QRP your dark art 🖤 (Two of these are photomanipulation covers designed by me for short stories of mine that can be read online at gaborcsigas.medium.com )

Besides the stories I also love the cover design of this book.

When I am asked 'Hows it going?'

Happy #Halloween! (...if you're in the mood to celebrate, ofc.) Want to read a story about how Jack got his lantern? Want to read two? In one? Well, try this (it's still there to read on medium): gaborcsigas.medium.com/to-free-the-... 🎃

Put "Go to TikTok, see for yourself" on the grave of civilization

What movie do you consider perfect?

Looks like great www.reddit.com/r/keming/ material. (Dear reader, if you know what kerning is, I guess you already know this sub, right? :))

What if "summoning" is just a linguistic contraction of "some morning"? #halloween

In case you were curious and/or needed something to show someone who asked you why you liked #horror stories (not just films): www.bbc.com/future/artic... #halloween

Why would you draw on proper paper when you have postits to sketch on? 🤪 (Sketches from the past few days.) #drawings #sketches #sketching

Twin Peaks trivia / musings I've just stumbled upon randomly. Interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=itYB...

Gary Numan is awesome! You wouldn't guess what the below post made me listen to again, though, through a chain of associations. :D Or, who knows, you might, in case you're a mind reader or something. Yeah, it's Jean-Michel Jarre's Arpégiateur (Live in China, 1981) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA5y...

The Night Mare, 54"x46" oil on canvas. 2017. Model Olive Glass.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Goodnight. Spooky Owls, Hiromi Nishizaka.

That's a classic. Here's a minimalist fan-fic remix: "The first human on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ...." #BookWormSat

'“Tell me, glass! Tell me true,” she whispered. “Of all the beautiful girls in this city tonight, who’s the most beautiful? Tell me, who?” She winked at her reflection. And her reflection disappeared.' from my own free-to-read #shortstory @ gaborcsigas.medium.com/the-mirror-s... 🤪🧛🏻 #BookWormSat

The existence of Rapunzel implies the existence of Metalunzel, Popunzel, and other siblings.

Technically, this is a book of spells.

Rosemary's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. I think I'd like that mashup. #spaceballs #rosemarysbaby #jokingonly for #halloween

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Tech corps succeeded in telling people art and media should be free. People happily shell out $$$ for electronics, but hate spending any $ on "content" for them. Even with books--where costs are low and there are libraries everywhere--people regularly claim it is horrible how much books cost.

Tell me it's just me and that I'm just imagining a slight (!) resemblance here.

TIL that Apex has a sister imprint. (If I were to make a bad pun, I'd say Violet Lichen Books is in fact Apex Twin, but I'm afraid the best response I could hope for with that would be a silent h.) Anyway, if you have an unpublished novella, check this:

Never gets old:

Listening to NIN always makes me want to (re)read some story by William Gibson, or to write something #cyberpunk ...ish... myself (like, say, the below short story), or to GM some (rules lite) Shadowrun (a #ttrpg Gibson himself dislikes, unsurprisingly, yes.) gaborcsigas.medium.com/well-become-...

Have just listened to the full CD1 (on a streaming, of course) of "The Fragile", the 1999 masterpiece by #nineinchnails, after a long, long while. I still know this album by heart, nonetheless, looks like. Still brilliant, heart-wrenching here and there, angry enough elsewhere. CD2 tomorrow.

Thought I'd show you some of my earlier works & writings, because why not. Here's a #coverdesign for Haunted Futures: Tomorrow is Coming, edited by @salomekjones.bsky.social, published by Ghostwoods Books. For credits (incl. fonts in use etc), pls see the credits page inside the book. (As always.)

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Frau Blücher #Svengoolie #YoungFrankenstein

The wind blows where it wants, Erik Desmazières, 1989.

youtu.be/wUr9QlIy-cU?... hello void, got a brand old track for you to reminisce over 🎃

I built a prototype for a game idea that I'm about to start playtesting on Steam soon. It's NOT CHESS BOXING. It's FRAGNARÖK! A hybrid of Tetris and survivor shooter, where robot Vikings fight at the end of the world. youtu.be/8Bbb8oL5CIc

Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter spoon-tamago.com/pantograph-i...

A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.

For a moment I expected to see Hellboy there.

When you stumble upon an intriguing semi-official (?) Nine Inch Nails remix and then realize you already added it to your Shadowrun #ttrpg inspiration playlist about twelve years ago… :D

"In the third chamber was an eagle with wings and feathers of air; he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite; around were numbers of eagle-like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs." — William Blake: "A Memorable Fancy" (an excerpt) ( www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4... ) #BookWormSat

Just a random thought. What a nice coincidence / juxtaposition, isn't it. #starwars vs #theaddamsfamily

Awesome! (Sadly, I don't really see any chance of this happening where I live (at least for the foreseeable future.) And that's all I have to say about this.) (via various people)

Inspiring art from Szilvia's etsy ( www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... ) "Miniature #painting of a lady based on a #posthumous portrait of Contessina de' Bardi (wife of Cosimo de' Medici) by Cristofano dell'Altissimo from the 1500's. " And yeah, I also love that tiny skull (that's not for sale, tho.) 💀

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

"The batarang went snicker-snack!" …and so should you, clicking the link below if you like weird poetry and Batman!

Excommunication could make one a werewolf, in medieval Christian lore, a curse no one wanted because in some regions of Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece, a werewolf had a restless spirit even in death, leading to undead werewolves. #WyrdWednesday

I've just noticed that #pinterest has this now. If you're like me, go check it... and turn it all off. ;) #NoAI

Time does fly. And so do werewolves, sometimes. This weird, tongue in cheek (whose cheek) horror short story that I published five years ago today takes a look at that. (Yeah, it's free to read. Awful, I know. 🙃) gaborcsigas.medium.com/in-the-moon-... #werewolf #horror #shortstory