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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖
@toddbrianbackus.com
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Director, gamer, illustrator, playwright, weeb, and literary manager.

I read plays for a living, it’s about as cool as you think it is.

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Thornton Wilder writing Our Town:
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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“What are you, a gay Gundam?”
No I’m just a-
An image of a pink and a purple robot model kit labeled “Fruity Robo Peach Surfer” and “Fruity Robo Turbo Grape”
August 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Finished @aidanis.fun’s Fight, Magic, Items and if you grew up playing JRPGs or are curious about why they are the way they are I’d highly recommend it!
Fight, Magic, Items by Aidan Moher. It features a sword slinging hero in pink and red beneath some body of water. Scattered around are swords, flasks, and arrows among other things. The subtitle reads “The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West.”
July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Reading @aidanis.fun’s Fight Magic Item and Mario’s a what now?
Close up of page 144 of Fight Magic Item which reads, in part, “plumber-cum-hero Mario.”
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Anyway here’s Pink Pony Club @muppeturgy.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The third and final(?) part.
Ethel Murder puts the hurt on Susie Suplex. Milo heads out, excited for an audition tomorrow. Vinny welcomes the roar of the crowd. Vinny imagines what a new Queen could bring to QUEEF.
May 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Part Deux
Ethel Murder grabs Susie after a feint. Vinny counts out the pin and Susie handily beats Ethel Murder. After the match Vinny and Milo clean up, as Milo pitches Vinny on a new role. Milo shows off their alter ego, Paula Powerbomb!
May 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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So over the moon about these photos of my play Q.U.E.E.F. as part of the Maine Playwrights Festival.

Directed by Michael Wood
Feat. Kathleen Lewis, Sawyer Strouth, Paul Menezes, and Letta the Queen.

Photos by Noli French.
Vinny MacMan, a drag king wrestling mogul greets the crowd. Ethel Murder, a glamor queen, is introduced to the ring by Vinny MacMan. The sweet as pie Southern Upstart, Susie Suplex is welcomed to the ring. “Two queens enter. One queen leaves!” Vinny announces the title bout between Ethel Murder and Susie Suplex.
May 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Celebrating the day the way god intended.
A gif from Miss Congeniality where Rhode Island answers the question: What’s your idea of a perfect date? She says “I’d have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket!”
April 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Pack one and pack two let’s hecking GOOOOOOOOO!!!
An Arceus card in the PTCGP app. An Arceus EX card in the PTCGP app.
February 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Listen! The Legend of Zelda: IKEA of Wisdom was excellent and I will not hear any naysayers.
A screenshot of Echoes of Wisdom. Zelda has a cat outfit above her head, Tri looks on, enthralled, the text reads “It’s an Odd getup that lets you speak with cat’s making it a must-have for feline fans everywhere.” A screenshot of Echoes of Wisdom. Zelda and Tri stand before the great fairy who says “*yaaawwwnnn* Oh, are you the one that woke me up, dear?” A screenshot of Echoes of Wisdom. Zelda and Tri have reclaimed the Tri Rod from a Deku scrub… but it’s sticky from the cotton candy. A screenshot of Echoes of Wisdom. Tri, Zelda, and Link state out at the Tri-force against a pink and purple void.
January 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Introduce yourself with four video games: one of these is not like the others…
The cover for the Nintendo DS “The World Ends With You” The cover for the GBA “Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories” The cover for the PS4 “The Last of Us Part II” The cover for the Nintendo DS port of “Chrono Trigger”
December 22, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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I have finished Monument Valley III (for now) by @ustwogames.bsky.social and it was so lovely to continue through these gorgeous levels with a new character and a world plagued by floods.
Noor and the light keeper stand atop a ruin amid a body of water. Noor rides on a boat through an elegant stream. Noor and the light keeper make their way through an origami chamber. Lightkeeper Noor and the Nomad amid a wheat field and a flower of light.
December 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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And today!! Monument Valley 3 dropped! It’s taking all of my self control to not start this very instant.
A screenshot of Monument Valley 3, a purple clad character, Noor, sits at the bottom of an escherseque path, ahead of them is a taller maroon-clad figure with a staff.
December 11, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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This evening I worked my way through all of Monument Valley 2 by @ustwogames.bsky.social and was taken by the gorgeous art and inventive designs.
Ro and child find a sacred geometry in a ruin with red, gold, and green foliage. Ro finds a sacred geometry atop a grey tower against a yellow sky. A strange blue glowing door creature stands out against the black and red ruin. Do’s child transforms in the golden orchard.
December 11, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Two days ago I realized Netflix had Monument Valley by @ustwogames.bsky.social, this morning I beat this beautiful little puzzler.
Ada stands alone in what might be an isometric mausoleum, a red flower at her feet. Ada finds a sacred geometry in a golden monument hovering above a lake. Ada discovers a sacred geometry in a dream atop a windmill.
December 11, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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Well why not.
Image saying “Get to know my game taste for every like I will post one game I love 🤍”
October 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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What’s your “no one but me remembers game?”

I’ve only met one person who knew of Threads of Fate but I was obsessed as a kid.
Cover for the PS1 Squaresoft Game Threads of Fate. Its two protagonists rest on a stony outcropping on the cover.
September 14, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Oh my god, duo just intimated in the tennis match of my career that he fucked my wife…
An image of the Duolingo owl wearing sweatbands around his head and wrists. He looks at the viewer holding a tennis ball in his right hand and a racket in the left. Text in the top left says “I completed the August Challenge” but that’s not what’s important, what’s important is the owl looks like it’s going to do the Challengers gesture and tell me publicly that it fucked my wife.
August 24, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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It’s good folks. So horny. And so good.
A photo of Anthony Oliveira’s Dayspring. The cover is a painting of Saint John on the left looking towards the viewer that mostly lines up with a photograph on the right of two men. The men are more modern with nipple rings and tattoos. The man on the right looks away from the viewer.
August 17, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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post a non religious picture u think of as holy
Sakura Kinomoto of Card Captor Sakura twirls her sealing wand.
August 16, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Discovered last night that my sister doesn’t know who Nikki Haley is
Screenshot of a comment, perhaps taken from deviant art. It shows a profile picture that’s a close crop of the face and user BigJB21 writes “god i wish that were me” on Oct 16, 2012.
June 29, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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This is all I could think of re Echoes of Wisdom.
The top image is of three of the doctors, two of which have their Sonic screwdrivers out while a third says “What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?” The bottom image is the art for The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom… where Zelda, assemble furniture.
June 19, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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The resemblance is uncanny.
Me in a hunter’s orange hoodie with a yellow jacket and pants on my head is a hat in Hunter orange and camo with deer antlers bursting through them. A wooden rifle is over my shoulder.
June 19, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Hey Mikey! He liked it!
A screenshot of a review of What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck at Portland Stage published in the Portland Press Herald. It reads “Theater review: One woman's take on the U.S. Constitution, in theory and practice Portland Stage presents 'What the Constitution Means to Me' by Heidi Schreck, who based the main character on herself. Posted 12:23 PM Steve Feeney” A screenshot of a review of What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck at Portland Stage published in the Portland Press Herald. It reads “The Constitution's strengths and weaknesses, particularly regarding minority and women's rights, are highlighted in this illuminating piece of theater directed by Todd Brian Backus. The play prompts both anger and optimism (with a few good laughs mixed in) in its 90-minute run time.”
March 12, 2024 at 3:11 AM