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exaltxix.bsky.social
I don't really need or want things!! but I've already been off work for a week+ and understandably this is gonna mess with my funds pretty badly so if you'd like to level the field a bit my kofis here ko-fi.com/ares_xix
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November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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exaltxix.bsky.social
anyway I'm 34 tomorrow ✌️ i'll probably be away most of the day for medical stuff but here's some art from the past -2yrs that I like. hopefully this'll be a good year with me going to art uni and all (and yeah you can hire me for art! please get me out of retail hell as a gift🥲)
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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jtsdmpk.bsky.social
One of my old PIs told me how surreal it was to her that people saw Barres at a conference (after transition) and would say things like "He's such a better speaker than his sister" and just be completely oblivious.
mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Apr 8
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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ushdubsar.bsky.social
Paypal dimmekur@gmail.com idk amt because its like there is a giant pit in my PayPal account that siphons up everything and spits out pain
ushdubsar.bsky.social Psionic Alienation @ushdubsar.bsky.social · 3d
Medical emergency ended up happening, both of us need more time to move in (but we have keys!), food is trouble, I can't pack all my stuff properly, I need multiple trips between Chicago and Elmhurst (each one is an hour+), the money I had ended up disappearing shockingly fast, Moving Sucks, help
ushdubsar.bsky.social Psionic Alienation @ushdubsar.bsky.social · 7d
For what its worth, I made it on this!

More still helps though: there's like 3 trips I need to make on day of, I need to pay my ex to bring my stuff she's got back to me, extra will help me stay online while waiting on internet, and medical emergencies are very likely for me still.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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gabjet.bsky.social
Having settings hidden under clicking "moderation services" is a terrible UI choice before we get to what's in those settings. But the "sexually suggestive cartoon" is definitely the weirdest thing in there. What do we possibly gain by having this extra setting hidden nested deeper than the rest
Screenshot of the NSFW moderation options in bsky. Adult Content, Sexually Suggestive, and Non-sexual Nudity are all in the top-level "moderation settings" that's relatively easy for new users to find. But under those is "Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)," a baffling category that is, bafflingly, hidden in an extra menu that's much less visible to new users unless they click on literally everything.
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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bigoldeels.bsky.social
hi if u wanna buy anything from me I’m in the stage of having a new job where I’m so so tired but also not getting paid for a minute
bigoldeels.bsky.social rowan finn 🐚 @bigoldeels.bsky.social · Oct 18
hey I used to make a meager living from art on the internet and now I do not, it would be cool if that happened again
🪲 shop & stuff: ko-fi.com/bigoldeels
🪲 portfolio: rowanfridley.com
🪲 contact: rowanfridley@gmail.com
🪲 all socials: @ bigoldeels
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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ushdubsar.bsky.social
Big chunk already taken out of this, so fast! (Thank you!) Best case scenario coverage needs only 150 more, worst case only 250. Thanks so much for all the help to everyone who has thrown bits in for me over time, here's hoping I get stable enough to give back...
ushdubsar.bsky.social Psionic Alienation @ushdubsar.bsky.social · 8d
Tooth pain and unexpected events and also the day I celebrate my birthday flattened me, so sorry to fail to update

Hi I'm gonna be housed?

This is. Really big. I do however need just a couple hundred more, then things get easier. Paypal is dimmekur@gmail.com, deadline is Nov 7th.
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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exaltxix.bsky.social
speaking of I can take some more for November!!
exaltxix.bsky.social Ares || Comms open! @exaltxix.bsky.social · Oct 2
RIGHT Comms are back on the menu folks!

There's a range of stuff available from quick and sketchy icons to full illustrated scenes. Click through for examples.

I just downgraded my day job to half the hours due to studies so these would help me a ton!

ko-fi.com/ares_xix/com...
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
0plus2equals1.bsky.social
looking forward to the release of @huntersmarkzine.bsky.social coming up soon, happy to say I’ve got a piece in it! wip preview feat. Arianna and a certain spider man:
A shadow passed over the door, falling across the glaze of the glass, and she sighed, hoping not to see the dove-gray of that man's garb returning, but when she looked up there was a mass of black, pitch-dark, large. It rose up, up past the lintel, up to where she could no longer see. She stood very still. She realized her heart was pounding. She began to soothe herself; it was not at all sustainable to startle at shadows in Yharnam. Reason returned: the thing had been large, but not monstrously so, and so it was not a loping beast or mad stray Pthumerian but perhaps instead a fat crow struggling back up to its roost. She had not heard the typical croak-barks of the glutted city wildlife, just the tip-tip-tap of something scuttling over the glass, but she was tired and if the thing was not coming back then it did not matter. A dozen new species of nightmare were documented in this city every week, and she wanted nothing to do with any of them. She'd leave it for her other customer, the doctor who had once happily reached up her chimney to retrieve a soot-coated teratoma, and Arianna had hidden her face and wept and only somewhat pretended at terror as he had strangled the thing while saying, with contemptuous satisfaction, look, gems! The squeezed polyp of bloodstone had been left on her mantle as a tip, and Arianna had traded it for half the lamp-oil it was worth just to be rid of it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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sorenhaxan.bsky.social
shout out to some of my favorite works from my ornament series, all of which are partly why my arm is so fucked up 😎
THE RUFF - KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - SHIVERING (ST. SEBASTIAN)
THE RUFF - b&w pen and ink drawing of a beautiful 1570-90s dude (i can't remember sry), the subject is looking away from the viewer and we can see his magnificent lace-trimmed ruff, the askew cloak, and a hat with three trailing pheasant feathers KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - a close-up of a knight from behind. he is in resplendent armor from roughly the mid-16th century with a lovely sun and lots of italian filigree. He is looking over his right shoulder, his sword aloft, the moon looming large behind him. KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - a knight in late gothic armor from the waist down. he stands upon a tiled floor, his sabotons are crazy pointed and he's got the spurs. a heavily patterned cloak trails on the floor behind him. SHIVERING - ST. SEBASTIAN - st sebastian tied up to a tree,innit. really tumultuous clouds with a lot of heavy shading roll in the background over a dark, dense line of mountains.
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
0plus2equals1.bsky.social
haven’t written hole fic in so long but my roger/tyr visions are returning to me
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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strida.bsky.social
🧛‍♀️ new story is live
🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️ scorned lesbian vampire fiction
🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️ happy halloween

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La blessure
The vampire Hélène, reeling from the departure of her longtime lover, chases love and death through 1800s Europe. The ennui of eternity, the flush of passion, the tang of blood—it's a lesbian vampire ...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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lichenritual.bsky.social
Gravity Loop Presents:
CARVED JESUS, AFLAME by Pearl Crews @chopsyn.bsky.social
A comic done entirely in woodburning, trans woman Lucille Green journeys through the mystical, bitter, wrought landscape of the Southern US.
A Special Series not included in the Anthology
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May 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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ofsilentthings.bsky.social
(repost with correct info)

On November 24th, a free Bloodborne fanzine celebrating 10 years will come out! Here's a snippet of my submission (about ya boi, Micolash).

Get it for free! @huntersmarkzine.bsky.social
WRITER SPOTLIGHT from THE FINAL DAYS OF YAHAR'GUL: Micolash inhales the final days of Yahar’gul in the form of a strong sea wind stolen from memories of his childhood coastal village. A death smell, salty brine bringing finality. Of course he is working when it comes; he has not stopped working, not since that prophetic visit years ago that showed him his destiny. Still, he is taken by surprise. He regards his fingers. Sickly, frail, arthritic, pressed against the lining of stomachs turned inside out, the smooth underside of lips, the inside of the brain. A vessel held together with sutures he and countless other scholars have placed. A bespoke suit fit for a Great One. Between the scents of decaying flesh and formaldehyde and starched collars of the choir in the church he has built on the bones of innocents, he inhales the briny deep. Yahar’gul is nowhere near the ocean, but here is his reminder that everything returns to the sea. The breeze blows again, making him shaky on his platform. The revelation clenches his heart with fear as he leans onto the vessel, holding tightly for support. He looks down. He is balanced on a piece of wood between two tall ladders. Over a pool of primordial blood, iridescent like oil, but in purples and blacks and grays. The sea wind blows yet again. When he finally understands what the whispers asks him, (not through words, per se, but rather like the sea foam fractalization of the cosmos) he is afraid. Not of the coming of the end of his toils, but rather, if he is ready to meet it. (Hunter's Mark: A Bloodborne Anniversary Zine)
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
0plus2equals1.bsky.social
i was trying to think of what things are in the same general themes orbit as shf and while it’s certainly the most angela carter a silent hill game has ever been i also kind of went (guy who has only seen boss baby voice) this is a little bit like pastoral to die in the country
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
🚨Public Service Announcement
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
Jester wooden marionette looks over an occult tome by candlelight Faust attempts to summon Mephisto Marionette stage scene showing the King's castle aflame and his entire court drowning Mephisto flanked by two demons enter a flaming room.
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
0plus2equals1.bsky.social
public service announcement take your vitamin d supplements seriously. Sunrise/sunset change vs work hours had me feeling like I was in hell and deserved to be there within like 3 days
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
A preview of the Lovecraftian short story I'm contributing to @huntersmarkzine.bsky.social, a Bloodborne fanzine free to download on November 20. It may or may not be based on my own experiences in academia...
A gothic-themed story preview graphic. The text reads: “You do not see, dear Rom, but you will,” Micolash countered. “It’s a pity you weren’t able to accompany us to Innsmouth. Do you know what we found inside the skulls of those benighted villagers? Eyes, Rom. A veritable feast of eyes. With such insight, even the most inbred and illiterate among the poor fools were able to commune with the Great Kosm. Think of what scholars such as you and I could accomplish.” Micolash rested the bloodless tips of his fingers on the cherrywood seal of the flask on his desk. The severed eyes preserved in the pale medium continued to float, sightless and unconcerned.
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
My annual list of free-to-play retro horror games is live on @sidequestzone.bsky.social. There's a gritty mix of fresh blood and decayed favorites in this year's creepypixel harvest: sidequest.zone/2025/10/15/r...
Dreamcore pixel art of an old computer abandoned in the woods. A text box reads: "Play game? >Yes / No." This art was created by teller-of-tragedies on Tumblr.
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ofsilentthings.bsky.social
In less than a month @huntersmarkzine.bsky.social will release a zine to celebrate ten years of the best game ever, Bloodborne. If you'd like to grab a copy and donate some money to a good cause give it a look.

Here's a snippet of my contribution: THE FINAL DAYS OF YAHAR'GUL.
Writer Spotlight THE FINAL DAYS OF YAHAR'GUL Micolash inhales the final days of Yahar’gul in the form of a strong sea wind stolen from memories of his childhood coastal village. A death smell, salty brine bringing finality. Of course he is working when it comes; he has not stopped working, not since that prophetic visit years ago that showed him his destiny. Still, he is taken by surprise. He regards his fingers. Sickly, frail, arthritic, pressed against the lining of stomachs turned inside out, the smooth underside of lips, the inside of the brain. A vessel held together with sutures he and countless other scholars have placed. A bespoke suit fit for a Great One. Between the scents of decaying flesh and formaldehyde and starched collars of the choir in the church he has built on the bones of innocents, he inhales the briny deep. Yahar’gul is nowhere near the ocean, but here is his reminder that everything returns to the sea. The breeze blows again, making him shaky on his platform. The revelation clenches his heart with fear as he leans onto the vessel, holding tightly for support. He looks down. He is balanced on a piece of wood between two tall ladders. Over a pool of primordial blood, iridescent like oil, but in purples and blacks and grays. The sea wind blows yet again. When he finally understands what the whispers asks him, (not through words, per se, but rather like the sea foam fractalization of the cosmos) he is afraid. Not of the coming of the end of his toils, but rather, if he is ready to meet it. Hunter's Mark: A Bloodborne Anniversary Zine
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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beastcutter.bsky.social
Me and my friends frolicking endlessly in the chalice dungeons
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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beastcutter.bsky.social
Daily read the free chapters of my book post
beastcutter.bsky.social DR LUKANSTEIN ⚧️ @beastcutter.bsky.social · Oct 2
Paris, 192X. An English man without a face is hired by a strange boy to examine a series of defaced portraits. His investigation leads him into a world of art, opium, sex, and the undead.

The first 6 chapters of upcoming occult noir LAZARUS, are now available

beastcutter.itch.io/lazarus-teaser
LAZARUS - teaser by Lukan Garrow
A 1920s occult noir
beastcutter.itch.io
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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visceralhit.bsky.social
Nieve is the new head of Biotheology in a shrinking world. Will she rise to meet the entity devouring society, or will it subsume her?

🌌 Sentient landscapes
💉 Erotic Medical Malpractice
🩻 Can your body hold all that you are?

[#SLUDGEPIT #h #r #WIP #scifi ]

(illustrated by me)
A promo graphic for Beyond Bringers with Molly drawn in bright yellows and greens. Her arm has been replaced with a twisted gnarl of organic shapes, growing from her shoulder. The text reads:"That's going into me, right?" Molly asks, an intense look aimed at the long needle waiting on the workstation. Her eagerness makes her look like she's boiling, tiny bubbles of desire bouncing around so vigorously inside her she can't even sit still. Nieve's hand pauses over the syringe. "If you have any objections, speak now." The cover of Beyond Bringers. A woman falls from the sky like ink dropped in water, the flowing shapes obscuring her skeleton as is twists and turns in a surreal fashion. An otherwordly landscape made of cascading patterns is behind her. The book's titles is aligned vertically on the right.
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM