I have to use the phone for work and sometimes I get an echo so I can hear myself. Five minutes of that is too long. I can't imagine hearing it for over an hour.

We already have plenty of good words that we were already using before everything became 'content'. You've got one in your username. Readers, viewers, watchers, listeners. Writers, animators, filmmakers, artists, musicians. Content, content creator and consumer are so vague and corporate sounding.

There was a Dave McKean exhibition at my local gallery when I was in college and seeing his work up close in person was amazing.

They know what they did.

That's fair. I might be misremembering, but wasn't the "flames at the side of my face" bit, probably the most quoted and referenced part of the film, improvised?

Maybe she could dip it in some kind of nontoxic fire retardant, so it just kind of slowly smoulders slightly instead of properly catching alight? If there's not a suitable substance to use, she could probably mix her own because she's such a smartypants. I'm thinking about this too much.

I am! :)

Beautiful.

Someone at work asked me what my favourite game was. I said probably Sonic 2, for nostalgia reasons. "I've never played the old Sonic games. I don't think I was even born when most of them came out." 💀