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my very brief intro post

posts about: the mcelroys, heathcliff/newspaper comics, fiber arts/yarn, historical costuming, opera, 60s-80s culture, homestar runner, don't starve (game)

identity: he/him, disabled (mental + physical), trans, gay, college student

dni: discourse-focused blogs, nsfw-focused blogs, ed-focused blogs, usa politics-focused blogs [when i say focused i mean posting about it sometimes/rarely is fine]

vanity tags: [#boco quest] is for my photos and text posts about maxfun boco and adjacent/niche mcelroy content; [#queue queue queue with you] is for queued posts (referencing this ruby gloom song. my worst earworm)

#intro post

sasstricbypass

#pride #homestar runner #todaybor day is labor day #tumblr holidays

deadlykota

i uploaded this shit 7 months ago but i don't think i posted it where it would actually make sense

#and you were right #monster factory #mcelroys #polygon

targetedknowledge

manipulated-pieces

Has anyone ever tried being transgender before? I think maybe this could be the next big thing...

#just opened tumblr during my college orientation and had to try so hard not to laugh at this #goddammit

weirdlandtv

From: HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK (1971), by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero.

#oh weirdly sensual intructional manuals my beloved #returned home to me from The War(tm) <3

suppermariobroth

Nintendo appears to have had a completely different attitude towards NES educational title Donkey Kong Jr. Math between Japan and America.

Top: in a 1986 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto claimed that Donkey Kong Jr. Math was a "rip-roaring good time" and "super popular among the staff at Nintendo", referring to the Nintendo Japan development staff.

Bottom: according to Bruce Lowry, former vice president of sales at Nintendo of America from 1981 to 1986, Donkey Kong Jr. Math was among the worst games the company released.

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ponett

donkey kong jr. math is a challenging and divisive work of art

#i love math

catgf

unofficial spirit and rain schleichs ?????

cimarronmare

love the possible idea of a spirit fan working at schleich and giving us merch

horsefigureoftheday

This is one of the only Schleich horses (other than some of the fjord horses, the przewalski, and the dülmener) to have a dun stripe, and it's the only one who's this yellow. It's highly unlikely for this to be a coincidence. Their other dun horses, for reference:

And of course the mare's markings are spot-on for Rain. Better get these before Dreamworks sues!

#this movie was probably good(?)#but i had a strong fear of the dentist as a kid so they would put on a movie for me to look at while they yk got in there #but they only had 2 movies #hoodwinked and spirit #so i had to watch them over and over for like 6 years #while like hearing screaming in the background and having sharp metal objects in my mouth #so my instinctive reaction to seeing that horse is visceral fear #which is incredibly funny to me #horses

notaplaceofhonour

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

notaplaceofhonour

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

notaplaceofhonour

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

#suck it chump my moms been up there a dozen times a year since the 90s #(she puts the ads on it)#(and then takes them off)

vincentbriggs

I saw an interesting piece of fabric at the thrift store, which I did not buy because I have no use for it, but I'm making a note of it because I want to remember! It was synthetic red velvet and it was shirred, but not in the usual parallel lines way. The shirring was meandering all over and made a lot of little loops, and because of the pile the stitches didn't show on the right side. It was stretchy in all directions and wrinkled up like a brain. I must try this sometime with my free motion foot.

Edit: Huh, I can't find a single picture of anything similar on the internet! Googling "all over shirring", "loopy shirring", or "free motion shirring" are just bringing up regular shirring, and a little bit of grid shirring.

vincentbriggs

Update: I went back and got some horrible photos with my flip phone!

cinemaglow

Collette Wolff's fabric manipulation book explains how to do this!

vincentbriggs

Hoohoo, so it does!!

Finally a picture of something that's actually the same technique, and with a helpful tip about using a hoop! Looks like it probably doesn't have a specific name though, alas.

#sewing #shirring

klingercollection

looking up an episode of mbmbam by number always feels googlewhack adjacent. theres like seven results. "mbmbam 532" returns a handful of podwrangler sites, the youtube listing, the reddit thread for the episode, and the fandom wiki. very efficient. no bullshit.

#532 is “the spooky box”! i love that episode #that has the new intro bit about mummy reince priebus #and the dunkin spicy ghost pepper/duck donuts spooky box munch squad(?)#which was the first appearance of count donut!#and it features on of my all-time fav exchanges #if you put MAYONNAISE in your car's fuel intake and it EXPLODED #you wouldn't go to the doctor and say 'my car is terribly sick'!#“WHY would i go to the DOCTOR for my CAR??????????”#that was my favourite epsiode until 707: beef me down to beefy town was released #mbmbam #my brother my brother and me #mcelroys

folkfashion

Pende chief's clothing, Chief Kibala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by African Ceremonies

#pende #democratic republic of the congo #africa #central africa #folk clothing #drc

spanishskulduggery

Oh I constantly forget to mention this but pro-tip for people who are having to do a lot of speaking in Spanish

If you make a mistake (and we all do), you can quickly correct yourself and then add the word digo after it

Literally, digo is the present tense yo form of decir "to say", so you essentially are saying "I say" but it comes out like "I should say" or "I mean"

As in... if make a small mistake you can just quickly correct it that way. Like if you accidentally say "una planeta" you can just say un planeta, digo as your correction

The digo is your way of being like "oops I made a mistake, I know it was a mistake and I misspoke here is the actual thing"

...

This is especially helpful for any oral exams, just because you get the opportunity to correct yourself, but in Spanish and sound very natural

#spanish

heathcliffbot

05/05/2026

heathcliff-semiotics

pretty strange implications on the cosmology of Heathcliff we have little cat angels flying around. This is a novel form of mammalian flight. But we are talking about ecology here, let’s talk about Heathcliff:

My cat doesn’t have cherubs. notice how he doesn’t seem to be concerned or jealous or anything. He’s just pointing out the fact that his cat is different from Heathcliff. And he’s having to tell us this because his cat is not on the panel right now. is also informing us that the cherubs are diegetic. They are not mere representations of hate cliffs purity since they are visible to bystanders. They have manifested physically in this world.

So what do cherubs normally do? I know they often have horns and they Herald the arrival of things. these two are certainly doing a good job of drawing attention to the man they are following, lending him the authority of heaven. We know Heathcliff walks with authority, we have a physical manifestation of that. This is because Heathcliff has earned his place at the top of the Westfinster community. This man’s cat doesn’t even have a name. his cat doesn’t have cherubs. No one is heralding its arrival. It couldn’t even be bothered to show up on this panel (probably because this man is responsible and has an indoor cat But that’s besides the point). the mandate of heaven, Heathcliff, proper leader of the streets of the city

large-picard

sooo what are the odds todays caption was inspired by gallagher getting a bunch of "um, actually"s after this comic

and yet. mrs nutmeg is making this statement despite presumably not having seen the previous interaction. either this is a common misunderstanding in westfinster or she is bringing this up entirely unprompted and for some reason i really want it to be the latter.

#theyre multiplying...#heathcliff the cat

hymneminium

The Heathcliff man-eating giant comics are so good

hymneminium

It's common for newspaper comic characters to have a gimmick, like how Garfield hates mondays and Ignatz Mouse throws bricks and so on. And readers can tune in at any point, so each episode has to both set up the pattern and confirm it. It's funny even if it's your first time but if you've seen it before then you also get the joy of recognition.

So then Heathcliff has a "man-eating giant" character whose gimmick is that he eats human flesh, and the comics lay out that he eats human flesh and he doesn't eat anything else and the humans fear for their lives: