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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · Sep 8

Hey new folks. I'm artist David Christman. Dave Ghoul is my DJ/stream pseudonym. Disabled by Dercum's Disease & Long Covid. Thanks for following me!

Art & storefront: decwrk.com
DJ: DaveGhoul.com
DJ streams: twitch.tv/daveghouldj
Game steams: www.twitch.tv/DaveGhoul
Other jank: linktr.ee/DaveGhoul

The King in Black. Digital mixed medium. 2025.

A human figure facing left wearing a black robe. Their head resembles a burning ember and has a crown of flames and billowing smoke.

The Godeaters. Digital mixed medium. 2025.
Six shadowy human figures are standing in a red mist. A planet can be seen in the sky.

Photo of Dave behind a table DJing during a stream. The table has a laptop, speakers, controller, computer monitor and peripherals on it.

Promotional graphic for Dave Ghoul. Top portion is a horizon at dusk with large radio antennas seen in the distance. Text reads "Game Streams : Twitch.tv/DaveGhoul". Bottom portion is a close-up of a skull. Text reads " DJ Streams : Twitch.tv/DaveGhoulDJ". Text at center of image reads "Dave Ghoul".

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 8h

Now watching.

Movie poster for the film Apostle. Depicts a man in a trench coat and had. Branches with little red bodies impaled on them extend from his shoulders. At the bottom right is a burning church and surrounding that a hands reaching into the air.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 12h

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 13h

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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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 18h

And most of us don't take that opportunity to find joy for granted, so we take the opportunities when we can knowing and accepting it very well may cost us to some degree. Ultimately joy helps to keep us going. Well, that and spite.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 18h

"But Dave, why put yourself through that?"

Through what? Living? What do you expect? Me to do nothing ever other than sit and be miserable? It may come as a shock to you but chronically ill and disabled folks need joy too.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 19h

*Ghost Frequency

Also how today's going.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 19h

Tale of 2 Daves. Spoilers; it's the same Dave. Pic just before last night's Ghost stream and pic of how this morning's going. Granted the storm system is obviously impacting me, but overall this is the norm for me living with chronic illness. I talk about it but rarely show it publicly.

Photo of me (white, male, grayish light red beard) wearing a black cap, glasses, and t-shirt with text on it reading "Cthulhu". I'm standing in front of my DJ workstation.

Photo of me (white, male, grayish light red beard) wearing a black hoodie, glasses, and t-shirt. I'm laying on a blue couch and have a purple blanket on me.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 19h

Hah! Posted same as soon as you.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 19h

Found the article interview. They're also going on tour and releasing a deluxe version of "Scissor Sisters".

www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz...

Huge 00s pop group with 10 UK top 40 hits making epic comeback after 14 years

SCISSOR SISTERS are working on new music — thanks to the success of their reunion tour this summer. In the Noughties, the band scored ten Top 40 hits and two No1 albums, dominating the airwaves wit…

www.thesun.co.uk

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 19h

Wait. What?!

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 20h

Applying For Disability

Written by stephen king

directed by qeuntin tarantino

soundtrack by yoko ono

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

Ghost Frequency was really fun tonight despite feeling like ran over garbage (weather messing with my dysautonomia). Thanks to everyone who came by. Now I collapse.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

Ghost Frequency. Live now. Stop in for some gloom doom dance music.

twitch.tv/DaveGhoulDJ

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

I'm definitely going on tonight with Ghost Frequency in about 30 minutes on the DJ channel. Going 9PM-11PM EDT.

Photo of myself (white male) at my DJ workstation. I'm wearing a black cap, glasses, and t-shirt that reads "Cthulhu" on it.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

Watching now.

Movie poster for the film The Dunwich Horror. Depiction of a woman brings attack med by a bearded creature with numerous snake-like creatures coming out of its head.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

As a side note, the weather here from the Nor'easter is messing with my dysautonomia, so it's possible I may have to cancel. I won't know for sure until we get closer to start time, but I'll obviously let you all know either way.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

All set up for tonight's Ghost Frequency! As is tradition it's from 9PM-11PM EDT on my DJ channel. Have a bunch of new stuff included from Caustic and Perturbator.

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Sarah McKenzie @sarahdraws8.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate 2️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ followers, I'm holding my first #artshare!

RULES
🐉Like & RT
🐉Compliment a stranger's art!
🐉Drop your art! (bonus if it features creatures, although non-creature art is welcome, too!)
🐉Tag artist friends (optional)

🚫NO AI, AND KEEP IT SFW

#selfpromo #selfpromosaturday

An artshare banner surrounded by creatures peaking into the frame.

Text says:
'Artshare'
'RULES
🐉Like & RT
🐉Compliment a stranger's art!
🐉Drop your art! (bonus if it features creatures, although non-creature art is welcome, too!)
🐉Tag artist friends (optional)'

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 2d

A Delco tattoo artist with a cobweb tat on his head won the Scrapple Sculpting contest at Reading Terminal Market in Philly with his sculpture of the Eagles Tush Push. The contest was judged by Art Museum ceo Sasha Suda.

Philly remains undefeated, even if we were defeated on the field last night.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

The shocking surprise reviled in the article.

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

Least I can do. Shits hard out there.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

Halloween decorations? Whatever do you mean? It's just our home decor.

Photo of a candle-lit fireplace mantle. A prop of a skull on a iron stand. A white vase with ornate black floral pattern with a place card on it that reads "Uncle Victor".

Photo of a "jelly" plastic light-up jack-o-lantern sitting on an old wood table.

Photo of a resin bust of a skeleton dressed in 19th century clothing.

Photo of a plastic light-up smiling jack-o-lantern sitting in the darkness.

Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

We have only the finest of artists here.

Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 1d

Scrappy sculptors slivered away at slabs of solidified swine parts in search of aesthetic excellence and gastronomical glory at Reading Terminal Market’s second annual Scrapple Sculpting Contest Friday.

www.inquirer.com/columnists/s...

Philly’s Scrapple Sculpting Contest was won by a Delco tattooer who carved the Tush Push

Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda, who judged the competition, said the winning sculpture pushed scrapple "to its absolute limits."

www.inquirer.com

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Bateman Horne Center @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social · 2d

A new study sheds light on why people with ME/CFS feel worse after activity.
Findings reveal an immune system on edge, energy production that falters, and gut barrier leaks fueling inflammation.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q3i8sV
#MECFS #PEM #Research

When the Body’s Alarm Won’t Turn Off

Blog Summary Imagine if a fire alarm kept ringing long after the smoke was gone. That’s similar to what happens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), where the body seems…

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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 1d

@theailingwitch.bsky.social is hosting a Saturday #MutualAid thread. Definitely worth checking out and supporting.

Lot of disabled and trans/non-binary folks are struggling, not only in this country but pretty much everywhere. So these threads are always helpful.

Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s get some Saturday #MutualAid going!

If you are disabled, chronically ill, and/or any flavor of trans, please feel welcome to post your links, shops, projects, etc.— any way we can support you!

If you want to ask “does X count?”, it does!

Nondisabled cis folks: repost & support folks below!

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 2d

Enough for tonight
Btw long day at work and I just want to acknowledge the tags into shares today. Didn't have the spoons to jump in bit i do see and appreciate them
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

A tall feminine humanoid with large semi-circular horns and a jet black body with symbols in white down her chest with stone ruins in the background

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