Elliott Dunstan

@fiversdream.bsky.social

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disabled mixed-race deafblind writer, editor and reviewer, he/it, 29, transmasc genderqueer anarcho-communist feminist, chaos gremlin. 18+ only, please. icon by @papayaOLP! https://linktr.ee/elliottdunstan

An arrangement of flowers in a white marble vase, gripped by a pair of hands. The text reads, in Blackletter font, "GROTESQUE - Elliott Dunstan".
A vase of flowers with two hands wrapped around it. The text reads GROTESQUE in Blackletter font, with "Elliott Dunstan" beneath.
A drag performer in a black and blue sequined gown, a blue and green braided wig with a netted veil, blue gloves and long silver fingers. Partway through they take off the wig to reveal their head covered in a stoned, sparkling cap.
A drag performer with a long, green and blue braided wig, wearing a blue and black sequined gown and holding a black shawl around their arms. They are wearing blue gloves and have a jeweled crest on their head. Also they have latex gills and blue makeup on.
A video of a drag performer dancing in a red ballgown, black cape, black beaded headscarf and crown. Full breakdown of the look in thread!
A black background. In the center is an ornate white vase, filled with flowers of varying colors. Two long-nailed hands caress the case. In the center, in Blackletter font, is the title GROTESQUE, with author name ELLIOTT DUNSTAN below.
A monstrous bird looms over a four lane highway, wings spread and balanced on a single taloned leg. It has one hollow eye socket and a blood stained beak, long and curved. The road sign for Chichen Itza is crumpled under its talon, and in its place is a Mayan glyph. Pencil, ink and digital tools, December 2025-January 2026.
A circular black-background painting, with a tree on the left fading from autumn to green leaves. The trunk melts and fades into the ground, and as it goes right comes up to meet the grey asphalt. A swing hangs from the tree. A bench sits next to the asphalt path, surrounded by tulips, and above it is a crumbling stone wall topped with a fence.
A four armed/six-limbed beast with a vaguely human shaped face, no eyes and sharp teeth. He is hunched over, supported on two limbs with a thick tail curling around him and an erect penis just barely visible between his legs. (Hence the adult content warning.) His skin is a mottled green, and a bright light is shining on his face, the rest in shadow. He is in deep, dark woodland.
A figure pinning a girl to the ground, with long, wavy hair and a sword in their hand. They have several eyes on their face, distorted and strange, with no mouth. The girl beneath them is clutching at them, blood pooling below her. The colors are inverted, whites instead of blacks in monochrome, and the background is a gloomy forest.
An anatomically (more or less) correct heart, veins in blue and arteries in red, outlines highlighted in white against a red background. Cut-out collage words read, in uneven letters, "ATIVAN, TOPAMAX, ELAVIL, SEROQUEL". (These are names of psychiatric medications.)
A giant bird looming in the center of a highway, its one leg on top of a sign saying Chichen Itza. More detailed alt text in original post linked below
A round picture on a black background. A white rim filled with black, angular spirals surrounds a red interior, with a woman's face staring out. She has eyes with golden whites and red irises, sharp teeth, and writhing snakes for hair. Gold scales cover half of her face, with cracks in her white skin on the other side; the snakes have teal scales covering them.
A four panel picture of a very cute, chubby rabbit who just happens to have tiny little devil horns and four extra eyes under his regular ones. His shadow has a longer tail and bigger horns. The picture is duplicated in each quadrant -- in the top left and bottom right, in amber yellow, in the top right and bottom left, in fuchsia and purple duotone.
A red and black picture, as if seen by night, of a stretch of highway. A massive bird occupies all four lanes, perched in the middle with his single leg resting on a twisted road sign for Chichen Itza. He drops a girder on the road, empty eye glaring at the viewer and wings spread. A CAUTION sign has been replaced with a Mayan glyph (Ch'an, or 'guardian').
Vincent Lam's "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures".
Leaf-shaped tie clip with a large rhinestone on the left and a gold color.
Fishhook earrings with blue diamond-shaped rhinestones and turquoise-colored rectangular beads below featuring turtle motifs.
Teardrop shaped crystal on a chain of crystal beads individually soldered onto silver wire.
Bronze (color, unsure of metal) Celtic Triskelion pendant on a beaded necklace. Beads are bronze, gold and black.
