I'll be available for work beginning in August. Full and part time both welcome and appreciated 🫁

I solved a Super Mario mystery, but the real treasure was learning about the history of playing cards along the way.

This certainly is a day.

Sounds like the issue is an affordable college education and not a handful of trans athletes but we seem to only debate and legislate the latter.

Technically still on time for pride month, the history of how Samurai Shodown's extremely queer big bad is based on a real-life 17-year-old Catholic revolutionary. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/how-sam...

Me waking up to read Supreme Court decisions

Hard to overstate what this wave would have meant to me as a kid (and now). I feel like I willed it into existence. I really should use my powers for good...

A quick post to announce that Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games is part of @warppoint.games, a new (but old-school) webring services linking together people who are blogging about gaming in 2026. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/warp-po...

Understanding this is the sweet spot of being too online. No more, no less.

Become Ungovernable

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

Big guy alert! How two different Bills in two different Capcom games probably are homages to the same real-life guy, a stray Akiman quote notwithstanding.

Part of the tragedy of James Burrows’s passing is the fact that the TV industry has been so dismantled by streaming that it is not currently set up to cultivate the next James Burrows. We’re felling forests but not planting seeds.

It's always a pleasure talking about Aaron Fischer, the Captain America of the Railways!

The album “We Rise” is OUT NOW WORLDWIDE! 🐉 A huge shoutout to Jody Tompkins, Theofania Pavil, and Pop Sound Inc. for their amazing work on the We Rise songs, our awesome team here at Ninjago Music for New Neighbor Orientation, and The LEGO Group for making this album possible! ❤️

free idea for Simpsons writers

I learned the hard lesson long ago that there are few things Hollywood trusts less than an actual script. The closer an idea gets to an executable reality, the less it can live in the land of fantasy and potential where there are no problems to be solved - only empty promises.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch came out 36 years ago. The NES game took some liberties, but the ending is great. One of the only movie-based games of the era to have such detailed scenes. I'll talk more about it in my upcoming review of @vgmuseum.bsky.social's "NES Endings Compendium - Vol. 2: 1990".

Marin is Malon is Aryll. She doesn't recur in Legend of Zelda so much as she spawns new avatars.

This will unfortunately open the door for questions I can't answer, but the vibes are too solid to not post.

A Touchstone PIctures area in the new Kingdom Hearts exploring the worlds of Big Business, Three Men and a Baby, Splash and Adventures in Babysitting

I followed the Japanese director of Inspector Gadget on Threads and he is posting new artwork of assorted overseas shows he worked on, and it is pretty keen www.threads.com/@namimi41t/p...

Proud to announce that Gayest Episode Ever got not one but BOTH hosts of @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social for the only discussion of queer representation on Duckman that you will see online this week. Quack quack, @talkinghenry.bsky.social and @bobservo.bsky.social! gayestepisodeever.com/duckman

Hi. Today is my birthday. In lieu of wrapped gifts, I'm asking you to have a look at Mario 101, my project about weird Mario history. And if you have already looked and think it does not suck, please share this link somewhere.

Finally, it is ALIVE. 315 days of work, 12000 words, 60 images, 88 revisions — all for the glory of COBRA-LA. popheist.com/gi-joe-cobra...

My kickass artist friend @sinagrace.bsky.social drew me, my former dog and my current dog into his new graphic novel Life on Paws, about grieving a lost pet. I was so touched by this that I got it framed to hang in my house. More info here: sinagrace.bigcartel.com/product/life...

Save points in SNES RPGs ❤️ Shown here: 1. Tales of Phantasia 2. Final Fantasy VI (FFIII in NA) 3. Final Fantasy V 4. Secret of Mana 5. Super Mario RPG 6. Chrono Trigger 7. Trials of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 3 8. Breath of Fire 9. Star Ocean

✨Captain N: The Game Master✨

Bold claims I make in my big Super Mario history piece: 1. Mario may not have been named for Mario Segale. 2. Donkey Kong (the character) pre-dates Mario. 3. Pauline pre-dates Donkey Kong. 4. Dino De Laurentiis is accidentally a Nintendo hero. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/mario-1...

Some will say that I've gone mad. Perhaps they are correct, but here, enjoy a 40,000-word weird history of Mario. Checked names herein: Naomi Watts, Mordito, Giada de Laurentiis, Samantha Mathis, the prophet Ezekiel, the Loch Ness Monster www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/mario-1...

The Americana playing “The Morning After” feels a little too on the nose.

Marle was stunning at the Met Gala ❤️

To the NINJAGO fans asking me about Treg, Ellie and Henjamin - the answer is no. Nothing I say would be canon. It's the same reason why I won't talk about Portals or Kismet no matter how many times you ask.

Another bad day on the internet before I've finished my coffee. ANIMAL FARM happy ending! Pinhead motivation! Kissing Marilyn Monroe! (And that's not even touching politics and the Supreme Court - yikes.) Hard to escape the feeling that anyone with power is living in a completely different reality.

"bureaucracy" - I have never once spelled it correctly on my first try.

Compilation of the Inner Senshi's special attacks 💦🔥⚡❤️ - Sailor Moon RPG (SNES)

last year i began working on a little ff6 fan visual novel as a proof of concept to possibly make my own original visual novel. i should really get back to it because these terras are maybe some of my best drawings ever.

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! “STRANGER THING: TALES FROM ‘85” is on Netflix RIGHT NOW!! So much love and hard work went into this series, and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of it!! DROP EVERYTHING AND WATCH RIGHT NOW!!!

BTW, if you want to keep up on posts on Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games, one way to do that is the newsletter. It goes out once every two or three weeks and rounds up all the new writing I've done there. View the latest/sign up here: mailchi.mp/f985bc7d31b9...

The Mario Bros. are not from Brooklyn. And if they were, that would only make their Italian accents even more confusing.

1990 TMNT movie farmhouse convalescence Splinter seance scene:

It's completely unfair for the role of Dan Hibiki, a beloved pillar of his community who sucks in ways that only endear us to him more, to be given to a guy who actually sucks.

How you gonna make coffee without fresh drinking water?

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

Hello! I'm looking for a queer horror artist for an anthology short (6-8 pgs)! This is paid work and the rate will go up based on crowdfunding. New creators welcome! Please DM ME with your PORTFOLIO. Final pages will be due in two months. I'll contact my choice in the next two weeks. Thanks!

The touching story about how a plumber discovered his own face. Plus fun fact: Luigi did not actually debut in the arcade version of Mario Bros. He showed up before!

So what do we make of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's one major contribution to the series lore? (Plus a Galaxy-centric explanation why Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't actually hate story in Mario games.) www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/peach-r...