Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath/Bibliophile
@azurelionprod.bsky.social
multi-genre artist, illustrator, poet
print-on-demand artist & photographer
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print-on-demand artist & photographer
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My poetry collection:
https://a.co/d/7iEjfrM
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My Tenacious Will
Born 'neath an unlucky star,
Basted by unkindly kin,
Burdened with unwelcome woes,
Badgered by unpleasant kith,
Battered from uncivil strife,
Bothered by unholy acts,
Beaten soul bears many wounds,
Broken heart bears many scars,
But unyielding will stays strong.
#poem #poetry
Born 'neath an unlucky star,
Basted by unkindly kin,
Burdened with unwelcome woes,
Badgered by unpleasant kith,
Battered from uncivil strife,
Bothered by unholy acts,
Beaten soul bears many wounds,
Broken heart bears many scars,
But unyielding will stays strong.
#poem #poetry
February 18, 2026 at 6:36 AM
For some reason, my old BlueSky header suddenly looked awful, so earlier today I switched it to a resized and cropped version of my "Lambton Worm and Knight".
It's as good a piece as any to serve as an example of my work.
It's as good a piece as any to serve as an example of my work.
February 18, 2026 at 4:48 AM
For some reason, my old BlueSky header suddenly looked awful, so earlier today I switched it to a resized and cropped version of my "Lambton Worm and Knight".
It's as good a piece as any to serve as an example of my work.
It's as good a piece as any to serve as an example of my work.
It's funny how some folks on social media seem to assume that everyone online is of the same age group/generation.
Now, I know that my MOTHER (b. 1949) had at least one album by The Rolling Stones (I recall it being among her collection of albums), but she seemed to have preferred Donovan over The Beatles and Steppenwolf over Led Zeppelin. As far as I know, she didn't have a single Beatles album.
I can assure you that MY grandmother (b. 1923) never listened to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and The Rolling Stones. Being a "Polka grandma" who religiously listened to the Polka show on the radio, she was more likely to listen to Bobby Vinton than any of artists cited in this meme.
February 18, 2026 at 4:12 AM
It's funny how some folks on social media seem to assume that everyone online is of the same age group/generation.
Now, I know that my MOTHER (b. 1949) had at least one album by The Rolling Stones (I recall it being among her collection of albums), but she seemed to have preferred Donovan over The Beatles and Steppenwolf over Led Zeppelin. As far as I know, she didn't have a single Beatles album.
I can assure you that MY grandmother (b. 1923) never listened to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and The Rolling Stones. Being a "Polka grandma" who religiously listened to the Polka show on the radio, she was more likely to listen to Bobby Vinton than any of artists cited in this meme.
Can confirm. 🤣🤣 #LedZeppelin 🎸🎸
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Now, I know that my MOTHER (b. 1949) had at least one album by The Rolling Stones (I recall it being among her collection of albums), but she seemed to have preferred Donovan over The Beatles and Steppenwolf over Led Zeppelin. As far as I know, she didn't have a single Beatles album.
I can assure you that MY grandmother (b. 1923) never listened to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and The Rolling Stones. Being a "Polka grandma" who religiously listened to the Polka show on the radio, she was more likely to listen to Bobby Vinton than any of artists cited in this meme.
February 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I can assure you that MY grandmother (b. 1923) never listened to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and The Rolling Stones. Being a "Polka grandma" who religiously listened to the Polka show on the radio, she was more likely to listen to Bobby Vinton than any of artists cited in this meme.
Don't know why some male readers are complaining about there not being enough "manly" novels out there. If you consider classics, there are PLENTY of manly novels. For example: THE THREE MUSKETEERS, THE CALL OF THE WILD, THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE, THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, & IVANHOE.
February 18, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Don't know why some male readers are complaining about there not being enough "manly" novels out there. If you consider classics, there are PLENTY of manly novels. For example: THE THREE MUSKETEERS, THE CALL OF THE WILD, THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE, THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, & IVANHOE.
I'm a man. I read BOTH nonfiction (including history) AND fiction (including novels).
February 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I'm a man. I read BOTH nonfiction (including history) AND fiction (including novels).
I'm a straight man. I buy novels. I read novels.
February 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I'm a straight man. I buy novels. I read novels.
Hey artist! Quote with your red art! ❤️
February 18, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Hey artist! Quote with your red art! ❤️
Quote some pink art 🌸
Pink Heraldic Rose
Pink Heraldic Rose
February 18, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Quote some pink art 🌸
Pink Heraldic Rose
Pink Heraldic Rose
Artists, show your most popular work💅
My illustration for Michael Hodges' story "Swampy Transitions" remains a perennial favorite.
My illustration for Michael Hodges' story "Swampy Transitions" remains a perennial favorite.
February 18, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Artists, show your most popular work💅
My illustration for Michael Hodges' story "Swampy Transitions" remains a perennial favorite.
My illustration for Michael Hodges' story "Swampy Transitions" remains a perennial favorite.
Nope.
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Nope.
Expanded a poem I wrote yesterday and gave it a title: "My Thoughts Regarding Abstruse Poetry".
Critics of my on-the-nose poetry, those who've called me a poetaster, can stick this one up their snobby noses!
@authorstuartmiller.bsky.social
@corutaniconnolly.bsky.social
@evelovestar.bsky.social
Critics of my on-the-nose poetry, those who've called me a poetaster, can stick this one up their snobby noses!
@authorstuartmiller.bsky.social
@corutaniconnolly.bsky.social
@evelovestar.bsky.social
February 18, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Expanded a poem I wrote yesterday and gave it a title: "My Thoughts Regarding Abstruse Poetry".
Critics of my on-the-nose poetry, those who've called me a poetaster, can stick this one up their snobby noses!
@authorstuartmiller.bsky.social
@corutaniconnolly.bsky.social
@evelovestar.bsky.social
Critics of my on-the-nose poetry, those who've called me a poetaster, can stick this one up their snobby noses!
@authorstuartmiller.bsky.social
@corutaniconnolly.bsky.social
@evelovestar.bsky.social
Sold 2/17/2026 through Redbubble to an admirer of art in Mexico:
1x Sticker of Leek and Daffodil Crossed.
Thanks, buyer! Much appreciated!
Get my art printed on awesome products. Support me at Redbubble #RBandME: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Le... #findyourthing #redbubble #leek #daffodil
1x Sticker of Leek and Daffodil Crossed.
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Both the leek and the daffodil have come to symbolize Wales. Leek and daffodil appear together in this original design by Richard H. Fay. • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Sold 2/17/2026 through Redbubble to an admirer of art in Mexico:
1x Sticker of Leek and Daffodil Crossed.
Thanks, buyer! Much appreciated!
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1x Sticker of Leek and Daffodil Crossed.
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Get my art printed on awesome products. Support me at Redbubble #RBandME: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Le... #findyourthing #redbubble #leek #daffodil
Sold 2/16/2026 through Redbubble to an admirer of art in the UK:
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1x Sticker of Three Medieval Swords 2016.
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"Three Medieval Swords 2016" Sticker for Sale by RHFay
A Norman-period sword with a Brazil nut pommel, a long-bladed "Great Sword" or "Sword of War" of the 13th or 14th century, and an acutely pointed thrusting sword of the Late Middle Ages appear side-by...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Sold 2/16/2026 through Redbubble to an admirer of art in the UK:
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Get my art printed on awesome products. Support me at Redbubble #RBandME: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Th...
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1x Sticker of Three Medieval Swords 2016.
Thanks, buyer! Much appreciated!
Get my art printed on awesome products. Support me at Redbubble #RBandME: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Th...
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For today's Black History Month look at the works of black poets, I'm looking at "Sonnet" by James Weldon Johnson.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49052/...
This one may priovide a ray of hope even today:
"Tho’ thick the battle and tho’ fierce the fight,
There is a power making for the right."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49052/...
This one may priovide a ray of hope even today:
"Tho’ thick the battle and tho’ fierce the fight,
There is a power making for the right."
Sonnet
My heart be brave, and do not falter so, Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail. Thy way is very dark and drear I know, But do not let thy…
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February 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
For today's Black History Month look at the works of black poets, I'm looking at "Sonnet" by James Weldon Johnson.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49052/...
This one may priovide a ray of hope even today:
"Tho’ thick the battle and tho’ fierce the fight,
There is a power making for the right."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49052/...
This one may priovide a ray of hope even today:
"Tho’ thick the battle and tho’ fierce the fight,
There is a power making for the right."
Good grief!
By the time I was in college taking Creative Writing: Short Fiction, I could name several favorite novelists, Tolkien being at the top of the list. Add writers of short stories, and that list grows tremendously.
By the time I was in college taking Creative Writing: Short Fiction, I could name several favorite novelists, Tolkien being at the top of the list. Add writers of short stories, and that list grows tremendously.
February 17, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Good grief!
By the time I was in college taking Creative Writing: Short Fiction, I could name several favorite novelists, Tolkien being at the top of the list. Add writers of short stories, and that list grows tremendously.
By the time I was in college taking Creative Writing: Short Fiction, I could name several favorite novelists, Tolkien being at the top of the list. Add writers of short stories, and that list grows tremendously.
The Duergar
In this land mountainous and grim,
In a spartan hut perched upon a rock,
The duergar sits, waits, and seethes.
Anger toward Adam's sprigs ever churns
Within twisted guts tangled up into knots.
Hatred springs eternal in that stony heart;
Murder forever occupies that dark mind.
#poem
In this land mountainous and grim,
In a spartan hut perched upon a rock,
The duergar sits, waits, and seethes.
Anger toward Adam's sprigs ever churns
Within twisted guts tangled up into knots.
Hatred springs eternal in that stony heart;
Murder forever occupies that dark mind.
#poem
February 17, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The Duergar
In this land mountainous and grim,
In a spartan hut perched upon a rock,
The duergar sits, waits, and seethes.
Anger toward Adam's sprigs ever churns
Within twisted guts tangled up into knots.
Hatred springs eternal in that stony heart;
Murder forever occupies that dark mind.
#poem
In this land mountainous and grim,
In a spartan hut perched upon a rock,
The duergar sits, waits, and seethes.
Anger toward Adam's sprigs ever churns
Within twisted guts tangled up into knots.
Hatred springs eternal in that stony heart;
Murder forever occupies that dark mind.
#poem
I was off Twitter/X, but grudgingly went back after the zRank in my Azure Lion Productions Zazzle store dropped two points. Timing seems too close to be coincidental. Promotion is one of the metrics used to determine zRank, and it seems I need to promote my Zazzle stores on Twitter/X.
You should get off Twitter
February 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I was off Twitter/X, but grudgingly went back after the zRank in my Azure Lion Productions Zazzle store dropped two points. Timing seems too close to be coincidental. Promotion is one of the metrics used to determine zRank, and it seems I need to promote my Zazzle stores on Twitter/X.
In anger and hate, I planted a seed
From which a sickly sprout sprang.
Nourished by strife, sustained by grief,
Tainted seedling grew twisted and bent
'Til corrupt sprout became warped sapling.
Gnarled branches scratched a somber sky;
Black roots delved deep into my rotten soul.
#poem #poetry
From which a sickly sprout sprang.
Nourished by strife, sustained by grief,
Tainted seedling grew twisted and bent
'Til corrupt sprout became warped sapling.
Gnarled branches scratched a somber sky;
Black roots delved deep into my rotten soul.
#poem #poetry
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Those who can, do!
Those who can't, use AI!
Those who can't, use AI!
Ever notice how people that use genAI/chatGPT are people you would never want making real movies or art anyway? Just the most uncreative people, their own gatekeepers.
February 17, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Those who can, do!
Those who can't, use AI!
Those who can't, use AI!
Verse need not display abject abstrusity
To be deemed true and proper poetry.
Verily, many recondite compositions
Bearing the marks of great pomposity,
Inscrutable scribblings of daunting aspects
Requiring esoteric ciphers to be understood,
Be the products of pretentious pricks!
#poem #poetry
To be deemed true and proper poetry.
Verily, many recondite compositions
Bearing the marks of great pomposity,
Inscrutable scribblings of daunting aspects
Requiring esoteric ciphers to be understood,
Be the products of pretentious pricks!
#poem #poetry
February 17, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Who says bots determine my relevance?
I've surrounded myself online with genuine human beings, many of whom are active creators creating art of various kinds.
I've surrounded myself online with genuine human beings, many of whom are active creators creating art of various kinds.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Who says bots determine my relevance?
I've surrounded myself online with genuine human beings, many of whom are active creators creating art of various kinds.
I've surrounded myself online with genuine human beings, many of whom are active creators creating art of various kinds.
Define "taste". Seriously, I'd love to know how you define "taste".
Mind you, you didn't say "refined taste is a new core skill", or "good taste is a new core skill", you simply said "taste is a new core skill".
One may have terrible or unrefined taste, but it's still taste.
Mind you, you didn't say "refined taste is a new core skill", or "good taste is a new core skill", you simply said "taste is a new core skill".
One may have terrible or unrefined taste, but it's still taste.
February 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Define "taste". Seriously, I'd love to know how you define "taste".
Mind you, you didn't say "refined taste is a new core skill", or "good taste is a new core skill", you simply said "taste is a new core skill".
One may have terrible or unrefined taste, but it's still taste.
Mind you, you didn't say "refined taste is a new core skill", or "good taste is a new core skill", you simply said "taste is a new core skill".
One may have terrible or unrefined taste, but it's still taste.
I'm going to have to re-draw my Medieval Warrior Rat in Mail. I tried something different with drawing the mail, but got lazy and fucked it up. I have to go back to my usual, tried-and-true, method of drawing mail.
One step forwards, two steps back — that's the story of my life!
One step forwards, two steps back — that's the story of my life!
February 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I'm going to have to re-draw my Medieval Warrior Rat in Mail. I tried something different with drawing the mail, but got lazy and fucked it up. I have to go back to my usual, tried-and-true, method of drawing mail.
One step forwards, two steps back — that's the story of my life!
One step forwards, two steps back — that's the story of my life!