Andrew Herring

Someone posted a video of a husband and wife shopping for interior decor. They wrote: "when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay." Matt Walsh retweeted them and added: "Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a fireplace in our home." I screenshot Walsh's comment and added: "For a while, it was believed that women and gay men are born with a natural sense for aesthetics. In reality, straight men, particularly American male Protestants, have simply barred themselves from taking an interest in aesthetics bc they think this makes them noble." Finally, someone retweeted me and added: "Why does anyone listen to what this idiot has to say about aesthetics?" They attached a photo of Edward Hopper's 1942 painting "Nighthawks."

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture.

But let me elaborate. 🧵

Everyone thinks their cinematic passenger liner is unsinkable, and then they strike a Spielberg in the middle of the ocean.

Couldn't agree with you more on that last point.
Even da Vinci had hobbies, y'know.

Tippi had a rope toy in her mouth. Does tug-of-war count as working out?

"The 1976 US Copyright Act can't be enforceable if we pretend it doesn't exist." ~Media companies

Ahhh, Joshiraku; the show where the only normal character is the Luchador landlord. Good show to riff on, Ken.

Musical pun aside, Komm, Suesser Tod has some high bars to clear, for sure, but series has a knack for music that fits the scene it's in. Tsubasa deffo does that for Rebuild.

It's (Richard) Scary how he worms his way into your heart, honestly.

I prefer the term "polyfanorus" thankyouverymuch.

I will explain why I think fashion brands should speak up, even if they have profited off the work of undocumented immigrants. 🧵

Who else wants to tell there kids this was Mars Attacks?

This is why I do environments. To borrow from ICP, "anatomy, how does it work?"

This is the sort of goblin energy I trawl this site for.

Some just have to hate on something, because god forbid other people be allowed to make or have fun on their own terms.
I'd post that "shh, let people enjoy things" comic, but I hear Adam Ellis ain't big on it.

I'd quote the lyric "I make the rockets go up, I don't care where they come down, that's not my department, says Werner von Braun" but Elon Musk can't even build rockets well enough to make it that far into the song.

I am a simple man; I see a Diablo pic, I click "like".

I have never seen a cabbie look like he wants out of his own cab this is just glorious.

Go out on a limb?

Sakuga-tta be kidding me.

So many people in my life have June birthdays across the month I have to question how bored everyone's parents were in September.

Khan and Mike see whose signs have The Write Stuff.

That said, they're handling is pretty klunky, and there's that power-scaling issue that borders on plot armor a lot of the time which I think is what dogs a lot of the audience. It's not the best executed concept, and is one of few the places Tomino's writing flaws really show.

That's not to say Newtypes don't bring anything to the table (there's a Pyramid Inu video about that), or aren't interesting, it's just where US audiences were in the early 2000's didn't grant a lot of grace the concept.

The US got Wing before it got the OG (which initially did not do at all well, unlike Wing), and Star Wars was playing out the Space Wizard trope for us before that, so we never jived with the new-agey feel of Newtypes.

She's into the clubbing scene, I see. Hrm. Worth checking out, yes.

Big same, there, buddy.

<-looks over shoulder at five sketch books
Why you gotta come at me like this.

Breaks out of prisons, eh? What's he do to get in them?

Cheesy, huh?
How many wheels of the stuff in Skyrim are we giving it all, here?

How does one blur the line between genius and insanity like so?