Alison Robin

@alisonrobin.com

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Lover of creepy crawlies and weird/scary storytelling in all kinds of media. Doing a variety of digital, traditional, fiber, and textile art. Dream enthusiast & amateur oneironaut. Open to chat! Art only: @alisonrobin.bsky.social

A screenshot of the character Terra from the TV show Teen Titans (2003). The episode is the season 2 episode "Terra" which introduces the character. The audience sees a very thin blonde girl with enormous worried eyes. Behind her is a wall made of soil or rock. Around her neck are a pair of goggles with their lenses broken.
Hello! Earlier today I was saddened and alarmed to see that Booklist's blue sky account made a post about a list of books which it labeled as "ethical romantasy." I have attached a screenshot of it.
A screenshot of an ALA Booklist post talking about a genre they call ethical romantasy with replies disabled.
A photograph showing some mail. There are three postcards stacked up, all seeming to have the same illustration of a loon parent with its two babies riding on its back. The postcard is reminiscent of the minnesota state flag, as there is an eight pointed star positioned behind the loon family. Part of the back of an envelope is visible, with a return address for the artist BREE PAIL and a stamp with illustrations of owls. There is also a receipt card with links to Pail's social media, but I don't think I can embed them in alt text. You may have to type in ko-fi.com/pailbn to your web browser. The symbol used on Pail's return address sticker and business card is a unicorn with a long tail.
A screenshot of a text message received. It says, "Montgomery Burns steepling his fingers, "Excellent."
A photograph of a corgi sitting on cement steps outside of a brick house. The sun is shining on her but is also in her eyes, so she is squinting as if in pain. There is no indication from her body language that she intended to get up or look away from the sun.
A digital drawing that says "Listen to boonta vista" and depicts four cartoony balloons sharing a small space together in reference to Boonta Vista episode 449. In nearly invisible text it says, "love, Alison" at the bottom.
A screenshot of a discord chat. User Ardent, whose avatar is a smiling person, posts, "You can't say that about puppies.." in all caps, followed by a photograph of a magazine ad. The ad shows a picture of a golden retriever puppy playing tug of war and says, "Is your P.O.S. this stubborn?" And then advertises a P.O.S. product. P.O.S. stands for point of sale by the way, it's like machines and software for when people are buying and selling stuff. Anyway after the picture is posted discord user Dama replies, "HEY" as if gravely insulted and then "MY PIECE OF SHIT WUPPYOG?!"
A screenshot of an email from the onion. It says, "Your request, (371643), has been received and we are currently printing it out, translating it to French, and then back to English. We will respond to you as soon as possible. If you’d like to add more information, please reply to this email, but be aware we will translate that message to Cockney-rhyming slang. No one in the office is Cockney and thus may take some time to unravel the message's intention. Thank you for your patience."
A photograph of a corgi. She has collapsed halfway onto a dog bed. The rest of the bed is covered with toys--multiple stuffed animals and at least one ball. Next to her dog bed is a soft bin full of more dog toys. The bin is the right height for a corgi to be able to retrieve her own toys. Behind the bed is a vent, which suggests she has chosen the spot for its airflow.
A screenshot of a discord messages that says, "last night I was working at a convention but I brought a rat and ferret breeding colony with me to the convention and they kept escaping"
A photograph of an open zine assembled by a child out of dot matrix printer paper. On the left page is a child's drawing and on the right page is handwritten text. The drawing depicts a person as drawn by a small child. He seems to have three eyes and a frown. Next to him is a black mass around the size of a person. The text reads, "Once upon a time there were two kids, Jill and Joe. They lived in a hospital so if they got hurt they could be in the hospital fast. In the basement of the hospital, Joe went down there and he saw something that a mummy would be in."
A photograph of a child's drawing on lined notebook paper. The paper has been ripped out of a small spiral bound notebook. The word RAPTOR has been written in large text by a child. Under that is a terrible quality near-stick-figure drawing of the mascot of the Toronto raptors, an anthropomorphic velociraptor, with a basketball.
A cropped screenshot of a text message from a cell phone. The text message reads, "Also, they have Pallid Bats here that eat their neon green scorpions!"
