Mistigram: we saw some overlap in subject between our most recent science ficiton-themed MIST0526 artpack and the previous one, dealing with books & authors. Here's a ##teletext portrait by @atonalosprey.bsky.social, from MIST0426, of ##ArthurCClarke, famous for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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no.10 ~mothcpu / @mothcpu.net moth (sona) palette is taffy 16, font is back to good ol' IBM VGA #ansi-art #ansiart #art #artfight #artfight2026

Mistigram: 'Keep absolutely still -- its vision's based on movement!' RIP ##SamNeill, here (on the right) playing Dr. ##AlanGrant in 1993's ##JurassicPark. This ##teletext screen was drawn by @horsenburger.bsky.social and included in the spooky MIST1018 artpack collection.

Mistigram: @thegreenherring.art took 1st place with this cosmic ark ##ANSIart promo for ##Protoweb at the graphics compo at last year's Field-FX @ WHY demoparty, and it was also just included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this monochrome ##unsi (##Unicode ##ANSIart) image of a distinctively ##Vulcan hand gesture 🖖 was drawn by @mcfresher and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection. ##LiveLongAndProsper

Mistigram: this spacefarer behind the blue visor was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social as a pre-login screen commissioned for Gemenon BBS. It was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

Mistigram: sometimes you get far enough into your preliminary layout of an ##ANSIart adaptation that you realise, gulp, this is going to be more small-scale than I thought, maybe I should cut and run... but Cthulu has a 'sunk cost fallacy' way of seeing it through to the bitter end...

yeah, that eject spring works

Mistigram: as an American participating in a European demoparty (and with their fursona leading the parade), @thegreenherring.art went with a 'we come in peace' theme for this ##ANSIart scroller, 'Greetings, Earthlings!'...

still pleased about my port of the old X Windows 6x13 "Fixed" font to a modern Mac font format so i can use it with ghostty and make my terminal look like a terminal is supposed to look

Mistigram: in different ancient cultures the #lotus signifies different things -- in India, perfection and enlightenment; in Greece, hedonism and addiction.

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

Mistigram: Cthulu dutifully traced the monochrome poster art to Fritz Lang's 1927 German expressionist film #Metropolis as #blockASCII, then hesitated, contemplating its opening logo -- starts with an M... ends with an S... also contains a T, an I, an R... well heck, he thought...

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no.2 ~dreamatdusk / @dreamatdusk.bsky.social paradox pico-8, font "TOPAZ 437" #ansi-art #art #artfight #artfight2026

Mistigram: RIP to English actor #MichaelKeating, who famously played #VilaRestal in #Blakes7. This memorial #ANSIart tribute was drawn by Nitron and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

Mistigram: drawn in just under four hours for the Oldskool Graphics Compo at the @revision-party.bsky.social 2026 demoparty (where it placed 11th), this #pixelart piece, "Snake Dance", was made by @thegreenherring.art and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

Mistigram: a technocratic society in which elite underground hackers earn credits for drawing radical text art illustrations may feel distinctly retrofuturistic, but nonetheless ZII ( @zeusii.bsky.social ) has established his AAC (#ANSIArt Corporation) ...

GO! MY LABUBU MISSILE! KILL!

I started my life buying video games on homemade disks in ziplock bags with sharpie labels on them and I'll go back to it if I must.

Sony is taking this away from us

Mistigram: since 2018, we've released a SF-themed artpack every year in the month of May. We weren't going to make it this year, so we simply broke the laws of space and time to help us finish it off. Circuitry FILE_ID art for the new SF-themed MIST0526 artpack by Cthulu.

Mistigram: here we have 'Riven & Radiant 2', a page from one of @starstew.bsky.social's seemingly bottomless sketchbooks, filled with doodles inspired by intriguing manually-executed algorithmic patterns. It was included in the MIST0620 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

Mistigram: a little monochrome for Pride, but still timely. Here's some newschool ##ASCIIart typography from @axbmusic, released in the MIST0624 artpack collection two years ago this month. ##EveryoneIsEqual

Mistigram: are you brave enough to enter the #graffiti-covered tunnel in London's #Millwall district? @pixelblip.bsky.social made a #BBCMicro high resolution graphics sketch of it here, and it was included in the MIST0625 artpack collection released one year ago this month.

