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It's my Birthday today so I'm doing a fundraiser for a new wheelchair!

My Electric wheelchair is sadly now 12 years old and is being held together with gaffer tape and love! I really need a new one and as it is my 50th Birthday I thought I could try to fund-raise and ask folks to please help with buying a replacement chair.

'Just Giving' Wheelchair fund-raiser link Here

About Nixxie - My Wheelchair is my lifeline. I use it inside my flat to get about as my body sadly doesn't work anymore (please read the Just giving page for details on my disabilities). I also use the chair to get out into my garden... and also anytime I need to leave the house - it gets a lot of mileage - hence why it is sadly starting to show its age! About 3 years ago the welding that holds on the arm failed and cannot be repaired - so the arm bracket is held on with gaffer tape and hot-glue. The batteries hardly hold any charge anymore, one of the wheel-arches got plastic fatigue a few years ago and just plain twisted off! Also all the under panels are held on with velcro, tape and hope! (pictures of all this on the donation page).

I originally bought my powerchair in 2012 to go to London as I'd won tickets to visit the Paralympics with a carer... however I don't trust it now to even go a few miles as I'm petrified another bit will fall off!! A while after I bought my chair I went to a Sci-Fi convention and dressed my wheelchair up as the Tardis to match my costume... I liked it so much that my chair has been Tardis cosplaying ever since!

I try my hardest to still live a life worth living - and even though my body needs to recover for ages afterwards I still try to get out every now and then to do something good.

So that's about it - my diagnosis is that I will never get any better (In fact it's likely I'll carry on getting worse as I get older), so I thought to put this page up to get help in the fundraising as wheelchairs cost a huge amount more than people think and sadly there is no way I can afford it alone. So please if you could, donate - Even if it's only a bit - anything towards being able to go out safely would be SO Amazing and I am utterly thankful to you for your aid.

And please please share this page to spread the joy! *hugs*

#yo nixxie's been carrying the sh community for a over a decade #the watchalongs too for a full decade as well #a bit more to go

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Today we're having a long evening, it's indeed moscow-cassiopea + teens in the universe in one go o7

Tomorrow we're getting some hashtag exclusive content, since we've never actually watched the series in its entirety due to 12/14 episodes having subs. So we're getting those two abandoned episodes Plus before that we'll watch some moon landing footage

Space Month

April 12th is the so-called Cosmonautics Day, the day Gagarin flew into space, so we're celebrating that by coming back to a themed month. Are the picks any new this time? Not really, but also the soviet sci-fi genre itself was a lot of misses and very few Ws.

Every Sunday we are running A Year in Space/A Year in Orbit yt series from 2015/16. It used to be all on youtube, mostly subbed (12 episodes out of 14), after 2022 it is all not on youtube, not at all subbed (0 episodes out of 14). So sure, I subbed it all (14/14) and therefore we are getting the full experience of Mikhail Kornienko spending a whole year aboard the ISS.

A Road to the Stars - since we're doing 4 episodes per Sunday, which leaves us with 2 on the last day, I'm throwing this movie that is less than an hour long into the mix. 1957 and utter insanity on how well it predicted mostly Everything.

The Cosmic Voyage (1935) - watching today (April 6th), Tsiolkovsky himself worked as an advisor for this nice cool sci-fi for kids, alas he did not live to actually see the film. The film is notable for portraying Tsiolkovsky's understanding of how spaceflight would work, with things that did very much come true (ie. portrayal of zero gravity), and things that are interesting to look at knowing that it would be different.

Moscow-Cassiopea + Teens in the Universe - we decided to cram both in one day woe mama. Another sci-fi for teens in two films (not two PARTS how dare you) starring some very serious kids, funky aliens, and maybe smoktun idk.

Aelita (1924) - watching the goooood movieeee that turns 100 this year, just watch the goood movieeee about Marssss it is soooo worth ittttt just trust me about the goood movieeeee

Animation day - we haven't picked everything out, a 1925 parody of Aelita may be there or may be right after the movie; then big chances it's the classic Mystery of the Third Planet, everything else is TBD.

Everything as per usual, Saturday and Sunday at 10pm Moscow time.

#we're going further actually bc there's a secret ep15 in there #but that's for summer for a nostalgic throwback

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#heheh #russian holmes #such a nice color palette #green and worm :) #made with love

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#stanislavsky cutting himself as we speak #the master blackmailer

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you have the belka and strelka vodka bottle??? the blue and white porcelain one?? i am so jealous (also amazing for u love it)

I do!!!

(Sadly it does not have vodka in it)

#MANNNNNNNNNNNNN #if bible says dont be envious then why this exists #cosmonautics day

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my dad knows what yuri is because at a museum he used to work at he was trying to organize some event about Yuri Gagarin and im still not over the mental image of my 50 year old father sitting down at his computer at work and googling "yuri images" fully expecting to see black and white photos of the russian cosmonaut and just seeing anime girls kissing instead

#HAPPY COSMONAUTICS DAY!!!!

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HAPPY 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUCCESS OF THE VOSTOK ONE ORBITAL MISSION!

My parents are old enough to have watched the news report live, as it was announced in the USA. 

I talked about it over a Skype call with my mom a while back, we were talking about NASA stuff but she mentioned the Vostok 1 and how big a deal it was. 

Paraphrased from our conversation, my mom’s first hand account of watching the Vostok 1 mission success news breaking in the USA: 

“You can’t imagine the space race. There’s nothing like it today. Everybody, and I mean everybody, stopped to watch the TV or listen to the radio any time someone made some new scientific advancement, and the space race was the biggest, most important, most wonderous thing. 

The decade before it was the atomic craze, in the Fifties. Everyone was obsessed with physics and earth sciences, uranium, you know. But space, that was something intangible, and the idea that we could even touch it– The idea we could even get close enough to maybe touch it– Was the most unbelievable, fascinating thing. 

The Sixties were full of that sense of wonder and progress. Star Trek was a niche thing at the time, but it was popular. More popular than the media people realised. And it fuelled in young people this desire…

It was like this desire for real, actual hope.

You know, with all the social problems, government problems, concerns about economy and of course every decent person was involved in the developing civil rights push for our families and friends and communities, and union riots and the like were getting more serious. 

But in space, there was no hate up there. There was nothing but pure, raw, unlimited potential. I’m so sad your generation doesn’t have a source of hope like that. None of you get to wonder the way we did. 

And we knew they were working on it, NASA and all that, but we also knew the Russians were hard at work, and most of us young people didn’t care who got to the stars first as long as someone got there. 

So let me tell you, I was listening to the radio, and it gave three solid tones (three beeps), which meant there was a very important broadcast that would interrupt the planned schedule. I let the song end, I think it was the Beatles or the Beach Boys or something but I can’t remember, because it was all about the breaking news: 

The Russians did it! The Russians did it! And the announcer had the nerve to sound upset, as if it was some kind of great failure that the Russians beat us to space, but God, no! It was amazing, incredible, breathtaking.

I ran downstairs the second the radio channel went back to music, and my father was down there on our little rounded black and white TV, and sure enough, there was a picture on the screen of some abstract looking orb, like something from a science fiction movie, but it was real. 

And I didn’t even listen, I just remember seeing the orb on the screen and my father told me to be quiet because I must have been shrieking or squealing or something, but I don’t remember. 

I just remember feeling that hope, that intangible forever over head, becoming real right in front of my eyes.

I don’t recall the rest of it, I know I called a few friends from school and we talked about it for a long while. But what an amazing day that was. Suddenly, science fiction became science fact. I’ll never forget it.” 

#cosmonautics day o7

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Okay but why is the Russian John Watson and Sherlock Holmes SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL!?

#hehe get trapped #the acquintance

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#ты как смирительную рубашку снял э #russian holmes

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Space Month

April 12th is the so-called Cosmonautics Day, the day Gagarin flew into space, so we're celebrating that by coming back to a themed month. Are the picks any new this time? Not really, but also the soviet sci-fi genre itself was a lot of misses and very few Ws.

Every Sunday we are running A Year in Space/A Year in Orbit yt series from 2015/16. It used to be all on youtube, mostly subbed (12 episodes out of 14), after 2022 it is all not on youtube, not at all subbed (0 episodes out of 14). So sure, I subbed it all (14/14) and therefore we are getting the full experience of Mikhail Kornienko spending a whole year aboard the ISS.

A Road to the Stars - since we're doing 4 episodes per Sunday, which leaves us with 2 on the last day, I'm throwing this movie that is less than an hour long into the mix. 1957 and utter insanity on how well it predicted mostly Everything.

The Cosmic Voyage (1935) - watching today (April 6th), Tsiolkovsky himself worked as an advisor for this nice cool sci-fi for kids, alas he did not live to actually see the film. The film is notable for portraying Tsiolkovsky's understanding of how spaceflight would work, with things that did very much come true (ie. portrayal of zero gravity), and things that are interesting to look at knowing that it would be different.

Moscow-Cassiopea + Teens in the Universe - we decided to cram both in one day woe mama. Another sci-fi for teens in two films (not two PARTS how dare you) starring some very serious kids, funky aliens, and maybe smoktun idk.

Aelita (1924) - watching the goooood movieeee that turns 100 this year, just watch the goood movieeee about Marssss it is soooo worth ittttt just trust me about the goood movieeeee

Animation day - we haven't picked everything out, a 1925 parody of Aelita may be there or may be right after the movie; then big chances it's the classic Mystery of the Third Planet, everything else is TBD.

Everything as per usual, Saturday and Sunday at 10pm Moscow time.

#soviet movie club™ #space month

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The Mistresses of Lord Moulbrey

Decided to do a little drawing of the NRH women. Yes, in the first art the scenes are out of sequence (because originally they were supposed to be two different files)

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I had this idea to make a 20+- page web-zine on NRH. I got a lot of ideas for art that I can't cram into one place, and this way everything will be in one. I'll try to get some of my drawing friends there.If you have any ideas or suggestions, сontact me.

#new russian holmes #the mistresses of lord moulbrey #did i get the plot right was one of the victims the baddie's twin sister #which means she slept with her own dad #holmes obviously being interested in the baddie is lmao dude will you ever like someone who is perhaps normal maybe unbothered #adler is SCREAMING in the background whats all this

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Look they are anxious golden retriever x mental support black cat coded

P. S. Ignore the amount of different signs, it just that i have different signatures for different art accounts on different platforms, confusing i know, i think ill have to unite them sometime soon.

#LETS GOOOOOOOOO #to me watson is the cat who lies on your fresh laundry and thinks he is right #russian holmes

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genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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Tryna convert them to my style, dont beat me up i promise it will get better, practice makes perfect little old men, thats what the grand Artist manuscript says yes yes

#get better Where #paint the mona lisa next??? #bru #russian holmes

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Everyone gives Sherlock Holmes a hard time about being mean about Watson's writing, but honestly imagine you told your roommate "sure, you can write up an account of my work for the newspaper," thinking it would be like, about the murder, but then he publishes it and it's 90% about you, as a person, and it's a huge hit and now everyone in London knows that you hoard newspapers and do cocoaine when you're depressed. Because I think you'd be little miffed too.

#one day he grows up and exposes all the harmful consequences that the vlogging did to him #but before that sure keep reading and pretending it's ok

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For the final weekend of March, we step away from sm*ktun in a roundabout way. We did watch his Uncle Vanya, and we still do not have a review for it. That it because we are keeping it until we see the BDT version, which finally hits this week.

Freshly subbed for the beloved us, it is a straightforward adaptation of the play that, in my opinion, is so fresh and funky. To what extent, we will truly see over the weekend, since the whole thing is pushing 3 hours, it was better split across two days. So part 1 is Saturday, part 2 - Sunday.

Soviet Movie Club(tm): March

So far we're having a Smoktunovsky party: For the Sunday series, we're having Little Tragedies, a 3-parter adaptation of Pushkin's works of the same name. Mozart vs Salieri, Don Juan, a feast among the plague and other stories presented in a Weird Vibe that really makes the show stand out. Lots of celebs involved and a few haunting tunes too.

For this Saturday March 2nd, we're revisiting Uncle Vanya. The only thing to do here is to simp because the movie doesn't provide anything else so be obliged.

#stan bdt etc etc but not for me to decide #personally i think the smoktun version is in the dust #this is the first presentation of AI being worked on properly even though chronologically it came before all our other low effort fails

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The family's spending time together

#new russian holmes #russian sherlock holmes #peace and love