MIST1026/POGESOFT_SUCH_SIGHTS

 Mistigram: In their artpack debut, ZZT game developer PogeSoft graced our spooky new MIST1026 collection with this #ANSIart portrait of #FrankCotton at the end of #Hellraiser. "Jesus wept." (This screen was manually adapted by The Green Herring.)

MIST1026/MIST1026.NFO

 Mistigram: This adorable little #ASCIIart bat was drawn, caught in mid-flap, by Mozz and used as an infofile header in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection. Eep eep eep!

MIST1026/THE_WAR_ON_CHRISTMAS-VERMIS_TRIBUTE

 Mistigram: This grim #blockASCII (monochrome #ANSIart) adaptation of an illustration from #Plastiboo's imaginary video game strategy guide #VERMIS 1 was drawn by The War On Christmas and included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

"A corpse kneels beside a well,

mesmerized by the reflection of its living flesh.

It wonders what could have been

done and could have been.

And for as long as the moon shines,

the feeble illusion will prevail."

MIST1026/BLIPPYPIXEL-AGI

 Mistigram: this animated (where supported) #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen by @blippypixel is called AGI, metaphorically comparing the AI holy grail of Artificial General Intelligence to a poorly-understood dark art like alchemy or witchcraft. It was included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

BLNDR2024D/LDA-LSB

 Mistigram: we've taken a year off from running The Blender improvised computer art compo, but it's on again the weekend of Nov 14-15 -- not this weekend, but next. Traditionally run out of EFNet IRC channel #blender, participants privately offer topic suggestions, then a mixture of three topics is chosen and folks (not AIs) have 24 hours to cook up something incorporating elements of all three subjects. Winners bring glory on their crews! (When we went on hiatus, activity was way down, so your odds of placing are decent!) This attached #ANSIart specimen of #LockShockAndBarrel from #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas handily won BLNDR2024D two years ago this month, LDA's seasonal take on "masked children" / "terrorism" / "circus". If you're curious or intrigued, further historical details are laid out at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html

MIST1026/MOZZ-CAT_AND_PUMPKIN

 Mistigram: this charming monochrome #ASCIIart illustration of a cat sitting beside a jolly #jackolantern is part of a whole suite of seasonal screens whipped up by Mozz, some of which were included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

GALZA-22/US-MASKS

 Mistigram: for #GuyFawkesNight, here is a #blockASCII / #ANSIart tribute to #Anonymous (wearing a #GuyFawkes mask) drawn by Otium of Galza in 2014. He reached out to Cthulu at that time to come out of deep artscene retirement and grace it with a lit and they wound up working on several pieces together in that year's GALZA-22 artpack collection. (Cthulu then resolved to revive Mistigris, and here we are!)