Zak Jarvis
@zakjarvis.bsky.social
Artist, writer, extremely niche historian. He/him.
Links to my published fiction can be found on http://voidmonster.com
My collected writings on straight razors can be found at http://theshiveringbeggar.com
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Links to my published fiction can be found on http://voidmonster.com
My collected writings on straight razors can be found at http://theshiveringbeggar.com
Tabula rasa accounts are auto-blocked.
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Zak Jarvis
@zakjarvis.bsky.social
· Jul 4
Anybody want a highly realistic, life size human skull made from a 3d scan of a 14th century archaeological site in Visby, Sweden? I make and sell these. DM for details.
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Your reminder that Lichtenstein never gave a dime during his lifetime to the comics artists whose work he shamelessly stole. Nor does his Lichtenstein Foundation which continues to profit greatly from those plagiarized images.
It's unforgivable. Lichtenstein was an immoral parasite.
It's unforgivable. Lichtenstein was an immoral parasite.
December 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Your reminder that Lichtenstein never gave a dime during his lifetime to the comics artists whose work he shamelessly stole. Nor does his Lichtenstein Foundation which continues to profit greatly from those plagiarized images.
It's unforgivable. Lichtenstein was an immoral parasite.
It's unforgivable. Lichtenstein was an immoral parasite.
Me when the cat wants to snuggle when it's 90 degrees in my office:
"GAH! Why, cat?"
Me when the cat wants to snuggle on a day that the heater's been running constantly.
"No, come back and snuggle more! You're so warm!"
"GAH! Why, cat?"
Me when the cat wants to snuggle on a day that the heater's been running constantly.
"No, come back and snuggle more! You're so warm!"
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Me when the cat wants to snuggle when it's 90 degrees in my office:
"GAH! Why, cat?"
Me when the cat wants to snuggle on a day that the heater's been running constantly.
"No, come back and snuggle more! You're so warm!"
"GAH! Why, cat?"
Me when the cat wants to snuggle on a day that the heater's been running constantly.
"No, come back and snuggle more! You're so warm!"
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Sorry to put this on the TL, but please do not transcribe this as “sycophant.” He audibly says “syncophant” because he does not really know the word or what it means. To pretend he said a word whose meaning he does not know is carrying water for him. “Syncophant [sic]” is how you transcribe this
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sorry to put this on the TL, but please do not transcribe this as “sycophant.” He audibly says “syncophant” because he does not really know the word or what it means. To pretend he said a word whose meaning he does not know is carrying water for him. “Syncophant [sic]” is how you transcribe this
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I'll be president one time if you do good. I'll be president two times if you do bad.
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'll be president one time if you do good. I'll be president two times if you do bad.
Working on a highly technical art project.
I just cropped and scaled 217 files and re-saved them in a more structured way.
I missed *one* file.
<cries>
I just cropped and scaled 217 files and re-saved them in a more structured way.
I missed *one* file.
<cries>
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Working on a highly technical art project.
I just cropped and scaled 217 files and re-saved them in a more structured way.
I missed *one* file.
<cries>
I just cropped and scaled 217 files and re-saved them in a more structured way.
I missed *one* file.
<cries>
I will NOT write a scriptural support of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
I will NOT.
I WILL NOT!
I will NOT.
I WILL NOT!
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I will NOT write a scriptural support of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
I will NOT.
I WILL NOT!
I will NOT.
I WILL NOT!
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new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
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and what if i said not only is erotica indistinguishable from porn, it's fine to make that comparison, and the only reason you would take issue with it is because of your own hatred of sex workers
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
and what if i said not only is erotica indistinguishable from porn, it's fine to make that comparison, and the only reason you would take issue with it is because of your own hatred of sex workers
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This trailer for Ducournau's (TITANE, RAW) next film is an all-timer
ALPHA - Official Trailer - In Theaters March 27
YouTube video by NEON
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This trailer for Ducournau's (TITANE, RAW) next film is an all-timer
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I feel like every day in the mid '20s is like the coprophagic feast from Pasolini's SALO, just watching every 'respected' institution in the world smearing shit all over their faces, eating it and leering and blowing their shit breath in Our faces, for the glory of fascism.
This has to be one of the worst magazine covers I've seen in the history of humanity.
Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I feel like every day in the mid '20s is like the coprophagic feast from Pasolini's SALO, just watching every 'respected' institution in the world smearing shit all over their faces, eating it and leering and blowing their shit breath in Our faces, for the glory of fascism.
I went on a short hike today to try this new pocket drone I got and it is very neat and will certainly let me do things like document riding the Bay Trail, but it's very difficult to escape feeling like I just paid money for an IRL escort quest.
To be fair, it only got attacked by monsters once.
To be fair, it only got attacked by monsters once.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I went on a short hike today to try this new pocket drone I got and it is very neat and will certainly let me do things like document riding the Bay Trail, but it's very difficult to escape feeling like I just paid money for an IRL escort quest.
To be fair, it only got attacked by monsters once.
To be fair, it only got attacked by monsters once.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
Had an interesting project just sort of ... land in my lap.
I'm really seriously considering riding all 350 miles of the Bay Trail system (in bits and pieces) and shooting a bunch of video of it using a small drone, while talking about the history of the part I'm on.
I'm really seriously considering riding all 350 miles of the Bay Trail system (in bits and pieces) and shooting a bunch of video of it using a small drone, while talking about the history of the part I'm on.
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Had an interesting project just sort of ... land in my lap.
I'm really seriously considering riding all 350 miles of the Bay Trail system (in bits and pieces) and shooting a bunch of video of it using a small drone, while talking about the history of the part I'm on.
I'm really seriously considering riding all 350 miles of the Bay Trail system (in bits and pieces) and shooting a bunch of video of it using a small drone, while talking about the history of the part I'm on.
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“The easiest way to never become a bastard is remembering this:
Books and thinking and good words are all yours. Music is yours. Ideas are yours. You possess them in an open cage of heart and you never shut the door. You should let them move in and out of you and not worry if they will come back.”
Books and thinking and good words are all yours. Music is yours. Ideas are yours. You possess them in an open cage of heart and you never shut the door. You should let them move in and out of you and not worry if they will come back.”
Letter out. Subscribe, please.
Letter #50. The Heart Should Be An Open Cage. 11.30.25 | Jim Mello
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December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“The easiest way to never become a bastard is remembering this:
Books and thinking and good words are all yours. Music is yours. Ideas are yours. You possess them in an open cage of heart and you never shut the door. You should let them move in and out of you and not worry if they will come back.”
Books and thinking and good words are all yours. Music is yours. Ideas are yours. You possess them in an open cage of heart and you never shut the door. You should let them move in and out of you and not worry if they will come back.”
Fuck.
I cannot blame 'novel research' for me currently reading a 1984 thesis on axiomatic functionalism.
Apparently, you can just put a link with that title in front of me and I'll go read it.
I cannot blame 'novel research' for me currently reading a 1984 thesis on axiomatic functionalism.
Apparently, you can just put a link with that title in front of me and I'll go read it.
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Fuck.
I cannot blame 'novel research' for me currently reading a 1984 thesis on axiomatic functionalism.
Apparently, you can just put a link with that title in front of me and I'll go read it.
I cannot blame 'novel research' for me currently reading a 1984 thesis on axiomatic functionalism.
Apparently, you can just put a link with that title in front of me and I'll go read it.
Now that the novel is drafted, I've gone back and looked at the stats Scrivener tracks.
There was a period of time where I did a *lot* of work on it purely in my head while out walking. I mean, reciting, in my head, entire scenes. Did about 4 chapters that way. (My chapters are 4-5k words)
There was a period of time where I did a *lot* of work on it purely in my head while out walking. I mean, reciting, in my head, entire scenes. Did about 4 chapters that way. (My chapters are 4-5k words)
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Now that the novel is drafted, I've gone back and looked at the stats Scrivener tracks.
There was a period of time where I did a *lot* of work on it purely in my head while out walking. I mean, reciting, in my head, entire scenes. Did about 4 chapters that way. (My chapters are 4-5k words)
There was a period of time where I did a *lot* of work on it purely in my head while out walking. I mean, reciting, in my head, entire scenes. Did about 4 chapters that way. (My chapters are 4-5k words)
I think I finally came up with a really succinct description of my novel.
"Never trust people with power."
"Never trust people with power."
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think I finally came up with a really succinct description of my novel.
"Never trust people with power."
"Never trust people with power."
Wow. Having finished my novel, I feel like one of those black room diaphanous husks from Under the Skin.
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Wow. Having finished my novel, I feel like one of those black room diaphanous husks from Under the Skin.
I have watched the first three minutes of Reflection in a Dead Diamond, and it is incredible and I am in entirely the wrong frame of mind to watch it right now. Switching over to Dark City.
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I have watched the first three minutes of Reflection in a Dead Diamond, and it is incredible and I am in entirely the wrong frame of mind to watch it right now. Switching over to Dark City.
The novel is done.
3 years of work. God knows how much research.
Went out on this mood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvM...
3 years of work. God knows how much research.
Went out on this mood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvM...
Ethel Cain - Punish (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ethel Cain
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
The novel is done.
3 years of work. God knows how much research.
Went out on this mood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvM...
3 years of work. God knows how much research.
Went out on this mood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvM...
How To Neglect Your Heart, by SubRosa
from the album Strega
subrosausa.bandcamp.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Diving back into the novel. This time should finish it.
Taking this mood with me.
cowboy-junkies.bandcamp.com/track/i-did-...
Taking this mood with me.
cowboy-junkies.bandcamp.com/track/i-did-...
I did it all for you, by Cowboy Junkies
from the album Open
cowboy-junkies.bandcamp.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Diving back into the novel. This time should finish it.
Taking this mood with me.
cowboy-junkies.bandcamp.com/track/i-did-...
Taking this mood with me.
cowboy-junkies.bandcamp.com/track/i-did-...
900 words down, about a thousand to go to *the end of the novel*.
I've had the very last bit in my head for months now and it's going to be really good to finally get it out.
Gonna take a breather, then dive back in.
I've had the very last bit in my head for months now and it's going to be really good to finally get it out.
Gonna take a breather, then dive back in.
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
900 words down, about a thousand to go to *the end of the novel*.
I've had the very last bit in my head for months now and it's going to be really good to finally get it out.
Gonna take a breather, then dive back in.
I've had the very last bit in my head for months now and it's going to be really good to finally get it out.
Gonna take a breather, then dive back in.
Let's see if I can bring this plane (novel) in for a landing.
Kicking off the writing with one of many Philip Glass pieces that replicate what the inside of my head feels like when it's all working the way I like.
philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip...
Kicking off the writing with one of many Philip Glass pieces that replicate what the inside of my head feels like when it's all working the way I like.
philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip...
Philip Glass: Glassworks, by Philip Glass, Philip Hoch
6 track album
philipglass.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Let's see if I can bring this plane (novel) in for a landing.
Kicking off the writing with one of many Philip Glass pieces that replicate what the inside of my head feels like when it's all working the way I like.
philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip...
Kicking off the writing with one of many Philip Glass pieces that replicate what the inside of my head feels like when it's all working the way I like.
philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip...