Part Two in a series entitled “Snail Tries to Clear Out his Header Topics Folder before the End of the Year” HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds is a novel ripe for illustrating, nevermind adaptations, because of the author’s … Continue reading The Day Thread of Corrêa’s Tripods (Sunday 9 November, 2025)
If this is Identify This GIF!? I want my old job back! I suppose if we must, we must: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do not post sexualised or objectifying … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
The most miserable person on Earth must save the planet from happiness. Vince Gilligan’s newest television show, starring the incomparable Rhea Seehorn and with the guaranteed-to-take-a-few-tries-to-remember-to-spell-it-correctly Pluribus premieres November 7 on Apple TV. Or is it still Apple TV+? Anyway, … Continue reading PLUR1BUS Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2: “We is Us” & “Pirate Lady”
Part One in a series entitled “Snail Tries to Clear Out his Header Topics Folder before the End of the Year” The German naturalist and explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller had, to put it mildly, a bit of an ego. How … Continue reading Steller’s Sea Cow Night Thread (November 6, 2025)
It’s a special spooky Identify This GIF! this week! Or not. I’m not your supervisor. Although I do have to tell you the rules: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Friday evenings, people get together, hiding from the weather, and play Identify This GIF! Apart from wrapping up warm, also do the following: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do not … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
I spit on your grave! I thumb through your magazines! I Identify Your GIFs! I mean, if you want me to do. But if you do, please do the following: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Another week ends! Let us placate the internet gods by sacrificing some GIFs in Identify This GIF! Here’s what to do: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do not post sexualised … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Hmm, how to describe Trigger Happy TV – a British television show celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this week with live shows across the UK – to someone who hasn’t seen it? It was ostensibly a hidden camera ‘prank show’, except … Continue reading The Trigger Happy TV Night Thread (October 9, 2025)
I am afraid I am going to have to refuse playing Identify This GIF! this week on grounds of spousal privilege. Please follow the laws inherent in this court of law: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Impress that girl you like by playing Identify This GIF!? with her. Here’s what to do: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do not post sexualised or objectifying images. Continue reading Identify This GIF!
This is rumour control, here are the facts: we’ve reached the final episode of the season, titled “The Real Monsters”. Here is the official podcast for last week’s episode: This is Snail of the Week, last survivor of the Avocado, … Continue reading Alien: Earth Episode 8 Spoiler Space
Hodare everyone! Inspired by Uncanny Valet’s wonderful Giftmas present to nonsequitorcat last year, I am planning (hopefully) to create one for 2026, with all the pets – no, not just cats! that everyone would like to include. I’m not sure … Continue reading Avocado 2026 Pet Calendar Submission Thread
There are over a million stories in Identify This GIF! These are just a few of them. Here’s a guide for all the idiots who have never played before: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
The penultimate episode of period drama Synths and Synthibility drops tonight, titled “Emergence”. “An escape plan is hatched leading to a breaking of factions, betrayals, and a shocking confrontation.” We’ve come this far, we have to go on. We must … Continue reading Alien: Earth Episode 7 Spoiler Space
Identify This GIF! rubs the lotion on it’s skin. Identify This GIF! puts the lotion in the basket. Or Identify This GIF! gets the hose again. Don’t want the hose? Then do this: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Here we are at episode 6 of FX’s Alien series, titled “The Fly”. Hopefully this will be an Eyeball Tentacle heavy episode, she has become the real star of this show. I’m sensing a spin off show with Kirsh and … Continue reading Alien: Earth Episode 6 Spoiler Space
In this week’s Identify This GIF! Dakota Johnson has to choose between a handsome billionaire GIF or a handsome down-on-his-luck GIF. What a GIFfing nightmare! It’s time to play the game: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
We’re past the halfway point of this first season and episode 5 drops tonight. It is titled “In Space, No One…” and the teaser indicates we will be finding out exactly when went down on the Maginot: “An outer-space vessel … Continue reading Alien: Earth Episode 5 Spoiler Space
Hail Satan! Hail Hades! Hail Identify This GIF! Try on these devilish rules for size: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do not post sexualised or objectifying images. Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Planetesimals are comets and asteroids and other celestial objects including Pluto. The Oort cloud is a disc of billions of planetesimals surrounding our solar system. The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to have 400 billion stars with their own orbiting … Continue reading The 3I/ATLAS Day Thread (28 August, 2025)
