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Phineasferatu

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This is our most moderately priced receptacle. • https://octophant.us • https://octophant.threadless.com • https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Mar 27

I have been making my dumb life from drawing my little guys and stuff for more than 15 years now and I would like to continue to and you can help...

Original screen prints, paintings, etc: octophant.us/buy

Art prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Shirts & merch: octophant.threadless.com

A screen print featuring head shots of 8 soviet dogs which were sent to orbit from 1957 to 1966, all surrounding the original canine cosmonaut Laika. A red star and banner at the top reads 'Soviet Space Dogs' next to illustrations of two different orbital capsules used in the program. All text is in Russian.

An oil painting of a red human skull with a bright orange outline against a collage of '80s Japanese wrestling magazine pages. Picture of wrestlers, wrestling, and a lot of Japanese text, presumably about wrestling.

A digital illustration of a spectral owl, with cephalopod arms where its legs would have been. The owl has two arrows embedded in its ghostly body. There is a stylized human skull tied to the top of its head which also has an arrow in it. Night sky, a bare tree, clouds, and a full moon are the background.

A black t-shirt with an image of a Black Crowned Night Heron: a medium-sized bird with a whitish chest/belly, dark blue-black wing tops and crown, a black spearlike bill, red eyes, and proportionally long yellow legs with long toes, slightly webbed standing on a stylized rock, with a green rushing river and blue sky behind. An actual bejeweled black crown is suspended over the bird's head and a golden beam of light is coming from within it down onto the regal heron. All this is within an elaborate frame rendered to look like patinated wrought iron. As part of the frame, arcing over the bird's head on either side of the crown it reads BLACK CROWNED, and below the birds feet are the words NIGHT HERON.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 15h

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 2h

I have acquired the complex technology of cooking meats and vegetables on sheet pans in the oven and am now unstoppable

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 8h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 5h

Embarrassing. Truly.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 9h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 6h

A tv screen within an episode of I Think You Should Leave showing an angry man in a car yelling ‘This is the maddest I've ever been!’

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 6h

Lucky he’s cute

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 6h

Which movie is that? That’s a terrible MM mask.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 6h

The Institute for Making Shit Up for Yg to Repost

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 7h

Obviously the most popular spy device, the smart phone, is largely unavoidable. But I talk to Siri so rarely it’s as good as never.

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve never had an Alexa thing or whatever the Google version of that is or a ring cam or other spying devices. I don’t talk to machines if at all avoidable.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 14h

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Oct 28

I did a drawing based on a 100ish-year old photo of Louise Brooks and Hweened it up because we're still doing that. I like just the lines, too, so I'm including that as well.

Also, the next post is a version of what the esteemed Ms. Brooks was actually wearing in the photo.

A digital illustration based on a photo of Louise Brooks, standing on one leg, with her near leg raised and bent in front of her. Her arms are held up above her head and she's making kind of spooky claw shapes with her hands. He has her hair in her signature shiny blunt bob with bangs style. She's wearing something like a one-piece swimsuit but where the top part covering her chest turns into batwing shapes. She has on fishnets, garters, platform heels, and a dagger attached to the near garter on her thigh. She's also got fairly large bat wings spreading out from behind her back and curling around her. Her skin is shades of green and her wings and outfit are shades of purple, pink and red. The background is a grainy grayish green with streaks reminiscent of old film. There's also a large reddish stain or splatter over the background behind her and she's casting a shadow backwards as if against a wall.

The same image as previously described, but only the black and white linework and the cast shadow

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t normally like to mope on main but trying to sell art is the most dispiriting thing I am forced to keep attempting to do

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

OCTOPHANT PRIME DAYS

Go have a look at the original paintings and gel prints I have for sale and if you see something you like make me a dang offer

Paintings: octophant.us/paintings

Gel Prints: octophant.us/gel-prints

An oil painting of a Grimpowlteuthis: A barn owl's head on the body and arms of a grimpoteuthis 'dumbo' octopus. With small owl wings on the head where the octopus would have fins. The owl head is shades of white and brown looking off to the left a bit. The octopus portion is pinks and purples, with the arms all curling up on themselves around its body. This is all painted on collaged pages from a Japanese wrestling magazine. There is different sizes and typefaces of Japanese text and decontextualized photos of wrestling and wrestlers, but mostly text.

A woman in a voluminous, deep, dark blue dress, with her blond hair piled atop her head in braids holding a young white goat in her arms. The background is greenish white tile. Her eyes are deeply set and blackened and she’s conspicuously bleeding from her mouth. Based on a shot from s2 of Severance.

A difficult image to write alt text for. This is a collage of wrestling images, pagers, and random Japanese text. The two largest figures are both masked wrestlers inverted from each other. One wears a full-body gold suit, the other has striped white and orange pants, orange boots and a mask and is shirtless. Stripey is in what almost looks like a running pose, but upside down. He's being grabbed from behind by Goldie who is mostly upright. Honestly even the original photo was confusing. There's a smaller image imposed among these two of one wrestler smashing another's face with a huge drop kick. Smaller masked and caped wrestlers stand in the top left and bottom right. The colors are hot pinks, acid greens, orange, and gold.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

I hope you're around when I am slowly expiring on your window sill

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

Need to share for anyone who doesn't know the story of how Drew Struzan painted the poster art for The Thing in less than 24 hours

The Thing | The story behind Drew Struzan's iconic poster

Artist Drew Struzan created an iconic poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Incredibly, it was conceived and painted in a matter of hours…

filmstories.co.uk

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

eugch I honestly don't want to think about it

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

This doesn't explain me

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

You can have your porn as long as a tech billionaire (and ONLY a tech billionaire) is getting paid for it

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 13h

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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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 11h

It seems insufficient to even call Drew Struzan a legend. He created the indelible images of movies in the minds of more than one generation. You can't do it better.

www.slashfilm.com/1996528/drew...