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@unormal.bsky.social

I find VR's value proposition really wobbly, it's like "what if you could be on the computer but like in a room" and I'm like "uhhh welll"

January 14, 2026 at 5:12 AM

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Cian McCarthy

@arealmofwonder.bsky.social

"But sometimes, illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost."
~ Marcel Proust

Island in the Attersee (1902)
🎨 Gustav Klimt

January 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM

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Matheus Graef

@omiosures.bsky.social

Heavily inspired by Morrowind, Planescape and 70's Star Wars with a dash of bronze age and art nouveau. The mood? Conan after Conan: all the heroes are dead and this is the world they built.

That's OMIOS URES, my weird fantasy RPG. And it's FREE on itch.io!

matheusgraef.itch.io/omios-ures

A black robed wizard, embroided with stars, stands on top of a stone peak. Behind him, the vastness of the world. The early morning creeps amidst the ravines, painting the world in coy lilacs and deep purples. A city of horned spires jolts from the stony wastes, illuminated in bright cosmopolitan oranges. An alien zeppelin flares out its floodlights at the rooftops and beyond.

The wizard stares at the viewer, though we do not see within his cloak and hood. Blackness. From the void creeps out two marble-white hands, old as time, covered in rings, gesturing in unknown signs.

OMIOS URES

Two Carverine (orc-like humanoids), a male and a female, ride alongside eachother, on top of war hippos. They hold each other's arms. With the other hand, the female orc displays a freshly decapitated head - the enemy king. While the male lifts his axe up in prideful show. Both orcs have red hair and pinkish-gray skin, similar to the hippos they ride upon. The carverine have long, elephant like tusks, and wear minimal bronze armor.
Two Carverine (orc-like humanoids), a male and a female, ride alongside eachother, on top of war hippos. They hold each other's arms. With the other hand, the female orc displays a freshly decapitated head - the enemy king. While the male lifts his axe up in prideful show. Both orcs have red hair and pinkish-gray skin, similar to the hippos they ride upon. The carverine have long, elephant like tusks, and wear minimal bronze armor.

a drawing of a gnome in a wizardly outfit, holding a lit candle - the gnome is half colored, half sketched. The gnome has blue nails, pointy shoes and an art nouveau walking stick. above him is in the text "GNOMOS" in an orange, art nouveau font.
a drawing of a gnome in a wizardly outfit, holding a lit candle - the gnome is half colored, half sketched. The gnome has blue nails, pointy shoes and an art nouveau walking stick. above him is in the text "GNOMOS" in an orange, art nouveau font.

A giant cyclops. Slender, female. Her armor is golden bronze, made of large plates with shield-sized domes protusions, which help veer off attacks. She wears a golden diadem, golden earrings, and her single eye is bright blue. Her armor shines from the warm light that trickles into the large chamber, pouring in from an off-scene oculus. Her face partially in the dark, tall that she is, only illuminated partially by the bounce lighting of her armor. Her right arm adjusts her belt, while her left arm is lifted, underneath it; we see a shirtless servant on top of a tall staircase, tying the laces of her bracer. The staircase is built of beige stone. The bracer is almost the size of this person. By the cyclops' feet, we see two other servants donning her greaves. One of them holds the giant slab of bronze in place, while the other, behind the cyclops' calf, ties up the laces. The floor is a white marble tile, giving the entire scene a slight reflection.

Did you know a single greave of this Cyclops weighs around 150 kilos?

Behind the Princes Warrior, we see a 2 story tall greataxe. It is brightly illuminated by the single shaft of light that brightens the entire room. In fact, the entire scene is illuminated either by the natural light, or the bounce lighting of the cyclops' armor, giving the entire painting a warm look.

The chamber is large and tall, made of stone, to accomodate the Princess Warrior. A small brazier burns incense, permeating the room with a pleasant odor of cloves. Behind the Cyclops and her servants, three noble folk overlook her befitting from a balcony. The balcony sits at the height of the Cyclops' head. One woman smokes, the man in the middle lifts a goblet with a grin, and the leftmost woman looks simply bored. There's a glass pitcher hewn with gold half-filled with wine next to them.

January 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM

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Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery

@winemommystery.bsky.social

Name this location.

Ocean scene and a cliff with small yellow flowers growing.

January 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM

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laura vilas

@lauravilas.bsky.social

Mario Fernández Granell. Jardines siderales, 1985

January 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM

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mr pussy

@mrpussy.xyz

it's the american century of humiliation baby roll the clip

January 12, 2026 at 2:54 AM

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Jon Wolter

@wolter.bsky.social

One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.

January 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳

@poetguygabe.bsky.social

"Opening, closing the Gate of Heaven,
can you be like a bird with her nestlings?
Piercing bright through the cosmos,
can you know by not knowing?"

Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin translation

Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin translation, 1997

Tao Te Ching, James Legge translation, 1891

Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation, 1988

Tao Te Ching, R. B. Blakney translation, 1955

January 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM

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FantasyAnime

@fantasyanime.bsky.social

Appreciating the sprite animations at the Igros Castle moat ❤️

- Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)

January 10, 2026 at 8:37 PM

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Jaq - Art &c

@jaqarts.bsky.social

Elioth Gruner (1882-1939)

January 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM

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yoshimi red

@yoshimired.bsky.social

they're doing this to me tomorrow

January 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM

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John Herreid

@herreidjohn.bsky.social

The Virgin Mary with an Angel by a painter of the Mughal empire, mid-1600s.

January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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laura vilas

@lauravilas.bsky.social

Evelyn Dunbar. February, 1938

January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM

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Nothings Monstered

@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social

The Arrest of Christ (study) — Goya, 1798

Roughly painted scene of a man being taken into custody by officers of the law

January 8, 2026 at 10:48 AM

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC

@crtpixel.bsky.social

GETSUFŪMA DEN
KONAMI 1987
FAMICOM

Just a devilish yokai chilling on a column

January 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM

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Chad Barb

@chadbarb.bsky.social

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”

January 7, 2026 at 8:01 AM

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Interesting MTG Art

@interestingmtg.bsky.social

WAIT, WHAT???????

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Golgari Gal🔜Shoebox @golgarigalsplashes.bsky.social · 8d

WAIT WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST MARGARET ORGAN-KEAN ART SINCE TEMPEST?!?!

Kinsbaile Aspirant {W}

Creature — Kithkin Citizen

As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold a Kithkin or pay {2}. (To behold a Kithkin, choose a Kithkin you control or reveal a Kithkin card from your hand.)

Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
2/1

Illustrated by Margaret Organ-Kean

January 7, 2026 at 4:06 AM

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Andrew Doull

@andrewdoull.bsky.social

If you're not sure whether or not you'll like Sixty Years in Space, my 2300 page hard sci fi TTRPG, you can download the first 74 pages of the Crewed Rules from half-apress.itch.io/60-years-in-... along with the chapter on space-based infrastructure and terraforming, which runs to another 26 pages.

60 Years in Space by half-a.press

Procgen hard sci-fi space sim RPG

half-apress.itch.io

January 4, 2026 at 4:25 AM

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FantasyAnime

@fantasyanime.bsky.social

"Spirits of Magic, I beseech you! Grant me the power of Air!" 🌪️🍃

- Tales of Phantasia (SNES)

January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

@arctomet.bsky.social

#FossilFriday (or at least #BiologicallyMediatedSedimentaryStructureFriday) One of the North Pole Dome, Australia, Paleoarchean stromatolites

January 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM

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Dashing David

@dashingdavid.bsky.social

I love locations that aren’t on the map in RPGs

January 2, 2026 at 2:35 AM

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮

@unormal.bsky.social

gonna learn some divination techniques this year.

I Ching's yarrow stick methodology is really great; you divide a pile of 49 yarrow sticks roughly in half then do a little process that's modulo math that produces one of 4 results in an uneven distribution

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching...