a hideous thing

@ahideousthing.bsky.social

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So my boss doesn't fire me, all views are my own. An absurd lefty A big old goth A silly nerd A fox liberating food from a fridge AI sucks and is bad (he/him) (Profile pic is a fox raiding a fridge)

A tired but noble man of a certain age smiles and gives a thumbs-up while holding a copy of the skirmish wargame, Legitimate Salvage. This is peak multi-tasking. I look like Tony Blair here, which is not my goal.
A hand-made model bunker: I've painted it with a million layers, and a thousand highlights.
Another blurry photo of a home-made bit of model terrain: a ruined bunker made from polystyrene. It has had a bit of work done (waist-high walls to the flanks and centre) at the front.
A blurry picture of a self-made, polystyrene, miniature, model, ruined bunker. Painted grey.
A dirty looking wargaming table: there's a Trench Crusade artillery witch upto her usual hijinks (throwing bombs from Hell at people)
Me wearing a Soviet-era Jericho hat: a black felt hat with a big, red, five-pointed star on the front. It has a tall and silly pointed bit on top.
The cover of the DVD version of mid-80s TV show, Dead Head. The cover is appropriately bleak, dark, and dominated by black and red. It was a ghastly show if my memory is correct.
A middle-aged white guy wearing an absurd "Jericho" hat: a tall, black, felt hat with a weird spikey peal, and a great big five-pointed red star on the front. Satanic? Soviet? (Soviet)
A polystyrene model building: a two-storey, bombed-out front
Notice the honest dirt (paint) under my fingernails: man of the soil!
More home-made WW1 simulation
A sign declaring the degree to which I am in danger of death (I am middle-aged)
Home-made terrain of trenches flanking no-man's land.
The same li'l WW1 diorama as before but noticeably less brightly-green and more mud-begrimed-looking.
The last pic: the maker's doing his best. More to be pitied than despised, I'd say.
Top down: nice work with the shadows IMO. Is a flare going off and illuminating the scene? Or is another dawn breaking over the world?
Another view, slightly zoomed out: dining room chairs and table by Ikea.
A side view of the same scene: he's made a collage of photos of Ypres in 1917 as a backdrop, bless him.
Photos of a hobby/wargaming table: home-made trench warfare terrain. "Grass paper" as the base: lots of fake mud glued on with spray glue. Charred twigs to represent shell-burst tree trunks.
A painting by Max Ernst: behind an oddly vibrantly-coloured, pastoral foreground, in which a naked female form can be seen reclining, a massive, looming, and ominously bland face lurks in a ghastly fashion. A huge cyclops. Ugh
A rather dark and out-of-focus picture of a self-made gaming tabe for a skirmish wargame: it resembles a muddied up field with blasted tree trunks and two trenches dug at the east and west edges. A rather hilly no man's land in the middle.
A man wearing a Soviet-era Jericho hat: an absurd, pointy hat in black felt with red piping and a red five-pointed star.
Sir Didymus, an utterly marvellous character from the film, Labyrinth. He's an eye-patch wearing, moustache-sporting knight, also a fox. (Others say a fox-terrier, exposing themselves to well-deserved scorn) Rides an old English Sheepdog called Ambosius.
A white, plastic box with li'l drawers (ten of them: two rows of five). The drawers have paper miniatures in them.
The interiors of the three aforementioned home-printed Hodag zines, Beneath the Dungeon Floor!
The covers of three homemade versions of Hodag's zine game Beneath the Dungeon Floor! All very colourful and shiny.
a middle-aged white man wearing an outrageous black and red Jericho Hat with a five-pointed star on it.
A painting of Proudhon, the father of Anarchism.
Louis-Antoine de Saint Juste, the Archangel of Terror
The flag of the State of Ohio
a picture of the morning
A homemade, home-printed version of MeatCastle GamesWare's Annual #3: extremely pink
An extremely pink, hand-made booklet of Annual #3 by Meatcastle Gameware
Two home-made booklets: Wonder & Wickedness and Marvels & Malisons. The original books are published by Lost Pages; these versions were made by me. Made with lots of screenshots, coloured paper and card, and hand-sewing to hold it all together.
The cover of the album, Amber, by Autechre: a beautiful and bizarre landscape of pinkish-white mineral hills.
The pic I use for everything: British or Commonwealth soldiers having a terrible time in Ypres in 1917 among the blasted trees, mud, and flooded shell craters.
A tired, old man holds up a hand-drawn map of Mount Haruna (in Gunma, Japan: one of his favourite places in the world)
A hand holding up a home-printed booklet: A Damned Hermit's Grimoire. It's an adventure for Mork Borg. The cover is blue and shiny. The title is in the Spectral font. The cover pic shows a bunch of skulls of different sizes/proximity to the viewer.
A power-fist from the Fallout games: a big, metal glove designed to deliver a great big punch with hydraulic force or something like that.
It's that photo from the Third Battle of Ypres again: a group of British or Commonwealth soldiers walk through an utterly hellish landscape of blasted trees and flooded shell craters.
3 green card folders with Hodag's art for the TTRPG, Death Game, adorning the front of each one
A middle-aged man (me) holding up three bottle-green folders containing a home-printed copy of his new purchase, the TTRPG Death Game. He's got his thumb held aloft and is smiling: he's happy with his new game.
Zombies be grasping
A graphic showing the profile pictures of people with whom I have interacted the most on bsky.app. They include Simon Burley, Hodag, Jack Panic, the lovely Joe Segal, Jenny Frecklington Jones, Molly Shah and other fine folks too numerous to name. Thanks to all of them for the interactions.
A silly man wearing a silly hat. Possibly a wizard. Who knows?
An advertising thing for a Japanese pharmaceutical company or drugstore, most likely: a big, smiling, teal mascot with his hand raised as if saying "Me, please!", wearing a red sweater bearing the words "World of Pain"
The cover of the DVD version of 10 Rillington Place: a film (starring Richard Attenborough) of the crimes of John Christie, pathetic and evil murderer.
A PS2 game cover. An unarmoured samurai squats, holding his katana in both hands. The game is Sword of the Samurai by Genki/Ubi Soft.
A hand-made booklet of the OSR text, Prinicipia Apocrypha. Light blue card cover preserved forever in transparent plastic stuff (no air bubbles): bright orange stitching at the spine.
Soldiers at Ypres in 1917 seem not to enjoy their time in Hell.
A "toy box" version of a D&D critter: a mimcat. It's a creature that can take on the form of small objects in order to ambush its prey (and be generally adorable). This version recreates this imaginary creature as a box in which to store cards, perhaps cards showing the other critters featured in Stibbles' Codex of Companions, from which the mimcat comes.
A nineteenth century multi-storey building: red brick gothic revival. It's a cool and fancy building: a great place to stimulate the imagination of the young.
Troops in Ypres surrounded by a hell of water, mud, blasted trees and death.
The cover of My Bloody Valentine's album Isn't Anything: an overexposed and psychedelic photo of three of the band members.
A picture of a duvet (or "doona" in Australian English) with the heading "The Origin of 'Doona""