A screenshot from the film Master and Commander. It depicts a dinghy on the sea in fog. The men in the dinghy are rowing away from the camera and they are tethered by a rope to something behind the camera. It feels like the rope is passing over the audience's left shoulder. The fog makes it difficult to see the men in the boat, and beyond them there is only fog.
A photograph of a child's zine. The zine is made out of dot matrix printer paper. One one page there is handwritten text and on the other page there is a small child's drawing of a person. The text reads, "Once upon a time there was a family. And in that family they had 2 pets, a cat and a dog, and 3 humans, a mommy, a daddy, and a child. The child was named Alison. She was very smart."
A photograph of a vintage book. The book is a hardcover with its paper jacket still on, and the jacket has been wrapped in plastic to protect it so the book looks very smooth to the touch. The cover says Edgar Rice Burroughs in smaller text and then MOON MEN in huge block letters with waves in them. The art is almost entirely lineart in ink and shows a human-shaped entity riding a horse-like beast. The rider holds a harpoon as if it means to throw it at a distant spacecraft. The rider appears to have backwards feet, a face on its chest, and wears a headdress like an aztec eagle warrior. In essence, there is a humanoid head inside of a helmet and the helmet is shaped like a big animal head. The horse-like mount has clawed feet and a head like a dragon with long teeth and forward pointing horns.
A digital sketch in full color of a man wearing sunglasses. The man has a fair complexion but has been in the sun a lot and features burns around his forehead. He has long wavy hair that's been tossed around. He has a dark tshirt and a silver necklace with complicated chain links. The bright pink color on his lips is intense enough to suggests that he has maybe been drinking some colorful juice or soda or eating a candy.
A set of digital drawings of dandelions. They are sketchy but colorful.
A photograph of a drawing by a small child. It appears the intended drawing was of a pilgrim with a gun smiling, but the red of the pilgrim's mouth looks like clown makeup
A photograph of a yard with grass, a tree, miscellaneous background plants, a corgi dog, and an elevated flowerpot. The corgi is on her hind legs to make herself tall enough to investigate the flower pot. She bears an expression suggesting slight frustration and disappointment, as if she did not find what she expected.
A photograph of the interior of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. The room is several stories high and shaped irregularly and organically and appears to be carved out of a matrix of concrete cylinders.
A screenshot of a post in discord. Nine days ago, user alison posted, "just imagined I got a new kitchen and in the live laugh love cursive font I got a framed picture that just says "ingredience" to hang in the kitchen."
The cover to a book. The book is Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. It depicts a slender young woman with long hair riding a flying creature, presumably a dragon. The creature has bulbous eyes like a fly, a skull shaped somewhat like a horse's, and a long neck. Its forelegs are clawed like bird feet and it has broad fleshy wings. In the background, there are other, smaller dragons visible.
A photograph of the contents of a small bag. There is a small leather folio with a flip open sketchbook, a flipper zero, an external battery for a cell phone, Dramamine, a bandana with slime mold patterns, and a minimalist wallet with keys and clips attached.
A photograph of two dogs behind a metal fence. One dog is a geriatric corgi and one is a middle aged mutt with achondroplasia and floppy ears. Both dogs are wearing harnesses, and behind them there is a water bowl full of water and the corner of a doghouse.
A diagram of nerd hierarchies, the same as the one quoted in the first post of this thread. Several categories have been highlighted by Alison to indicate their specialties. These are: Science Fiction Literature fans, Anime Fans who Insist on subtitles, video gamers, science fiction television fans, amateur science fiction writers, roleplaying gamers, fanfic writers, erotic fanfic writers, pokemon fans over the age of six, and furries.
A screenshot of a discord conversation. On July 30th 2023, user alison asks, "Would you still love me if I had a tragic accident on the couch while eating anchovies right out of the tin?"
A zoomed in photograph of a turtle's head, neck skin, and edge of shell. The photograph is from above the turtle. The turtle's head is retracted so that only the tip of his pointed snout sticks out. The skin of his neck is folded up around his neck and is lumpy and slightly wet. At a quick glance it could be mistaken for human skin and has the texture of the skin of a very elderly person, very thin.
A mock up of a sample license plate for Washington State. It has a picture of JP Patches, famous Washingtonian clown, and his sidekick Gertrude.
A four panel comic of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. In the first panel, Calvin hammers nails messily into the coffee table in his house. He has a serene but attentive smile. In panel 2, his mom comes running in, yelling "Calvin what are you doing to the coffee table?!?" And in panel 3 Calvin looks at the many nails sticking out of the table, mostly at odd angles. In panel 4 he asks his mother, "Is this some kind of trick question or what?"
A photograph of a parked moped viewed from the front. It has two forward-facing headlamps that resemble the bulbous eyes of cartoon bugs, and its rearview mirror (only one visible in the photo) sticks out like an antenna. The front wheel is at an angle because it is parked and resembles a butterfly's curled proboscis
An oil painting rendered in loving detail. Two rotund monks are in a wine cellar and one has fallen while the other looks on in knowing, loving amusement. The one who fell is physically fine and sitting up, but looking disgruntled at the mess of broken wine bottles he dropped. I believe the painter is Eduard von Grutzner but am not certain.
A screenshot of a discord chat post. In November of the year 2021, user Vaporeon said, "everything in this state is sopping fucking wet" and then a moment later she said "how do you live like this"
A digital painting of the pokemon steelix. Steelix in general look like massive serpents made of shiny metal, and this one is made of gold.
A digital drawing of myself (short haired rectangular person wearing flannel) saying "If you have a big bug pokemon, people respect you for it" which is the phrase in the quoted image below. Drawn next to me is a volcarona, a large moth pokemon. The real alison-heads know that my volcarona is named Motley. He's got a speech bubble with his bug-sound represented with a squiggle and an exclamation mark.
A screenshot of text inside of the software notepad plus plus. The text is JSON format and lists several values such as background color, size of a window, and other normal things for software settings. However, the final line before the closed bracket reads in all caps, "DANGEROUS ENABLE DEVTOOLS ONLY ENABLE IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING" and it is set to "true"
A screenshot of the game dialed.gg. It displays a final score after the game is over that says "45.59/50" in big text and then under that "Tetrachromat or obsessive? Either way, maybe go outside."
A screenshot of a discord message. User alison says, "what if she was a gharial" and shares a hastily-drawn sketch of a gharial's head, but with a bob haircut. A gharial is a kind of crocodile-like animal with an extraordinarily long slender snout, almost as thin as a broom handle but with tons of huge teeth sticking out.
A scan of a handwritten letter from Charles Darwin to William Darwin Fox from 1828. The letter is written with an ink pen on paper which has yellowed with age. The handwriting is in a kind of sharp cursive. Most interestingly, there is text going both vertically and horizontally on the page, which I guess was done to save space. The full text of the letter reads: "My dear Fox I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects:—my only reason for writing, is to remove a heavy weight from my mind, so now you must understand, what you will perceive before you come to the end of this; that I am writing merely for my own pleasure & not your’s.— I have been very idle since I left Cambridge in every possible way & amongst the rest in Entomology. I have however captured a few insects, about which I am much interested: My sister has made rough drawings of three of them: I. fig: is I am nearly sure, the same insect as H⁠oar of Queens took in a Willow tree, & which Garland did not know. I took [it] under the bark of a rail, was very active, striking looking insect, took 3 specimens. I think this is an admirable prize" After that text I cannot make out the vertical text.
A digital drawing similar to the one in the quoted post, but in alison's art style. It uses the same set of colors, but is lumpier and pointier. A skeleton person with some armor stands with a sword and another weapon like a sword with a long handle. One of the swords has a bloody crown hanging off of it.
A screenshot of the pokemon global trade rankings in the pokemon home app. The Pokemon slowpoke is presently the #1 most popular pokemon, followed by clefable and weavile
The image contains text from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It reads, "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
A picture of two comic book covers for a Star Wars comic called Shadow of Maul. In the bottom left of one comic is a young man who bears a striking resemblance to young Vincent Price
A photograph of a product. The product is a baby doll but it is a baby of an alien, a Rodian from the star wars universe. It has bumpy skin like a frog and a small snout for a mouth like a stubby anteater. It has pointy ears like an elf and on top of its head it has two fleshy protrusions shaped like little trumpets. It has some hair on its head in the shape of a mohawk. It has enormous smooth eyes with no pupils. They are the opposite of a Funko pop's soulless black eyes. These eyes are full of soul. It feels like this alien baby could really love you if you raised it as your own.
A blurry photograph of a concerned corgi dog curled up on her bed. She is rearranging blankets.
A photograph of two dogs watching a large television, which depicts a third dog. In the bottom left is a smooth-haired mutt watching. Directly in front of the television in the center bottom of the image is an elderly corgi looking up. On the television the dog is a Nova Scotian duck toller, a long haired mid sized breed of dog.
A photograph of a Christmas tree with Technicolor Christmas lights. The camera focuses on a single ornament. It is a soft felt rag that has been folded or scrunched and flattened into an organic, non-representational shape. There are large haphazard stitches in it that appear to provide minimal function.
A hastily drawn chart of lines connecting dots and each for is labeled with the name of a character from the novel Dracula. The Jonathan dot is connected to the Mina dot, which is in turn connected to the Lucy dot. The Lucy dot in turn is connected to Quincy, Seward, and Arthur dots. The Seward dot is connected to a Van Helsing dot.
A digital drawing of a leopard slug. The image has been drawn hastily and includes no substantial detail. The spots on the slug's trunk spell the word "type." Leopard slugs typically have splotches. The spots on the slug's mantle don't say anything, but its upper tentacles (which contain the eyes) are shaped like lower case i in a font and the lower tentacles are shaped like a quotation mark. However, these likenesses are not rendered in very serious detail and the image only barely conveys this.
A photograph of an open sketchbook. A hand holds it. There is a mechanical lead holder, a rectangular eraser, and a few pens but the important part is a graphite drawing of a gave entrance with a scary sculpture carved into the rock around it. It depicts a cave entrance at the Goa Gajah complex in Indonesia. The carvings are old and eroded but the central tusked figure with large attentive eyes and flat teeth at the top of the cave door is intact.
A digital drawing on top of a manipulated photograph. The image depicts a kiln or tray (a modified photograph of Nora's) which has been edited to look empty except for a drawing of a piece of fused glass. The fused glass is globular and mostly nonsensical in the manner of the art form, and whatever traits it had when it went into the kiln have been smoothed out from sharp points to soft globs. Only someone who recognizes my fursona Roland the bearded vulture would be able to immediately identify it as anything other than a little pile of goo with an eye.
A screenshot of a text message. It reads, "The black squirrel is stealing plums."
A woodcut print in color. It is called "Yamamoto Kansuke Kills the Wild Boar" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. It was made in 1868. It depicts Yamamoto Kansuke, who is a famous samurai and military general from Japanese history, with many armed men around him hunting an enormous wild boar. The print shows everyone in motion, with the boar whirling about in the midst of all of the men, its head tossed in the air. The men are being tossed about, their weapons deflected. Some of their equipment has come off and is flying away in the air. One man is upside down in the snow, his legs flailing in the air. Every man has intricate clothing with complex patterns, which speaks to the artist's skill and contrasts the boar's very plain grey brown colors. The boar's fur is detailed and looks coarse, like pine needles.
A photograph of a collection of plum pits. There is a bowl sitting on a chair, containing approximately one hundred plum pits. It is photographed from above.
A photograph of a mutt dog. She is wearing a harness and lying on her side in the grass under the summer sun. She is panting. Because her eyes are shut due to sun and she is panting on the ground, she has an expression which would, on a human being, look like sobbing.
A digital drawing. The level of effort applied is minimal. It depicts a purple king slime in a fish bowl, trapped because it is a liquid. It still has its crown. I almost forgot the word crown and wrote "little hat" instead of crown.
A digitally edited image. The original image is a work by photographer Nona Limmon and depicts a woman in white with a mysterious goat-like anthropomorphic form in black. It has been edited with the rough drawing of an anthropomorphic bearded vulture replacing the goat. There is a purple king slime in the corner watching, also added.
A photograph of a dog sitting between a wall and an open glass door. It gives the impression that the dog could be squished, but the dog is sitting peacefully and not actually being squished.
A photograph of a corgi's face looking out of a car window. The corgi wears a plaintive and slightly optimistic expression.