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Kirsten Thompson

@kirstenthompson.bsky.social
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comic book writer • magic, monsters & hungry plants • APERTURE • I AM HEXED • Rep: Jas Perry @lookingglasslit.bsky.social • 🏳️‍🌈• linktr.ee/kirstenthompson

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 04/10/2026
❤️ Supergirl ❤️
Drawing of Supergirl up in the air, arms casually raised, looking peaceful and at ease, likely hoping all of those below her are feeling the same, ever ready to help those who aren't.
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Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 04/10/2026
The Heritage Apple Corps have found trees in central Oregon that are genetic matches for some of the rare "lost" apple varieties we find in the islands. With more sampling, both here and there, we hope to be able to properly identify these varieties and bring them back into production.
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These 130-year-old Central Oregon pioneer apple trees are still bearing fruit
Apple trees planted by Central Oregon's first homesteaders 130 years ago are still producing fruit, and some varieties are so rare that DNA tests came back as unique.
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June Hunter Images @junehunterimages.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We went hiking in the snow yesterday, hoping (always) to find ravens. It was only back in the fog-filled parking lot that these two landed beside me. I know this couple, having recorded their special duet before. #ravens #birds 🪶
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/10/2026
Big brother www.inprnt.com/artist/print...
Drawing of a white-haired, sharp-clawed gentlemen in Japanese fantasy robe and armor. Sesshoumaru from Inuyasha is some peak This Is My OC character design
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i can feel the spookiness in the air
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"Watchtower" Painting study
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s
Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face
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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
APERTURE is on shelves now! It's got a time-travel romance, library with a spiral staircase & a mystery 🌈 📚 Written by me & illustrated by @huenito.bsky.social
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#LandBack! The Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its the first phase of a 30,000-acre land return. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/rea...
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Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres in first phase of major land return
The Penobscot Nation has regained 11,297 acres near Katahdin as partners pursue a $32.5 million effort to return more than 30,000 acres.
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
an elven lyrist from Mirkwood -{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-
An elf with long flowing yellow hair, wearing loose orange garment, playing an enchanted elven lyre and surrounded by decorative plants, leaf motiffs and a mystical haze. She's from the Mirkwood, a location from J.R.R. Tolkien's book "The Hobbit".
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay
Rabbit sat reading, marginalia.
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of firey orange mycena mushrooms grow from the side of a fallen log under warm fall overgrowth. All photos by me
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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Autumn 🍂
illustration by Abigail Larson depicting the ghost of a woman walking under a ruined stone arch. Three goblins watch her from the top of the ruins. The image has an Autumnal atmosphere, dead leaves are falling.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
APERTURE is out today! Time travel ⌛ romance 🌈 & a library 📚 Written by me & illustrated by @huenito.bsky.social from @nakamapress.bsky.social
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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, c’mon, put some respect on Red Hood’s name
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@moochava.bsky.social

There's a completely separate working class vigilante for the community college dropouts who get themselves mutated or crazified.

Theodore Hill (he/him) @probably...• 1d

Still sick and watching Batman the Animated Series and is it weird to anyone else how many Batman villains have doctorates?
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Book mail! APERTURE is a time travel romance with a plot significant library 📚 & camera 📷 APERTURE will be in bookstores on 9/22 (Tuesday!) Written by me and illustrated by @huenito.bsky.social y.social from @nakamapress.bsky.social Pre-order APERTURE: bit.ly/4r8VdNj
An open cardboard box, inside which are copies of APERTURE by Kirsten Thompson and illustrated by HuenitoA copy of APERTURE. Sage, a college student with a ponytail and undercut, stands in a warm toned library as she looks at August, a college student dressed in 1900s clothing, in the same room, but with snow on the books and floor, also holding a camera. Written by Kirsten Thompson, and illustrated by Huenito. A black and white interior page of APERTURE. Sage, a college student, stands looking up at a huge gothic style building with the word LIBRARY on it. From APERTURE, written by Kirsten Thompson and illustrated by Huenito
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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats
Digital illustration of a Leopardus tilcayo with two images of the cat in profile and in a crouched pose
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 17/09/2026
Hemingway describing F Scott Fitzgerald's mouth was basically foretelling Jeremy Brett: "a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth that, on a girl, would have been the mouth of a beauty. .... The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more."
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's so wild and wonderful that this robot has been wandering around Mars for FOURTEEN YEARS and we get to watch it trundle about and poke rocks and send home postcards. ❤️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
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Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA Science
While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times
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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
APERTURE will be in stores on shelves, & wherever else you find your new books next week! #booksky
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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 07/09/2026
Reptile. Gouache on paper, 3rd one for #septempera. Started as a lizard, morphed into a dragon. With a fancy hat, of course.
Painting in gouache of a green dragon (a twisted lizard with tiny wings) wearing a floating hat with a feather.
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Miniature birds 57 - Eastern Screech Owl
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love the sounds baby cranes make. It takes 2-5 years for young sandhills to grow the 2-3ft long bony coils of trachea (which grow literally into the bones of their thick, shield-like keels) to make the loud, trumpeting calls of their parents. They literally become organic French horns inside! 🪶
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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
APERTURE comes out later this month! 📚 It has time travel with romance, libraries with romantic spiral staircases & a mystery Written by me & illustrated by @huenito.bsky.social from @nakamapress.bsky.social Pre-order APERTURE: bit.ly/4r8VdNj #comicsky
Sage, a college student with a ponytail and an undercut, wearing a striped sweatshet, stands in front of a large bulliten board covered in old photos in 'mystery to be solved' style. Beside her stands a male student wearing glasses, enthusiastically explaining what Sage is seeing. Above them are the words APERTURE and an old photograph of a group of people in front of a fountain dressed in early 1900s clothing.  From APERTURE, written by Kirsten Thompson, and illustrated by Huenito.
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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 07/09/2026
💣 Harley vs Kara ❤️
Watercolor drawing of Harley Quinn, giant bomb in hands, about to drop off the ledge of a building mid-pursuit of a floating Supergirl; finding herself in a very looney Coyote vs Roadrunner situation.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.
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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Introducing the BEEP BEEP Choir from Coyote vs ACME!!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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Nakama Press @nakamapress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Aperture will appeal to anyone who loves a good romance or manga. [It's] a romance story that transcends the usual romantic comedy fluff, with beautiful art and plot twists that will keep you guessing until the end." Review via @aiptcomics.com: bit.ly/4ip2yGL By Kirsten Thompson & Huenito
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‘Aperture’ is a time-hopping romance
Two people living a century apart fall in love.
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Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 05/09/2026
comic books in the 90’s lead me to believe I would be wearing a lot more bandoliers full of pouches when I grew up
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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ME: *staring at a sneaky potted mint plant* mint is the bamboo of herbs ALSO ME: *wrestling a potted mint plant*
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Muppet Show: Dr. Teeth's Plant Piano Performance
Alt: Muppet Show: Dr. Teeth's Plant Piano Performance
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It doesn't really sink in how insane the Roman Empire was until you write a sentence like "We have the skeleton of a man in York who was bitten by a lion."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
absolutely wheezing at an Instagram clip of comic Stevie Martin (who I love from being a maniac on Taskmaster) claiming that Shakespeare only had three plays: 1. “I’m Not a Good Monarch” 2. “I’ll Pretend To Be You, You Hide Behind That Plant, and We’ll Both Marry Her” 3. “The Lion King”
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 31/08/2026
The Fifth Element (1997): Flight attendant uniforms, costume design by Jean-Paul Gaultier
Fashion illustration of two women wearing futuristic flight attendant uniforms by Jean Paul Gaultier for The Fifth Element, featuring dark navy and bright blue mini-dresses with winged pillbox hats and silver high-heeled boots.Fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier poses with four models wearing matching blonde wigs and blue futuristic flight attendant costumes from the movie The Fifth Element.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 30/08/2026
Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀
Digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a stylized portrait of Mary Shelley
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The understated Black-crested Coquette #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature
A colorful hummingbird perched on a small branch, displaying bright green head feathers, a dark throat, and spotted orange-and-white underparts against a soft green and purple background.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss
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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing
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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Street art in her honor from SE Seattle
A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."
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