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Queer Writer, Actor, Podcaster with ✨Glitterjaw✨ 🦖 Skreeonking, Thwipping, Awooing 📼 Toku, Kaiju, VHS, Big Guys, Furries & Freaks RVA | 🔞 please | No AI | He/Him 🐻🏳️‍🌈 | banner: @galanmccree.bsky.social https://derekbgayle.com/ @glitterjaw.bsky.social

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · Dec 10

💥About me💥

Producer of analytical, research-based queer podcasts about Godzilla, Spider-Man, Simpsons video games, weird TV & more with @glitterjaw.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈

Writer, stage actor, streamer of TV artifacts & tokusatsu

Appreciator of monsters, art, retro tech, big men

My stuff: derekbgayle.com

Me on a nice day in the park on a fall day! The best! I've got a brown beard that's just starting to gray in some places, though it doesn't show in this photo. Dark red glasses, blue/green cap, with a yellow and blue plaid flannel, maroon bomber jacket, a lil peek at a purple dragon tattoo on my arm, and a blue Vital Hero Digimon watch that I got years after people stopped playing those. I still haven't digivolved it past Drimogemon because I never read the instructions on how, but I think he's cute. This is really dating this since this is meant to be a pinned post, we'll see if he ever digivolved when I inevitably revisit this in a year or two.

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 3h

He's so dreamy! 😍🫠🥴

Thank you @dogspunk.bsky.social for doing romantic Shou Ronpo justice! 🌹

Art of a shirtless anthro purple dragon with tufts of white hair all over holding a rose between his index finger and thumb. He is Shou Ronpo from Kyuranger

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 3h

CONGRATS!!

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 4h

Another thing GenAI can't replicate is receiving a piece of commissioned art and knowing that another person you've connected with devoted so much of their own time and passion into creating art just for YOU. You'd have to be a deeply lonely self-loathing person to not see any value in that.

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · Jul 7

The stranglehold Memorex has on my psyche

Blank Memorex VHS tape, this one very beaten up

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 4h

First time I've ever had the power go out at the movies! Including some creepy flickering lights before the whole theater went pitch black! During a horror movie, no less! Halloween has started, baby!!!!

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks!

a man with a beard is grooming his beard .

ALT: a man with a beard is grooming his beard .

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 6h

Hello from the dark shadowy quiet back corner of this Regal Cinemas

Me, a bearded man in glasses and a cap in a maroon jacket and a trans rights dragon shirt in front of a regal auditorium entrance, face mostly in shadow from the poor lighting

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Rottenartist @rottenartist.bsky.social · 11h

We're just normal men. We're just innocent men.

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Dogspunk (commissions open) @dogspunk.bsky.social · Aug 29

I learned so much about the connections between this movie and Orochi the eight headed dragon (1994) listening to this! Since no one had seen this movie I would like to point out some more… the villain shows up in a crystalline spaceship. Played by Hiroshi Abe, who would later star in Godzilla 2000.

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Pistashi 🍀 @postosho.bsky.social · 14h

Our War Game 👾

#brart #digimon #fanart #art

Colorful fan-art illustration of Digimon's "Our War Game" movie made by Pistashi

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The Inkslicer @theinkslicer.bsky.social · 10h

GODZILLA SALVATION. Started this one over a year ago and chipped away at it between work and other art I was doing. Tried to do this as a Renaissance oil painting but ended up doing a Comic book look instead. #godzilla #godzillafanart

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Count Dad-joke-ula @dmuma.bsky.social · 1d

If you need some queer podcasts in your life, check out the great things we're all talking about at glitterjaw.com

Glitterjaw

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 8h

It's a sick design and I was so impressed with the cosplayers!

DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 8h

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 8h

That's certainly part of it

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 8h

This was supposed to say "doesn't seem like he belongs" but the typo turned it into a positive affirmation

DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 3d

Official photos from the Power Rangers/Tokusatsu Cosplay Photoshoot at Dragon Con last month! I am the Wolf Man kaijin from Kamen Rider that does seem like he belongs!!!

Big group shot with a bunch of Power Rangers and Kamen Rider characters. I'm in the upper middle as the bluish gray wolfman in a lurching pose.

Photo of just the villains. I'm the wolf guy in the middle of them all with the evil Kamen Riders.

Photo of everything that isn't Mighty Morphin Power Rangers specifically

Another full group shot with silly poses. I'm in the far upper right doing two peace signs which I realized afterwards was just the Nixon pose which is really. Also Superman was there? I don't know why they decided to include that lol

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yvonne @sainangel.bsky.social · 18h

white mage hank hill

KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 20h

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 6, Episode 7

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Walloping Websnappers! @wallopingwebpod.bsky.social · 9h

Hammerhead is very E.T. coded here

Extreme closeup on the distorted face of big-eyed Hammerhead from The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Accomplices"

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ConversationsWRobbieSherman @convoswrob.bsky.social · 14h

Very fun time joining you, Mighty Marvelites! Been a big fan for awhile and happy to get to be a small part of the overall @glitterjaw.bsky.social extended multiverse!

Walloping Websnappers! @wallopingwebpod.bsky.social · 15h

What do the major players in an '80s Spider-Man comic daydream about? @convoswrob.bsky.social brought us the answer! In this high concept issue, Black Cat, J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, and Spider-Man let their minds wander.

New bonus episode on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/140951...

Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #246 with J. Jonah Jameson punching Spider-Man in the face

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Soic 🔜 Furpoc @soic.bsky.social · 18h

#Weretober25 Day 11: Western Dragon

#Weretober

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 12h

Ultimately I just wake up every day with the goal to embarrass all of my friends and loved ones by association

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TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @awkwardcomma.bsky.social · 12h

Just one of the hundreds of radical right-wing messages inserted into every show by creators Tommy and @derekbgayle.bsky.social

Count Dad-joke-ula @dmuma.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been a couple weeks but I’m reminded of the excellent Lee Carvallo’s drop on Simpsons Road Rage (the Crazy Taxi clone which exceeded the Crazy Taxi game in many ways). Unfortunately there was a sinister message hiding in plain sight…

A screen cap of the IG post for the recent LcPC drop

The post ENHANCED to show that the author thinks taxes are crazy

A screen capture from The Simpsons wherein Marge remakes that LCPC became a hard core libertarian podcast so gradually she didn’t even notice

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Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 5d

This month on our newsletter and monthly round-up, we spotlight Glitterjaw’s response to the erasure and censorship of queer voices in media.

Check out everything happening across our podcasts!
www.glitterjaw.com/news/sept-2025

A Glimmer Into Glitterjaw: Turning Audio Into Action Part II — Glitterjaw

A spotlight on Glitterjaw’s response to erasure and censorship of queer voices in media. Plus, our monthly podcast roundup!

www.glitterjaw.com

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 15h

Deep down we all long to be a suspiciously wealthy furry

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Walloping Websnappers! @wallopingwebpod.bsky.social · 15h

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