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Chessboard Man The Ancient One

@chessboardman.bsky.social
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Writer, painter, player of video games, watcher of anime and cartoons, reader of book, manga and comics. I write mini choose-your-own-adventure stories for a Children’s comic in the UK, the Phoenix Comic, but I’m also trying to write my own novels.

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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Meanwhile let’s look of both series literal space Fascists. Both either use grey or a really drab green. Green may be a colour, but you couldn’t really describe this green as colourful. They also have yellow and red, but they still don’t feel colourful.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looking into some uniforms from anime, Macross’s human uniforms are pretty colourful with splashes of colour, while still clearly military uniforms. Gundam’s Federation uniforms vary more, but so does their morality. I’m willing to bet that when they’re more heroic they are more colourful.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dear whoever developed Silent Mist: Deep Nightmare. Are you ripping off Silent Hill or Alan Wake American Nightmare?
Photo taken of the Switch eShop store page for a game titled “Silent Mist Deep Nightmare”. The title card looks very much like Silent Hill or Alan Wake.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Facebook will hide the back button to stop you from leaving videos, but not the text and other junk that gets in the way of actually watching the videos. These are not systems designed for user enjoyment. The same information is also impossible to remove on Instagram if you fullview a reel.
A random screencap from a short video on Facebook (do they call them reels?). The back button to leave the video can not be seen. However the video owner, their avatar, their follow button, the number of likes, comments, shares and bookmarks, the music information and at least some of the text description of the video are impossible to hide from view.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I can not emphasise how essential a purchase Tomodachi Life is, especially if you’re a creative person. You might not be able to get stuff perfect, especially with the limited tools, but you can certainly capture the spirit of any characters you want to include.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Can @jamiesmart.bsky.social guess who I added to Fates&Fortunes island in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream?
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Here’s an Animation I made for the Fates & Fortunes episode in last week’s Phoenix issue. Kids at Phoenix Fest may have already seen it. Made with Divoom.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I don’t know if anyone here has Phoenix Comic reading kids, and are going to be at Phoenix Fest, but here’s an animation I made of this week’s Fates & Fortunes…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I saw a post of an AI animation today. The original poster was real proud, but it was all over the place. There was a car in it, and the car’s windscreen kept changing, eyes, no eyes, and whether it was split down the middle or not. And at one point a character places a cup on an optical illusion.
A screenshot from an AI made animation, showing a sloth put a cup of tea on the side of a car. As in, they place the cup on a vertical surface, as though it is a horizontal surface. As the AI can’t tell the difference.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Luke Hyde is an artist who has worked on some of the Fates & Fortunes stories I’ve written, and they currently have a Kickstarter for the first two chapters of their comic: Bacon. Their art for F&F is always a treat, so you know this will be too. Go here: shorturl.at/eQWBP @lukehyde.bsky.social
A page from the comic, Bacon, showing the main character sitting on a rooftop, looking out over a body of water, towards an abandoned theme park.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just kidding earlier, here’s the (mostly) finished Bridget kit. Happy Trans Day of Visibility!
The finished Bridget (from Guilty Gear) kit with her Yo-yo.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy (late in some places) Trans day of Visibility … I decided to build Bridget from Guilty Gear… But…
an unfinished model kit of Bridget from Guilty Gear. text: "Ok, I have until midnight to build this. How much time is left?"a clock showing it is about to strike 11 O'clock. text: "Good, an hour. Plenty of time!"
the box that held the model kit, but now the model kit has turned invisible. text: "What? Where's my kit gone?"
Megatron, standing in for me, decrying their/my misfortune at making a big mistake. text: "How I had- Wait! the clocks changed on Sunday (in the UK)- AND I CHANGE MY CLOCKS! NOOOOO!"
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
More Cake pictures. I’ll post more when cake is cut probably.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Is it cake? Yes- no wait, no, but there is a cake! 3rd of the 3rd is the day I was borne into this World, and this year my mum did a cake of Eous the Bangboo from #ZenlessZoneZero . No you can’t have a piece, it’s all mine! #zzz #cake (also a plushie off Amazon)
An Eous the Bangboo plushie we found on Amazon.An Eous the Bangboo Cake made and decorated by my mum.The Plushie with the cake, just to make sure you know the plushie is Not cake. The cake with lit candles.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Was browsing future Switch eShop releases, and I came across a blast from the past… #dragonhalf
A screencap from a game clearly showing Mink from Dragon Half having a Cameo in the game.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I got another drill in my Advent Calendar. Kamina-Mas is nearly upon us…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Believe in the me who believes in miracles, I got a Drill in my Advent Calendar today! Merry Kamina-Mass to one and all! #gurrenlagann #aventcalendar
A drill chocolate piece from an advent calendar, and definitely not a bell turned on its side. I have no idea why you’d think that.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Please someone tell me that the reason “she” is holding a Polaroid of Musk against her phone is that part of the prompt is “A phone with a photo of Elon Musk”? It’s salmon in a river all over again. Every time these idiots try to show off AI, they just reveal how flawed it is… and their own nature…
A tweet showing Elon Musk congratulating one of his gooners for using Gork to make a fake waifu. What we can see of the prompt is… is pure cringe, but we can’t see the entire prompt. One odd feature of the created image is the created waifu is holding a tiny photo of Elon Musk against the back of her phone case.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Is anyone making a fan database of custom machines with their searchable IDs? It’d be cool if you could upload your customs to a database, then give them tags so people can search for customs they want? Like #transformers #Starscream #StarscreamG1 for the below? #kirbyairriders
A Kirby Air Riders Custom machine, made to look like G1 Starscream.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I may be having too much fun with the pimp my ride feature in #KirbyAirRiders … (Note, Hot Rod is even a kinda pinky red like the original toy).
The Chariot vehicle from Kirby Air Riders, customised to look like G1 Transformers Hot Rod’s vehicle mode (ID: M02R7SB1 )Another Kirby Air Riders vehicle made to look like G1 Optimus Prime’s truck mode. (ID: M5629JKV )There’s even a (toy) Optimus Prime face on top. (ID: M5629JKV )The Transformers Hot Rod’s Chariot.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
And the pumpkins from outside again…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#pumpkin no.5 is the skull faced #taskmaster , as in #marvelstaskmaster , not the TV series. I definitely did not do this as a sacrifice to @kim-hu.com . Nope. I did it as he has a skull face. Yep. #pumpkins #pumpkincarving #pumpkinlantern #jackolantern #halloween2025 #halloween
Marvel’s Taskmaster (the comic one) close to matching a Very old comic cover- BUT IT’S A PUMPKIN! Dun Dun DUN!
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
More pictures…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#noimnotahuman , I’m a pumpkin. #pumpkin no.4 of #halloween2025 is this guy from a game by @trioskaz.bsky.social . He looks cold, do you think I should let him in? #pumpkins #pumpkincarving #pumpkinlantern #halloween #happyhalloween #jackolantern
That “guy” from No I’m Not a Human. That One guy. But it’s a pumpkin. Also included, a close up of his pearly whites.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#pumpkin no.3, Alpine, @xanillisgrimm.bsky.social ‘s character in the @theunexpectables.bsky.social ‘s #halloween #cyberpunk campaign, #AllSaintsDie . #pumpkincarving #pumpkinlantern #pumpkins #Halloween2025 #jackolantern
A Cyberpunk Netrunner with the usual tells and signs. They are a player character in the Unexpectable’s Cyberpunk campaign. Some of these shots have a pumpkin’s usual glow, but some shots have a blue glow.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
And here’s how it appears in my window, next to my Twisted Cryptids pumpkin.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#pumpkin no.2 for #halloween2025 is the titular character of #slaytheprincess by @blacktabbygames.com . That’s right, I converted @abbyhoward.bsky.social ‘s art into a #jackolantern … #pumpkincarving #pumpkins
A rather insane princess, from a screenshot of Slay The Princess, as a pumpkin.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tis time for Pumpkins! First up, a Twisted Cryptids pumpkin, based on the game from @unstablegames.bsky.social (assuming that actually is them) #pumpkins #halloween #jackolantern #twistedcryptids #cryptids #unstablegames #halloween
The Twisted Cryptids box art  (with Mothman, Big Foot, Jackalope and Loveland frog) carved into a pumpkin.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
#pingpongperil on #shonenjump hasn’t really clicked with me, but I couldn’t say why… but still seems a shame that I’m pretty sure it’s ending in an episode or few… but you have to hand it to them for taking the series to the logical extreme…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
There’s a #hazinhotel count down? Then have this Alastor pumpkin I carved back around the time of the Original Pilot. Tis’ the season!
Alastor from Hazin Hotel, his usual grinning self, carved into a pumpkin.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
These High Rise roads that are also somehow street level, since they are both surrounded by bottomless pits, but have building entrances. I just accepted it, but if you take a minute to think about it… ?
Roboco from Me & Roboco, with that lion that sometimes turns up, with a blank expression saying “I don’t get it.”
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The animated title card for this year’s Halloween F&F, “In Dreams We Trust…”
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A “Trailer” for this year’s Halloween F&F, coming soon…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A short Eva the Cheetah animation.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Mysterious Teller, narrator of Fates & Fortunes…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Phoenix Fest Mascot, a Phoenix, watching a shooting star
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
About to start the trip up to the Lake District for the Lake International Comic Art Festival ( #LICAF ) or at least the #PhoenixFest part of it, to do signings as the writer of Fates & Fortunes in the Phoenix Comic. If you’re going to be there, feel free to say hi. Here’s some animations I’ve made.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Can we post gifs on this site yet?
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A picture of Lieutenant M'Ress (the cat girl from the old Star Trek Cartoon) with the words: “It’s ok, I’m still legal. I’m Sci-Fi not Fantasy.”
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A picture of Lieutenant M'Ress (the cat girl from the old Star Trek Cartoon) with the words: “It’s ok, I’m still legal. I’m Sci-Fi not Fantasy.”
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I have found the Question to the Universe and everything… in a Chinese Gacha Game of all places… (And yes, it does tell me what question 42 answers). #hitchhikersguidetothegakaxy #zzz
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Ok, serious question people, how are you supposed to open these kinds of boxes without tearing them? The main box has no room for extra cards, so I pretty much need to hang onto these boxes. So the less tearing, the better.
An expansion box for a game called Greenlight- pretty much a pack of different cards. However the box is packed tight and impossible to open. The top already shows signs of tearing from attempts to open it.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Generative AI may be legal on the Internet, but few will openly admit to practicing it now that we all realise it is stealing and creatively bankrupt.
A guy in a hood from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, saying the “Necromancy may be legal in Cyrodiil…” quote
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m going to go obscure and suggest the Endeavour/Inspector Morse characters. (Btw the way, the Young guy in Endeavour is the same character as the Old guy in Morse. The Endeavour series was a prequel).
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Been feeling absolutely wretched today- headache, painful coughing, snot lodged in throat requiring I cough it up. I’ve had to take my first sick day in… forever. New plushies arrived though. I need to get back into reading the comic with the crow in it. I’m not aro, but I like the design + GITD.
Two plushies. A crow with a witch hat from the webcomic Realta on WEBTOON, and a dragon in aro colours. I’m not Aro, I just like the design.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Imagine: you’re eating a donut when you feel something hard in your mouth. you pick it out- a tooth? Then you feel more. You spit out your mouthful and check your teeth but, they’re all there. That’s because those were the donut’s teeth. This is the world of @neillcameron.bsky.social Donut Squad.
Anxiety Donut (yes, that is the character’s actual name) screaming, showing off his human looking teeth. Anxiety Donut is indeed a donut suffering from anxiety.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The #GQuuuuuuX model kit is fun a very different from other Gunpla. There are a couple things that are a little bothersome. It has some very small pieces, almost Real Grade level of intricate. Second, the stickers for the red stripes are the worst. Hard to get to stick, even easier to lose…
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Cake made by my Mum, and eaten by me.
Walking Mushroom cake with a slice taken.
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hey BlueSky, hey @yenpress.com , thought people might like my Birthday cake (I was born 3rd of the 3rd) , so I shall share (photos of) it!
A Walking Mushroom from Delicious in Dungeon, was a cake. (Other photos are with different lighting)
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Chessboard Man The Ancient One @chessboardman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Colleagues or “colleagues”?
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