{"id":6384,"date":"2015-12-23T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2015-12-23T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T22:38:03","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=6384","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blindsight-Xmas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So before I disappear for the holidays (or more accurately, before the holidays give me an excuse to feel less guilty about my continued dereliction of the ‘crawl), I thought I’d leave you with an assortment of visual stocking stuffers that have been piling up over the past few months. Behold, and click to embiggen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Ken<\/a>

Ken Lubin and the Corneas of Consternation, from Petr Vorontsov!<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"See<\/a>

See what he did there?<\/p><\/div>\n

And finally, the awesome visual pun of Beyond the Rift<\/em> (or whatever that translates into in Bulgarian, which is the language of this particular edition), in which cover artist Zhivko Petrov<\/a> shows us both a literal rift and an evocation of “The Thing(s)” therein that would take us beyond it. Very nice job, Zhiv.<\/p>\n

As usual, these have all been archived in the appropriate galleries<\/a> for posterity. Enjoy at your leisure.<\/p>\n

That does it for me.\u00a0 In the spirit of the season I might get around to a quick blog post on this new fad<\/a> that has fetishists the world over inserting slimy alien eggs up their vaginas and\/or asses using a specially-designed strap-on.<\/p>\n

But if not, see you in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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