Oliver Brackenbury

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Someone recommended it to me in 1996. I do get around to these things!

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PANEL 1: A duck walking down a suburban sidewalk wearing no shirt but a jack-o-lantern on its head. PANEL 2: A second duck is touching the jack-o-lantern head. DUCK 2: "I love that this is real. Tactile pumpkin face, not just some app." PANEL 3: DUCK 1: "Yeah, it bums me out how so many kids in the neighborhood just print out the logo of an app and safety pin it to an old flannel shirt." PANEL 4: DUCK 2: "A lot of parents encourage it--it's a guaranteed follow-back for their kid's Instagram feed and could easily turn into an internship later." PANEL 5: DUCK 1: "Remember when Dakota Frizzel's dad made her write and perform a song about hashpic.ly getting its Series C funding?" PANEL 6: DUCK 2: "I remember it got him the job, and I remember how disappointed my own father was in me." PANEL 7: A third duck is revealed. He is wearing a flannel shirt with a printout of an app icon that says Wx WEALTH on it safety pinned to the shirt's front. He has a little trick or treating plastic pumpkin. DUCK 3: "Well you spoilsports do whatever. Me, I think it's fun to wear a shirt that smells like my dad." PANEL 8: The third duck hugs his shirt and huffs it happily. DUCK 3: "Normally that is against the rules for me."

FROM 9 YEARS BACK: Costume

A Halloween relic from the zero-interest era.

Yeah I had a moment of Brain No Good while walking my dog on two hours of sleep, then saw the spirited response to it and - being very busy at work - decided to just delete my mistake. As you noticed I normally try my best with alt text, and I have my account set so I can't post pictures without it.

Kid in a Philip Seymour Hoffman Costume.

Happy Halloween!

Early Muppets by Jim Henson.

We see an early Kermit (second from left); Sam (bald puppet, one of Jim’s earliest characters); Moldy Hay (center, a cross between Ernie and Fraggle Rock’s Boober); and Yorick, the bluish skull at Kermit’s feet.
The

CANADIANS! Our government is once again trying to convince us AI is good, actually, and they have a whole big survey about how we can use AI. I pretty much just said "we can't until we can do it without mass theft and poisoning the environment" over and over again, and you can too

had almost forgotten I once wrote about Sam Raimi’s beloved yellow '73 Oldsmobile Delta 88 for Hagerty

Hi! Yes hello, I'd happily come on some time to talk sword & sorcery. I'm behind this thing: @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

Swatch pattern card on top of matching pattern background. Swatch card is a large white rectangle with a square swatch of the NESS magazine brand pattern I designed in the 2025 summer issue colour-way. Swatch card has font at the bottom corner that read “BABE&OAK endpage repeat pattern summer 2025 client: NESS magazine” and the stamp for Babe&Oak in the bottom right corner.

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

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Haha, yeah there is that angle...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Printout on a shrink wrapped pallet of a sweaty bald man on his knees praying. It says DO NOT STACK ON THIS PALLET!

that’s right beg you miserable worm

Oh they have eh? Well damn, that's a mighty fine thing to learn. Thank you!

Ah, good to know. I'll see if I can get the next two at once then.

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Only three chapters in so far, but I agree. Feel pretty sure I'll work my way through all of Wolfe eventually.

Yup! Read the first book a year afo but I got so busy with publishing I knew I'd need my own copy (as opposed to the libraries) to keep going.

An aged paperback of the UK edition of "The Claw of the Conciliator" by Gene Wolfe.

Thanks to a friend I'm finally able to continue traveling with the Torturer.

Oh lord yes. Can't wait for you see them in person!

Issues five, six, and seven of New Edge Sword & Sorcery in hardcover format, fanned out against a white background.

Issues five, six, and seven of New Edge Sword & Sorcery in softcover format, fanned out against a white background.

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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

Feels kind of like an achievement unto itself!

But also an excuse to really hurl shit at a wall, to do the "Oh that'd never work. I could never do that." stories.

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Photo of a storefront for some vintage place that hasn't replaced the sign of the previous store yet. That is partially covered up so that it appears to read "Discola's Sex Hair Shoppe".

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Glass Cannon.

at my patient’s deathbed, his family around him in tears: “You’ve read your last free article”

'Every essay will focus on a specific story (or series), asking how a fan author uses a fandom’s narratives and tropes to think beyond the themes or interests of the fannish source; or, to put it another way, to ask what is the fanfiction author using the fandom to think about?'

Oh yes, exactly

Hey @juliebozza.bsky.social
'In Reading Fanfiction/Fanfiction Readings, we aim to put together a collection of essays in which we treat fan fiction as an important form of contemporary literature...'

It's good! Not what you need if your nerves are feeling shot, though.