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@ifixcoinops I've been using Krita *on my tablet* for #Monsterdon of late and it's fantastic.

I knew it was great on a PC with a graphics tablet, but to see that it is basically the same experience on Android (especially when paired with a keyboard)…

well done, y'all. Krita deserves some of my money, come to think of it.

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, April 20 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching

First Men in the Moon (1964)

"Jeffries), a brilliant British scientist, creates his own spacecraft and takes a trip to the moon, accompanied by explorers Arnold Bedford (Edward Judd) and Kate Callender (Martha Hyer). After landing, they encounter an insect-like alien race that lives under the moon's surface, which has an air-like atmosphere. After glimpsing the extraterrestrial society, the group must soon escape back to Earth."

youtu.be/0zxAiUQu0v8

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Monsterdonians,

Yes, many movies listed have things going for them. Please note, however, that First Men in the Moon has a
KILLER KATERPILLAR FROM OUTER SPACE 🐛
which has not been highlighted yet and may serve as an interesting topic of discussion during the feature.

Here are the graphs!

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 13 Apr 2025. Each bar represents one minute.
The event was 120.8 minutes long. There were 3391 posts during the event with an average of 28.06 posts per minute.
The busiest moment was at 26:00 from the start with 54 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 6:00 from the start with 14 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

The word cloud for Sunday, 13 Apr 2025. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts.
There were 8835 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent.
Top 10 most frequent words were:
krull: 909, one: 146, good: 109, fire: 108, time: 102, really: 100, now: 91, got: 90, think: 84, glaive: 83,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, and the hashtag monsterdon.

Summary of #monsterdon generated at Mon 14 Apr 2025 11:02 EDT.

  • We looked at 3641 toots posted between Sun 13 Apr 2025 20:00 EDT and Mon 14 Apr 2025 00:00 EDT by 137 different participants across 76 different servers. mastodon.social contributed the most toots at 568
  • Most toots were from '' (CactuarJoe@retro.pizza) who posted 121

Additional details are replies to this toot.

#monsterdon 1/5

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@combatwombat Seeing this, I set my max posts to 3000 for my graphing system. It took 76 minutes to pull down all the toots from all the servers and many maxed out at 3000 (normally I stop at 2400).

Krull was 36M of toots where a typical weekend is around 22M. By my reckoning (in terms of how much I download), the biggest ones have been in this order:

  1. 36Mb: Krull, April 13, 2025
  2. 29Mb: Frogs, Feb 23, 2025
  3. 28Mb: Masters of the Universe, Feb 9, 2025
  4. 27Mb: Invasion of the Bee Girls, Jan 19, 2025
  5. 25Mb: Yeti, Mar 16, 2025

🤴 ⚔️ 👰 🐉 🔮 😱

the best I could do about finding the animal actors from Krull is this guy: Vic Armstrong - listed as 'head wrangler: uncredited' on IMDB

there are no other animal-related credits, which is truly outrageous for a movie with that many horses, trick riders, a puppy and a tiger!

But Vic's got quite the story himself, worth a quick read if you're interested ⬇️

imdb.com/name/nm0002184/bio/

IMDbVic Armstrong - Biography - IMDbVic Armstrong. Director: Left Behind. He was a stuntman for over 30 years having left school at14 and started working with his father and the intention of being jockey riding point to point but he grew too big. As he was interested in films stuntman jimmy Lodge got him a job working with the horses on the film Arabesque, Some years down the line having become a professional stuntman he...