Monkey Buckles

'The Vince Russo of punslinging'
Tells jokes like a sociopath.
Reads books. Like, a lot.

Host of @discworldorder , co-host of @MustSeeMatches

[backbones @snackbones]

i genuinely don't get how some people still haven't made the connection that tons of weekly manga have a bad ending because the artist was so overworked they had to throw it into the sun or die

[DiscWorldOrder @DiscWorldOrder]

Returning guest & former local journalist Cam Sutcliffe joins Mark to discuss the 25thDiscworld novel, The Truth.
Topics include local journalism, Pulp Fiction, class & Pratchett’s side characters.
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[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

Book 46 of 2026:
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

An imaginative, sometimes horrific, fantasy about humans who feast on books. Im glad that I read this. At it's heart this is about love and making bad choices for good reasons.

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

2026 Reading Thread:
Book 1 of 2026:
Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky (narrated by Emma Newman)

Maybe the closest to historical fiction that I have read from Tchaikovsky. A noblewoman is drafted to war in a great novel about the strain of war and what it makes people do.

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

Book 45 of 2026:
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

A young woman starts having thoughts about a female friend, and then really weird things start happening.

A super fast paced and readable horror novel about conversion therapy.

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

@BulletClubIta So glad that you kept going.
Yeah, FMA:Brotherhood goes some wild places.

Arakawa's next Manga ended up being a slice of life comedy about a City kid going to a countryside farming high school.

[今はただの編集人 @itako18jp]

We’ve received a question from Fugofugo.
They said: ‘I’m really delighted that I’ve been ranked so highly in the GWC, but I find it a bit strange.
What exactly did you see in me?’

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

@LeeHughes83 @NintendoStoreUS Damn US exclusives.
I would legit buy that!

[Keara Sullivan @superkeara]

I live in an apartment that I rent. If I wanted to invite a Vampire into my home, would I be able to? Or would he have to go through my landlord, the legal owner, in order to enter?

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

@Aqeelk94 Mastiff feels like someone who never got the opportunities that he should have. Maybe part of that was due to his height.

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

The peak of Mastiff's career in terms of push + performance was that period as a IPW:UK heavyweight.

The Sugiura match, and the infamous 23 minute long time limit draw against Takeshi Morishima, were great.
Dude was doing corkscrew Arabian moonsaults!

[Ben @BritWresAwayDay]

It was great to see Dave Mastiff, probably the UK's lead heavyweight (and IPW:UK British H'weight Champion) get such a starring role against the GHC Heavyweight Champion.

He looked the part in there too, and I think many thought he'd get a NOAH gig out of it.

He didn't.

[cont]

[Jade JUDE Sarson at Sunnycon @TeahermitComics]

Inking and painting Simon from Iron Lung! Fully narrated because I was paranoid someone would be like EW YOU PAINTED WITH BLOOOOD

Anyway get the print on my online shop in bio AND at MCM London Comic Con later this month!!

#markiplier #ironlung

[Ryuma Go Memorial Account @secretwrestlin1]

Checking back into 2026 wrestling, starting with PSYCHO vs. Shuichiro Katsumura from Ganbare Pro: This ruled. PSYCHO is a great dirtbag technician trying to steal a pin, and Katsumura had some masterful counters.

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

@MattD_SC K. Sasaki vs Kobashi & Shibata vs Ishii G1 2013 are big culprits for making the "chuckle brothers strike exchange" so common, but if you loom at why those exchanges worked in those matches then you understand why it works and why most copies don't.

[Monkey Buckles @Monkey_Buckles]

@MattD_SC The problem is that they try to.

Almost every strike exchange has the "to me, to you" cadence because they have seen it get big reactions.

But many workers think "spot = reaction" instead of thinking about context, execution & why it worked in the match they are copying.