TRAGEDY! A black cat has knocked an inkpot over some important-looking papers. 'Important' because a person (OK, an ANSI smiley face) in a funny hat is looking at this scene in horror. "MY MEMOIRS!", they scream, throwing their hands up in despair. The cat is nonplussed at this reaction as seen by the question mark over its head.

The aftermath. The cat has sensibly decided to bundle itself into a sedate loaf and perhaps sleep, ignoring its human(?)'s loss.

If Newton's Diamond was a cat #ansiart #asciiart #caturday

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/da-pack/DA-UNV3.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/bmb-1297/P5-LUCID.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

A chibi grey android with a yellow LED sticking out of the top of its head stands next to an 80s desktop microcomputer against a backdrop of BSOD blue.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart personification of an IRC URL-previewing bot, navi, was drawn by Picrotoxin and included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection. Beep boop!

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/aspire02/GDR-DEE1.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/cia56-a/0998INFO.CIA

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/blndr011/SMI-OOO.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/circe05/DD-RCMN.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/arc-7ans/AB-LOGON.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

A glitchy terminal window of commands and debugging information serves as a backdrop to a drippy blue/green graffiti-style logo reading Console Jockey.

Mistigram: LDA continued his campaign of drawing #ANSIart tributes to his Mistigris colleagues in this celebration of @consolejockey.bsky.social , whose program we use to syndicate these Mistigram posts across several microblogging services. This piece was included in the recent MIST0226 artpack.

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/303pack1/CTD-DIM3.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/bmb-0297/6R-PCK%21.ANS

#ansiart #textmode #bbs

Sunbeams reflect off the fabulous rooftops, domes and spires of the golden temple

Mistigram: This shiny #ANSIart advertisement for the Golden Temple BBS, reachable by connecting via telnet to bbs.iswix.com:6800, was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

Under pink lighting, a long-haired man wearing a crown of thorns gazes uncertainly past the viewer into the distance, the right side of his face dissolving into dithered shadow.

Mistigram: Happy #Easter! This #ANSIart portrait of #JesusChrist, titled Love is Vulnerability, was drawn by @mavenmob, winning 1st place in the @flashparty 2025 demoparty's extended text art compo. It was also included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

A long strip of ANSI art depicting aliens beaming down from a UFO over a grassy field at night, with mountains in the distance, and walking down a path to greet us, the people of Earth. They are various flavors of animalistic, with pointed ears, long tails, and digitigrade legs; and have only three fingers on each hand. The most visible of these creatures are various bright colors and clad in bodysuits. A pink alien in white and a white alien in black walk together, a yellow alien in blue with a blue-tufted tail strides on after them, and a cyan alien in red with a red-tufted tail waves to Earthlings off-screen, close enough to us that we can see their black beady eyes. In the front, closest to us, is a green fish-like alien in red wearing red-rimmed glasses, smiling and waving to us while their fish tail swishes behind them.

Featured at Revision 2026 (@revision-party.bsky.social): "Greetings, Earthlings!", my PC ANSI entry to the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Compo!

#ANSIArt #SciFiArt #RevisionParty #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FurryArt #Art #Demoscene #Demoparty

A screenshot of Cyber Purge v2.21, running in ClassicZoo, taken during a cutscene. TAKAMIMI, the VR avatar of the hero Takami Bluesky, a big floating fennec fox head with detached arms and legs, is standing with a defiant expression on their face over the abstract background of a blazing aura in the shape and colors of the rainbow infinity symbol. Along the bottom of the screen is a single line of dialog: "I'm one of them."

Happy World Autism Acceptance Day from "Cyber Purge" v2.21, the final content update, released on February 21, 2026!

thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-...

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #IndieGame #ZZT #AutismAcceptanceDay #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art

#ansiart @digolte.bsky.social because i needed forgiveness for setting fake notification badge server icon

ng upload later
#art #ansi-art

A human skull with glowing eyes extrudes, Videodrome-like, from the back of an external modem.

Mistigram: this spooky, Ringu-esque #ANSIart promo for #DeadModemSociety BBS was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in last month's unthemed new MIST0226 artpack collection.

The workstages of Kaoru fighting a robot! It started as a narrow strip, some stages were done on my Steam Deck at work, and the robot was drawn in a separate file before I merged it into the main one.

#Timelapse #FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art

In this massive piece of ANSI art, at night, with the stars shining above, a long-necked Japanese marten person, a warrior mage standing on one leg on a wooden post in the middle of a lake, is casting a mystic fireball and aiming it a killer robot flying towards them. The mage is wearing a sleeveless robe with their hood up, their ponytail pushing it back, and a side slit that leaves their leg visible beneath their skirt. They are pointing at the giant orb in the middle of a robot flying with hover jets trying to attack them with four clawed tentacles. Its downwards jet is causing the lake water to ripple and splash with its force, reflections can be seen in the lake's surface, and the mountains surrounding the lake in the distance fade into the night sky.

Most mages need their feet on solid ground to cast magic, but Kaoru Morimoto (they/them) is not most mages.

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art

A rather pointy purple Gemenon logo floats prickly in a yellow miasma, casting diagonal green shadows below as its sharp angles on every letter but the O (it is hard to make an O pointy) cut trails in the haze.

Mistigram: this rather angular purple #ANSIart logo in promotion of Gemenon BBS was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

A purple-cowled power fantasy with a tremendous overbite looks back quizzically

Mistigram: a regretful reprint, this #ANSIart promo for #BlackSunshine BBS was drawn by Mavrik and released in the MIST0695 artpack collection released 31 years ago. It depicts the offbeat Image Comics hero #TheMaxx. RIP to his creator #SamKieth.

ANSI art of a large gray cat with green eyes sitting on an elongated ASCII smiley face. The cat (who also has a fluffy tail) looks quite pleased with itself, announcing that it has 'sit on hooman (sic).' The human (the smiley) looks a bit distraught, asking 'WHY.' Drawn using the DOS game creation system ZZT.

When your cat squishes the week out of you. #ansiart #asciiart #zzt #cats

A cute frothy cold beer states its name and strikes a sassy pose before a computer terminal, while refreshing bubbles float around the scene.

Mistigram: this social media posting may be the only place you get to see this #ANSIart illustration of internetting while drunk (not recommended), drawn by Picrotoxin and included in last month's new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

The business of BBSing: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 4 - Break Into Chat As BBSes turned into businesses, some sysops and developers started making real money. Could ANSI artists and publishers do the same?

In the early 1990s, as BBSes turned into businesses, some sysops and developers started making real money.

Could ANSI artists and publishers do the same?

breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03...

Part 4 of my series "ANSI art and webcomics" is here!

#retrocomputing #ansiart #textmode #comics #digipres

ANSI art of a giant white monster with peering through a huge door at a smiley face in a blue cave. It's grasping the sides of the door as if leaning on it, or readying itself to leap through.

The week looms ahead.
#asciiart #ansiart #monday

Here are the workstages of Kaoru Morimoto's (they/them) #ANSIArt portrait!

#Timelapse #FurryArt #Nonbinary #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry

After posting my #ANSIArt marten mage, I wondered, "How do they wear that hood with that ponytail?" And so I drew it. And then I gave them a name!

#FurryArt #Nonbinary #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry

ANSI art of purple mecha drawn using the text-mode DOS game creation system ZZT, its body slightly twisted to face the viewer. It has rotary cannons mounted in its shoulders and wields a beam/light saber in its right hand.

Drew this a while back as a thank-you for a friend, meant to be piloted by a character he drew.

#mecha #asciiart #ansiart #scifi #zzt

Gairaigo is now released!

Inspiration drawn from #Kanji, #Shoji, #Kumiko, and #Hanafuda. Get it now ->

littlebitspace.com/resources#Gairaigo

#ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #art #bbs #text #textart #textmode #typography #typedesign #design #pixel #pixelart #font #japan