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Ripley LaCross

@ripleylacross.bsky.social

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(they/he) Cartoonist, Illustrator, gender rebel, and cryptid. Oh Joy Sex Toy, the Hiker Trash Dictionary, It's Always Something, and other TTRPG nonsense. PDX - @Helioscope Links: https://ripleylacross.carrd.co/ | #art | #comic | #originalcharacter |

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · Feb 7

Hey hey, I'm Ripley! Cartoonist and illustrator drawing all sorts of ttrpg nonsense, sex-ed comics, and the occasional smut.

Links: ripleylacross.carrd.co

Redraw of a meme. Two panel comic, Ash sits in a candle-adorned chair in Telbin's magical mansion library. #art Art by Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross

Panel 1: Ash is looking over a large book.
Text: "...Right. You can't just go librum incinderae and expect--"

Panel 2: Same as before, but the book is now on fire. His cigerette is on fire. The candles on the chair are torches.
Ash looks somewhere between shocked and dumbfounded.

Updated concept art for Cricket. Less nervous, more serious, more vicious. Running with vigor. Slashing with twin, bloody knives. Laying on the ground in his own blood clutching his chest and staring incredulously at an unknown attacker. #art Art by Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross

Portrait of a Scoundrel’s Bedroom, 2022
Blue and gold isometric illustration of a run-down fantasy bedroom, complete with hammock, loaded chest, daggers on a barrel, and a bright window casting warm light into the space. #art Art by Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross

Swordtember 2022 illustration. A black woman with ringlet hair crouches on one knee with a hissing sword crusted with ice, ready to strike.

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 7h

Day 285: Only tangentially-related to the Halloween month (because costume) but I had to pay my respects to all the real ones in my beloved Portland

*Note: This is NOT one of those "tHiS iS thE RiGht WaY to PrOtEsT!1!!" posts -- I literally just fucking hate ICE and love this air-humping frog a lot

Single panel comic drawn in India ink with a sable brush, also with some inkwash shading.
The panel is veritcally-shaped with a ribbon banner on the top and bottom that splits the caption, "Some heroes know how to meet fascists with the absurdity they deserve" and in the panel we see the blow-up frog costume-clad protester from Portland air-humping while standing in front of a group of heavily-armed, gas mask-wearing ICE agents (bitches) with little "swish" FX captions.
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-12-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 2h

Omg finally hiker trash CAN go straight from the trail to their cousin's wedding!

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 6h

From what I've heard there are sections of the French Catacombs lost to time. They're so massive, so winding, there are likely many more places like this established down there.

I fucking love it.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Vancouver, WA friends!

I'm at Dennis7Dees Vancouver location today and tomorrow for their harvest festival!

10-5pm • Sat-Sun • October 11-12

Vendors, donuts, kids activities and of course all the plants to your heart could desire! 🌸🌻🌼🌷💐

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, much larger horrors taking priority...

When does The Bone Temple come out again? January? I gotta be there to see where this goes 😬

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Would you believe this exact scenario happened to me as a child? Down to the color of the pickup and everything.

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, they're absolutely a reference.

movieweb.com/28-years-lat...

'28 Years Later's Most Controversial Character Has a Deeper – and Darker – Meaning Than You Might Think

The Jimmys are actually pretty sinister.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

"The boy who cried wolf is coming from inside the house"

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

The world is a troubled place these days, find your joy where you can.

Selfie. I'm wearing a backwards hat, a KN95 mask, and a red tie-dye shirt while giving a peace sign to the camera. I'm wearing a wrist brace because even if I don't end up in a pit I could be hit by a surfer! Gotta protect these things.

Photograph of the lead vocalist from the metalcore band Invent Animate at Portland's Roseland Theater. He's wearing a sleeveless, white lace top and wide bottom khaki slacks. Iluminated by the bright red and white stage lights he reaches up to the sky with one hand while serenading the microphone in his other.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

I feel about roller coasters the way I feel about cars, tbh: Nothing built before 2008.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Jfc I know this shit should be expected at this point but each time it's a fucking gut punch.

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Damn I don't know that one! I'll have to check it out haha

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Did a thunderstorm really pass through while I was being victimized by this band's bass? You kidding me?

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Yoooo

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 1d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Adding Britney and Shinigami Eyes to the list now.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

The lights guy just had way too much fun with My Heart Will Go On.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things is when, between sets at a metal show, they play something like Celine Dion, Backstreet Boys, or something Disney lmao

The vibes are delectable.

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · Jul 6

stars piercing clouds ✨☁️

A vertical panoramic painting against a white wall. The painting depicts a ocean scene with a large cumulonimbus cloud on the horizon, a massive white star bursts from the center piercing the cloud as it rises.

A square painting against a white background. The painting depicts a blue sky with a large white cloud, three stars on a line cross the scene and pierce through the top of the cloud

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck yes fuck yes fuck yesss

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Netflix partners with Gobelins school and Guillermo del Toro to launch a stop-motion studio in Paris.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 2d

None of them, because their lives are hell 🤣

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 3d

Patrons just got a collection of tiny watercolor paintings from my trip around Mt. Hood on the Timberline Trail! #art #patreon

www.patreon.com/posts/140791...

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my gosh that is GORGEOUS

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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 2d

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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