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Michael Van Vleet (he/him)

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Writing type person. TTRPG work: Ennie award-winning Wassailing of Claus Manor; Devil, Aim For Me; DIE, GRAVE ROBBER, DIE!, writer on Trophy, Brindlewood Bay, Public Access, Planet Raygun etc. etc. | signalstation.itch.io

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hey all, I'm Michael, a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I've written a goodly amount of stuff for The Gauntlet and mostly write TTRPG stuff that alternates between horror and hilarity.

[artwork by @pigeonchild.bsky.social, @rapidpunches.neocities.org (x2), @thoughtographic.bsky.social]

Cover for DEVIL, AIM FOR ME by Michael Van Vleet. Illustration: A man in a grey suit holds a pistol, a single red eye visible under his cowboy hat. He is bleeding from his chest. A shadowy demon figure behind him with many strange eyes is reaching around him, holding his wound closed.

The cover of DIE, GRAVE ROBBER, DIE! by Michael Van Vleet. Illustration: A blank eyed green masculine face hovers in the background, its disembodied grasping hands beginning to encircle a shrouded corpse in the foreground, the corpse's mouth in agony, visible even through its sheet. The border is decorated with pink roses.

The cover for Moon's Shot by Michael Van Vleet. Illustration: In the foreground, a walrus reclines in a sci-fi flying seat, rockets visible underneath. Its left paw is wrapped around a joystick. In the background, a cave with stalactites. A crude rocket ship has been lowered into it with two stout ropes attached to loops on its roof. Its door is open.

Illustration: a bearded man with black glasses gives an evil grin. He is wearing a top hat and a bow tie,and jacket, dressed like a circus ringmaster. Behind him on the left, a grinning clown with black empty eyes. Behind him on the right, a cynical clown looks away, a fez on its head. It holds a balloon decorated with a single unblinking eye.

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 8h

It’s my turn up to “bat” for this year’s #Hauntalong and since it’s my first year I figured I’d come out swinging. Are you prepared for the combination of Dracula and kung fu that is…The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires?

(Is anyone?)

Poster for THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974). Title in red text on a white poster; below are drawings of figures and characters most of whom are not in the film.

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 11h

this site is good, actually

Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 12h

Hotdoglins (hotdog hobgoblins)

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 12h

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Today is Friday in California @fridaypacific.bsky.social · 7d

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One Big Multiverse @onebigmultiverse.bsky.social · 1d

JH Williams III and Greg Rucka going nuts in DETECTIVE COMICS #856

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Jan 3

Dry Winter

An ink drawing of a strange bipedal creature. Its body is made of an amalgamation of bone, flesh , grass , and wood , with large branch antlers emerging from the skeletal eye sockets. It looks over its shoulder towards the viewer while heading away into a dry grass field, into the dark blackness of the background.

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 1d

Famous Pistol Donations Rejected by the Wild West Museum:

1. Ol' Half-a-Bullet
2. Shooty McGoo
3. A child's drawing of a pistol, believed to have been worn by Two-Dimensional Alphonse, stage coach robber
4. The Tax Deduction
5. Skunk Butt, the Gun That Shoots Stink

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 1d

I know I said I'd get the car's oil changed, but the blood, the blood, all this blood... I gotta deal with this first.

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Can't remember the last time I lost an evening flipping through things I /could/ watch on streaming, now that an entity throws me out of bed every night.

Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 1d

Finding you live in a haunted house must be so great. Gives you focus. All the other problems in your life can be set aside to deal with the haunted house.

Anyway, here's the Kickstarter link for my self-help series HAUNT YOUR HOUSE TO YOUR DREAMS...

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 1d

After all this time, I'm still terrible at making myself write stuff I'm not excited about in the moment.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 1d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 1d

Game looks good.
Game looks good.
Game looks good.

Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 1d

And here's a new trailer. One of the best we've ever done.

Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

youtu.be

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 1d

Hi friends! For my first ever #hauntalong, I want to shine a (flickering) light on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (FWWM). Released in 1992, a year after the titular TV show's cancellation, David Lynch took a beloved setting known for its charming characters and said: "it's worse than that."

The cover of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, featuring a burning half of a heart-shaped "best friends" necklace with a photograph of Laura Palmer, a young blonde woman, smiling. In the background, red curtains line the walls of a room with a zig-zag black and white floor. Toward the bottom is the text, "In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent."

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Vinegar Syndrome @vinsyn.bsky.social · 1d

31 Days of Syntober continues! Each day this month, get a staff pick at 50% off—plus 4x VSMC points—one day only, 12:01PM ET to 11:59AM the next day: vinegarsyndrome.com/pages/31-days-of-syntober 🩸

DAY 9: PIOTR SZULKIN'S APOCALYPSE TETRALOGY, suggested by David Sikora, Restoration Artist

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 1d

TONIGHT! Going to spin some more BEST OF THE HORROR MIND MELTER films tonight at secretscinematheque.com starting @ 8:00 PM (ET). Tune in to see things you may have spent every waking moment since they previously played regretting you missed your chance!

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 1d

The Human Cannonball being locked and loaded to hammer anybody who doesn't fall under the spell of the Ring Master's hypnotic circus is funny and the economy of Hulk winding up to knock him into the stratosphere within two panels of his introduction is even funnier.

A page that's exactly as described in the post.

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 1d

The French-language edition of Brindlewood Bay is crowdfunding!They are at nearly 400% funded, with 5 days remaining in their campaign. Check out the campaign if you game in French, or if you know someone who would be interested, let them know about it! www.gameontabletop.com/cf5531/brind...

Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)

Crowdfunding: Brindlewood Bay (Storyline)

www.gameontabletop.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 4d

Here are all the little haunted house workers on break.

This is the digital file because I did not like how things printed out at all. I'm gonna have to fight with the Riso machine some more.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 3d

Day 3. Faces of Universal Horror presents
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
Directed by James Whale and starring Claude Rains as mad Dr Griffin, this movie is still phenomenal to this day and this character will never be not fun to draw :) #UniversalHorror #Day3 #FacesOfUniversalHorror

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 2d

It's my second (of many) entries for #hauntalong this year and I'm surfacing one of my favorites of the Universal Monster movies for the morning crowd!

Today I present you:

Jack Arnold’s 1954 creature–feature The Creature from the Black Lagoon!

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Anthony D. Herrera @aherrera.bsky.social · 3d

Had a telehealth consult with a doctor about my hand wounds that bleed candy corn.

"Spooky Stigmata," he said.

"What does it mean?" I asked

"You're The Halloween Christ."

"What do we do?"

"As a man of science, I must find you and kill you," he said, closing his laptop.

U.S. Healthcare sucks.

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Gabriel Robinson @glowingroots.bsky.social · 3d

Continuing this year’s #hauntalong, I’m recommending Bring Her Back (2025).

Film poster for Bring Her Back, featuring a hand grading the head of a child with red demonic eyes and a circle of blood in the background

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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 3d

oh yeah, sure enough, there it is in the original thread

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 4d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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