Expository Doodles
@todd-in-tales.bsky.social
My name is Todd. I write and I draw. I'm learning to be a better, more mature essay writer and narrator in words and images. My central topics are linguistics, psychology, advanced English grammar, median Portuguese grammar, phonetics, & phonology
Reading and watching quite a great lot of the anti-AI commentary online lately has greatly intensified by love and respect for human creativity and skill. @dieseldane.bsky.social iseldane.bsky.social 's works are glorious examples of human creativity and give me chills of exultation. 🤲🏽
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Reading and watching quite a great lot of the anti-AI commentary online lately has greatly intensified by love and respect for human creativity and skill. @dieseldane.bsky.social iseldane.bsky.social 's works are glorious examples of human creativity and give me chills of exultation. 🤲🏽
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Mario Bros - wip
Based on an old flyer for the 1983 game.
Based on an old flyer for the 1983 game.
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Mario Bros - wip
Based on an old flyer for the 1983 game.
Based on an old flyer for the 1983 game.
DeviantArt f***ed me over with their bots and won't tell me what in my account bots mistook for a terms violation. So, f*** them right back. I'm going to blog all my stuff.
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Inaugural Blog of Todd Wesley Hellems
An Inaugural Blogpost of Todd Wesley Hellems Good-bye Deviant Art After Deviant Art bots falsely flagged an image in my Gallery, the bots s...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
DeviantArt f***ed me over with their bots and won't tell me what in my account bots mistook for a terms violation. So, f*** them right back. I'm going to blog all my stuff.
expositorydoodles.blogspot.com/2026/01/inau...
expositorydoodles.blogspot.com/2026/01/inau...
This is one of my favorite of my portraits. There was just one reference and I drew it fairly accurately from a screenshot of "Breaking Bad". I waned to draw Heisenberg a little like a supernatural being ...
December 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is one of my favorite of my portraits. There was just one reference and I drew it fairly accurately from a screenshot of "Breaking Bad". I waned to draw Heisenberg a little like a supernatural being ...
X.com restricted my account because their faulty verification procedures forced me to reset my password so many times that their bots marked me as suspicious. Now that customer service is dead by digitation, I can't call a customer service number to speak with a human to dispute this.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
X.com restricted my account because their faulty verification procedures forced me to reset my password so many times that their bots marked me as suspicious. Now that customer service is dead by digitation, I can't call a customer service number to speak with a human to dispute this.
My attention span is too short for the brevity of contemporary ads ever to make a mark on my memory.
They're boring! My attention sprints while the ads saunter.
Surveys continue pitifuly to ask me to rate them. 🤭
youtu.be/qrryFI0-o7I?...
They're boring! My attention sprints while the ads saunter.
Surveys continue pitifuly to ask me to rate them. 🤭
youtu.be/qrryFI0-o7I?...
Early 1980s TV Ads Were Truly Special! 🔥📼 VOL 525
YouTube video by Dave's Archives
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September 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My attention span is too short for the brevity of contemporary ads ever to make a mark on my memory.
They're boring! My attention sprints while the ads saunter.
Surveys continue pitifuly to ask me to rate them. 🤭
youtu.be/qrryFI0-o7I?...
They're boring! My attention sprints while the ads saunter.
Surveys continue pitifuly to ask me to rate them. 🤭
youtu.be/qrryFI0-o7I?...
I love this.
I really hate that fawning is my go-to trauma response. Note to self: enjoy your own peace - quit trying to love everyone else into being healed!!!
a deer and a kitten are laying on a pile of wood chips
ALT: a deer and a kitten are laying on a pile of wood chips
media.tenor.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I love this.
I've gotten heavily reminiscent about times when I saw films like this one playing on wall-mounted monitors in gritty night clubs, huffy cafés, and drag catwalks.
Classic Haunted House Horror Full Movie | THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: ALIEN ZONE
youtu.be/CFdkLAnBEPk?... via
@YouTube
Classic Haunted House Horror Full Movie | THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: ALIEN ZONE
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@YouTube
Classic Haunted House Horror Full Movie | THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: ALIEN ZONE (1978) | Sci-Fi
YouTube video by Absolute Sci-Fi
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I've gotten heavily reminiscent about times when I saw films like this one playing on wall-mounted monitors in gritty night clubs, huffy cafés, and drag catwalks.
Classic Haunted House Horror Full Movie | THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: ALIEN ZONE
youtu.be/CFdkLAnBEPk?... via
@YouTube
Classic Haunted House Horror Full Movie | THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: ALIEN ZONE
youtu.be/CFdkLAnBEPk?... via
@YouTube
Some Reddit post from 5 years ago propted people to recall their first purchase from their first paycheck. I worked in a Waldenbooks/Bretano's so, of course, I bought a pocket dictionary. I miss it now it has gone.
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Some Reddit post from 5 years ago propted people to recall their first purchase from their first paycheck. I worked in a Waldenbooks/Bretano's so, of course, I bought a pocket dictionary. I miss it now it has gone.
Search and Magnify buttons in digital interfaces should look dissimilar by standard.
September 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Search and Magnify buttons in digital interfaces should look dissimilar by standard.
I wish I still had a collection of comics I could review in this way.
Everyone talks about first issues or first appearances.
How about last issues with low print runs?
What last issue do you have that's hard to find?
#comics
How about last issues with low print runs?
What last issue do you have that's hard to find?
#comics
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I wish I still had a collection of comics I could review in this way.
The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah
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The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah | Substack
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September 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah
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Gemini just helped me find Charlie McDonnell again with the prompt: "I'm trying find a film maker whose name I can't recall. He published his videos on You Tube. They were styled very like Charlie Chaplin silent films."
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September 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Gemini just helped me find Charlie McDonnell again with the prompt: "I'm trying find a film maker whose name I can't recall. He published his videos on You Tube. They were styled very like Charlie Chaplin silent films."
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t.co/axeWuTXsiY
I'm head-over-soles in love with Sam Pang. I also adore Ed Kavalee.
Sam Pang and Glenn Robbins played Phone Swap in Season 1 and we’ve only just had our Instagram ban lifted 👮🍑🌸
#SamPangTonight
#SamPangTonight
September 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I'm head-over-soles in love with Sam Pang. I also adore Ed Kavalee.
A gorgeously ironic semantics gag.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A gorgeously ironic semantics gag.
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Super Mario inspired my fondness for mushrooms. Since "Super Mario Bros." on the NES, they've always seemed mystical and dignified to me. #Walkabout
August 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Super Mario inspired my fondness for mushrooms. Since "Super Mario Bros." on the NES, they've always seemed mystical and dignified to me. #Walkabout
I'm gonna start learning to identify flora and fauna on sight. I've got one of those gadgets that takes photos I don't have to have developed. Wonderful widget for a walkabout.
August 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm gonna start learning to identify flora and fauna on sight. I've got one of those gadgets that takes photos I don't have to have developed. Wonderful widget for a walkabout.
I'm too ignorant of electronic music production to know exactly how a pitch wheel works but I'm certain that that N64 controller one has some built-in funk. 🕺
August 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm too ignorant of electronic music production to know exactly how a pitch wheel works but I'm certain that that N64 controller one has some built-in funk. 🕺
Is this @microsoft.com CoPilot's way to express its disappointment with my hatred for it?
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Is this @microsoft.com CoPilot's way to express its disappointment with my hatred for it?
I learned of this film from a YouTube short posted by an account named @AboutHistory
The film is BEAUTIFUL and tugged my heartstrings like a percussive guitarist.
youtu.be/ik_UmCTC_pU?...
The film is BEAUTIFUL and tugged my heartstrings like a percussive guitarist.
youtu.be/ik_UmCTC_pU?...
AFRICAN TALE, Soviet Cartoon, 1963 (TURN ON SUBTITLES)
YouTube video by African Archives
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I learned of this film from a YouTube short posted by an account named @AboutHistory
The film is BEAUTIFUL and tugged my heartstrings like a percussive guitarist.
youtu.be/ik_UmCTC_pU?...
The film is BEAUTIFUL and tugged my heartstrings like a percussive guitarist.
youtu.be/ik_UmCTC_pU?...
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A Holy Place (Sveto mesto) (1990)
A Holy Place (1990) – A deliciously dark Serbian take on Gogol’s Viy, merging religious ritual with Gothic eroticism. Restrained, haunting, and psychologically unsettling. #SlavicHorror #EuroGothic
A Holy Place (1990) – A deliciously dark Serbian take on Gogol’s Viy, merging religious ritual with Gothic eroticism. Restrained, haunting, and psychologically unsettling. #SlavicHorror #EuroGothic
A Holy Place (Sveto mesto) (1990)
A Holy Place (1990) – A deliciously dark Serbian take on Gogol’s Viy, merging religious ritual with Gothic eroticism. Restrained, haunting, and psychologically unsettling. #SlavicHorror #EuroGothic
admitonefilmaddict.wordpress.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A Holy Place (Sveto mesto) (1990)
A Holy Place (1990) – A deliciously dark Serbian take on Gogol’s Viy, merging religious ritual with Gothic eroticism. Restrained, haunting, and psychologically unsettling. #SlavicHorror #EuroGothic
A Holy Place (1990) – A deliciously dark Serbian take on Gogol’s Viy, merging religious ritual with Gothic eroticism. Restrained, haunting, and psychologically unsettling. #SlavicHorror #EuroGothic
OH! "Robin" as in the birds with orange breasts. I assumed this was an old humorous song about anthropophagy. #Sinners
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youtu.be/cjFSKD7MH3I?...
geeshie wiley/pick poor robin clean
YouTube video by skorecki7
youtu.be
June 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
OH! "Robin" as in the birds with orange breasts. I assumed this was an old humorous song about anthropophagy. #Sinners
youtu.be/cjFSKD7MH3I?...
youtu.be/cjFSKD7MH3I?...