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Frankenstonk’s Monster

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She/her in VT https://www.aknitomy.com/shop Stained glass and needlework - cats - horror movies - video games (dragon age, bg3) - 🔴LFC - medieval history - anti-racist, antifascist, anti-TERF, 🚫 I block AI on sight 🚫

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 18d

fuck it, I’m starting the season today. I need it.

Name change, pfp change, okgoreberfest starts tonight baybee

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2h

The "follow" dichotomy I always struggle with is "I want to see every single thing you post" vs. "I want you to know that I like and respect you." My Following feed is so overstuffed as it is, but I hate the idea that people I don't follow back might think that I don't appreciate them!

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 6h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 4h

you know whoever made that had a pair of suspenders that are printed like tape measures

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Rune Hrafnagaldur @lunegrimm.bsky.social · 5h

#WerewolfWednesday 🐺📚

Illustration of a "Werewolf" sitting at lectern

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 6h

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s another day of working on mosaic, so another day of well loved movies for me, starting off with Pontypool! It’s been a couple years since I’ve seen it, and that’s too long, frankly.

Image text: Mrs. French's cat is missing. The signs are posted all over town. "Have you seen Honey?" We've all seen the posters, but nobody has seen Honey the cat. Nobody. Until last Thursday morning, when Miss Colette Piscine swerved her car to miss Honey the cat as she drove across a bridge. Well this bridge, now slightly damaged, is a bit of a local treasure and even has its own fancy name; Pont de Flaque. Now Collette, that sounds like Culotte. That's Panty in French. And Piscine means Pool. Panty pool. Flaque also means pool in French, so Collette Piscine, in French Panty Pool, drives over the Pont de Flaque, the Pont de Pool if you will, to avoid hitting Mrs. French's cat that has been missing in Pontypool. Pontypool. Pontypool. Panty pool. Pont de Flaque. What does it mean? Well, Norman Mailer, he had an interesting theory that he used to explain the strange coincidences in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. In the wake of huge events, after them and before them, physical details they spasm for a moment; they sort of unlock and when they come back into focus they suddenly coincide in a weird way. Street names and birthdates and middle names, all kind of superfluous things appear related to each other. It's a ripple effect. So, what does it mean? Well... it means something's going to happen. Something big. But then, something's always about to happen.

a close up of a mosaic in progress on black mounting board. The tiles are a mix of grey, white, pink, orange, black, and green, and the image is of a cat’s green eye and grey cheek with a bit of calico orange and white

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like I could just slam printouts of my various stardew spreadsheets I’ve made for the various farms I’ve made onto the desk and they’d instantly be like: diagnosed [stamp]

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 7h

I think it runs a close second for me, my favorite being [CHITTERING]

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 7h

gasp, she's gorgeous

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 20h

I ended up breaking this up into a few viewings and finished it tonight. This is one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen, I am absolutely in awe of everything about it. The sets, the lighting, the weather effects, the framing, the blood, the backdrops, all of it was so perfect

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 4d

I’m finally watching Kwaidan and it’s breathtaking. The backdrop sky paintings in this second story “The Woman in the Snow” are so incredibly beautiful, I’m having a little trouble focusing on the subtitles

a snowy river bank with a man standing on a short pier. there are trees covered in snow on either side and a break in the trees reveals a mottled red and white painted sky

a swirling inky blue sky with a pale yellow moon floating behind obscuring clouds. Below is a snowy landscape with barren, snow covered trees

an extremely wide shot of a landscape framed by trees. In the far distance along the horizon stands a person. The sky behind is a blend of apricot oranges and blush pinks. There is a purple and darker pink streak running horizontally through the sky and just above it, a deep pink smudge that looks like a pair of lips

a similar night scene to the previous one. A snowy landscape with dead trees, and the night sky is filled with swirling pale green forms that look like human eyes formed out of aurora borealis lights

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 21h

dottie is entranced by the biwa

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 22h

finished up this japanese maple hanging stained glass panel for a friend and i love how it came out with the beautiful mouth blown glass in its subtle variations of reds

a round stained glass panel featuring a huge red japanese maple tree sitting on a hillside overlooking a lake. there's a love heart carved into the trunk with the initials of the happy couple and the date

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 22h

i love october

an image of my tv screen with a man's hands and torso obscured by smoke and the closed captioning reads
[GROANING]
[SQUELCHING]

the same but it's the lower half of a man's face screaming and the closed caption reads [SCREAMING]

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

HEY IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY

YESSSS

Cancer Eats the Heart is out in the world! Disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters for their bones

pauljessup.com/books/cancer...

Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

pauljessup.com

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

related, does anyone wanna lend me a cool half million? I need it real quick to do a thing

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

one of the problems with developing a browsing zillow hobby is finding the *perfect* house and then you just have to sit there and wait for someone who can afford it to buy it and steal it away from your dreams 😭

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

A little thing I am noticing while watching dozens of 80s horror movies is how much americans in the 80s fully believed in the power of their garbage disposals to really take care of entire platefuls of food waste. It took a couple of decades, but it seems like no one does that anymore

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

look, they paid for the "power of the night" song, and they're going to get their money's worth

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 1d

we out here

It is a moon lit night in a narrow valley of a high mountain spooky terrain. The moon has a halo that makes it look twice its own size, and is only barely covered by slightly wispy clouds. The mountains in the distance are blueish white from the splash of the moons haunted hues, but in between the walls of darker rock that crowd in to the foreground, two-robed creatures that are likely men stand lit by a torch that one of them holds like a holy relic. Their hoods are pointed and drawn up over their heads, but we can see the whites of their long impressive beards that make them look like wizards, though perhaps they are merely otherworldly cultists. Their faces are in shadow and they are hunched suspiciously, as if they are up to some dark mischief and their hands are raised in a way that you cannot tell if they are conversing, about to exchange items, or casting some spell.

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

Time for Critters! You probably pronounce that the usual way, like critters, however in universe, the aliens are a race called Crites (rhymes with lights). So shouldn’t the movie be pronounced Crighters? Anyway, this is such a charming little creature feature

critters movie poster featuring a huge alien critter: a large bipedal figure with huge claw hands and dinosaur feet, a massive toothy grin and a fur covered body. It’s standing in a farmer’s wheat field with two shooting stars streaking through the night sky behind it

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

possibly the most horrifying thing about this movie is watching men smoke cigarettes in a submarine when they’re unable to surface to refresh their oxygen

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

I really need to get some work on this mosaic done, so today’s gonna be a day for old favorites that I don’t need to actively watch because I know them so well. Starting off with one of the best of the early oughts, 2002’s Below, a wonderfully tense claustrophobic WWII haunted submarine movie!

the movie poster features a WWII era american submarine plunging into the inky depths leaving a lighter colored wake of bubbles behind it. In that lighter slash of water there’s a partially visible frightened woman’s face staring straight at the viewer. The title is in the upper left

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

because I most definitely post a lot of things like “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME” and I wholly understand in these times why seeing that could be heart stopping

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 1d

just to remind folks who follow me for other than Liverpool reasons, when Liverpool plays, I do try to thread my reaction posts, so you can mute the thread, and I also try to hashtag each post with #YNWA, and you can click on it and mute the hashtag itself so you’ll never see those posts!

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

sports fans, it would make the rest of us really happy if you could thread your OH MY FUCKING GOD jump scare posts so the rest of us could mute the thread or at least understand the context of what you’re referring to

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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