Elissa

@elissablack.com

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The lesbian roadkill of the information superhighway. Makes games, shoots photos, does indie film. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧛🏻‍♀️ she/her Currently: Death by Scrolling, Second Hand Computer, and Dungeons of Freeport. www.FuntimeElectrics.com www.GoodNameForABlog.com

Death in Brunswick. Sam Neill, young and with a big shit-eating grinn on his face, prepares to throw a dart while John Clarke, another Kiwi legend who moved to Aus to continue a great career, lights a cigarette while staring seriously at the off-camera dart board.
A D&D map on a table with tokens. Also wine. And other things.
A poster (well, I think it's an older DVD cover I remember seeing) of Duel, Steven Spielberg's first flick.
Ultima VII original black box edition with 5.25” disks out along with the cloth map.
Some oatmeal-ass diagrams showing the basic rules of Handball, the game played in Australian, New Zealand and Kiwi schools.
A pool table in Duke Nukem 3D.
A post by @rose_alibi on post.lurk.org over on Mastodon: It seems like real weird timing to choose to tear apart the mythos of Robin Hood. "The dude who famously stole from the rich and gave to the poor was actually really bad" is not the message we need currently.
Al Swearengen raises a toast and downs a whiskey.
A surreal building floor with no windows and dozens of elevators. Chinese markings. Scuffed and ill-maintained. Random trans flag colours above the elevators on the walls for some reason.
Matthew Rhys as the Sheriff in Widow's Bay, hugging a leather paper folio and sitting behind a desk, a look on his face somewhere between concern and disbelief.
"I don't know... I can imagine quite a bit [of bad]." With Han Solo. Naturally.
It's glorious, isn't it? The gold sheen. The beautiful reflections. The steampunk energy. The weirdly fascist eagle on the top. As my Spanish friend said, "Wait, they make fascist coffee machines now?" I guess the Italians just love eagles and fascism. It's not real gold though, it's copper and brass. It IS a real coffee machine though.
A bronze & copper Elektra Micro Casa, a beautiful extremely mechanical coffee machine. Think a steampunk version of an aeropress, in a sense.
A beautiful, colourful hazy beach shot of a car parked on Miami Beach next to a small stand and some people. The colours are just gorgeous, a perfect sky, a perfect ocean, and a perfect rich sand colour.
Pam Grier. Pam fucking Grier. Pam HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S A LOOK Grier. Pam. Grier. Honestly, I can't even do this outfit justice. I just can't. She looks gay as fuck.
Ray Stevenson as BLACKBEARD, standing on the prow of a ship's jollyboat or cutter, a brace of three pistols on his chest.
A fake Lower Decks episode title which reads: "Mariner & the Space Zombies, Boimler Touches the Worm, Ransom fucks a pie." And honestly, that's basically about what happened in a given 20 minute episode of that glorious show, anyway.
Da Vinci Resolve, the best editing suite currently available, with a meta assembly cut of one scene open, numerous shots in place, with some basic colour work so that I'm looking at close to the final look rather than some ghastly flat log footage, which helps me see the scene as it might be.
An old rotary phone in B&W with "The Blower" printed on the back of it using a vintage style labelmaker.
A description of an oily salad in Subnautica 2, which reads. "Oliy fiber salad. Liminal flavor (between cinnamon and plastic bag). Bowel effects unknown."
A fake computer made of MDF, plastic and wire. Shot in black & white, it has a big switch for 'on' which has both 'yeah' and 'nah' settings, and above it reads a label "G'Day-GPT".
A meme of a cat standing like a hagged mechanic over a car, photoshopped wrench in hand and cigarette in mouth. Text above it reads "it's fucked - totally fucked"
The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, by MZS press
An election flyer for Frank Sobotka as the Secretary-Treasurer of the I.B.S Local 1514, citing years of proven experience.
The chancellor of naboo or whoever the fuck he is with a random plasma orb at the end of Phantom Menace.
BERRRRRKKKK!!! FEED ME! Comes the voice, and Berk is ready to open the trap door once again. I hear there's Something Down There.
Dungeons of Freeport in a tv and two laptops, controllers at the ready.
It's DEATH BY SCROLLING: THE POSTER. A new poster! It features our intrepid hero, Skylar, one of several characters you can play as (but she's our favourite). She's grasping for a floating gem, leaping over a pit, and being chased by a skeleton, an evil snowman, and an evil reaper. Also there's pine trees. It's really exciting stuff.
Elissa, a very pale white woman with cherry red hair and a black dress & sunglasses, stands in front of some graffiti on an industrial garage door. She is holding up a chrome Leica M6, late-model before the TTL, with a small Voigtlander 40mm lens on it.
Dungeons of Freeport - a classic roguelike with ANSI style codepage 437 graphics and pixel-art frame around it.
Jamie Dornan as Edgar in Barb & Star Go To Vesta Del Mar. He is lying naked in bed sandwiched with Kristen Wiig below him and Annie Mumolo above him. Everyone has that look showing they're at various stages of confusion and acceptance as to what happened the previous night.
Other person: "Ramps up nice, plenty of critters to bonk, a few secrets that will get spotted fairly easily, with some more hidden ones." "Plenty of mushrooms, too" Me: "MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" "snaaaake it's a snake"
A folded Dungeons of Freeport flyer sitting in a huge box of unfolded ones.
Drummer stares at Naomi, longingly.
A person is holding a bottle of wine which reads "this little pig didn't transition, they unlocked their true selves."
A screen shot of a dungeon selection screen. The dungeon name is "The Trickling Cave of Damp Holes".
Korben Dallas and Leeloo, holding up multipasses.
Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men, looking like the creepy-ass pale fucking horseman of the apocalypse, because I guess he kinda is.
Deck & Conn, a turn-based spaceship command game. It's got a lot of blinkenlights.
Part of the title sequence for The Wire’s first season.
“What happens to your health if you stop having sex?” Reads an article headline.
Temuera Morrison, Danny Trejo and Cliff Curtis as pirates with AKs on dinghy with an outboard motor.
The ALT GAMES Banner, with the dates 18-19 April, 2026
A pixel art palm forest, with a pop-up over torn paper which reads "A hard stone, you could knap a smaller stone against this to sharpen it."
I still from Only Lovers Left Alive. The three vampires are at a bar, Adam looking put upon and Eve looking tolerant, Ava looking stoned somehow, and Ian the "Zombie" having no idea what the fuck he's walked into.
Wee little eInk display, product shot.
A raycaster style 3d engine, showing a ceiling drop-light lighting up a room, and a view through to outside via two doors.
Jane Fonda and Raul Julia in The Morning After, Lumet’s only LA-shot picture.
A simple roguelike, with a character (an @) walking around an ASCII dungeon.
A hit-list of bugs for Second Hand Computer.
Strong Bad playing Temple of Apshai
A game of hangman, which I lost. The computer helpfully says "You lost. That's the opposite of winning."
A screen shot of Second Hand Computer, having just booted up. It's a letter from someone's mother, introducing the hand-me-down computer they have just received from their aunt. It ends on a note saying that she won't be home until late and there is leftovers ready to be microwaves for dinner.
Johnny Silverhand, played by Keanu Reeves, appearing on the metro carriage in Cyberpunk 2077, in the same pose as him from the 'Sad Keanu' photo. Slumped own, looking at the ground. A pigeon from the same photo is beside him, made out of origami in this case.
A partial screen shot of DuckDuckGo, the search engine. The search term 'centos', a popular Linux distribution name, has been entered. It claims there are no results. None. Zero. Nada. Zip. It clearly needs a coffee or seven.
The cover art for The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield. It depicts a LEM or Apollo Lunar Module in the middle of frame, descending onto the surface of the moon, with the Earth visible at the top of the frame, silhouetted by the sun peeking out from atop it.
Second Hand Computer, a pixel art DOS-like computer, with a full screen edit open. The basic structure of a FunScript (lua-based) program that plays 2048, the tile-sliding puzzle game is visible.
“What your book type says about your personality”, reads the article headline.