Bolleaux to your gatooks!

It's not Sunday, but I got mixed up with my days and Sunday Shitposting doesn't answer to the laws of linear time, it's a state of mind! To that end, while sorting through some files, I found some mildly amusing reviews of a Black Forest gateau on Shamansburys' website, not quite on a par with the Amazon reviews of various ouija boards circa Spring 2016 (one that's written on my heart forever is "I bought this ouija board now George Michael won't leave me alone ffs"), but you've got to get your kicks where you can nowadays. This effort mainly resulted from a discussion about that Chewin' the Fat sketch, wherein Greg Hemphill referred to a gateau as a "gatooks", which is a lot of fun to say and it has legitimately been one of my favourite things for the past few weeks (it's up there with Hologram Farkas and jayperpapoes!) Shall we have a see what the good people have to say about this gateau, then?


First off, someone felt compelled to write a Mills 'n' Boon about it. To be fair, "a cake of excellent character" is a really enjoyable phrase.


 This one, meanwhile, reminded me of an episode of Cheapshow - can't remember specifically which one it was, but Eli was chanting "Too much biscuit, not enough cream!" Also, "nice cherries" sounds a bit saucy.

 

 The cream comes under fire again as someone is fair ragin' about the lack of sponge...

 And this person's had a cake from the sky, which raises more questions than it answers, really.

"Any excuse to celebrate is always ended with this cake" - I understand what they're getting at, but it kind of sound like everyone's having a brilliant time, then this cake gets brought out and the mood just dies on its arse immediately. Such is the power of the gatooks.
 

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Further rambling

Twa Thousand Corbies

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Going to start this post with an illustration, because of this blog layout, posts lacking images tend to look a bit pants. The art here is by G. Howell-Baker. A while back, I was joking about gathering together as many versions of Twa Corbies as possible, and finally, here we are. This is going to be a continually evolving list, so if you know of a version that needs to be included, or if you've recorded one of your own, then by all means, let me know. You can put a comment here or e-mail me at looksinnocuousnenoughchaps [at] gmail [dot] com. Part two, with versions 50-100 can be found here . Let's begin! 1.  Folly Bridge - My personal favourite, performed completely a capella with some beautiful, eerie harmonies. 2.  Hamish Imlach - A live version, and a very close second favourite. Hamish's distinctive voice works wonders here and we're treated to some elegant sitar as well. 3.  Ayreheart - This one features the lute and a passionate vocal performance, it's qui...
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Some doodles from last night

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I went on a bit of a spree last night, trying out some different brushes in Rebelle 7, trying to work out what approach I might want to take for reviving Facts About the World, and here are some of the resulting doodles. First, a swoonicorn investigating Blarglflorp, the tiniest comet in the cosmos. Ara, done entirely using ink brushes with varying degrees of water. It's been a bit of running joke that their markings are different every time I draw them, and this time is no exception. (They were initially based on a striped dolphin but at this point, it's anyone's guess. Cynosure was a futuristic thing with cyborgs anyway, so what kind of dolphin Ara resembled wasn't exactly a pressing logical concern.) And one from the end of the night, which didn't end up being coloured because I'd been up since 3am again and needed to go to bed.
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Fridayposting

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It is Friday, continuing the theme of the spooky video games, I'm currently revisiting Still Wakes the Deep and trying to finish up the blog post about that (it's a good job this isn't an audio effort because noone needs to hear yours truly going "Fuckin' 'ell, McLeary!!!" in an incredibly questionable Glaswegian accent whenever the mood so takes me.) Sod's law, I completely forgot to actually get the pictures off of Mariner... it was late at night. For now, it's time to return to the comfy slippers of The Callisto Protocol, not in chronological order and not really with a theme in mind either, just a bit of fun for today. Starting with these artfully arranged Crunchy Creatures, with a bit of an HR Giger kind of vibe. I also appreciate the elegantly flowing mist around here. Hmmm . (This one's off the PS4 version, I redid it on the PS5 but a big cloud of mist was obscuring one of the monsters and we can't have that.) This hexagonal effort...
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