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Anne Kirn
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Plush artist, puppet builder, Supervising Editor @ Jackbox Games, other stuff. I have approximate knowledge of many things. houseofdarkly.com
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Anne Kirn @houseofdarkly.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hi, I'm Anne, aka House of Darkly! Plush artist, puppet builder and merch designer, making stuff for myself and a lot of cool folks for 10+ yrs. By day, I work on party games at Jackbox Games. I like making podcasts and weird genre TV!
🌐 houseofdarkly.com
🛒 houseofdarkly.etsy.com
Fall leaf-filled basket surrounded by fall flowers and full of handmade plush pebbles in different sizes and colors, all soft smiling gray ovals with green fluffy moss on top. Cork with enamel pins of pastel retro tech with happy daces: Apple II, Gameboy, and tape player. Around them are a worm coming out of an apple reading "apple time," some cool ghosts over text "squad ghouls," a happy munching snail with "take it easy" on its shell, and blocky text reading "big mood" Four cartoony puppets of characters from The Adventure Zone: Taako the wizard, Angus the boy detective, Merle the cleric, and Magnus who is visibly larger than the others. They're sharing headphones plugged into an iPod, mouths open like they're excited. Prototype push of Jackbox characters on a bed like they're holding hands: M. Bubz, a water cooler with a tie, shy smile and big red glasses with eyebrows above them on the blue water jug, and the Drawful owl, a flat, sketched looking white owl with somewhat over it eyes and a bra.
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gaijinmommy.bsky.social
Good morning Tokyo. Do you need to cleanse your timeline, by any chance? Sagami Bay is here for you.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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stringerplz.bsky.social
If you've been to PAX West you've received help from one of their knowledgeable, considerate building staff. We love our Greencoats and they deserve a fair contract! I'll be signing this and I hope you'll join me.

www.teamsters117.org/fair_contrac...
Fair Contract for Workers at the Seattle Convention Center!
Convention Center: Essential Workers Deserve Essential Wages
www.teamsters117.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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pailbn.bsky.social
We live in hell. Might not be a bad idea to request secondary images (distinctive lighting/settings) to make sure your product doesn’t get distorted or have drastic changes in appearance between photos for any refunds.
geneljumalon.bsky.social Genel Jumalon ✈️ Twin City Con @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 10h
Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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maariala.bsky.social
The majestic man-taur
Half man... half another man
Man centaur hunting with his bow
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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froonium.bsky.social
Gorgeous thread.
femiyahtzee.bsky.social Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 1d
Skill. Issue.

Once, during a storm, an older gentleman knocked on my Cuban godmother’s door and after some pantomime because neither spoke much English, she determined he needed eggs. She gave him the last of what she had even though she was on a fixed income. 1/6
codyjohnston.bsky.social Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 1d
Vance has such contempt for his supporters, it's wild.

"How do you borrow a cup of sugar?"
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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cartoonbrew.bsky.social
2,000 laid-off Paramount employees are wondering where tf the company just found $100 billion.
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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alexfalcone.bsky.social
The robots are coming... but why?
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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fractal231.bsky.social
If you're a deer that was at MFF, at the Hyatt Regency, that went thru TSA Precheck at ORD Terminal 5 at 8:45am, you left your deer head base on the conveyor! I stood with it for 15 mins hoping you'd come back, then told a TSA agent what it was (+ how $$ it is) and they put it at their front desk 🙏
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
"Nacho & the Bean," a heart-pounding, heart-warming new buddy detective series, coming spring 2026
Handmade plush smiling nacho chip with dripping orange-y fake cheese and tiny legs, next to a much larger plush Chili Bean, a red kidney bean with arms and a chubby-cheeked smile wearing a slouchy gray beanie.
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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leachaillaud-art.bsky.social
Came out of my slumber just long enough to paint a cozy little burrow for Mr Badger. Now if you'll excuse me 😴
#cottagecore #art #cozy #originalart
Painting of a badger in a cozy reading nook with a window. It's winter outside, and the sun is setting.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
How does this situation keep getting *worse*? Hell did not suffice, we're on the highway to Turbosuperhell
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Can't wait for Bugs Bunny's new owners: Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Once again considering wireless headphones for specific use cases (I cannot wear earbuds, so everything I have is wired and most devices HATE that)... and once again it seems like all tech is expensive, but also kinda sucks now?
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
*kicks over table while biting clean through a lit candelabra* If your career was built on glorious, visible imperfections of human hands, "embracing AI" is spitting on the grave of all those artists' hard work and expression, and what you make without their participation AND consent is NOT ART!
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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olivebrinker.bsky.social
Rae the Doe - Head Over Heels

Read the comic on Comics Kingdom: comicskingdom.com/rae-the-doe

Support the Patreon: patreon.com/raethedoe
Rae and Mimi stand together. Mimi looks at Rae with love in her eyes. MIMI: Oh, Rae. I’m head over heels in love with you! Rae looks surprised. Rae’s eyes begin the process of narrowing. Rae’s eyes narrow even further. Finally, Rae’s eyes are completely narrowed. She looks suspiciously at Mimi (who is off-screen). RAE: …But that’s where the head and heels are supposed to be??
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Unclear to me how this sweatshirt even happened, but this actor sure did have to wear it in a K-drama
Long-haired young male Korean actor, in am oversized light gray "collegiate" sweatshirt that maybe was supposed to sort of be for Stanford, but says "Stan Slao" and then in giant letters "Cann Zzaro" and "1966" underneath. It is, in their defense, a very US college-looking font.
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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blazehedgehog.bltn.net
Instead of a song being stuck in my head, today what's stuck in my head is the "fuck ya life. bing-bong!" pigeon video.
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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waischoice.bsky.social
Y'all I need to get this #SoldierBoy helmet sold by the 12th. I'm looking for reasonable offers. Please keep in mind that it took me ~40 hrs to design, prototype and build this and also Jensen's auto by itself costs $150.
#SPNFamily #jensenackles #theboys
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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erikamoen.bsky.social
I don't know who needs to hear this but Sean Mcquillan worked on set decoration and props for season 5 of The Magicians and he posted a gallery of his own set photos six years ago on Reddit and all I want to do is devote 2026 to recreating them in miniature 😭
www.reddit.com/r/brakebills...
Behind-the-scenes photo of a set from S5 of The Magicians. A moody thrown room with decorative, hollowed pillars and rounded walls and trimmings. Behind-the-scenes photo of a set from S5 of The Magicians. A wooden desk in an octagonal room that is lined with wooden drawers of library cards that stretches the ceiling. The floor is a black and white checkerboard. Everything extremely angular with black, white, and golden colors. A cozy room with wooden floors, ceiling, and stairs. The walls have a dark teal dotted/clustered wallpaper. A vintage motorcycle stands upright on a table. Art and objects from different time periods line the walls in an organized but haphazard way. There's a vintage camera from like the 1800s. The colors are warm red/browns, teal, yellows. Behind-the-scenes photo of a set from S5 of The Magicians. A castle room illuminated with a beam of light. Stone pillars. The background is an ornately wrought iron fence. The floor is an elaborate mosaic. Stained glass and iron framing shadows are cast on the floor. Dark, moody colors, warm dark sand, browns, reds, blues, and yellows.
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
If you have success in any field and take time to punch down, I have no use for you or your work. Especially in a *fundamentally* collaborative field where everyone's struggling. If you have power and privilege and choose to wield it against colleagues without cause, then absolutely get in the sea.
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Dane is great, everyone in this Discord is great, if you make art for merch you should join (I am the server's inverse Spiders Georg since I haven't been able to design anything/do cons recently and should not be counted, but I vouch for them fully!)
monkeyminion.com Dane is home for a bit. @monkeyminion.com · 3d
I’m so down to share what I know to other artists and help folks learn to do what I do, I have a discord for it. discord.gg/Pdp9vM8CA
December 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sculptedreef.com
Elysa the Coconut Octopus 🐙 Sculpted from Clay 🎨

#ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🦑
A hand sculpted and painted octopus depicting the species Amphioctopus marginatus, also known as the coconut octopus or veined octopus. Its body is reddish orange with white and yellow patches. The arms and the mantle are reddish purple to a deep purple. The octopus is sitting inside a shell and photographed on a solid black background.
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM