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Daniel Dockery

@dandock.bsky.social

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Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · Oct 10

I AM VENGEANCE.

I AM THE NIGHT.

I AM (writing a) BATMAN (book!)

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2h

My six-year-old seeing a gigantic Grim Reaper in a Halloween store: "Nice. I love that guy"

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 8h

Drafting in the CMS

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 9h

Hell yeah

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Marissa Louise @marissadraws.bsky.social · 12h

This is a wild article to read if you have any experience holding a conversation

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 1d

Just got back to chapter 104 of Moby Dick and “Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand!” remains maybe my single favorite sentence in literature.

Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · Jan 6

Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though
it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Levi-
athan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give
me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold
my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan,
they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensive-
ness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the
generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to
come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and through-
out the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnify-
ing, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To
produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and
enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be
who have tried it.

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Matt Frank @mattzilla85.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 NEW DROP! 🔥
All 4 completed Godzilla eras now have their own Matt Frank–designed Blu-ray cases!
4 signed sleeves + 4 matching cases
Showa, Heisei, Millennium (8 discs each)
Sony/Tri-Star (6 discs – Godzilla ’98 + The Series)
Films not included.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

I demand more Bashful Benny!!!!

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1948

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- NANCY IS WALKING DOWNTOWN WHEN IT BEGINS TO RAIN
NANCY : HERE COMES THAT BOY THEY CALL BASHFUL BENNY

HE IS USING A LARGE UMBRELLA

P2-NANCY: HE DOESN'T LOOK so BASHFUL TO. ME

P3- NANCY: HEY---ARE YOU REALLY
AS BASHFUL AS THEY SAY?

P4- BENNY HAS CLOSED THE UMBRELLA AROUND HIM AND KEEPS WALKING

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Spice 💕 @spicedyde.bsky.social · 2d

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

he's a genius and it's perhaps the greatest comic of all time

bsky.app/profile/jlro...

JL Robbins 🍉 @jlrobbins.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughts on Alan Moore/ From Hell?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

Digimon Beatbreak obviously wants to do a lot at once, and I'm interested to see the kind of show it becomes when it gets through with its set-up. For a Digimon show, it's got style to spare, and I'm a big fan of the inherent weirdness of Gekkomon - a far cry from the reliable Agumon standard.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not quite sure what I expected out of Tojima Wants To Be A Kamen Rider, but it rides the line between cartoonishness and sincerity so well that I've quickly become a fan. Every sad portrait of obsession is counterbalanced by stylized derring-do.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

Now this is my kind of article

Rollin Bishop @rollin.bsky.social · 2d

Counting just DVDs and up – not VHS or digital purchases – I have 493 movies and TV shows on physical home video.

I'm not saying you should be where I'm at. But I am arguing you should consider getting closer.

Me in re:frame #21:

Let's get physical (media)

An ode to discs, tapes, and boxes.

buttondown.com

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

May I Ask For One Final Thing? is wonderful so far. An anime built entirely around the satisfaction of seeing a woman punch bullies, with every scene paced to turn her fists into a potential loaded weapon. It's a fun time.

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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's funnier that someone got this signed by the original Turtles.

the ad from above, but signed by Renee Jacobs (April O'Neil, with a "guess not...", Barry Gordon (Donatello, with a "YEAH RIGHT!"), Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, with a "Still here!"), Rob Paulsen (Raphael) and Cam Clarke (Leonardo, with a "Crystal Ball, anyone?")

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

He was my favorite as a kid (a spot he traded with Rob Van Dam, who I was obsessed with emulating in middle school) and while he should be nowhere near a title belt or even active competition, Tajiri still owns. Glad to hear that he's a pretty good teacher as well.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

Tajiri has slowed down quite a bit in the last decade, but I appreciate the recent moments of intensity that make him look like an absolute demon in the ring. It fits well with his "I can't flip much anymore, so now I'll just try to tear your limbs off" style.

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 2d

Dorohedoro is so good, man. I can't wait to be reunited with my little freaks.

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 2d

Five years later, the second season of the wonderfully weird Dorohedoro anime finally has a release window: it's coming out in Spring 2026.

Fans of Weirdo Anime Rejoice: Dorohedoro’s Second Season Finally Has A Release Window

Five years later, the second season of the wonderfully weird Dorohedoro anime finally has a release window: it's coming out in Spring 2026.

www.endlessmode.com

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 3d

Every once in a while, I see people wonder why, out of all of the available Pokémon to choose, Poliwhirl was so often shown front and center. Especially in the case of Pokémon's marketing in America.

Well, I'm going to do my best to answer that question now.

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999) ft: Poliwhirl, MewTwo, Psyduck, Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

Slap that quote on the Blu-ray cover

Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

Also, the OP is pretty standard, but the ED with all of its ominous fairy tale/Disney princess imagery, is very solid.

Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

That one is great, too! It and Tojima are my favorites of the season so far.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

The Weregarurumon tradition stays strong.