• she/her

My hobbies are all excuses to collect pretty colors. I enjoy knitting, sewing, running, trombone-ing, gardening, & sci-fi short stories. Coding when necessitated and occasionally for fun. Microbiology for fun & (non-)profit.


From Famous Monsters, a short story by Kim Newman about a Martian actor. Here they tell us about all the military roles they played during the second War of the Worlds era, including the Martian dictator Uszthay (emphasis mine, below):

"...had a whole set of shiny, slimy uniforms. I played every rank we had going. In Heat Ray!, I even got to play Uszthay, although that's like asking Mickey Mouse to play John the Baptist. I soon lost count of the number of times I had..."


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