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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing)

@queerwizard.co.uk

3.1K followers 3.2K following 1.6K posts

Illustrator and cartographer. DnD 4E Apologist and Old School nerd. I'll make stuff for your game if you ask nicely. Welsh grrl in Scotland (She/Her) 💼: http://queerwizard.co.uk 📧: [email protected] 🎲: https://queer-wizard.itch.io

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · Sep 1

Hi #TTRPG #OSR #DnD friends - I am looking for cartography/illustration work in September/October! If you're looking for maps for your adventure module, or for your home game, send me an email at [email protected]!

My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1h

That's literally all he does

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

bounced off* goddammit

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

If anyone wants to get an idea of why I bounced of Mastodon it's because it's literally full of people like this.

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

Bro - you're exactly the type of loser that makes me not want to go back there. If it's full of people that need to come here and trawl people's mentions for 'mastodon' then I have all the data I need.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

The thing is I don't even enjoy social media anymore. It's almost universally miserable. But alas, I am a freelancer and this is just part of the job.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

I already tried Mastodon five years ago.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

Some people are taking this as a sign to jump ship which is entirely their prerogative. The way I see it though moderation sucks everywhere. There's no perfect solution. We can't go back to 2015 twitter no matter how much people want it.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2h

Mastodon is abstruse and byzantine. It almost feels deliberately so.

The issue with Bluesky is that the moderation team has a glass jaw when it comes to criticism. They seem to be pampering big name chuds and shutting down concerns from minorities and marginalised groups. Same as it ever was.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 1d

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3h

Yeah this is one of the big bugbears I have with it for sure

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3h

There's a reason I didn't stay with Mastodon the first time I tried it when Twitter started getting shit and the reason is it's fucking miserable and full of tech nerds and no one else.

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3h

I actually cannot deal with uprooting my entire social media presence every six months I'm sorry also Mastodon fucking sucks

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

Stumbled upon an absolutely incredible subreddit

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 16h

They didn’t even see the second half?!

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 16h

Oh my fucking god

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

I think they’re using it in the very specific middle English context where it was also used as a substitute for ð. There’s an actually quite interesting post by someone from Iceland about the different uses in modern Icelandic of thorn and eth.

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

Funnily enough that practice arose because when English typesetters imported types from the continent they used the Y to indicate Þ because they looked similar to the scribed Þ an the European types didn’t include Þ.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

Stumbled upon an absolutely incredible subreddit

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

When people say "gods and aliens contact the marvel universe all the time, everything should be different" I remember things like this.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

Fascists think all the good art has already been made though.

Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 3d

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 2d

I'm gonna fucking kill myself I sent a flirty text message but ended the sentence with a preposition

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 3d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3d

I made myself spooky - for Spookowe’en

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3d

Armour! 𐃃⛨

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