#Twitchy

[cluedoenthusiast]

The little alien in Al's body fighting to escape + I spilt me beer on the radio (it looks like a little island) [X]

[afterlifethecomic]

Updated lineup of the main cast, woo!!

[pinknpoodley]

200% wolf stock art!!

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EDIT: added more stock art of batty and freddy

[kilodelart]

Doodles I used in tonight's "Twitch Chat Plays D&D"

[lolotheparagon]

I LOVE THIS LITTLE GREMLIN SQUIRREL FROM HOODWINKED

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Chloe Simon at MMFA:

After a week of right-wing media spreading baseless smears about Haitian migrants abducting and eating pets, conservative activist Christopher Rufo posted a video allegedly showing a cat on a barbecue grill in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton police have issued a statement saying “there is no evidence to even remotely suggest” that any community is eating pets — but some in right-wing media ran with the story, claiming that Rufo’s video falsely “confirmed” the rumors about migrants and animals. 

Last week, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, promoted baseless and racist rumors about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets. During the September 10 presidential debate, Trump claimed, “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” Right-wing media also jumped on the narrative, calling Haitian migrants “locusts,” zombies,” and “weird Third World aliens.” [The Associated Press, 9/11/24; Media Matters, 9/10/24]

On September 14, Rufo posted a video purportedly showing a cat on a barbecue with the caption, “EXCLUSIVE: We have discovered that migrants are, in fact, eating cats in Ohio. We have verified, with multiple witnesses and visual cross-references, that African migrants in Dayton, the next city over from Springfield, barbecued these cats last summer.” Rufo did acknowledge in his Substack that “this single incident does not confirm every particularity of Trump’s statement. The town is Dayton, not Springfield; cats alone were on the grill, not cats and dogs.” However, he continued that the video “does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its ‘fact checkers’” and that “independent journalists are already on the hunt and could reveal more.” Prior to releasing the video, Rufo claimed he would “provide a $5,000 bounty to anyone who can provide my team with hard, verifiable evidence that Haitian migrants are eating cats in Springfield, Ohio.” [Twitter/X, 9/14/24, 9/11/24; Substack, 9/14/24]

Rufo, a senior fellow at conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, is a conservative activist known for his right-wing crusades against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and higher education. Media Matters has described his career as a long attempt to “inject bigotry and incorrect information into mainstream discourses about gay and trans people, drag queens, and the academic discipline known as critical race theory.” [Vox, 9/10/23; Media Matters, 1/6/23, 7/27/23; The Guardian, 2/21/24]

Dayton police have categorically denied that any group has “engaged in eating pets.” In a statement, the department wrote, “We stand by our immigrant community and there is no evidence to even remotely suggest that any group, including our immigrant community, is engaged in eating pets. Seeing politicians or other individuals use outlandish information to appeal to their constituents is disheartening.” Rufo’s video has also received a lot of backlash online, with open-source intelligence analyst Oliver Alexander writing that it was “clearly chicken you weirdo. Dude’s never seen chicken that wasn’t dino-nugget shaped.” In a further attempt to verify the video’s claims, CBS News reached out to veterinary experts who cited the image’s poor quality, while another “noted the legs looked ‘weirdly distended’ and in his opinion, did not look like cat legs.” [Twitter/X, 9/16/24, 9/14/24; The Independent, 9/15/24; CBS News, 9/16/24]

Right-wing disinformation purveyor Christopher Rufo posted a video purporting that cats were cooked on a barbecue grill in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton PD, however, shot down Rufo’s rumor-mongering by stating that there is no evidence of cats being grilled in Dayton.

[crestles]

More PPG fanart cause I'm going through a phase.

[linguaphiliax]

Personal project of mine:

Threading all the perspectives from Hoodwinked! together.

Here's Red and Wolf on the mine carts.

[cannibalgh0st]

Yooooo my eye has been twitching all day😭👁

[phantomdoofer]

Don't mean to whine, but because of prior experiences I react to thunder about the same way a vet does to gunfire: they may look composed but they're probably screaming internally and trying not to flip their shit. So let me tell you this six hours straight of sky-splitting thunder has been doing wonders for my anxiety

[twitchytwitchtwitch]

So 13 years ago my friend (back then my sister's friend who I just kindof forced to put up with me, but now adays we are Full Fledged Friends ourselves) put on a play that they had written themselves, titled The Undersigned. They asked me to sound tech the play- not because they needed a sound tech (they had a light tech who could have easily done both), and definitely not because I was some sound tech genius (I was not). It was just to be kind to me.

This was my summer between grade 9 and grade 10. I had spent the last 5 years being best friends with a girl who was also my biggest bully. I hated myself. I had no self-esteem. But I was suddenly surrounded by this group of super cool, very kind, weird nerds. And I fell very much in love with them. They were kind to me and just treated me well. It was mind-blowing. I made them pancakes, I was annoying, and they were just. Really chill about it.

The soundtrack of that summer was Eminem (one of the cast members listened to a lot of Eminem) and the Gaslight Anthem (which Elysia introduced me to, and which I still love). I went to summer school the week after the play ran and listened to the Gaslight Anthem on repeat the whole time. I was trying to relive positive memories and feelings.

I don't know if any of those people look back at that time as often or as fondly as I do. I feel so lucky to have had that time to meet and connect with kind people and experience kindness. Some of them are still stuck with me, and I'll periodically poke them like 'hey. Hey thanks for being part of a genuinely pivotal moment in my life. Thank you for being kind.' I have definitely romanticized that summer in my head, and I don't think I'd go back to it if I could. But I miss it nonetheless. I love those people very much. I love those nerds, even though some of them will never know it or hear it. That's okay.

[cluedoenthusiast]

Twitchy Compilation!

Thank you to @sophaeros and @jetskisonyourmoat for your help in collecting these clips

[eycte bbc, humbug 1, thank you, cat, AM, taotu 1, reading, big shoulder, only ones, weird cough, fwn house shoulder, scary eycte, ayoade, annie tbhc, french mouth, taotu mouth, eycte mouth, the car mouth, eycte hand hold (original source unknown), eycte head shake (unknown), stign interview (full stu bru twitchies clipped here), BALD 1, 2, & 3 unknown, similar comp]

[afterlifethecomic]

i dont know how you do it but twitchy you keep getting more and more adorable lol

[linguaphiliax]

This movie must be Italian because it's absolute dynamite!

The original Knives Out

[kilodelart]

[surducktapewallet]

will the fingers in my dim reflection ever stop twitching?