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Philip Krogmeier
@flipwriter.bsky.social
1.3K followers 1K following 5.3K posts
Bisexual genderfluid writer, "punk ass book jockey" (librarian), Union person (CWA7799). Ren Faire pirate. Amateur bartender. Hello, sweet chaos. He/him/they/them.
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Alexander and the Magic Mouse. My dad would read this one to me and my sisters on rainy days, when farm work got delayed.
Alexander and the Magic Mouse by Martha Sanders and illustrated by Philippe Fix. The cover of the book depicts an elaborate red-draped sitting room. In the room at an elderly woman in a black dress, an alligator (the titular Alexander), a yak, a cat, and the Magic Mouse. The characters are seated for tea.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Me vs 3 pro bartenders. Came in second place. Damn happy with that result.
A photo of me at a local bartender competition. I'm standing in a t-shirt that says "I'm only here for the Boos" with my arms spread, looking at the camera.
October 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Just came across this, which feels appropriate.
the human sadiepede @helldoe.bsky.social everyone has that one ominous tower in the distance they look at and feel bound to serve December 6, 2024 at 9:39 PM
September 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Our parlor lampshade.
A small lamp sitting on top of a bookshelf. The lampshade is patterned in William Morris' Strawberry Thief, a repeated pattern of birds, flowers, and fruit.
September 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Reposting this with alt text, because this deserves to be shared more widely.
A comic by Jo French (@gothinkdexign) made up of six colored panels arrayed in two rows of three. The scenes from different Star Trek series depict Captain Picard meeting with the Temarian captain in Darmok, a group of Bajoran freedom fighters celebrating their victory while a shadow of a Cardassian looms above, the Emergency Medical Hologram on-board the prototype USS Prometheus in battle with Romulans, Geordi drinking with Data in Ten Forward, Major Kira talking with Odo, and Captain Janeway greeting Seven of Nine as she awakens from her regeneration cycle. The text reads "Star Trek teaches us that there are many ways to change the world. You can do it by building bridges, or by continuing to fight, even when all seems hopeless, or my stepping up to a task you weren't prepared for... But sometimes, all you need to do to change the world is to just look someone in the eye, and tell them 'Hello.' 'I see you.' 'I know there's a person in there.'"
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Minecraft survival mode success!
A screenshot from my Minecraft survival world on Switch. The screenshot consists of a POV shot. Visible are my character's hands (holding a shield in my left and a snowball in my right). Also visible is a happy ghast wearing a flight harness and goggles in the middle ground on the right, and a large pagoda-style structure in the background on the left.
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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So, grabbed an Aetherdrift collector booster this week, and uh...
A photo of the Japanese language foil version of the mythic rare Radiant Lotus from the Magic the Gathering Aetherdrift set. The art depicts a golden pyramid nestled within the petals of a lotus flower.
August 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Oh, hey! Facebook memories say it's been ten years since I met @kevinhearne.bsky.social!
A photo of me with Kevin Hearne in the (tragically now defunct) costume rental shop at the Colorado Renaissance Faire. I'm on the right, dressed as a pirate in a white shirt, black pants, a green vest, and black leather boots and hat. Mr. Hearne, on the left, is dressed as an author who is pleasantly surprised to find a shop full of pirates who are fans of his work.
July 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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But wait, there's more!
The Garfhand by @dsamowen. Five figures based on the Godhand characters from the manga series Berserk by Kentaro Miura. These five are mashups of the original nightmarish designs combined with Garfield by Jon Davis.
July 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Okay, this is the white on black version, but this is what I'm aiming to engrave.
A sign with white text on a black background. The text is in Aurebesh, the Star Wars text alphabet. It reads "Bar Far Away. Est. 2023. Philip Krogmeier, Proprietor." The text is marred slightly by the placement of small scorch marks, intended to mimic the appearance of blaster fire striking the sign over the years.
June 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Honestly not as scary as recognizing Stephen Gammell's art in non-SSTTITD situations.
A brightly colored children's book cover. The book is Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman, with illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The cover illustration features an older white man with greying hair. He's dressed in a white long-sleeved shirt and khaki slacks held up with red suspenders. He's not wearing shoes, so you can see his blue and white striped socks as he strikes a tap dance pose, balanced on his right leg with his left raised and his arms outstretch. In his left hand, he holds a cane, and a black bowler hat encircled by a red ribbon falls from his right hand, just above where the Caldecott Medal icon is located on the book's cover. The man is surrounded by shadows in blue, yellow, and red, with those same colors being used for the text of the book's title.
May 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Habemus Papam!
A promotional photo of the newest lineup of the Swedish metal band Ghost, featuring Tobias Forge as Papa V Perpetua as the purple and gold-clad lead singer in the center of the photo. Papa's garb is, as per Ghost tradition, in the style of a Catholica pope but with upside-down crosses and embellishments. Papa stands tall, flanked by the eight black and gold-garbed and masked Nameless Ghouls who serve as the rest of the band. The ghouls are dressed in Victorian fashion with skeletal structures embroidered on the front of the costumes. Two of the female ghouls have one arm outstretched on either side of the photo, revealing the bat wing cloth portion of their costumes.
May 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Flimsy Steve
Twitter post from user Big Bitch for All Weather (@fixyourheartsor). Text of post reads: "guest rapper on gorillaz song: i been in ends since ten kicking product round the bend, my mum died of tuberculosis i'm slipping into psychosis. Damon Albarn on the chorus: ooooooh flimsy steve, where did you go, what have you seen" Post dated 11:36 PM, 26 Aug 21, Twitter for Android. Addendum: to be perfectly clear, this is not a real Gorillaz song, but it beautifully encapsulates the general trend of their lyrics.
April 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Reposting with alt-text, because fuck this shit.
Text from a promo for generative AI. Text is white on a dark blue/black background. Text reads as follows: "But this is different. AI isn't just another tool - It will redefine how our world works. Why memorize facts, write code, research anything - when a model can do it in seconds? The best communicator, the best analyst, the best problem-solver - is now the one who knows how to ask the right question. The future won't reward effort. It'll reward leverage. So start cheating. Because when everyone does, no one is."
April 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Ghost has been preparing us for years.
Swedish band Ghost's character Papa Nihil, an anti-pope figure dressed in intricate gold papal garb complete with Ghost's upside-down "Grucifix" insignia on his mitre. Papa Nihil is an old man in white and black corpse paint wearing large sunglasses and playing a saxophone.
April 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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A film that takes place where you're from.
Michael Caine and Hugh Jackman as John Cutter and Robert Angier, respectively, in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006). Caine, left, is an older white man with white hair and a stubbly beard dressed in a dark suit, standing with his hands in his pockets. Jackman, right, is a younger white man with mid-length dark hair and wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and dark pants. He's standing with his elbows at nearly 90 degree angles with his palms raised. Leather straps are buckled around each arm just above the elbow as part of a mechanism for an illusion his character is performing.
April 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Judge me based on my commanders!
Bria, Riptide Rogue. Bria is a red-blue (Izzet) Magic: The Gathering card, a legendary creature, and an otter rogue for 2 untyped mana, one blue, and one red. The art features a bipedal otter dressed in red and blue clothing appearing to ride on a magically manipulated stream of water in an apparent escape from pursuers in the background. Bria's power and toughness are both 3. Bria's abilities are as follows: Prowess (whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Other creatures you control have prowess. (If a creature has multiple instances of prowess, each triggers separately.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn. Card is from the Bloomburrow set (2024) with art by Borja Pindado. Davros, Dalek Creator. Davros is a Doctor Who villain and a red-blue-black (Grixis) Magic: The Gathering card, a legendary artifact creature, and an alien scientist for 1 untyped mana, one blue, one black, and one red. The art features a bald, wrinkled old man's torso visible emerging from a Dalek's metal base. He's dressed in black and has a light reminiscent of a Dalek's eyestalk in the middle of his forehead, and lightning is emanating from his outstretched finger. Davros is flanked by two other Daleks in the background. Davros's power is 3 and his toughness is 4. His abilities are as follows: Menace. At the beginning of your end step, create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn. Then each opponent who lost 3 or more life this turn faces a villainous choice--You draw a card or that player discards a card. Card is from the Doctor Who set (2023) with art by Simon Dominic. Kambal, Profiteering Mayor. Kambal is a white-black (Orzhov) Magic: The Gathering card, a legendary creature, and a human advisor for 1 untyped mana, one black, and one white. The art features a man in an ornate white suit standing at the railing of a balcony and reaching out to gesture at something with his left hand while a white and blue android in a silver cowboy hat stands behind him. Similarly ornate buildings are visible in the background. Kambal's power is 2 and his toughness is 3. Kambal's abilities are as follows: Whenever one or more tokens enter the battlefield under your opponents' control, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever one or more tokens enter the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Card is from the Outlaws of Thunder Junction set (2024) with art by Andreas Zafiratos. Obeka, Splitter of Seconds. Obeka is a red-black-blue (Grixis) Magic: The Gathering card, a legendary creature, and an ogre warlock for 1 untyped mana, one black, one blue, and one red. The art features a bluish tattooed ogre woman with long, unkempt red hair shaved on one side of her head. She's wearing a long red coat, leather bracers, and brown leather pants and carries a glowing hourglass on a chain around her waist. One of her fists is clasped in the other palm as she walks away from a bar with several men slumped around it. A splintered glass effect is visible between her and the bar, giving the impression that she has punched time itself during the fight. Obeka's power is 2 and her toughness is 5. Obeka's abilities are as follows: Menace. Whenever Obeka, Splitter of Seconds deals combat damage to a player, you get that many additional upkeep steps after this phase. A flavor text quote is included that reads "You're living on borrowed time." Card is from the Outlaws of Thunder Junction set (2024) with art by Ryan Pancoast.
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Gorgeous stone. Simple and simultaneously inscrutable.
A photo of a dark-colored gravestone. The stone appears to be rather small rectangle with beveled edges (maybe three feet wide by two feet tall by about five inches in height from the ground). The stone sits amid a grassy cemetery and has some flowers on either side of it. The stone reads "David Keith Lynch, 1946 - 2025, Night Blooming Jasmine."
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Meme featuring a still shot of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, directed by Steven Spielberg). Indy, dressed in a tan shirt, dark leather jacket, and fedora, is pulling his fist back to swing at a Nazi soldier while they fight on the back of a tank. White text overlaid on the image reads "I came here to study the humanities and punch Nazis and they just cut funding for the humanities."
March 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Post from user Sarah Tonin, dated Feb. 12, 2020. "PSA: If you don't want your child to be gay, trans, etc. then just don't have kids. This isn't fucking build a bear. You don't get to pick and choose these things about your child. You aren't ready to be a parent if you aren't ready to love them unconditionally." This text is followed by an emoji of a head in profile with marks indicating speech or shouting.
March 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Post from user savavillescas (white background with black text) reads: For everyone saying that the army choir's decision to perform "Do You Hear the People Sing?" at the governor's ball was not an act of rebellion against the current administration: The army choir director, Captain Bonnie Alger, has been scrubbed from the website as of today. Let that sink in.
February 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Diane. 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.
Viktor Hargreaves and Five from the Netflix adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba's Umbrella Academy. Viktor (a young white man with long dark hair), played by Elliott Page, is pictured in the driver's seat of a turquoise car looking out the window with a slightly confused/shocked look on his face. Five (a younger man with short dark hair), as played by Aidan Gallagher, is pictured in the driver's seat of a similar car, looking out the window with an equally confused expression.
February 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Flyer for a local event. Flyer reads as follows: Stories and Conversations, March 2nd, 2025, 11:30 AM - 1 PM. Community Hall. 103 Pawnee Ave, Manitou Springs, CO. The Open and Affirming Team & Community Congregational Church invites you to an engaging presentation of empowering stories that intersect with gender education. The goal is to create safe conversations that foster wellbeing for all people. A light lunch is provided. On the left side of the flyer, there is a photo of a nonbinary person with short red hair and large glasses. The photo is labeled: Ollie Glessner, they/them, advocacy director at Inside Out Youth Services. Below their photo is a logo of the Community Congregational Church, which is a four-petaled yellow flower with blue and grey decorations indicative of people standing with arms outstretched. On the right side of the flyer is a photo of a nonbinary person with dark hair and glasses standing in front of a microphone. The photo is labeled: Alex Vaughan, they/them, speaker, parent and trans legal advocate. Below their photo is the UCC.org logo, which is a circle in rainbow colors with a white comma shape in it that reads A Just World For All.
February 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Still not Jason Derulo falling down the stairs at not The Met Gala. Still not Jason Derulo falling down the stairs at not The Met Gala.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Not Jason Derulo falling down the stairs at not the Met Gala.
February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM