Alison Robin
@alisonrobin.com
Lover of creepy crawlies and weird/scary storytelling in all kinds of media. Doing a variety of digital, traditional, fiber, and textile art. Dream enthusiast & amateur oneironaut. Open to chat!
Art only: @alisonrobin.bsky.social
Art only: @alisonrobin.bsky.social
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"Superhero fatigue" is a skill issue.
Watch some Czechoslovakian stop-motion animation, or a 1970s New York grindhouse sleazer, or Japanese found footage horror, or a British gangster flick, or a Korean melodrama, or a Brazilian historical political thriller.
Just watch MORE.
Watch some Czechoslovakian stop-motion animation, or a 1970s New York grindhouse sleazer, or Japanese found footage horror, or a British gangster flick, or a Korean melodrama, or a Brazilian historical political thriller.
Just watch MORE.
I just saw an article calling a piece of media the “cure for superhero fatigue.”
The cure for fatigue is TAKING A BREAK, not more of what fatigued you, whether it’s good or not.
Like, jogging is good, but if you’re fatigued from jogging, more jogging won’t cure your fatigue. You need to REST.
The cure for fatigue is TAKING A BREAK, not more of what fatigued you, whether it’s good or not.
Like, jogging is good, but if you’re fatigued from jogging, more jogging won’t cure your fatigue. You need to REST.
two older women in a kitchen with the words i 'm just being picky written below them
Alt: One of the Golden Girls declares “ I’m just being picky ! “
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:51 PM
"Superhero fatigue" is a skill issue.
Watch some Czechoslovakian stop-motion animation, or a 1970s New York grindhouse sleazer, or Japanese found footage horror, or a British gangster flick, or a Korean melodrama, or a Brazilian historical political thriller.
Just watch MORE.
Watch some Czechoslovakian stop-motion animation, or a 1970s New York grindhouse sleazer, or Japanese found footage horror, or a British gangster flick, or a Korean melodrama, or a Brazilian historical political thriller.
Just watch MORE.
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Trying to find all my mutuals, only to remember that most of them have cartoons for their userpics and are named stuff like Benjamin Buttlord, so that's probably going to take some time
January 23, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Trying to find all my mutuals, only to remember that most of them have cartoons for their userpics and are named stuff like Benjamin Buttlord, so that's probably going to take some time
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Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now.
⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain.
A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now.
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here's the thing about the americans you are asking to sacrifice themselves for you: we are used to that, america has been in a protracted effort to get us up curl up in the gutters and die quietly for our whole lives
January 21, 2026 at 3:58 PM
here's the thing about the americans you are asking to sacrifice themselves for you: we are used to that, america has been in a protracted effort to get us up curl up in the gutters and die quietly for our whole lives
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Giveaway! We have an extra advance reader copy of Clive Barker's Jump Tribe for one lucky reader. To enter, tell us what you're reading at the moment (or, alternately, what your first read of 2026 was!). Ends Wed. Jan. 28, at noon ET. Open int'l! About the book: subterraneanpress.com/barker-jt/
January 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Giveaway! We have an extra advance reader copy of Clive Barker's Jump Tribe for one lucky reader. To enter, tell us what you're reading at the moment (or, alternately, what your first read of 2026 was!). Ends Wed. Jan. 28, at noon ET. Open int'l! About the book: subterraneanpress.com/barker-jt/
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uphold chinchillazilla thought
We have a dog walker once a week because of my dog’s disability/anxiety to help keep him accustomed to being handled by strangers outside of our presence and today I gave our walker a container of my chile verde with some arroz and it ended with him asking me how to get involved in local organizing.
