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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · Nov 7

Hail, new Bluesky followers! I'm a pipe cleaner horror artist! I build custom figures, creatures from folklore and pop culture, and my own creations- such as SLASHERS for my horror tabletop fighting game #AMPUTHEATRE!

Meet the Slashers in this thread! Free DLC on Patreon!

#darkart #pipecleanerart

A pipe cleaner figure I built of The Beholster from the video game ENTER THE GUNGEON. It is a red floating eye with a toothy drooling mouth and six tentacles, each holding a different gun.

A pipe cleaner figure I built of Thrush, a playable character in my tabletop fighting game AMPUTHEATRE. Thrush is a giant marsupial rat with mangy gray fur, a bald head, dark blue eyes, and fangs dripping with blood. She stands on her hind legs and a baby rat snarls from her pouch. Thrush's head and arms are removable for AMPUTHEATRE combat, and she can eat the baby for health if necessary.

A shot of AMPUTHEATRE- The World's Goriest Board Game's gameplay. Crucifiend roars at Quacksalver who readies a pole saw, while Crossface squirms from a severed arm. Ankhmotep the mummy shambles his way towards a hedge trimmer. Gnash looks on.

The cover of the hard back rule book to AMPUTHEATRE: The World's Goriest Board Game. Copy this link in your browser to purchase: https://www.lulu.com/shop/gil-merritt-and-gil-merritt-and-chris-pallace-and-kevin-serwacki/amputheatre-the-worlds-goriest-board-game-rule-book/hardcover/product-4g7e5q.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 6h

"I very nearly defeated Superman but then he tricked me into saying my name backwards"

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 12h

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 6h

Won't someone- anyone- deliver us from this relentless sweater onslaught?

Perhaps a 58-year-old self-appointed defender of thin-skinned men who leaps headfirst into people's furnaces and then demands they pay her hospital bills will hear my plaintive cries...

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 7h

Ouch, oof- stop posting this bullying rhetoric; so hateful😉

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, you DO chutzpah much!

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 9h

I'll bite. Let's look at what Kaitlin's posts have done to me. They're making me defend a woman's freedom to write whatever she likes- even at the tacit expense of someone like myself- from my-way-or-the-highway commenters who flail at written analysis. I gotta tell ya: my soul is GREAT with this.

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 9h

It's HER fault you misinterpreted her? Chutzpah much, Tallulah?

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 9h

Hi, cis male here and moot of Kaitlin chiming in with "Kaitlin isn't wrong; men ARE oppressors and predators" and also "maybe go back to Twitter if you're hellbent on defending men's shittiest behavior"

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 10h

ISH FERNDY BERNDY KATT ISH NAHT UN DOGGIE

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 11h

"No, madam: I am not Dani Filth. He pays his employees more"

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 12h

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 11h

"Tch! *I* would not be SEEN with a 'purse'! *I* am carrying a 'SATCHEL'."

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much!! I appreciate the share!

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much!!

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 11h

THE MOTHMAN OF POINT PLEASANT (Folklore)
Pipe cleaner figure
My mom bought it and named him Thaddeus

Includes paint, wooden eyes, fun foam, plastic bristles and teeth, and a T-shirt for wings. Stands 8" (20.52 cm) tall with a 20" (50.8 cm) wingspan.

#darkart #pipecleanerart #mothman #cryptid

A large pipe cleaner figure I built of the Mothman from Point Pleasant. It has red eyes, ravaged bat wings, black feathered antennae, and brown and black skin with iridescent blue claws.

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 12h

Oh wow, yeah; me too. Thanks for experimenting! This is why I don't believe people when they praise me for my patience.😄

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 12h

No idea. But it sucks. I'm hoping it's just down, and REALLY hoping they don't expect us to SAVE so many posts.

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 12h

FROM THE FURY OF THE INFLATABLE STUFFIES, DELIVER US O PRITZKER

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 23h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 12h

OBAMA: [salutes a US Marine with the same hand that is holding his coffee]
REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER: [zipping up pants as they leave a McDonald's FunLand wrought with sobbing] What Obama has done is simply distasteful

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 13h

"Tis hard to see the mighty dancing party pony, trampling to The Plain White T's beneath their merciless feet. O the humanity. O the horrors of war. Truly this inflatable dancing bear and raccoon be the most cruel and awful scourge which can befall a nation. Heaven grant there may be an end soon."

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 23h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 14h

Hey @tech-support.bsky.social: bring back the #pipecleanerart hashtag, please

"#pipecleanerart
From @thegilmonster.bsky.social

NO RESULTS FOUND
We couldn't find any results for that hashtag.
Retry/Go Back"

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, noes; please don't make us choose between six-fingered vengeful nudes of our exes clipping into furniture and potable water

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

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 1d

Don't any of you bastards say anything bad about my artwork because it might just run for President in 2028

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 1d

Harley nuzzling up to the Slender Man my wife got me at Mayday! Underground from our friends at Crafting For Our Sanity.

My cat Harley sleeping on the couch in front of a crocheted Slender Man doll with a red tie and back tentacles.

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 1d

A lot could have happened between February 1988 and 1995- and by "lot", I mean the original THE NAKED GUN.

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 1d

And I'm going on record: if you're touting AI art as an eventually useful tool to me down the road, I don't want it.

Even if AI art did have a selling point as good as Adobe Illustrator's layers or MP3s' thousands-of-songs-in-a-pocket, the trade-off is far too costly.

I, an artist, refuse AI art.

The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me: last night, my wife and I caught a commercial on (ugh) Prime for how ChatGPT can instruct single folk on cooking meals that impress dates without being too forward, and we both had that feeling one does when a dying whale vomits half-digested krill all over their flesh

Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce.

In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners.

futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

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The Gil-Monster ROC QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL! Oct. 11, Village Gate @thegilmonster.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly!