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Steph🪡🐈‍⬛
@skein-of-terror.bsky.social
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27, they/them, married, uber-agnostic, leftist. I work in tech, then sometimes I go home and do art.

If you post AI slop I will block you.

https://skein-of-terror.neocities.org/
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One of my jumping spiders finally came out of molting and is so. Shiny. Now.
Close-up of a black and white regal jumping spider with shimmery blue-green chelicerae
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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For Halloween my husband @nathanandersonart.bsky.social and I went as Ben Ravencroft and Velma from Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost
The poster, Steph (right), and their husband, Nathan (left), posing for a picture in their Halloween costumes. Nathan is wearing glasses, a black shirt, a brown blazer, tan dress pants, and brown shoes. He has dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, and he has a goatee. Steph is wearing glasses, an orange sweater, a red skirt, orange socks, and black loafers. They have light brown hair in a bob.
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I tried some simple #linocut printing for the first time ever and I think they turned out pretty okay!

#Halloween #fall #autumn
A series of four linocut prints from the same carving, two each on two different sheets of paper, depicting a cat in silhouette sitting on a pumpkin. The top paper is a deep reddish orange, while the bottom is more tangerine. The prints are in black ink.
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Updated Pocket Camp card for the season! Feel free to drop yours below

#acpc #pocketcamp #animalcrossing #campercard #campercards
October 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Me and the guy I had a massive crush on in tenth grade
Steph next to the Edgar Allan Poe statue in Boston, Massachusetts. Steph has brown hair and glasses and is wearing all black. The statue is made of weathered green copper. It depicts Edgar Allan Poe walking with suitcases in one hand, his coat blowing behind him. He is flanked by a large raven.
September 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Some details from graves at the Old Burial Hill cemetery in Marblehead, MA
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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As much of a maelstrom as our constantly ever-changing world is nowadays, I have but one anchor, one rock I can return to that has remained since my childhood: the Bass Pro Shop shooting arcade
An indoor shooting arcade game with the facade of a dilapidated wooden building and small targets on various objects, like taxidermy, barrels, and more
September 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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For me, nothing good probably.
A list of favorite movies from Letterboxd featuring American Psycho (2000), Suspiria (2018), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), and House (1977)
September 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Good shit.
Screenshot of a Lettetboxd review of the movie Friendship (2024.) It's rated four and a half stars.
September 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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You mean the DNC is admitting in their email this morning that they could have been doing more this whole time and chose not to?

This is not the message that's going to win over voters. Do fucking better lmfao.
Screenshot from a fundraising email from the Democratic Party. It reads: "Donald Trump is so terrified about Republicans losing power next year that he’s trying to rig the game at halftime with gerrymandered maps in places like Texas. For months, we promised that if Republicans wanted a showdown, they would get a showdown. Well, last week, Gavin Newsom and California Democrats sent a booming message to the entire country: We are done fighting with one arm tied behind our back."
August 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Pictures from the true crime and politics sections at John K. King Books North in Ferndale, MI today
A graphic affixed to a full wooden bookshelf that reads "Your neighbor kills puppies" Headline stapled to a bookshelf that reads, "Jan. 6 Rioter Who Sprayed Wasp Killer Pleads Guilty" Headline stapled to a bookshelf that reads, "Inside the MAGAverse" Picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger on a bookshelf. He is in a bathtub full of bubbles, smiling and holding up a cigar. The caption below him reads, "Biggest Hunk, Taken: Arnold Schwarzenegger."
August 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion (I was an absolute wuss as a child)
The cover art for the computer game "Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion," featuring an illustration of a blue-shaded Victorian mansion
August 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Working on a pattern from Witchy Stitcher from a Pride bundle I bought maybe... two years ago now?
A work-in-progress cross stitch piece with black evenweave fabric and colorful pastel stitches
August 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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For #Caturday: not my cat, but a friendly fella I met at my BIL's apartment complex this week
A fluffy cat with white, brown, and black markings, and a big fluffy dark tail. It is lying on its side and looking over at someone off-camera. That same cat with one of its back legs over its head. Its face is blurry and seems to be mid-lick with its pink tongue sticking out.
August 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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These vibes are all about to make me act up at work
A screenshot of the site ghoststudy.com in 2004 taken from the Wayback Machine. It has a black background with white, green, and purple text. A purple menu in the left sidebar has links to different pages, like Galleries, Archives, Stories, Community, and more. Below that is a picture of a scared-looking girl with her hair in the air, overlaid with text saying, "How to submit Your chilling photos." And below that are advertisements for ghost hunting gear. In the left sidebar are a variety of pictures linking to other pages and external sites. A collection of links under that go to different ghost-related topics, like "Queen Mary Ship," "Bourbon Street," and "Theater cams." The middle of the page has links and descriptions of pages with galleries, message boards, and paranormal news. An image of the school supplies section of a Target, taken back when Target had neon lights on the walls. In this section can be seen notebooks, glue, art supplies, pencil pouches, scissors, and more. A grainy sepia-toned image of a UFO, looking kind of like a diamond stretched horizontally. A wooden dining room table and chairs decorated for Halloween. The tablecloth has patches of purple, yellow, green, and black squares with images of jack o lanterns and pumpkins in them. There are four glass jars of candy on the table. In the center of the table is a candlestick with three candles and a skull. On either side are statues, one of a black cat and a jack o lantern, and the other of a ghost, owl, tree, and jack o lantern.
August 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Big things are in the works, and by big things I mean Phantom of the Paradise blinkies for my Neocities site
A black and white blinkie with the Death Records logo from the movie Phantom of the Paradise A blinkie with two pictures of Beef from the movie Phantom of the Paradise. The text in the center reads "BEEF." A blinkie with a picture of the masked Winslow/Phantom from the movie Phantom of the Paradise against a red base. The text reads, "PHOENIX!!!"
July 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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This is the funniest fucking thing I've read in a while
"While there may be uncontroversial explanations for the metadata artifacts, such as stitching together multiple days of footage during compilation, or the routine export of surveillance footage to an mp4 format, the FBI did not respond to specific questions about the file’s processing, instead referring WIRED to the DOJ. The DOJ in turn referred inquiries back to the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons. The BOP did not respond to a request for comment."
July 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Men, what's stopping you from dressing like Dustin Hoffman in Straight Time?
A still image of Dustin Hoffman in the 1978 movie Straight Time. He has neck-length brown hair, a mustache, a green button-down shirt, and a tan jacket.
July 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Tip for using the site: search for the city name you're looking for and select the Graphics tab. It should automatically generate the graphics for you using, largely, data from NOAA. Example with Lansing here.
July 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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It's been ungodly hot in the metro Detroit area for the last few week. This is not normal for MI summers, but it's quickly going to become the new normal if action isn't taken on climate change (it won't be.)

