HARD SAME

THEN I HAVE DONE MY JOB WELL

I honestly feel like the move would’ve been to spin off Methos. IMHO the makers of the show really underestimated how much of that show’s fan base were romance fans, not Highlander fans. You look up old videos of cons/panels in the 90s, it’s ALL women. Throngs. And they WORSHIPPED Peter Wingfield.

I see Brianna Wu trending again and I remind you that she really likes porsches and will pretty much say anything to get the attention that will get her more Porsches, so perhaps don't do that.

BTW one of these backdoor pilots was called “Two of Hearts” and it starred Claudia Christian as an immortal warrior midwife who is a modern day PI with her hot mortal husband and they solve crimes together in-between her chopping other immortals’ heads off and they totally should’ve made that show.

I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THIS AND IT IS GAMECHANGNG THANK YOU FOR BEING SO SMART

RIGHT it is alien horse radish cream

archeologists finding a mummy in Egypt that was buried with papyrus in its abdomen as part of the mummification process that turned out to be a part of the Iliad is such a magnificent piece of information to learn

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

100% eg the recent discussions in my TL about guest ninja on CHiPs

The final season of Highlander: The Series was wild. Half of it was backdoor pilots for new actress-led Highlander spinoffs (seriously, they did five different ones with different actresses) and after all that they gave the spin-off to series regular Elizabeth Gracen who’d been there the whole time.

A group of five people posing for a picture. A young Asian woman in a professional pantsuit and a skinny white guy with blue hair are seated in front, giving each other attitude. The three men standing behind them are smiling normally.

A support group schedule sign featuring a number of unconventional fantastical support groups including ex-tournament fighters and delicensed trans dimensional meta physicians

The Ex-Tournament Fighters Support Group in our short film “Go Gentle” which I wrote. I also play Buzz, the former pro-wrestler. Big acting stretch for me, range-wise. 😂

I have no respect for those people

I could deal with the redressing tbh. Even the lazy “paint the WHOLE hilt, pommel, and cross guard black” thing passed narrative muster with me. But CIVIL WAR SABRES WEREN’T STANDARDIZED WHY ARE THEY ALL EXACTLY THE SAME.

It was frustrating because Marto would do four to six variations of every model in a line so if they had access to one WHY DID THEY NEVER HAVE THE OTHERS

IN POINT OF FACT L they established in the episode “Reasonable Doubt” that Duncan would open a bank account, deposit a modest amount, and come back in a hundred years as his own great great grandson to collect the interest.

Originally they implied Duncan got his from Connor even tho they were clearly different swords but later they retconned it so he got his from a samurai after he shipwrecked in Japan

That sounds about right. They were all Marto models that they redressed or painted the hilts black.

Early on in the series Duncan would straight up take swords from immortals he beat and sell them in his antique store. Savage.

I know for a fact we would

It always viscerally disturbed me when they’d give a guest star on Highlander The Series the same sword as a previous guest star. Like I’d have to create a whole head canon explaining how Barry Pepper in “They Also Serve” ended up with Roddy Piper’s sword from “Epitaph for Tommy” or I couldn’t sleep

A director with a camera in a commercial kitchen filming a chef working the grill while an actor and restaurant manager watch

Actor Chris Casamassa dressed as a teriyaki grill cook choreographing a fight scene in a restaurant with two other performers wearing white

Blue smoke from a smoke machine filling a garage

A gray haired guy who is me holding a vintage WMAC masters action figure of the character Red Dragon, standing next to Chris casamassa who played that character

Weird cool day yesterday. @brandxjon.bsky.social started production on a short film I wrote called “Go Gentle” which stars Chris Casamassa who is legit a childhood hero of mine. So I got to watch him play a character I created and even tour my collection and sign my Red Dragon action figure of him.

a cat sitting on a chair at the dining room table looking nonplussed by a large plate of blini

when you've siezed the means of production and aren't sure what comes next

A golden doodle is smiling excitedly at a black dog who is looking back at him calmly.

HI HELLO HI FRIEND I JUST NOTICED THAT I’M A DOG AND YOU’RE A DOG AND I WAS WONDERING DO YOU WANT TO BE DOGS TOGETHER

This is one of the trends that legit gives me hope for the future of humanity

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

a white softcover book with several images of dinosaurs (some of which are definitely photos of plastic toys, the others not sure) labeled 'eyelike dinosaurs - 400 reusable stickers inspired by nature'

Anyway @mattfnwallace.bsky.social was like "Did you find anything fun while you were moving rooms" and I was like "Wehhh no, I did find a lip balm though"

but inevitably in a house full of flat rectangular objects you find a REAL INCREDIBLE FLAT RECTANGULAR OBJECT and you YELL WITH HAPPINESS

REUSABLE dinorawrs!

a weird cartoony animal that is shaped kinda like a pakicetus on a colorful background with text. "This nervous Pakicetus (I think) is here to tell you about Nino's BookCon appearance. I guess I have a brand now and it's weird animals that are free on Canva." In a speech bubble for the pakicetus: "yes hello great to be here. I promise this isn't a threat display, haha unless?"

A pakicetus on a colorful background. In a speech bubble is the following text: Queer Horror: Then & Now. Sunday, 4/19, 12:30, Room 402. Horror has always been queer, and now even more proudly so. Join these exciting voices in the space as they share their insights on queer horror--their origins, relationship, and work within it, current craft trends and industry developments--and the thrilling new futures they envision for lovers of the genre. Post-panel signing at 1:45, Autographing Table 2. Also if you keep scrolling, there's a cat pic."

Happy Friday! It's time for the return of "Nino announces their appearances at cons via weird free art on Canva"

Anyway, catch me at BookCon this Sunday on an incredible panel with @victormanibo.com, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, Jade Song, Andrew Joseph White, and Laura Samotin.

Just holing up here with my shelves full of real books written over the past century muttering something resentfully about pre-war scotch