Sometimes I Doodle Comics

you can call me Berry or Mort (he/him) Despair is simple, and humanity is complex. I'm not putting my whole age in here because, y'know, privacy, but yeah I'm not a minor, so do with that information what you will If this blog looks familiar, it's because I'm the guy who Shakespeareifies posts. Click here for Shakespearified posts I don't have a "DNI", but fuck terfs

[mortimermcmirestinks]

Got a bluesky? I'm trying to get all the usernames before this ship goes down xx

(sighhh) yeah I should make one, huh.

okay I made one, it's mmstinks.bsky.social

[mortimermcmirestinks]

yeah fuck it sure this can be my new pinned. old pinned here

[chrisweedpiano]

one of my favorite posts of all time

[ostolero]

young old person tip for you all. go get some photos printed (pauses so someone can say bogos binted) and fill out a physical album

[sayaratyriea]

and annotate them with who is in the photos and when and where the photos were taken!!! your extended family 50 years from now will be grateful, and so will you if you end up forgetting any details

[mortimermcmirestinks]

(sprints into room late, looking harried and frantic as fuck) bogos binted. did I miss it

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

[vootins]

How to be a trans ally 101, from To Wong Foo (1995)

[yeet--haw]

i'm reminded of those posts from trans women who stated in their experiences that by far most cis women they interact with in person aren't transphobic towards them. and that recent study that showed the uk population is more accepting of trans people than they perceive each other to be (ie 2 uk polls, "do you think most people are trans friendly" vs "are you trans friendly"). i think there's more love and acceptance in this world than transphobes want you to believe. you are not as hated as legislators and conservative news outlets would lead you to believe.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[chanth-thara]

okay, i’m curious. let’s play a game. reblog this post and put in the tags the name of a fictional Indigenous character.

No headcanons, no ‘coding’, only CANONICALLY Indigenous characters. You have unlimited time. Go.

[chanth-thara]

if another FUCKING person mentions the fucking werewolves from twilight I'm going to burn this whole site down and take you all with me

[deathless-dreams]

Thank you for your partecipation.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

genuinely I do think that using "this is how we get detransitioners!!" as a rhetoric against genderfluidity or gender experimentation is basically just reinforcing eggshells and driving actual detransitioners away from queer allyship. like hey maybe the tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of people who actually do detransition deserve more than just to be wielded as a cudgel against people who are scared or questioning? and maybe don't develop an entire absolutist framework of looking at the world that boils down to yelling at potential trans women until they shut up and agree to keep boymoding themselves to death

[horsefriend]

[putnamspuppeteer]

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.

[brookietf]

[catgirlforeskin]

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

[seraphiminn]

she made a comic about the experience on twitter

[catboybiologist]

happy pride

[ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface]

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol

[caught-in-the-wi-fi]

Reblog if you remember this motherfucker:

[las-lus]

ooh i have a nice fun fact!

Static was WILDLY popular in Brazil (a country where the population is over 50% black) and we had re-runs for YEARS on open television. Everyone who was a kid in the 2000s knew and loved him. As a result, every single Brazilian Con has a LOT of static cosplayers!

So, a couple of years ago, Comic Con Experience (the biggest con in Brazil, which is actually also the biggest con in the world!) invited one of Static’s creator Denys Cowan as one of the guests of honor.

Now. Thousands of people attend his panel. And cosplayers went NUTS because they could show their Static cosplay to the creator himself! What none of us expected was Debts Cowan’s reaction:

He cried on stage.

He had never seen Static cosplayers - especially not so many of them! And he had no idea the show was popular here! No one ever told him his character was so beloved! Years and years of reruns and he had no idea! He obviously created the character with his experiences and his community (Black North Americans) in mind. Still, he accidentally touched a whole other community of black people who could see themselves on the screen as a superhero!

Anyway he is a lovely person and one of the best, most memorable guests we had. And I think this is a nice reminder that your art might touch people you can’t even imagine would when creating it.

Edit: I said “the creator” when i should’ve said “one of the creators”, its edited now, but while he isnt the one who came to brazil it’s important to say Dwayne McDuffie was another important figure to static shock!! Both are black men who paved the way in comic book history! Thank you @sokumotanaka for pointing it out.

[drawnsnake]

Uncaring

[cipheramnesia]

"I literally don't care. I just wanna live." like really unlocked something in me. About house centipedes, about bugs, about me.

[maskdoll]

wdni (wickedvillains do not interact)

[swagophile]

Hey can we start discourse about how pathetic weaklings such as yourself will know my wrath and fury? I think we need to talk about how your useless insignifcant ward is no match for my aweful and fearsome power, and how you will know death like it is a close friend, it will become you and there will be nothing in you that resembles a soul, but lowkey we aren't ready for that conversation

[maskdoll]

i will defeat you

[swagophile]

Wow. Completely avoiding any semblance of discussion and falling back into buzzwords and slogans. How typical of your side. You rely on your phrases like a knight their sword, but tell me little hero, where would you be without them? What would you do if you were rendered speechless? If I took that which grants you the capacity to run that insolent little mouth of yours and made you something that cannot cry, cannot weep, cannot scream, a vessel who's only chosen state is fear. The perfect subject. Tell me, what then? Probably youll continue dodging the subject cus you cant have ANY conversations on the piss on the poor website 🙄

[maskdoll]

my blade will speak for itself as i cut down all the villains in the world

[swagophile]

Did you just not read my bio or did you miss the part that says "heavenly blade wielders DNI"

[maskdoll]

i do not need to read. all i need is to slay those who i am pointed at

[swagophile]

[grabs you and turns you manually like i'm turning a hand crank. points you at a mirror] go my minion

[maskdoll]

(pulling out my blade while staring down the mirror) i will defeat you

[swagophile]

this is why we're sworn allies

[emergency-broadcast-archive]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

do you think anyone got fired over Beauty and the Beast (2017) going to theatres with Belle, one of the main Disney Princesses™ in the Disney Princess™ line of highly profitable merchandise, saying out loud on screen "I'm not a princess" almost directly to camera

[mortimermcmirestinks]

the world slid into chaos and misery at the exact moment that we all collectively forgot the SINGLE truth of this world, which is that WALKTHROUGHS have NO VOICEOVER because a "walkthrough" WITH a VOICEOVER is NOT a WALKTHROUGH it is a FUCKING LET'S PLAY