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Alison Robin

@alisonrobin.com

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Lover of creepy crawlies and weird/scary storytelling in all kinds of media. Doing a variety of digital, traditional, fiber, and textile art. Dream enthusiast & amateur oneironaut. Open to chat! Art only: @alisonrobin.bsky.social

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Juggalocalism @outside.bsky.social · 3h

They're de-banking pro Palestinian protesters now.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 7h

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 10h

Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.

ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you

'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'

metro.co.uk

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 4h

Today I had to see some machine-translated Juanes lyrics and the translation was so bad that I am inconsolable

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 8h

I promise I've done a ton of great paintings, especially of fantasy people with impossible rainbow skin colors as I practice getting better at skin. But you're not allowed to see them and that's just life, sorry.

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TrashDeck @akatopdeck.bsky.social · 19d

A screenshot of a page from the core rulebook of the tabletop RPG "Lancer". The screenshot is of a third-tier talent called "Here, catch!", describing an ability where mechs can eject superheated fuel rods as a means of attacking their enemies. Exact text follows:

Here, Catch!
You've modified your mech to launch its superheated fuel rods at enemies. Gain the following weapon as an integrated mount:
Fuel Rod Gun
Main CQB, Limited 3, Unique
[Threat 3][Range 3][1d3+2 Energy damage]
On Attack: Clear 4 Heat

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Feb 13

When I was little I would always try looking up the books mentioned in like, Lovecraft stories to see if my library had them. I reasoned that of course the monsters were fake but the books just might be real. So like please picture an elementary schooler trying to get a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Jun 17

When my dad was a newborn they just put him in a laundry basket with some blankets and flew him on a DC-3 and I think that's why he is the way he is (airplane autism)

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Jul 9

In the 80's some moonies tried to recruit my dad and they asked him if he was ever depressed and he said something to the effect of, "No, I get to be on airplanes for my job!" and they had nothing prepared for that

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tro @trog.bsky.social · 1d

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 9h

How could you fuse him... He doesn't even look like a bird anymore...

A digital drawing on top of a manipulated photograph. The image depicts a kiln or tray (a modified photograph of Nora's) which has been edited to look empty except for a drawing of a piece of fused glass. The fused glass is globular and mostly nonsensical in the manner of the art form, and whatever traits it had when it went into the kiln have been smoothed out from sharp points to soft globs. Only someone who recognizes my fursona Roland the bearded vulture would be able to immediately identify it as anything other than a little pile of goo with an eye.

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 14h

fucking lakewood, of course

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 17h

NOW THIS IS A FURSONA!! What a cool design!!

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20h

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

Put stuff on hold at the library in such a way that I thought the holds would be up staggered and I'd get like one thing a week and of course everything came in all at once

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

Yes. She's also part chihuahua like yours, but he's got more chihuahua than she does.

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

ZIPPY DOES THIS TOO. I have to be like gently encouraging her to eat her food and then she performs an elaborate and bizarre ritual of pushing her bowl around and only then can she eat it. If she is interrupted at any point she must perform the ritual again.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Apr 16

telling you i'm going to "check my avails" then reading an entire daily Far Side desk calendar

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

One of the stories, "Madame Painte: For Sale" is written in the second person. At one point my father burst out with a reply to a character and said almost precisely what the You/Reader character was about to say in the text. I said "he's writing you so well!"

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

There's always The Culture series, which doesn't have to be read in any order and can just be read as standalone novels.

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Boowellyn 👻 @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday!

I'm Llewellyn and I'm a medical illustrator, comic, and horror artist! I'm going to be available for work in December.

You can view more examples of my work at meganllewellyn.com

✉️[email protected]

black and white illustration showing the surgical view of an anomalous origin carotid artery repair

black and white illustration from Emmet Nahil's From the Belly, a man in pain with an amputated arm and barnacles growing out of his skin

black and white illustration of a clam shell thoracotomy to expose the heart and aortic aneurysm

black and white comic page of a close up of a turkey vulture, a woman aiming a hunting rifle, the vulture falling, the woman looking up to the sky holding a rifle

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

My unhinged Hellraiser opinion is that "The Scarlet Gospels" (while far from a perfect book and with parts that made me mad) is a laugh out loud comedy almost every time Pinhead is present, in nearly everything he does. His arrival in the opening scene of the book feels like a punchline.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

I feel like the cenobites are there as a kind of red herring in the films (The ones Barker worked on at least) and when I pitch the movies to people I usually stress that the main narrative isn't about Hell so much as it is about weird family problems magnified by an evil device.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 2d

I dreamed there was a four-seasons-long comedy sitcom about people who lived in a hotel and their hotel room had a mystery hole in the floor and anyone who fell down was gone forever. They could never get changed to a better room and were bothered by the hole, but it was irrelevant most episodes.

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