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geist @geistboy.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hi! My friend is going to be HOMELESS so if you could donate to her that would be awesome. (and hey... you could get a drawing out of it too!)
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Hi, I didn't really want to make this post but as the situation gets more grim I feel the need to. I am most likely going homeless on August 14th, six months ahead of what was scheduled. And I need Y...

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Nathalie F @loopyyylupe.bsky.social · 5d

Reading the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and losing my mind that the author hated the artist's tripod illustrations so much, 3/4s in, the book detours into an entire paragraph where the protag complains about how shit these tripod drawings are and then just continues on

Its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine, in spite of its metallic glitter. The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this. People who have never seen these structures, and have only the ill-imagined efforts of artists or the imperfect descriptions of such eye-witnesses as myself to go upon, scarcely realise that living quality.
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I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war. The artist had evidently made a hasty study of one of the fighting-machines, and there his knowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect. The pamphlet containing these renderings had a considerable vogue, and I mention them here simply to warn the reader against the impression they may have created. They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being. To my mind, the pamphlet would have been much better without them.

At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion. But then I perceived the resemblance of its grey-brown, shiny, leathery integument to that of the other sprawling bodies beyond, and the true nature of this dexterous workman dawned upon me. With that realisation my interest shifted to those other creatures, the real Martians. Already I had had a transient impression of these, and the first nausea no longer obscured my observation. Moreover, I was concealed and motionless, and under no urgency of action.

Warwick Goble's illustrations of the tripods. The are very stiff 2d silhouettes of water towers with tentacles coming out of the top

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🖤Marnie💜 Commissions CLOSED for now @marnielovesyou.bsky.social · 8d

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geist @geistboy.bsky.social · 9d

these are so nicelys

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Zlaurr @zlaurr.bsky.social · 11d

Whoops, almost forgor to post these here too
#deltarune

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geist @geistboy.bsky.social · 9d

ohhhh boy

pipislover1997 @pipislover1997.bsky.social · 9d

WELCOME ... #SPAMTOBER 2025 !

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IMPerio @imperio36.bsky.social · 9d

Been Thinking about him at work.

* Antsy feeling your getting from this page.

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OFF @offtherpg.com · 9d

OFF patch 1.0.0.4 is now out on Nintendo Switch and Steam! Updates include:

* Some new rare enemies have been added. :)
* Fixed missing Wide Angle text for some enemies.
* Omega’s Radial Blur is more randomized.
* PC accessibility features.
* A whole bunch of small stuff.