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perplexingly.bsky.social

@perplexingly.bsky.social

“You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; (…) the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors, and rendered mine ineffaceable. I sickened as I read.”

November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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Newt 👁️🦎

@eyeofthenewt.bsky.social

"Holy Sacrament"
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[OCs: Nikky (me) & Sister Catherine (@mossborn.bsky.social) #NewtsOCs VtM, 1835 England]

A square digital illustration that consists of a drawing of two figures ont he left and a bold strip of text on the right.
It depicts the taking of sacrament, a soft-faced nun in off-white habit is feeding a piece of bread to a more rugged figure, that is kneeling in front of her. They have a straw-coloured hair, dressed in practical but tidy clothing, perhaps their sunday attire, with a couple knives strapped to their hip and boot. They are holding their hands in a prayer, eyes closed and mouth open with the tongue almost touching the nuns fingers as she feeds them the piece of bread. there is a splatter of red down their chin, as if they have previously drank of the communion wine. There is a small crucifix above them.
Ont he right, there is a gothic style large decorative text in muted red/orange reading "Eat of His flesh Drink of His blood" there is more text in the border around the drawing, but much smaller, reading: "Sister Catherine Alden & Nikola Graves", "City of Magoth 1835 England", "Vampire the Masquerade", "Created by @Eyeofthenewt & @Mossborn".

November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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Newt 👁️🦎

@eyeofthenewt.bsky.social

Don't spread yourself too thin darling

[OC: Andrei Croft #NewtsOCs]

digital illustration in the shape of an ace of hearts card depicting a portrait of a young man with blood down his throat and 9 dark colored hands with sharp nails cupping arranged around him. Some are cupping his face, one is holding his hair and one is gripping his throat. his lips are stained the same color as the blood and there is a smoke rising from one of his pupils. The letter A in the corners of the cards is done in a gothic style font.

just the plain lineart from the previous illustration.

September 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM

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💥 CRYPTIDSYRUP 💥

@cryptidsyrup.bsky.social

tachycardia

a digital color illustration of an anatomically correct heart in a human ribcage. there are pink spikes surrounding the heart coming between the ribs. the bottom text reads”tachycardia” in the same pink color.

September 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Jacob Geller

@jacobgeller.com

Stories of people developing psychosis because of AI are going to get more and more frequent and then they'll stop because it will be so common it won't even be worth reporting

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

www.wsj.com

August 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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faust

@shantywolf.bsky.social

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF YOUR FUNERAL? 🎴

i think more people should make experimental fanzines for academic papers. here's a short collage one on scott stonington's 'karma masters: the ethical wound, hauntological choreography, and complex personhood in thailand.' (1/3)