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Critter Lab

@thecritterlab.bsky.social
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Writer and creator of strange creatures, puppets, and comics. Editor at The Cultural Gutter. A queer, trans Muppet of a man 🌈 Critterlab.ca

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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Buckle down and push forth is some of the worst personal and public health advice for a sick person
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Gutter's own @thecritterlab.bsky.social gets surreal in Winnipeg with Matthew Rankin's Universal Language! culturalgutter.com/2026/07/09/g...
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Getting Surreal in Winnipeg: Universal Language (2024)
There’s something about the heat of summer that makes me want to watch something slow and surreal, like a series of mirages forming and transforming as I float in my summer heat bubble with a cold …
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Carol Kane was amazing, and her eyebrow’s have their own character progression. Also the credits are amazing! I’ve watched the movie once and the credits 3 times😆
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Gutter's own @thecritterlab.bsky.social on Queer coding and final moves in video games! culturalgutter.com/2026/05/14/f...
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Fatal Kisses, Leather Daddies, and Evil Tofu: Queer Coding in Video Games
This month I had a very serious article topic in mind, but everything in real life is so serious and difficult right now that I decided what was actually needed was something ridiculous. A friend o…
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
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One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Every time I see this ghost I imagine it’s singing opera… Happy Halloween!
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I’m glad you liked it! Grief can play havoc with what art one can consume. I think Elsewhere, with Different Rules sounds like a novel I’d want to read, though.
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hey, it's a fantastic new piece from the Gutter's own @thecritterlab.bsky.social! culturalgutter.com/2025/06/12/p...
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Playing Broken Telephone With Dracula
My experience is that the result of trying to replicate or revisit something you felt nostalgic about often ranges from puzzling to truly regrettable. Unless you know exactly what about it made you…
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Chewbacula @jason1749.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No Kings but...
Elvis Costello King Of America album cover
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I heard he reassembled it with parts of other mugs then shoved it in the back of the cupboard
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
For Switcheroo Month, the Gutter's own @thecritterlab.bsky.social engages in some responsible irresponsible speculation! culturalgutter.com/2025/04/17/s...
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Story First Games: Southern Gothic to Steampunk
The first article I ever wrote for the Gutter was about an innovative video game called The Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream, 2005). It was described as “a breakthrough in interactive narrative”…
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I honestly think it would be hilarious if there was one family on White Lotus that was having just the best time, like we get two miserable storylines and then occasionally cut to this family going “We saw three dolphins!”
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Gutter's own @thecritterlab.bsky.social on the wonderful Robot Dreams and Wong Kar-Wai! culturalgutter.com/2025/02/20/w...
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When Robots Dream of Love
“And we’ll hate what we’ve lost but we’ll love what we find…” – from “Featherstone” by The Paper Kites Sometimes I feel like the joy and value of ephemeral things get lost i…
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Do you happen to have a trick for getting blood stains out of linen? Asking for a friend.
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
They’re at the cleaners. No reason. Everything is fine.
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In my evil ceremonial robes?
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It’s their first rave #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
That’s what my voice of sanity always says! #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It’s the Animal Crossing magic flooring! #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Classic sneaking music #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
At least she’s clearly labelled as dead! #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
All the better to be close to you, my dear!
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Morlock is practicing for the annual wizard’s rap battle #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
He’s always so confused when his poker buddies accuse him of cheating… #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
An easy mistake to make on your kid’s Xmas list… #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Nothing so poetic as eyes like olives! #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If “throwing Muppets off of planes” had been an option at career day, the course of my life would have been very different #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It certainly sounded like a list of things we’d bring! #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Groucho disguises make them look a little bit Miyakazi somehow #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Is it even a Muppet movie if Kermit doesn’t yell “quiet!”? #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I’m imagining filling out the insurance forms for the sparkler tiara scene 😂 #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Everyone should always go up stairs like that #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The butler’s dead? #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I wonder if current day fashion mavens miss having phone cords to drag their interns around by… #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Or maybe never enough #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How many times do you think Gonzo has heard “get that thing down from there!” in his life? #driveinmob
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Nothing like unbearable cuteness to make the day a little better 💗
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
‘‘Twas the day after Christmas…
A large inflatable snowman with coloured lights inside lies flat on its face on a lawn in the daylight like it’s been on a bender. Still there on its face glowing in the dark.
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Well, learning that this exists kinda made my day 😂
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I now have “Spiders in the Snow” stuck in my head to the tune of Riders on the Storm.
Three large Halloween spiders sit in the snow on a tree stump
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It’s exhausting being SpongeBob or being Santa, never mind being both!
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I remember I told my 12th grade English teacher I had been trying to read it over the summer and she asked, “who are you trying to punish?”
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you see this, post a vampire and pass it on.
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Gutter's own @flashymcflash.bsky.social has two suggestions for comfort films his these crappy times: culturalgutter.com/2024/11/14/s...
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Small Comfort
Sachin Hingoo, like many of you, is Going Through It, and provides a couple of movie recommendations to, in some small way, soothe what ails you.
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What's a movie that felt like a fever dream? Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
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Critter Lab @thecritterlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Two roads diverged on a sidewalk, and I was not sorry I could not follow both
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