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Benn Pirrie

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Disabled, neurodivergent, spicy contemporary artist, illustrator, occasional flatter. I like giant robots, motor racing and video games where people with spiky hair kill god https://ko-fi.com/benpirrie

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just as an FYI, I am not able to access DM's on this platform. Please, if you have need of contacting me, do so through my website (www.benpirrie.com) or my email.

Ben Pirrie – Ben Pirrie Artist and Illustrator

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 8h

Crap paper, slightly smaller than A5, all biro. £10. Go on.

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 15h

I'll give it a pop when I get home later!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 15h

I think the fact im listening so early with a bit of a headache isn't helping, but it is very out of my usual listeningspace

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 16h

No, Anohini and the Johnsons

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 17h

Today's album: a universally praised mercury prize winner that is doing nothing but giving me a migraine

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⭐️ Alina ⭐️ @alinalal.bsky.social · 1d

recents ✨

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

Christ Almighty but this is good. Like, good in ways I don't think you're ready to understand yet

Gavin Spence @gavtrdq.bsky.social · 2d

I took a notion to draw a wee comic last night, based on my real-life experience where I felt bad for some sticks.

Comic page. 2 Panels.

Panel 1: Me walking my dog in the woods.

Caption: Not to brag - but I walk my dog, okay/

Caption: We often find ourselves in the local woods.

Panel 2: Me looking at a big stretch of boggy muck.

Caption: There's this one big stretch of boggy muck on the pack we take.

Caption: You're probably thinking that we just shouldn't go this way. Hey you might be right. First time for everything, as they say.

Comic page. 1 Panel

Panel 1: Me and the dog walking over the boggy muck, elevated on sticks laid into the dirt.

Caption: Every few weeks, though - someone lays down a very useful series of branches so we can cross with ease.

Caption: That's nice isn't it? Someone taking the time and expending the effort to build a little bridge.

Caption: I often wonder who it is. Perhaps it's more than just one person. That's a comforting thought.

Panel 2: Me looking at a big stretch of boggy muck.

Caption: There's this one big stretch of boggy muck on the pack we take.

Caption: You're probably thinking that we just shouldn't go this way. Hey you might be right. First time for everything, as they say.

Comic Page - 1 Panel. Me crossing the sticks, we see all the previous sticks crushed down deep into the dark mud.

Caption: It's funny how guilty I feel when a branch breaks - like I've undone their good work, y'know?

Caption: But within a weeo or two, there's a new set of branches ready to be trodden into the mud.

Caption: It's hard not to think about all those other branches, crushed down deper in the dark with every new layer.

Comic Page 2 panels.

Panel 1: Me standing in the woods looking down at the path.

Caption: maybe it's my turn to lay down some branches for the next folk who come this way.

Caption: God knows it wouldn't take long - and I definitely have the time.

Panel 2: Shot of my hands holding the sticks I'd need.

Caption: Nah

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Ryan Button @rbillustrations.bsky.social · 3d

Happy to announce that I’ll be back at TFNation Mini-Con Reading this November! 🎉 Looking forward to catching up with everyone again!

I’ll also have a limited number of sketch commission slots available for the event — if you’d like to grab one, get in touch early! ✏️

#Transformers #TFNation

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 2d

I found an artist whose work I really like, to the extent I bought prints of their work and have been just sat here looking at the brushwork and whispering 'damn, that's beautiful', and YET, I am told I can't use them as reference in my module because they're "not renowned enough".
Come on...

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Gavin Spence @gavtrdq.bsky.social · 3d

A drawing of the boy standing nice.

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Val @val0rw1ng.bsky.social · 3d

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

I use Promarkers for my sketchcard stuff, but not the brush ones, I don't get on with those.

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

Say what you like, but I just don't trust T-Rexes.

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 4d

Reading Minicon + Toy-Fu = Danger (bank account)

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

I have such an urge to try and find a G1 Computron.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 5d

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

I'm giving the album a listen on Deezer now, I'll try the remix after that!

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

I mean tho, if the cock fits...

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

I remember seeing 30 Seconds to Mars at Download, and Jared Leto, getting increasingly angry with the audience for waving inflatable cocks around to the point he was demanding security remove them, not realising that folks weren't calling him a dick, but that Steel Panther was the band playing next.

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

I think Tron: Legacy might be the only Daft Punk album I don't own.

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

Bloody hell

Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

The more I see that Thundercracker the more I like it and that is
B L O O D Y A N N O Y I N G

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🌈🔞 CantDrawStuff 🔞🌈 @cantdrawstuff.bsky.social · 6d

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Okay, serious talk for minute...

I see how tough being an artist can be, not being sure you can make a living out of it AND I totally understand not everyone can afford commissions

BUT

Lately I was looking around to get some prints/stickers/other from some artist I like...

You know what? ->

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Benn Pirrie @benpirrie.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! Look at these bozos all posing like they're on the set of Star Wars or something

The cast of Alien all looking into the rafters like they've spotted a big moth

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