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ItIsStevenRhodes
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Hello. Come in. Cup of tea? Sorry about the blood on the handle. I draw, I paint, I am autistic, I drink Yorkshire Tea. Is that everything? I think that's everything.
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400footghost.bsky.social
Right, that's enough of suggesting you buy pictures - although it was a great suggestion, I felt - and now I need to go and do the washing up.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Hey, this drawing might make an ideal Christmas present for someone who likes squirrels and human skulls and the ambiguity of the relative sizes between the two.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
This Christmas drawing might make a nice Christmas present for someone who likes Christmas or just the idea of escaping from the horrors of now? Maybe.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
This drawing might make a nice Christmas present for that football fan in your life *or* that person who hates football in your life. Basically, it's for EVERYONE.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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whenisbirths.bsky.social
Bar book-related plugs and FLA episodes, won’t be on here much for a while. Genuinely quite scared about the future and the lack of paid work. If you know of any book editorial work coming up, do email me (email in bio). PS I do have to work from home at the moment. Thanks c
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
400footghost.bsky.social
I wouldn't punch somebody in the face in a *hurtful* way, you understand
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Not altogether fussed about the Dr Who spin-off 'The War Between the Land and Sea', *but* the title keeps reminding me of this, so I watched it again this morning. A film made up of hundreds of clips from the BFI archives which is lovely, moving and pleasingly haunting.
A DVD of Penny Woolcock's film, From The Sea To The Land Beyond. (With, as the cover also tells us, music by Sea Power, back when they were called British Sea Power.)
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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400footghost.bsky.social
A drawing in ink with pencil colours. A woman stands by a window frame, or some sort of rectangular hole into another place at any rate. She has highly stylised piled up hair and everything about her is shaded grey, except the drink in her huge glass, which is bright red for whatever reason. Next to her, and leaning against the frame, is a frankly rather redundant small ladder. Through the rectangle, we see a confusing mash of many Christmas trees at all angles, and baubles and stars. The woman looks at you and says, via a word bubble: oh hello, come on in, it's Christmas 1973 in here.
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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400footghost.bsky.social
Ink drawing with pencil colours. Against a white sky (i.e. the paper), just above the middle, the sun hangs from a wire that leads off the top of the page, who knows what it's connected to. The sun is yellow, has a face with closed eyes and gives off yellow and orange spiralling rays. Just below it, two blue-outlined clouds hover. On one of the clouds, and God knows how they got there, a person is stood, looking at the sun. The person is all in silhouette. Underneath all this, the words: The sun hanging over the seaside town of Molten-Bell-Metal.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Ink drawing with pencil colours. Against a white sky (i.e. the paper), just above the middle, the sun hangs from a wire that leads off the top of the page, who knows what it's connected to. The sun is yellow, has a face with closed eyes and gives off yellow and orange spiralling rays. Just below it, two blue-outlined clouds hover. On one of the clouds, and God knows how they got there, a person is stood, looking at the sun. The person is all in silhouette. Underneath all this, the words: The sun hanging over the seaside town of Molten-Bell-Metal.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
A drawing in ink with pencil colours. A woman stands by a window frame, or some sort of rectangular hole into another place at any rate. She has highly stylised piled up hair and everything about her is shaded grey, except the drink in her huge glass, which is bright red for whatever reason. Next to her, and leaning against the frame, is a frankly rather redundant small ladder. Through the rectangle, we see a confusing mash of many Christmas trees at all angles, and baubles and stars. The woman looks at you and says, via a word bubble: oh hello, come on in, it's Christmas 1973 in here.
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Oh God, I'll get back to you when I've chosen
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 15d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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lioneltwigg.bsky.social
Happy Birthday Dr Who! Still a quote I find more and more resonant. #doctorwho
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Happy 62nd birthday Doctor Who! As tradition dictates, or dictates to me at any rate, I'll be watching the first episode of this at around 5:15pm. And then later, Remembrance of the Daleks (just because it's ages since I've seen it and I feel like it).
A DVD of the first Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child, first broadcast today in 1963.
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor, from Doctor Who.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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400footghost.bsky.social
A drawing of:
a lion with a sandwich
A lion stands in a wide open white space, a few stylised brown, blue and yellow bushes in the foreground. The lion stands on two legs, is very slim and wears a blue tracksuit top. Its mane is orange and absolutely enormous. In its hands (paws) a sandwich, and on its face, a nightmarish, jaggedy-toothed sinister look. At the edge of the picture on the left, some blood is on the floor. At the top, a word bubble: "a lion with a jam sandwich. Well... there aren't many zebras round here to kill, are there? In fact, this lion did kill the only local zebra, and that was so he could steal its jam sandwich."
April 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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400footghost.bsky.social
A lion on a bike
It is indeed a drawing of a lion riding a bike. When I say "lion", it's not much like one really. More like a thin man with a yellow, scary face and a gigantic, circular orange mane. He wears a blue tracksuit top and has stripey legs. And rides a bike. In front of him, thirteen word bubbles come from unseen people: Oh my God, there's a lion! A lion! A lion! A lion on a bike! My uncle choked on a lion's mane! Help, a lion! Poison it! Call a taxi! Some kind of creature. It's on a brown bike! Pablo, build a zoo! A lion on a brown bike! Slap it!
July 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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400footghost.bsky.social
(lions)
Three lions, stood in a group. Like all lions, they are on their hind legs, wearing blue tracksuit tops and have small haunted-looking faces surrounded by enormous orange manes. One of the lions has a ukulele slung round his neck. Behind them, there is sort of a fourth lion, but it's only the head, floating. I don't know if that's better or worse.
November 7, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
Frida Kahlo :
El sueño (La cama)
The Dream (The Bed), 1940

Oil on canvas | 2′ 5″ x 3′ 3″

Self-portrait of the artist in her four-poster bed with a life-size skeletal sculpture laying above her

Further description in the alt text 👇
Unlike in many other countries in the world, in Mexico, death is not something to be mourned but celebrated with the dead with the "Day of the Dead" festival. It may sound weird for some people but in Mexican, death, and life are intricately tied together. In this painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death. In real life, Frida has a skeleton on the canopy of her bed. Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda Frida's lover but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. In this painting, both Frida and the skeleton are lying on the bed on their sides with their heads two pillows. While Frida is in a sound sleep, the skeleton is awake and watching. The skeleton is also wired with explosives that can go off and explode at any time. On Frida's body, green plants are a symbol of life and rebirth. The background clouds are light and airy and it seems the bed is floating in the sky. Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) (1940), at Sotheby’s, set off a protracted, two-way bidding war that pushed it past its $40m low estimate. It ultimately hammered for $47m to a client bidding by phone with Sotheby’s senior vice president and head of Latin American art Anna Di Stasi. With fees the price came to $54.6m, breaking the auction record for Kahlo’s work (set by Sotheby’s almost exactly four years ago), for a work by a Latin American artist and for a work by a female artist, surpassing the Georgia O’Keeffe painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932).
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Saw, and thoroughly enjoyed, Wicked For Good today and (mild spoiler ahead, though it's something in all publicity)... I think my favourite thing about it is that you don't really see Dorothy's face. Meaning that, for me, she is still, and always will be, Judy Garland.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
I saw the film trailer today. You know, the one where one character says something a bit odd and then all the music drops out for a second while someone else says something like, "uh... he's not coming with us, right?", and everyone in the cinema goes "huhuhuhuhuh" and then the music crashes back in
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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vimtotime.bsky.social
Have a festive furtle in my shoppe if you fancy 🎄

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hellohalloweeno.etsy.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
400footghost.bsky.social
Every so often, people look at my artwork and say, "what are you on?", "what are you smoking?" and the boring answer is... nothing, ever. I don't think I'd deal with drugs well at all. I'd be more Syd Barratt than John Lennon.
I just like making strange pictures :)
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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deathofbuckley.bsky.social
Hello. This is marvellous x
1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM