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B. Marcella

@brettpunk.bsky.social

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Appalachian artist, dancer, kaiju enthusiast.

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · Nov 27

Oh hey new followers, time to do an intro pinned post! I'm Brett and I make art, zines, and comics too! I also dance, run a local figure drawing group, co-founded the Pouncepunk art challenge held every February, and am a kaiju enthusiast.
You can find more of my work at www.brettpunkart.com!

watercolor painting of a primitive church at Cades Cove in Tennessee in the autumn. The sky is blue, yellow, and orange, with purple paint dripping down. There are purple streaks throughout the church.

Digital painting of an original kaiju called Bristorus, standing behind the downtown Bristol Virginia and Tennessee sign which says "A good place to live." The kaiju is blue, red, and white, with wavy fins on its back, torso, and legs. It's arms are scythes, and its tail has spikes on the end. It's head has a large forward pointing horn as well as additional side horns.

A watercolor and ink painting of three figures sitting in a triangular composition around an ottoman, facing each other. Two of the figures are nude.

A black and white zine page with a nude photo of Brett that has a drawing of a wolf head pasted over their face. The surrounding text states: "The realization hit one night as I considered home in the context of my body: I'M TRANS. Oh! It was the answer I've been avoiding all this time, the thought I continually buried, which I Saw the TV Glow brought into the light, refusing to let me look away. Just like that, things made more sense."

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 15h

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15h

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 11h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Under the Skin
Alien
I Saw the TV Glow
Cure

Gregory Sickens, PBS Champion @gregorydickens.bsky.social · 11h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Exorcist
Nope
Bride of Frankenstein
The Thing

Lan Pitts @ Baltimore Comic-Con @lanpitts.bsky.social · 11h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Francis Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Orphanage
Hereditary
Blair Witch Project

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rico. @whoisrico.bsky.social · 14h

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 15h

Jeezus the burnout is strong

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Godzilla eventually came to land in Singular Point, evolving into its Amphibia form, which heavily resembles the kaiju Varan.

Loosely digitally colored ink portrait of Godzilla Amphibia from Godzilla: Singular Point.

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Was already contemplating moving from Spotify to Tidal, but the news of the former joining up with ChatGPT is definitely my breaking point.

What's the easiest way to try to replicate a punk playlist that's 646 tracks???

B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #portfolioday, I'm Brett and I draw, paint, make zines, and do other stuff. I like Godzilla and dancers and creatures and other fun things!
You can see more of my work at www.brettpunkart.com

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bone temple pilot @deadspiderhands.bsky.social · 2d

turn that frown upside down. 2022.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan. Not just a movie poster artist but a man capable of putting lightning in a bottle, and of taking the form of cinema and encapsulating its spirit in still imagery. The best that will ever do it.

Here are 4 of my favorites:

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Godzilla eventually came to land in Singular Point, evolving into its Amphibia form, which heavily resembles the kaiju Varan.

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 2d

To celebrate a successful TriPride festival, I bought this Dark Horse Comics Godzilla today after work.

The Super 7 Super Kaiju Godzilla '89 toy sitting on my couch with the purple building it comes with and the box it came in sitting behind it.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 2d

To celebrate a successful TriPride festival, I bought this Dark Horse Comics Godzilla today after work.

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bone temple pilot @deadspiderhands.bsky.social · 4d

are you ready?

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 2d

No-brainer!

Poster for Italian SPiderman, who wears pants, has a mustache, wears a domino mask and smoke cigarettes

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Richard Graves @gravesart.bsky.social · 2d

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 3d

2019 was a big year: Chibi Godzilla, Legendary's own Burning Godzilla, Godziban's Godzilla-kun, and the Shinkalion movie's Snow Godzilla all appeared that year!

Watercolor and ink portrait of an excited Chibi Godzilla.

Digitally colored ink sketch of Burning Godzilla from King of the Monsters.

Digitally colored pencil sketch of Godzilla-kun surrounded by the words "Go! Go! Go!"

Ink and Posca marker portrait of Snow Godzilla on cardboard.

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 3d

Wife and I had a couple friends over and we carved pumpkins. I threw together the idea for this Godzilla literally minutes before the friends came over.

Picture of me looking excited while carving my pumpkin on the floor of the living room in a black floral dress rolled up above my knees. My wife sits next to/behind me working on her pumpkin.

My Godzilla pumpkin lit up on a chair on the front porch in the dark.

B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 3d

2019 was a big year: Chibi Godzilla, Legendary's own Burning Godzilla, Godziban's Godzilla-kun, and the Shinkalion movie's Snow Godzilla all appeared that year!

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 3d

Full honesty here: I forgot how fucking nasty PBR is. I drank maybe a third of it, devoured my tacos, and got the bartender to pour the rest of the can out for me. He put it in a paper bag for me to leave with.

B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 4d

What a long, I credible day it's been. I was at the festival literally from sunrise to sunset and I am so beat, but it was my best single day show ever and look what I found at a local taco bar!

Photo of a tallboy can of Pabst Blue Ribbon with Attack Peter's Godzilla art on it.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 4d

What a long, I credible day it's been. I was at the festival literally from sunrise to sunset and I am so beat, but it was my best single day show ever and look what I found at a local taco bar!

B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 4d

Things random strangers have given me today: a tiny green duck, a friendship bracelet, a gay pen from the local casino, a rainbow bandana from a realty group, and a purple ribbon to wear for domestic violence awareness.

B. Marcella @brettpunk.bsky.social · 4d

TriPride is today and I had a minor breakdown setting up, but I'm here, queer, and ready to sell art!

A selfie, smiling, holding my hand up in a claw shape.

My tables, covered in green tablecloths and covered in paintings, zines, prints, and more.