Find graphs for your nearest city here:
www.climatecentral.org/resources?ta...
A deviation plot titled "Temperature change in Detroit: Relative to average of 1961 - 2010 [°F]." X-axis is years with increments of 30 years plotted from 1850 to 2000, with 2024 plotted on the end at a shorter distance from 2000. Y-axis is temperature deviation from the average ranging from -4.0 to 4.0, with 0 halfway up the axis. Colored bars on the graph, ordered around the 0 mark on the Y-axis, show the average temperature deviation for each year relative to the 1961 - 2010 average. Temperatures with a hotter difference are in increasingly darker shades of red the closer to 4.0 they get. Temperatures with a colder difference are in increasingly darker shades of blue the closer to -4.0 they get. The graph shows a general trend of increasing temperatures relative to the average. A minimalist line graph titled, "Warmer Summer Nights: Average Low Temperature" for the city of Detroit. X-axis plots years with a starting value of 1970 and an ending value of 2024. Y-axis plots the average summer low temperature per year, ranging from 58° F at the bottom to 64° F at the top. A trend line shows an increase in average low temperature over time. A value of +5.6° average increase over time is displayed by the graph. A minimalist line graph titled, "Summer Warming: Average Temperature" for the city of Detroit. X-axis plots years with a starting value of 1970 and an ending value of 2024. Y-axis plots the average summer temperature per year, ranging from 68° F at the bottom to 74° F at the top. A trend line shows an increase in average summer temperature over time. A value of +3.5° average increase over time is displayed by the graph. A minimalist line graph titled, "More Hot Summer Days: Days Above Normal" for the city of Detroit. X-axis plots years with a starting value of 1970 and an ending value of 2024. Y-axis plots the number of summer days hotter than normal compared to the climate normal from 1991 - 2020, ranging from 20 at the bottom to 70 at the top. A trend line shows an increase in above-average temperature summer days over time. A value of a 21 day increase over time is displayed by the graph.
July 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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One of my jumping spiders molted and came out with an orange heart on its butt 🧡
A close-up image of a regal jumping spider, taken from above. It is primarily brown and tan with three orange spots on its back, the largest of which is shaped like a heart.
July 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Share 4 of your favorite books
The cover of "The Between" by Tananarive Due, featuring a photograph of a face in profile, then silhouetted upside-down beneath in a bright pink gradient The cover of "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis, with an illustration of a man in a suit whose upper face is consumed by red The cover of "The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell" by Brian Evenson, with an illustration of running legs The cover of "Ice" by Anna Kavan with abstract white and blue artwork
July 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Firefly feet are RIDICULOUS like are you FUCKING KIDDING ME with these
A picture of the underside of a firefly as seen from the other side of the glass windowpane it's standing on. Its feet are shaped like little W's or forks.
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It's been a while since a fit/card/camp caretaker update. Invite me and everyone's favorite T̶u̶m̶b̶l̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶x̶y̶m̶a̶n̶ cat villager Raymond to your camp in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp!

#acpc #campercard
The front of a camper card from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, depicting a camper and the villager Raymond against a pink background. The camper has fair skin, wavy shoulder-length light brown hair, and brown eyes. They are wearing a pink hat, black square glasses, a blue outfit with a pink jacket, and blue shoes. They are holding a drink being served out of half of a pineapple. Raymond is an anthropomorphic gray cat with one hazel eye and one green eye, and his ears and paws are darker in color. He is wearing silver glasses and a pink zip-up jacket. He is holding a drink being served out of half of a coconut. Text at the bottom reads, "Stephanie Lv. 257." The back of the camper card, featuring a QR code and a headshot of the camper described in the previous image at the bottom.
July 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Using her generation and astrology as an excuse to be rude to people in her bio is amazing
A screenshot of a Bluesky bio reading, "GenX up in this bitch. August Leo. Translation: I do not care how you feel."
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM