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ashwednesday.bsky.social
Ash Wednesday
@ashwednesday.bsky.social
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Pittsburgh PA indie game dev and pixel artist

Co-creator of fighting game Pocket Rumble (Steam/Switch) | Working solo on a shmup called Wing Sabre, working with friends on some other things hopefully

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Twitter screenshot of a well known post by user @matrixreloaded_ from 8/31/20. The text of the post has been photoshopped to read "people on here will tweet anything. 'Dick Cheney was antifa.' No he wasn't. That isn't true." The original post had instead used the example "Charlie Brown had hoes".
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Rare glimpse of the secret world that is “backstage at your local community theater”
Selfie of me, an androgynous white persona with shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a black sweater and a black choker. In the background stage lights are visible. I look a bit sleep-deprived, with bags under my eyes.
November 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Got cuter than usual for work today
Selfie of me—an androgynous white person with curly shoulder-length brown hair, gold ring piercings through in my lip and septum, neon green spiral gauges through my earlobes, and basic black eye makeup—sitting on my living room couch, dressed in my Aldi uniform for work.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Selfie I took so that my Bluesky picture isn’t a dorky one I took for LinkedIn anymore lol
Selfie of me in my living room, a smiling white person with blue eyes and loosely-curly shoulder-length brown hair, sporting multiple facial piercings and a pair of neon green spiral-shaped earrings
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The Man Without Fear

I like the idea of a Daredevil design with his ears and fingertips exposed because those are the senses he uses to get around
Digital drawing of Daredevil throwing a punch toward the viewer/camera
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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No hate to this individual but I feel like I am philosophically their opposite lol

I read negative Steam reviews of games I like and mostly just find out about new types of people with no taste that I should give up on reaching because pandering to them would sand all the personality off of a game
Bluesky screenshot of a post that reads “Jokes aside tho, it is very useful to look up the inspirations to your game on Steam and then read the negative reviews. Some of them might have useful insights to things to avoid in your inspired game.” Everything else besides the body of the post is cropped out.
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Extremely close crop of Geese Howard’s face as drawn by Shinkiro
October 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Damnit

They got me again
A new Mattel action figure of Scareglow from Masters of the Universe dressed as Starscream from Transformers
September 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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A little mad that I happened to (indirectly?) give Disney money for the first time in a couple years like 1 day before the Kimmel thing lol

Excited for these figures though
Marvel Legends Gamerverse action figure 2-pack, featuring Captain America and Venom in their Marvel vs. Capcom incarnations, being extremely blue together
September 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I don’t think this poster deserves to be on the receiving end of me being a pedant, but if I can generally be a pedant into the void for a second…

As much as I love The Old Ways I feel like it is worth being serious about the fact that you *can* faithfully recreate this digitally in two seconds
September 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I find this shit completely insufferable. I feel like I'm insufferable too, nitpicking a well meaning person, but I just really hate it.

Like I don't want to be a dick to the person who actually posted it but also another part of me wants to shove them into a locker and leave them there overnight
Some dipshit ally posted "Look man, if you're a transphone, I just think you're a horrible person. It is what it is! But I don't wish bad things on you, because there is no worse fate I could wish on you than the life you are currently living as a grotesque, miserable monster with a rotting heart."
September 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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“Fair. I’d knock up Aladdin, but that’s me.” - Alex McG
September 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Going to go through this tonight and post some links to some of my favorite songs for y'all
"Music Ask 1. A song you like with a color in the title 2. A song you like with a number in the title 3. A song that reminds you of summertime 4. A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about 5. A song that needs to be played LOUD 6. A song that makes you want to dance 7. A song to drive to 8. A song about drugs or alcohol 9. A song that makes you happy 10. A song that makes you sand 11. A song that you never get tired of 12. A song from your preteen years 13. One of your favorite 80's songs 14. A song that you would love played at your wedding 15. A song that is a cover by another artist 16. One of your favorite classical songs 17. A song that you would sing a duet with on karaoke 18. A song from the year that you were born 19. A song that makes you think about life 20. A song that has many meanings to you 21. A favorite song with a person's name in the title 22. A song that move you forward 23. A song that you think everybody should listen to 24. A song by a band you wish were still together 25. A song by an artist no longer living 26. A song that makes you want to fall in love 27. A song that breaks your heart 28. A song by an artist with a voice that you love 29. A song that you remember from your childhood 30. A song that reminds you of yourself"
September 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Lunatic Dawn: PotB is pretty much unmatched in terms of the "doing my RPG work at the office" aesthetic, but my other favorite is Wizardry: Llygamyn Saga
Opening screen of Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga for Windows Town menu from Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga for Windows Dungeon crawling screenshot of Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga for Windows Combat screen of Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga for Windows
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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doing the bins
Screenshot of the film “Trash Humpers” showing a man humping a trash can
August 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Ode to the Eradication of Baldness (collage, 2025)
August 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Leisure Suit Larry actually the most Safe-For-Work videogame cause with the press of a mere single button you can seamlessly bring up this extremely convincing Important Business Graph that you’ve been working on all day
A bar graph from when you press the “Boss” button in Leisure Suit Larry for MS DOS, showing a y-axis measuring “minutes” that scale from 0-15 and various condom categories along x-axis (ribbed, lubed, colored, and plain) with differing values assigned to each.
August 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Indulge me
Text: “Tell me a video game name and I’m going to tell you my honest opinion about”. Grammatically it’s probably meant to say “about it” instead of leaving the sentence hanging the way it does, but this is the meme that’s making the rounds, so who am I to correct it?
July 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Screencap of Youtube user llMegaxlxll’s video “My longest yeah boy ever”
July 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Obviously a genius idea but you gotta be real careful with the math on this one, I know a guy a similar idea didn’t go great for
Photo posted on the Something Awful forums in 2010, showing part of the zipline construction that bankrupted the children’s summer camp a goon worked at, after he and his coworkers cluelessly constructed it at like a 19 degree angle that would accelerate a hypothetical child to over 60mph before slamming them into some tires meant to act as a cushion.
July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I keep looking at this man being dangled by the giant hand and thinking “let the Baldies hit the floor”
Cover art for Baldies, a 1995 Scottish real-time-strategy game for the Atari Jaguar CD (later widely ported elsewhere because there ended up being about 10 games and about 0 customers for the Jaguar CD hardware)
July 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Superhero suit design nitpick:

Modern designers like to make Batman or Superman’s trunks less high cut & more like the underwear shapes that are currently considered masculine.

IMO this is bad for specifically Superman’s shape language—higher-cut trunks really mirror the shape of the chest emblem.
David Corenswet as Superman (2025) with a somewhat squared-off trunks shape Christopher Reeve as Superman (1978) with way higher-cut trunks than the modern design Cover of Absolute Batman #1 showing off a modern bat suit design with extra long boxer-brief-style trunks
July 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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He would have to worry about going to Muppet Hell, along with presumably The Count, Oscar, Sweetums, Uncle Deadly, probably Statler & Waldorf

I know there's gotta be a Muppet Hell because there's a Muppet Devil who goes down to Muppet Georgia
The Devil, as depicted on The Muppet Show
July 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Hell yeah
Trade show display of Storm Collectibles Arena 1:12 action figures of Ryu, Ken, Sagat, Dan, Chun Li, and Charlie from the Street Fighter Alpha series, and Morrigan and Lilith from the Darkstalkers series
July 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Street Fighter drawings from a while ago
Colored pencil-styled digital drawing of Ryu from Street Fighter II, standing in a mostly neutral pose with a clenched fist and his headband blowing in the breeze Digital drawing of Ken from Street Fighter, as seen from slightly above, with his flaming fist extended toward the viewer. Above his head, “昇龍拳” (shoryuken) is written in red calligraphy-style characters. The art style is scribbley, with the original rough sketch layer intact, but in bright red, and another outline layer in contrasting blue, giving a touch of flavor to my slightly crude drawing, I hope.
July 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM