Mikel Reparaz

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

A biscuit-colored chihuahua mix named Steve lays upright on a blanket with forepaws crossed, looking at the camera

A biscuit-colored chihuahua mix named Steve lays upright on a blanket with forepaws crossed, tilting his head at the camera

Phteve.

The Abe Collection

Bro’d-out Billy Eichner points into the camera and says “Masculinity can be a prison, baby!” while walking next to Jason Sudeikis in a 2015 episode of Billy on the Street

TL;DR version:

A Serbian peasant family and visiting French aristocrat gather around a table and stare at the camera in a scene from the movie The Vourdalak

The peasant family’s patriarch Gorcha, who has returned to them as a mummy-looking vourdalak, stands with his musket in a scene from the movie The Vourdalak

Watched THE VOURDALAK (2023) the other night and it is easily the best family-horror allegory about the crushing pressure of patriarchy starring a vampire puppet that I’ve ever seen.

Super happy to find out the comics got a reprint a few years ago. I spent years looking for volume 3 after it went out of print.

A comic page from The Forever War vol. 2 shows a space shuttle partially exploding in orbit. PANEL 1 I SAW THE HORIZON SWING BACK AND FORTH WHEN THE REAR OF THE SHUTTLE EXPLODED. PANEL 2 Close-up of a space helmet spattered with blood, the wearer’s head thrown back in pain SUDDEN AGONY AS SOMETHING CRUSHED MY LEG— PANEL 3 Close-up of a space suit leg where a bladed cuff has closed, amputating the leg at the thigh --THEN MORE PAIN AND A SHARP SNIP AS ONE OF THE SURGICAL SECTIONS OF MY SUIT CLAMPED ITS SCALPELS OVER THE STUMP. PANEL 3 The shuttle continues to explode, appearing to clip a rock formation as it descends CAUTERIZATION... AUTOMATIC TRANSFUSION.. ANTI-SHOCK... PANEL 4 The shuttle runs aground A TASTE OF LEATHER... 4 SCARLET MIST THAT ERASED EVERYTHING... PANEL 5 Darkness with a burst of red at the upper left corner IT WAS NOT VERY SERIOUS.

The comic-book version showing the suit in action really did a number on me when I read it as a teen.

Can confirm, my sister dated a Dutch guy once and he had the same complaint.

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Item 3: A copy of the unreleased sequel to The Dark Backward, which somehow contained dramatically edited footage of me discovering the turned stomach and its contents only moments before. My attorneys have begun legal filings.

Item 1: A turned stomach. I will elaborate no further.

Still of Harry Secombe as Mt. Bumble, the beadle, in the film version of Oliver! (1968)

Tribute band called The Beadles but they do covers of songs from Oliver! and all dress like this guy:

COPY EDITOR: Great work but I think you can lose this bit about reaching for your checkbook and carefully signing your name before handing it to the smiling cashier, whose casual grin hides a life of torment and deep Cabbage Patch Kid-related trauma. Also our house style is ‘Dolls,’ capital D.”

True, probably had to get through all the rest of that month’s games on the weird hooded camera/monitor setup publications relied on back then. No time for someone to fumble their way to Level 3 when a paragraph about buying a game at a toy store takes roughly 30 seconds.

You know what else fills up space real good? A third screenshot. *narrows eyes through veil of time at hapless page designer*

No shade to a pioneer of this new field of criticism 41(!) years ago, but I can’t imagine “where and how did you, personally, acquire this!?” was top of mind for many readers even then.

(OK, maybe some shade.)

I thought maybe the “unwanted Cabbage Patch Dolls” [sic] line was maybe trying to say it was an old game, but no, it had come out that June for Atari 800.

“I found this at a store and bought it,” what an absolutely weird way to start a game review.

I got flu & covid, no side effects at all other than a couple days of lingering soreness in my arm. Almost disappointing.

Memed photo of a staring chihuahua double-exposed with helicopters in Vietnam, as though the dog is caught in a paralyzing PTSD flashback.

Is that the one where the RAM would disconnect if you nudged it, crashing whatever game you’d just spent 5 minutes loading from a cassette tape? We had the US version when I was little.

a man wearing red pants and suspenders is standing in front of a gold curtain .. Alt: GIF of Rerun dancing on the TV show What’s Happening!!

Am I watching things on television that are different from What’s Happening!!?

Evergreen tbh

2025, So Far I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

YouTube video by OribeWare Mostroscopy Steam Launch Trailer

OK, so, why did none of you tell me that 1950s Mexican luchador Darkstalkers exists and is called MOSTROSCOPY? How was this not on my radar until yesterday? youtu.be/iZxRb3gqHCs?...

“So you lost your fancy pig-sticker, huh?” is a line I think of often (and am probably misremembering).

APRIL - 1805
NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE
ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM
THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN
OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

It’s also closer to T. Rex’s hit single Bang A Gong (1971) than it is to Trent Reznor’s title theme for Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012)

(Also it’s been 13 years since Black Ops II 🫠)

Just 3,909 days to go!

Why do we do this to ourselves, isn’t aging difficult enough as it is

Super Castlevania IV, Contra III, Mega Man, Puzzle Bobble 2, Tetris, and playing as Ryu or Dan Hibiki in any Street Fighter (or spinoff) game