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2025-08-16 10:55 am

MIST0725/LOCKJA-ASCII_CATURDAY_12

A housecat sits, totally entranced by the aquatic contents of the flat glass screen before it.

Mistigram: Happy #Caturday! Here's another #ASCIIart #cat drawn by [profile] lockja, this one enhanced by fascinating emoji fishies. This piece was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
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2025-08-14 10:17 am
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MIST0725/MOZZ-CAT-02

A patient cat with a steady paw and a colourful pattern drawn on its back calmly sticks and pokes dots of pigment into the hindquarters of a client cat using drops of ink on the tip of a golden needle.

Mistigram: what, you've never seen a cat getting tattooed before? Where do you think tiger stripes come from anyway, huh? This whimsical #ASCIIart scene by Mozz was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
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2025-08-09 08:24 pm

MIST0725/LOCKJA-ASCII_CATURDAY_08

A housecat, totally consumed by its earth-moving efforts, obliviously kicks errant grains of litter out of its box.

Mistigram: happy #Caturday! This is another one of Lockja's weekly #ASCIIart celebrations of the feline, from the sacred to the profane. This piece, a species of summer trip to the beach, was included in the new #cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
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2025-08-08 12:48 pm

MIST0725/MOZZ-CAT-07

A hunting-crazed domestic cat, eyes gleaming ferally, presents a deceased mouse dangling from their maw

Mistigram: here we are, #InternationalCatDay and ... I'm late for lunch! Fortunately, Mozz has packed along a little something extra to share. This #ASCIIart illustration was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
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2025-08-07 01:16 am

MIST0725/LITTLEBITSPACE-CAT_CAT

A picture of a housecat is drawn in white against a black background using punctuation marks and slashes.

Mistigram: in unixlikes, the command 'cat' outputs the contents of a file to the screen. In this case the file was a (#PETSCII) #ASCIIart illustration of a cat, so the artist [profile] littlebitspace needed to 'cat cat'. This recursive piece was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack.
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2025-07-09 03:41 pm

MIST0625/DELUKS-MISTFUNK

A winged, horned demon perches, gargoyle-like, atop the corner of an angled mini-disc, above a gothic mistfunk logo drawn entirely in text characters.  (All of it is drawn in these characters, not just the logo.)

Mistigram: this metal af newschool #ASCIIart promo for our fine selves was drawn by Deluks and included in the new unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection.
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2025-06-25 04:17 pm

MIST0522/US-OPTIMUS_PRIME_PRIME

The three-finned, masked head of a noble and heroic transforming robot emerges from a miasma of numbers.

Mistigram: this #1bit portrait of Transformers boss #OptimusPrime was drawn by LDA at the request of NDG, who adapted it into an #ASCIIart #primenumber. This devastating pun, Optimus Prime Prime, was included in the science fiction-themed MIST0522 artpack collection.
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2025-06-13 01:47 pm

MIST0525/LDB-TAKING_ALL_OF_HER

The text of a short story goes thus:  Taking All of Her  So then I chopped off her other foot.  Then, when she could no longer stand, clinging to me, leaning on me and unable to leave me now for sure, I no longer wanted her.  So I went back to the huge furnace in the industrial plant, and I asked it, What can I do with her now, when she is no longer beautiful, when I no longer enjoy watching her even?  The furnace said to bring her there and throw her in.  Her bones would melt and become part of skyscrapers being built, trucks used to build them and no one would ever blame me.  Beneath the text is an ASCII illustration of the remnants of her metallic torso being top-fed into a crucible, out of whose lower portion molten metal pours out and forms new, useful shapes.

Mistigram: this dystopian piece of postcard fiction (describing what is to be done when the novelty of playing with the AI RealDoll wears thin -- unless it is an allegory of course!) and its attached #ASCIIart illustration of a crucible are the handiwork of ldb. They were included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection.
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2025-06-02 11:12 am

MIST0525/DISCGATOR-IVANOVA

A long-haired woman in a jacket smiles as she poses against a repeated mantra extolling her authority.

Mistigram: this #ASCIIart portrait of #Babylon5's unimpeachable #SusanIvanova was drawn by [profile] discgator and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection.
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2025-05-14 12:49 pm

IMBIBE01/LITTLEBITSPACE-TEA_IS_ETERNAL

Looking down from above, we see a rectangular tray supporting two teacups and other tea service paraphernalia.

Mistigram: in all the beverage discourse this week, we have overlooked one of the all-time classics. [profile] littlebitspace represents here again with this bird's eye #asciiart representation of a Japanese #tea ceremony service. This piece, titled "Tea Is Eternal", was included in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.
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2025-05-12 12:55 pm

IMBIBE01/JONINSCII-COFFEE

A steaming mug of coffee s fluid level drains as it opens its scowling, red eyes.

Mistigram: while we're covering beverages, here's [profile] joninscii's self-drinking #ASCIIart #coffee cup to get your week started! This was included in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.
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2025-05-08 10:54 am

IMBIBE01/CODEFENIX-PEPSI_LOGO

Front and centre is a white circle, its upper portion overlaid with a red whale-shaped splotch, its lower portion with a blue one, like a yin-yang symbol.  Across the middle is written in blue letters PEPSI.  Behind the circle, to the left is red and to the right is light blue.

Mistigram: the choice of a new generation! This newschool #ASCIIart rendition of the #Pepsi Cola logo was drawn by Codefenix and included in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.
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2025-05-02 12:49 pm

IMBIBE01/MOZZ-LIFE_SIZED_FOOD

A tiny man, in red shirt and blue pants, clinbs up a loaf of bread like a staircase and ascends an ear of corn kernel by kernel like a rock climber, clambering about a pantry filled with enormous foods like tomatoes, milk cartons and a bunch of grapes bigger than he is.

Mistigram: this scene from #JackAndTheBeanstalk, portraying the tiny Englishman clambering over enormous food items in the giant's larder, was drawn in #ASCIIart by Mozz and included in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.
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2025-04-30 11:54 am

IMBIBE01/LITTLEBITSPACE-TEA_SPILL

A dainty teacup flies through the air at a jaunty angle, gently separating from its saucer, as its delicious tea begins sloshing over its edge, destined for an expensive white carpet or leather sofa.

Mistigram: there's not much hot gossip in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine, but nevertheless there [profile] littlebitspace was, spilling the #tea, #ASCIIart style. Truly a scene to make Arthur Dent cry.
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2025-03-28 12:44 pm

IMBIBE01/JONINSCII-PIZZA

A roguelike ASCII art pizza pie, heavily laden with green left parens, red at-symbols, and delicious qp letter pairings, fills itself up slice by slice in fifths and then disappears the same way.

Mistigram: some people measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Joninscii proposed a compelling alternative here, the #ASCIIart #pizza clock. This one isn't a Paper Thin Pizza promo, but I'm sure it's delicious regardless. It was included with the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 e-mag.
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2025-03-27 09:25 pm

IMBIBE01/LITTLEBITSPACE-CHA

A pot of tea is viewed in profile, with the cha (茶) character emblazoned on its side.

Mistigram: before he mastered #ASCIIart, another niche field in which [profile] littlebitspace had steeped was the world of #tea infusion and service. This piece from his back catalogue represents an overlap of both worlds, yet despite its relative vintage (only four years old!) it is still relatively fresh relatively to the materials from the '90s which it was served up alongside in the time capsule of the new IMBIBE01 electronic magazine about food and drink.
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2025-03-12 05:33 pm

IMBIBE01/JONINSCII-TOAST

A cool, soft piece of bread with a sleepy face disappears down the slot of a toaster, where it emits smoke and is rapidly heated before popping back up with a newly alert expression on its crunchy, glutenous little face.

Mistigram: [profile] joninscii's animated #ASCIIart illustration of a piece of #bread getting browned in a #toaster was probably originally meant as commentary on people getting tanned in the summer, but it also fit the food theme of our recent IMBIBE01 electronic magazine to a T!
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2025-03-11 11:50 pm

IMBIBE01/CODEFENIX-BK_LOGO

A potent recursive visual metaphor, the words Burger King nestle themselves between the halves of a bun.

Mistigram: Wendy's may be the only fast food chain to print #ASCIIart burgers on their receipts, but if you could eat one at #BurgerKing truly you could #HaveItYourWay. Until then, this newschool logo by [profile] codefenix will have to suffice. (As seen in the new IMBIBE01 electronic magazine!)
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2025-02-14 02:17 pm

MIST0222/VERMILEONHART-NO_THANK_YOU

Floating above the palm of a hand outstretched from the right is a red heart.  A different person s hand, extending from the left, is raised at it in a stop gesture.

Mistigram: This #asciiart scene by [profile] vermileonhart, titled "No Thank You", was included in the MIST0222 artpack collection released three years ago. #HappyValentinesDay !
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2025-02-05 01:28 pm

MIST-30/LITTLEBITSPACE-MISTFUNK

An angular grey Mistfunk logo hovers in the blackness above a pair of small skulls facing each other.

Mistigram: we've never released a .WAD, but in the wake of "DOOM: The Gallery Experience" perhaps we should try our hand at it. In the meantime, here's a stone cold #ASCIIart / #blockASCII Mistfunk logo drawn by [profile] littlebitspace and used as an infofile header in the recent MIST-30 celebration artpack.