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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 29/09/2026

I really want it to succeed! but it's kinda wild how the new posters for this film shove the protagonists into the background and put this character who like...I don't even remember from the trailer up into the front

Forgotten Island movie poster that has the two pacific islander characters in the background with an anthropomorphic creature up front

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 23/09/2026

Love that the first ever Godzilla rated R film is being distributed by GKIDS

RESTRICTED
R
GODZILLA MINUS
ZERO
GKIDS

Year Rated: 2026
Certificate #: 56195
Reason: Rated R for some violent content/bloody images.

Alternate Titles: G-0.0

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 15/09/2026

it went over pretty well all things considered lmao

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 14/09/2026

I think there was a time where I'd be like "sorry to be a buzzkill but..." however that time has long since passed lmfao it's so easy to give a shit and not hype up the things that victims of genocide are asking you to boycott bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 13/09/2026

I don't remember the source on this but I remember reading somewhere that the cover art was influence by these early dev screenshots. Had this photo saved in my phone but I legit forgot where I got it lol

Screenshots from an early build of Chrono Trigger; english text reads "Like most RPGs, you are able to cast magic spells that have varying effects. In Chrono Trigger, however, you also have the option to have several characters cast one strong spell!

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 12/09/2026

Anyway I guess today's a great day to re-watch the english dub of Godzilla VS. Megalon

US cover art for the film Godzilla VS Megalon; two large monsters (One reptilian in nature, the other insectoid) standing on each of the twin towers of the world trade center, fighting it out. Text reads "GIANT AGAINST GIANT...THE ULTIMATE BATTLE"

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 10/09/2026

Having very different experiences on the mastodon iOS app (left) vs using it in a browser lmfao

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 09/09/2026

Little Wednesday morning improv about purely fictional things

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 07/09/2026

this is so fucking stupid yet objectively funny that I can't believe it's real behold; godzilla with a gun made of godzilla from a call of duty event that happened a while back

cursed "Call of Duty Mobile" crossover key art with the Godzilla x Kong film from 2023; Kong has a rifle and godzilla has a fun made of out godzilla material

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 05/09/2026

They almost got me but I refuse to play their game

QUESTION 31 OF 122
New Haven (the city in Connecticut where Yale University is located)
NEW Haven
New HAVEN
I use both interchangeably
other

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 02/09/2026

couldn't say no to the Orga scarf and blue hair

A blue haired, blue-beared male with a red scarf saying "You know, it's that heady mix of blackmail and sanctimony that makes government work so
rewarding."

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 28/08/2026

I’ll never stop getting band business texts to my personal cell so I might as well enjoy the experience

Text that reads “Mike, this is Marcus from Nexus business funding
I am a direct Lender
Funding up to 10M
Terms up to 36 months
How much capital can you use today?”

Responded with an image of Karl Marx’s Capital and the text “This is the only capital I need, comrade”

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 20/08/2026

Someone mention DS9 violations?

Promo shot of Armin Shimmerman in the “Quark” costume from Star Trek Deep Space Nine - he’s a humanoid alien with massive ears and a bulbous head

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 16/08/2026

Pool phone guy looking down at the userbase’s unrealistic expectations like “wishing the platform works”

The fancy vampire cops from twilight standing on a balcony dressed like this is the French Revolution

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 14/08/2026

There truly is nothing like being on the backfoot in a game of magic on arena and your opponent pulls out the Windcrag Siege but then effectively auto loses because the bug that doesn’t allow you to pick an option.

Windcrag Siege
Enchantment
As this enchantment enters, choose Mardu or Jeskai.
• Mardu - If a creature attacking causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
• Jeskai - At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. It gains lifelink and haste until end of turn.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 09/08/2026

Honestly you know how much love they have for the source material when they included the iconic house sweater for the iron bear of Russia

A man in a white collared shirt with a green knit sweater over it; he’s got a scar across the left side of his face

The source material; scene from Gundam 00 season 2 featuring a brown haired man with an eye scar wearing a white collared shirt with a green sweater over it

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 01/08/2026

not part of the blog post but I always get a fucking hearty chortle at our 2001 prom photo. Yes I am wearing a vampire the masquerade necklace lmao

A prom photo; I'm wearing all black and a sabbat vampire the masquerade necklace; her hair is dyed black and she's wearing a black/silver bodice / skirt combo

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 23/07/2026

awwww the new Gundam has homophobia! 👁️👁️

Cropped preview image of the Gundam from XALX-ZERO showing the mobile suit with heterochromia

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 17/07/2026

Checking out the MTG announcements and hilariously, the auto-subtitles for Nauctis (the underwater set) replace 'Nauctis' with 'Ixalan' (the meso-american themed sets from years ago) every time

screenshot of the magic the gathering website with an embedded youtube video for 'Nauttis: Sunken Realm Announce Trailer" and the word "nauctis" in the subtitles is replaced with "Ixalan"

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 15/07/2026

LMFAO I’m so happy this card exists and boy does it kinda suck for the mana cost But getting to see official “ITS A FAAAAKE” artwork on a card is incredible

Preview for a Star Trek Magic the Gathering card called “In the Pale Moonlight” depicting events from the Deep Space Nine episode of the same name.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 14/07/2026

hi #portfolioday! I'm msd, I make maximalist mixed media art about bird wizard bureaucrats and their intersection with monsters and mechs (I'm also a musician and photographer, available for all of the above via the about link below) 🎨: curiousquail.com/sib ✉: blog.curiousquail.com/about/

A series of bird-beaked, antler-topped humanoids of various shapes and sizes arranged on tan graph paper; a "Salvage Insurance Bureau" stamp is prominent.

Redacted document showing a bipedal mech with a tail; a "salvage insurance bureau" stamp is prominent here as well. An attached film negative shows a decapitated head of one of these mechs

A large spaceship with smaller ships in orbit; a telegraph style piece of paper is taped to the document with the words CDS / ZONE2 on it

A large, tongue-hanging out dinosaur like creature being photographed by a small figure in a hooded outfit. Text reads "Visited doctor Jim en route to the Armadillo's last known location. She does accept coalition healthcare plans now! Please let Selpo at Arboreal know for his next scheduled check-up"

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 30/06/2026

hey uhhh NPR, how's it goin over there buddy

NPR headline showing "Editor's note: NPR retracts Justice Samuel Alito story"

An image of the supreme court building at night with a US flag in the foreground, and a caption:

Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images

Editor's note: Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Neither Alito nor the court's public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.
June 30, 2026

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 29/06/2026

feels good to have it on there tbh

blogroll of 88x31 images for the "i was on cohost" ring, damien.zone, cutewitch, aurahack, no escape, renkon, wavebeem, website league, and the no ai webring"

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 21/06/2026

I get that the bar is in hell with the NYT but holy FUCK Imagine fixating on this instead of like, how a culture of sexual misconduct and labor abuses happened at his company under his watch and he didn’t face any consequences

A New York Times review of the game applauded its “stunningly realized depiction” of Japan, adding, “Shadows offers more, digging deeper to deliver a fascinating, grounded picture beyond the
wild, natural world.”

But some people online criticized the game for having “gone woke” by creating a Black samurai named Yasuke. Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur, said Shadows was an example of how “D.E.I. kills art,” using an abbreviation for diversity, equity and inclusion. Ubisoft reminded players that its games were works of fiction, even as Yasuke was an actual historical figure.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 19/06/2026

here, have some legally distinct rabbit

Graph paper featuring different views of a greenish, horned, hybrid of a dinosaur and a rabbit with glowing rocks on its back. The top reads "Common Burrowback - Class 2 Agricultural Harm"

The top right corner has a small stamp reading 'SALVAGE INSURANCE BUREAU' with an image of a green lamp of some kind.

A note on the side reads
'Wildlife Department Public Record:
Habitat, Diet and Hazards are all redacted, and Verdict lists "Avoid contact when possible"

There's a colorized negative taped to the paper with an image of ~7 of these standing on a ruined rooftop

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 18/06/2026

Hilariously the only song of ours that was scraped in that searchable AI dataset is the one where we sing “fuck” in the round Even if it’s just pennies, I can’t wait for the class action. Some composer buds have like hundreds of songs in that list.

DATASET • SLEEPING-DISCO 9M
1 Song
1. Cosmic Wound by Curious Quail
(Twelve Months, 2018)
LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS DATASET:
SLEEPING-DISCO 9M

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 10/06/2026

oh man, spirit crossing is GOOD it turns out a game intentionally designed for non-addictive short play sessions rules?? (also there are sassy bears) @spryfox.bsky.social

Screenshot of Spirit Crossing; a small blueish rectangular bear wearing a white sweater over a pink collared shirt named NIBBIT is saying "Okay, yes, but you're making it sound weird by describing it accurately."

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 09/06/2026

If you're ever feeling down, you can think about the moment from the 2025 Godzilla Fest short where he stumbles upon the sculpture of himself in Shinjuku and pauses the scheduled city destruction to try to comprehend what the fuck he's looking at

Godzilla in downtown Tokyo starting at a building that has a Godzilla head statue coming out of the top. Subtitles read "Godzilla stopped hear the Shinjuku TOHO bldg"

Godzilla checks the statue from a different angle

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 08/06/2026

Ok y’lnow what, I’m back in on the marvel cards, this is so goddamn funny

Magic the gathering card depicting a pterodactyl man doing science.

Sauron, Dino Devotee
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur Vampire Villain
Flying
Whenever Sauron enters or attacks, choose
one
- Cure Cancer — You gain 3 life.
- Turn People into Dinosaurs — Put a saurian counter on another target creature. It's a green Dinosaur with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as it has a saurian counter on it.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 03/06/2026

You’ll never guess which Target from my hometown had its grocery section closed this week due to a rat infestation

It's a popular Target, located at 450 N Capitol Ave. in the city's Capitol Square shopping center, which made an unlikely cameo in a recent box office smash. The horror film "Backrooms," which brought in $81 million domestically at the box office during its opening this weekend, prominently features a flyer for a store located at the intersection of Capitol and McKee. The address corresponds to the Capitol Square shopping center.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 22/05/2026

Tomino was so real for this

Screenshot from episode 2 of Aura Battler Dunbine: a character in pink armor shouts “It looks like she’s from the same country as you!”

A different person in pink armor is in the cockpit of a mech shouting back “Just because a person’s white doesn’t mean they’re American!”

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 20/05/2026

I'm about to embark on a five day weekend for the first time since like christmas and god damn am I ready after being sick for so long (unrelated, here's a photo of some of Della's vintage cameras and a strange motorcycle cologne bottle we ended up with somehow, duker iq would be proud)

Photo of 3 vintage film cameras on a wooden shelf next to a glass motorcycle

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 16/05/2026

Long Covid got my ass in bed early but at least there are cats

A black and white cat (named Trout) asleep on a floral coat that was left on the bed

Photo of a tabby cat with white patches (her name is Chi) asleep on a shirt that was left on a bed

Photo of a black cat (named Snowapple) asleep on a bed and staring at me

Photo of a grey and white cat (named Possum) staring up at me about to jump on the bed

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 14/05/2026

As a heads up, all our music is now available on @subvert.fm - a new co-op model in the realm of bandcamp but trying to do something a little different. And check it out, they made us all these cute launch buttons! www.subvert.fm/curious-quail

Image of me and my bandmates holding cactuses backstage at San Francisco's legendary music venue, Bottom of the Hill; text reads that Subert is now live, and that Curious Quail is a co-owner

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 13/05/2026

Ok gang. Heading back in. Wish us luck.

Screenshot of the “New Game” screen in Nitro Gen Omega - four characters are listed next to a blue mech, Ironman mode is selected, and the team’s name is El Gatocita

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 10/05/2026

Most important part of the @nitrogenomega.bsky.social 1.0 patch notes

• Both Bass and Paradise Dance get dedicated tracks that play when you perform those activities.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 05/05/2026

Honestly I love when inventory items like “plastic bag dinner came in” have extensive lore

Photo of a plastic bag with a small circular mascot character and a tall bubble that reads:

“My dearest fellow users!
I was born and raised using a curtain minimum amount of recycled materials.
My purpose is not throwing me away in the streets!
Reuse me as many times as possible, and please recycle me when your job is done!
Love u too!”

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 28/04/2026

Bless the person who preserved the seminal early 00’s Gundam Wing fan site, “Eric’s Gundam Wing Site” on Neocities after tripod shut down. gundam195ac.neocities.org

Screenshot of “Eriic’s Gundam Wing Site” - a late 90’s / early 2000’a Tripod website; key art of the mobile suits in sepia tone in the center followed by the prologue description of the show’s After Colony setting.

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 24/04/2026

This is gargoyle. I've been too sick to do a proper post but today's the 6th anniversary of me finding her in a safetrap during the height of the first covid lockdown If you wanna see a bunch of rad photos of her, last year's blog post is still good! I promise! blog.curiousquail.com/its-been-fiv...

Photo of a longhair grey cat perched on a radiator looking intent at the camera

Photo of that same cat looking up in surprise while standing over the blurry form of her newborn kitten

Photo of two cats that look nearly identical; one is the cat previously seen, the other is her son

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curious quail @curiousquail.com · 23/04/2026

there really is nothing quite like midday rainbows from window decorations, gloriously highlighting the time a year ago that you didn't test a cleaning product on your wooden floor before using it to clean up cat vomit

Photo of a wooden floor with noticable stains on it and four beams of rainbow colored light shining down; my green shoes are in the lower portion of the frame

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