Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk

@fourwholemoons

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal," and you know who said that? Me. Writer, co-host of @friendshipfactory.bsky.social‬ ❤️ @risquips.bsky.social pfp by @katnay.bsky.social, banner by dotemcee he/him

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Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jul 12

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jun 28

a movie poster for "The Villainess," featuring a slew of positive reviews around a leather-clad, gun-wielding action lady from the back

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jun 5

he's so wriggly that it's hard to get a good photo of him but his name is Perry and man I wish that wasn't because of the book In Cold Blood

a picture of a brown and tan colored chihuahua puppy looking into the camera, sitting on a blanketed floor cushion in front of a bedazzled guitar and an overflowing shelf of books. there is a tangle of bright red gauze held between his teeth and wrapping over one ear.

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jun 1

couldn't have said it better myself

a letterboxd review from Ethan Colburn for Bloodsport, with a rating of 2.5 stars and a "like" symbol. the review reads:

"Did you know Jean-Claude Van Damme can do the splits?! Don’t worry, he’ll remind you every 5 minutes"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· May 15

the six Toa from the LEGO Bionicle line, in order from left to right:
- Onua, a black-armored and green-eyed robot-looking motherfucker
- Lewa, a green-armored and green-eyed robot-looking motherfucker
- Pohatu, a brown-armored and orange-eyed robot-looking motherfucker
- Tahu, a red-armored and red-eyed robot-looking motherfucker
- Kopaka, a white-armored and blue-eyed robot-looking motherfucker
- Gali, a blue-armored and yellow-eyed robot-looking motherfucker

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· May 3

signing off the nightly Discord call

a cropped screenshot from the visual novel The Hundred Line — Last Defense Academy, featuring a gray-haired blind boy in a puffy jacket (Eito Aotsuki) waving with a smile. in the background is a high-tech vault. Eito is saying:

"This is goodbye... forever... you miserable freaks."

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· May 1

homie did you flag me for the word "knights"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Apr 29

crazy that the SOMA ARG is still going

a news story preview from Popular Mechanics with a banner image of a Rorschach-esque black inkblot. the headline reads as follows:

"They Found Black Good Inside a Ship. Then They Realized It Was Alive—and Unlike Anything They'd Ever seen."

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Apr 14

took a swang. apologies to my Metaphor homies but I straight-up didn't taste the sauce.

a 5 by 4 grid labeled "About Me: Video Games," with all 20 labeled cells containing a video game cover. going from the top, from left to right, mine reads:

Favorite Game: Spritfarer
Best Story: Nine Hours, Nine Person, Nine Doors
Favorite Art Style: of the Devil
Biggest Personal Impact: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Best Combat: Yakuza 0
Overhated: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
Underrated: Dragon Age II
Overrated: Metaphor: Refantazio
Needs a Remake: Fallout: New Vegas
Criminally Overlooked: Fuga: Melodies of Steel
Favorite Protagonist: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
Favorite Antagonist: Jade Empire
Best Soundtrack: NieR Replicant
Best Multiplayer: Halo 3
Not Usually My Thing, But...: unbeatable
Turn My Brain Off: Sonic Racing Crossworlds
Best With Friends: Peak
Best Retro Game: Deus Ex
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Myst
Game Everyone Should Play: Immortality

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Apr 10

hold on everyone I'm learning now there's been a recount

a list entitled GAMERANT: THE TOP 10 BEST GAMES EVER MADE (ACCORDING TO YOU), colored in black and white with orange highlighting. the ten entries, in descending order, are:
- of the Devil
- NieR: Automata
- The Brothers Karamazov
- TY the Tasmanian Tiger
- TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
- Moonlight
- TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan
- The Friendship Factory
- of the Devil again
- The iPhone 7

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Apr 2

cheating since it's about something funny in a video game but this one always sends me

a tweet, with an image of Kazuma Kiryu (a very chiseled, rugged-looking Japanese man) from the Yakuza games, looking extremely dismayed about the shirtless man in a diaper behind him. the actual tweet reads:

"No video game has managed to convey a characters emotional state as well as this single image from Yakuza Kiwami 2 where Kiryu knows he is absolutely about to have to fight these grown-ass men wearing diapers"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Mar 5

sorry to be a Shakespeare pleb but you really can't compete with the best and boy did we try

a poster for Moonshot's production of SONIC AND THE STATE OF DENMARK, with an ESRB rating-styled signature for the artist Frostios. in the poster, from left to right, is:
- Sonic the Hedgehog, dressed in dark clothes like Ken Branagh's Hamlet with a sword at his hip
- Amy Rose the Hedgehog, wearing a green whimple hat, looking feisty
- Vanilla the Rabbit, dressed regally with a queen's crown and looking demurely out at the audience
- Vector the Crocodile, glaring in a sinister manner of his shoulder at Sonic

