Ryan (BenGraven)
@bengraven.bsky.social
Former Midwestern/current southern left-leaning dad. Aka “Bengraven”. Freelance, talking about writing, gaming, mental health and 🏳️🌈 , Americana, comics/manga, animation, cozy or genre art. Severe ADHD when it comes to posting!
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December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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visitation in a field / light through the clouds
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
visitation in a field / light through the clouds
Genuinely, where the fuck is my Transformers fighting game, outside of that Japan properties crossover game on PS3 forever ago.
Windy's kit might be missing something... air grab. #Maccadam
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Genuinely, where the fuck is my Transformers fighting game, outside of that Japan properties crossover game on PS3 forever ago.
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Minnesota keeps winning.
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Minnesota keeps winning.
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Can't plagiarize answers that don't exist.
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Can't plagiarize answers that don't exist.
TL:DR version: if you wanted to do better this year, do better. Do not push fellow lefists away or overly shame them, we need allies. Educate each other, be compassionate, do not tear each other apart when the enemy is watching and laughing.
For all of the above, please work together starting in the next year. We need the punks to dismantle the system. We need the old libs to build a new one. We need the code switchers to keep the centrists in line and bridge gaps. We need compassion from all people. With love, Ryan. /The end.
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
TL:DR version: if you wanted to do better this year, do better. Do not push fellow lefists away or overly shame them, we need allies. Educate each other, be compassionate, do not tear each other apart when the enemy is watching and laughing.
I am not doing resolutions, but there are some things I would like to ask people to look into.
Some of these are going to sound contradictory, as I am asking people with different goals and drive to work together.
Feel free to bail at any time from unc, I won't feel bad. 1/?
Some of these are going to sound contradictory, as I am asking people with different goals and drive to work together.
Feel free to bail at any time from unc, I won't feel bad. 1/?
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I am not doing resolutions, but there are some things I would like to ask people to look into.
Some of these are going to sound contradictory, as I am asking people with different goals and drive to work together.
Feel free to bail at any time from unc, I won't feel bad. 1/?
Some of these are going to sound contradictory, as I am asking people with different goals and drive to work together.
Feel free to bail at any time from unc, I won't feel bad. 1/?
2026 may very well include me making my first comic book since I was 16 in 1997.
Imagine The Borrowers and David the Gnome but folk horror.
Imagine The Borrowers and David the Gnome but folk horror.
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
2026 may very well include me making my first comic book since I was 16 in 1997.
Imagine The Borrowers and David the Gnome but folk horror.
Imagine The Borrowers and David the Gnome but folk horror.
This looks like something from Creepshow.
The hands of the dead, killed by the demented fuhrer, holding up a lump of his feces in the shape of the globe like a cooperative of dung beetles.
The hands of the dead, killed by the demented fuhrer, holding up a lump of his feces in the shape of the globe like a cooperative of dung beetles.
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This looks like something from Creepshow.
The hands of the dead, killed by the demented fuhrer, holding up a lump of his feces in the shape of the globe like a cooperative of dung beetles.
The hands of the dead, killed by the demented fuhrer, holding up a lump of his feces in the shape of the globe like a cooperative of dung beetles.
Continuing my unintentional backwards trip through Resident Evil, after playing 8, then 7, then 4 Remake, I started Resident Evil 3 Remake last night. And yes, I will be going to RE2 afterwards.
This was all completely unintentional, but based on where my interests lay at the time.
This was all completely unintentional, but based on where my interests lay at the time.
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Continuing my unintentional backwards trip through Resident Evil, after playing 8, then 7, then 4 Remake, I started Resident Evil 3 Remake last night. And yes, I will be going to RE2 afterwards.
This was all completely unintentional, but based on where my interests lay at the time.
This was all completely unintentional, but based on where my interests lay at the time.
“This is what I voted for!”
You will get what you want. You will not suffer. Your children will suffer.
Your grandchildren will be slaves.
