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Ninja, The Last Bastard @yaboyninja.bsky.social · 3h

never forget, hater of all time

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 7h

ID cards would cost billions, be full of errors and won’t reduce irregular migration.

They haven’t worked in Europe or anywhere in the world, and they won’t work here

Take action and stop the ID card scheme 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-starmer-to-scrap-his-id-card-scheme

Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme

With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 17h

We're busy today! Here's the first half of an art process blog where I talk about those initial stages.
gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t...

To Trust, Or Not To Trust: The Process

As mentioned in my opening post, I am trying to work out why my creative process doesn’t always result in something being finished, ADHD aside. I decided, sitting down and thinking about how …

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 18h

Finally got round to posting the image process o'er on Patreon. Because I've been a little quiet, I'm doing a few months of free access for everyone before I migrate over to the new format.

Anyway you can go here -> and see a neat pixel process.

www.patreon.com/posts/helen-...

#pixelart #art

Helen Vaughn, September 2025 | Jessi Dellamorte

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

I'm Jessi D, pixel-artist and writer talking about literary convention, queerness, disability, horror and all manner of things grotesque and abnormal.

You can find me:
-> gothydellamorte.carrd.co
-> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com
-> ko-fi.com/gothydellamo...

#pixelart #freelance #pixelartist

A pixel art portrait of a man, topless save for a loincloth, gazing up at the sky. His skin is sallow and pierced in many places -- neck, pectoral, arm, abdomen, waist, thigh -- with arrows, and blood drips down.

A pixel art portrait of a woman gazing upwards, palms outstretched and pierced with crosses. Behind her head, a halo of knives. Her skin is pale and her hair is long and dark, and her long, white dress is stained with blood.

A man with his arms stretched -- one out, one behind him. His head is thrust back and two long shafts of light pierce his chest.

A pixel art portrait of a nude woman, one hand to her side the other curled out behind her. Her hair is long, ginger, and plaited. It comes to the small of her back and curls against her torso. Her eyes are dark. She is expressed with dithering and unrealistic colours. Half of her face is shadowed and she smirks.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

Find my blog and all of two posts here -> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/h...

A few more to come in the next few weeks, plus some ongoing projects. I'm shuffling about my Patreon/etc.

I have a bad habit. Its one you may have noticed if you've been subscribed to me for any amount of time, or followed me on social media or just, seen me at all.

I can't finish anything.

I have a tendency to start things and never finish them -- games, art, stories, articles, pitches. You name it, I've not finished it. My hard drive is a graveyard of projects as yet unfinished, untitled or unopened in far too long.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

An old post, re-uploaded + some equally old art.

Read it here -> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/c...

#freelance #filmcrit #freelancefilmcrit #davidlynch #lynchian #twinpeaks

Despite Lynch's refusal to saddle us with his concrete intent there remains this enduring necessity to take him apart and lay him out piece by piece, to vivisect, log and categorise the man. We gave his body of works a genre of its own - "Lynchian" -, synonymous with other. Like a human puzzle we start at the edges of the very man himself and seek to build an understanding from without.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

A follow up statement and declaration of intent.

Gothy (me)
I will preserve the archeological sanctity of the massive dumper so people excavating my account in future know what I'm about

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

I always get the highest praise. Massive dumpers are a big theme in my work.

Nice Wizard (not me)
Staring at your pixel ladies massive dumper.
Knowing she's shaped like that because it's based on you, deep in my heart.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

"She would be called very handsome, I suppose, and yet there is something about her face which I didn’t like. The features are exquisite, but the expression is strange."

#pixelart #Pixelart #pixelartist #Pixelartist #freelanceartist

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

And then sent off a little 500 word thing that may or may not get picked up but in all likelihood won't.

If it doesn't I'll post it elsewhere.

This one comes with a fairly graphic trigger warning of descriptions of an autopsy and a murder.

#writer #writing #horrorwriter #horrorwriting

Today was an exceptional day. The girl he intruded upon was exceptional: he had seen many bodies. He didn't think he'd ever had someone who had been murdered. It wasn't something he wanted to get used to. The question was much less about the how, as the why: you didn't have to be a doctor to see the gash in her throat. It was unpleasant, pinky-yellow, with fatty, cabbagey edges already washed clean and robbed of their immediacy. Her pale skin bloomed and flapped with cuts, the deep centres blooming with red like some cruel orchid.

It helped him to measure her -or indeed any body but especially hers-, in parts and approximations relative to other, non-anatomical things. It made stopping to smell the flowers difficult, but he had little sense of smell between the regular assault upon his nostrils that was ethanol and putrescine.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

The irl writers group I'm in is doing an anthology, as they do occasionally, and the general gist was a ghost story in about 1000 words. The word count got tripled but I kept mine short.

Anyway here's a lil bit from it. It'll be available to purchase later in the year.

#writing #horrorfiction

Dreden Point was the sort of place that had never looked welcoming, a state of being that seemed to go hand in hand with it's attraction to ghost hunters. As a still image on his laptop, the ridge of its roof a spine, the effect was not lessened. In life it had been too neat, too ordered, portioned off like a prison meal -- this part for sleeping, that for taking, for eating, playing, meeting, living, operating, cutting, dying, burying. It teetered on the edge of a cliff that the ocean stripped away year by year in inches and clumps measured by concerned geography students in waders with long, brown rulers, all of whom said that the place was bound for a watery grave within the decade.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 13h

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis:

As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people?

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 7h

It is wild to me that after 20-ish years of popular fashion being like "shave your pubes" we're now buying g-strings with synthetic pubic hair rather than just. Not shaving. Hey guess what your natural body hair sucks but this is Fashion baybee.

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cayce @cayce.zone · 7h

Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)

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A lower church chamber with many candles and crucifixes and computers arrayed around a giant cylinder of swirling, glowing green goo

Footage of grainy 1987 digital footage of a dark figure in a doorway

Old computer terminal repeating "I LIVE!"

Hand reaching through glowing liquid surface

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 10h

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social • 1d
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Or, maybe let that stuff go. The person who hurt you has moved on. You are eating the poison hoping the other person dies. Move on and stop allowing that person and his/her actions to rent space in your head. Don't dig any graves. Just be light and polite if you see them in public.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 17h

We're busy today! Here's the first half of an art process blog where I talk about those initial stages.
gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t...

To Trust, Or Not To Trust: The Process

As mentioned in my opening post, I am trying to work out why my creative process doesn’t always result in something being finished, ADHD aside. I decided, sitting down and thinking about how …

gothydellamorte.wordpress.com

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 18h

Finally got round to posting the image process o'er on Patreon. Because I've been a little quiet, I'm doing a few months of free access for everyone before I migrate over to the new format.

Anyway you can go here -> and see a neat pixel process.

www.patreon.com/posts/helen-...

#pixelart #art

Helen Vaughn, September 2025 | Jessi Dellamorte

www.patreon.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

Udo Kier in John Carpenter's CIGARETTE BURNS (2005)

Kier was BOTD in 1944

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Tekka Croe @tekkacroe.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober 12: Standing Stones
In the rolling planes of the South, a wide arc is traced by a series of blocks carved with a solar motif.
#art #traditionalart #inktober2025

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Frits Thaulow’s Peaceful Night
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_T...

narrow track passing stone houses, and scrub on the other side, wisps of cloud hang in the night sky

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Eleanor Harper @lusthag.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all I am by no means saying you should stop discovering new music 😭 I’m simply suggesting being intentional about which albums you listen to. Don’t just let an algorithm make a playlist for you. Buy a damn cd/tape/vinyl. Listen so much that you want the t shirt

Eleanor Harper @lusthag.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely believe it is best to enjoy less music. Re-listening to one of my favorite albums will always take priority over discovering new music. Streaming has normalized the over-consumption of music to the point that most people listen to things once and never again.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 2d

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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