damp mourning doves this morning. The raven was yelling at some blue jays I couldn't see
Muppet Christmas Carol meme. Scrooge sticks his head out the windows. "You there boy, what day is this?" Tiny Tim, below "It's surprise Senate vacancy day!" Scrooge smiles at the bottom, relieved.
Ken Paxton, allegedly staring at the camera while standing near a blond woman on what appears to be a train or tram. He's got an expression that is either guilty as shit or resting impeachment face.
A man with a beard I can only describe as "plantation master lite", a blue suit, a blue tie and a small American flag pin is in a crown of people. His expression is that of horrified realization. This is JD Vance, a man out of his depth. In this moment, he's realizing there is in fact no bottom, and he will continue his descent into this hell of Trump's creation.
A gigantic turtle with a face like E.T. headbutted a wall a few hundred times. This is Morla, the Ancient One, hermit of the Swamps of Sadness in Fantastica. Yes, I said Fantastica, dammit.
Square cloud formation in a blue sky. Power lines and trees below.
A tortoiseshell cat is laying inside a long cardboard box with her head propped on some white cardboard sheets. She is very relaxed and happy and purring quite loudly. A white hand can be seen petting her at various times. This is your moment of Zen.
Bilbo and Ring meme. An old man stares down at his hand, he is wearing a dark suit and has Grey, frizzy hair. He has a pleasant expression. Text reads "After all, why not?" Second picture is the same man, frowning in deep thought, really staring at his hand. Text reads "Why shouldn't I have a third Mega Monster?"
Grooming time! Two tortoiseshell cats on a black mat with pink roses in the foreground. The one on the right is grooming her sister on the left.
A man in a beige shirt stands in front of an industrial wall, lit in purple. He has short brown hair, blue eyes, and is wearing a necklace with a trapezoidal amulet featuring the number 1 in black. The amulet is glowing. This is Norman in the Star Trek episode "I, Mudd".
Doctor Who red swirly 3rd doctor title screengrab. Text reads the following, up to the character limit. Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places forms that never were and never could be writhe for the impatience of the few who never saw what could have been. In the black water with the sun shining at midnight, those fruit shall come ripe and in the darkness of that which is golden shall split open to reveal the revelation of the fatal softness in the earth. The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear, but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields, or out to sea or in the very air, all shall come to revelation, and to revel, in the knowledge of the strangling fruit—and the hand of the sinner shall rejoice, for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead cannot forgive. And there shall be in the planting in the shadows a grace and a mercy from which shall blossom dark flowers, and their teeth shall devour and sustain and herald the passing of an age. That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated it shall walk the world in the bliss of not-knowing. And then there shall be a fire that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you that remains. Jeff Vandermeer, Southern Reach series
The Dr Who timewarp screen placed between two familiar hands, gently pulling apart.
A Tortoiseshell cat sits in loaf position on a black backpack. Her eyes are green, and she is alert and happy. Natural overcast sunlight illuminates from the right side of the image.
The Enterprise orbits a strange world. The Title reads "Don't Gaslight me, Jesus".
Title of infamous original Star Trek episode Spock's Dick.
Title of Star Trek TNG episode "Q Cards" Enterprise in orbit of a blue world.
Title for classic Star Trek episode "Hot Spockolate", the Enterprise is in orbit around an "M" class world
Release the Epstein Files in "Saved by the Bell" font
Saved by the Bell font with "Saved to my Phone" in text
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
Cimmerian burger. Chew, but...carefully. The words "BY CROM" are inside a hamburger bun. An ascii art sword is underneath.
THAT SCENE in Communion. Little grey terrorist peeking around a corner. Screw this. Fuckin' scary looking bastard. I blame myself.
Fun little infographic game version of the US. Different colors award different points according to the legend. It is tallied into the "US Level" number at the top. What's your number?
A black cat (Voodoo) sits in some fluffy blankets in front of some lovingly destroyed blinds. She is staring regally out of frame.
Cover of Genesis album We Can't Dance
There is an engraved coin in a man's hand. The coin depicts a man in old-fashioned military dress wielding a spear. Text around the coin reads "In crisis? Call 988. You will be warm again."
A godlike screaming cowboy is pointing and yelling at a smaller cowboy in the middle of what looks like an old west ghost town.
Probable raven on a lightpole.
Tortoiseshell store cat enjoying the sunlight.
Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street. Bert is looking up at text at the top of image. Ernie is staring directly into your soul. Text reads "After the second tab of LSD, Bert begins to read the text above him."
Cover of the paperback edition of the Star Trek novel Prime Directive, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
A peaceful cat sits and lives life in the foreground. This represents Tuvix, enjoying existence. Above and behind comes another cat, caught mid-pounce, utterly intending to summon utter chaos. This cat is Captain Kathryn Janeway.
The infamous "testicle tanning" segment that Tucker Carlson ran. The Vainglorious Man
Red shouldered hawk has stolen the caracaras favorite perch. The caracara is orbiting in an annoyed manner.
The most brilliant engineering mind in Starfleet, stymied by a lack of computer speech recognition. How do we know he didn't invent the thing?
Pope Leo XIV on That's What I Call Pontiff
Captain Picard, struggling with them midrats cravings
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV making things inspirational with a microphone and some important words
This is Voodoo. She loves my black backpack. I appear to have caught her mid-lunge? Also there is an orange thermal bag. For...artistic reasons.
Zapp for New New York. The hero we deserve.
Meme fuel. Meme fuel. The internet understands the assignment.
A History of World War II : A Graphic Novel, by Arnaud de La Croix and Vincente Cifuentes
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
A red-shouldered hawk stole the caracara's favorite perch. Red-shouldered hawk on a utility pole, with a caracara in flight behind.
An undated newspaper column on display against a wooden background. N.C.O. BURNED SELF TO INVENT GAS SALVE C.W.S. Sergeant Wins Mention and Commission by Experiments To test the efficacy of a preventative salve for mustard gas, Louis Weisberg, while a sergeant in the Chemical Warfare Service, repeatedly seared his flesh with the yellow poison and by his self-torture completed experiments that won for himself a commission and honorable mention in orders for "meritorious conduct". The story of the devotion to duty of Second Lieutenant Weisberg has been revealed with the publication of G.O. 4, in which several officers and enlisted men of the S.O.S. are mentioned for distinguished services, as previously announced here. The salve with which the American doughboy fighting in the Argonne and in Flanders smeared himself before going into battle, confident that with it and his gas mask he would come safely through any enemies mustard gas attack, was the product of Louis Weisberg's brain. For months, Lieutenant Weisberg, as a sergeant, worked many hours during each day and each night to develop his preventative for mustard gas burns. He would rub his salve preparation on his own body and then drop mustard gas on the salved portions. Time after time, the yellow poison burned deep into his flesh. He made use of guinea pigs, rabbits and other animals at the Chemical Warfare Service laboratories outside Paris, where he worked. But always when he wished to convince himself, he tried his changing preparations on his own body. There came a day last summer when he knew he had the right formula. By July, tubes of the mustard gas salve he had developed were being distributed to the fighting units of the A.E.F. at the front. Lieutenant Weisberg, who is 28, arrived in France in January 1918. He was commissioned last December.
A picture taken from inside the Chemical Corps museum at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. A skunk wearing boxing gloves and wearing a gas mask around it's neck featuring the US Army Chemical Corps insignia: two crossed retorts in front of a hexagon. The label underneath reads "Emblem designed by Walt Disney Studio to represent CWS chemical companies, 1942) CWS - Chemical Warfare Service
Red shouldered hawk perched on a utility pole, while a caracara circles.
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A tortoiseshell store cat relaxing behind a board game display.
A quickly (and badly) edited picture mixture of Trump clapping in front of the infamous Bush "Mission Accomplished" banner. I apologize for nothing.
Marco Rubio whispers rancid shit in Donald Trump's regrown ear.
2002, Verona, Italy. I'm 20 years old and standing next to the statue of Juliet Capulet.
Text against a white background: "The years almost over. We're in the home stretch. The home stretch:" Image is a still from "The Neverending Story", showing the path to the Sphinx Gate, a pair of guardians famous for laser eyes and bringing all the boys to the yard.
Waldenbooks, back when malls reliably had bookstores. My favorite place in the mall, solace for the soul of the compulsive reader.