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Gabor Csigas

@whoisnot.bsky.social

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writer (free to read short stories at https://medium.com/@gaborcsigas ) / sometime cover designer / ttrpg gm

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · Aug 26

#flashfiction inspired by #Lovecraftian stories. First published back in 2020 as a text only post (on FB.)

What's new is that I added a photo of mine to it as a simple background, because why not. Trying to summon the spooky season already.

Hope you like it.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13h

Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter
spoon-tamago.com/pantograph-i...

tiny typewriter with two keys 0 and 1 the paper in it is covered with 0's and 1's

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 1d

For a moment I expected to see Hellboy there.

ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 1d

WIZARDS (1977, Ralph Bakshi)

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 2d

When you stumble upon an intriguing semi-official (?) Nine Inch Nails remix and then realize you already added it to your Shadowrun #ttrpg inspiration playlist about twelve years ago…

:D

a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a wizard costume is on skyone

ALT: a man in a wizard costume is on skyone

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 5d

Those could've been ttrpg stories.

Practically each and every SW ttrpg table is its own alt-history Infinity take. Heroes who don't exist in the official canon doing heroics that don't affect the official canon, yet just as canonical for the table as the canon.

(Stating the obvious, sorry. :))

a man in a black robe is holding a light saber in front of a group of storm trooper soldiers .

ALT: a man in a black robe is holding a light saber in front of a group of storm trooper soldiers .

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 5d

I'd say (6D+2)+(1D+1) is 8D, and spending an FP on it results in 16D. :)

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 7d

"In the third chamber was an eagle with wings and feathers of air; he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs."
— William Blake: "A Memorable Fancy" (an excerpt) ( www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4... )

#BookWormSat

A screenshot of the first section of Blake's poem titled "A Memorable Fancy", taken from the Project Gutenberg webpage linked in the post.

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 8d

Just a random thought. What a nice coincidence / juxtaposition, isn't it.

#starwars vs #theaddamsfamily

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 8d

Awesome!

(Sadly, I don't really see any chance of this happening where I live (at least for the foreseeable future.)

And that's all I have to say about this.)

(via various people)

Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 18d

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return
The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments

It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 9d

Sounds like a Gray Goo variant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo and tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

I'd go with it unexpectedly purifying PCs or some humans who come into contact with it first, leading perhaps to strange psionic awakenings, with PSI powers requiring the constant consumption of plastics.

Gray goo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 9d

Inspiring art from Szilvia's etsy ( www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... )

"Miniature #painting of a lady based on a #posthumous portrait of Contessina de' Bardi (wife of Cosimo de' Medici) by Cristofano dell'Altissimo from the 1500's. "

And yeah, I also love that tiny skull (that's not for sale, tho.) 💀

A tiny, framed painting of a nicely dressed lady in a dollhouse, on a wall, with books, a skull, an oil lamp and some writing tools in front of the painting on a desk.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 10d

"The batarang went snicker-snack!"

…and so should you, clicking the link below if you like weird poetry and Batman!

Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · Nov 25

I'm always tickled when someone visits a blog post I made over 5 years ago. But why should that person be the only one?
jessicalevai.com/2019/05/04/f...

From the Vaults: “Gotham Jabberwocky”

I was going through the folders of old writing on my computer and found a file titled “Bad Poetry.doc.” It contains a few pieces of verse I wrote in grad school. The filename is not ent…

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 10d

Excommunication could make one a werewolf, in medieval Christian lore, a curse no one wanted because in some regions of Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece, a werewolf had a restless spirit even in death, leading to undead werewolves. #WyrdWednesday

An etching of a medieval werewolf, a man with a dog's head with a long tongue lapping, his hands seeming to gesture "Now what?"

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 10d

I've just noticed that #pinterest has this now. If you're like me, go check it... and turn it all off. ;)

#NoAI

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 10d

Time does fly. And so do werewolves, sometimes. This weird, tongue in cheek (whose cheek) horror short story that I published five years ago today takes a look at that. (Yeah, it's free to read. Awful, I know. 🙃)

gaborcsigas.medium.com/in-the-moon-...

#werewolf #horror #shortstory

In the Moon

A werewolf short story for my own 2020 Halloween Flash Fiction Challenge, day 1

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 10d

That's the cover painting for The Vampire Players Guide for Vampire: The Masquerade #ttrpg 2nd edition. 🦇 :)

whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/The_Vam...

The Vampire Players Guide Second Edition

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 12d

"play d&d in a castle!"

yeah, sounds fun and intriguing, but I'll need to know how much you're offering for me to go there to DM a game (not to mention my party to play), and whether you cover travel and lodging etc.

Mammoth miniatures Nic @nic-the-mammoth.bsky.social · 12d

"play d&d in a castle!" - my dude, my fellow, I play d&d in my sister's shed with easy access to a kettle. Unless your castle already has my extensive tea making needs met, it is a downgrade. If being old and cold made it better, I'd play in my bathroom.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12d

This is what seeing that xenomorph in daylight on Alien: Earth was like. Those things need to stay in the dark.

Heitor @heitorzilla.bsky.social · 13d

Alien, 1979. (Directed by Ridley Scott)

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Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 15d

Gnomes could also be a strain of dwarves that adapted to suface life and tamed early humans.

Yes, your garden gnomes not just see your relationship the other way around, they _know_ it is so, and are just letting you keep dreaming an old dream while having you do their will.

#ttrpg #flashfiction

Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 15d

I like to think of gnomes as a sect of religious fundamentalist dwarves who practice, like, a Wicker Man religion. Like folk horror Mennonites.

Illustrations of the male and female woodland gnome from Wil Huygen's "Gnomes"

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 16d

Scientists developing commercial teleportation technology for #cyberpunk megacorporations are working in Product Displacement.

In the same vein, in #dungeonsanddragons feline monsters taking care of putting advertised items into dungeons are called Product Placer Beasts.

#showerthoughts #pun

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 20d

A mashup of LotR and Mad Max could be titled

The Lord of the Rigs

obviously.

(If turned into a #ttrpg, it could be like a truly postapocalyptic Shadowrun, yes. A future Earthdawn, if you like.)

Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social · 20d

Which movie do you consider to be perfect?