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xplainthexmen
xplainthexmen
421 – Dudleyworld or Bust
In which one letter can make a big difference; it’s just not Arcade without giant pinballs; Colossus is nobody’s fool; Margali Szardos is no
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 421 - Dudleyworld or Bust

In which one letter can make a big difference; it’s just not Arcade without giant pinballs; Colossus is nobody’s fool; Margali Szardos is not a relative you want to stay in touch with; Nightcrawler turns to the jerk side; and Jay and Miles pitch an X-Men kids’ show.

X-PLAINED:

  • Elisabeth Wilford vs. Elizabeth Wilford
  • Colossus #1
  • X-Men Unlimited #19
  • How to name a miniseries or one-shot
  • The destructive potential of happiness
  • A clock
  • An inaccurate duplicate of Avalon
  • The return of the Proletarian
  • Costumes with characters’ faces on them
  • Death by irony
  • A journey to Limbo
  • Several blasts from the past
  • Margali Szardos’s head
  • Foreshadowing that we desperately wish had panned out
  • Cold open curation
  • A hypothetical X-Men show for five-year-olds

NEXT EPISODE: The secret origin of Maggott

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bitterkarella
bitterkarella

Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the big gothic house
Moreno-Garcia: in Mexico
Moreno-Garcia: you might even call it
Moreno-Garcia: mexican gothic

Moreno-Garcia: so there's this debutante from Mexico City
Moreno-Garcia: and she has to visit her cousin who's married this weird english guy
Moreno-Garcia: and now lives in this big creepy house in the boonies with his weirdly english family
Moreno-Garcia: being weirdly english

Moreno-Garcia: so the mexican woman from the big city has to deal with these weird secluded in-bred white people
Lovecraft: what kind of topsy turvy world is this
Lovecraft: up is down, black is white
Lovecraft: i just don't know what to believe!

Moreno-Garcia: these english people, let me tell you
Moreno-Garcia: they love to just sit around, being mopey, eating shitty english food, refusing to mix with the locals, formulating weird race science theories
Lovecraft: i really don't see the problem

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
King: oh mary you're just in time, silvia was telling a gothic story
Shelley: oh she's gonna tell a gothic story eh? you hear that fellas
Ann Radcliffe: i hear that
Matthew "Monk" Lewis: is that so
Shelley: my original goths will be the judge of this

Shelley: you think you're gonna do some gothic? that's cute
Shelley: has the family patriarch got a dead wife?
Moreno-Garcia: he's got two
Shelley: oh damn i take it back
Shelley: that IS gothic
Lewis: that's hard core
Radcliffe: TWO dead wives?!??!

Moreno-Garcia: and there's a family plot that's got marble busts of the dead wife
Shelley: oh hell yeah that's the way to do it
Lewis: you gotta have the busts
Radcliffe: oh yeah definitely you gotta have em

Shelley: how about this protagonist? pale, likes to faint, right?
Moreno-Garcia: no she loves to party and smoke cigarettes
Shelley:
Lewis:
Radcliffe:
Shelley: damn what a twist!
Lewis: i never considered that angle
Radcliffe: a whole new grid

tkingfisher
tkingfisher

A songbird-sized harpy holding a spear with an animal tooth point, labeled “Least Harpy” with a faux Latin binomial.ALT

Smallest of the harpy folk, the Least Harpy is only the size of a large wren, and will often join small songbirds in mobbing larger birds such as hawks. They prefer to make their homes in woodland edges and have been known to trade shiny objects with local crows.

(In my ongoing “I guess now I want to paint again” mood, I seem to be speedrunning all the subjects I used to paint over the years. Not sure if I’m trying to see if I’m better now, or if I’m trying to remember what I found compelling or what exactly is going on. Maybe I’m just updating all those paintings in my brain. Weird little bird dudes, check.)