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C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢 @csignymaraine.bsky.social · 9m

beetles of melancholy
scuttling
whenever upon them
a light flickers
these are the haunters
of the dark alone
which teem inside
the unsettled spaces

#vss365 #beetle #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry

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C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢 @csignymaraine.bsky.social · 1h

👏👏👏 Great write! Thanks so much for hosting!

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 2h

#vss365

Here's my effort

Crushed By The Weight Of Literary History

I woke as Kafka's beetle in a hotel by the sea.
The hotel staff were busy, they didnt notice me.
I went down for breakfast, but never made it there
A careless foot crushed my shell on the bottom stair.

#beetle
#writerscommunity

a black and white drawing of a cockroach with a number 6 below it

ALT: a black and white drawing of a cockroach with a number 6 below it

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Kimi W. W. @drkimiww.bsky.social · 1d

They will not gloom and doom me into submission.
I will rise, every time,
smiling from the ashes.
They have burned me at endless stakes,
drown me in chains,
again and again,
locked me away and thrown away
a room full of keys.
Yet here I am.
Me.
And I will be
Mona Lisa smiling
my way
thru
Eternity.

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Dougie @ ShadowMyths @shadowmyths.com · 20h

Hey #PortfolioDay my name is Dougie and I'm the creator of ShadowMyths. I do dark, spooky, unsettling, but sometimes positive and uplifting oil painted artworks.
💼 ShadowMyths.com
📧 [email protected]
#DarkArt #OilPainting #Art

An oil painting of a large old tree with red leaves and a mottled trunk. Next to the tree is a man who is just staring off in the distance. The man is wearing a tunic and has long hair.

An oil painting of a vulture sitting on a branch, three skulls in the darkness above it.

An oil painting of a barn owl sitting atop a skull. A large bright moon rises in the background.

A painting of a gray mechanical looking figure with a glowing red heart in the center of their chest. Their eyes are also glowing red.

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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · 19h

Oh it’s #portfolioday !?

I’m Brian, I like to do drawrings. You can see more at my website: brianrwilliams.com

A graphite drawing showing a surreal scene: in the foreground is a tree trunk with four square holes cut out of it. A man playing a violin emerges from the biggest hole; his arm holding the violin sticks out from another hole. His other arm holding the bow emerges from a hole in a second tree trunk. The violin is on fire. Diamonds and an ammonite are seen in the last two holes in the tree. Additionally, connected to the front of the two tree trunks are three smokestacks belching black smoke and sparks. In the background is an overcast landscape with a meadow, a creek and a forest in the far distance.

A graphite drawing shows Krampus stepping into the hallway of a fancy house. Krampus has one human foot and one cloven hoof. He wears a basket of sticks on his back and drags chains shackled to his wrists. He looks at the viewer and sticks out his tongue.

A graphite drawing shows an outdoor scene in a desert, with a mountain, clouds, stars and the moon in the background. In the foreground, a woman sits in a carved wooden sleigh being pulled by fantastical creatures whose whiskers the woman is using as reins.

A graphite drawing on sepia-toned paper shows a woman wearing a wig and garments from the early 1800s. She stares at the viewer. Behind her is a nighttime landscape with a river, trees and stars. The spirit of the Mothman floats in the sky above the river.

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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 1d

Spooky Season #Halloween 🎃

#Art by Justin Gerard

Two young girls read a scary book with jack-o'-lanterns above them

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beautyinthemess @beautyinthemess.bsky.social · 19h

fire-laced tongue
dripping sparks along my spine
hoping one will catch
as if I weren’t already burning

#micropoetry #poetry #writing

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Jeleynai @jeleynai.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay ✨

I'm Jeleynai (or Jelly, if you prefer c:), a freelance artist with a special love for all things fantasy, sci-fi and darker themes!

All my links are here: linktr.ee/Jeleynai 🖤
📧: [email protected]

A painting of a woman in black armour and dark skin with a sword over her shoulder and her feathery dragon companion. The feathers on the dragon shift colours like opals in the sun

A painting of a dragon ranger and her companion, a young red dragon. They're looking out over a sea of clouds.

A painting of Ghost, leaned up against a broken piece of concrete as some imaginary spooky skeleton men come to bother him

An illustration of a huntress crouched in shadow and flanked by her two noodly companions. They're eel-gator-hounds, a species I made up for this project <3

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 1d

A pick and mix of
Fairy lights, extended down
The length of the town.
#SenseWrds #Prompt132 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Vincenzo Pratticò @vincenzoprattico.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #portfolioday!

