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 Mistigram: this grimacing #ANSIart matrix logon menu for Mist Classic's second WHQ BBS, Happyfish's #TheJadeMonkey, was drawn by #Neophyte and included in the MIST0797 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month!

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 Mistigram: to cleanse the palate of AI discourse, here's a monochrome #teletext statement by @blippypixel (which you can interpret for yourself) about #NFT "art" included in the MIST0721 artpack collection released five years ago this month.

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 Mistigram: @zeusii drew this stone cold #ANSIart silhouette of an alien city skyline beneath a gas giant and a tear in the sky... the suggestion of a logo footer in an extra-terrestrial language was reminiscent of a passage in the #HitchhikersGuide about the Complaints Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation about a large neon sign celebrating their slogan #ShareAndEnjoy degrading into a very different message... well, Cthulu adapted the Narcotix typeface by the Sokratype foundry to give this piece a feeling of illegible alien script. The joint was included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: I told you, it's just the nighttime wind blowing on our little cabin in the middle of nowhere, but if it makes you feel better I'll go check outside one more time. This #ANSIart screen, "What's this?", was 3/4 speed-drawn by The Green Herring in 61 minutes during a Twitch livestream, and was included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: still with the books-themed MIST0426 on the brain, Cthulu recently stumbled across a copy of #BruceSterling's seminal #Mirrorshades #cyberpunk anthology in a used bookstore, and took it as a sign from The Algorithm to adapt its evocative cover artwork to #ANSIart for the recent science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: plus ça change... today Count Binface is campaigning against Nigel Farage in Clacton, but nine years ago it was his predecessor #LordBuckethead running against Theresa May in Maidenhead. One item on his manifesto was the return of Ceefax, so #teletext artists, in this case @illarterate, were only too keen to boost his campaign. This screen was included in the MIST0717 artpack collection released nine years ago this month.

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 Mistigram: some of us explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations... for Darkman Almighty, the science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection was an opportunity to draw #ANSIart of a character from a #StarTrek franchise he had not yet tapped. This is a portrait of actor #ConnorTrinneer, playing Charles #TripTucker III in #Enterprise. #WhereNoDogHasGoneBefore

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 Mistodon: this badass extra-wide #ANSIart promo for Godfather's extra-wide The Underground BBS was drawn by Zeus II and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection. (The power armour worn by the bounty hunter on the right renders the scene eligible for the theme!)

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 Mistigram: you last saw this alien character a bit over a week ago, leading the parade of friendly extraterrestrials departing a flying saucer. They're ready for their close-up now, in high-resolution #pixelart, and want to make sure you get their good side. "How Do I Look, Earthling?" was drawn by The Green Herring and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: for last month's new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection, Cthulu drew some #ANSIart in tribute to Brad Bird's 1999 animated film adaptation #TheIronGiant, including a slogan drawn from the movie's script. #YouDontHaveToBeAGun

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 Mistigram: naturally there was some overlap in subject matter between our most recent science ficiton-themed MIST0526 artpack and the previous MIST0426, which dealt with books and authors. Here is a #teletext portrait by @atonalosprey from that collection of one of the titans of the genre, #ArthurCClarke, famous for writing Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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 Mistigram: "Keep absolutely still - - its vision's based on movement!" RIP #SamNeill, here (on the right) playing Dr. #AlanGrant in 1993's #JurassicPark. This #teletext screen was drawn by @horsenburger and included in the spooky MIST1018 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: @thegreenherring took 1st place with this cosmic ark #ANSIart promo for #Protoweb at the graphics compo at last year's Field-FX @ WHY demoparty, and it was also just included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: this monochrome #unsi (#Unicode #ANSIart) image of a distinctively #Vulcan hand gesture 🖖 was drawn by @mc.fresher and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection. #LiveLongAndProsper

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 Mistigram: this spacefarer behind the blue visor was drawn by Zeus II as a pre-login screen commissioned for Gemenon BBS. It was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: sometimes you get far enough into your preliminary layout of an #ANSIart adaptation that you realise, gulp, this is going to be more small-scale than I thought, maybe I should cut and run. Saner artists do, but Cthulu has a "sunk cost fallacy" way of hanging in to the bitter end and seeing it through. Anyway, this is his take on #BruceJensen's iconic cover art to the 1993 paperback edition of #NealStephenson's #cyberpunk novel #SnowCrash, in the background, #TheGrid, in the foreground, the world's tiniest #HiroProtagonist. It was drawn for the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection(, though while apparently still in a MIST0426 frame of mind!)

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 Mistigram: as an American participating in a European demoparty (and with their fursona leading the parade), The Green Herring went with a "we come in peace" theme for this #ANSIart scroller, "Greetings, Earthlings!", which placed 6th (top third!) in the text art compo in this year's Revision demoparty. This piece was also included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: in different ancient cultures the #lotus signifies different things -- in India, perfection and enlightenment; in Greece, hedonism and addiction. You may need to decide for yourself which one @mavenmob was alluding to (if not both!) in this #ANSIart illustration of the flower melting away into the Matrix. This piece was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: Cthulu dutifully traced the monochrome poster art to Fritz Lang's 1927 German expressionist film #Metropolis as #blockASCII, then hesitated, contemplating its opening logo -- starts with an M... ends with an S... also contains a T, an I, an R... well heck, he thought, there's nearly already everything here needed to make a Mistigris logo out of, and then I could use it as an infofile header! Ultimately it did appear in exactly that way in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: RIP to English actor #MichaelKeating, who famously played #VilaRestal in #Blakes7. This memorial #ANSIart tribute was drawn by Nitron and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: drawn in just under four hours for the Oldskool Graphics Compo at the Revision 2026 demoparty (where it placed 11th), this #pixelart piece, "Snake Dance", was made by The Green Herring and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

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 Mistigram: a technocratic society in which elite underground hackers earn credits for drawing radical text art illustrations may feel distinctly retrofuturistic, but nonetheless ZII (Zeus II) has established his AAC (#ANSIArt Corporation) from which you can commission screens and scrollers at competitive rates. This piece was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.