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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 5h

We're busy today! Here's the first half of an art process blog where I talk about those initial stages.
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To Trust, Or Not To Trust: The Process

As mentioned in my opening post, I am trying to work out why my creative process doesn’t always result in something being finished, ADHD aside. I decided, sitting down and thinking about how …

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 6h

Finally got round to posting the image process o'er on Patreon. Because I've been a little quiet, I'm doing a few months of free access for everyone before I migrate over to the new format.

Anyway you can go here -> and see a neat pixel process.

www.patreon.com/posts/helen-...

#pixelart #art

Helen Vaughn, September 2025 | Jessi Dellamorte

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

I'm Jessi D, pixel-artist and writer talking about literary convention, queerness, disability, horror and all manner of things grotesque and abnormal.

You can find me:
-> gothydellamorte.carrd.co
-> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com
-> ko-fi.com/gothydellamo...

#pixelart #freelance #pixelartist

A pixel art portrait of a man, topless save for a loincloth, gazing up at the sky. His skin is sallow and pierced in many places -- neck, pectoral, arm, abdomen, waist, thigh -- with arrows, and blood drips down.

A pixel art portrait of a woman gazing upwards, palms outstretched and pierced with crosses. Behind her head, a halo of knives. Her skin is pale and her hair is long and dark, and her long, white dress is stained with blood.

A man with his arms stretched -- one out, one behind him. His head is thrust back and two long shafts of light pierce his chest.

A pixel art portrait of a nude woman, one hand to her side the other curled out behind her. Her hair is long, ginger, and plaited. It comes to the small of her back and curls against her torso. Her eyes are dark. She is expressed with dithering and unrealistic colours. Half of her face is shadowed and she smirks.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

Find my blog and all of two posts here -> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/h...

A few more to come in the next few weeks, plus some ongoing projects. I'm shuffling about my Patreon/etc.

I have a bad habit. Its one you may have noticed if you've been subscribed to me for any amount of time, or followed me on social media or just, seen me at all.

I can't finish anything.

I have a tendency to start things and never finish them -- games, art, stories, articles, pitches. You name it, I've not finished it. My hard drive is a graveyard of projects as yet unfinished, untitled or unopened in far too long.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

An old post, re-uploaded + some equally old art.

Read it here -> gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/c...

#freelance #filmcrit #freelancefilmcrit #davidlynch #lynchian #twinpeaks

Despite Lynch's refusal to saddle us with his concrete intent there remains this enduring necessity to take him apart and lay him out piece by piece, to vivisect, log and categorise the man. We gave his body of works a genre of its own - "Lynchian" -, synonymous with other. Like a human puzzle we start at the edges of the very man himself and seek to build an understanding from without.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 9d

"She would be called very handsome, I suppose, and yet there is something about her face which I didn’t like. The features are exquisite, but the expression is strange."

#pixelart #Pixelart #pixelartist #Pixelartist #freelanceartist

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 8d

And then sent off a little 500 word thing that may or may not get picked up but in all likelihood won't.

If it doesn't I'll post it elsewhere.

This one comes with a fairly graphic trigger warning of descriptions of an autopsy and a murder.

#writer #writing #horrorwriter #horrorwriting

Today was an exceptional day. The girl he intruded upon was exceptional: he had seen many bodies. He didn't think he'd ever had someone who had been murdered. It wasn't something he wanted to get used to. The question was much less about the how, as the why: you didn't have to be a doctor to see the gash in her throat. It was unpleasant, pinky-yellow, with fatty, cabbagey edges already washed clean and robbed of their immediacy. Her pale skin bloomed and flapped with cuts, the deep centres blooming with red like some cruel orchid.

It helped him to measure her -or indeed any body but especially hers-, in parts and approximations relative to other, non-anatomical things. It made stopping to smell the flowers difficult, but he had little sense of smell between the regular assault upon his nostrils that was ethanol and putrescine.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 8d

The irl writers group I'm in is doing an anthology, as they do occasionally, and the general gist was a ghost story in about 1000 words. The word count got tripled but I kept mine short.

Anyway here's a lil bit from it. It'll be available to purchase later in the year.

#writing #horrorfiction

Dreden Point was the sort of place that had never looked welcoming, a state of being that seemed to go hand in hand with it's attraction to ghost hunters. As a still image on his laptop, the ridge of its roof a spine, the effect was not lessened. In life it had been too neat, too ordered, portioned off like a prison meal -- this part for sleeping, that for taking, for eating, playing, meeting, living, operating, cutting, dying, burying. It teetered on the edge of a cliff that the ocean stripped away year by year in inches and clumps measured by concerned geography students in waders with long, brown rulers, all of whom said that the place was bound for a watery grave within the decade.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 5h

We're busy today! Here's the first half of an art process blog where I talk about those initial stages.
gothydellamorte.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t...

To Trust, Or Not To Trust: The Process

As mentioned in my opening post, I am trying to work out why my creative process doesn’t always result in something being finished, ADHD aside. I decided, sitting down and thinking about how …

gothydellamorte.wordpress.com

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 6h

Finally got round to posting the image process o'er on Patreon. Because I've been a little quiet, I'm doing a few months of free access for everyone before I migrate over to the new format.

Anyway you can go here -> and see a neat pixel process.

www.patreon.com/posts/helen-...

#pixelart #art

Helen Vaughn, September 2025 | Jessi Dellamorte

www.patreon.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14h

In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

Udo Kier in John Carpenter's CIGARETTE BURNS (2005)

Kier was BOTD in 1944

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Tekka Croe @tekkacroe.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober 12: Standing Stones
In the rolling planes of the South, a wide arc is traced by a series of blocks carved with a solar motif.
#art #traditionalart #inktober2025

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Frits Thaulow’s Peaceful Night
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narrow track passing stone houses, and scrub on the other side, wisps of cloud hang in the night sky

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Eleanor Harper @lusthag.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all I am by no means saying you should stop discovering new music 😭 I’m simply suggesting being intentional about which albums you listen to. Don’t just let an algorithm make a playlist for you. Buy a damn cd/tape/vinyl. Listen so much that you want the t shirt

Eleanor Harper @lusthag.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely believe it is best to enjoy less music. Re-listening to one of my favorite albums will always take priority over discovering new music. Streaming has normalized the over-consumption of music to the point that most people listen to things once and never again.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 2d

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 2d

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
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A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 2d

BPD makes it worse, of course. Makes everything fucking worse. I never really talk about how it affects me and maybe I should but I wouldn't do that publicly, there's enough visible scars on me. It's something to think about, at least.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 2d

And that is me. Unquestionably. And people hold it against me lots because I "never shut up" and that hurts and leads to a lot of my trying really hard to explain myself and really just digging myself a hole and I don't really know what to do with this information.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 2d

I keep coming to the realisation that I'm really bad with words because I'm constantly overthinking and trying to explain my every thought because I don't want to be misunderstood. This is a self fulfilling prophecy, very often. Recently came across the existence of hyper-verbal autistic processing.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 2d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 2d

People "give up" for all kinds of reasons and I'm not comfortable sitting here and condemning that or talking of my Irish friend who doesn't use the fada because of dyslexia as though they're less Irish for it. They are fiercely protective of their language and heritage. That's why I don't pick.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 2d

As I have said elsewhere: I have tremors and my brain mixes up words and punctuation. My phone doesn't have an Irish dictionary so it doesn't add the fada without extra effort on my part and I'm on my phone, not my laptop, which does use fada because on there I made a converted effort to.

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