#MIST1024

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Mistigram: In this Joninscii #ASCIIart animation, #EllenRipley (as played by #SigourneyWeaver in Ridley Scott's 1979 movie #Alien) holds an Incinerator unit, prepared to activate it in the direction of Big Chap. This piece was included in last month's MIST1024 artpack.

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Mistodon: #Berk, the plasticine servant prowling the subterranean realm beneath #TheTrapDoor, lumbers in the dark with arms wide open as colourful bugs hover overhead. This animated #teletext screen was drawn by @blippypixel and included in last month's spooky MIST1024 artpack.

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Mistigram: RIP to actor #ShelleyDuvall, who died four months ago. @horsenburger has drawn a #teletext portrait of her somehow surviving an ax attack 44 years earlier as #WendyTorrance in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen King's #TheShining. This screen was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: Everyone knows that a cat has nine lives, but conversely, the name of @littlebitspace's screen here featuring the sinister feline reflection is "9 Deaths". It won first place in the Extended Text Art compo at the recent @flashparty.ar demoparty, and was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: and if that previous mosaic wasn't enough #ANSIart for you, here's a weird coincidence -- in the final week of preparing the spooky new MIST1024 collection, we start seeing posts of creepy #textmode art shared to X at high volume by someone with the utterly bizarre name "Pizzatoe", and invite them to make a guest appearance. Turns out it's a whole new ANSI crew from an unexpected place taking their first steps in sharing their work outside their circle! Three of them, Amy, Jackey and Momo, shared a wealth of thematically-appropriate and formally-relevant pieces in this new artpack. Here are a few of them! Keep your eyes peeled for more from this dynamic cadre!

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Mistigram: you can practically feel the texture of old dry bone beneath your fingertips looking at this custom #PETSCII illustration of a #skull by @littlebitspace. What's with the glyph drawn on its forehead? And why is it described as a "mask"? Some questions are better left unanswered. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: there was never any doubt that this was going to be the first individual work from the creepy new MIST1024 artpack collection showcased, not least because it was the earliest piece of haunting art to stake its Halloween claim in our incoming directory, nearly a year ago. This #teletext screen, "Doomscroll", whose test pattern resonates sinisterly with Poltergeist and Videodrome, is a collaboration between two modern masters of constrained semigraphics, @littlebitspace and @atonalosprey.

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Mistigram: #theBitchIsBack. @horsenburger drew a double-wide #teletext arrangement of this iconic scene from #Alien3, where #SigourneyWeaver's #EllenRipley is menaced (but ultimately left unscathed) by a rampaging #xenomorph with a hyperactive salivary gland. This screen was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: the unfriendly face of an #oni 👹 (or if you prefer, Unicode consortium, 'Japanese ogre') stares down the viewer as binary code mixes with the rain, spelling out the hidden message '#ANSIart is dead'. This screen was drawn by @ConsoleJockey and included in last month's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: "WE'RE READY TO BELIEVE YOU." The entrepreneurial parapsychologists in the #Ghostbusters were never above making use of mass media to economically get their commercial message spread far and wide, so @horsenburger likes to imagine that if New York City had featured a #teletext service in 1984, it might have run an ad a little like this one. This screen was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: all the whimsical old costumes rise from their graves at the bottom of the tickle trunk for one more night strutting and fretting across the stage on #Halloween. @kurogao96 shares their seasonal well-wishes in their #ASCIIart-with-#emoji style. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: #Berk, the plasticine servant prowling the subterranean realm beneath #TheTrapDoor, lumbers in the dark with arms wide open as colourful bugs hover overhead. This animated #teletext screen was drawn by @Blippypixel and included in last month's spooky MIST1024 artpack.

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Mistigram: this pointy oldschool #ASCIIart logo promoting nolageek's #Splatterhaus BBS (to which you can connect via https://www.splatter.haus/) was drawn by The War On Christmas and included in last month's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this horrific #ANSIart image, like something off of a Garbage Pail Kids card, was the only submission @Mavenmob had for last month's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection... but it's a humdinger! In chat people were asking why the only word the image was tagged with was "bisect" and I ask you what one word would better describe what you're seeing here? Worst of all, Velcro Boy is _smiling_ as he's torn apart. It's a mess, is what it is.

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Mistigram: Moth (hi, @mothnox!) just dashed this off at the last minute so it makes for a strange specimen to make their world debut, but nonetheless, I admire its playfulness and technological bent, so I hope you all join me in appreciating the inverted message that the #Calculator #Ghost has to share with us. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: here is a sampling of some of the various #textmode and #semigraphics art formats and styles in use in the (frankly terrifying) new MIST1024 artpack collection, including #PETSCII, #teletext, #ASCII art and #ANSIart.