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2025-11-06 08:54 am

MIST1021/BNJMNBRGMN-CTHULHU

The sea a riot of waves and the night sky alive with cosmic rays, an ancient winged cyclopean green octopus-headed god from another world lumbers past a coastal community

Mistigram: this #PETSCII portrait of #HPLovecraft's preeminent Great Old One, #Cthulhu (who in his house at R'lyeh waits dreaming) was drawn by bnjmnbrgmn aka Bema. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago.
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2025-11-05 11:41 pm

MIST1024/LITTLEBITSPACE-THE_LAST_GAMBIT

Mistigram: this #PETSCII illustration by [profile] littlebitspace, 'The Last Gambit', presents an existential scene, all of us kings in our games of #chess, all doomed to #checkmate. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago.
A skull sits on a chess board, casting behind it the shadow of a crowned head.
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2025-10-08 07:46 pm

MIST1022/LITTLEBITSPACE-COMPOSITION

If you take your time and are mindful of their centres of gravity, you can balance a human skull in the space between two other human skulls, nested in the gaps between three lower human skulls.

Mistigram: one person's composition is another tribunal's evidence of war crimes. This artfully-arranged #PETSCII pyramid of human skulls is the handiwork of [profile] littlebitspace, resonant with his deck of skeletal Tarot cards. It was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack.
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2025-10-08 10:45 am

MIST1021/BNJMNBRGMN-THE_DEEP_ONES

One small step for sea life, one giant leap for batrachian-kind.

Mistigram: this #PETSCII screen, drawn by Bema, depicts a hideous Lovecraftian creature -- the piece is called The Deep Ones -- slithering out of the ocean like an angry jar of thawed frozen chopped spinach. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago this month.
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2025-10-04 08:52 pm

MIST1024/LITTLEBITSPACE-MEMENTO_TE_MORI

In front of the calligraphed words Memento Te Mori, a person stands in front of a mirror and sees their skeleton looking back at them.

Mistodon: Memento te mori means Remember you must die, & mortality is sure on the mind of the person looking in this mirror. [profile] littlebitspace won first place with it in the #PETSCII compo at last year's [Bad username or site: flashparty @ ar] ! It was also included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.
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2025-10-02 12:41 pm

MIST1021/BNJMNBRGMN-HERBERT_WEST-REANIMATOR

In an underground cave laboratory, a blonde doctor in deep shadow brandishes a hypodermic syringe at an unwholesome protoplasmic mass sitting on a stainless steel countertop in front of colourful tubes of mysterious bubbling fluids.

Mistigram: this creepy #PETSCII illustration, depicting the mad scientist subject of the 1922 #HPLovecraft story #HerbertWestReanimator, was created by bnjmnbrgmn and included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago this month. (Not long after, it could be viewed natively on #C64 machines in "The Nameless PETSCII" slideshow.)
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2025-08-26 12:26 pm

MIST0725/LITTLEBITSPACE-KIKI

A black cat side-eyes the viewer, unimpressed.

Mistigram: this greyscale #PETSCII portrait of ndh's black #cat, Kiki, was drawn by [profile] littlebitspace and included in last month's #cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
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2025-08-18 10:38 am

MIST0725/LITTLEBITSPACE-KING

A lion s symmetrical face, half in shadow, stares back at the viewer head-on.

Mistigram: the King of the Jungle here was drawn in #PETSCII characters by [profile] littlebitspace, and was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection. (Q: What's a #lion's favorite compression format? A: Rar!)
mistfunk: Mistigris: est. 1994 (Default)
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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2025-07-31 12:27 pm

MIST0625/LITTLEBITSPACE-CASTLEHEAD

framed in the darkness by small architectural elements, pieces of rooftops, walls, doorways and hedges are artfully arranged to depict what might be characterised as the skull of a town golem.

Mistigram: you may recall our sharing of [profile] littlebitspace's "Castle Kit" font a bit over a week ago. As it turns out, castles are not the only thing you can draw in #textmode with its collection of remapped #PETSCII glyphs, and I rather suspect that drawing a #skull is the artist's personal "Hello World" for any new creative environment. From the recent unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection, we give you: Castlehead.
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2025-07-22 10:11 am

MIST0625/LITTLEBITSPACE-CASTLE

Arising from woodland scrub and a small farmer s plot emerges the contours of a castle s walls and towers, behind the name of the artist littlebitspace, spelled out architecturally.  Behind it all the night sky twinkles with stars and glows with clouds charged with faint mystical energy.

Mistigram: "Castle Kit" is one of three remapped #PETSCII fonts created by [profile] littlebitspace. As its name suggests, its 8x8px blocks are intended for use illustrating scenes of monumental medieval architecture with specialised textmode semigraphics. This screen, demonstrating both its use and abuse, was included in the new, unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection.
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2025-02-21 12:41 pm

MIST-30/LITTLEBITSPACE-DIVINE_OS

On a textmode representation of a windowed computer desktop, overlapping windows are shown demonstrating ouija, star chart and tarot programs (that latter being the foreground program) being run simultaneously.  Other programs are suggested by a task bar at the bottom of the screen.

Mistigram: on the top floor of the wizard's tower, when they're done pondering their orb they fire up a vintage 8-bit computer and use it to answer some e-mails. This #PETSCII-inspired concept sketch of DivineOS, running all the essential magic apps, was drawn by [profile] littlebitspace and included in the recent MIST-30 artpack celebration.
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2025-01-14 07:31 am

MIST-30/G80-MISTI30

Like the walls of a maze, long, twisting lines spell out the word Mistfunk

Mistigram: this labyrinthine Mistfunk logo was drawn as a modified #PETSCII screen for the #C64 by our guest [profile] goto80 of text-mode.org. It was released in the recent MIST-30 artpack collection celebrating 30 years since our first release.
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2024-12-26 11:49 am
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MIST1223/A_MOUSE-DEER_LT3S

A white stag looks back on a snowy night.

Mistigram: In last year's MIST1223 artpack collection, we included this monochrome #PETSCII illustration by [personal profile] a_mouse of a white stag carefully keeping track of its suroundings on a snowy night.
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2024-11-13 12:33 am

MIST1024/LITTLEBITSPACE-INTERPLANETARY

All lined up in a row in the starry expanses of the cosmos are a small red dwarf, a tiny blue planet, a slightly larger dead red world, a blue-green sphere that looks a lot like the Earth, and a giant round skull

Mistigram: this #textmode art screen by [profile] littlebitspace, "Interplanetary", figured prominently in last month's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection, because... wtf! So there's a cosmic conjunction of celestial spheres, fine! But what's up with the colossal, planet-sized skull? Is there an immense headless torso somewhere out there in orbit around Jupiter? Does the skull have a molten core, an atmosphere even? Every answer opens the door to weirder questions.
mistfunk: Mistigris: est. 1994 (Default)
2024-11-04 11:14 am

MIST1024/LITTLEBITSPACE-SKULL_MASK

A close-up view of a dry, bony fleshless skull, shaded in its eye and nose openings, with a mystical glyph of unknown (but presumably unwholesome) meaning drawn on what was once its forehead.

Mistigram: you can practically feel the texture of old dry bone beneath your fingertips looking at this custom #PETSCII illustration of a #skull by [profile] 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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2024-11-01 01:48 am

MIST1024/LITTLEBITSPACE-9_DEATHS

Above ground, before a light background, a healthy black cat, seemingly very much alive, goes for a little prowl.  On the flip side, under the ground, an inverted feline skeleton, white bones against dark dirt, reflects its posture precisely.

Mistigram: Everyone knows that a cat has nine lives, but conversely, the name of [profile] 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 [Bad username or site: flashparty @ ar] demoparty, and was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.
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2024-10-22 12:37 pm

MIST1022/LITTLEBITSPACE-PLANT_AND_SKULL

A heavily textured human cranium, chipped, cracked and weathered, stares hollowly back at the viewer as it reveals a tender shoot sprouting from a substantial crack at the top of its calvaria -- all in stark black and white.

Mistigram: this skullish monochrome #PETSCII exploration of the cycle of death and rebirth is unsurprisingly the handiwork of [profile] littlebitspace and was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released two years ago this month.
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2024-10-16 10:13 am

MIST1021/BNJMNBRGMN-IN_HIS_HOUSE_AT_R'LYEH

A lot of green-glowing drippy pseudopods and tentacles and things drape their way down a stepped pyramid under a night sky in which the stars are right -- the kind of scene Lovecraft would describe as full of inhuman angles and unspeakable blasphemies, so who am I to try to describe it?

Mistigram: [profile] bnjmnbrgmn (aka Bema) drew this, "In his house at R'lyeh" (dead #Cthulhu waits dreaming) as part of an eldritch suite of #Lovecraftian #textmode screens fashioned from #PETSCII characters. This gloriously goopy green Cyclopean scene was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released three years ago this month.
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2024-05-23 08:42 pm

MIST0424/LITTLEBITSPACE-MARILYN2

Four yellow skulls, facing the viewer, occupy a two by two grid, each cell offering a different garish combination of background and detail colours.

Mistigram: whatever your favorite iconic subject, it makes for an excellent fit in #AndyWarhol's serially repetitive, garishly tinted #popart style. [profile] littlebitspace here shares with us textmode illustrations of skulls (possibly current portraits of Marilyn Monroe!) using the #PETSCII character set. This piece was included in the recent fine art-themed MIST0424 artpack collection.