I'm Vincenzo, freelance artist since 2016.

I love monsters and creating epic badass scenes.
As a cinema lover, I always try to give a cinematic aspect to my works.

My happiness lies in bringing other people's ideas to life!

For questions ask in the comments or via DM!🤟

A great battle between the army of the Blades of Khorne and the Lumineth.
The Aelves seem to be in trouble in this furious assault by Chaos!

The army of the Flesh Eater Courts breaches the Reclusians' fortress to free those they believe to be prisoners.

The Orruk army defends its territory by attacking the Citizens of Sigmar with fury.

The Idoneth army lands impetuously on the beach dominated by Chaos.

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mike @staykinduniverse.swifties.social · 1d

reading the news before breakfast is self sabotage

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 1d

#vss365

More my usual style 😎

A Poets Last Gasp

what
is
poe
try
if
not
an
un
der
tone
sh
aped
like
the
a i r
from
whee
zed out
lu
ngs
?
#undertone
#writerscommunity
#poetrycommunity

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 1d

Check out Wayne O Broin’s #reading of my #gothic #horror #poem Night Walkers. Perfect for #spookyseason and getting you in the mood for #halloween.

youtu.be/xDt58Rc8jbc?...

Night Walkers By A. A. Rubin Read By Wayne O Broin

YouTube video by Irish Poetry by Candlelight

youtu.be

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Tiffany Sanerd @atypicaltiff.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling corny this Monday. I went out to water flowers, & the sky was an ominous gray. Then I went to the other side of the house, & it was a perfect fall blue. A good reminder that from one perspective the storm is always coming but from another it's already passed.

(Fwiw, I like gray skies, too.)

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 1d

the last flowers
of autumn fading
grandiose and dusty
aiming to surprise the dirt

#inkMine
#poeticsoul
#poetsandwriters

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 6d

My twelfth piece for my solo show at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social!

#kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #originalpainting #fantasyart #fantasyillustration

watercolor and gouache painting of a girl in a feather cloak floating midair above a standing stone as a crow and a storm come to greet her

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Wynn @oddlywynn.bsky.social · 4d

A little ghost, they're everywhere this time of year 🍂

#art #illustration

Digital painting of a ghost, hiding in tall grass and peeking out from behind an orange cosmos flower. The background is a dark purple sky at sunset.

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J.E. Talbott @iamjetalbott.bsky.social · 23d

Book launch mode - TY for support and please share! 🙏 💗

Shameless plug, but this 5 year journey is about to climax! 💦

Follow IamJEtalbott and NeurospicyBook everywhere! 🌶

#neurospicy #NDLife #standup #comic #author #writer #booksky #AmWriting #Booksky #writingcommunity #queerwriters #queerart

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C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢 @csignymaraine.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🙏

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 2d

There once was a limerick at sonnetcon? Wow even poetry news is anarchy

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 2d

I'm #compelled to create ev'ry day.
No new lim'ricks? Remorse will hold sway.
Pressed for time? I still try
To write verse on the fly;
My frayed brain can't keep #rhyming at bay.

#HaikuChallenge #Compel #Creativity #Writing #Limericks #Limerick #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Rhyme #Poems #PoetryCommunity

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Marcía Lynn Paul - Author/Poet @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social · 4d

MARKS

Brave write instance of
strokes, cursive on whispering
leaves, fatigued fingers.
With verve, expressed promises
in the wind. Her life’s oeuvre

#vss365 #verve
#emoetry #fatigued
#blueskyrelay #oeuvre
#2wordprompt #write #instance
#OurPoetryX #whisperingleaves
#moonmystic #promises_in_the_wind

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Marcía Lynn Paul - Author/Poet @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social · 2d

*SHE PENDULUM SWINGS*

#tanka
#poetry
#prompt
#writesky
#skypoets
#micropoetry
#spokenword
#poetrylovers
#blueskypoets
#vssdaily #fret
#writingprompt
#whistpr #sweet
#vss365 #piranha
#poetrycommunity
#emoetry #haunted
#blueskyrelay #lumen
#2wordprompt #calculate #function

*Audio On, Please* 🗣️🎙️

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