Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️

In general, I miss the wild stylistic choices of all the NES/GB era manuals and guides. I miss the time before style guides standardized everything.

Michaela it will not surprise you to learn that I think about this art daily

Wart, or "Mamu" as he liked to be called, from the Link's Awakening Official Strategy Guide. Imagine a frog in a regal fur-trimmed cloak from an 1800s English postcard representing one of those lesser christian holidays no one celebrates anymore because the traditional species of lamprey the British used to make the cakes for it went extinct.

in honor of wart coming back for a movie I'm probably not going to see let us remember that the best art of this character ever came from a zelda game's strategy guide. look at him.

If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits?

Congratulations of course to the phenomenal team behind it

I'd say it's ironic that Avengers Academy won a GLAAD award after Marvel cancelled it. But Marvel isn't interested in telling GLAAD-award winning stories. This is not something they aspire to. They cancelled it BECAUSE it could win a GLAAD award.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

AVENGERS ACADEMY wins a GLAAD Media Award Other winners this year included Mike Curato, who won the award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Gaysians.

Huge congrats to @meakoopa.bsky.social @carolaborelli.bsky.social @bailierosenlund.bsky.social and the whole AVENGERS ACADEMY team! Well deserved.

AVENGERS ACADEMY wins the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book www.comicsbeat.com/avengers-aca...

Certain models of the 2003 Motorola MPx200 clamshell phone contained a ringtone that was blatantly just the "Fever" theme from Dr. Mario with different notes.

Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers "There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director A...

always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!

actually wait no this one

Apes don't worry about that, and that's why Kongs will inherit the Earth

It's truly the ultimate "fuck you" to anyone who believed this ever could make sense. I know some people have talked about this being Pauline's daughter? It's like, just....I got nothing.

Also I feel very adamant that Bowser and Kamek co-parent Bowser Jr.

(and also he's like, the most gifted of all of them, the others were like, disaster burnouts, and Bowser does like him best as a result)

I'm sorry, Cranky Kong has to be DK's DAD, not GRANDPA. I'll be dead and buried before I accept that "DK Junior" is DK's dad.

I think of him as the youngest kid...and the others are like, college age and out of the house

I have no desire to piece together a Zelda timeline. Death Mountain is literally in different geographic locations in every game. It is clearly not the same world.

They are legends. They are not historically accurate. That's the only way it works.

No word yet on Tryclyde or Fry Guy. Still unsure if Robirdo is canon.

I am delighted to tell you that Clawglip was behind Mouser in the last trailer. He's on his back with his legs in the air, but it's definitely him.

Even though my knowledge is not up to date, I tend to believe in a living Nintendo Canon as opposed to being locked in to a strict originalism view.

Yeah I mean I also still usually call her Toadstool

Maybe We Don’t Need to Call Birdo ‘Birdetta’ — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games Since Super Mario Bros. 2, Birdo has come to own her original name.

Gonna share this very good bit of writing by @drewgmackie.bsky.social (the whole website is great), who tends to agree that she’s telling us what to call her in later games and we don’t have to take the word of some dumb instruction manual from the ’80s that got her name double wrong anyway.

"Yeah whatever I always dreamed of being a woman, yada yada. But you know who had a machine that produced BAD dreams? WART."

You know Nintendo, I'm available. I'm a Vaguely Recognizable Podcaster.

"Hello? Middle school friends? Okay first of all, Mouser is in the Mario Galaxy movie. Secondly, I'm a woman now. That's less important."

"Hello? Middle school friends? Okay first of all, Mouser is in the Mario Galaxy movie. Secondly, I'm a woman now. That's less important."

I'm so unreasonably excited about Wart that I'm sending pictures of him to people I haven't talked to in 20 years.

Gosh...I'm ready to be heartbroken.

(And yeah I choose to believe Birdo reclaimed her deadname, since she calls HERSELF Birdo in dialogue. But it's also like, Birdo is her species. There's many Birdos. And they're all transfemme. Mario is weird.)

I know you know that every retro game enthusiast has been hollering for this for as long as we've had platforms on which to holler