mothcub

@mothcub

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mothcub@mothcub· 28d

Spooky, sweet pleasures.

A post titled 'Good things of the week, Tuesday 14th July 2026'.

A line drawing of a bunny lying down, and several stars, is at the top.

Text reads:

"Dear all,

I have two good things for you this week - an academic vampire movie, and a short story collection. Both explore some very satisfying and direct and visceral aesthetic pleasures, and so they complement each other well.

There is a lot to be gained from reading and watching and playing and whatever, from engaging with media or with life generally (people watching at a café, one of life’s most powerful pleasures - and did I do this and see one big dog and one tiny dog today? yes), but so often it does come down to that perfect, direct sensorial pleasure you can get. One small coffee please. One big vampire bite. Slurp!

All the best,
mothcub xoxo"

A post titled 'Movie of the week: The Addiction (1995) dir. Abel Ferrara'.

A black and white photo of a woman sits at the top.

Text reads:

"A stylish film shot in black and white in part so that its characters may slink effortlessly around the shadowy streets of New York, this is one of the most intriguing vampire movies I’ve seen.

Here, the sudden onset of vampirism embodies the life-changing pinprick of random attack, the total destruction of a sudden event that plunges a studious woman into uncontrollable, inhuman anguish. Addiction itself, HIV, and the weight of academia are invoked through the impenetrable and totalising sickness of vampirism, and periodically some vampire will say, “Dante/Sartre/Wilde said this pretty astute thing which, did you know, was actually about the vampire?”

Also, Christopher Walken arrives, sneering. Classic."

A post titled 'Book of the week: Hot Fruit by Erinrose Mager. Publication date: 17th Nov 2026 / NYU Press - Pre-release copy read via Netgalley.'

The book cover, a murky painting of a figure with a white fruit made of two filigree halves depicting a man and a woman, heads the page.

Text reads:

"This is a short story collection, or a prose poetry collection, and I guess the question is: what’s the difference? I don’t know, really, and the book’s cover says “STORIES” right next to the title so you know how to enter the book with the right frame of mind, but I love the descriptive, visceral, ethereal tone these little stories take. They feel inseperable from poetry as a medium, stories or not.

In any case, I love the motifs, the exploration of the strange distance of adoption, the indulgence in food and its obvious pleasure as a comfort and a memory, and perhaps most of all, the pockets of humour throughout. One story, titled ‘Joon-Ho’, begins like this:

“My father is always away, directing movies to great acclaim.”

Perfect."

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

In a beautiful world, such things can happen.

A person and a bunny hold an apple. Text reads: "sharing an apple as good friends do".

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

me tonight btw

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

Bellingham and Haaland :)

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

Mbappé moments

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

HSM x England

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

Beautiful sound effects on this one

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

I'm gonna post some football edits, feel free to mute this thread because there will be many. First up since it's Bastille Day and France's semi-final match against Spain tonight: ALLEZ LES BLEUS

mothcub@mothcub· 28d

Please enjoy selected blog posts from my beautiful blog this week: 1. An Exciting Tour of my Game Screenshots - mothplace.blogspot.com/2026/07/an-e... 2. One Interesting Prop - mothplace.blogspot.com/2026/07/one-... 3. I Finally Read Gone Girl - mothplace.blogspot.com/2026/07/i-fi... Thank you :-)

A screenshot of my mii. She looks just like me.

mothcub@mothcub· 29d

Two football men.

A drawing of Haaling and Bellingham embracing.

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 12

Despite it all.

A dog and a bunny embrace. Text reads: well... we do love each other

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 12

Ok serve...

Dermot standing cool style in front of an ITN newsroom camera.

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 12

Lots of surprising deaths the past few days, but one that's getting me is Dermot Murnaghan. He had quite a comforting presence, but I suppose it's also that his face was such a daily fixture of my life at one time. Here he is at the computer (he's just like me).

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 11

Star fantasy.

A comic showing a bunny looking up at the stars and seeing a bunny inside one of them. Text reads: I like to look at the stars / and imagine you on a distant planet / smiling huge.

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 10

Yokai Watch is so good

Dismarelda, a large purple blob woman, says, "I'm sorry if I gave you the impression I was interested in your life story..."

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 10

I love the shower.

A drawing of a woman with greasy hair and a spotty face, labelled "be before the shower". She is wearing a t-shirt with the word "nasty" on it.

A drawing of a woman with messy hair, dripping, labelled "me after the shower".

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 9

Hooray!

A bunny reaches out towards a smiling sun. Text reads: "another beautiful day of fun".

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 7

I love the world cup

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 6

Thinking about balls and orbs.

A post titled 'Good things of the week, Monday 6th July 2026'.

A line drawing of a woman chasing a cat appears above the main text.

Text reads:

"Dear all,

I have to assume, at this point, that England will soon be winning the world cup. Unless perhaps a big Norwegian headbutts all of the players to death or something. We will shortly find out. That’s the joy of football. Anything could happen. Any sort of penalty could destroy it all at a moment’s notice. Harry Kane could fall into a big hole. Whatever happens, good luck to the ball.

Yesterday I spent three hours on a train, and read the entire time. It was bliss. I finished one of my favourite books of the year, while the old guy next to me watched videos of Slash doing crazy guitar solos on his phone. I think we were both experiencing the purest possible pleasure. Good day to that man.

Have a good one,
mothcub xoxo"

A post titled 'Book of the week: The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley.'

A book cover can be seen, featuring a photo of a young man's face.

Text reads:

"I had heard about the famous opening line:
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

I needed to know what could possibly follow such an impeccable first sentence. As it turns out, The Go-Between is a complex, beautifully dramatic novel following thirteen-year-old Leo Colston in 1900 as he enters the sophisticated society of a school friend over the summer and becomes embroiled, in a small way, in a scandal.

My jaw was on the floor at some points, and after finishing it, the depth of that opening line feels all the more satisfying. Leo looks upon his life with both rosy nostalgia and a haunting, muted sadness.

It is an ode to the destruction of social restriction and an incredible examination of the twin promise and anguish of the first half of the 20th century. And I love it so much."

A post titled 'Movie of the week: Toy Story 5 (2026), dir. Andrew Stanton'.

A drawing of a frog-themed iPad with the word "bruh" on her screen sits between paragraphs.

Text reads:

"It’s weird to have another Toy Story movie. Woody ran off to the woods to join a toy commune last time, but in this movie he has to awkwardly return and have needless beef with Buzz. Why? I thought those guys were over their beef.

Whatever, this instalment is about how kids are all iPadded to hell these days, and I did really enjoy just how hard they went into iPad baby hater territory. The children are all lolling around dazed in their dimly lit bedrooms, gazing thoughtlessly at their blinding screens. It’s kind of amazing.

From there, the movie is fun. It’s well-paced, it made me chuckle, it has a large amount of Buzz Lightyears. But I didn’t find the new iPad character very inspiring. She’s not villainous enough, and she doesn’t have much of an arc, so while I liked the movie fine, it was a testament to the details (there is an electronic toilet roll character now, and I like him) that the thin story didn’t bother me more.

What can I say? I simply clap when I see Buzz."

A post titled 'Game of the week: 'Dopamix (3DS, 2012)'.

A drawing of a girl pointing to the game screen, which shows a number of colourful orbs, appears above text.

Text reads:

"This is a Japan-only rhythm game with impeccable style and swag. The glowing orbs come at you fast and it’s soon clear that this is a game you have to pay complete, rigid attention to at all times.

The pattern of orb movement is meticulous, sometimes surprising, and often slightly scary. The music is perfect. My high scores are low, and I am afraid.

It’s really, really good."

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 6

I'm being targeted like never before

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 5

We've all been there, Grungus.

A girl greets some sort of screaming ghoul, "hey Grungus, what's up?"

Grungus replies, "GRARGKSPLLGR".

The girl says, "yeah, I feel that".

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 4

She can smell it.

A woman pokes the head of her dog, standing next to her, and says, "my dog has something to say". The dog, with arms crossed, says, "you are a misogynist".

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 1

Wait a minute...

A three-panel comic. In the first panel, a man folds his arms. Text reads: "I'd love to see a shifty dog".

In the second panel, the man shrugs and says, "but they don't exist". A dog is passing behind him.

In the third panel, the dog from the previous panel has just passed the man. They turn to look at other suspiciously.

mothcub@mothcub· Jul 1

Wandering the streets, taking pictures on my 3DS 🌟

Black and white photo of a woman doing a beautiful Zoolander-esque model pose.

Black and white photo of a road marking in the shape of a sausage dog.

Black and white photo of a woman smiling on a Parisian street.

Black and white photo of people sitting outside a cafe.

mothcub@mothcub· Jun 30

You have reached the poo limit.

A person presses a finger to a dog's nose, and says, "you've done one poopy too many".

mothcub@mothcub· Jun 29

Two impeccable things ✨️

A post titled 'Good things of the week, Monday 29th June 2026'.

A line drawing of a woman frowning sits between two small paragraphs.

Text reads:

"Dear all,

Last week I said it was hot, but this week was just sickening. I don’t want to talk about it. Just imagine me doing the Obsession face. Hold on, I’ll draw it.

That’s me. That’s how I feel. I have become lazy beyond belief, and so this week I will only tell you about two good things, but they are really, really good things. Trust me.

Take it easy,
mothcub xoxo"

A post titled 'Movie of the week: The Dirties (2013), dir. Matt Johnson'.

A black and white movie poster and a screenshot of an awkward looking fully adult schoolboy sits at the top.

Text reads:

"How can I possibly describe The Dirties? It’s a movie that so perfectly walks the tightrope between funny and heartbreaking to create an insane, unique emotional experience. Its basic topic is the making of an amateur movie about a school shooting, and it manages to treat the subject with severity, humour, and sweetness.

The characters are so real, and the dizzying switches into and out of the metacinema of it all (coming out of a scene into its own active editing process, occasional reminders that there is a third person behind the camera, etc) impeccably blur the line between reality and the central characters’ cinematic interpretation of it.

It is ugly, real, funny, shocking, touching, and astonishingly complex. A genuinely jaw-dropping movie."

A post titled 'Album of the week: Toto - Toto (1978)'.

The album cover sits at the top of the post - a purple background with a centred sword.

Text reads:

"Okay, point #1: cool sword cover art, point #2: every song is insane.

The sheer quality of composition on this devastating debut is mind-meltingly great. I love this general era, where synths are making they way into every facet of music, and this album is no exception. We are treated to a great selection of twinkling synth atop some unstoppable guitar. The album also has such a great sense of yearning, bittersweet, dreamlike melody winding its way through the larger, more bombastic and funky moments.

They have a song about Georgy Porgy on here, and it is one of the greatest songs ever made. Girl Goodbye is also one of my favourites (a huge song about getting the hell outta there), but every single song on this album is pure gold."

mothcub@mothcub· Jun 28

A poem about my original Shrek universe character, Jessica.

A drawing of Shrek and a female ogre with long blonde hair looking forlornly at him, above a poem titled 'the ogre's new girlfriend', which reads:

you said i was special
but in your sleep
you said her name

fiona

mothcub@mothcub· Jun 26

My heavenly vessel.

A three-panel comic.

In the first panel, a person lies on a rug next to a cat. Text reads: "i love my body".

In the second panel, the person strikes a pose, smiling and bending one knee. Text reads: "it's kind of weird but".

In the third panel, the person blasts off from Earth into space, surrounded by glittering stars. Text reads: "it gets me where i'm going". An elephant down on Earth watches.

mothcub@mothcub· Jun 25

Since Patreon have brought in a twitter-like feed of their own version of tweets ("quips") I've decided to start leaving annoying comments on every post I see there