Mani

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Writing 'bout media, monsters, & other rad things people don't take seriously. Sometimes making things, too! he/they 🏳️‍🌈 eyeznteef.com Stay spooky🤘👻

a photo of a hand holding a note in front of a big plush fuecoco. the note reads "hi mani! i'm 3 now. thanks for being a great poke-dad! love, fuecoco! (your idiot son)"
a magic card back reward in arena, showing a shirtless rat man holdng a surfboard and drinking a fruity cocktail with a little umbrella
knockoff plush of jax from The Amazing Digital Circus being sold on etsy. looks a little like a homestuck character??
a wide shot of soldiers running across a beach - but they're running away from the wooded land, and towards the surf, which makes me think this is them fleeing (earlier shots showed them being attacked by giants - the laestrygonians - in woods)
matt damon as Odysseus, walking amid beached greek warships
youtube thumbnail with Pomni from The Amazing Digital Circus and the text "how she changed"; the video title is "how gooseworx wrote the perfect character arc (without you noticing)"
star fox getting a soda from his shitty little minifridge
star fox looks back at planet venom, as if looking for something, from the ending of STAR FOX 2026
that incredible will santino comic showing a defeated person, head in their arms face-down on a table, with a lemon-press next to them, countless lemons to the right, and a giant pipe pelting him with countlessly more lemons to the left. i have taken this singular illustration of repetition, exhaustion, and burnout, and crudely added my own little text at the top that says "sometimes you just gotta treat yourself", because y'know, sometimes treating yourself feels like it gets subsumed into that endless cycle of making lemons out of lemonade, and when you realize that treating yourself is part of that cycle, it stops working, and the need to treat yourself becomes another batch of lemons...
first panel of the penny arcade comic from June 12th, 2026. gabe says, shocked: "They've been using all my Pokemon Go scans to train killer robots?", to which an indignant tycho responds "Did you think they weren't?!"
shot from THE SUBSTANCE. elizabeth looks distraught and helpless on the phone.
shot from THE SUBSTANCE. the main character reaches for a bright green fluid in a snazzy labelled bottle.
Where do your specimens come from? Why so many specimens?
still image from OBSESSION. a woman stands on the porch of a suburban home, completely silhouetted by the front light, a shadow. no other lights are on. there's someone in the front seat, looking back at her.
screenshot of items from the merch store for The Amazing Digital Circus. one is a shirt featuring Jax that says "I can fix him" (sold out), the other is a shirt featuring Pomni that says "I can make her worse" (best selling)
a venn diagram. the middle is labeled "HELL YES"
the official digital image for the promo treatment of Overlord of the Balemurk: a gaunt figure is haloed by dark rose-colored light, which contrasts well with its periwinkle skin and makes the whole thing pop, especially drawing attention to the single eye in the center of its head
a man with a trenchcoat and a fedora, driving a little motorboat through the flooded street of a city. from the demo for The Sinking City 2.
panel from a penny arcade comic of an angry guy holding up a cupcake, going: "cupcakes are dumb. they're not big, like a regular cake. they're small and covered in frosting. what, are those sprinkles? i was tired of sprinkles when they were putting them on cookies."
professor grand oak telling me i've completed all the pokemon home pokedexes for pokemon legends z-a
cate blanchett looking refined and imposing in her costume as hela from the set of thor ragnarok, looking down her face at a much shorter taiki waititi who is showing her something on an ipad. blanchett is labeled "my girlfriend after performing surgery all day", and waititi is labeled "me showing her i made it to master ball tier"
borderless art treatment of The One Ring in its first printing, art by Marta Nael. notably, the ring is floating in the air as it falls into the volcanic pit of mount doom, and you can see the browns, reds, and oranges of the rocky magmatic crags of the environment reflected on the ring's surface.
mr satan, having no clue how utterly out of his depth he is, kicking cell. cell doesn't move at all.
playing pokemon champions. the opponent leads with corviknight and incineroar; i lead with passimian and hisuian zoroark (disguised as floette). incineroar's intimidate ability activates passimian's defiant ability, boosting passimian's attack. incineroar had selected fake out, but passimian selected upper hand - beating incineroar's fake out and knocking it out in one hit. meanwhile, my "floette" uses taunt to stop corviknight's tailwind.
the player character is talking to a buff, dirty construction worker in a sleeveless top outside of some random sketchy door, who is saying "This must be my lucky day! You're just the kind of Trainer I was lookin' for!"
the opening menu screen for pokemon champions with my custom character in the middle. he is exceptionally gay looking. like, dyed pink hair and sleeveless croptop gay. this little twink is here to hook up at HIIT classes and win pokemon battles.
the original printing of Mirri, Cat Warrior from Exodus. at the time, "legend" was a creature type by itself, so any legendary creatures needed to have a line of text that gave them other creature types too. thus, we have a card named "Mirri, Cat Warrior", whose first line of rules text assured us that she does, indeed, "count as a Cat Warrior"
the victory screen from Pokemon Fire Red after beating the elite four, showing my team: nidoking, gyarados, venusaur, aerodactyl, zapdos, raticate
photo of a window, on which i've written a bunch of notes about some features for TRASHBRAIN that i've been working on
a screenshot of Griftlands showing a "battle" conversation. what's going on in the fiction is that two characters are arguing, but it's being handled as a deckbuilder-type battle, so the player's choices are general (e.g. "Deflect") and shown as cards in their hand, similar to other deckbuilders, rather than specific lines of dialog.
a screenshot from Wildfrost. a hand of cards is that the forefront of the screen, covering the bottom third. on the left of the hand of cards is a pocket with more cards in it, indicating the deck the player draws from. on the right of the hand is an empty pocket, indicating where the cards from their hand will go.
screenshot from Scarlet Hollow. a stranger is telling the player something weird, and in the textbox under the stranger's dialog, the player gets to choose how their character responds - different potential choices are highlighted with a special text color when the player hovers over them, and additional clues are given to the player about what each choice represents.
tightly cropped screenshot of some code. at the top of a function, i've added a comment that says "TODO: WHY DID I DO THIS". i am very smart
the sprite for nidoran (male) from pokemon red/blue
official 2d artwork of beartic, a polar bear pokemon. it has some spiky lines around the tummy, indicating a general sense of fluffy fair.
screenshot of some google image search results for "pokemon sword and shield trees" showing a bunch of results of youtube videos and reddit threads where people complained that a tree from the trailer looked worse than what fans could make, was comparable to graphics from the n64, etc. one reddit thread is angrily titled "why is this ok", showing how much suffering they invited upon themselves by caring so goddamn much about that tree
screenshot of a basic game loop written in sublime text editor
an ad for a metal pill case, showing the pill case embedded in frozen earth, as a lone penguin walks towards it. the ad reads "Not everyone follows the plastic path"
a man wearing a clear raincoat and dirty clothes that are covered in wires, circuits, and tubing holds is arms up exultantly in a diner. in his hand is a button that connects to the technology on his clothes. behind him are six people flinching and screaming in terror. outside the diner are the flashing lights of police cars.
a reel from one of WHITE JAM's songs, showing singer shirose. he is wearing an open gray blazer, but underneath he is wearing clothing best described as "just thin irregular straps of black pleather", which draw attention to his groin while leaving most of his thighs, chest, and all of his midsection bare
The Sign of the Seahorse, by Graeme Base
tip screen for jumping, from Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon's bad-on-purpose tutorial that reads: "pressing space enables you to move in a z-axis arc without touching the ground in between"
a hand-written note with alien scrawls at the top, the mark of phyrexia, and then underneath them it says in parentheses: that's phyrexian for "i love you" - well, technically, for "i want your parts to be my parts", but that's the closest approximation of the sentiment in phyrexian
micolash, host of the nightmare
the panel from KC Green's greatures comic where grandma says "oh, you're a 'lore-wanter'", dripping with contempt
photo of a man arm, outstretched. written in solid block red letters (in different fonts), running down the bicep and inner arm, is the phrase: "FRIVOLITY is the species' REFUSAL to SUFFER" the arm also has a capital Delta at the wrist. the man's ring finger has, as it turns out, his wedding ring and engagement ring on it. a horror movie poster is behind him.
a stock image of the back of someone's head
some art hung up on my wall. at the top is a round white embroidery by sorrywall showing a panicked eye with purple flowers growing out of it. in the middle is a black-and-white framed scratchboard done by oddoblivion of a screaming skeletal figure with multiple rows of teeth, surrounded by eyes in the darkness, with the words "I'M GAY" scratched beside him. at the bottom is a painting done by oddoblivion on a circular piece of wood. a colorful corpse-like figure (lips and eyes missing, teeth and an empty eye socket revealed), above which is the text "NOTHING AT ALL". the background is a sky blue, but peeking out around the borders of the corpse and the text is the color that's under the background - a bright red.
a bingo card full of goals of mine for the new year. the free space reads "PARTY WITH FRIENDS!", cos i always throw a new year's party with friends row 1: "restore the porcelain throne", "new piercing", "135x12 flat bench", "professional headshots", and "vacay with husband" row 2: "new tattoo", "finish a playtest version of TRASHBRAIN", "omega mart", "scale says 210 at least once", "tailored suit" row 3: "travel to see a friend", "start budget planning again", the free space, "play a new single-player game from start to finish", "make something wearable (shirt, bracelet, etc.)" row 4: "halloween costume", "visit brother", "fix bathroom ceiling", "record and edit a video", "read a new book from start to finish" row 5: "game jam", "get a present for someone who isn't expecting one", "watch 1 season of a TV show i haven't seen before", "send holiday cards", and "fix teeth"
the bingo board of resolutions from my quoted post. the ones crossed off in 2025 are: "restore the porcelain throne" (tho that one doesn't count cos it broke again) "donate to a charity i haven't donated to before" "play a new single-player game from start to finish" "put something on the wall behind my desk" "introduce 2 friends to each other" "get a present for someone who isn't expecting one" "travel to see a friend" "see a country i've never seen before" "see a personal trainer" "something i don't yet know i'll do, that i'll be proud of once i've done it"
poster for the film No Other Choice. byung-hun lee is holding a potted red pepper plant over his head, as if to drop it on someone else's head, looney-tunes-style
that scene from Into the Spider-Verse where Peter B. Parker is describing Miles' new power by saying "he can't do it on command!"
a series of captions, and sketches of a mostly-nude male figure fitting the captions, which read as follows. how girls draw the male body: very boyish with little to no muscles, and a childish face. designed more for romance than sex. how women draw the male body: more muscle, and a friendly and open face. designed for romantic sex. how gay men draw the male body: much focus on the chest, groin, butt, mouth, and muscles. soft shapes and open face. mainly design to evoke sexual desire. how straight men draw the male body: hard and solid. not designed to evoke sexual desire, just raw power.
snippet of an email i sent that just begins "carlos! carlosss!!! these are SO GOOD!!!"
collage of photos of signage from the greek bakery chain "gregory's" showing the same name in the same font in both english and greek, with red markup on the photos showing that the greek letter "η" is used for both the first and last vowel sound in the name