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A.Valliard
@valliard.bsky.social
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Allegorist, ink scribbler, occasional ham actor. They/them. Perpetrator of THE CITY OF LOST INTENTIONS: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid.
Out now! (unfortunately)
www.thecityoflostintentions.com
www.valliard.com
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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · Jul 4
"Being a Compendium of Fallibility, a Bestiary of Artistic Fears & Foibles, and an Unhelpful Travel Guide to the City of Lost Intentions, with particular notice paid to its denizens—the transmogrified souls of self-damned artists—in the dubious company of Montcorbier, a disaffected psychopomp."
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valliard.bsky.social
It's essentially a sort of morbid Where's Wally where you try to find your place in writers'/artists' hell. There's 151 listed denizens of this city and 10 levels of artistic villainy. You're undoubtedly in there somewhere.
(I certainly am.)

#booksky
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
valliard.bsky.social
The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid is also available in BOOKSHOPS, where you can not only buy and own it immediately, but also support the dwindling, Amazon-ravaged bookstore ecosystem.

#booksky #art #bookshops #Brisbane #Sydney #Melbourne #Dublin
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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valliard.bsky.social
"The fundamental interconnectedness of all things."
#ink #scribbleau #portrait #art #spilledcoffee
Ink-scribbly, coffee-stained portrait of a man with tendrils and general ink-blottiness emerging from his head, loosely based on Dirk Gently as portrayed by Samuel Barnett in DG's Holistic Detective Agency.
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
valliard.bsky.social
It's essentially a sort of morbid Where's Wally where you try to find your place in writers'/artists' hell. There's 151 listed denizens of this city and 10 levels of artistic villainy. You're undoubtedly in there somewhere.
(I certainly am.)

#booksky
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
valliard.bsky.social
It’s that horrible time again! Remember, “The City of Lost Intentions” makes a fine gift for the malingering wastrel/artist in your life (which might be YOU).
thecityoflostintentions.com
#booksky #weirdbooks #absurdist #writingcommunity
£7 / $10 USD / €8 / $15 AUD
A rather nicely lighted photo by Haus Nostromo of a standing black book whose cover features a chaotic collage city with a little man falling into it. The title is "The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid"
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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causticcovercritic.bsky.social
a post altered to read, "I fundamentally disagree with [ ] existence. It's a net negative. It makes the world a worse place, measurably."
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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howardm.bsky.social
Trying to be more efficient, so I'm going to call all body parts "flaps."
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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howardm.bsky.social
It's great if the well-meaning and good-hearted are inspired, but it's even better if the soulless and calculating are scared.
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
valliard.bsky.social
I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.

#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
Enraged ink blotty dubious rendition of Shakespeare in a ruff stabbing a malfunctioning robot in the eye with a giant quill. Ink is spurting from the robot's eye. Shakespeare's teeth are very large.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
valliard.bsky.social
Early rehearsal scribbles for the upcoming Kate Gaul directed COWBOIS! A "rollicking queer western" featuring a cast of horribly talented and charming actors and a lot of flouncing and swaggering around. Brilliant! www.seymourcentre.com/event/cowbois/
#art #illustration #theatre #ink
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
valliard.bsky.social
People will literally rather spin double-headed coins and bet against themselves in private atonement for an unremembered past than go to therapy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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valliard.bsky.social
BACK in stock at the delightful Modern Times! The creepy little guidebook IS also available at Readings, Berkelouw's, Gleebooks & Avid Reader, etc., but for sweaty locals on King Street, Newtown, here or Better Read Than Dead is the most desirable option.
March 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
valliard.bsky.social
"The fundamental interconnectedness of all things."
#ink #scribbleau #portrait #art #spilledcoffee
Ink-scribbly, coffee-stained portrait of a man with tendrils and general ink-blottiness emerging from his head, loosely based on Dirk Gently as portrayed by Samuel Barnett in DG's Holistic Detective Agency.
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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howardm.bsky.social
He set about doing the dishes with a sort of wild abandon he had never known in his youth, had never imagined possible. One, two! One, two! Plates and glasses, forks and knives, all fell before him. One, two! One, two! "Snicker-snack!" he shouted, startling the cat.
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
valliard.bsky.social
Obscure and pointless Goon Show reference, but changed my phone’s message sound to Grytpype-Thynne and was awoken by an alarming ivory nasal drawl asking for a mutton-chop telescope. #Recommend
October 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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ceej.online
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
shakespeare.lol William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Oct 10
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
valliard.bsky.social
Borzoi Hellhound! Another dubious doglike scribble for/of "The Tell-Tale Hound" #ink #illustration #musicaltheatre #folkhorror
Wraithlike, hollow-looking dog scribbled in ink on a red paper background with ink blot accompaniment.
September 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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louisbarabbas.bsky.social
Never too early for a poster! I love this image by @valliard.bsky.social. This show’s very dear to my heart, based on a notorious Bedlam Six song I wrote in 2007.
Producers who like folk horror, panting dog puppets and fast lyrics get in touch!
Ink splattered sketch of howling dog with sharp teeth and red eyes. Text reads: The Tell-Tale Hound, a new musical by Louis Barabbas & Micha Mirto from the world of The Bedlam Six
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
valliard.bsky.social
There's some magnificently chaotic, pervy, absurdist, Bacchanalian business going on up at New Theatre
for 3 FINAL SHOWS, if any Sydneysiders are idle. "The Frogs: In Hell They Sing Show Tunes" adapted VERY loosely after Aeschylus. Cheap tix on Thurs, matinee on Saturday! #sydneytheatre #art #ink
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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leyawn.bsky.social
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
valliard.bsky.social
Emergency Room scribbles. (don't ask)
Ink dribbly sketch of a gentleman contorting himself and his bandaged leg into a crablike position in his chair. Ink scribble of young preppy gentleman vomiting with impressive force and velocity.
August 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
valliard.bsky.social
Charlie Brooker’s description of a show as “as realistic as a cotton-wool tiger riding a tractor through a teardrop” remains both poignant and one of those sentences never before heard in the English language.
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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causticcovercritic.bsky.social
OK, should you require a copy of THE BIG BOOK OF UNFORTUNATE AUTHOR DEATHS (PDF), download it here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1MfWz...
Frank O’Hara, killed by an illegal dune buggy on the beach after the car he was in broke down on the dark (his liver was fatally ruptured in the impact). Pierre François Lacenaire, a murderer as well as a poet, died by the guillotine, on the second attempt. Pier Paolo Pasolini, found run over several times by his own car, numerous bones and his testicles crushed by an iron bar, and his body doused with petrol and partially burned after his death. The identity of the perpetrator(s) is disputed. DYLAN THOMAS, having been on a massive bender, was then administered a dangerous amount of morphine by a hotel doctor, which put him into a fatal coma. “I’ve had 18 straight whiskies. I think that’s the record,” were his last words.
July 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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howardm.bsky.social
MC: Can I get a volunteer?

[teen's hand shoots up]

MC (chuckling): The eager young man in the second row, come on up!

[teen takes seat in armchair on stage; ninety years pass; he falls from his seat dead, a withered old man]

MC: The relentlessness of time, everyone! The relentlessness of time!
June 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM