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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator)

@brazenhead.bsky.social
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He/Him, illustrator of tabletop roleplaying games and related ephemera. Western North Carolina. Mountain Jew (Code Red). Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-A.I. Sludge. Pro-Humanity when I've had enough sleep. Into weird old shit.

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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 23h
holy shit this was like 12 years ago.
the same guy 12 years ago, mostly clean shaven with a short side part.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 23h
really nailing the "guy who won't scoot over while thumbing through boxes of records at the estate sale" look tonight.
whote bearded giy with plaid shirt, black jacket, black flat cap, beard, and long scraggly hair
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thinking about SLA Industries again as I do about twice a year (in this case because @evlynmoreau.bsky.social mentioned it) and in particular thinking about these two from the 1st edition Karma sourcebook/fake lifestyle magazine. Who are they & what's their story?
two young people in the SLA industries universe. they look like they're hanging out at a mall. the person on the right is an Ebon and the one on the right has the sharp teeth  of a Wraithen
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(from the same book)
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I want to know their story (from the 1st ed Karma sourcebook)
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
john candy reading a paperback novel entitled The Canadian Mounted.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bugs bunny and daffy duck emerging from an underground tunnel inside a mysterious cave.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of my Mörk Borg players accidentally blasted his character's flesh off with a bomb and another PC blew a death whistle to see what would happen and now that PC has come back as a living skeleton and his player is so incredibly delighted.
Mike Mignola painting of a skeleton in a shroud holding a large bone. perhaps a femur.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mitzvah unlocked!
the hand of a Jew holds aloft a lulav (myrtle branch, willow branch, palm frond) and etrog (citron fruit). not pictured: sukkah overhead.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
there was a whole cottage industry of these things!
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
rounded up all mechanical pencils i could find in the house
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i mostly use pentel kuru-toga .7s and sakura sumogrip .9s 'cause i tend to have a heavy hand. only problem with the sumogrip is that the clip tends to snap off easily. if i could get one of those with a metal body and a clip like this I'd be set for life.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Digging this one out again.
Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons (1966). Text at the bottom reads "Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for Wales?" but "Wales" is crossed out and "wizard shit" has been substituted.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dick Miller in Bucket of Blood dressed as bohemian royalty with beret, cigarette holder, and ascot.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Out with @alexathehuman.bsky.social for her birthday at our favorite sushi place.
an earth man and woman in their forties
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is Daniel Cohen erasure and I won't stand for it.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell (2026)
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Matilda!
a short haired black cat, blepping.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@alexathehuman.bsky.social and I broke top 3% tonight in Anthropeum!
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Angela Lansbury!
Angela Lansbury decked out in gold "hunting outfit" complete with spears
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My wife and I were talking about the placement of a Creature From the Black Lagoon refrigerator magnet which turned into us singing "Don't Hide the Fish Man" (with other lyrical riffs) to the tune of "Don't Fear the Reaper" and sometimes you're reminded that you married the exact right person.
the gill man from Creature From the Black Lagoon dressed as a country music star
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
two Shabbat candles in metal holders burning in the windowsill.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@alexathehuman.bsky.social and I cracked the top 5% on Anthropeum!
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
...and here comes Simon Magus (here portrayed by Jack Palance) about to perform before the Emperor and his court! You Will Believe A Man Can Fly!
jack palance as simon magus, dressed in a red leotard and yellow cape, holding aloft The Silver Chalice in the film of the same name (1954)
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
He really likes that phrase. From his 1994 novel The Hippopotamus:
David stood. He shivered as the shameful head of the monster rubbed with frictive drag against his pyjamas, for a wincing second prising open the slit at its head as it stabbed blindly at the fabric before finding the freedom of the flap and quivering upwards with a stupid prong of victory.
“Stop it, stop it!” David breathed. “Oh, please … please …” But nothing would stop it; not cold water, not prayer, not threats, not promises.
David stood by the bed and clutched the beast in fury, choking it.
“You … will … behave … !” he snarled, shaking it back and forth in anger.
The bastard thing. It won. Great ropes of semen flew from its tip and dropped to the carpet with a flat triumphant patter.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
kinda want this sticker I'm not gonna lie
white bumper sticker with "KEEP HONKING! I'M LISTENING TO GUNFIGHTER BALLADS AND TRAIL SONGS BY MARTY ROBBINS" in black and red lettering with a picture of Robbins from the album cover in a black Hollywood cowboy outfit and six shooter.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I can't be the only person who watched Amadeus at an extremely impressionable age and developed a huge crush on Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze.
Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart in Amadeus wearing a wig, massive hat and 18th century dress. She is holding one of the "nipples of Venus" candies offered to her by Salieri.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy anniversary to us! 21 years with my best friend @alexathehuman.bsky.social . On our way to the Rhiannon Giddens show at The Hellbender.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Quote with a ridiculous movie you think people should watch.
Poster for SHE (1984) Sandahl Bergman with red hair on top, holding a very impressive sword. Beneath her are superimposed full-body depictions of Berman (again) flanked by 4 other figures in ludicrous postapocalyptic armor and weapons.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Theres a great translation by the grandfather of a guy I used to play WFRP with.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just got my copy of @parthenoid.bsky.social 's new book!
a copy of Atlantis Through Time on one of the more "Fortean" shelves in the house.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
all my stupid cards
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Confronting the Lie
bottle with one of those pull off lids that never works
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
still from roger corman's Masque of the Red Death. a pale yellow room. from left to right a figure in a red cloak and fringed mask, vincent price  in a black "arab sheik" costume, jane asher in lavender silks and veil. shot by nicholas roeg.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
saw this beauty on my way to work today
a large and beautiful moth with sort of tan wings and pink, yellow and black lines and "eye" patterns on its wings.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A joyous Bloomsday to all who celebrate.
Marilyn Monroe sitting on what looks like a merry go round reading a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses. She is wearing a colorful horizontal striped one piece bathing suit and her hair is partially pinned up.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Matilda on her chicken.
A black short haired cat looking up at the viewer while lying on a crocheted chicken.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I keep meaning to write up this guy's cult and clergy for my rpg setting(s).
A Dinosaurs Attack! card depicting a multi eyed horned winged humanoid Dinosaur demon thong holding a struggling man in his grip.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I remember when this was a wacky game for weird nerds who liked Schwa tshirts and Robert Anton Wilson books
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"How many Tor?" (Art & Writing by Drew Friedman)
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
An alphabet-themed children's book that came across the desk today. It is about a mother gharial and her brood of 26 snapping babies. The illustrations are adorable beyond belief.
An anthropomorphic crocodilian with a very long snout, a housedress and a hat pushes a baby carriage filled with tiny long-snouted crocodilians in tiny bonnets. The title reads "Doris' Dear Delinquents"An anthropomorphic crocodilian with a very long snout, a housedress and a hat pushes a baby carriage filled with tiny long-snouted crocodilians in tiny bonnets. The title reads "Doris' Dear Delinquents"
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
RIP to a Legend.
The Mona Lisa, armed and armored, points down with her right hand while holding aloft a banner. Next to her is perhaps a page in green livery with a crescent moon for a face. Below them is a vast apocalyptic landscape with huge Venus flytrap like plants sprouting from the otherwise barren earth. Behond them, a flash of lightning.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
BREAKING: The Riverbottom Nightmare Band has backed out of Freedom 250.
Mammal amphibian and reptile Muppets wearing stage costumes. The... bear? looks like he's performing with Funkadelic.
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Bleeding Head of Criswell (owner/operator) @brazenhead.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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A rubber fish on a wooden plaque labeled "Big Mouth Billy Bass"
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