So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

'Arrival' was released 8 years ago today. Besides being a fantastic #movie on its own merit, it also introduced me to the amazing Ted Chiang, who instantly became one of my favourite #SciFi writers.

This is an oddly specific bumper sticker.

*honk!*

:cat_hype: I'll be streaming today from 20:00ish UTC-7 :charmander_yay: (2.5ish hours from this post)

Come join me for an evening of soothing, nostalgic soundtracks played on my violin :frog_blush: :bugcat_dance:

For those that are thinking, "Who are you and what are you doing on my feed? :blobfox_confused: ", hi, I'm Octavia, and I play a bunch of soundtrack music on my violin (I take requests, too :cat_ooh: ). My repertoire includes games, anime, movies, and visual novels, with a sprinkling of Celtic and classical pieces. You can check out my full repertoire at the streamersonglist link :frog_blush:

Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/o6V2a2LFJVQ
Repertoire: https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/octaviaconamore/songs
(pieces can be requested directly from this link, too :shiba_excited: (it includes over 130 pieces :shiba_love: ))

If you'd like to support me, my ko-fi can handle memberships and single donations :shiba_love: https://ko-fi.com/octaviaconamore

#Music #LiveMusic #Stream #Streaming #Musician #Violin #Violinist #Bard #FediArt #FediMusic #MastoArt #MastoMusic #VGM #Games #Anime #Movies #Nintendo #StudioGhibli #FinalFantasy #Zelda #Soundtrack #OST #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem :cat_interact:

:cat_hype: I'll be streaming today from 19:00ish UTC-8 :charmander_yay: (1ish hours from this post)

Come join me for an evening of soothing, nostalgic soundtracks played on my violin :frog_blush: :bugcat_dance:

For those that are thinking, "Who are you and what are you doing on my feed? :blobfox_confused: ", hi, I'm Octavia, and I play a bunch of soundtrack music on my violin (I take requests, too :cat_ooh: ). My repertoire includes games, anime, movies, and visual novels, with a sprinkling of Celtic and classical pieces. You can check out my full repertoire at the streamersonglist link :frog_blush:

Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/pChg95c9jLM
Repertoire: https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/octaviaconamore/songs
(pieces can be requested directly from this link, too :shiba_excited: (it currently includes 130 pieces :shiba_love: ))

If you'd like to support me, my ko-fi takes memberships and single donations :shiba_love: https://ko-fi.com/octaviaconamore

#Music #LiveMusic #Stream #Streaming #Musician #Violin #Violinist #Bard #FediArt #FediMusic #MastoArt #MastoMusic #VGM #Games #Anime #Movies #Soundtrack #OST #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem :cat_interact:

:cat_hype: I'll be streaming today from 19:15ish UTC-7 :charmander_yay: (1ish hours from this post)

Come join me for an evening of soothing, nostalgic soundtracks played on my violin :frog_blush: :bugcat_dance:

For those that are thinking, "Who are you and what are you doing on my feed? :blobfox_confused: ", hi, I'm Octavia, and I play a bunch of soundtrack music on my violin (I take requests, too :cat_ooh: ). My repertoire includes games, anime, and movies with a sprinkling of Celtic and classical pieces, and you can check out my full repertoire at the streamersonglist link :frog_blush:

Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/hnaAkshW1lY
Repertoire: https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/octaviaconamore/songs
(pieces can be requested directly from this link, too :shiba_excited: (it includes nearly 130 pieces :shiba_love: ))

#Music #LiveMusic #Stream #Streaming #Musician #Violin #Violinist #Bard #FediArt #FediMusic #MastoArt #MastoMusic #VGM #Games #Anime #Movies #Soundtrack #OST #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem :cat_interact:

:cat_hype: I'll be streaming today from 19:00ish UTC-7 :charmander_yay: (4ish hours from this post)
(might be more like 19:30)

Come join me for an evening of soothing, nostalgic soundtracks played on my violin :frog_blush: :bugcat_dance:

For those that are thinking, "Who are you and what are you doing on my feed? :blobfox_confused: ", hi, I'm Octavia, and I play a bunch of soundtrack music on my violin (I take requests, too :cat_ooh: ). My repertoire includes games, anime, and movies with a sprinkling of Celtic and classical pieces, and you can check out my full repertoire at the streamersonglist link :frog_blush:

Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/2XpNS6LceD4
Repertoire: https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/octaviaconamore/songs
(pieces can be requested directly from this link, too :shiba_excited: (it includes 130 pieces :shiba_love: ))

#Music #LiveMusic #Stream #Streaming #Musician #Violin #Violinist #Bard #FediArt #FediMusic #MastoArt #MastoMusic #VGM #Games #Anime #Movies #Soundtrack #OST #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem :cat_interact:

edit 1: I'm liiiive~ https://www.youtube.com/live/Hen5q_jUMp8

:cat_hype: I'll be streaming today from 19:30ish UTC-7 :charmander_yay: (1.5ish hours from this post)

Come join me for an evening of soothing, nostalgic soundtracks played on my violin :frog_blush: :bugcat_dance:

For those that are thinking, "Who are you and what are you doing on my feed? :blobfox_confused: ", hi, I'm Octavia, and I play a bunch of soundtrack music on my violin (I take requests, too :cat_ooh: ). My repertoire includes games, anime, and movies with a sprinkling of Celtic and classical pieces, and you can check out my full repertoire at the streamersonglist link :frog_blush:

Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Hen5q_jUMp8
Repertoire: https://www.streamersonglist.com/t/octaviaconamore/songs
(pieces can be requested directly from this link, too :shiba_excited: (it includes over 120 pieces :shiba_love: ))

#Music #LiveMusic #Stream #Streaming #Musician #Violin #Violinist #Bard #FediArt #FediMusic #MastoArt #MastoMusic #VGM #Games #Anime #Movies #Soundtrack #OST #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem :cat_interact:

( :boosts_ok: boost to help me survive :hug_love: )

Hey everyone, I finally got the energy to properly get this video out! :zerotwo_hype:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNKH4pwD3u8

Ancient Stones from The Elder Scrolls Skyrim (composed by Jeremy Soule) is a piece that anybody who has played Skyrim will recognise, and it's been one of my favourites ever since I first played it, but for the longest time, it didn't feel like I could play it :cinna_sweat: A few months ago, I ended up having enough energy to make a proper solo arrangement of this (as opposed to the piano and ensemble scores available out there), and luckily, that seemed to be the key that made this playable for me :furret_excited:

I adore it so much that people that are frequently at my youtube streams probably hear it nearly every stream, and it felt like it was at a point where I could give it its own video :giggle:

:zerotwo_learn: Oh, and for anyone curious about the arrangement, I have all of my custom arrangements available to everyone over on my ko-fi account: https://ko-fi.com/octaviaconamore

If you like and appreciate my music (or my posts on various topics here), you can help my cats and me afford food by liking and sharing, as well as by donating over on ko-fi if you're able to :espeon_love: