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Hyperfixations, special interests and the passions that light us up, from panto and comics to Christmas and kei trucks.
I can't write this article for too long because I really need to sort out my latest downloads of Christmas programmes. Well, there are less than six months to go until the big day after all and the…
Elsewhere in this blog I've written about my hyperfixation with Christmas. Well, that's been ongoing in the past few weeks. One crazy afternoon saw me get hold of over 80 videos of the Kevin Cruise…
The three day-week, a massacre at the Olympics, Jimmy Savile on telly, England crap in the World Cup and the rise of Maggie Thatcher. Those all happened in the 1970s, but for me it’s still the best…
One of the hardest jobs you can have is to explain pantomime to someone who has never seen one. It’s an artform in its own right and although it’s being included in the Christmas section of this…
I couldn’t go to a gas station without somebody asking me about it or trying to figure out how they could get their own. Jake Simpson, a kei truck importer in Pennsylvania, in Japan’s ‘Kei’ trucks…
Trigger Warning: This article contains references to child sex offences. I’ve often had people accuse me of living in the past. It’s not just my hyperfixations with TV and radio shows from nearly a…
This was Halloween week on the street. Somebody asked in the suggestion box for a place to share haunted things, and The Haunted House opened in time for Thursday’s Infodumplings. Fantasy Fancy Dress…
For me, haunted houses bring together themes of the horror of existence, the inevitability of death, remembrance of ancestors, DIY, making, creativity, thresholds, liminality, and seasonal rest. Ryan…
Every chimera here is whole. This room never calls one anything less, and nothing about how it was put together is a problem to be solved. House rules, Chimera Obscura on Stimpunks.World What makes…
Tuesday morning, I asked my husband not to infodump. Since we retired, we spend a lot of time together. He loves to fill that time regaling me with tales of Warhammer 40k lore (for the Imperium),…
Autistic people have always had our own ways of showing love. Discover the five Autistic love locutions — infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, penguin pebbling and deep pressure.