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Feb 20

I ACCIDENTALLY PUT GORO MAJAWA THROUGH THE FUCKIGN WASH

a high-angled photo, taken in the laundry room, of a felt Jawa stuffie. for those unfamiliar with Jawas, they are diminutive aliens with clay-red robes (often covered in straps of some kind), shadowy faces, and glowing yellow circles for eyes

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Feb 8

live footage of Jeff watching

Pingu, a black and white claymation penguin, sits on a wooden chair. his arms are crossed, and he looks very angry.

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jan 28

taps the sign

a quote from the writer C.S. Lewis, set over a graphic of his sitting in an armchair with Lucy from the Chronicles of Narnia books on his lap, a lamppost behind him, and Aslan the lion sitting beside. the quote reads:

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Dec 27

listen I gotta check which of you I have unwitting blood feuds with

A copypasta image reading "Before the year ends... reply to this tweet and give your honest thoughts about me?"

below the text is a blushing emoji with wide, shocked eyes and an interrobang beside its head

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Dec 16

3) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. okay I gotta get a little insane on this one because I think I said it best on the stream: I don't know if I like Hundred Line better than any other video game I've played this year, but I *respect it* more than any other video game I've played this year.

cover art for the video game The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. it features the full cast of the game in their black-and-white battle outfits, with the most focus being given to red-and-blue-haired protagonist Takumi Sumino and Sirei, who is a little blobby freak with a hat and cane. the group is standing amidst devastated ruins, with purple flames in the distance, facing down an army of horrifyingly alien creatures.

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Dec 16

2) Sonic & the State of Denmark. it's so funny to say "Hamlet except it's Sonic the Hedgehog" is the most rewarding collaboration of my life, not to mention one of the best things I've ever (co-)written, but it's the truth. big thanks to the freaks of @moonshotpods.bsky.social for this experience.

a YouTube thumbnail for Sonic & the State of Denmark, featuring a theatrically-dressed Sonic awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. beside him is the text, in the same font as his comic/games, "WHAT IF HAMLET WAS SONIC?", and beneath him is a dialogue box (in the format of the Sonic Forces video game) reading "What a rogue and peasant hog am I!"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Dec 16

I did a whole shitpost for my Three Things for the stream last night, but if I actually had to put down a list: 1) adopting Oreo and Mephiles. no explanation required because, like, I mean. look at them. fuckin look at them.

Oreo, a tuxedo cat with green eyes and a black smudge across her white muzzle, sits on a pillow-topped office chair while looking suspiciously at the camera. she is extremely cute.

Mephiles, a black cat with green eyes, sits on a human bed while looking just above the camera with full-width pupils. there is a soft glow on his face from a nearby lamp, and he is also extremely cute.

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Dec 16

they're not ready for this

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Nov 9

jk I ask for what I want #respectwomen2019

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Nov 9

*2011 voice* I never asked for this

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Oct 25

recently learned the phrase "media that is bad but also good will drive you insane" and right now nothing is teaching me its meaning more than @risquips.bsky.social's and my experience watching this movie

generic poster for the film "Racing with the Moon"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Sep 18

yo this worldbuilding shit easy

snippet of a text document headed "Culture." beneath it, in order, are the following bullet points:
- there are rich people and poor people
- uh
- racism allegroy [sic]

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Aug 12

indeed it did

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Aug 12

forgot Bourdain's name for a second

google search field filled with the query "guy who wanted to beat kissinger to death with his bare hands"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jul 26

I BOILED ALIVE FOR TWO HOURS IN LINE FOR ROGER CRAIG SMITH TO SIGN THE POSTER FOR THIS AND AM CONTINUING TO BOIL Y'ALL BETTER TURN THE FUCK UP IT'S GONNA GO SICKO TOWN

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jul 24

hey why not. hit me.

a shy little emoji man asking "What do you think is my biggest strength as a creator?"

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jul 9

a flawless artistic rendering

an index card being held in the foreground, the illustration upon it crudely rendering a cat lying on its side with all four limbs splayed out. its eyes are huge. the background seems to be that of a PC tower underneath a desk.

the same underdesk perspective as the previous photo, index card removed. now we can see the black-furred kitty lying on his side, limbs splayed out, looking at the camera with big black eyes.

Theodore "Listen to the Friendship Factory" Monk@fourwholemoons· Jul 5

STOP! You aren't forgetting to tune into Peam, are you?