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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 11/04/2026

I’m on a road trip and have been thinking about this since picking up a Sailor Jupiter plush last night, but who’s in your top three Sailor Scouts? Mine are: Jupiter, Uranus, Mercury.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 31/01/2026

Also! I’ll be directing Our Town by Thornton Wilder in April on the Mainstage. A wildly full circle moment as my role in high school was George Gibbs. Anyway, stay safe, stay sane, and see ya soon.

The poster illustration for our upcoming production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder that I’ll be directing. Two ladders reach toward a moon among the clouds atop a salmon-y field.

One silly photo from the shoot of me squatting, making a face, with hands pressed together from an extremely low angle.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 31/01/2026

I took the liberty of having a couple photos taken (thank you @rmbryer.bsky.social) to celebrate on the set of Lend Me A Tenor after opening which is truly so so funny. You really gotta see it.

Me standing on the art deco set of Lend Me A Tenor holding the ghost light in one hand in black and gold.

Me standing on the art deco set of Lend Me A Tenor holding the ghost light over my shoulder decked out in black and gold.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 21/08/2025

“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”

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 24/07/2025

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.”

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 22/07/2025

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.”

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 31/05/2025

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 26/04/2025

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!”

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 28/02/2025

Pack one and pack two let’s hecking GOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 05/01/2025

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 22/12/2024

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”

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 12/12/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 11/12/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 11/12/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 11/12/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 14/09/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 24/08/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 17/08/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 16/08/2024

post a non religious picture u think of as holy

Sakura Kinomoto of Card Captor Sakura twirls her sealing wand.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 29/06/2024

Discovered last night that my sister doesn’t know who Nikki Haley is

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 19/06/2024

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.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 07/03/2024

Last night we had our first preview for my production of What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck at Portland Stage.

A photo of the set of What the Constitution Means to Me. In the center of the stage is a diorama of an American Legion hall. A screen has flown in near the front of the frame that has a projection of the show art for WTCMTM on it.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 25/02/2024

It feels biphobic that the bisexual Oreos come in half the size…

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 28/01/2024

Find yourself a man who looks at you the way Syaoran looks at books in the country of Recort.

Syaoran and Sakura in a massive library. Syaoran says, “Whoa!” While Sakura says, “Look at all the books!”

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 11/01/2024

Just realized that this man behind the bookshelf is likely the third demon twink that Evander Mills needs to contend with in @levacrosen.bsky.social’s Gay PI trilogy…

The advance cover of Lev AC Rosen’s Rough Pages a detective novel. There’s a silhouette of a detective across shelves of blue books. Peeking out behind one of the books is a man’s face, we can see him from arched eyebrow to just above his mouth.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 30/12/2023

without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2024?

A meme mashup where one girl holds another’s hair while she forces a bottle of milk to her mouth. Behind them are a guy looking over his shoulder that seems intrigued and a girl walking with him who seems upset. The text on the first girl reads “the Internet” the milk she’s holding says “my kinks I have yet to discover” the girl who’s drinking says “me”, the man looking intrigued says “also me”, the girl who’s upset says “also me”.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 27/12/2023

Oh hey, I edited this one! Also @muppeturgy.bsky.social stans might find a muppety reference in the episode. Ty @rmbryer.bsky.social for the spot.

A screenshot of a text chain that reads
“Did you name a character after the planet Koozebane in this ARC game?”
I did not.
It was more after Kuzko
“Oh sure”
“Annie Sue though?”
Annie Sue is a choice yes
“Need”
“Need”
“Come on let me lightly mock, Apple”
It was a need.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 25/12/2023

Mary: *has a child in a stable because there is simply no room* The little drummer boy:

The little drummer boy about to let it fucking rip.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 03/12/2023

Had a great time with Chained Echoes. A lovely retro RPG with a modern story and fun mechanics. I loved flying around in my sky armor and meeting the colorful cast of characters.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 30/11/2023

Better than all the rest. Your mascot character could never.

Mokona Modoki, a white, bunny-like creature from Tsubasa smiles and says “That’s one of Mokona’s 108 secret techniques! Super vacuum! 🖤 Let’s just see Dyson match that!”

Two panels from Tsubasa. In the top an older Tomoyo says “But listen to you! You’re not only cute, you’re a nice person, too!” to Sakura, but Mokona needs to chime in “Mokona is cute too! 🖤” in the bottom panel.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 18/11/2023

Idk I think it’s fucked up that a year in the loading slide for Overwatch 2 still has text over the only black person on screen.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 18/10/2023

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Not Spooky as in Halloween (1978), but Spoopy as in Halloweentown (1998).

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 18/09/2023

Flyana Boss dropping the song of the summer and the Queen trap remix I didn’t know I needed.

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Todd Brian Backus 💙💜💖 @toddbrianbackus.com · 18/09/2023

Boston’s hottest gay club is the Janelle Monáe concert. It has everything: Girls, boys, gays, theys, mesh neon clothing, flower crowns, and earplugs for $3 in case you left yours at home.

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