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
uphold chinchillazilla thought
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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i know it stings to come up with a plan for "twitter but for credulous tech troglodytes" only to have the great lord of the tech troglodytes buy the actual twitter and eat your entire lunch and the table it was on while the old and gay rats beneath flee to your half-finished table. but it's funny
personally i don't care what people talk about on here as long as it continues to be stuff that clearly pisses off the staff because they can't make money off it
January 21, 2026 at 3:38 PM
i know it stings to come up with a plan for "twitter but for credulous tech troglodytes" only to have the great lord of the tech troglodytes buy the actual twitter and eat your entire lunch and the table it was on while the old and gay rats beneath flee to your half-finished table. but it's funny
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We’ve been speaking out against KOSA since it was introduced in 2022 by Marsha Blackburn, a bigot and outspoken advocate for censoring trans people off the internet in effort to “protect children from the transgender in this culture.” KOSA has ALWAYS been about censorship and suppression.
This bill has 67 senators supporting by Democrats like Bluementhal amd Schumer.
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
Lawmaker Says the “Kids Online Safety Act” Aims to Protect Kids from “The Transgender”
KOSA has bipartisan support but LGBTQ+ advocates say it would be harmful.
www.them.us
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM
We’ve been speaking out against KOSA since it was introduced in 2022 by Marsha Blackburn, a bigot and outspoken advocate for censoring trans people off the internet in effort to “protect children from the transgender in this culture.” KOSA has ALWAYS been about censorship and suppression.
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WE WON
RESKEET
RESKEET
That insane bus thread ended up on national news and "live skeeted" is the official term used
January 21, 2026 at 2:22 AM
WE WON
RESKEET
RESKEET
He's so right about everything he says.
If you still struggle to watch movies that have sex scenes with your parents or other family members, you CAN get over that. Everyone will be fine 'cause it's a movie, it's art, they're adults, you're an adult.
If you still struggle to watch movies that have sex scenes with your parents or other family members, you CAN get over that. Everyone will be fine 'cause it's a movie, it's art, they're adults, you're an adult.
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
He's so right about everything he says.
If you still struggle to watch movies that have sex scenes with your parents or other family members, you CAN get over that. Everyone will be fine 'cause it's a movie, it's art, they're adults, you're an adult.
If you still struggle to watch movies that have sex scenes with your parents or other family members, you CAN get over that. Everyone will be fine 'cause it's a movie, it's art, they're adults, you're an adult.
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CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES
January 21, 2026 at 12:49 AM
CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES
Thank you to the heroes who make properly subtitled audiobooks for youtube. You are making it so much easier for my dad with poor eyesight to keep up with books. He has trouble focusing on audiobooks but loves this kind he can read along with. He's farsighted so big text on tv screen is perfect.
January 20, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Thank you to the heroes who make properly subtitled audiobooks for youtube. You are making it so much easier for my dad with poor eyesight to keep up with books. He has trouble focusing on audiobooks but loves this kind he can read along with. He's farsighted so big text on tv screen is perfect.
My dad invented a great guy today. Guy who, in 1841-3, wrote to Charles Dickens' editor to tell him to stop killing kids in his stories after reading "The Old Curiosity Shop" and subsequently believes that he is the sole reason Tiny Tim survives "A Christmas Carol"
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 AM
My dad invented a great guy today. Guy who, in 1841-3, wrote to Charles Dickens' editor to tell him to stop killing kids in his stories after reading "The Old Curiosity Shop" and subsequently believes that he is the sole reason Tiny Tim survives "A Christmas Carol"
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anarchists organizing against the tacoma ICE detention center in 2007. they were called terrorists by the government, while shitlibs claimed they were feds.
youtu.be/bTrR1s7du6s?...
youtu.be/bTrR1s7du6s?...
January 18, 2026 at 6:11 PM
anarchists organizing against the tacoma ICE detention center in 2007. they were called terrorists by the government, while shitlibs claimed they were feds.
youtu.be/bTrR1s7du6s?...
youtu.be/bTrR1s7du6s?...
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Such an odd coincidence that the message on the left was pushed out on Insta to ppl thousands of miles from Maryland the very same week that ICE agents started using "blowing whistles is racist" as their go-to talking point 🤔
January 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Such an odd coincidence that the message on the left was pushed out on Insta to ppl thousands of miles from Maryland the very same week that ICE agents started using "blowing whistles is racist" as their go-to talking point 🤔
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Look for the helpers
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Look for the helpers
GOOD FOR HIM
I LOVE YOUR WORK MR MARTIN AND I HOPE YOU DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
I LOVE YOUR WORK MR MARTIN AND I HOPE YOU DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
George R.R. Martin has said that if he never completes Game of Thrones sequel Winds of Winter (or the book after that), there's no plan for anyone else to step in. Instead, his Song of Ice and Fire series simply "won't be finished."
Game of Thrones Writer George R.R. Martin Says There's No Plan if He Dies Before Completing Winds of Winter, and the Series Simply 'Won't Be Finished'
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
GOOD FOR HIM
I LOVE YOUR WORK MR MARTIN AND I HOPE YOU DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
I LOVE YOUR WORK MR MARTIN AND I HOPE YOU DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
This is wonderful! Huge congrats to Rudy!
I was so worried about bsky moderation being able to ban people like Link (bsky should apologize to him) even on other PDSes, and how this went against the whole idea of composable moderation.
I was so worried about bsky moderation being able to ban people like Link (bsky should apologize to him) even on other PDSes, and how this went against the whole idea of composable moderation.
Bluesky runs an appview.
Blacksky runs an appview.
A complete appview is a several terabytes sized database of the >18 billion follows, likes and posts of all bsky users, ever and forever.
To run a different appview is to make a fork in bsky’s timeline.
One has new posts from Łink.
One doesn’t.
Blacksky runs an appview.
A complete appview is a several terabytes sized database of the >18 billion follows, likes and posts of all bsky users, ever and forever.
To run a different appview is to make a fork in bsky’s timeline.
One has new posts from Łink.
One doesn’t.
January 18, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is wonderful! Huge congrats to Rudy!
I was so worried about bsky moderation being able to ban people like Link (bsky should apologize to him) even on other PDSes, and how this went against the whole idea of composable moderation.
I was so worried about bsky moderation being able to ban people like Link (bsky should apologize to him) even on other PDSes, and how this went against the whole idea of composable moderation.
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Haruspex pulling metal chunks out of a derailed train
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Haruspex pulling metal chunks out of a derailed train
Btw, locking in my Pluribus prediction: the hive mind is not actually a collective human consciousness. It is the virus as a separate entity using human knowledge scavenged from brains. If it was actually a collective human consciousness, it would love animals and create art. Not human at all.
January 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Btw, locking in my Pluribus prediction: the hive mind is not actually a collective human consciousness. It is the virus as a separate entity using human knowledge scavenged from brains. If it was actually a collective human consciousness, it would love animals and create art. Not human at all.
It is terrible manners to comment on a model's body in figure drawing but one time a model disrobed and he had a ton of large bruises. The only bruises I'd seen like it before were on competitive HEMA athletes or hockey players. I went "oh my god are you okay?" before I could even think about it.
January 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It is terrible manners to comment on a model's body in figure drawing but one time a model disrobed and he had a ton of large bruises. The only bruises I'd seen like it before were on competitive HEMA athletes or hockey players. I went "oh my god are you okay?" before I could even think about it.
In case there are people who genuinely do not know this and want to learn it but are too scared to ask or Google it, there are a handful of reasons why photo-realistic-but-fake CSAM is a huge problem despite not technically depicting real victims. It isn't just a moral thing, it's practical.
January 18, 2026 at 5:08 PM
In case there are people who genuinely do not know this and want to learn it but are too scared to ask or Google it, there are a handful of reasons why photo-realistic-but-fake CSAM is a huge problem despite not technically depicting real victims. It isn't just a moral thing, it's practical.
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My mom, still half-dazed as we leave the theater for Avatar 3: "The thing about all those ships... The guns... Is they don't belong there."
January 18, 2026 at 1:12 AM
My mom, still half-dazed as we leave the theater for Avatar 3: "The thing about all those ships... The guns... Is they don't belong there."
My mom, still half-dazed as we leave the theater for Avatar 3: "The thing about all those ships... The guns... Is they don't belong there."
January 18, 2026 at 1:12 AM
My mom, still half-dazed as we leave the theater for Avatar 3: "The thing about all those ships... The guns... Is they don't belong there."