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Neil Webber

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Can’t sing, can’t dance, can handle a sword a little. LARPer, Warhams, Lardy fan, amateur luvvie, general history, enjoyer of rugby despite everything. He / him.

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Also the first person I’ve ever heard suggest Yorkshire is not in the North of England, given wiki lists 23 Roman villas there

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Metacentric height is for geeks!

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Wolfsbane, not Wolfsbans. I think this is on my fat fingers for once, and not autocorrect

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Morning Womble hope all’s well! Currently reading Wolfsbans by Guy Haley. Now onto the last handful of the Horus Heresy series - it’s been generally good space war, with some real highs

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"How long have you been here?" She asked the lightship pilot. "Longer than I can remember." "How long will you stay?" "Until they return." She glanced at the blackhole. "The chances of anyone escaping that are tiny." "But not nil." He said. "And if they do, then my light will guide them home"

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First Minnesota’s action was in front of Cemetery Ridge. 20th Maine were on Little Round Top. Two different heroic, doomed, vital bayonet charges on 2 July. Plenty of valour to go round at Gettysburg.

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It seems the USSC saw that line from Frost/Nixon and thought it was pretty neat, and not a horrendous statement of autocracy…

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That’s the sort of plan that goes down in history books, alongside “we can control him”

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Closing on finishing Lion El’Johnson. I find this bit really cool - when you can see what the finish is going to look like, and it looks good!

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Beware of the book festivals! (My latest Guardian Books cartoon)

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It’s basically Hamlet with motorbikes. Young Prince, step father taken over the kingdom and the Queen, dad’s ghost in the background. More gun running in SoA than Hamlet

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As a film, McKellan’s Richard III (adapted to a late 20s fascistic Britain, including elements of Henry VI); as a filmed adaption Sons of Anarchy

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I’ve not taken much notice - I’ve thought of them as a bit wanky, appropriating punk while pumping out okay beer (which I don’t drink - I’m a West Country stereotype 😀). Having looked a bit wider now, I totally agree with your tower of pricks assessment

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A manager had a staff member in such distress they were crying and couldn’t control their upset. So they sacked them. Whatever the reason that’s bloody awful management, but when it’s caused by a person being upset their workplace was hosting the EDL? Gonna have to find a new pub at Beachhead 25

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The building was on fire and it wasn’t my fault - Jim Butcher “Blood Rites”

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C but in a world where NPCs are A if that makes sense?

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Bautista > The Killers Game > Ice Cube > Ricochet > Denzel Washington > Fallen > John Goodman

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My folks are trying to downsize. Someone looked and said they didn’t want to buy cos they didn’t like the wallpaper. Like, it’s wallpaper. You can take it off. Paint over it. Paper over it. Make an offer with a lower value taking that into account.

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What better time than pride month to finally paint the centerpiece of my pride theme Sisters of Battle series, Celestine the living saint!

Quite a tricky mini to paint with how fiddly she is, but her wings are the perfect canvas for the rainbow flag.

I hope you like her.

#warhammer40k

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Morning Womble hope alls well! I am reading a new biography of Catherine de’ Medici - she’s had a legend of horror built up around her and it can’t be accurate, so this could be a useful corrective

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I’m so bad at LARP puzzles that I literally watched my housemate make a puzzle, watched it solved and unsolved, then when we got in the field I just couldn’t work it out so had to overload it with magic by jumping on it and making it explode…

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I’m exactly the same. There’s always one to get to.

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Have you got a link for that reign of terror? All I get is a Cthulu scenario? For recs - Spire. Dark Ef Revolutionary cells fighting an oppressive high elf government. You won’t survive but you might make things better

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I think this is done. Knight Castigator for helping out my loyal legionnaires. Loads of new techniques tried - airbrush, fades, oil streaking, oil pin wash, so happy how this has turned out #nerdlings

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Morning Womble hope alls well! I am reading the third in John C McManus’ Pacific War trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. That’s right, history has trilogies too!

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Or The Scorpions, Rock You Like a Harry Cane

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Morning Womble hope alls well! I’m reading Burden of Loyalty, a Horus Heresy anthology edited by Laurie Goulding.

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Now red I can do. The XVIIth legion Word Bearers currently sitting on my shelf, cackling and plotting while I play with other legions…

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The latest and last (apart from their daddy) of my heresy Dark Angels. A lovely green tint to their black to remind them of home! Just need to base them properly

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Morning Womble hope alls well! Currently reading The Savage Storm by James Holland - a history of the initial stages of the invasion of Italy in WW2

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Amongst all the election stuff, Facebook is looking to use your data to train an AI. It is using “legitimate interest” under GDPR to do so. This is overruled by any objection- therefore you should go into the message from FB, object and say that you don’t want them to use your data. Mention GDPR.

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Morning Womble hope alls well! Am currently reading Ruinstorm by David Annandale. A bit vision-quest-y for me but fine.

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Morning Womble hope alls well! I’m currently reading Tallarn by John French, which so far has been real fun, in a bleak, tank war kind of way

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Are educated guesses okay, or do you want certainty from the off?

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7th Sea definitely has the difference between moons, henchmen and bosses - and a bunch of encouragement to buckle your swash

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Alright, there's not enough ancient warfare on my feed, so let's fix that. Let's talk about how you raise a 'barbarian' army in places like pre-Roman Gaul and Spain! After all, these non-state societies punched well above their weight in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC! 1/

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More comfortable than with a transphobe, eyeing everyone's gender and measuring on how much you fit their "femme enough" scale.

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