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Haematinon @haematinon.bsky.social · 3d

Impress me with your princesses! On the left, the mad, jealous Mistress of the West Agrauran, on the right, a noble woman of an Etoi Thiasos dancing with her Erotios, lover and part of her elected court.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

DESTROYING ANGEL (1982)
Acrylic on Canvas - 34” x 24”

All of the concepts I submitted for the 1982 Year’s Best Horror Stories cover were strong. If I had tried to guess which one would be chosen, the concept that became this painting would have been my last guess. 1/5

In a field of poppies, a skeletal figure wearing a black and red silk cloak holds a smiling mask set on the end of a thin staff. Sweeping the cloak aside in a welcoming gesture, it reveals an antique key hanging from a ring about its emaciated forearm. The other arm is tied off with rubber tubing. Pronounced veins run the length of necrotic flesh. Beneath the cloak, chains wraps the torso, criss-crossing, secured by a padlock. The green tunic beneath is torn to expose yellowing rib bones. Atop its tilted skull rests a crown of mushrooms and a single bird wing. Its orbitals are dead black, and many teeth are missing. A syringe dangles from a loose chain around its neck. Another needle hangs from its belt with longer cord weighed down by a spoon. A long opium pipe with a bulbous end is tucked through the belt. A winding tree rises behind the angel of death, bare limbs branching like veins, blue against the purple haze of the misty backdrop.

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andersweltler.bsky.social @andersweltler.bsky.social · 2d

"Der Fremde in Uns" von Arno Gruen
"Der Verrat am Selbst. Die Angst vor Autonomie bei Mann und Frau." von Arno Gruen
"Wider den Gehorsam" von Arno Gruen
(Würde vermutlich seine gesamte Bibliographie hier auflisten wenn ich die schon alle gelesen hätte)

"Männerfantasien" von Klaus Theweleit

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 3d

Under no circumstance would I describe the Kowloon Walled City as 'the worst city on earth', but, still, this is an amazing video on its recreation in Minecraft (hat tip @drteflon.bsky.social)

🏙️▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZQ...

The Worst City on Earth, Built in Minecraft

YouTube video by Sluda Builds

www.youtube.com

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 3d

GREEN ANGEL TOWER (1993)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27” x 36”

The cover art for the final installment of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a terrific fantasy series by Tad Williams. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and changed the landscape of publishing. 1/6

A contrast of two worlds set atop a tower spire. The left is elegantly detailed with elvish artistry while the right looks crumbled and weathered. Drifting from the background left to right, smoke rises off onion domes of the city. As it crosses the spire, the smoke transforms to cloud cover. An elvish male stares off in the distance with his white cloak partially wrapping his arm and his spear pointed down over his knee. There is a green metallic sheen to his leg armor. He holds an ornate shield, pearlescent green at the edges and white at the center, decorated with glyphs bound in a pink circle. Kneeling next to him is an elvish female wearing a pink and purple cloak. Holding a slender sword in one hand, she grips the thin railing that sits low over architectural detail, broad white leaves. On the other side of the spire, a human female glances haughtily at the audience with a bow held out, braced on her hip. Kneeling next to her, a blonde bearded male with a snowy lock glances over. He rests his sword back on his shoulder while holding a simple wooden shield in his offhand. His pants are torn; her cloak is tattered. Their side of the tower is made of crude snow covered stone, underlining a different reality.

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Fedora Project @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

As free Windows 10 support ends today, consider upgrading to a Linux operating system! You will continue to be protected with security updates, but you will also gain total freedom for your device.

Doesn't have to be Fedora - look around for the Linux distro that works for you. :)

Learn more […]

Original post on fosstodon.org

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 8d

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding
#KDE #Linux #OpenSource

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

KDE the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser.

www.gamingonlinux.com

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andersweltler.bsky.social @andersweltler.bsky.social · 7d

Klingt echt spannend, kommt auf meine Einkaufsliste (direkt mit dem Originalroman zusammen^^)

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Haematinon @haematinon.bsky.social · 7d

Another two examples, Enotria on the left, Fragments of the Past on the right, they were both painted at roughly the same time, at the inception of their respective projects. Sweet memories of "my God, I don't know how to paint, how am I supposed to finish this now?"

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andersweltler.bsky.social @andersweltler.bsky.social · 7d

I switched over to #Linux #bazzite and I worried that only bigger mainstream titles via steam would work well, since that's what I found the most guides about online.
But even obscure things like Mods for 20-30 year old games work rather easily. :D
I'm overjoyed

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Haematinon @haematinon.bsky.social · 8d

#PortfolioDay is upon us! Three artworks for three projects dear to my heart: Capitan Spaventa for the Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song, the Grand Duke of Mercury for my illustrated novel Ergo Cosmos, and an idol of Ata Ata for the Bronze-age dreams of Fragments of the Past.

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Jane Thrace @ladyjanethrace.bsky.social · 8d

and here's the canal compiled & ingame, with a very WIP soundscape! ^^

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andersweltler.bsky.social @andersweltler.bsky.social · 9d

Absolut richtig gemacht

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 9d

As Josh Sawyer points out, keeping things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history is very wise indeed.

▶️ www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/rp...

RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'

Which is also why Deadfire is the best CRPG of at least the last decade, just saying.

www.pcgamer.com

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 11d

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_;
Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

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andersweltler.bsky.social @andersweltler.bsky.social · 13d

I think you understand it right (Ursula K. Le Guin even makes this a component of her scifi stories)!
But a lot of scifi tries to dodge this problem with said wormholes, or hyperspace, or other weirder methods which might be more ScienFantasy than Scifi^^

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14d

Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”

A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic illustrations, its origins remaining to this day a mystery…. It’s not as satisfying a plot, say, of a Nationa...

www.openculture.com

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 14d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 14d

Die Vorstellung, dass Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen das immer dokumentieren können, ist außerdem leider ziemlich weltfremd. Gerade für Menschen, die in Familien aufgewachsen sind, in denen sich psychologische Hilfe suchen stark abgewertet & stigmatisiert wurde. Oder Sucht normalisiert wird.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 14d

Es ist nicht übertrieben zu sagen: Diese Maßnahmen werden Menschen in die Obdachlosigkeit treiben. Wer eine schwere Depression hat oder Alkoholkrank ist, wird sich nicht um eine Entschuldigung fürs Fehlen kümmern KÖNNEN. Diese Menschen brauchen Hilfe und keine Sanktionen. Es ist so bitter.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 14d

Es werden so viele Menschen durch die Lücken im System fallen. Alleinerziehende ohne stabile Betreuung für die Kids. Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen. Suchtkranke Menschen. Pflegende. Diese Leute zu bestrafen wird niemandem helfen. Das ist ein Armutszeugnis für ein eigentlich reiches Land.

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❄️elfophilia contagiosis❄️ @ellirhshaan.bsky.social · 16d

finished the sketch of the cause of his bad posture :D

Enorgaol is not a vampire, he's a snow elf who's race was merged with fey creatures. And that fey needs blood to exist. Eno eats normal food, but also needs to drink blood once a few days to "feed" his fey (in)side
#art #ocsky #elfenjoyers #dnd

concept art of my dnd character Enorgaol in his snow elf form. He has snow-white skin, hair and eyes. Some hart of hair are black. At the body sketch is visible: white thick fur with a black colored stripe covers his neck and chest.

#ellirhshaan #oc

concept art of my dnd character Enorgaol in his fey form. It is a 3m tall humanoid-looking monster with milk-white skin (which looks more like exposed muscle fiber) and bone plates growing on it in random places. It has a long bone tail and black claws on legs and hands. At the "attack mode" sketch it has his mouth open and showing a few tentacles and a long sting pulled from the throat. It also has a pair of mosquito wings grown on it's back and looking like they're made from blood.

#ellirhshaan #monster #darkart cw blood

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Jan 27

Ghost in the Shell and Manga Entertainment's ad/cameo in Syndicate Wars (1996 DOS version).

I like the irony of the actual in-game 'talkie' ad in a hellhole of a cyberpunk city casting shade (from an in-universe perspective) on Ghost in the Shell and calling it a 'vision born of a nightmare past'.

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 17d

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...

www.openculture.com

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Adventure Game Hotspot @aghotspot.bsky.social · 17d

Breaking NEWS: And an interview about Broken Sword 2 reforged. Charles Cecil and the reforging of Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror adventuregamehotspot.com/interview/52... @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social @cressup.bsky.social
#indiegames #adventuregame #indiegame

Charles Cecil and the reforging of Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror | Adventure Game Hotspot

Charles Cecil shares his thoughts on the upcoming "faithful reimagining" of Revolution's 1997 second adventure of George Stobbart and Nico Collard.

adventuregamehotspot.com

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