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Scott Tate
@typhonicbeast.bsky.social
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He/him and happy to try to remember to use whatever your own pronouns are. Books, movies, comics, sci-fi, horror, mystery, art, whatever pops into my head. Just a dude seeking to abide. Colorado, USA.
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Professor Frink from The Simpsons operating a device labelled as a sarcasm detector
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A human skeleton peeks out through window blinds. The caption reads, "When Halloween is over and you're back in hiding because you're too spooky for everyone."
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Seeing Tom Baker wearing his familiar old coat and scarf again for his MBE investiture this week warms my two Gallifreyan hearts.
Tom Baker back in his old Doctor Who costume
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I almost didn't recognize Namor there, the cape threw me. At first glance I thought it was Son of Satan.
Marvel comic book character Damion Hellstrom, Son of Satan. He is shown here as a barechested man with a pentagram in his flesh, wearing a red cape and holding a trident.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Alas, my own hair grows so fast that it rocketed right off my head eons ago.
A bald man whose eyes are looking upward in mournful reminiscence.
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Forgotten Batman villain: "Brains" Beldon fought Batman only once, when he planned a bank heist around exploiting a temporary physical limitation Batman had. His only other appearance came years later when his son became a villain to please his father. Issue citations in alt text.
"Brains" Beldon as he appeared in Detective Comics 301 (March 1962). Written by Bill Finger, penciled by Sheldon Moldoff. I feel like the artist might have had actor Peter Lorre in mind as an influence here for those eyes. "Brains" and his son Michael, alias the Disruptor. New Teen Titans 20 (June 1982), written by Marv Wolfman, penciled by George Perez.
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Cover art for Meat Loaf's 1977 debut studio album, Bat Out of Hell, featuring a flying motorcycle rocketing out of an infernal landscape.
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Cat Medallion

I was seized by an impulse to reproduce the mysterious cat medallion from the 1978 Scooby-Doo episode "Make a Beeline Away from That Feline." More info in the alt text.

Acrylics and pen on 5 x 7 in. canvas board

#art #ScoobyDoo
Painted image of an embossed oval shape depicting a fierce-looking bipedal humanoid cat-like creature, surrounded by arcane symbols. This is the cat medallion from the 1978 Scooby-Doo episode "Make a Beeline Away from That Feline." It had been anonymously sent to Daphne's Aunt Olivia and seemingly had the power to magically transform her into a jewelry-stealing cat creature. The real explanation ultimately proved more mundane, albeit somewhat overly complicated and improbable.
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Hey, Batman, here's a tip: Maybe wait until you're farther away than just outside the bad guy's window before taking off your disguise and loudly talking about your plan.
Batman, in disguise, infiltrates the Scarecrow's home, but the ploy is wasted when the Scarecrow observes Batman's true identity and intentions as soon as Batman leaves. Story credits in the previous post.
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Batman greets the Scarecrow with "Hi, Ugly!," then mere seconds later says it's not nice to call people names. Real mature, Bat-Hypocrite. (Credits in alt text.)
In this three panel sequence, Batman is fighting with the villain known as the Scarecrow. Batman calls him ugly. The Scarecrow responds by calling Batman a stupid clod. Then Batman punches him and says it's not nice to call people names. Story from World's Finest 3, cover dated September 1941. Written by Bill Finger, pencilled by Bob Kane (in theory) and Jerry Robinson (in reality).
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Share an awesome 70's movie!

Coffy (1973)
Movie poster for the film Coffy, starting Pam Grier.
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Cover of the first paperback edition of Banquets of the Black Widowers, by Isaac Asimov.
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Obligatory Halloween selfie. No costume, but I do have a glow in the dark skeletal T-shirt. And good lord, I didn't notice that one of my always untamable eyebrows was being extra feisty.
A smiling gentleman with a shaved head and graying facial hair smiles into the camera. He is wearing a dark jacket over a shirt that depicts a skeletal ribcage. A gray sky and a green pine tree are visible in the background.
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Vision just straight up ignoring Clint. Poor guy gets no respect. From Avengers 0 (2015), credits in alt text.
A comic book panel showing the Vision being approached by four Avengers, Goliath, Black Panther, and Hawkeye. He greets three of them by name but doesn't seem to acknowledge Hawkeye. From Avengers 0 (2015), written by James Robinson, pencils by Leonard Kirk.
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"No time to talk... There's spooky shit to do"
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Spectral Hound

Acrylics, pen and pencil on 5 x 7 in. canvas board

#BlackDog
#HoundOfTheBaskervilles
#SherlockHolmes
A large black dog of indeterminate breed, stalking silently through a mist, perhaps glowly slightly with a faint white light.
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Concept sketch before starting the painting.
A pencil drawing done as preliminary work before the painting in the above post.
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Werewolf

Acrylics on 8 x 10 in. canvas board

I did this one a few years ago but I don't think I've ever posted it here, so Halloween season seems like a good excuse to do so.

#Art
Painted facial portrait of a werewolf. He has bristly brown fur, pointed ears, a dog-like nose, and pointed fangs.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"Things look pessimistic for now but I'm trying not to make presumptions."
Photo of a blood-splattered room with a caption that says "Caption this with the second to last text you sent."
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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One of the cool statues outside a local hospital. "Running Girl" by Harold Linke.
Statue of a female form, trailing a shape like ribbons, all done in a wiry 3D outline of white metal
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Well, the first thing I do is look to see if that insignia is being worn by a Nazi.
Screen grab of a social media post disingenuously saying "I'm honestly still not 100% sure how you're supposed to tell if a given skull insignia is specifically a Nazi skull."
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Professor Frink from The Simpsons checking the readings on an invention labeled as a sarcasm detector
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Today feels like a good day to share one of my favorite pics of #MarilynMonroe, back when she was still Norma Jeane Baker. Photo by Andres de Dienes, 1945.
Miss Norma Jeane Baker, aged nineteen, sitting among a pile of pumpkins. Not yet having transformed herself into the glamorous Marilyn Monroe, she still has her naturally darker hair and is wearing clothing suitable for the countryside including a dark bulky jacket, denim jeans with upturned cuffs, and brown work boots. Her smile is enchanting.
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Unflattering Self Portrait

Acrylics, Sharpie, and pencil on 6 x 6 in. canvas board

#art
Painted facial portrait of a bald man with thick unruly eyebrows and a once dark mustache and short beard heavily streaked with gray. The background behind his head is green and featureless.
October 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Jason in the Lake

Acrylics, pencils and pen on 8 x 10 in. canvas board

#Art #JasonVoorhees
#FridayThe13th
A painting of Jason Voorhees, the hockey mask wearing slasher from the Friday the 14th film franchise, weighted with chained and sunk into Crystal Lake as depicted at the end of the sixth and beginning of the seventh films in the series.
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM