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language artist, software dev, spec fic enjoyer, painter, marylander 👾🦀 she/her

https://caroldinh.github.io/ + http://seenby.urlocalcyb.org/
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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · Feb 16
cover illustration for mary shelley's second sci-fi novel "the last man." there is an unfortunate dearth of cover art for this novel, since it is so seldom published, but i wanted to capture the beauty and grandiosity of her environmental prose! #maryshelley #classicliterature #booksky #watercolor
watercolor illustration of "the last man" by mary shelley, featuring a lone figure flying in a steampunk winged hot air balloon, over a forest, hagia sophia in Istanbul, and the roman ruins, with astronomical formulas and diagrams written in the stars. excerpt from "the last man" by mary shelley: "Early in the morning Adrian brought me the welcome intelligence that the wind had changed: it had been south-west; it was now north-east. The sky was stripped bare of clouds by the increasing gale, while the tide at its ebb seceded entirely from the town. The change of wind rather increased the fury of the sea, but it altered its late dusky hue to a bright green; and in spite of its unmitigated clamour, its more cheerful appearance instilled hope and pleasure. All day we watched the ranging of the mountainous waves, and towards sunset a desire to decypher the promise for the morrow at its setting, made us all gather with one accord on the edge of the cliff. When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! three other suns, alike burning and brilliant, rushed from various quarters of the heavens towards the great orb; they whirled round it. The glare of light was intense to our dazzled eyes; the sun itself seemed to join in the dance, while the sea burned like a furnace, like all Vesuvius a-light, with flowing lava beneath. The horses broke loose from their stalls in terror—a herd of cattle, panic struck, raced down to the brink of the cliff, and blinded by light, plunged down with frightful yells in the waves below. The time occupied by the apparition of these meteors was comparatively short; suddenly the three mock suns united in one, and plunged into the sea."
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Fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's post-apocalyptic cloning novel, "Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang." Watercolor & colored pencil on paper, 12"x18". #Watercolor #SciFi #SciFiArt

This piece (+2 more) will be on display at @rhizomedc.bsky.social in December as part of the "STEAM Engine" exhibit!
Fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang' in watercolor. In the horizon is the silhouette of a windmill over a red starry sky. A tunnel beneath the windmill opens into secret rooms illustrated as an underground map, depicting men working at large computers, students in a classroom, a line of pregnant women, men building canoes, and clone fetuses in tanks. Overlaid in each room are the words "WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG" with the author's name, "KATE WILHELM" at the bottom. Same as the previous image but without the typography: fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang' in watercolor. In the horizon is the silhouette of a windmill over a red starry sky. A tunnel beneath the windmill opens into secret rooms illustrated as an underground map, depicting men working at large computers, students in a classroom, a line of pregnant women, men building canoes, and clone fetuses in tanks.
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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speculativeinsight.bsky.social
If someone is in the history discipline and looking at how history is portrayed in computer games - and they're not at all in the SFF world - what journals do you think they should think about, that they might not otherwise come across?
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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dishsoapquart.bsky.social
Lovely piece that scopes absolutely wonderfully across time + space up for y'all this week. Enjoy "fossils" from @kmhanslik.bsky.social

Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-25-25
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Baffling Magazine’s Dec 1–15 window is coming up 🌀

Queer “timefuckery” + other speculative flash
✨ SF/F/H with a queer bent
✨ Under 1,200 words (they love <500)
✨ 8¢/word, simsubs encouraged

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #flashfiction #queerfiction
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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maggi22463.bsky.social
“Still Life with Three Puppies” by Paul Gaugin, 1888, MOMA
August 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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me on the job 🤝 me on the weekends
"oh my god why is metro not running"
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables

Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

by Jennifer Ouellette

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Original article
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#books #old_manuscripts #astronomy
Pages of the Dresden codex on eclipses . The image shows several adjoining pages of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Maya manuscript. The pages are filled with dense Maya hieroglyphs, numbers, and symbols arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns. Much of the imagery uses black and red ink on a cream-colored, weathered surface. Across the pages are repeating patterns of dot-and-bar numerals, used in Maya calendrical calculations. Interspersed among the glyph blocks are stylized drawings of deities and serpent-like figures, characteristic of Maya cosmology. These particular pages are known for containing astronomical tables related to eclipses, and the highly structured numerical sequences suggest predictive calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Blue Grotto (Capri Island, Italy), by Detroit Publishing Co., ca. 1890.⁠
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One of 900+ prints available as a print from our online shop, all profits back into the project — https://publicdomainreview.org/product/blue-grotto-capri-island-italy
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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angelasasserart.bsky.social
NGL folks. Moving even just one of these originals would really make a difference for my husband & I with our continually piling up medical bills.🥲 Plz help spread the word, if you can. Even just re-sharing is powerful for small artists like me.🙏
angelicshades.bsky.social Angela R. Sasser | Fine Artist, Goddess Art, and Watercolors @angelicshades.bsky.social · 18d
If you've ever wanted to collect one of my originals, here's a great opportunity! I'm offering these pieces currently via the @changelingart.bsky.social's Deck the Halls auction with extremely fair starting bids.

Place your bids here by commenting on the images:
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Framed art featuring ornate frames with handmade traditional art rendered in watercolor, ink, gold paint, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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crowwkui.bsky.social
friends and the importance of head pats

#frankenstein
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
urlocalcyb.org
(Loki voice) I've been INSTALLING... for THIRTEEN MINITES
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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markchilcott.bsky.social
Frankenstein
#frankenstein #art @realgdt.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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puddingviz.bsky.social
The Pudding Cup is back for 2025! We want to see your best non-commercial visual and data-driven projects!

🗓️ Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025 (free entry)
📢 Winners announced: the week of December 9, 2025
💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500

pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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rowanashe.bsky.social
Bifrost
Artist: Rowan Ashe
Musical Pairing: Ecdysis by Deftones
Medium: Watercolor and Uni Pin Fine Liners on Stonehenge hotpress
10x10

#art #Watercolor #abstract #abstractart #handmade
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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matiasbergara.bsky.social
Coda.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
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November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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pulpliterature.bsky.social
Get a piece of SFF art history! 🎨 - The Fran Skene Memorial Art Auction, available through this year's Keep the Presses Rolling Galabid auction!
mailchi.mp/3f7ecc2962d0...
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn died #onthisday in 1847 aged just 38. Pictured here, more than 50 years later, his music as a "thought form" emanating from a church: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia #otd
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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expositionreview.bsky.social
“Stochastic Gossips” is a cover of Norman Rockwell’s classic “The Gossips” and a reference to the “stochastic parrot,” a term… that digs at large language models like ChatGPT that parrot language without “understanding” its meaning. Check out Amy Kurzweil’s “Spring” comic: tinyurl.com/ExpoStochastic
Stochastic Gossips - Exposition Review
by Amy Kurzweil Comic   Amy Kurzweil, Stochastic Gossips, 2025. Ink and watercolor on paper     Artist’s Statement “Stochastic Gossips” is a cover of Norman Rockwell’s classic “The Gossips” and a refe...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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redracula.bsky.social
ONE DAY LEFT to support this audio drama adaptation of Frankenstein with an all-trans cast! You won't be able to get a lot of these perks after the campaign ends!

Link: igg.me/at/refrank
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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haykebyr.bsky.social
@realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein is an absolute treat, an incredibly rich telling of the tale with some STELLAR art and design choices - it really felt like a project that was lovingly crafted with a lot of passion. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, through and through. #Frankenstein2025
Digital art of the monster from the 2025 film Frankenstein. He is a mass of shadow against a pale background, his face and hand visible against his dark clothes. A little mouse sits up on his hand as he looks from under heavy brows at the viewer, the pupil in his left eye reflecting orange.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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My preliminary review of Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein. I have more thoughts than can really be said in an appropriate length for a Letterboxd review (cross-posted to my blog: seenby.urlocalcyb.org/2025/10/26/g...) but overall, I enjoyed the movie but wasn't particularly surprised by anything
Screenshot of a blog post that reads: Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro Date seen: October 24, 2025 Date reviewed: October 26, 2025 SPOILERS for both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation ahead. Image of Victor beholding the incomplete Creature in his lab. In directing Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro knew he had one chance to get it right, and that’s why he waited so long. I read del Toro’s introduction to THE NEW ANNOTATED FRANKENSTEIN, written in 2017, and gleaned his connection with with Mary Shelley’s original tale profoundly. And indeed, his adaptation brings to life the grandiosity that is Romantic prose, with rich and indulgent color and costuming, and formidable sets that capture the extravagance of aristocratic wealth, the sublime of the natural world, and the spectacle of mad science in the popular imagination. Like Shelley’s novel, the true horror lies not in the blood and the gore but in the humanity (and lack thereof) of monsters and the men who make them.
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM