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Up On Goblin Hill

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He/Him - 33 - Illustrator - Museum Worker- 💼 https://www.upongoblinhill.com/ 🖼️ patreon.com/upongoblinhill 🎨 [email protected] 🏷️ https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/theprairiedragon/ 🪙 https://ko-fi.com/upongoblinhill

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Aug 24

✨🍂𝔘𝔭 𝔒𝔫 𝔊𝔬𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫 ℌ𝔦𝔩𝔩🍂🌝

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 3h

Gorgeous print production on that cover! Wonderful!

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Aug 5

Me tabbing from one discord server to another pitting them against one another because these people don't have enough problems in their lives.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Aug 24

𝔊𝔬𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫 ℌ𝔦𝔩𝔩 | A colorized delineation showing house, garden, and grounds. Local stone, agate green stucco, & cedar.

Text: Goblin Hill

Image: a perspective drawing of a long low rambling residence built in the prairie style. It is perched on a hilltop in rural Wisconsin and built of stone, stucco, and cedar. The house is wrapped around a hilltop on three sides, terminating in a short tower. The broad roof shelters many windows, porches, and enclosed balconies.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 4d

𝕹 𝕻 𝕮

Text: N P C

Image: a skeleton in decaying motley is seated against a dank stone wall in a deep dungeon. The floor is cobbled stone and beside him is a rickety cloth and pole sign advertising various wares for sale. The skeleton raises a single shining coin. The text bubble below him reads:
RATTLING AGGIE
"Ah! Brave traveller! We've descended quite far have we not? Do not fear my visage, I still have wares to sell thee if you've coin or rot to spare!"

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Jul 26

🌾𝔓𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔢 𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔰🍂

Title: Prairie Goblins

An image of four small figures with large ears, horns, and reflective-eyes lounging on an abandoned car in an overgrown field. The cars bumper is bent and the windshield is broken. Some of the figures wear clothes of woven grass, and they all have long prehensile tails. Ivy grows over part of the car.

Title: The Mishipeshu and The Great Lakes Biome

Description: an illustration showing Lake Michigan and its surrounding geography in curved perspective. Noted in small cursive around the geography are labels denoting the Native American territories belonging to each area. Dotted white lines crisscross the illustration showing the paths of ley lines or other mysterious navigations. Over all of this is a phantom depiction of the Mishipeshu; the Underwater Panther of Objiwe legend. The Mishipeshu's paw dips beneath the waters of Lake Michigan, demonstrating its scale. The Mishipeshu is depicted as a panther with elongated ears and covered in a mixture of feathers and fur. Spines curve along its back and down its tail terminating in curved barbs.

Title: The Spirit of The Ogallala Aquifer

Image: an illustration showing a prairie hillside covered in weeds and grasses. Hovering over the hillside is a phantom skeleton of a massive prehistoric fish, a thin trickle of water emerges from the earth and dances around the skeleton, which is backlit by sunlight lancing from behind a large brilliantly illuminated storm cloud.
In the foreground is a small handful of ammonite fossils- a nod to the prehistoric seas beneath the prairie.

Title: Corpse Lights

Image: Two brittle flickering lights on a prairie and hedge covered hillside at deep dusk.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 15d

𝔅𝔢𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔡 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔡𝔰 𝔚𝔢 𝔎𝔫𝔬𝔴🍂
An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

A compendium of the supernatural creatures, forces, and genius loci of the American Midwest, from Up On Goblin Hill.

Exclusive first-looks now appearing on my patreon!
patreon.com/upongoblinhill

Photo: a brown leather scrapbook, square and worn at the edges. Embossed on its cover is the crest of Goblin Hill; a small pointed shield supported by tangles of ivy.
A piece of paper bearing the legend "Beyond The Fields We Know, An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits." is attached to the cover by wax seal.

Cover image: an elaborate landscape illustration of the Midwestern prairie. Papercut scrollwork frames the title of the book.

Interior image of the Alamanac showing its scrapbooked elements of paper and illustration, stained by age and water damage.

Interior image illustration of the Lightning Dogs of Tornado Alley.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your user name:

Goblin Hill is a place in my mind that is a hilltop prairie refuge, a long low rambling house as bucolic as it is sinister, as embracing as it is warding, as calm as it is filled with life. I hope to build it for real one day.

And I'm from up that hill!

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your user name:

My father's last name is Busiek, and so the whole family just kinda used it too, and he and my mom named me Kurt, so that differentiated me from the seven other Busieks in the house.

And it stuck.

Tea’s so happy being Teddy Roosevelt @handle.invalid · 1d

Explain your user name:

Tea is my first (nick) name, I like Teaberry Gum and Berry-Blue Jell-o, and I have been using this as a handle since college, that’s really all there is to it.

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 2d

[inktober day 6]

Glowing eyes from a bush of pothos and pilea

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

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Headless HorseZen @zenturion.bsky.social · 2d

Very rude dude

#ocarinaoftime #OoT #zelda #deadhand

This is a low angle shot of the monster Dead Hand, from the game "Ocarina of Time"

It is digitally painted and pretty mucky looking. His mouth is open and shrieking, and his hands are reaching towards the camera.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh this is SO GOOD.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

This is an incredibly important point and I'm really glad someone pointed it out! Thank you! We're being nickle and dimed to death by online servicers!

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly! The interpretation is so vast, and platforms these days are so narrow, it's hard for artists to adapt to them for the sake of being seen.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

Completely agree. Circulation is how artists are found! We have to be able to share our work with the wider world.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

Until there is another shift in how media- art in particular- is platformed online, we have to work with what we have. Bluesky is messed up but that's not -our- fault. It's theirs. It took me 10 years to get to the follower count I have here back on Twitter, I'm not struggling through that again.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for making it Jess! I haven't been on a forum in ages

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 6d

I've been waiting all year to repost this 🎃

A pumpkin patch in a variety of shapes and colours, some with carved faces with different expressions. Between the pumpkins are black and white cats, crows, frogs, bushes, twigs and mushrooms.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 4d

𝕹 𝕻 𝕮

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 4d

This is exactly the vibe.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 5d

The issue is security imo. I was on a Frank Lloyd Wright forum where mostly it was scholarly discussion, then it was brigaded by a slew of AI powered spam bots who made accounts to post ads for sunglasses. It took mods ages to solve this problem and it got so bad they resorted to a complex log-in.

Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 5d

With the advent of sora 2 I will no longer be posting images of my face online. Literally nothing is sacred to these ai cretins. I wish them only penury, bankruptcy, failure, and ruin.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 5d

Dude thank you!! I can't wait to share more with folks, it's been a long time coming!

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 6d

𝔄 𝔟 𝔟 𝔞 𝔡 𝔬 𝔫

Love this little freak.

#hauntedhotel #fanart #abbadon

Text: Abbadon

Image: digital graphite fanart of Abbadon from Haunted Hotel on Netflix. A colonial era boy with shaggy hair wearing a coat that was recently underground. He's holding a skull. Behind him is an elaborate antique wall mirror whose reflection shows the silhouette of a many-horned demon.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Sep 6

"𝔒𝔥, 𝔏𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴..."

#hollowknight #illustration #fanart

Text: "Oh, Little Shadow..."

Image: Digital graphite illustration of the Hollow Knight from Hollow Knight standing in the center of a human hand. The perspective emphasizes the minuscule proportions one might imagine the world of Hollow Knight could exist in compared to the vastness of its Lore.

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