Ryan "The Goose" Goosling in Project Hail Goosely.

As a #personallore note, I don't like using "God" to swear, bc I don't believe in a god, so I will often whimsically use Ryan Gosling's name instead, like, "In the year of our Ryan Gosling 2026," or whatever.

I find him SO charming. He's a hit with me, & he makes interesting choices, too.

#FilmSky

So, when the #OliveGarden hostess CRANKED the top back to put helium in the balloon, I FREAKED the FUCK out, and attempted to climb up my mom’s legs to safety, screaming “BROKE NECK! BROKE NECK!”

I was, and in many ways continue to be, a very high-strung child 😆

#personallore #lol #familylore

Here’s a funny story about me my #parents still reportedly tell (to the extent they talk about me at all):

When I was, like, 3, we went to #OliveGarden, & they were doing balloons for kids, which I was psyched about.

But they were filling them from a helium tank w/ a 🤡 head…

#lol #personallore

In North #Houston #TX, and did a preliminary interview and then had to go take the #ASVAB.

I've never scored below the 99th percentile on any #standardizedtest I've ever taken, even completely blind, & the ASVAB was no exception, so I had a really, desirably high score...

#army #personallore

2/9

What set Mark off, if anyone is curious, is that I was playing video games in the living room, where he made us put them so we could be watched (they're total fucking creeps, my parents, and wanted to watch everything everyone was doing constantly), and my mom had the nerve to say to me, "Every time I look up you’re on that goddamned video game,” which was 1. A total lie, and 2. Hilarious that she was so irritated she ‘took the Lord’s name in vain,’ which was something she usually pretended she cared about, so I felt pretty loose and flippant, and shot back, without looking, “Well, look up more often, then. I barely play it.” And my dad LOST HIS SHIT. It was also hilarious. I wasn’t worried he’d hurt me, because there were too many eyeballs there in the living room, so it was just immediately hysterical how triggered he was, and he stormed over to where I was playing it, ripped both systems out of the wall, fucked up the plaster and drywall and wallpaper, and the table the TV was sitting on, the TV, too, lol, and dragged this big ball of appliance-wires and consoles and controllers to our deck, and tried to gather it all (it was like a Mr. Bean film, watching this; I was dying laughing immediately, like, DOUBLED OVER, crying and gasping, I was laughing so hard) and hurl it down the three stories to the basement patio, and he finally managed to do it, and he’d just tuckered himself all out by the time he came back inside. Oh, my god, I’m dying laughing NOW just typing it. It’s one of my happiest memories with my terrible, dumb father 😂

I did not mean to get this deep into #KCookandCatsCo #personallore, but this was so funny to me as I started to write it up, I couldn't stop 🤣

Read it or don't, idc, but it's sincerely 1 of my happiest memories w/ my dad, if that tells you anything about our relationship.

#parenting #videogames

... and I have 0 tolerance for it, so my solution to this frequent occurrence was to go absolutely (verbally) nuclear, in the hopes/expectations that my antagonist would be so provoked, they'd do something actually unforgivable/criminal (hit me or whatever)...

#personallore #bullies #bullying

2/3

Aw. Poor kid. I want to tell him, the way you solve this is you tell him your dad knocked up his mom, and also, you're gonna knock her up again after school, and whatever else it takes to get him to see red and fuck up really badly so the cops get involved and there's paperwork and yada yada yada, and it's SO easy to do, lol.

This moment from #Weapons where Alex is bullied brought up some #personallore for me:

People in MS & HS (I was homeschooled up until 8th grade, when my #mom & I explicitly could not stand to be near each other anymore, #lol) used to try to lightly antagonize/bully me like this...

#storytime

1/3

Just a piece of personal lore.. 😂 #firstboyfriend #personallore #funnystory #collegehookup #comingout

Are you guys, like, clicking on/following #hashtags? 🤔

#KcookandCatsCo is a good 1 to get to know us & a lot of those are tagged with #personallore, which is fun…

What else…

Obv #FilmSky & #MovieSky are the 2 prominent ones we post in; #CatSky, too. Do you guys track those communities?

#BlueSky

I wonder how many of you guys know that the K. stands for Kay 🤔

I used to be called Kevin Cook (blech), but I’m #trans & always hated my name for other, unrelated reasons, anyway, so I shortened it to something cuter (Kay), such that I can still sign checks K. Cook 🤓

#personallore #KCookandCatsCo

As a #personallore #KCookandCatsCo side note, the #cats & I have an agreement wherein I do not mine them for content or take any more photos than is absolutely necessary, bc the only one of them that doesn't mind being photographed is Peaches, the photogenic cutie from our #BlueSky photo 🤩

#CatSky

OMG I DO REMEMBER THAT 🤣

Wow. It was a wholly-blank slate of non-recollection until you mentioned all that, and I 1,000% remember that property now.

Bit of #personallore, the first music I ever bought for myself was MC Hammer's 2 Legit 2 Quit on a cassette tape at a garage sale at age 8. Loved it!

My dad, Mark, does it, too, but he's only ever been married to my mother, who was & remains his 1st wife, so it's equally off-kilter & inappropriate, & he also has to explain way more than bask in laughter & approbation of a good joke 😅

I don't like him, but we're alike.

#personallore #lol #dads

And dude I CRUSHED those guys. I won nearly every tournament I entered, prob bc I was a middle schooler with literally nothing else better to do, and most of them had mortgages and wives and shit 😂

I don’t have a lot of happy childhood memories, but one of my favorite things in the world when I was ~10-12 was traveling around on Saturday mornings to local Toys R Us stores and beating dudes 3-4 times my age in #PokémonTCG.

It always delighted me what sore losers they were, too 😆

#personallore

You were the EiC??

I wasn’t very political or well-liked, so I only rose to the position I petitioned to create, Blog Editor/Online Editor (I did a bunch of web-only stuff, which wasn’t even that forward-thinking in 2012), and the EiC was pissed I made it onto the editorial board 🤓

#personallore

Here’s a weird piece of my #personallore:

For reasons that were, & remain, a mystery, I DEMANDED that my parents get me the #JamesBrown Complete Box Set when I was, like, 7 or 8.

I fucking LOVED it!

He spoke to me. I was a weird kid 😆

music.youtube.com/watch?v=XV9a...

#jazz #funk #soul #Music

“I should NOT have eaten all that #chocolate,” is a thing I find myself saying to myself, like, 4-6 times a week 😑

Also, #personallore: my mom used to stare quizzically at me until I’d go, “What?!” every time I ate chocolate, then she’d say, “you like chocolate more than any boy I’ve ever known.” 🏳️‍⚧️

This is pretty fun 😆

#personallore: I got thrown off the #sports #podcast I helped build by the guy who started it bc we disagreed on #PEDs in #baseball.

I said “Who gives a shit? Let them, idc,” and he was so incensed he fired me #lol

112 eps, too!

So tend to these relationships 😅

#podcasting

#personallore:

I've never been invited to a #wedding. Privately, internally, I want so badly to celebrate someone's #marriage with them! And I'm a huge, sentimental romantic who thinks every marriage will make it & I always root for love.

But I'm a liability in other social situations, so no joy 😭

My mother swore to never curse again after that lmao

#vtuber #fyp #storytimevideos #childhoodmemories #personallore

YouTube Music desktop, and idk from "I Saw Three Ships," but the rest are all certified fucking bangers.

Man, I really love #ChristmasCarols 😅

Weird, right? Not something I'd think people would guess about me 🎄

#personallore #KCookandCatsCo #Xmas #Christmas

Now, folks seem to know better, but ALL the time when I was a kid, people would ask me:

"Would you rather be happy or right?"

And I always thought it was the dumbest fucking question I'd ever heard, every time, bc how could you BE either without being the other? 🤔

#personallore #kids #IBeLike

K. Cook & Cats, Co. which is four cats and me, a catty person (cat-person for short). At your service 💁‍♀️🐈🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

This is what it's like being my friend 😅

#KCookandCatsCo #personallore #IBeLike

I'm actually delighted and super-flattered by 'a puppy with thumbs,' which I think is a way nicer characterization than what most people would offer, especially when pressed 🤣

I get c-word a lot, #lol 😆

Country-music superstar Toby Keith once knocked me to the ground in Atlanta, and I DO NOT blame him I've told this story a THOUSAND times, but if you’ve never heard it before, it’s as good once as it ever was 🤠 | #StoryTimeWithKay

I've now written a fair amount of #personallore stuff on #Medium, which is my favorite of the stuff that I #write. Easily.

It's kinda why I write other stuff, to build an audience for the #stories I really want to tell, which are these.

You could ease into it w/: medium.com/@kcookandcat...

#humor

I don't know if you guys see bleets that are buried in conversation-threads with other #BlueSky users, but I dropped a bit of #KcookandcatsCo #lore (which, for @bomani-hamletcook.bsky.social is #personallore) in conversation w/ @marifromky.bsky.social earlier

All true 😆

#CatSky #catperson #graycat

I don't want to be pedantic, especially to someone who has quickly become one of our favorites at KC&Cc, but it IS pronounced:

Boh-MAHN-ee.

And it's a proud name. Kay's sister, Chloe (mom!) gave it to me, & it means 'warrior' in Swahili 😤

Kay appended the '-Hamlet' to the end of it

#personallore

I paid for it #lol 😅

I had to put up with my parents’ bullshit for 25 years, and I also Nfn never saw a DIME of their fucking money, even though I still hilariously sit on the board of their ‘charitable’ foundation bc my sisters refuse to vote me off 😆

#personallore #KCookandCatsCo #501c3

Tonight on #SaltyWaifus @6:45P EST @cyberelladraws.bsky.social get's some Lee Lore from the animation college days. Second year layout class was an experience neither my desk buddy or I will forget.

#leedraws #exodraws #personallore #twitchstreamer #twitch #streamer

m.twitch.tv/exorcismslip...

Some good advice on personal folklore and writing from Tyler Brannan @inthekeep.bsky.social #folklore #writing #gamedesign #authorsky #folkloring #personallore

Richard, whose demeanor is radically different, though he's still a little guarded and cautious: "Look, we got lucky, don't jinx it. We only have a week left..."

Richard: "...before the loan's due. I gotta finish figuring out our trips tonight, so we can jam out early."

Tommy Boy: "Okay, I'll tell you what. You work out that scientific stuff. I'll go out and get a pizza." Richard has a map and a notebook out, lol. I doubt what he's doing is all that scientific, but to Tommy, it may as well be.

The upcoming scene is #iconic in my #personallore, as well as in the annals of #IconicComedyScene history:

This time, it's cracking me up that #TommyBoy refers to routing the trip as 'working out the scientific stuff.' 😆

D+ It's not a grade they like to give out 🤣

#FilmSky #Film #MovieReview