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@thezlain.bsky.social

| online vamp, irl goth | multi-OC xiv gposer | Use my presets? → #Zlainstudio

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Death, Undone
Refracted depths betray fallen stars under the surface
Assailed by void, light drips unto the universe from below
Irreverent are lights’ captors, they claw
Sustained by tears of life
Etched upon her, unforgiven failures
Drowned; they grasp, forever yearning

20.11.2025 18:03 — 👍 32    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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🐍🪨

17.11.2025 21:16 — 👍 1195    🔁 250    💬 11    📌 2
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" and it's the old religion humming in your veins
some animal instinct starting up again "
#starcrowned | #elegyworks | #daemods | #lichlights

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unfinished artwork of frankenstein and elizabeth

unfinished artwork of frankenstein and elizabeth

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Here are my favorite fabric studies i've drawn so far bc i think they look cool together

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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

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hanneli, a pale grey midlander with dark black hair stands surrounded by crows. one is lifting off her finger, flying off image, wing partially obscuring hanneli's blank eye. two others are in frame, surrounding her. a final crow is out of frame, casing a shadow on hanneli, head and beak visible on her shoulder. she looks to the viewer with a blank, peaceful expression.

hanneli, a pale grey midlander with dark black hair stands surrounded by crows. one is lifting off her finger, flying off image, wing partially obscuring hanneli's blank eye. two others are in frame, surrounding her. a final crow is out of frame, casing a shadow on hanneli, head and beak visible on her shoulder. she looks to the viewer with a blank, peaceful expression.

— to die is to awake.

#gpose | #ofhousebrudevold | #midlander

09.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 176    🔁 73    💬 1    📌 0

being a makeup artist makes me feel powerful

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I was a devil today but I was thinking about... Her 💌

01.11.2025 04:13 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In the Wake of all Saints

#Zlainstudio | #lavabod | #elegyworks | #OC:Hikari

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i'm gonna need two posts

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yea

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Xane agrees

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“WHO SAVED THIS-“

I did. I was inspired. I was in awe. I wanted something to aspire to. I wanted to hold it as a trinket and appreciate it later. I wanted to return to it and repost it again. And again. And again.

Don’t ask that dumbass question again.

19.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 35    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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(OC) Midnight creature

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Wrap me in silk
#ftp:gpose ✦ #ftp:faerensanja

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sex in the forgotten knight inn room. call that cold stone creamery

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hanneli, a pale midlander with black hair stands in prayer. she is looking off into the distance, a single spotlight shining on her as if a God is finally listening to her pleas, if only for a moment. behind her there are rows of apparitions wearing white sheets, perhaps waiting their own turn. they too are unknown, silenced, forgotten.

hanneli, a pale midlander with black hair stands in prayer. she is looking off into the distance, a single spotlight shining on her as if a God is finally listening to her pleas, if only for a moment. behind her there are rows of apparitions wearing white sheets, perhaps waiting their own turn. they too are unknown, silenced, forgotten.

— a single voice.

#gpose | #ofhousebrudevold | #midlander

09.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 172    🔁 73    💬 3    📌 0

No. Go on.

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My OC Maria 🍷 she's an evil lesbian vampire and i'm in love with her

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"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

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Good choice. Good choice

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Well? Who’d ya pick, pip?

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Cabbage

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eivren timelapse –

09.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 417    🔁 64    💬 8    📌 0
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OC 𓃦 .𖥔 ݁ ˖
Study of my favorite piece by Jean-Gabriel Domergue <3

27.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 589    🔁 163    💬 2    📌 3
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FF14 アム・アレーン/廃都ナバスアレン
Amh Araeng/Nabaath Areng

22.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 248    🔁 141    💬 0    📌 0
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MY HEART REMAINS THE SAME.

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It's a time-honored tradition to steal Mugler (F/W 1998)

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