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Author Jack Stein / artist / gardening nerd between March and August 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Savvy observers may suspect I’m some kind of mathematician. While correct, this is a part of my tragic backstory I’m doing my best to move on from. Art & writing NSFW / be 18+ please

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Pea on the loose @loosepea.bsky.social · 10h

Im only what, a week late?

For day 1, prompt: Abrams (with a dash of femme fatale in the form of Lady Geist's legs)

#deadlockkinktober2025
#abrams #deadlock

Digital painting of Abrams, lying down whilst shirtless with glasses askew and trousers undone. Lady Geist (only legs and killer heels shown) stands between his legs and presses lightly on his bulge with the toe of her shoe whilst Abrams grimaces in pleasure/arousal.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 12h

Back on the Deadlock kinktober train on day 8 with the food/intoxication prompts!

Infernus has never been to Ixia. But he lives in New York City. So he’s still pretty sure he’s got access to the best food in the universe. He just needs to convince Abrams of it.

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Szechuan - gradientdescent - Deadlock (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

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Werezoi Ghost? (EMERGENCY COMMS) @nippleghost.bsky.social · 14h

At a meeting and it is so ass

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 15h

yes and people keep giving him SO MUCH MONEY

gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 15h

I’m here to talk about art and writing and things I LIKE, not things I hate, but jesus fucking christ it’s a trial.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 15h

I just want you guys to know the TREMENDOUS amount of willpower it takes for me to not just use this account for dunking on stupid things Sam Altman says, day in & day out

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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 18h

“Man in the Moon,” watercolor- one of my first (and still a favorite) haunted house pieces.

www.joannabarnum.com/shop/maninth...

Watercolor illustration of a dark old house and tree silhouetted against an orange sky, with a giant moon above. A ghostly screaming skull appears in the moon.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 16h

wtf. Is that NORMAL behavior for pedestrians there??

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★ MAKO VICE ★ @mako-vice.com · 2d

Vicetober day: 6 ( UNCANNY )

RESERVED

#vicetober #vicetober2025 #inktober #art #horror #manga #horrorart

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

It’s a numerical optimization method and putting out nerd vibes is the best way to meet all the other mathematicians at the party.

the spiders Georg of Lash fanfic @robocryptid.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

I have horrible anxiety & live in perpetual terror of being misunderstood. also I feel like I’m between 2 things or maybe 2 things at once a lot. also I like cyborgs & urban legends. also you’ll never lay eyes on me.

Jezi Helle 👻 @jezibelle.bsky.social · 2d

Explain your username:

Jezi is a shortened form of Jezriyah, my WoW main. Belle is because I'm Southern, and together it is a pun, because I'm the bad puns and finger guns flavor of bi.

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Freddie @stringerseven.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7! Inspired by @capcadaverman.bsky.social and @hanflower.bsky.social 😂 Punk member of the zombie boy band 😂🤘 #darkart #zombieskulltober #sketch #penandink

Punk member of zombie boy band , missing lower jaw while face drips onto torso, and with long worm like tongue coming out of maw.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 1d

The featherweight is soooooooo nice, legendary machine for a reason, I use mine all the time

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 1d

but also still have to forcefully remind myself from time to time that I get to set my own hours and if my Saturday is on a Tuesday that’s FINE

gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 1d

Just trying to get back into the swing of setting goals for myself, after 6 weeks of chilling!

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 4d

happy banned books week. did you know that one way you can support "bannable" books is by buying them? well, most of my books are banned from library apps for being erotica.

so, i've put them on sale for banned books week! find out where to grab your copy hellostarshine.carrd.co

Banned Book Week. Oct 4-10, 2025. Sleeping Beauty 20% off, The King's Mushroom 25-30% off, LIMINAL 20% off, Sorry I Kissed Your Dad 20-30% off

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 1d

I slept like ass last night, think I may need to take a break from the kinktober writing prompts today and do something physical around the house instead. Six days in a row isn’t bad though!

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Crim Reaper @crimreaper.bsky.social · 2d

Angeltober 2022 Illustrations
Day 4: Eyespot "Umbra"

Deriel, Seraphim of Dimensions

A pitch black, six winged creature with an eye on each wing. I has a mechanical looking arm and a gear coming from its body

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 2d

if my mother knew this was what I was doing with her old med school textbooks she’d be HORRIFIED

gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 4d

Kinktober Day 4: Begging

Drifter’s been around a long, long time. So when he tells you everyone begs by the end? He knows what he’s talking about.

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Lucky Find - gradientdescent - Deadlock (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 2d

well if that PPT glitter bomb didn’t bring in a flood of new creatives to your cause, I don’t know what will!

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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 3d

Sivanchron Monitor Thrincipat
2021

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I want the scrutiny that comes with writing a ship that’s actually POPULAR

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Franck Besançon 🩸 Ecstasy&Agony artbook pre-orders open! @franckbesancon.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow on themansionpress.com
100 illustrations, more than 1000 hours of work, and over 1 billion polygons 👹

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 2d

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to support my shenanigans as an author, this is on sale!

The head librarian in my hometown kept a newspaper clipping up on his wall from the local paper accusing him of being a pornographer. He was that proud of standing up against censorship.

Carmine Pen Press @carminepenpress.bsky.social · 2d

Ebook on sale for $2.99 during Banned Books Week! 20% of proceeds go to EveryLibrary, and organization which fights book bans.

carminepen.com/books/

#Erotica #BannedBooksWeek #Smutober #BBW2025

#BetweenTheStacks by the Numbers
7 short eroticas in 1 anthology
4 contemporary
2 speculative
1 historical
3 straight
3 gay
1 lesbian
1 trans
4 libraries
2 bookstores
1 bookcon
5 spice rating 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

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gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 2d

speaking from having been in that exact same position recently: I don’t even SLIGHTLY regret the pay cut

gradientdescent @gradientdescnt.bsky.social · 3d

Kinktober day 5: CNC

…or whatever you call this spectacularly ill-negotiated encounter between Lash and Pocket in the back room of a New York speakeasy.

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Make Me - gradientdescent - Deadlock (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

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