mothcub

ALT A dog sits with a drink. Text reads: "today I shall be: sitting on my ass".

ALT A four panel comic. In the first panel, a devil says, "I don't like to hurt people". In the second panel, the devil pokes a guy with his pitchfork, and says, "but I must". In the third panel, the poked guy cries, and says, "that really hurts". In the final panel, the devil replies, sadly, "I'm sorry bro".

ALT A bald man looks at a tiny clump of a dog and thinks, "Brussel Sprout". Text reads: "man comes up with perfect name for dog".

ALT A post titled 'Good things of the week,Tuesday 27th October 2026'. Text reads: "Dear all, I have approximately 16 more books to read this year if I want to reach my all-time record of 56. And I have 8 more Child’s Play films to watch before November, because this is my Halloween challenge, and if I don’t watch them all, I will die (Chucky will get me). These are my numbers, and I must obey them at all costs. I will also, in all likelihood, consume 2 small fish-shaped filled sponge cakes this evening. This is the sort of thing I am passionate about, currently. Please wish me luck in my endeavours, and have a pleasant week. Best wishes, mothcub xoxo"

ALT A post titled 'Book of the week: Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang.' Text reads: "R. F. Kuang is a mesmerising figure to me. Better known to many for her fantasy historical fiction stuff, I came to her through the dazzlingly readable and somewhat crazed ‘Yellowface’, a scintillating tale of literary racefaking. Taipei Story is her latest novel, which wades into meandering, slice-of-life literary fiction, and follows an anxious Chinese-American studying Mandarin in Taipei. Far before its release, it was the subject of some online controversy—something which delights me. It’s like catnip. I love how dismal and lonely Taipei Story feels, how it explores the unknowns and the frictions of language and culture and personal relationships that cause the protagonist so much anguish. I love the weird, faraway, diligent personality she has. And I love how it takes her from jittery, uncomfortable outsider obsessed with finding a way to slot herself perfectly into her environment, to someone who can

ALT A post titled 'Show of the week: The New Stanford Prison Experiment (2026)'. Text reads: "Netflix provides us with plenty of overpuffed swill, but this—this is pure stink juice siphoned from the sewer of pseudo-intellectual chin-stroking. A bunch of guys (and three women - who will not be placed in the role of inmate) enter a prison to play at inmate/guard relations. What will they do? Will they beat each other? No. They will have irritating debates about whether or not they should do all the stuff the guards tell them, and they will say stuff like, “I’m doing this for my boys. So my boys know I’m a good father.” What? It’s hard to explain in a few paragraphs how devoid of meaning this is, but when the second batch of guards say, “hey guys, this is just a TV show, so we’re gonna not have any rules tbh”, we cut to a prison operations expert type guy, and he tells us, “this is bad. This creates chaos.” The footage, though, shows no chaos. The guys all just eat yummy food and enjoy ta

ALT A post titled 'Game of the week: Rhythm Heaven Megamix (3DS, 2015)'. Text reads: "The Rhythm Heaven world (Rhythm Paradise in Europe) is a gorgeously simple one. There’s a species of bee dogs, and all manner of other silly characters, and they all want you to perform some rhythmic tasks. The game is elegant and requires the most basic of button presses, but uses this simplicity to present you with a rapid smattering of satisfying little scenarios. My favourite, at the time of writing, is the one where you pluck beard hairs from potatoes. That’s scintillating. That’s what I ought to be doing. That’s heaven. Or indeed, paradise."

ALT A dog looks at a lone flower. Text reads: "smell that thing".

ALT Webcam photo of a woman holding a plush Doraemon and a plush Oi Ocha-kun.

ALT A post titled 'Good things of the week, Monday 19th October 2026'. Text reads: "Dear all, I have dedicated myself once again to my 3DS, and have been playing a little bit every day and checking out some new games. One of them was Bratz: Forever Diamondz, which honestly really could be the worst DS game ever made. It’s stunningly bad. It’s not one of my good things. But that’s okay. It builds character. I also recently watched ‘80s classic The Karate Kid for the first time, which was pretty exciting, and then I watched three more Karate Kid films, which were less exciting. As a result I cannot speak of The Karate Kid. The Karate Kid is too present, too much a part of me at this time. I must exorcise him. But I do love him, and his dear old man, and his Elizabeth Shue. I might be inspired to learn to do the splits. Time will tell. But never mind all that. Let me tell you about my two favourite things. Thanks, mothcub xoxo"

ALT A post titled 'Album of the week: Hot Dad - Comedy (2026)'. Text reads: "I’ve known Hot Dad and his music for a long time, and am a big fan of his song about Shania Twain’s Facebook page comments, the song about choosing a font for a kid’s website, and the beautiful ode to making cool music that is ‘Sometimes I make Shit That Rocks’. He is a ‘funny’ musical artist and ‘Comedy’ - the album and its title track - examines this, takes a layered, serious approach to what it means to be a ‘comedy’ artist. The album certainly still has humour to it, but it has a murkier, richer, bigger emotionality that I love. On ‘Heartbreak Hurts’ he explores the simple pleasure of stating the obvious, with the repeated refrain ‘heartbreak hurts, it hurts’. A lot of Hot Dad’s most powerful gags come from recognising the immediate humour of our plainest desires and feelings, and this album lets those sit plainly on that wonderful bittersweet, scuffed guitar sound that I love so much from bands like Big

ALT A post titled 'Game of the week: Earthpedia (3DS, 2012)'. Text reads: "This is, essentially, a playable encyclopedia, and it’s great. Released exclusively in Japan, your task is to uncover all sorts of data points, which sometimes requires catching digital bugs with your beautiful robotic arms. The game has some really fun incorporations of 3DS features, such as bug-catching puzzles you can play in ‘augmented reality’ with an AR card, or items you can collect to look at in 3D panorama using the console’s gyroscope, and there’s just something satisfying here that elevates it from feeling too much like a sequence of Wikipedia articles. The sound effects and GUI are really immersive and satisfying. The gameplay, while very simple, is cute and fun. There’s a lil’ robot character who talks to you. What pleases me most, though, is the variety of items you can collect. In that way, it is like clicking Wikipedia’s enticing ‘random article’ button. So far I have discovered: antarctic meteo

ALT A bunny and a girl approach each with arms outstretched. Text reads: "let's forget da whole world".

ALT A bunny and a girl embrace. Text reads: "and squeeze each other to death".

ALT A girl and a cat almost touch hands/paws. Text reads: "we are playing complex psychological games".

ALT A dog sits with a perfect heart. Text reads: "sweet beautiful creature".

ALT A tall dog with folded arms tells a boy, "you are foul and insular". The boy replies, "I know". Header reads: "my dog judges me".

ALT A double page spread of a collaged instruction manual for a Honeywell fan, with pen drawings of the fan, a girl, and a dog.

ALT A big frog stands next to a small person. Text reads: "bro don't even worry about it ok - just look at me, the big frog"

ALT A drawing of a large-faced woman. Text reads: "hey it's me... queen lump".

ALT Webcam photo of a smiling woman with a distorted, large face.

ALT A woman smugly holds a cuddly Mario toy. Text reads: "I know that you are deeply jealous of my Mario cuddly toy".

ALT A photo of a woman clutching a Mario toy.

ALT A bunny tells a person, "it is time for supreme judgement". The person replies, "yes, yes, yes".

ALT A scan of various objects: a passport, coin purse, plush frog, wired earphones, card holder, plaster, Vaseline tub, and bracelet.

ALT A bunny tells a group of other bunnies, "many of you are callous".

ALT A sleeping woman dreams of asking threw men, "if I asked you to cut your penis off, would you?" The three men reply, "I would have to", "yes", and "of course".