Midnight Pals: :U (Patreon)

Since Twitter is in the slow process of imploding, I've been trying to cross post Midnight Pals to other platforms, including Mastodon, Tumblr, and Substack. Seems weird that I DON'T post it here, right? I mean, it does make sense to post it here as well? So that said, I'm also going to be cross posting here. Hope you all enjoy! Here's today's thread:

[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: I have big newssss
Rowling: hogwartsssss legacy hassss received its biggesssst celebrity endorsement
Rowling: allow me to introduce
Rowling: the man who made it cool to be racissst
Rowling: William F buckley

Timothy Buckley: that’s not me
Buckley: it’s timothy
Buckley: timothy buckley
Rowling: what? Then what do you do?
Buckley: I make a web comic
Buckley: a little thing called Control Alt Delete
Buckley: you might have heard of it
Buckley: it’s kind of a big thing

Rowling: ooo! Finally an endorsement from a famousssss cartoonissssst!
Nina Paley:
Tatsuya Ishida:

Buckley: I invented the idea of making webcomics about video games
Buckley: well I didn’t actually invent gaming webcomics
Buckley: I just automated production

Buckley: see, I was the first person who thought
Buckley: what if instead of drawing a comic
Buckley: I just assembled it from a collection of computer generated mouths and eyes
Buckley: observe!
Buckley: :U
Rowling: wow! Now THAT’S art!

Buckley: now I don’t know anything about “politics”
Buckley: or “issues”
Buckley: or “the world”
Buckley: I’m just a simple man
Buckley: a simple gaming man
Buckley: the media keeps talking about transphobia
Buckley: I just wanna grill for god’s sake!

Buckley: have you guys heard of video games?
Buckley: now I don’t know much about things that aren’t video games
Buckley: but I DO know about video games
Buckley: I like things that let me play video games
Buckley: and I dislike things that prevent me from playing video games

Buckley: after thoroughly researching all the issues around hogworts legacy
Buckley: I have determined that I have nothing to say about it
Buckley: I better make a cartoon so everyone knows that

Buckley: in conclusion, gaming is a land of contrasts
Rowling: this really wassssn’t the full throated endorsssement I wassss hoping for
Rowling: hey, remember that time threatened to beat up gore vidal on air?
Buckley: again, that was William f buckley