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Matt Sheridan
@mattsheridan.bsky.social
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Married to Iron Circus Comics. Tabletop RPG guy. Always busy.

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Somebody is out here using “Gmail” as their tag.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Going through some old photos lately. I think this is from when Borders quasi-died back in 2011.
A shelf full of manga at a book store, tagged with a big sign that reads “mango - 20% off original price”. The word “mango” is hand-written.
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Just found a movie I'd never heard of on Tubi, and the title card is DELIGHTFUL.
Movie title "The Dead Pit", spelled out in letters made out of bloody, severed, bright-red, pointy-clawed fingers pierced by nails.
October 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Oh yeah, the original designs were even goofier than the kinda steampunky redesigns that they got later.
A page from Monster Manual 2: four AD&D 1e modrons with stats. They’re all pretty goofy.
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Inspiration for the original modern designs found.
A monodron-caste modern from the AD&D 1e Monster Manual 2. It’s a creature with a smooth sphere for a body, a single eye, a lippy mouth, spindly legs, and tiny wings. Honestly, it’s goofy as fuck, in a charming way.
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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For real, folks: How did we, as a society, end up here?
Bathroom sign with the text “wave until soap dispenses” under a line drawing of a cupped hand wiggling underneath a sink nozzle, beseeching the machine to ejaculate its payload.
September 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I feel like House would be a rad movie to watch in a theater. It's fun to experience the collective disbelief of an audience who just saw something wild as fuck.
Theatrical poster for the movie House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi). A fluffy scarlet entity with the cartoonishly malevolent face of a demonic cat looms above a tiny white house drawn in a simplified style. The word "House" curves below the cat and house in wavy, spooky black lettering. Yoko Minamida, playing a spooky old lady (at age 44) in House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi), shares a mischievous grin with the audience while characters in the background react to her latest spooky old lady high jinks.
September 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Never heard of Fidus before today, but DAMN. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidus
"The Temple of the Earth" by Fidus (née Hugo Höppener, 1868–1948). Massively detailed pen-and ink drawing of a cube-shaped stone building covered in mythic statuary and art nouveau design elements. "Upswing" by Fidus (née Hugo Höppener, 1868–1948). Grayscale drawing of a nude person, seen from behind, standing and raising their arms amidst mystical abstract designs, while a nude woman, sitting in a giant lotus blossom, clutches their legs. "The Lonely Temple" by Fidus (née Hugo Höppener, 1868–1948). Color painting in green and blue tones of a small conical building with an arched door and a flower-like top within a larger, temple-like stone room decorated with columns and bas reliefs. "Swordguard" by Fidus (née Hugo Höppener, 1868–1948). Brown-toned art of a solemn cohort of Bronze Age warriors, seen from a low angle in the moonlight, holding long swords point-down.
August 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Looks like everything went okay!
The glassy, broken remains of a monarch chrysalis after the butterfly has emerged.
August 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Watchin some Ultraman today. And I am just straight losing my shit right now.
A uniformed member of a futuristic "attack team" tells his colleagues "Dr. Mizuno theorized that the cloud was a nest for Clitters." Another attack team member responds with an absolutely straight face: "Clitters?"
August 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Spotted what I think is a monarch chrysalis in an odd place today: It’s stuck to the inner rim of this eye-level recessed circle on the exterior wall of a building. Hope it’s okay there.
Pale green butterfly pupa with gold spots hanging from an artificial gray surface.
August 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Reminder back when folks were Photoshopping dog mouths onto horses?
July 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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These menacing goddamned shots of the sea in Ring are rad as hell.
Screen-filling scene of a flat gray sea under a flat gray sky from Ring (1991, Hideo Nakata). Two men sit on a rocky beach facing a vast gray sea in Ring (1991, Hideo Nakata). A subtitle reals "For us, the sea is unlucky." A shot of the sea from Ring (1991, Hideo Nakata) in which a storm cloud sweeps in across the water towards a rocky coastline. Nighttime scene of a dark, stormy sea and a rocky, indistinct shore in Ring (1991, Hideo Nakata).
July 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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When folks back the campaign and choose a reward tier, they get to pick from the add-ons AFTER that.

If they've ALREADY pledged and want to go back and pick add-ons, they have to do kind of an annoying multi-click process. "Manage your pledge" > "Change your pledge" > Select pledge > Select add-on.
Step 1: From the campaign page, click "Manage your pledge". Step 2: On the "Change your pledge" page, click "Change your pledge". Step 3: On the "Select your reward" page, click the pledge button for your preferred reward. Step 4: On the "Select optional add-ons" page, click the add button for any add-ons you want.
May 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A couple shots from last Sunday's Vintage Story session. If you wanted to show Trav that VS can be kinda pretty, @skinnedteen.bsky.social, I think these make the case!
Vintage Story screenshot. A blazing sun sets behind some trees across a bay, turning the sky golden and sending god rays over the water. Vintage Story screenshot. The gray cobble walls and pillars of a dungeon are lit cyan and orange by different light sources.
April 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Uh-oh. Vintage Story incoming! www.twitch.tv/theironspike www.twitch.tv/matthew_sher...
Vintage Story screenshot featuring Spike and Matt's blocky in-game avatars in their blocky in-game boat.
April 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Holy shit, it is Vintage Story time in like 20 minutes! Come watch Charlie and me fix the outcome of our hubris by retrieving my corpse from Dead Husband Island! www.twitch.tv/theironspike www.twitch.tv/matthew_sher...
Our lovely Vintage Story hovel. It is basically a shitty dirt-and-thatch building rendered in Minecrafty blocks. There's a cow skull over the door, and crates, small animal cages, peat bricks, and firewood stacked everywhere.
April 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Well, that was a fun time!
A Vintage Story screenshot in which Charlie and I are sailing along in a little boat through a temporal rift storm that is distorting the crap out of the nearby landscape and dropping horrible quasi-living monsters around us.
April 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Vintage Story later today! @ironspike.bsky.social and I will be playing at 5:00pm CT as usual. Last time, we found a huge sewer dungeon; tonight we're gonna plunder it! I'm gonna stream for the first time, so you'll be able to see both views. www.twitch.tv/theironspike www.twitch.tv/matthew_sher...
Me and Charlie hanging out on the beach outside our humble Vintage Story hovel. We're sitting next to each other on the basalt sand, watching the sun rise. I'm wearing some kind of furry, hooded gray coat and a golden amulet. She's wearing a green cap with a feather and holding a copper lantern. Oh, and also everything is like Minecraft levels of blocky and low-res.
April 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Anyway, I saved the lot from the compactor, but I’m only taking a few unmarked or potentially weird ones home. Maybe somebody else will snaffle these others up.
Two boxes of VHS tapes, including some home recordings on Maxell and Memorex tapes, and a whole bunch of 20th century movies like The Night Stalker, Zorba the Greek, The Night of the Iguana, The Guns of Navarone, Sahara, and others.
January 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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There is a box of VHS tapes in the trash compactor. They are, as yet, uncrushed. How badly do I want to become a creepypasta story?
An old Office Depot box, upended, spills out a collection of miscellaneous VHS tapes. Some are regular purchased movies—such as The Night of the Iguana—while others are home recordings—such as one that appears to be labeled “The Last of the Dogmen”.
January 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Man, I wonder if I could get Bryce3D to work on a modern machine.
A 3D-rendered scene that I can only assume was created in the 1994 factory of dreams, Bryce. An ocean of crystalline blue water extends to the horizon, and a wavy path of . . . stone, maybe, leads from the viewer's position to an odd, tiered island, where a simple humanoid figure raises their hand. A massive translucent shape rises up from the island, and this might be either several arcs of water spewing from a fountain, or some kind of crystal gazebo. In the sky behind all of this, three huge planets loom close to the horizon, one of which is encircled by massive rings. Folks did not install Bryce to make subtle, understated images, friends.
January 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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For my money, though, there's nothing more emblematic of the GeoCities website than the many, many "under construction" GIFs. For real, I hhhated those things. gifcities.org?q=construction
That ancient animated road work sign, showing a black stick figure shoveling mysterious material inside a bright yellow diamond. Red, stencil-style text reading "under construction", with a background of scrolling black-and-yellow caution stripes. Spinning black-and-yellow-striped bar bearing the word "construction" on both sides in metallic letters.
January 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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These little floating head things—called "kaoani", apparently—were everywhere for a little while. gifcities.org?q=kaoani
January 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Just amazing stuff. Man, that Diablo GIF really got around. web.archive.org/web/20090807...
January 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM