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Riley

@rileyisokay.bsky.social

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36 | gay disaster and professional nerd artist. Art direction/graphic design/occasional silly drawings. (She/her)

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 23d

Newest art. Because we need to turn poison into positivity. And these guys make me happy. (They should have danced. We should have gotten to see them dance.) 💔🧡💜 #OFMD

A digital painting of a scene from season 2 episode 6 of Our Flag Means Death. Stede and Ed face each other in purple-pink glowing light lit from behind by indistinct colored lanterns.

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations!

Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed this.

A screenshot from a webcomic by The Oatmeal. It reads:
AI art might eventually have the right number of fingers, but it'll never have a heart. (I know this is cheesy but fuck you I like it)
There is a drawing of a paintbrush and a glowing red heart.

A screenshot from a webcomic by The Oatmeal. It reads:
You are a creator. You build words based on your passion, your discipline, and your pain -- worlds full of typos, mismatched lines, and wild tangents.
And even though art itself -- this fragile, precious thing of ours -- is drowning in a sea of Styrofoam, I need you to know from one artist to another,

There are three drawn flies or fireflies in red, orange and blue.

A screenshot from a webcomic by The Oatmeal. It reads:
that every mark you make on a page, even a squiggly, imperfect one, is still beautiful.

There is a fly or firefly in green with a spiraled green like and glowing sparkles in blue, orange, green and red.

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 2d

Yes; as you know, the Scientific Method™ of finding a conclusion and then building the evidence around it

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 3d

No, I get it. Wouldn't it be nice to be one of those people who just felt guilt-free entitled to stuff (for just, like, a day?) You're a good person, though, so that's tough.

Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 3d

You deserve nice things. Tell your brain I said so.

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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 3d

What's this???

My gorgeous contributor copy arrived of Mmeory, from @aanpress.bsky.social

You can pre-order here: aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

This anthology is a ltd edition of 250, so if you'd like one, don't sleep on it!

#indieauthor #booksky #smallpress #queerauthor #books #lgbtqia+

Author Die Booth is a middle aged white man with long curly dark hair, dark eyes and a dark moustache and goatee. He is pictured here peering over the top of a book wrapped in brown paper with a sealing sticker that says 'AaNPress Author Copy'

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 4d

Just a random guy being gross and telling people to grow up and stop being in fandom 🙃

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 4d

Apropos of nothing at all, but I've met some of my very best friends through fandom, built a career because of fandom, have spoken on many a comic con panel because of fandom... I could go on. Anyway. I'm glad to be able to enjoy my very cool grownup hobbies and career that all center around fandom.

A picture of me and three other panelists on stage at New York Comic Con's "Fandom For Humankind" panel. We are sitting behind a table draped in New York Comic Con logos with a step-and-repeat banner behind us showing the Reed pop and NYCC logos.

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 4d

Oh god, that makes me want to cry, too. Imagine just being able to live and make art?? 😭

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 5d

He's just... the absolute best and brightest and most lovely human being.

Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 5d

Nooo 😭 It was so cute.

Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 5d

18?

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Riley @rileyisokay.bsky.social · 5d

I'm excited to order mine! That story is so perfect (imagine the pinched fingers emoji here)

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