The head of Medusa, with white skin, gold-and-red eyes and sharp teeth, staring straight out at the viewer from a circular piece of wood. She has golden scales on one side of her face and encroaching cracks on the other. Her face is surrounded by snakes with green and teal scales, and the background is red. The circle is bordered in white with black angular spirals.
Pictured: a plate from above with a bowl in the center with dark red sauce (gochujang), surrounded by banchan/side dishes -- there's butter crunch lettuce, eggplant kimchi (below) sour pickled cabbage (left) and pickled daikon and carrot salad (above).
White background, featuring a glass rectangular vase (or cup?) with a little bit of water and really quite a lovely bunch of lush-looking, dark green kale. Lower-case text on the bottom reads 'landschaft' and 'sogetsu 4'.
Screenshot of Juniper's profile @coffinfairy.bsky.social - relevant information is 31/MDNI/she/her/disabled in the profile, as well as payment information: PayPal: www PayPal.me/Coffinelf Cash.app/$coffinkewpie Ko-fi- ko-fi.com/coffinfairy
A crimson background with white text. (Unfortunately the poem is too long for alt-text. I am working on making a more accessible version of this zine.) The title is SKINDEEP. below it is a graphic of two hands stitching something, in white, red and black.
A watercolor-and-acrylic painting in red, blue and white of a (more or less) anatomically correct heart. Cut-out collage letters in black and white read 'Ativan', 'Topamax', 'Elavil' and 'Seroquel'.
A young woman with blonde-brown hair smiling at the camera. She has blue-green eyes and is wearing a sweater that says Middlebury Swimming & Diving.
A floral mandala (circular Hindu/Buddhist design) in black and white on a black background. Over top is the text "GULA: Part Twelve" and the following: In Carrion City, the lanterns glow and dim with ancient flame; memories of martyrs, tributes to their names-- CAMPAIGN STARTS NOV-12-25
A circle of Futhark runes in the background, with Laguz (Water, representing, among other things, Dreams) taking a prominent space in the center. A red tarot-style border sits on top of this with planet/moon motifs. Text reads, from top to bottom: GULA: PART ELEVEN AUGURY There's a restaurant I've never been to, that doesn't exist, where the tables are long and carved of oaken wood and cigarette ash... CAMPAIGN STARTS NOV-12-25
A book cover of a black and white cityscape, words in the black sky behind it. (Hard to read but the words are gestalt-usury-limerence-augury.) GULA is written in capital letters above. Below is a mirrored reflection of the city in RGB, glitched out, and silhouettes of people falling from one city to the other. At the bottom is the name ELLIOTT DUNSTAN.
A black and white cityscape with difficult to read cursive text in the black sky behind it (for the curious, it's gestalt-usury-limerence-augury), and GULA in capitals above. The city is reflected below in distorted RGB, and there are silhouettes of people falling from one city to the other. Below, in the RGB, is ELLIOTT DUNSTAN.
A blue background, featuring a hand reaching into a woman's head across a partition; her face has binary code projected onto it. Text reads: GULA: PART TEN ARACHNE this person does not exist. This face is stolen. Pixel mosaics CAMPAIGN STARTS NOV-12-25
Background is a red cityscape in a pencil filter. Text reads: GULA: PART NINE ROMA INVICTA forgive, forgive, forgive these fragile parts Forgive, forgive, forgive what I've become The fault/the taint/the contaminant/the lapse Of consciousness and conscience in collapse CAMPAIGN STARTS NOV-12-25
A rainy window with indistinct images behind it. Text reads: GULA: PART EIGHT LIFEBLOOD the church bells are broken from ringing their warnings; I open the newspaper, more urgent headlines, more whipped-up frenzies and furor and fear-- I heard my histories but now I am here... Campaign starts Nov-12-25
Picture of a stony outcrop. Text reads: GULA: PART SEVEN Holokautein om tryambakam [transcribed without diacritics] shema shema shema In the garden of Gethsemane/ in the desert of Eden yajamahe sugandhim [transcribed without diacritics] so mote it be can the poor uplift the poor can the meek inherit a wasteland Campaign Starts Nov-12-25
Black solid background with white vultures in top right and bottom left corner, and Art Deco designs in top left and bottom right. Text reads: GULA: Part Six URUBU who has killed the fallen men? -- who knows? Who knows? Who will mourn them? Who will grieve them? The ravens and the crows. Campaign Starts Nov-12-25
A boldly colored, slightly distorted broken statue head with finger to his lips. Text reads GULA: PART FIVE. CARTHAGO DELENDA EST. "Against the walls of the desert/house of Tanit and Baal Haamon/against the blood of the enemy/sown like dragon's teeth/against the wailing of the dead/that bid them to forgive." At the bottom text reads "Campaign starts Nov-12-25".
A brightly-colored red, white, and gray cubist painting of a woman's face. Over top it says in light gray "GULA: Part Three" followed by black text 'GESTALT'. White text on a red background continues "what do you do with the skin left over after sloughing off the face that never fit? what do you do with the mask that's broken after you have no more need for it?" At the bottom in white text, "Campaign starts Nov-12-25".
A misty background with white, black-bordered text that says "GULA: PART TWO". Red-bordered white text says "Pythia". Text continues in black, "Words are words are words are sounds/are cycles thrumming in the ground/are ink and blood spilled vellum-thick/are sung and spoken, long passed down,/epithets and kenning-lines/warped around a truth's design/holding time within a glass--/a question, if the reader asks...". At the bottom in red text: "Campaign starts Nov-12-25".
A dark, blurred city silhouette with the text "GULA: Part One" in white, followed by "Memento Mori" in red, and the poetry: "in Carrion City, the streets are paved/with Styrofoam and butcher's blood,/with packing tape and roofing nails/along the housing rows./In this city, streetlights cast/alabaster halos down/from fluorescent xenon discards/onto heaps of trash below--" At the bottom, in white: "Campaign starts Nov-12-25."
A Northern Spotted Owl. It has dark eyes, large claws, and plumage that looks like a variegated log. I'm probably biased but I think he's gorgeous.
A burrowing owl -- a small, speckled-white-and-brown owl with long legs and yellow eyes.
A barn owl -- heart-shaped face, black, round eyes and a curved beak -- with a tilted head and staring at the viewer. They're really cute.
a trans guy with a black cap, gold-rimmed glasses, leather vest, leather cuff and kind of olive-tan-ish skin leaning in a chair. kind of bad lighting, sorry.
Drag performer in skull makeup, a sequined black scarf, sequined bodysuit, leather leggings, leather harness and skeleton gloves looking like they just crawled out of RuPaul: Hellraiser
Mogens from 'Klaus' (2019) slowly closing the door while saying, with a smug grin, "Are we starting to connect the dots?"
Gif of Eric Andre saying "Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?" Eric Andre is a light skinned Black man in a light grey suit, sitting in a chair in front of a microphone.
A drag performer with a black wide-brimmed hat, long black hair, a beard, blue-black lipstick and a MASSIVE bow instead of a shirt over their breasts. They have gunmetal shorts on over fishnets, and a gunmetal and black cape/train held on with a belt with a bow on it. They're also wearing elbow-high black gloves and silver hoops. The background is...messy, because I'm poor and it's a small apartment.
Wab Kinew, premier of Manitoba, a good 10-20 years ago. He's an Anishinaabe man with short cropped hair and shaved sides, and a black jacket. Very handsome.
Sharon den Adel of symphonic metal band Within Temptation holding a pride flag on stage. Because she's based. (She's an adult white woman with brown/black hair and a dark-colored dress.)
Threads screenshot. Elliott_dunstan (me): W**digos are not cryptids. They are Indigenous folklore and you shouldn't be accepting anything about them. Kelleywrites: This pushes out Indigenous authors. If they choose to submit something based around this, they're welcome to. Rest assured that nothing utilizing the pop-culture Westernization of Wendigo/Windigo lore will be accepted and any potential acceptances will undergo sensitivity reads. elliott_dunstan: it says on the site how cryptids aren't the same thing as mythology. Why are Indigenous beliefs 'cryptids' but, say, Ancient Greek ones aren't? If you actually mean it about sensitivity readers, sure, but you could stand to familiarize yourself on the concept as well.
A map of Ottawa-Carleton, which unfortunately defies description; bordered by Lanark County and ending at the Ottawa River.