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Bratansov
@bratansov.bsky.social
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Passionate about letters, games & programming.
I also bake bread and water trees.
Recently developed a thing for DSLR's.

Writing about games at:
https://interfacesofplay.substack.com/
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Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.social · May 12
Over the last months, I read the Aeneid and, unrelatedly, played through #TheLastOfUsPart2. Turns out their narratives are structurally similar, asking their characters (and the reader/player):

How can meaning endure the violence of the meaningless?

interfacesofplay.substack.com/p/apocalypse...
Apocalypse, Trauma and Meaning
Narrative Destinies in The Last Of Us and The Aeneid
interfacesofplay.substack.com
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Episode 4 hit the spot
#NeonGenesisEvangelion
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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November Winter Wonderland

#photography #dslr #eastcoastkin
An oak leaf up
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Stille Nacht
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Made time to finish Pot-Bouille. Another experiment in narrative structure, this time about what can be a protagonist: a building, turned inside out and brought to "fall flat", uncompromising in its depiction of the bourgeois morality/cosmology. Every lurch of emotion turned cold.

#booksky #Zola
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Happy N7 Day!

#MassEffect
#N7Day
#VirtualPhotography
#VPRepost
A screenshot from the video game Mass Effect 3 from the Legendary Edition. The photo depicts EDI, a robotic companion, looking out into the darkness while her shiny exterior glows with energy. She wears a glowing, holographic visor that hides her eyes in this photo. A screenshot from the video game Mass Effect 3 from the Legendary Edition. The photo depicts Tali'Zorah, an alien companion, firing off an electrical discharge from a futuristic, holographic gauntlet. The electrical energy is framed in a way that places the focus on Tali, who is seen in the middle wearing a faceless helmet and hood. A screenshot from the video game Mass Effect 3 from the Legendary Edition. The photo features Javik, an alien companion, who stands tall with a futuristic assault rifle while fire burns around him. The embers from the flames are scattered around the picture, and cast Javik in a similarly colored glow. A screenshot from the video game Mass Effect 3 from the Legendary Edition. The photo features Garrus Vakarian, an alien companion, standing tall in the darkness, holding his futuristic sniper rifle up in the air. His right eye is hidden by shadows, while his left is covered by his visor.
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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November releaf
#photography #dslr #eastcoastkin
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Autumnal gloom

#photography #EastCoastKin
The silhouettes of leafless trees against thick fog, with more trees visible in the background, blurred by the fog. A single maple leaf on a bare branch. In the background, the silhouettes of other trees in the fog.
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Sándor Ziffer (Hungarian, 1880–1962)
"Alley in Baia Mare", 1931.
Oil on Canvas, 108 × 71 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Hands and handshaking are recurrent symbols in Metaphor's overarching theme of enabling (collective) praxis & accomplishing meaning, and I LOVE IT

#MetaphorReFantazio
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Avenue of the Lindens

#photography #dslr #eastcoastkin
Yellowing linden tree branches against a semi-cloudy sky and the corner of a brick building Close-up of a barberry shrub, with an orange ladybug hiding in the center of the photo Bottom-up close-up view of a birch trunk, as it characteristically sheds sheets of its paper-like texture; branches are extending outward from every height towards every direction A yellowing tree whose canopy spans the whole picture, yet increasingly naked of its leaves; the morning sun adds a yellow tint to its thin, mossy trunks and branches
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Viggo Pedersen (Danish painter) 1854 - 1926
Sunny Winter Day at Carlsberg, Hillerød, s.d.

oil on canvas

53.98 x 83.23 cm. (21.25 x 33 in.)

signed lower left "Viggo Pedersen"

private collection

#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Joseph Raphael (American, 1869–1950)
"House in Belgium", 1909.
Oil on Canvas, 43.2 × 44.8 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Special characters make for a special journey

#MetaphorReFantazio
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A Country Road (1893)

By : Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857-1942)

Danish painter

#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Doctor's appointment of the year:

"Pretty sure you have x, unless it's something FUNKY RARE"

Then

"I don't CARE that you're celiac"

Finally

"We don't usually do the test so early..."
*starts rummaging through at least 5 drawers*
"It's 100$, eh we'll do it any way"
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Spider came trick-or-treating and never left
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Tad Retz (American Artist, born 1996)
"As It's Getting Dark", 2025.
Oil on Board, 12 × 12 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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To sit within a fragrant breeze
All among the nodding trees
That hang heavy with the stuff

- Nick Cave, Easy Money lyrics

#photography #dslr #eastcoastkin
(Oct 24 and 28, forgot about these) (unedited)
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A few phone pics because I got nothing better and I love autumn (and gingkos)
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Eric G. Thompson (American Artist, born 1970)
"Down The Road", 2025.
Egg Tempera.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Paul Fischer 1860-1934
Danish painter
Holmen's Canal,
Oil on oak panel - 19 x 22 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Got a midterm today, and some consolation

#compsci #programming
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Tom Thomson (Canadian, 1877-1917)
"Campfire,"1916
Oil on wood
26.6 x 21.6 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Attilio Pratella (Italian, 1856–1949)
"Via Foria After the Rain"
Oil on Panel, 34.5 × 22 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Sacrificed my weekend on the altar of Python. Unpopular opinion: I don't like it.

- you see a variable; is it an int, a float, a string? Who knows!
- there are no arrays, only "lists"
- no standard for loop (I have to make a function for custom steps??)
- forced into indentation

#compsci

1/rant
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM