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Heartbreak Welkin

@umabreakdown.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, game designer, doctor of horror. www.umabreakdown.com https://linktr.ee/Umabreakdown

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · Nov 16

For new follower: I'm an artist/researcher/writer/game designer based in north east England. My interests are mostly between ludology, horror studies, and ecriture feminine. Long term foci are trans readings of Cixous, + TTRPG manuals as experimental literature and model for audience agency in art.

Uma photo In hallway mirror. She is a white woman wearing a denim shirt, a blue silk scarf and a black skirt.

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 4h

Wukins, my dumbo daughter, is 19.5 years old, and loves nothing more than stressing me out climbing 8' up the cat shelves above the landing

Elderly cat jumping down from a series of shelves on the walls of a very messy landing

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 5h

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DJ Screw - Chapter 013 - Leanin' On A Switch - Brown Sugar

YouTube video by HTX

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 7h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 8h

D'angelo is such a rare artist. 3 albums over just under 20 years, and each one a masterpiece on the pain of desire and having a body.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15h

No, I need to go back to a time when *love* was still possible.

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Sajankenstein was the name of the Sajientist not the Sajonster @planetsmudge.bsky.social · Aug 3

new place, new repost of my free procreate brushes
draw: https://ko-fi.com/s/f90edb7d6b
paint: https://ko-fi.com/s/ca9c5d1cef

free procreate brush sets - if you enjoy them, and can afford to, donations are WELCOME. includes my IG handle which is @oh_hai_ku

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

every time someone discovers the joys of What If A Man Was Large: The Show it brings me great pleasure

rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 1d

literally one episode in and this dumb fucken show rules

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ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · 2d

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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jojo 🏄‍♂️ @waterslap.bsky.social · May 5

Keep honking! I’m 14 years old and I’m listening to DEFTONES

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 2d

Picking up a copy of dopesmoker at voidcon is a move

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Stabby @yorkshiregabby.bsky.social · 2d

Watching Silent Hill (2006) for the @allisfullofgore.bsky.social Sunday Social.

In game map of the game Silent Hill turned into a postcard with "Get your ass to silent hill" written in slanting all-caps across the top left half.

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 2d

Evil dead rise yes! Horniest of the franchise!

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 2d

I am a shameless hotsnakes girl, but the drums on bullet train...

Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 2d

I love all the Reis/Froberg things, but this album is just so good

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 3d

NGL, I don't really understand how my flight from Bristol - Newcastle (50mins) can be delayed by 1 hour 50 minutes

Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 3d

I love cinema so much

Castle Freak went into production in 1994 after Gordon noticed art for the film in producer Charles Band's office. Gordon agreed to develop the film on Band's condition that the film take place in a castle, contain a freak,

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 3d

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 3d

Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets.

This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.

They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.

FILIA calls itself "Europe's largest feminist conference."

In reality, it is a hub for all the worst and most authoritarian politics that hides under the feminist label. FiLiA's approach is not feminist, it is cruel, rigid, and hurts the people most vulnerable under patriarchy.

Anti-trans politics

FILIA advertises more events and speakers which focus on transgender people than any other topic. This includes a workshop for individuals to learn how to set up groups to exclude transgender people, and an event celebrating the recent supreme court ruling that threatens to push trans people out of public life, and has already increased harassment and violence faced by trans people.

Real feminists understand that transphobia is a manifestation of patriarchy, and that liberation for women cannot be seperated from liberation for trans people.

Anti-sex work politics

FiliA advocates the Nordic Model - where selling sex is legal but buying it is a crime. Compared to completely decriminalising sex work, the Nordic Model results in less abuse being reported, and more sex workers being targetted by police.

Opposing adult content online, including in video games

FILIA signed a recent petition that resulted in hundreds of video ga being banned from online distributors, and have invited the organ Collective Shout to speak at the conference. This goes against TRANS artistic freedom.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 3d

Ship Shapes…

#Spaceship #SciFi #Illustration

A page of rough, monochrome, spaceship sketches.

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 3d

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 4d

Bella and I are on a research trip so we are living it up in the hotel

A phone in a bed showing a pirate stream of the fast and furious with a text overlay reading "me and @supsupsupwhat are clocking off for the day now with fast and furious on her phone and cans of grapefruit n vodka # artist research trip"

Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 4d

🙏🙏🙏🙏 wishing you the best w this. I tapered at an incredibly slow rate and I was still crying all the time

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