Arinn Dembo
@erinys.bsky.social
Lead Writer, Narrative Designer, Textile Artist, Anti-Fascist. Games: Homeworld, Sword of the Stars, Fort Zombie, many others. Television: World Trigger, Metalions. Stories/poetry: F&SF, Weird Tales, many anthologies. Fibre Arts: Slan Baby.
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Arinn Dembo
@erinys.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Hi! Rumor has it that lots of new people are coming to this app, so—hello to friends old and new!
Ten things I do and love (and post about):
🎮 #gamedev
👾 #pixelart
🎭 #voiceacting
💻 #writing
🏺 #archaeology
🚀 #sciencefiction
🦄 #fantasy
💀 #horror
🏳️🌈 #pride
🧶 #crafting (especially dyeing yarn).
Ten things I do and love (and post about):
🎮 #gamedev
👾 #pixelart
🎭 #voiceacting
💻 #writing
🏺 #archaeology
🚀 #sciencefiction
🦄 #fantasy
💀 #horror
🏳️🌈 #pride
🧶 #crafting (especially dyeing yarn).
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attempting to sap schookids' creative muscles at the exact moment they most need active cultivation and development
LAUSD is being sued for misusing $77 million in voter-approved funds meant to expand arts education. Now they're encouraging students to "save time & effort" by using text prompts to generate art using AI. lamag.com/news/lausd-a...
December 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
attempting to sap schookids' creative muscles at the exact moment they most need active cultivation and development
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A good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun
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Thinking of this heroism makes me even angrier about what happened in Uvalde, about the craven political rhetoric that "only a good guy with a gun" can stop a shooting. (deleted and reposted to correct a spelling error)
Hero. ❤️
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
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'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thinking of this heroism makes me even angrier about what happened in Uvalde, about the craven political rhetoric that "only a good guy with a gun" can stop a shooting. (deleted and reposted to correct a spelling error)
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“We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing, the ones who turn their heads the other way.”
"So now, Americans want to know who did what to whom and when – poring over the photographs like the Zapruder film of a new generation. But I know that the victims have already told you the truth. The only conspiracy in America that remains is silence." @lyz.bsky.social bringing the truth home.
Opinion | The real Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy is one of silence
Lyz Lenz: Newly released photos show how powerful people's silence enabled Epstein's horrors.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing, the ones who turn their heads the other way.”
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For #ArtAdventCalendar day 14, a messy little furbaby appreciation from my sketchbook. She's about 15 years old now. #drawing
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
For #ArtAdventCalendar day 14, a messy little furbaby appreciation from my sketchbook. She's about 15 years old now. #drawing
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 14:
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Moonlight streaming through the mist in a dark forest—vampiric night vision is excellent.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil.
#gameart #gamedev #indiedev
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Moonlight streaming through the mist in a dark forest—vampiric night vision is excellent.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil.
#gameart #gamedev #indiedev
December 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 14:
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Moonlight streaming through the mist in a dark forest—vampiric night vision is excellent.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil.
#gameart #gamedev #indiedev
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Moonlight streaming through the mist in a dark forest—vampiric night vision is excellent.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil.
#gameart #gamedev #indiedev
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025: Day 13
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Sheep grazing peacefully by the riverside in the “Borgo Pass” (actually the Tihuța Pass, geographically) of Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad and Apple Pencil.
#gameart #indiedev
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Sheep grazing peacefully by the riverside in the “Borgo Pass” (actually the Tihuța Pass, geographically) of Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad and Apple Pencil.
#gameart #indiedev
December 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025: Day 13
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Sheep grazing peacefully by the riverside in the “Borgo Pass” (actually the Tihuța Pass, geographically) of Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad and Apple Pencil.
#gameart #indiedev
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides. Sheep grazing peacefully by the riverside in the “Borgo Pass” (actually the Tihuța Pass, geographically) of Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad and Apple Pencil.
#gameart #indiedev
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 12:
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides—this is the sunlit memory of a younger vampire from Spain.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, sketch brushes.
#gameart #indiedev
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides—this is the sunlit memory of a younger vampire from Spain.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, sketch brushes.
#gameart #indiedev
December 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 12:
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides—this is the sunlit memory of a younger vampire from Spain.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, sketch brushes.
#gameart #indiedev
Environment art for my visual novel The Brides—this is the sunlit memory of a younger vampire from Spain.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, sketch brushes.
#gameart #indiedev
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If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
December 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 11:
Environment for my visual novel The Brides. This is a 19th century Orientalist smoking room, by far the most detailed drawing I have ever created. And yikes, this showed me where the line was!
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, etc.
#gameart #indiedev
Environment for my visual novel The Brides. This is a 19th century Orientalist smoking room, by far the most detailed drawing I have ever created. And yikes, this showed me where the line was!
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, etc.
#gameart #indiedev
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 11:
Environment for my visual novel The Brides. This is a 19th century Orientalist smoking room, by far the most detailed drawing I have ever created. And yikes, this showed me where the line was!
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, etc.
#gameart #indiedev
Environment for my visual novel The Brides. This is a 19th century Orientalist smoking room, by far the most detailed drawing I have ever created. And yikes, this showed me where the line was!
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, etc.
#gameart #indiedev
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 10:
Environment art for my visual novel project, The Brides—the castle library of Dracula’s retreat in Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil and brushes for pencil, ink and pastels.
#gameart #indiedev #gamedev
Environment art for my visual novel project, The Brides—the castle library of Dracula’s retreat in Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil and brushes for pencil, ink and pastels.
