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Darth Astris (COMMS CLOSED TIL DEC)

@darthastris.bsky.social

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Writer of writings, drawer of drawings, editor of sounds. Here’s $20 go buy yourself a Star War. (old/queer/AuDHD/they/🔞NSFW/living in Japan for 20+ years) 🖤🧡🫐🌈🍖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 NOT ON TWITTER

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Darth Astris (COMMS CLOSED TIL DEC) @darthastris.bsky.social · Jul 16

A thread of threads.

🧵-other socials
🎨-art & commission info
🎮-video games
🎲-dice & TTRPG
🎭-cosplay & guides
📕-Star Wars books and lore
🍔-food & other wishlist stuff

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J-ON the Grudge @justjonk.bsky.social · 11h

This is genuinely one of the best tactics for these protests. When you look fucking stupid as hell, dressed like a goof, and stand facing off against a bunch of over armed, jackbooted thugs it makes it really difficult for them to spin this as a military insurgency. Like, really? The frog?

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Darth Astris (COMMS CLOSED TIL DEC) @darthastris.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely braindead. JFC.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10h

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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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 2h

JU-ON: ORIGINS is a much better series than it has any right to be. Given the massive disappointment of the last slew of Ju-on films, I expected this to be dogshit as well.

It is not. Really well executed.

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NPR @npr.org · 2h

Alysia Abbott's memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola. n.pr/3Wt1hlP

'Fairyland' recalls a girl's life with her poet father in pre-AIDS San Francisco

Alysia Abbott's memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you everyone for telling me not to bother with the latest Tron film but listen to the soundtrack.

As always top advice from Bluesky

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 2h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1669

Paddington in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Lydia B. Slade @lydiabslade.bsky.social · 2h

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nikki morgen / ducknuk @duknuk.bsky.social · 17h

Wild West

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19 @libcomix.bsky.social · 5h

Come find the comics librarians tomorrow and all weekend at #NYCC! We are in Writers Block #19 - which is right by Artist Alley aisle K/L

Grab some stickers, some ribbons and some resources to fight back about book bans!

#libcomix #graphicnovels #comics #booksky

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 7h

FYI: You can count on fantastic frights this month from the new Horror movies on Shudder. In what has become a yearly tradition, Shudder has some fan favorites back for the beginning of fall. Fan favorite found footage nightmare V/H/S/ has returned with a film with the most fitting title for…

36 New Horror Movies Streaming On Shudder This Month

You can count on fantastic frights this month from the new Horror movies on Shudder. In what has become a yearly tradition, Shudder has some fan favorites back for the beginning of fall. Fan favorite found footage nightmare V/H/S/ has returned with a film with the most fitting title for October 2025, V/H/S/Halloween. Could it be...

dlvr.it

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 6h

The mental image of Miyamoto sitting on a chair, frustration legible on his face but trying his absolute best not to say anything whatsoever as he sees his kid die in Super Mario 64 for the umpteenth time.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 6h

THE MIST (2007, Frank Darabont)

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 6h

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Darth Astris (COMMS CLOSED TIL DEC) @darthastris.bsky.social · 5h

You pussy ass AI users ain’t shit.

I did an entire Master’s degree at the last possible second, every week for three straight years, fueled by insomnia, Concerta, and metric fuck liters of caffeine, AND got perfect scores on every. Single. Paper. (Plus bonus points.)

Miss me with cheating ass LLMs

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 8h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 12h

Me: Is there something I could do differently to improve my sleep?

Doctor: I recommend not looking at your phone for at least an hour before bed.

Me: So nothing then.

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Darth Astris (COMMS CLOSED TIL DEC) @darthastris.bsky.social · 5h

Night bump!

Careful Ren Zine @carefulren.bsky.social · 15h

The "Careful, Ren" 10th Anniversary Kylux Zine has now sold *80* COPIES! I am blown away by how much love there is for kylux after 10 long years!❤️

If we can sell 100 copies, we will have reached enough funding to add *10 MORE PAGES*!

Currently, we are at 100 pages, plus AMAZING merch!

Careful, Ren

(image of Kylo and Hux leaning close to one another, with a knife drawing a thin cut across Kylo's jaw)

10th Anniversary Kylux Zine

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Klassick-Moviez @klassik-moviez.bsky.social · 18d

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 6h

Any changes done to a painting already finished and sold [as this one was] must be made digitally.

I used Photoshop.

For changes done before about 1990, they were done in whatever medium the original painting was done in, usually on the actual artwork, sometimes on an overlay.