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J.S. Allen

@jseanallen.bsky.social

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Author of the fantasy adventure novel A BAD PLACE BEST FORGOTTEN. Neurodivergent photographer, artist, data scientist. Lover of nature and wisdom.

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Give us your castaways, your tales of remnants and remainders, of subsistence against the odds. What is left behind? Who walks among the ruins? Why do I have this vestigial arm?

Spoon Knife 11: Remnants call for poetry, memoir, fiction:
autpress.com/2025/07/call...

a disintegrating boat on the shore; photo by Brian Smith

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 3h

congratulations you are gay now

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Hope Doe @flyapples.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober day 15 ragged

They're friend looked cold, so they gave him gifts
友達は寒そうなので、贈り物をあげました

#inktober2025 #inktoberday15 #ragged

A watercolor and sumi painting of a corpse scarecrow as crows give gifts of scrap cloth

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 1d

Demonic snake entering our plane

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

"Pharaoh called in his wise men & sorcerers. The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their spells: each man threw down his staff & they all turned into snakes."
Exodus 7:11-12

This is the 'Pharaoh's Serpents' demonstration, by YouTuber NileRed.

It uses toxic mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2)

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 1d

moon gazing
#inktober #fantasyart

two winged figures on a plain, a vast moon the craters of which have eyes in the night sky, a mountain ridge

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 1d

Aardvarks deserve toys too

omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 3d

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 1d

what yoga pose is this

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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 1d

there's something wrong with the rabbits

a character sitting in a room with a moose skull on the wall. black rabbits surround them in the shadow

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, to be shipwrecked!

J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 2d

I don't eat till my snek eats

omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 2d

Cat feeding its toy snake.😍

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Puck @puckbethy.bsky.social · 3d

Gibt noch Blümchen

Pinkfarbene Stockrose lehnt an einer Fensterscheibe in der sie sich zusammen mit dem blauen Himmel spiegelt

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shel's gone @portablecity.bsky.social · 13d

I painted this warrior woman with my non-dominant hand when I had to turn down a fun art job shortly after arm surgery; I needed to prove that I could still paint, albeit way, way slower at that time, and I'm still so proud of her!

A woman in late middle age, sitting in anglosaxon / medieval clothing and partial armor, with a golden helmet at her feet, at the base of a big tree. She is a heavier built white woman with dark greying hair in a long braid with red ribbon.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 9

Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:

Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.

Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.

Christopher Columbus awaits sentencing in jail.

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 3d

pungent use of color

J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 3d

they really know how to read an audience

's mind

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 3d

All mind flayers really want is to show off their thespian skills by performing Shakespeare. #ttrpg #art

A painting of a mauve humanoid with a tentacled face holding a skull.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3d

In flight snowy plover sequence. First time I ever got this angle, super rare you can get below the bird, since they're ya know.. in the sand, but luckily they were on a sand... ridge? #birds

a snowy plover going with flapping wings to in flight, 4 different shots

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 4d

AAAAAAAAAAH II

Ink drawing of pointy dogwolf with three sets of eyes howling at a red moon with some red mountains in the distance

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J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 4d

Can it be any kind of a thing? Like, here, touch this over-ripe banana

J.S. Allen @jseanallen.bsky.social · 5d

maybe if you post a pic we can send affirmations

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Laura the Spookiest of Ducks @fallenlights.net · 7d

One of my patrons requested a spider with a hat!
I remembered to take a WIP video of painting this little guy :)
www.patreon.com/posts/140842...
(There's also TWO art spaces at the branches tier if you want a little halloween drawing)
#bsnm #Halloween