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Elegiast

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Half-light of a starveling soul.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h
shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.
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Ian MacEwan @ianmacewan.bsky.social · 21h
Wolftober!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 17h
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

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Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

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Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Julia Lundman 🩵🧚🦄🧌 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a few quick sketches - looking forward to painting some studies on the return home, especially the many graveyards I didn’t get a chance to draw.
Broken wall, vines and a distant landscape Hamish the CooYork Minster as viewed from our hotel roomSome nicely placed houses in York
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'The sword is there, if you want it.' A sword for you, on the last day of Swordtember.
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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tried again today with PATTERNS! Still not happy with the skull but I did it!
A mari in a patterned cloak holds a candle
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⛓️Nye🐇 @nigelgraz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I always draw my favorite and most earnest pieces about really painful and vulnerable things that i was most resistant to create
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jojomama38.bsky.social @jojomama38.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
one dollar digital colored pencil brush that can be any color you want it to be is now live... ko-fi.com/s/cef920b108
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INIRO @ bg tips pdf is out!! @iniro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
intruder
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⛓️Nye🐇 @nigelgraz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish i wanted to forget
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HolBat(Commission open on November) @kholbatar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Francine, the Protheus fashion designer ✨️ #artsky #ocsky #scifi #cyberpunk
A cyborg lady with white skin and a black half-mask in a long dress
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're trying to "solve art" you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. Art isn't a problem, it's a solution
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s coming… 🎃
A marker drawing of the “Dancing Pumpkin Guy” in a small Moleskine sketchbook. To the right are two Copic markers.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 30/09/2026
'The Victor’ Winsor Mccay, 1914
skeleton holding a sword aloft as it stands on a corpse strewn field
a bat flies past the moon behind
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Death & Milk @deathandmilk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
E V E R G R A V E
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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another one.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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sophie_exhausted_finalFINAL_03.psd @netizenses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tried something new and summoned the courage to show my face :) amongst all the paintings, that is ✨ #digitalart #artist #illustration
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Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m in this image and I don’t like it
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 29/09/2026
FUCK YEAH LET'S GOOOOO! SUPPORT HUMAN ARTISTS!!! Hirehumanartists.com
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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 29/09/2026
Tech is at the ‘its ok that you will be deskilled by our product’ and ‘evil is good actually because its productive’ phase. No hero OR villain I can remember in fiction ever openly promised to make you less mentally capable as part of their pitch.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026
there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026
came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id...
I figured out how to be happy / but I can't tell you. / You not knowing is a big part of it.
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Halloween in Hanbok 01
Halloween in Hanbok 01. The summoner of Death.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dang. Gotta go to the day job. I got a good start on this guy tho. I’m bringing writing to work on on breaks today
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Chris H. 🍄🌛 @sutexii.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Commission 🐺 -✷- sutexii.art#commission #art #commission
Color bust commission. A portrait, framed against an abstract medical cutout of a werewolf
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Online sex workers are some of the hardest workers out there, having to do their own shoots, their own lighting, their own promotion, *and* their own community management, while the platform takes a huge cut 🙃
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alex moore @notanotheralex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
crashing into a new week like.... snippets from the @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social DADHAMMER cover art. in the grim dark future, there is only Dad. #art #DnD #TTRPG #DungeonsAndDaddies
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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PrairieGh0st @prairiegh0st.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SKULLS!!!!
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
yay
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Max @jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Parade of beasts
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sylvia Hotel
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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
𝔅𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔩𝔢
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ani ✵ @aniakka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Skeb commission for @phonehexoperator.bsky.social ! [ #VGenCommission #art ]
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早柚Sayu @descendinight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Demon of Fall(帮我) #oc #illustration
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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Given today's news I'm not sure if he's such a good guard dog...
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Dookie || C0MMS OPEN @fattcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watch your back
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Jessica the Bestica 🏳️‍🌈Thought Bubble TM Hall A5 ☕Trying My Best @anireal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉🌱🍄 Poison Ivy cover 50 🍄🌱🎉 A new era~ We made it y'all ♥️ Thank you so much for the support and sharing stories of how art has connected with and inspired you~ 🌱
Character Poison Ivy holding a needle filled with green liquid in front of her face.
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apdoodles @apdoodles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
V.IV RUSTY - STEEL HAZE #ARMOREDCOREVI #AC6 #アーマードコア
An illustration of the mecha "STEEL HAZE" from Armored Core 6. It wields a large laser slicer on its left arm, whirling it rapidly to block incoming fire.
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Resident Evil Victoria @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Start by offering little miniature vans to warhammer enthusiasts and then slowly give them bigger ones over time
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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 27/09/2026
identitas. #commission
a sketch of circeus, masked character whose mask has been blown off to reveal a vacant hole. an owl passes over the blank space.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka) @nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Shimmering Mackerels at Market" (2023)
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