The Aleks (they/them)
@thealeks.bsky.social
I make art, video games, tabletop roleplaying games, that kind of thing. Very cool. The Poochie of social media.
https://thealeks.itch.io
https://unverifiedpersonalgnosis.neocities.org
https://ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
https://patreon.com/atelier_aleks
https://thealeks.itch.io
https://unverifiedpersonalgnosis.neocities.org
https://ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
https://patreon.com/atelier_aleks
What if I finally made that "Myst-like" video game with the rotating rooms / platforms I'd been drafting for years (kind of Blue Prince vibes, but not rogue-like and more apocalyptic), but added survival horror / stalker horror gameplay to it. Solve puzzles ... and / or get ate by the minotaur.
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What if I finally made that "Myst-like" video game with the rotating rooms / platforms I'd been drafting for years (kind of Blue Prince vibes, but not rogue-like and more apocalyptic), but added survival horror / stalker horror gameplay to it. Solve puzzles ... and / or get ate by the minotaur.
My current depressive episode feels very strange ... kind of new.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My current depressive episode feels very strange ... kind of new.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
And now, you are alone.
And none of this matters
at all.
And none of this matters
at all.
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
And now, you are alone.
And none of this matters
at all.
And none of this matters
at all.
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It's so discouraging to post art when you see how fucked up the ratio of like to repost is. Just please, do the second click, it's literally few seconds and does so much more for struggling artists.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's so discouraging to post art when you see how fucked up the ratio of like to repost is. Just please, do the second click, it's literally few seconds and does so much more for struggling artists.
You know how people say, "I hate writing, but I love having written?"
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
You know how people say, "I hate writing, but I love having written?"
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
You know what feature I'd like for artists on sites like this one?
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
You know what feature I'd like for artists on sites like this one?
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
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Vgen seems like something I should be joining. I can't say that asking around for a code isn't inconvenient, but I do rather like the hard anti-AI / quality assurance stance it engenders ...
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Vgen seems like something I should be joining. I can't say that asking around for a code isn't inconvenient, but I do rather like the hard anti-AI / quality assurance stance it engenders ...
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
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Please share this post even if you cant help me. Sharing helps.
Alright, it's time for me to e-beg for money again.
I'm still trying to pay my dentist, and I'm gonna owe him MORE money soon. Right now I owe him around $728, but when my implant is done I will owe him almost $3000
any bit helps! If you can't donate, please share the post!
ko-fi.com/ssdeer
I'm still trying to pay my dentist, and I'm gonna owe him MORE money soon. Right now I owe him around $728, but when my implant is done I will owe him almost $3000
any bit helps! If you can't donate, please share the post!
ko-fi.com/ssdeer
Buy shawnDeer a Coffee
Support Shawn Deer! See really appreciates it!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Please share this post even if you cant help me. Sharing helps.
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TEFL courses obtained! We're gonna try to get through it under a month so we can be teaching and/or tutoring by December. Until then, if anyone can help us with our current costs, it would be greatly appreciated! ❤️❤️
I have yet another round of applications in and I'm starting to worry. We have immigration things next month and I haven't been able to land a job. I feel like I got my wife out and I'm going to stall out at the finish line. If you can help or share, thank you.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
TEFL courses obtained! We're gonna try to get through it under a month so we can be teaching and/or tutoring by December. Until then, if anyone can help us with our current costs, it would be greatly appreciated! ❤️❤️
Sigh. I barely survive when the economy is "normal," whatever that means. I think the inevitable economic SuperDepression is going to literally crush me into powder ...
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Sigh. I barely survive when the economy is "normal," whatever that means. I think the inevitable economic SuperDepression is going to literally crush me into powder ...
Just found the design doc for a cyberpunky dungeon crawler I was prototyping like five years ago, and that cheers me up a bit, but also ... the feelings are complex.
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Just found the design doc for a cyberpunky dungeon crawler I was prototyping like five years ago, and that cheers me up a bit, but also ... the feelings are complex.
I'm still not really ready to fully get back to work, but I've really got nothing else to be doing and ... I don't know.
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm still not really ready to fully get back to work, but I've really got nothing else to be doing and ... I don't know.
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
This version of me is basically a wash.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This version of me is basically a wash.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
I hate when Metatopia comes around. I'm sure it's great. For me it's basically just a reminder that I'm too fucking poor to be a "real" game designer. I get to watch from outside the window like a little Victorian orphan child. I'm like one of those annoyingly sad single people on Valentine's day.
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I hate when Metatopia comes around. I'm sure it's great. For me it's basically just a reminder that I'm too fucking poor to be a "real" game designer. I get to watch from outside the window like a little Victorian orphan child. I'm like one of those annoyingly sad single people on Valentine's day.
I just want everyone to know that I love them.
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I just want everyone to know that I love them.
As bad as things are, the (undeniably) fascist regime currently in provisional "control" of the US government has no viable plan or capacity for effective consolidation, even when you factor in how utterly toothless America's "opposition" party happens to be. So...cold comfort, but its something.
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
As bad as things are, the (undeniably) fascist regime currently in provisional "control" of the US government has no viable plan or capacity for effective consolidation, even when you factor in how utterly toothless America's "opposition" party happens to be. So...cold comfort, but its something.
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Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.
After 3 failed Kickstarters in a row, and the feeling of utter humiliation I tend to experience (and I concede that this is primarily a quirk of my own psychological makeup) during the process of promoting even successful ones, I am starting to think that this format of funding might not be for me.
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
After 3 failed Kickstarters in a row, and the feeling of utter humiliation I tend to experience (and I concede that this is primarily a quirk of my own psychological makeup) during the process of promoting even successful ones, I am starting to think that this format of funding might not be for me.
Welp, the Shores Of Night Kickstarter is officially dead. So it goes.
If you want to help me afford to function and stay alive over the next month or two, I have a ko-fi, or you can buy some of my itch games, etc.. I am going into seclusion in the west wing to brood. #ttrpg
ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
If you want to help me afford to function and stay alive over the next month or two, I have a ko-fi, or you can buy some of my itch games, etc.. I am going into seclusion in the west wing to brood. #ttrpg
ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
Support Aleksandr Samoylov
Support Aleksandr Samoylov
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November 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Welp, the Shores Of Night Kickstarter is officially dead. So it goes.
If you want to help me afford to function and stay alive over the next month or two, I have a ko-fi, or you can buy some of my itch games, etc.. I am going into seclusion in the west wing to brood. #ttrpg
ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
If you want to help me afford to function and stay alive over the next month or two, I have a ko-fi, or you can buy some of my itch games, etc.. I am going into seclusion in the west wing to brood. #ttrpg
ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
I need to find a way to recharge this burnt out husk, but I am realizing that I have no idea how to go about doing that.
"Well, how do you usually do it?" Nobody is asking me.
I ... don't think I do?
Maybe I'll try, like, a guided meditation or something?
"Well, how do you usually do it?" Nobody is asking me.
I ... don't think I do?
Maybe I'll try, like, a guided meditation or something?
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I need to find a way to recharge this burnt out husk, but I am realizing that I have no idea how to go about doing that.
"Well, how do you usually do it?" Nobody is asking me.
I ... don't think I do?
Maybe I'll try, like, a guided meditation or something?
"Well, how do you usually do it?" Nobody is asking me.
I ... don't think I do?
Maybe I'll try, like, a guided meditation or something?
My tooth situation is in bad shape again, though today the pain seems to be a bit more manageable ... for now.
On the plus side, it's very difficult for me to get too in the weeds depressed over my failure as an artist because the delirium from the pain is drowning out my emotions 😁
On the plus side, it's very difficult for me to get too in the weeds depressed over my failure as an artist because the delirium from the pain is drowning out my emotions 😁
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My tooth situation is in bad shape again, though today the pain seems to be a bit more manageable ... for now.
On the plus side, it's very difficult for me to get too in the weeds depressed over my failure as an artist because the delirium from the pain is drowning out my emotions 😁
On the plus side, it's very difficult for me to get too in the weeds depressed over my failure as an artist because the delirium from the pain is drowning out my emotions 😁
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Saying "hey, union busting is bad, but it's not bad enough for me to stop salivating like pavlov's dogs over a virtual pastiche of Miami" doesn't exactly make any of us still here in the space look good. Who cares about principles? I gotta get my dwindling per-article cut.
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Saying "hey, union busting is bad, but it's not bad enough for me to stop salivating like pavlov's dogs over a virtual pastiche of Miami" doesn't exactly make any of us still here in the space look good. Who cares about principles? I gotta get my dwindling per-article cut.
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I really do want to challenge everyone I know in games media to really think about your coverage commitments to GTA VI or Rockstar over the next year. Rockstar busted this union because it didn't think it would suffer any consequences for doing so. Are you going to prove them right by rolling over?
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I really do want to challenge everyone I know in games media to really think about your coverage commitments to GTA VI or Rockstar over the next year. Rockstar busted this union because it didn't think it would suffer any consequences for doing so. Are you going to prove them right by rolling over?
Vgen seems like something I should be joining. I can't say that asking around for a code isn't inconvenient, but I do rather like the hard anti-AI / quality assurance stance it engenders ...
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Vgen seems like something I should be joining. I can't say that asking around for a code isn't inconvenient, but I do rather like the hard anti-AI / quality assurance stance it engenders ...
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So, I'd like to try selling #adoptables - I've drawn up a decent starting batch, but, as is customary for yours truly, don't really have much of an idea where or how to actually "set up shop." Any advice from more experienced sellers?
#art
#art
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So, I'd like to try selling #adoptables - I've drawn up a decent starting batch, but, as is customary for yours truly, don't really have much of an idea where or how to actually "set up shop." Any advice from more experienced sellers?
#art
#art