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Alison Robin

@alisonrobin.com

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Lover of creepy crawlies and weird/scary storytelling in all kinds of media. Doing a variety of digital, traditional, fiber, and textile art. Dream enthusiast & amateur oneironaut. Open to chat! Art only: @alisonrobin.bsky.social

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1h

I promise I've done a ton of great paintings, especially of fantasy people with impossible rainbow skin colors as I practice getting better at skin. But you're not allowed to see them and that's just life, sorry.

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TrashDeck @akatopdeck.bsky.social · 19d

A screenshot of a page from the core rulebook of the tabletop RPG "Lancer". The screenshot is of a third-tier talent called "Here, catch!", describing an ability where mechs can eject superheated fuel rods as a means of attacking their enemies. Exact text follows:

Here, Catch!
You've modified your mech to launch its superheated fuel rods at enemies. Gain the following weapon as an integrated mount:
Fuel Rod Gun
Main CQB, Limited 3, Unique
[Threat 3][Range 3][1d3+2 Energy damage]
On Attack: Clear 4 Heat

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Feb 13

When I was little I would always try looking up the books mentioned in like, Lovecraft stories to see if my library had them. I reasoned that of course the monsters were fake but the books just might be real. So like please picture an elementary schooler trying to get a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Jun 17

When my dad was a newborn they just put him in a laundry basket with some blankets and flew him on a DC-3 and I think that's why he is the way he is (airplane autism)

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Jul 9

In the 80's some moonies tried to recruit my dad and they asked him if he was ever depressed and he said something to the effect of, "No, I get to be on airplanes for my job!" and they had nothing prepared for that

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tro @trog.bsky.social · 1d

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 2h

How could you fuse him... He doesn't even look like a bird anymore...

A digital drawing on top of a manipulated photograph. The image depicts a kiln or tray (a modified photograph of Nora's) which has been edited to look empty except for a drawing of a piece of fused glass. The fused glass is globular and mostly nonsensical in the manner of the art form, and whatever traits it had when it went into the kiln have been smoothed out from sharp points to soft globs. Only someone who recognizes my fursona Roland the bearded vulture would be able to immediately identify it as anything other than a little pile of goo with an eye.

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 8h

fucking lakewood, of course

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 10h

NOW THIS IS A FURSONA!! What a cool design!!

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 13h

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

Put stuff on hold at the library in such a way that I thought the holds would be up staggered and I'd get like one thing a week and of course everything came in all at once

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

Yes. She's also part chihuahua like yours, but he's got more chihuahua than she does.

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

ZIPPY DOES THIS TOO. I have to be like gently encouraging her to eat her food and then she performs an elaborate and bizarre ritual of pushing her bowl around and only then can she eat it. If she is interrupted at any point she must perform the ritual again.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Apr 16

telling you i'm going to "check my avails" then reading an entire daily Far Side desk calendar

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

One of the stories, "Madame Painte: For Sale" is written in the second person. At one point my father burst out with a reply to a character and said almost precisely what the You/Reader character was about to say in the text. I said "he's writing you so well!"

Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

There's always The Culture series, which doesn't have to be read in any order and can just be read as standalone novels.

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Boowellyn 👻 @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday!

I'm Llewellyn and I'm a medical illustrator, comic, and horror artist! I'm going to be available for work in December.

You can view more examples of my work at meganllewellyn.com

✉️[email protected]

black and white illustration showing the surgical view of an anomalous origin carotid artery repair

black and white illustration from Emmet Nahil's From the Belly, a man in pain with an amputated arm and barnacles growing out of his skin

black and white illustration of a clam shell thoracotomy to expose the heart and aortic aneurysm

black and white comic page of a close up of a turkey vulture, a woman aiming a hunting rifle, the vulture falling, the woman looking up to the sky holding a rifle

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

My unhinged Hellraiser opinion is that "The Scarlet Gospels" (while far from a perfect book and with parts that made me mad) is a laugh out loud comedy almost every time Pinhead is present, in nearly everything he does. His arrival in the opening scene of the book feels like a punchline.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

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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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

I feel like the cenobites are there as a kind of red herring in the films (The ones Barker worked on at least) and when I pitch the movies to people I usually stress that the main narrative isn't about Hell so much as it is about weird family problems magnified by an evil device.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 2d

I dreamed there was a four-seasons-long comedy sitcom about people who lived in a hotel and their hotel room had a mystery hole in the floor and anyone who fell down was gone forever. They could never get changed to a better room and were bothered by the hole, but it was irrelevant most episodes.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 2d

The series was rebooted a few years later but the hole wasn't in it anymore. I saw people watching the new one and was like "oh I love this show, where's the hole?" and people didn't know what I was talking about. The reboot cut the entire thing with the hole out but reused 90% of the old jokes.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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