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mxvile.bsky.social
Carnival Grotesque
@mxvile.bsky.social
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Ancient Evil. Artist and Writer. Tattoo Apprentice.

#DarkArt #Horror #PopSurrealism

✨Links✨ https://linktr.ee/mxvile
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Carnival Grotesque @mxvile.bsky.social · Oct 20
Hello, Lovelies! I’m an artist and a writer who specializes in #Horror #DarkArt & #PopSurrealism

I have an art book and horror anthology podcast currently in the works! (I have podcast BTS info on my Ko-fi 👀)

linktr.ee/mxvile
A portrait of a masculine figure with red hair. He’s surrounded in a green energy and has an oozing, human-like bite on the right side of his neck. The flesh is pierced, bloody, and peaked into mounds. A feminine figure looking over her shoulder at the viewer. She has a buzzed undercut and purple hair draped to one side. Her eyes are bright and blue and matches the color and glow of the halo above her head. There are red eyes on the back of her jacket all looking in multiple directions and she is surrounded by a hot pink energy that surrounds her like fire. A feminine figure at the center of the composition grabbing her melting face and staring at the viewer. Her dark hair cascades down her shoulders like the dark blood that oozes from her eyes, mouth, and nose. The skin under her left eye is flayed open. She is surrounded by vertical streaks of purples and blues and there is a double exposure of her screaming face to the right side of her. A figure with silvery-blue hair is wearing a bloodied straight jacket. She has a bleeding cleft lip and a fresh lobotomy bruise at her left eye. Blood pours down the side of her face from her procedure and drips from her chin. Her nails are long and yellow and she is surrounded by a void of swirling red, like blood.
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THANK YOU @jimacosta.bsky.social
jimacosta.bsky.social Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · Jan 28
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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kim-hu.com
Motivational card, a flower field under a big pink sky. The text says: Make the art of your niche blorbo you want to see in the World.
January 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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contextfineart.bsky.social
The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all
By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the National Gallery of Art is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Darnaude.
www.out.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.

This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.

Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations

www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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logophobe.bsky.social
ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all
January 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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scrawlmagazine.bsky.social
SUBMISSION CALL!

submissions are open for (s)crawl literary magazine's inaugural fall 2025 issue.

see submission guidelines & submit your work on our website: scrawlmag.com

know someone who would be interested? tag them and share this post to spread the word!

#litmag #horrorlitmag #horrorwriters
submission call for (s)crawl literary magazine. text: fall 2025 - submissions are OPEN! seeking horror short stories, poetry, and essays by lgbtqia+, neurodiverse, female, bipoc, and disabled voices. we pay our writers and never charge sub fees. scrawlmag.com. background: a dark and moody photo of a skull on the ground surrounded by leaves and dirt.
January 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
Is anyone else having a ton of issues with the search function on here?
January 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...
January 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
Oh, and of COURSE the photo I took of this tattoo is fucking terrible 🤣
January 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
If my client doesn’t like what I drew, I might cry.
AI generated black and white rose with stem and leaves. It makes no sense. Petals are folding into themselves, the leaves and stems have lines that connect to nowhere. A drawing of 2 roses and a stem with leaves in the same composition as the previous images except it doesn’t suck.
January 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
Literally begging my tattoo clients to stop sending me AI generated references.
January 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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bitterkarella.bsky.social
I think that saying this in his face, knowing what we know, is some real bravery that should be emulated by more people in positions of leadership. I know words are cheap and you cannot shame trump, he is a monster, but it is good for us, the little people, to see this occasionally
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
mxvile.bsky.social
I am genuinely having a hard time finding compassion for folks who get scammed by products that are obviously AI...The crystal mugs? The fake couture dresses? Really? Y'all need your wallets taken away.
January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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valhal.bsky.social
Just learned there's a Batman villain that's just an anthro orca with big naturals
Orca from Batman with two big ones
January 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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emilylhauser.bsky.social
Every now & then I think about how people frame the #MeToo "era" as an "era" & not the ongoing reality in which women & girls have always lived.

RAINN Natl Sexual Assault Hotline:
800-656-HOPE (4673)

Chat with RAINN online:
hotline.rainn.org/online

Spanish online chat:
hotline.rainn.org/es?_
January 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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godivaghoul.bsky.social
hello, back to drawing
January 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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sillysyntax.bsky.social
I am brooding over how big a red flag it is for an artist or writer to single out anyone who comes to a reading or a book signing and begin DMing them personally/inviting them out after the fan expresses adoration for their work. The power differential is SO big, and the potential for abuse extreme.
priyachand.bsky.social priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · Jan 13
aaaaand like going beyond "Neil Gaiman has committed sexual assault and child abuse", there's a serious problem of powerful people exploiting fans & the systems enabling that shit....
January 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
✨ I'm hosting a secret Valentine's exchange in my Discord server 👀 There aren't any limitations to what you can create, so this is open to visual artists, writers, poets, musicians, etc.

The deadline for filling out the form in the Discrod is Jan 15th discord.gg/aArU8MYavX
A banner of scattered black, pink, red, and purple anatomical hearts.
January 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
Coming out of my social media hiatus to inform y'all that a new artist is guest spotting at the tattoo shop and I decided to do some sleuthing. Pretty sure I found his Tumblr and he makes some quality Homestuck and Transformers filth.

I think we'll vibe.
December 22, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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wesleysouthard.bsky.social
I am ridiculously proud of this book and would like more people to read it. It's a collection of three long pieces of fiction. CLOSING COSTS and the award-winning ONE FOR THE ROAD were previously published, but the brand new short novel THREESOME is one of my very favorite things I've written.
December 9, 2024 at 2:46 AM
mxvile.bsky.social
I watched Smile 2 the other day and I’m still shook. The soundtrack is a banger too. Unironically my feel good music for the weekend.
December 7, 2024 at 11:14 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
I am back from my adventure out in the woods. Anything interesting happen while I was gone? 😂
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
mxvile.bsky.social
I haven't updated my art website since 2021, but all I've done is stare at my tools cross-eyed for several hours. She needs and upgrade though.
November 23, 2024 at 11:08 PM