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stopmotion animator. composer. your favorite familiar.

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zac @albinoechidna.bsky.social · Apr 8

the common fairy dragon tells tales of the beasts that planted these flowers. #StopMotion

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aquila 🍉 writing comms now open! @belllmonts.bsky.social · 3d

i love you horny horror i love you exploring sexuality and desire through unsettling means i love you sexual repression manifesting as self destruction i love you intimacy transforming into something grostesque yet beautiful i love you finding comfort and love in the monstrous i love y

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Princess Frannie, Fated Daughter @kitprincess.bsky.social · 2d

hi, if you haven't, you really should check out else's writing, it's always a joy and a treat when else posts something and I can't recommend it enough

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Blood is prettier outside the body. I learned that lesson young, when my father, the monster, still stalked the plains in search of fresh prey. His preferences were incorrect, however. He cared about volume—lakes of blood impregnated with the anti-clotting compounds that our family's bodies so copiously produce, blood gushing down altars through carefully carved channels, blood divorced from its source so that he could forget the bodies that produced it. He reveled in the metallic tang of it, the joy of immersing his body in it to feel the ebbing warmth and the tender touch of half-formed clots against his swollen dick, and, yes, the taste of it in on his tongue.

My father hated bodies. He hated to be reminded of the source of blood, and this was, I think, the source of much of his cruelty. He needed what his victims gave him, and he hated them for that.

He was, as I have said, incorrect, and it was that flaw which led to his downfall.

Sometimes I like to take one of my concubines—the ones I don't mind killing, of course—down to the crypt to fuck and bleed her atop his sarcophagus. He hates the scent of it, the squishy sounds bodies make, the moans and whimpers, and, more than any of that, the blood trickling down the slowly warming metal. His lips cannot reach the slightest drop of it, I made sure of that, but the sound of him bucking and struggling against his chains is as potent an aphrodisiac as the sight of those first drops of blood welling up from freshly cut skin, red and fragrant and not yet dripping down to stain the ground below. The sight of it—the thought of it!—is so captivating, so compelling; it fills me with heat, makes me long for the taste of it, the joy of adding fresh cuts, of burying myself in my victim's body, of filling myself with her, devouring her until nothing remains but my pleasure—!

But I forget myself. That is not the story I mean to tell you, my dear hunter, though someday I will show you precisely what I mean.

I am not the last of my family. I assure you that we can die, though only with great difficulty, and I expect that knowledge will do more to tempt your visit to my lands than anything else I can offer. You could never reject a challenge when I knew you, and I do not expect that the decades have changed that. Perhaps you have grown more cautious, and certainly you have shaped yourself into a more skillful weapon, because you remain alive even as the list of your accomplishments has grown deliciously unwieldy. How many monsters you have triumphed over, my dear hunter? How many beasts and witches have died upon your blades? Where were you in '87, when my agents couldn't find the slightest trace of you upon this earth?

I'm sure that you'll tell me when you finally visit. I will *make you* tell me.

But in any case—my father still lives, as I said. It pleased him to kill his own father, and I understand that his bones were immersed in molten lead and buried somewhere far from the heat of blood; the habits of a less enlightened age. My solitary brother is a boor, and I hope very much that you will meet and dispatch him before I make you mine, but my sisters are lovely things. I think you will enjoy their company, despite their tastes being far less refined than my own.

You may wonder why I am telling you this now, my dear hunter, when I said so little about myself during our time together at university. I remember how you and the rest of our friends used to tease me with increasingly outlandish guesses—the prince of a distant country, a woodcutter's savant daughter, a merchant's orphan heir—what a silly game! Sometimes I was tempted to simply tell you all the truth, though I do not think I would have survived long afterward. I was so careful, my dear hunter. I had to be.

I do not any more.

I understand that you stayed in contact with many of our old friends. I have read many of the letters you sent them. Do you wonder why fewer and fewer of them are able to reply?

I have taken pains to ensure that this letter will find you, whether within weeks or months or years. My agents are loyal and determined, and they know that their own families' fates depend on their success. The bonds of family are such delicious things, and I adore the taste of a daughter's lifeblood pooling between her mother's thighs ...

But I won't try to explain that to you. Not yet. Someday I'll make you understand.

If all has gone well there is a map attached to this letter; if not you will simply have to work a bit harder to find me. I think I have given you more than enough reason to—you always were such a moral woman, so infatuated with your own idea of what the world should be, and I know that time has only made you more so. I think that knowing what I am, what I have *always* been, will eat away at you like an ulcer until you finally come to visit me, to put an end to me—

And then, my dear hunter, I will make you mine.

Sincerely yours,
Silvana Frost, Duchess of Rimwald

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 3d

Ryoji Kaji and a poorly drawn speech bubble

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 3d

Not gonna lie toddlers absolutely nailed it with naps, buttered noodles, and rejecting authority

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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 3d

The GEO detention center in Aurora keeps immigrants freezing, starving, and waiting — while shareholders cash in.
#ICE Immigration #AuroraCO #AuroraColorado
migrantinsider.com/p/report-fin...

Report Finds Systemic Atrocities in Colorado Immigrant Jail

The GEO detention center in Aurora keeps immigrants freezing, starving, and waiting — while shareholders cash in.

migrantinsider.com

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zac @albinoechidna.bsky.social · 3d

Anomalous Coffee Machine crashes after 'cup of elevator' into 'cup of sex' and i think i might actually be free from trying to 100% this

zac @albinoechidna.bsky.social · 3d

hell yeah, hope these guys make it back home this season. this is my 'i don't regret to inform you that we're going to win'

Date: 10/07/2025

Number: 5000

We have lived here since dec 2019
The monarch’s visit our backyard by the thousands twice a year. So many more this trip than usual

Date: 10/06/2025

Number: 10000

My back patio leads to a greenspace where the Monarchs have been gathering for two weeks now. The trees are just absolutely FULL of butterflies!!! When my grandboys run around under the trees or the wind blows a bit stronger, the Monarchs take flight for a brief moment before quickly returning to their roosting spot. I say that there's close to 10,000 of them out there right now! Such a beautiful display of nature, and certainly breathtaking to watch! I really wish that I had a great camera!

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Vampire Hunter KB @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 3d

With Microsoft announcing their AI plans for future Windows versions, this /v/ comic from 15 years ago got a whole lot more relevant.

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Rabbit 👁️ @rabbiting.bsky.social · 3d

Just a necromancer out doing some necromancing

Colourful smiley faced figure with geometric patterns, sun motifs, and a red hooded cloak

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kolulu @kolulu.itch.io · 3d

smile, you're on camera :)

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 3d

Explosive Blooms take place after the Sporotrhix fragoris yeast fully takes over the soft tissues of the body, silently saturating them with spores over years.
Blooms tend to trigger under windy weather, often resulting in the death of the subject and the rapid spread of the infection.

A black and white picture. A man lays on the grass, his body appearing to explode into a thick cloud of dust that rises into the air from his clothes.

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zac @albinoechidna.bsky.social · 3d

this makes sense to me. i've been thinking that these just sounded like some assholes that i went to highschool with.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 3d

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 4d

In the waning hours of world hagfish day, please join me in appreciating not only their prodigious production of gooey, sticky, suffocating slime, but also the fact that they’ve been sliming things up for at least 100 million years 🧪

100-Million-Year-Old Hagfish Complete with Slime Kit Discovered

Scientists recently discovered an important clue about hagfish origins, in a fossil dating to 100 million years ago, that includes traces of preserved slime.

www.livescience.com

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zac @albinoechidna.bsky.social · 3d

Currently listening to: link.deezer.com/s/31kZhXggBi...

One of the best theme and variations out there.

The People United Will Never Be Defeated

Frederic Rzewski - album - 1977 - 39 songs

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 3d

so apparently after the terrible buggy launch of the new "please PLEASE use our ai features" android photo editor, they decided the best thing to do was to add a giant ai text entry field. desperate.

hey losers, i want to edit my photo, not artificially inflate your adoption metrics. fuck off.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 3d

Me: Pokémon as a series is archaic in ways that aren’t excusable for such a huge franchise and it deserves a lot more criticism for its complacency and long-term flaws.

Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.

Me: I am a bitch.

Me, a bitch, with Ekans, a thing guaranteed to reduce me to the status of a bitch.

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Malachi Ward @malachiward.bsky.social · 5d

Facts About Cartoonists

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 4d

writing tip: trim your word count by reducing entire chapters to a single mysterious glyph

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 4d

Mood. #art #oilpainting

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Dan Le Brun @danlebrun.bsky.social · May 5

I seem to be in a starter pack so I had a lovely surprise to see you all here when I dropped by after not looking for a while. Have some experimental infrared photos from today. #photography #infrared