Mistigram: the abrupt culmination of a #TextmodeFriends #ANSIart jam about Ancient Egypt (I know, it deviated from its theme a bit as it evolved organically), this piece was included in the MIST0620 artpack collection released six months ago this month.

Mistigram: you missed a hell of a show, but fortunately a wicked poster is a joy forever. This text art masterpiece in promotion of the #algorave at #GrrrndZero was drawn by @adelfaure.bsky.social and included in the MIST0624 artpack collection released two years ago this month.

Always dispose of your pixels responsibly.

Mistigram: This nostalgic #textmode #Unicode (or #unsiart) scene of a rented VHS cassette (animated on platforms that are GIF-friendly) is the deft handiwork of @mc.fresher, likely made on #DurDraw, and was included in the MIST0625 artpack collection released one year ago this month.

Mistigram: @mavenmob discovered that ##ANSIart is perhaps a pacemaker of sorts in this screen included in the MIST0624 artpack collection released two years ago this month.

Mistigram: this dope monochrome ##ASCIIart logo for ##AltonPlaza was drawn in the ##oldschoolascii style by pz, and it was included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released 7 years ago this month.

Mistigram: this ##typewriterart illustration by @t1po, titled 'B4CK 1N T1M3', visually echoes through the ages. It was included in the MIST0620 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

Mistigram: this #graffiti-styled #ANSIart logo was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social to announce upcoming events on Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS. It was included in the unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection released one year ago this month.

Mistigram: this double-wide monochrome #teletext screen by AtonalOsprey reproduces #MCEscher's 1956 lithograph #BondOfUnion, showing the heads of a man and woman formed entirely by a single thin coiled strip of mutual essence. It was included in the unthemed MIST0624 artpack released two years ago.

Something cool I just wanted to share. My book on the underground pirate/Warez scene is only officially available in PDF and print. But because it's openly licensed, someone took the liberty of format shifting it to plain text and epub! Actual OA reuse, again 😊 github.com/gfscott/ware...

Mistigram: this joint #ANSIart pic of "The Dino Bunch" was drawn by @polyducks.bsky.social at the head of a pack of the #TextmodeFriends brigade - featuring contributions by @rhoq.bsky.social, Retroshark & mig_moog. It was included in the unthemed MIST0620 artpack released 6 years ago this month.

Mistigram: with all the hype around the new ##MastersOfTheUniverse reboot, why not look back at @axltm's ##MOTU-inspired ##JPETSCII action figure designs made using ##Playscii? This dual-wielding cyclops was included in the MIST0620 artpack released six years ago this month.

Mistigram: @pixelblip.bsky.social drew this animated ##BBCMicro high resolution screen entitled 'Always' in memory of the 72 people killed in London's horrific 2017 ##GrenfellTower fire nine years ago on this date. It was included in the MIST0822 artpack collection released four years ago.

Mistigram: this rare repost is a ##teletext tribute to the 1966-67 ##Splash series of ##popart paintings by the late ##DavidHockney, drawn by @jellicajake.bsky.social. It was included in the fine art-themed MIST0120 artpack collection released six and a half years ago.

Mistigram: this wicked greyscale #PETSCII cover art for #Umbra's album #ForgottenSouls was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and included in the MIST0625 artpack collection released one year ago this month.

Mistigram: from the MIST0695 artpack collection released, gulp, 31 years ago, here's a distinctive #ANSIart logo drawn by @frandroid.tabnet.ca for The Mosh Pit (TMP) BBS. (We haven't merged with ACiD yet, RaDMaN needs to stop dragging his heels!)

Mistigram: this #fax-themed #textmode art screen, made using the #ASCII character set specific to the #AmstradCPC, was drawn by @illarterate.bsky.social for the 2023 Amstrad ASCII Compo, where it placed 7th out of 13 entries. We included it in the MIST0624 artpack collection released two years ago.

Mistigram: to tell the truth, we haven't the foggiest idea when or even if we included this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics landscape by @pixelblip.bsky.social in an artpack, but if we did it would have been back in the twenty teens when our paths first crossed.

Mistigram: this first-person view, a scene from an imaginary video game, was drawn in #ANSIart by @mavenmob. It was included in the MIST0624 artpack collection released two years ago this month.

Mistigram: last summer @pixelblip.bsky.social went on a walk through London's ##Millwall neighbourhood and expressionistically sketched some of the urban ##graffiti he encountered - ##BBCMicro style! This piece was included in the MIST0625 artpack collection, released one year ago this month.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.