You will get what you want. You will not suffer. Your children will suffer.
Your grandchildren will be slaves.
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“This is what I voted for!”
You will get what you want. You will not suffer. Your children will suffer.
Your grandchildren will be slaves.
You will get what you want. You will not suffer. Your children will suffer.
Your grandchildren will be slaves.
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Opening door number four of the Scarred For Life advent calendar, we find... ITV's brilliant adaptations of John Wyndham's novel about a troubled boy and his alien friend: the CHOCKY trilogy!
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Opening door number four of the Scarred For Life advent calendar, we find... ITV's brilliant adaptations of John Wyndham's novel about a troubled boy and his alien friend: the CHOCKY trilogy!
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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Reminder that there are great free apps that easily transfer your playlists from Spotify to other companies to make it super easy.
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reminder that there are great free apps that easily transfer your playlists from Spotify to other companies to make it super easy.
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"Apple Music pays more than double per stream" ok so there's like 0 reason to give Spotify money if you useany other Apple services.
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Apple Music pays more than double per stream" ok so there's like 0 reason to give Spotify money if you useany other Apple services.
This is another good one.
Essentially, many of your manga and JRPG tropes are based on the JP language D&D translation. Pig headed orcs, elves with super long ears, dog like kobolds, etc.
Essentially, many of your manga and JRPG tropes are based on the JP language D&D translation. Pig headed orcs, elves with super long ears, dog like kobolds, etc.
This reminds me of a fascinating video about how the Japanese edition of D&D inspired modern interpretations of role playing fantasy in japan manga, anime, and RPGs. I had no idea Record of Lodoss War is technically a D&D story at its core. I’ll have to find it.
"Take a look at this. It's some more big 80s anime pauldrons to add to your collection, Deedlit. Ooh, look how they glow - they must be magical!"
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is another good one.
Essentially, many of your manga and JRPG tropes are based on the JP language D&D translation. Pig headed orcs, elves with super long ears, dog like kobolds, etc.
Essentially, many of your manga and JRPG tropes are based on the JP language D&D translation. Pig headed orcs, elves with super long ears, dog like kobolds, etc.
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This video is long but contains a section on this, as part of a larger discussion of DnD adaption.
youtu.be/HQda7-BNAbI?...
youtu.be/HQda7-BNAbI?...
A Brief History of Telling Stories With D&D (Detail Diatribe!)
YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This video is long but contains a section on this, as part of a larger discussion of DnD adaption.
youtu.be/HQda7-BNAbI?...
youtu.be/HQda7-BNAbI?...
This reminds me of a fascinating video about how the Japanese edition of D&D inspired modern interpretations of role playing fantasy in japan manga, anime, and RPGs. I had no idea Record of Lodoss War is technically a D&D story at its core. I’ll have to find it.
"Take a look at this. It's some more big 80s anime pauldrons to add to your collection, Deedlit. Ooh, look how they glow - they must be magical!"
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This reminds me of a fascinating video about how the Japanese edition of D&D inspired modern interpretations of role playing fantasy in japan manga, anime, and RPGs. I had no idea Record of Lodoss War is technically a D&D story at its core. I’ll have to find it.
Let’s reject our citizenships and move to an island nation that resides on the back of a turtle.
Less realistically, one with universal health care and a livable minimum wage.
Less realistically, one with universal health care and a livable minimum wage.
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Let’s reject our citizenships and move to an island nation that resides on the back of a turtle.
Less realistically, one with universal health care and a livable minimum wage.
Less realistically, one with universal health care and a livable minimum wage.
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Behind door number 2 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... it's the atmospheric and somewhat creepy title sequence to ITV's 'get kids reading' show THE BOOK TOWER (Tom Baker-era)!
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Behind door number 2 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... it's the atmospheric and somewhat creepy title sequence to ITV's 'get kids reading' show THE BOOK TOWER (Tom Baker-era)!