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@aprilapin.bsky.social

★ Lo-fi Horror ★ Iowa Artist ★ She/Her ★ Kupo ★ I like feeling uneasy Linktr.ee/aprilapin

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sout @sout.bsky.social · 2y ago

ache wing

sout @sout.bsky.social · last wk.

knochen she always cuts off the tail, the tail always grows back weird

SQUIDDY-DOG 💚✨💚@bigsquidman.bsky.social · last wk.

The Trader

APRILAPIN @aprilapin.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Mutual”, 2026 I share your pain. I want to share your pain. It’s my responsibility to share in your pain. It’s your responsibility to hurt me. Let me know how it feels. How did you feel? #originalart #darkart #horrorart #macabreart #illust #traditionalart #copicmarker #copicmarkers #イラスト #art

Two young women are sitting on a basement floor. One is smoking a cigarette, and using another cigarette to burn the second woman’s arm. They are both sitting calmly, with the second woman holding the lighter. The first woman is watching the burning cigarette, while the second woman is watching the first woman’s face. The first woman has many bandages over her body, which the second woman’s body is covered in fresh burns. The piece is dark blue, illuminated in red by the burning cigarette. There are fresh bandages and burnt, crumpled cigarettes lying around them.

ratty tooty @riocakes.bsky.social · 2w ago

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 3w ago

computer art (1998) archive.org/details/Aust...

blue sky. a man on green grass with trees in the distance, pointing a gun upward at a giant floating fish. overlaid red text: don't shoot i come in peace
smaller overlaid text at the bottom right of the image: by bob danger

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 3w ago

microsoft word, magazine screenshot (1998) archive.org/details/aus_...

someone has created a faux warning sign in microsoft word:
a yellow triangle with a black skull and crossbones inside.
below, in 'threatening' gothic font: keep out
regular black text:
ima creep
1 bat drive
gothic city

The Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social · 3w ago

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

Ripley 👽💖@skullingway.bsky.social · 4w ago

new friend you didn't ask for #art

Illustration of a speckled, haunted rabbit jumping out of a portal that was formed in computer error messages

APRILAPIN @aprilapin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Quote your art with fire 🔥

Two women are facing each other, reaching for each other. They are wearing flowing prairie-style dresses. Both their heads are burning matchsticks.
The first woman is a lit match, burning brightly. The second woman’s head is a lit match burning out of control. The fire is much larger, and is consuming her whole body, and reaching a large area around herself. The matchstick inside is contorted and falling apart.
The second woman is lightly reaching out toward the first, hands ablaze, as though meekly accepting an embrace. The first woman is reaching her hands to hold the second woman’s head, scorching her own hands in the process.

Reiko Murakami@reikomurakami.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Quote your art with fire 🔥

APRILAPIN @aprilapin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

[Punishment], 2025 “I don’t deserve to feel normal again” So many people have suffered. Do I owe it to them to feel some modicum of what they felt? Is it insulting to even suggest I can? #illustration #originalart #darkart #bodyhorror #selfharm #illust #イラスト #copicart #copics #humanart #horrorart

A young woman sitting on the ground. She is raising a hammer with her right hand, ready to hammer in a nail that she is holding over her thigh. Her body has various nails sticking out all over. Most of them are in the head, making a sort of crown. There is a halo behind the hammer, as though she is performing a religious ritual. She is bleeding profusely from her head, where accumulated blood drips down from her mouth.

GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 2mo ago

ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA from Kunihiko Ikuhara (REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA, SAILOR MOON) hits theatres nationwide June 21 & 22. Tickets on sale now! 🌹 brnw.ch/21x2DC5

CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

APRILAPIN @aprilapin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

rare APRILAPIN art because I only ever posted it on my neopets page lmao

A Cybunny neopet dressed as a clown. It's squeezing a bike horn and the background says "Carnival!"
This was a submission for for Cybunny Carnival.

The neopet Gnorbu. It's a very llama-like creature lying in the grass and covered in flowers. It's painted cloud-colored.

The neopet JubJub, a furball with large feet. It's hair is slicked in a 50's greaser style, it's wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket. It's using its feet to hold a switchblade-style hair comb, and is chewing on a toothpick, looking smug.

Three of the neopet Grundo starding around a NeoCola vending machine. It's nighttime on Kreludor. A purple grundo is drinking a NeoCola, while a white grundo is looking questioningly at a sticky-hand toy. A blue grundo is looking at the vending machine, seemingly choosing what to purchase.

Anime NebrasKon @animenebraskon.com · 3mo ago

It's time for a look at some of the exclusive merchandise we will have this year! These items are able to be pre-ordered through the add-on feature on our registration page! If you have already ordered your badge, you can still go back and add-on any items. animenebraskon.com/register/?ut...

APRILAPIN @aprilapin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Detour. I really like road signs. I keep buying them at the flea market. I always think I won’t buy any more road signs, then I see one I hadn’t considered before. My husband says my home decor taste was destroyed by Animal Crossing. #illust#illustration#originalart#objecthead#copicart#weirdart

A group of three young women together. They are looking towards the viewer as though they have been interrupted. They seem intimidating, they are smiling and wielding weapons. They’re dressed in casual street fashion, mixed with Japanese school uniforms, in the style of a sukeban. All three have obscured faces. The first two have road signs instead of faces. The third one has a traffic cone over her head. They’re on a bright yellow-orange background, and their cigarette smoke is floating around them, and is stylized as a bright blue.

Marika Foxtail @marikafoxtail.etheirys.social · 3mo ago

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 3mo ago

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

gossip göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Fighting back the male gaze" Yuko Shimizu

drawing of a woman with a broom sweeping lots of eyes away, black on salmon

Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Parapa the Rapper doing Linked In Park

"One thing I don't know why it doesn't even matter how hard you try"

ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 5mo ago

50 awful drawings of my wretched cat

his name is Benson Hedges and he sounds like he smokes 5 packs of them a day

APRILAPIN @aprilapin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

whisper. I’m always thinking about nostalgia. Always avoiding real problems by pining for times that were probably misremembered. #illust #horrorart #traditionalart #originalart #creepyart #copicmarker #illustration #イラスト #entomophobia #nostalgia

An illustration. Two young women are standing next to each other, facing away from the camera. The woman on the left is looking at a Polaroid she’s holding. The second woman is next to her with her hand on her shoulder. She’s saying or whispering something in the first girl’s ear. She might be malicious.
There are black insects crawling all over the walls, and the girls. They both have a large black centipede crawling up their backs, following their spines. The first girl’s centipede is crawling up, reaching her neck. The second girl’s centipede is lining her entire body, up to the top of her head. All of its legs have bored through her hair and clothes, and are deep in her skin.
The whole scene is in shades of blue, except for the girls’ skin and the bugs’ legs, which are pink. The bugs’ bodies are stark black.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · last yr.

lemmings, print ad, snes (1992) archive.org/details/vide...

the text 'the lemmings are coming' is printed twice across and over 50 times down the ad. many green haired, blue clothed lemmings are digging tunnels through the text.

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · last yr.

simant, magazine screenshot (2004) archive.org/details/Xbox...

user interface is down the left hand side of the screen, which shows a map button, a question mark, various icons that show ants and spiders, puase, scent, and health meters. to the right is brown earth and a prompt showing an ant hatching from an egg(?), text above reads: you are now a worker!

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6mo ago

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you