Nick LS Whelan

@linkskywalker.bsky.social

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Susie Derkins lives in my pocket. She's got a lot of complaints, but refuses to move out.

A shiny metal centipede with a huge head emerges from a crevasse on a barren red world. A light shines from its head, engulfing a lizard creature with a huge eye who looks aghast
First edition cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Grainy graphite art of Ignatious Riley cowering with his plastic pirate cutlass against a brick wall. He only takes up about 2/3 of the art frame, and 1/2 of the overall book cover. A shadowy hand reaches toward him menacingly, and he looks afraid.
Penguin Classics cover of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Ignatius Riley's immense flannel covers nearly the entire area, leaving his rosy-cheeked head to be cut off so you can only see a single green flap of his hunting cap. He holds an immense hotdog as if unaware that it looks like he's holding his cock.
screenshot of metal gear 2: solid snake. Red blaster boss fight, in which the character crawls back and forth with his arms and legs at spidery angles, similar to The Fear in MGS3. Text on the image reads: "I am Red Blaster, and you're not going anywhere. My grenades will see to it that your death is slow...and painful."
DuckDuckGo's search results for "pomni," including 8 images, at least 2 of which are clearly kinda sexy
Screenshot of the msx game "metal gear 2:solid snake" at the start of the Jungle Evil boss fight. He hides in tall grass across 4 different screens
A coat rack made from a length of doug fir 2x4, stained blue.
four people sitting on stools, looking like they're receiving a briefing for a mission that only one of them will return from
The back corner of my office behind my desk. Hex shelves and picture frames dense with all sorts of geegaws
Me, making a fire literally last night
A dense desk space. Neon pothos hanging to one side. Three monitors, two are off. Shelves of books above the desk, stacks of books on the desk.
Screenshot of metal gear for the msx computer. Codec call text reads "this is steve... Diane? If I know Diane she'll be taking a shower right now..."
A random encounter table from D1. One entry is divided into 3 sub entries, each labeled "(33-1 / 3%)"
Chiseling a wood project. The wood is held in a clamp, which is itself held in a bench vise.
screenshot of kittens game. Big text reading "You are a zebra in a savanna full of titanium mines"
Screenshot of PBS's streaming site. The show is "The Woodwright's Shop," season 37, episode 13. The thumbnail shows a piece of wood with a bead pattern carved on it. The episode title is "The Venerable Bead"
Three burned cds sitting on my work bench. Labeled only "1," "2," and "1"
A coil of grey phone wire, with a big clump of duct tape in the middle
My hand holding an open, molded-plastic cd case. My tech junk cabinet is behind it, full of CDs and cables.
Photograph of the hireling part of my character sheet. John Stool, who is not racist, is dead.
Establishing shot from Batman The Animated Series, of the Peregrinators Club
Photograph of my notebook where I've drawn a 3 with a curved, and with a flat top
Old superman panel. Superman just told girl reporter Lois lane about a strange experience. Lois says: irresistible compulsion? Nonsense, superman! Everyone knows youre invulnerable to all the things that affect other people.
Screenshot of a game that looks exactly like FTL: space ship represented by boxy rooms with little guys in them you can control, some rooms have icons indicating what systems that room is dedicated to. On the right side of the screen is an enemy vessel depicted similarly. It's got a somewhat grittier, less streamlined and sleek look to it than FTL, but is otherwise similar.
Pirated crop of the lair of the trogdolytes. Shows a narrow corridor in the margins of the map, connecting two large spaces.
Ebook screenshot which reads: "A Foreword by William Gibson Samuel Delany's Dhalgren is a prose-city, a labyrinth, a vast construct the reader learns to enter by any one of a multiplicity of doors. Once established in memory, it comes to have the feel of a climate, a season. It turns there, on the mind's horizon, exerting its own peculiar gravity, a tidal force urging the reader's re-entry. It is a literary singularity. It is a work of sustained conceptual daring, executed by the most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction. I have never understood it."
My hand holding up a sippy cup of wine. I'm a few rows back from the stage
Screenshot of wikipedia. Setting: the bionic commando universe is set in a timeline in which nazisim is not completely eradicated following world war ii.
Photograph of two overflowing dumpsters, and me photographer-posing next to them like a nerd.
A dumpster dense with graffiti
A junkyard framed by a U of foliage, with gray concrete structures rise up in the background.
The skeleton at the bottom of the well, viewed through a red-tint. The skeleton is refracted into 3 images. It no longer has gems in its eyes, but it still has a wicked expression on its face.
Skeleton at the bottom of the well, now with gems in its eye sockets, and a wicked expression on its face, somehow.
Skeleton at the bottom of the well, three missing teeth. Note is gone. Hole on its left breast. Text reads "+3 gold teeth"
A yellowed scrap of paper which reads: Kangaroo [obscured. Pe?] May have got me, but he'll never get my treasure! If you're cool, you can have it: up, right, forward, into woods, under rock.
Skeleton sitting against the wall at the bottom of a well. Bones of the left shoulder and ribs are shattered. It has 3 gold teeth, and is sitting on a bit of yellow paper
A rudely drawn picture of the bottom of the well. Moss to one side, bubbling puddle below it, skeleton on the right. Rope hangs in the middle of the frame.
A fork in the path in a forest. A well sits at the intersection. A sign indicates a crown on the left fork. Text on image reads: + bucket
A close look at the wood axle of the well's bucket dunker. Wrapped in rope. The bucket is visible in the bottom frame, fully raised.
Same picture as before but the bucket and rope are gone. Text reads "crank rattles when you turn it"
The same image as the previous post with a text box that reads "skeleton not answer"
A look into a well. Slimy moss, a puddle of water, a bucket on a rope, and a sitting skeleton are down there.
A fork in the path deep in the woods. A hooded well sits at the fork. A sign indicates a crown at the west fork?
A plastic jug of thistle blocks. Those plastic blocks with dense pegs on all side that you can press together.
Drawing of a pile of pre-digested baby bird food waiting in a nest, now with a big bite taken out of it. Text reads: tastes like bird vomit
A crude drawing of pre-digested bird food in a little red pile.
A birds nest in a tree branch. One of the two eggs replaced by a crumpled milk carton. A ring of grey with a red splotch between them.
A bird nest in a tree branch. Two blue speckled eggs at either end of a ring of grey, with some red mush in the middle.
Text reads "player lacks tools to carve with"
Crude drawing of a statuette in a tree hollow. It has doll's eyes and a confused expression. You hold a doll with one gem eyes and a wicked grin.
Crude drawing of a confused statue with doll's eyes in the hollow of a tree. Your hand holds a rag doll with gem eyes, and a wicked grin.
Crude drawing of a statue in a tree hollow. It has one gem eye, a wickedly gleeful expression, and "curse" carved on its chest.
Crude drawing of a hand holding two gems. Text reads "tastes like evil fortune ×2"
Crude drawing of a tree hollow with a statuette inside it. The gem eyes are removed, and now the statue smiles. 'Curse' is carved in its chest.
Crude drawing of a tree hollow with a stone figure inside. It has ruby eyes, and 'curse' carved on its chest.
Woods, and a path leading into them. One tree has a hollow with glints of red eyes visible in it, another has a nest with two eggs in its branches.
Crude drawing of a room with a broken windows, a sleeping bag, a yellow armchair, and a door straight ahead. Text reads "+paper. You know no path to door out of house."
A rudely drawn typewriter with a scrap of torn paper, and type which reads "-the baby poops"
A typewriter with a torn page. The fragment remaining says "-The Baby"