William Hughes
@plumberduck.bsky.social
Staff writer for The A.V. Club, co-host of Everything To Guppy on the Duckfeed podcast network, creator of the idea "What if John Wick fought Dracula?"
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William Hughes
@plumberduck.bsky.social
· Nov 15
For new followers, my posts on here fall into three categories of various levels of irritating:
1) Posting pieces of my A.V. Club writing I think didn't completely suck.
2) Letting people know what I'm streaming on Friday/Saturday nights
3) INTRUSIVE THOUGHT DISPOSAL
1) Posting pieces of my A.V. Club writing I think didn't completely suck.
2) Letting people know what I'm streaming on Friday/Saturday nights
3) INTRUSIVE THOUGHT DISPOSAL
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Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Everything dies baby that's a fact / We keep singing even so
Another digital media worker joins the unemployment line, ponders the meaning of everything
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Managed to only work for five hours of my weekend this week, I am the King Of Work-Life Balance, seated on a throne of work-life balance beams.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Managed to only work for five hours of my weekend this week, I am the King Of Work-Life Balance, seated on a throne of work-life balance beams.
Munchausen's By Gucci IS THIS ANYTHING
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Munchausen's By Gucci IS THIS ANYTHING
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Coming Monday: The Untitled Comic Book Newsletter! Me, in your inbox once a week, with a short essay of some sort about a more or less random comic book. Starting off with THE ETERNAUT.
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Untitled Comic Book Newsletter
This is the Untitled Comic Book Newsletter, a weekly roundup of semi-random comic essays.
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Coming Monday: The Untitled Comic Book Newsletter! Me, in your inbox once a week, with a short essay of some sort about a more or less random comic book. Starting off with THE ETERNAUT.
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
Streaming at 8 p.m., this time J will ACTUALLY be starting Lies Of P: Overture, having now remembered to actually download the game.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Streaming at 8 p.m., this time J will ACTUALLY be starting Lies Of P: Overture, having now remembered to actually download the game.
Honestly cannot blame the guy, his big intro episode is one of the darkest things I've seen in a grip
Paul says he turned down an offer to reprise his role as vigilante Powerplex in the show's fourth season: "I didn't want to do it anymore. What it did to me, I didn't like."
www.avclub.com/aaron-paul-d...
www.avclub.com/aaron-paul-d...
Breaking Bad and Bojack survivor Aaron Paul declares Invincible too brutal to keep doing
Breaking Bad and Bojack survivor Aaron Paul declares Invincible too brutal to keep doing
www.avclub.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Honestly cannot blame the guy, his big intro episode is one of the darkest things I've seen in a grip
In honor of the Xbox 360's 20th birthday, here's my piece from 2005 Week about how it helped turn us all into dopamine-addicted maniacs www.avclub.com/video-game-a...
In 2005, games started rewiring our brains
In 2005, games started rewiring our brains
www.avclub.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In honor of the Xbox 360's 20th birthday, here's my piece from 2005 Week about how it helped turn us all into dopamine-addicted maniacs www.avclub.com/video-game-a...
Holy shit they're too fucking cute
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Holy shit they're too fucking cute
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. Pacific. Having beat Baby Steps, I figured I'd keep the Pinocchio theme going by embarking on a playthrough of the Lies Of P DLC, Overture. Come hang out!
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. Pacific. Having beat Baby Steps, I figured I'd keep the Pinocchio theme going by embarking on a playthrough of the Lies Of P DLC, Overture. Come hang out!
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Big news for fans of You're Email:
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
You're Email by You Are Games
A text adventure about sending an email.
sbarsanti.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Big news for fans of You're Email:
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
In honor of finishing Baby Steps, I wrote a little post-mortem about why it's a perfect streaming game - and why that enhances, not diminishes, what's so great about it.
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In honor of finishing Baby Steps, I wrote a little post-mortem about why it's a perfect streaming game - and why that enhances, not diminishes, what's so great about it.
First thought: This is a weird thing for an Oscar winner to do 10 years after the sitcom she kind of starred in went off the air.
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
Peep Show stars confirmed for a very special Great British Bake Off episode celebrating sitcom
It's bound to be a hilarious episode.
www.radiotimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
First thought: This is a weird thing for an Oscar winner to do 10 years after the sitcom she kind of starred in went off the air.
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
I have become completely disconnected this week from the delusion that anyone could give two fucks about anything I have to say about anything but that should be fine as long as my job isn't entirely predicated on that oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have become completely disconnected this week from the delusion that anyone could give two fucks about anything I have to say about anything but that should be fine as long as my job isn't entirely predicated on that oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo
When life feels out of control, bake
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
When life feels out of control, bake
Thinking a lot about TGA today. (This Guy Actually [Beat Baby Steps])
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thinking a lot about TGA today. (This Guy Actually [Beat Baby Steps])
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. We have ascended The Man-Breaker. What other horrors can Baby Steps still hold?
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. We have ascended The Man-Breaker. What other horrors can Baby Steps still hold?
If this is not the farthest you can fall in a single go in Baby Steps, it's gotta be pretty damn close.
Gotta show an outtake just to highlight how much a feat this was
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If this is not the farthest you can fall in a single go in Baby Steps, it's gotta be pretty damn close.
I keep forgetting that the new Park Chan-wook film, No Other Choice, is based on Donald Westlake's very dark The Ax.
At some point there might be a piece to write about how incredibly varied Westlake adaptations have been - Robert Redford comedies, Mel Gibson crime thrillers, and more.
At some point there might be a piece to write about how incredibly varied Westlake adaptations have been - Robert Redford comedies, Mel Gibson crime thrillers, and more.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I keep forgetting that the new Park Chan-wook film, No Other Choice, is based on Donald Westlake's very dark The Ax.
At some point there might be a piece to write about how incredibly varied Westlake adaptations have been - Robert Redford comedies, Mel Gibson crime thrillers, and more.
At some point there might be a piece to write about how incredibly varied Westlake adaptations have been - Robert Redford comedies, Mel Gibson crime thrillers, and more.
One of the great things about streaming is that I can hear the exact sounds I'd make right before dropping a priceless vase or fossil, and then preserve them for all time. www.twitch.tv/plumberduck/...
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One of the great things about streaming is that I can hear the exact sounds I'd make right before dropping a priceless vase or fossil, and then preserve them for all time. www.twitch.tv/plumberduck/...
Streaming more Baby Steps tonight at 8 p.m.. I'll be honest: It has been a shitty, tiring day, so I reserve the right to pull the plug and switch to something that is NOT literally called "The Man-breaker" once the stress starts to get to me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Streaming more Baby Steps tonight at 8 p.m.. I'll be honest: It has been a shitty, tiring day, so I reserve the right to pull the plug and switch to something that is NOT literally called "The Man-breaker" once the stress starts to get to me.
I have to poke into Twitter periodically for work and take it as read that people are not doing great with the fact that the bad guys in One Battle After Another are meant to be both absurd AND terrifying
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I have to poke into Twitter periodically for work and take it as read that people are not doing great with the fact that the bad guys in One Battle After Another are meant to be both absurd AND terrifying
You might reasonably ask, is this the dumbest headline I'll write today? To which we can only answer: Day's still young. www.avclub.com/labubu-shark...
Labubu, Sharknado, baby, why don't we go to the movies
Labubu, Sharknado, baby, why don't we go to the movies
www.avclub.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You might reasonably ask, is this the dumbest headline I'll write today? To which we can only answer: Day's still young. www.avclub.com/labubu-shark...
Dear Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment: I did not boot up a Zelda-themed Dynasty Warriors game to watch long cutscenes where people process trauma www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
Even the most action-heavy Zelda game in years is still too damn talk-y
Even the most action-heavy Zelda game in years is still too damn talk-y
www.avclub.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Dear Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment: I did not boot up a Zelda-themed Dynasty Warriors game to watch long cutscenes where people process trauma www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
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Today is Jeremy Greer's birthday, cohost of the Monster of the Week podcast. When MOTW finished the SPN series, I made them a book with all of the ep art, song lyrics & letters from listeners. I'm selling it in soft cover to benefit a charity J would've liked. Info here:
for-jeremy-greer.square.site
for-jeremy-greer.square.site
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today is Jeremy Greer's birthday, cohost of the Monster of the Week podcast. When MOTW finished the SPN series, I made them a book with all of the ep art, song lyrics & letters from listeners. I'm selling it in soft cover to benefit a charity J would've liked. Info here:
for-jeremy-greer.square.site
for-jeremy-greer.square.site
I was trying to explain Timothy Olyphant's whole deal to my wife and the best I could come up with is that he got big playing sexy murderers who keep trying to stop fucking and killing people but dang if the world won't let him.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I was trying to explain Timothy Olyphant's whole deal to my wife and the best I could come up with is that he got big playing sexy murderers who keep trying to stop fucking and killing people but dang if the world won't let him.