#gameart #indiedev #gamedev
December 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 10:
Environment art for my visual novel project, The Brides—the castle library of Dracula’s retreat in Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil and brushes for pencil, ink and pastels.
#gameart #indiedev #gamedev
Environment art for my visual novel project, The Brides—the castle library of Dracula’s retreat in Transylvania.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil and brushes for pencil, ink and pastels.
#gameart #indiedev #gamedev
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025: Day 9.
Digital fanart sketch for a T-shirt design—a gift for a huge Locked Tomb fan.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, basic sketch brushes.
Digital fanart sketch for a T-shirt design—a gift for a huge Locked Tomb fan.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, basic sketch brushes.
December 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025: Day 9.
Digital fanart sketch for a T-shirt design—a gift for a huge Locked Tomb fan.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, basic sketch brushes.
Digital fanart sketch for a T-shirt design—a gift for a huge Locked Tomb fan.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple Pencil, basic sketch brushes.
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
December 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
Heh. It’s a Witcher. 😏
Companions of Christmas: MERCURIUS ABU-SIFIN
Today (November 25) is the feast day of this Scythian-Romano soldier saint, who wields two swords: one with which to fight evil men, the other, given to him by the Archangel Michael, with which to fight demons, evil spirits, and monsters. 1/
Today (November 25) is the feast day of this Scythian-Romano soldier saint, who wields two swords: one with which to fight evil men, the other, given to him by the Archangel Michael, with which to fight demons, evil spirits, and monsters. 1/
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Heh. It’s a Witcher. 😏
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A lot of right wing women are cited as heirs to Phyllis Schlafly, and in my opinion it’s often not a good fit. But Kirk has that uncanny quality that drove so much of Schlafly’s power and effectiveness: a depthless rage.
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A lot of right wing women are cited as heirs to Phyllis Schlafly, and in my opinion it’s often not a good fit. But Kirk has that uncanny quality that drove so much of Schlafly’s power and effectiveness: a depthless rage.
Her hair is hollow gold
Her lips are dripping lies
Her heart is black and cold
She’s got Torquemada’s eyes
Her lips are dripping lies
Her heart is black and cold
She’s got Torquemada’s eyes
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Her hair is hollow gold
Her lips are dripping lies
Her heart is black and cold
She’s got Torquemada’s eyes
Her lips are dripping lies
Her heart is black and cold
She’s got Torquemada’s eyes
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I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
Ugh. This, times a thousand.
So much money in video games and so little of it actually going to developers.
December 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Ugh. This, times a thousand.
Hahahaha that would be the danger, yeah. Time to log off and watch more Drag Race.
Oh, you’re watching the Game Awards? Heh. I’m not watching that slop. I shall be instead refreshing a feed of posts from people who are all watching the Game Awards
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Hahahaha that would be the danger, yeah. Time to log off and watch more Drag Race.
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Finished a little neck warmer as part of a xmas gift for a neighbor's kid who is always playing outside, so he'll have something to keep him warm. I also thought he could make up a story abt the polar bears, penguins, & white stags on his #knitcowl. 🧶
#showmeyourknits #yarnsky #knitsky
#showmeyourknits #yarnsky #knitsky
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Finished a little neck warmer as part of a xmas gift for a neighbor's kid who is always playing outside, so he'll have something to keep him warm. I also thought he could make up a story abt the polar bears, penguins, & white stags on his #knitcowl. 🧶
#showmeyourknits #yarnsky #knitsky
#showmeyourknits #yarnsky #knitsky
Never been so glad that I am divested from Disney.
What a betrayal, of all the countless gifted human beings who slaved for a century to build the IP’s that they’ve agglomerated.
Not to mention all the future generations of artists who they’re trying to abort.
Fuck Disney.
What a betrayal, of all the countless gifted human beings who slaved for a century to build the IP’s that they’ve agglomerated.
Not to mention all the future generations of artists who they’re trying to abort.
Fuck Disney.
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Never been so glad that I am divested from Disney.
What a betrayal, of all the countless gifted human beings who slaved for a century to build the IP’s that they’ve agglomerated.
Not to mention all the future generations of artists who they’re trying to abort.
Fuck Disney.
What a betrayal, of all the countless gifted human beings who slaved for a century to build the IP’s that they’ve agglomerated.
Not to mention all the future generations of artists who they’re trying to abort.
Fuck Disney.
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It always amazes how many times white people will come at me sideways and then act like the victim when I give them the same energy
One of the ways your racism is manifesting as a white person that you probably don't notice is that you have horrible manners with Black people. You have a terrible attitude when you meet real Black people. You don't say excuse me & can barely look them in the eye. That's over 80% of white people.
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It always amazes how many times white people will come at me sideways and then act like the victim when I give them the same energy
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 8:
Still life drawing of a lion skull. I was learning the software by trying to recreate the look of traditional media with digital tools.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple pencil, ink, pencil and pastel brushes.
Still life drawing of a lion skull. I was learning the software by trying to recreate the look of traditional media with digital tools.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple pencil, ink, pencil and pastel brushes.
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025, Day 8:
Still life drawing of a lion skull. I was learning the software by trying to recreate the look of traditional media with digital tools.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple pencil, ink, pencil and pastel brushes.
Still life drawing of a lion skull. I was learning the software by trying to recreate the look of traditional media with digital tools.
Medium: ProCreate for iPad, Apple pencil, ink, pencil and pastel brushes.
This is definitely me. I have been moving steadily away from Microsoft because of their AI policies, breaking a loyalty that lasted decades.
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is definitely me. I have been moving steadily away from Microsoft because of their AI policies, breaking a loyalty that lasted decades.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.