MIST1025/US-SHOEBODY

 Mistigram: this time last year, Cthulu was holed up in an agriturismo in rural Italy on a vacation, explaining to his family that while he had managed to duck responsibility for packaging the annual Mist Hallowe'en artpack for the first time in eleven years, that didn't relieve him of the duty to populate it with submissions... which is why when things got quiet after the magical Tuscan sunset, he could be found drawing colourful variations of the phrase #ShoebodyBop on his laptop. Sometimes you just have to love your family members unconditionally because no explanation will really suffice to understand what the heck they're up to.

The words look gnarly, but the words themselves aren't. WTF is up here? Cth was very taken by #DrueLanglois' 2022 demonic baptismal animation set to the song of the same name by the Minute Hour. He had roughed out a sketch from it depicting a cultist invokation which LDA and Zeus II later fleshed out taken in a very different direction. (Originally he had planned to depict a series of iconic moments from the music video, punctuated with permutations on its strange name, but Italy rudely interrupted this aspiration with a series of historical hilltop distractions.)

Maybe we'll see more Shoebody moments later this month, but this introductory portion was included in the MIST1025 artpack collection released a year ago.

MIST0620/US-EGYPT9

 Mistigram: the abrupt culmination of a #TextmodeFriends #ANSIart jam about Ancient Egypt (I know, it deviated from its theme a bit as it evolved organically), this piece was included in the MIST0620 artpack collection released six months ago this month. This far down the line it's a little tricky to tell who did what, but it was a collaborative canvas drawn by @polyducks, LDA, Rhoq, Retroshark, and @mig_moog .

MIST0426/US-DIANE_W_YOUNG-ADVENTURES_IN_A_MINOR_ORDER

 Mistigram: sometimes we celebrate canonical classics established through the ages and sometimes, as in Ratatouille, we discover and defend the new. In this #ANSIart screen Moth (with help from LDA) reproduces the cover photograph of a new entomological monograph, #DianeWYoung's #AdventuresInAMinorOrder, pertaining to the #booklice and #barklice of #psosoptera. If you have a strong interest in the subject and money is no object, you can purchase a copy today via https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4463637180/adventures-in-a-minor-order-insects This piece was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/US-KURT_CYRUS-ODDHOPPER_OPERA

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart adaptation of the cover art to #KurtCyrus' 2001 illustrated children's book #OddhopperOpera, a riot of bugs and creepy crawlers, was drawn by Moth and LDA, and was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0226/US-CJ-LDA1

 Mistigram: LDA continued his campaign of drawing #ANSIart tributes to his Mistigris colleagues here in this celebration of ConsoleJockey, whose program we use to syndicate these Mistigram posts across several microblogging services. (The mutual appreciation society continued below, where ConsoleJockey drew a reciprocal tribute to LDA! But we only have so much screen space to work with here, so stay tuned.) This piece was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/US-GRASSCII

 Mistigram: "#ascii in the grasscii", a small and slowly-growing seed of #ANSIart from our mistfunk networked Moebius server, is the handiwork of LDA, sassafras and Moth, emerging just a few weeks before spring officially kicks in. (Maybe it didn't confer with the groundhog.) It was included in the new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0223/LDA-MISTYOU

 Mistigram: sometimes there's a gap between releases on our activity schedule, but please don't interpret it as our turning our backs on the community! We just need a little time to recharge our batteries and cook up more silly ideas for artpacks. This #blockASCII illustration, "we MiST you", was drawn by LDA and included in the MIST0223 artpack released three years ago this month.

ADVENT24/25_DEC24

 Mistigram: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one final Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace and LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/23_DEC24

 Mistigram: Last chance to get your doomscrolling quota for the rest of the year out of the way before, like Santa, you tamp it all down and kick the holidays into high gear!  LDA drew this moody screen for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/20_DEC24

 Mistigram: Santa works hard and plays hard, and is expected to remain at the beach right up until the last possible minute, because Vitamin D is in short supply at the North Pole. This screen was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/17_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA turned Cthulu pressuring people for vintage computer art into a holly jolly ugly Christmas sweater design, drawing this eye-popping illustration for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/15_DEC24

 Mistigram: now where did he find that?  For this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, LDA drew us #TheMandalorian's #Grogu, aka #BabyYoda, enjoying a hot beverage (I'm guessing grog, you?) while dressed in a darling tiny Santa Claus outfit.

ADVENT24/13_DEC24

 Mistigram: this illustration of an unforgettable, impossible moment from #MrBean's Christmas dinner was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  It also has a BBS door version, seen here live at Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD BBS at bbs.decafbad.com

ADVENT24/11_DEC24

 Mistigram: this jolly outdoor #ChristmasTree was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. The executable calendar has a BBS door version, and here it is served up by Jerry Reed's A-Net system at a-net-online.lol

ADVENT24/09_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA shares with us this stark winter landscape, drawn for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. Both last and this year's editions of the calendar can function as BBS doors, and you can see it in effect at X-Bit BBS at https://x-bit.org/

ADVENT24/07_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA drew this anguished #snowman, melting in unimaginable agony, for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated live on Martin Kazmaier's Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net

ADVENT24/03_DEC24

 Mistigram: this chilly landscape was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. The calendar saw a forked release as a BBS door, and here it is demonstrated on Codefenix's system Constructive Chaos at https://conchaos.synchro.net/

Ask your SysOp to host ADVENT25 on your favorite BBS and we will showcase it here!

MIST1024/US-KILLER_TOMATOES

 Mistigram: Originally intended as vegetarian menu art for the IMBIBE01 food-themed e-mag, Cthulu adapted the poster to the 1978 B-movie #AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes to #ANSIart with help from LDA and Moth. It was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack released one year ago.

MIST1022/LDA-FACES

 Mistigram: from the MIST1022 artpack collection released three years ago, here's a very jolly and atmospheric #ANSIart illustration of some merry #jackolantern action down at the pumpkin patch, drawn by LDA.

MIST0825/LDA-ISTHIS

 Mistigram: you've all seen the meme - the android #YutaroKatori from the 1991 #TheBraveOfSunFighbird series points at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon? But you've never seen it drawn before by LDA in #ANSIart. This was included in last month's #anime-themed MIST0825 artpack.