Trevor Roberts
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Worldbuilder. Writer & Artist behind "Mystery Flesh Pit National Park" and other internet attractions. Open to commissions &or collaboration.
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Going to take this opportunity to shamelessly peddle my merch:
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Gotta be the hole
ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you.
Which art piece you using?
OK GO UWU
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NOTICE: Visitors still trapped within Park trails should avoid travel to the Lower Visitor Center until further notice. Wait where you are until a member of the Search and Rescue team arrives.
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The National Park Service has issued the following statement:
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I do these sorts of drawings!
I find it quite interesting that these kind of cut-away diagrams is a bit of lost art nowadays - takes ages, no one really wants to pay for art anymore, only place you'll see it something with a Disney budget
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Some quick & dirty notes I sketched for depicting the interior of the flesh pit.
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May 12th, 1973
Workers lower the first living explorer, a borrowed pig from a neighboring farm, into the "mystery sinkhole".
The fate of the poor animal following this photograph is unknown.
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⚠️📢 PSA 📢 ⚠️
As summer approaches in the southwestern U.S., higher temperatures lead to drought & dry lakebeds. It is becoming more and more common to see soft dogs out of their wallows looking for moisture. Do not approach them! 1/2 🧵
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How are you planning to celebrate
#July4th
? Mystery Flesh Pit National Park will be hosting a Concert and Fireworks show beginning at 8:30 PM tonight. The event is almost sold out, but tickets are still available!
#NationalParkService
#MysteryFleshPit
#4thofJuly
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The Dev team behind the Mystery Flesh Pit Roblox world have re-opened the park, bigger and better than ever; it carries my full endorsement for accuracy to the source material, absolutely worth seeing if you are a fan of the flesh pit.
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ATTENTION: An evacuation order has been issued for Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. All visitors must return to the Lower Visitor Center gondola station as soon as possible. Thank you for your ongoing cooperation.
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January 13th, 1974
Members of a local gun club encounter & kill a parasitic copepod while pheasant hunting near the pit's entry orifice. While uncommon, wildlife from within the pit would sometimes emerge to feast on surface prey such as cattle or coyotes.
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Late 1981
A trail-building team clears fluid from an expanded duct in preparation to construct an enclosed trail passage.
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The U.S. National Guard has begun setting up a disaster response command facility to coordinate response efforts.
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Your art is a reflection of yourself.
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A few other embroidered patches I’ve made over the years.
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Going to try and post 1 piece of MFP every day leading up to July 4th
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I wouldn't worry about it
For years, geophysicists have puzzled over two continent-size "blobs" floating above Earth's core. According to new research, they are the remains of another planet--evidence of a violent event that nearly destroyed Earth 4.5 billion years ago.
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PLEASE DO NOT PANIC! A temporary electrical issue has resulted in a failure of trail lighting within the park. Technicians are working on the problem now and should have it resolved within the hour. Please return to the Lower Visitor Center or find a Park Ranger.
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The strongest aspect of this (phenomenal) scene is that there is no reconciliation about these deaths. No honor, no cosmic/karmic/religious “reason”. An entire lifetime of hopes, memories, relationships, etc. only results in being consumed for calories. Planet Earth status quo.
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The Governor of Texas has declared a state of emergency for Gumption county.
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June 22nd, 1973
Aerial photo of the "Mystery Sinkhole" surface camp. By this time, explorations were ongoing but required increasing support and infrastructure.
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Dinocaridida anthropocheira
Better known as the “Abyssal Copepod”
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Explaining the Great War to my 5yo nephew because he asked who the guy on the pizza box was
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October 2nd, 1974
This profile survey, conducted by surveyor Jim Jackson, combined many smaller surveys obtained by dozens of teams across 18 months. This was a pivotal piece of information until a computer-aided survey was completed in 1980.
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Mystery flesh pit lore iceberg from top minds at r/FleshPitNationalPark
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Soft dogs (Ambulids) are a federally protected species that should be LEFT ALONE. They cannot see very well and are often frightened &/or aggressive. Call your local animal control # if you see one, and PLEASE watch out when you are driving at night.
#SaveSoftDogs
#AnimalSafety
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The Texas Dept. of Public Safety has issued a general evacuation order for Gumption county and surrounding communities until further notice.
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It's completely fine if you read/watch stuff about Mystery Flesh Pit instead of studying/writing a paper/finishing a school project. You can tell your teacher that I said it was okay.
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The Mystery Flesh Pit TTRPG campaign is LIVE!
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A basic look at my process for illustrating 3D cutaway maps/diagrams. 🧵
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Let's take a look at a scan of this safety pamphlet from around March of 1983. 🧵⬇️
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Memorial Day, 1976
The Mystery Flesh Pit opens to the public.
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Uh Oh! You might notice worker crews are working late to repair an issue with one of the Park’s pumps. Visitors should not worry, this is routine maintenance that should not affect any ongoing park activities.
#July4th
#NationalParkService
#MysteryFleshPitNationalPark
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Search and Rescue personnel have been dispatched to areas affected by recent Bioseismic activity. If you are trapped, please remain where you are.
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It’s unrecognizable today. Heavy security surrounding a sprawling sedative manufacturing & administration complex the size of a small city.
@OrbitalOddity
would be interesting to see some satellite footage of the pit present day, post incident. is it entirely built over? just fenced off? whats the state
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Late July, 1973
Several work trucks have been field-modified to better navigate the visceral fleshscape within the pit. While not as effective as later purpose-built vehicles, these trucks provided mechanization to early exploration efforts.
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Personnel are on-site to begin damage assessments. The public is advised to maintain a 15-mile separation from the Park boundaries until directed otherwise.
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Park Wildlife Management has reported several instances of visitor and staff injuries following encounters with parasitic wildlife. Do not approach any wildlife you see within or around the Park grounds.
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I dreamed that there was a mod for Stardew Valley that let you turn characters inside out with a small button on the UI and it improved the game 1000%.
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Due to inclement weather, tonight’s Concert and Fireworks display has been cancelled.
However, Park operating hours have been extended until Midnight tonight for visitors who have already purchased tickets.
#July4th
#NationalParkService
#MysteryFleshPitNationalPark
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All surface facilities of Mystery Flesh Pit National Park must be evacuated. Please follow the directions of Park Emergency Personnel. Thank you for your continued cooperation.
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An emergency teleconference between leadership of the National Park Service and the Anodyne Corporation is scheduled to begin at 3:00 AM CST.
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Please remain calm as we attempt to resolve this ongoing emergency situation .
#July4th
#NationalParkService
#MysteryFleshPitNationalPark
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Signs through time.
(Posting again b/c resolution was trash on prior post.)
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One of the first parasitic lifeforms discovered within the pit was 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘪, or the Crop Louse. These blind isopods grow to 3ft in length & subsist on lichen that grow along the moist ridges of the crop organs in the upper anatomy of the pit.
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Working layout for the pit when it first opened in 1976, before the NPS was involved. It was the “Mystery Flesh Pit” then, and featured mild “old west/cowboy” theming and was much more of a tourist oddity than a natural wonder.
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He’s making a list,
Checking it twice,
Something ancient & terrible was found buried in ice,
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In the early 2000s, there was an effort to open a “2nd gate” at one of the entry orifices that was much closer to the Midland/Odessa metropolitan area. Guests would have descended this entry orifice via an articulated elevator to a second Lower Visitor Center. 1/2
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Back in the early 70s when some ranchers discovered the Mystery Flesh Pit, they lowered a pig into the abyss to see what would happen. No one knows what happened to the poor animal.
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There's lots to do at Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, even if you choose not to descend into the maw at all!
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ARTISTS, you can only use ONE art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece are you using?
ARTISTS, you can only use ONE art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece are you using?
Columbo, everyone likes Columbo, right?
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October 12th, 1979
A Joint US & Soviet expedition is organized by scientific interests in each nation. The Soviet-designed expedition vehicle is "swallowed" by the Flesh Pit to deliver the 6 person crew to then-uncharted depths of the Superorganism's anatomy.
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September 2nd, 1976
Final performance of the "Highwire Hijinks" show.
The placard below would memorialize the tragedy several years later.
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10 years ago, this would be a piece of guerrilla marketing for a horror film where these things start hurting people.
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This is the difficulty of Spectral Haptics content. The Flesh Pit narrative is held together with enough pseudoscience duct tape that it manages to suspend disbelief a bit. Ghosts and folklore have a razor-thin margins of believability.
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A venterial mining crew enlarges & clears fluid from an existing duct in preparation to move in larger extraction equipment.
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There will be ample feeding opportunities for all visitors.
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February 1981
Geobiological Circulatory Systems Diagram
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reposting one of my favorite pieces of unfiction: (u/fluckyducky)
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Reply with your best post of the year. Not the one that did the best numbers necessarily but the one you’re proudest of
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Incredible. Some gen-x parents out here buying graphic flesh pit merch entirely unprompted. Punk rock type shit.
@jacksfilms
#YIAYgift
Mom and Dad thought this genuinely frightening T-Shirt called my name. How am I supposed to wear this in public???
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Rare photo from ~3 months after the pit was “discovered”, giving a good idea of how small the operations were back in the early 1970s. Only a few months later, paved roads and a half dozen buildings would be constructed, making the once-small "sinkhole" unrecognizable.
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“the midwest looks so boring” can you not comprehend the beauty of a vast, open space? of seeing the entire dome of the sky? of the great titanic relics of long-gone industry that served as the engine of the nation? of seeing lakes so vast they present as seas? skill issue
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Has anyone rented an old office space to turn into a "Backrooms Experience" cash-grab for people to walk through and take selfies in? Seems like a no-brainer.
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Sorry to everyone who just followed b/c of the copepod art. For every 1 creature post, you guys are gonna get 20 posts like “this is my design for a deep-sea self-service postage kiosk”
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Thank you to the Anodyne company for making tonight’s event possible!
Our commitment to a sustainable future is brighter than fireworks.🎆For the 23rd year in a row, the Anodyne Corporation is happy to sponsor the
#July4th
Celebrations at Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. Lets keep our natural spaces beautiful.
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Please keep in mind that in order to take advantage of tonight’s extended park hours, visitors must have a voucher. The last gondola to the surface will depart the Lower Visitor Center at 12:15AM CST.
#July4th
#NationalParkService
#MysteryFleshPitNationalPark
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During the construction of the Park’s many trails, it was necessary to set up a logistics & staging area within a drained gastric pocket deep within the pit. Eventually this worker encampment was abandoned in the mid 90s, but its ruins are still there.
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Recently discovered that my health-conscious, innocent wife has unknowingly become a fan of Mountain Dew after years of drinking from my cup while at Panera, under the blind assumption that my cup was filled with "sparkling lemonade". The revelation absolutely horrified her.
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March 1978
One of the most ubiquitous forms of life found within the Mystery Flesh Pit are the myriad species of so-called "Macrobacteria". These modern descendants of ancient echinoderms have adapted to life within the pit by taking on traits similar to microscopic life.
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While I prefer the slick 90s hi-tech colonial-brutalism aesthetic that Spielberg gives the park in the film, the book’s depiction of everything being very thrown together haphazardly is much more realistic.
Started reading Jurassic Park for the first time this week. Surprised how much darker it is than the movies so far and how much was left out. Love it!
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These aren't for sale; they are a reward for backers who supported the ttRPG Kickstarter at certain tier levels.
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@OrbitalOddity
Do you have a higher resolution version of the Flesh Pit trail map? Several bits of text in the one on tumblr are too small to read.
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