whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

feels genuinely weird how many steps are occurring here where people aren't naming the comic artist ( @kcg.bsky.social ) or linking to the original comic

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Jon Stewart is actually really bad on public health stuff. He promoted COVID lab leak conspiracy nonsense, giving liberals the permission structure needed to embrace it. This fits squarely in with that. Dude clearly internalized a lot of bad info.

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

done! (mostly, will probably do some minor edits and weathering when I get back to my laptop haha) #sinners

the soup hopes you are having a good day today

it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e

I want to believe in foreshadowing! But who knows, nowadays. Feels like writers DO foreshadow, then get mad the audience guesses it, & then purposely change it, or a new writer decides to go in another direction. I no longer trust clear narrative framing, obvious setup tropes, or foreshadowing 💀

Okay...I couldn't stop thinking about -- them --- and Ilya in episode 4 talking about how New York is his favorite city because "is New York" and the women are hot well how about suffer instead #hollanov #heatedrivalry

sometimes i still get a flare of self-consciousness about still masking but then i hear someone coughing their lung out in a grocery store and as someone with no health insurance or a job that gives me paid time off, being perceived as weird in public is okay with me actually

Ilya being a 1st gen immigrant & Shane being a 3rd gen immigrant is interesting. So many people I know can relate to being the lone breadwinner living in another country, sending $ home & not being able to see their family. Their talk about citizenship in ep 6 hit close to home. #heatedrivalry

Racist Kylo Ren can still happen if people want it bad enough

sometimes the force is like you GOTTA touch him for balance reasons uhhuh this is important to win the fight rey

“They have a secret good episode, guys, this isn’t the real episode” cope is one of my favourite fandom experiences Truly timeless the concept of a studio deliberately making a terrible episode and then saying “haha just kidding here’s the real one” is so funny

the acorn liquor connoisseurs

mf’ers will say “woke is back and we’re getting revenge!” and then spend the next 24 hours seething at a female candidate distributing a few hundred dollars worth of community donated tampons lol

happy gaymas guys brought to you by heated rivalry doodles #heatedrivalry | #art | #sketchbook

Vigil.

This was prompted by me rewatching It's a Wonderful Life for the first time in years. Good movie but it's funny the only real Christmas connection is that it's the night George Bailey finally decides he's had enough. They don't even try to say Christmas magic let Clarence help; he can just do that.

or- and this will blow too many minds, for reasons that depress me deeply- THEY CARE ABOUT OTHER PPL hence find it totally worthwhile TO DO THIS 1 EASY FKN TRICK THAT MIGHT SAVE A LIFE OR FEW (+if nothing else save ppl some real unpleasant days/missed pay)

babe, you wanna stay in and just watch that video of the dude kicking himself in the dick with a robot a few hundred more times?

spider cider

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

one thing I didn't know before raising snails is sometimes they'll detach themselves and just... float about

I can't get over those cartoon eyes. Those delicate, translucent 'leaves' (cerata, as I've learned). Those supernatural, otherworldly vibes. That Pixar-cum-Ghibli creature appearance... And eyes drawn by Gary Larson. I can't.

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

Getting paid 250,000 dollars to write an article called “the disappearing white male poster” about how I got blocked by Jack’s frozen pizzas on Twitter 4 years ago

chuckling over how romance & sex are so central to heated rivalry and in a manner so well-done that in an astonishing reversal, i am seeking out platonic and gen missing scenes fic for it

US states that end in -aska

Gävlebocken got tired of standing =3=

I made these a while ago for @theohhellos.bsky.social as thanks for their 4 season album release that helped get me through tough times I don’t know if this is their real account on here & with no other way to really contact the band I can only hope the fates will lead them to their people

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

still one of the funniest redactions I’ve ever seen in the Titan investigation interviews MYSTERIOUS SUBMERSIBLE EXPERT: “well I’m sure you’re familiar with my film Titanic”

today's shrimp congregation

Cat things are happening again!

Nonbinary writer K.C. Johnson soon learned that behind bars, even their underwear was subject to deliberations.

This morning I showed my wife a clip of the gay hockey show because in the summer of 2015 she had the exact same reaction upon hearing a loon for the first time.

Whenever I discuss BIRTH OF A NATION, there is invariably someone in the comments who says some variation of "All old movies are racist." This is an ignorant statement, not in the least because it presumes all old movies were American and all American movies were Hollywood productions.

Just gonna drop this free pattern for sewing your own chest binder right here. For no reason at all. www.patternschool.online/tnb-chest-bi...

Another ice-covered tree on the lakefront from a few winters ago. It's remarkable that they survive! #chicago #winter #naturephotography

oh someone deserves jail time for this #heatedrivalry

Attempting to explain AO3