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Erkhyan Rafosa
@erkhyan.bsky.social
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Born/raised/living in Antananarivo, Madagascar. 40. 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈 Speaks Malagasy, French, English. 🔞 “Horny soit qui mal y pense!” 🔞 https://erkhyan.carrd.co #ErkhyanArt
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · Oct 17
Some things about me:
1. I’m a furry artist, though I draw so slowly that you’re in no danger of getting flooded.
2. I have an art feed and a Malagasy language trivia feed.
3. A lot of my art is 18+.
4. I repost a lot of stuff, some of which can be 18+.
5. Openly NOT a fan of conservative causes.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 2h
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are looking up at the same spot in the ceiling. Green: Do we have a dead moth on the ceiling? Blue: No. It's alive. Green turns to look at Blue, whose eyes are still on the moth. Green: It's what? Blue: It sits in a different spot every morning. Both of the foxes return to looking up at the moth. Green: Should we do something about it? Now Blue turns to look at Green, who keeps staring at the moth. Blue: Make it pay rent? Green: I think it flinched.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 11h
My favorite Malagasy cryptid is the Mpaka Fo (Heart-Taker).

What does it do? Kills people and literally steals their hearts out of their chests.

What does it look like?

A white person.
Caucasian, if you wish.
Just… a normal white person.

🇲🇬
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 11h
I do appreciate that that’s exactly the way SNW approached it.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 12h
A trick I use with Krita is to set the pattern layer with a “Grain Merge” blending mode and an opacity around 10%. It’s fun.
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AriesArtist @ariesartistfin.bsky.social · Feb 15
There's something about Belfort...❤️
#BelfortAndLupin
A short comic about Lupin, from the series 'Belfort and Lupin', staring at Belfort and turning away embarrassed when noticed.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 12h
The ability to download an ebook to read offline is a godsend. I just used it recently for the first time because there’s no way I’m reading that 1.9M-word monster on a screen.
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🌾 bull 🌾 @xylographica.bsky.social · 12h
cycles
a digital black and white illustration in a reductive style of a bull walking in profile. A crescent moon forms his horns, and the rest of the moon phases arch above him, trailing behind as he walks.
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deery guy @tinydeerguy.bsky.social · 12h
some guys
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 13h
Not really, but that part is not exactly a separate word. Just a prefix present in a lot of place names.

Some French journalists have recently learned to improve their pronunciation by just saying “An-Tananarive”.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 13h
a cartoon of anna and kristoff from frozen says i 'm gonna tell em
ALT: a cartoon of anna and kristoff from frozen says i 'm gonna tell em
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Squid @squidinu.bsky.social · 1d
office persona
drawing of a party werewolf named Rocco dressed in business attire and standing alone in a space with his back turned from his sparkly neon furry counterpart.
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✨🐟🦐Kitsugambas🦐🐟✨ @kitsugambas.bsky.social · 17h
One more
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 14h
The key to pronouncing so many long Malagasy names is to realize that they’re just several much shorter words strung together. So, just focus on learning the short words.

e.g. if you know how to pronounce “tanàna” and “arivo”, you know how to pronounce “Antananarivo”.

🇲🇬
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 15h
It’s spelled “saninabavy”.

Etymology unknown, but it seemingly contains the word “anabavy” (a man’s sister), so presumably it involves accusations of incest.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 15h
It’s used very much like that, yes.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 15h
Two of my former coworkers regularly use the words “sun above” (in English) as an euphemism for a really rude Malagasy expletive, and I’m tempted to actually use that as an actual expletive in one of my fictional settings.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 15h
(obligatory niche pun: “a Diet of Worms”)
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 15h
Timon and Pumbaa tried not to think about how their jungle paradise somehow never experienced any trespassers, while Simba somehow developed a physique one cannot possibly achieve on a diet of bugs.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 16h
How to draw eyes:

1. Draw an eye.

2. Haha, not like that.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · Oct 9
PHENOMENAL COSMIC AMBITION! Itty bitty executive function.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · Oct 5
Random Malagasy idiom that made me cackle when I first heard it years ago:

“Nangery amoron-kady ka latsaka alohan’ny tainy”
(“shat into a ditch, but fell in before their shit did”)

i.e. someone who was trying to cause gratuitous harm to a disadvantaged opponent, but their malice backfired.

🇲🇬
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · Oct 5
Time for a joke that’ll make an entire country angry with me:

Bottoms from Poland who constantly have to redo their keysmashes because they accidentally typed someone’s name AGAIN.
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · Oct 9
… I’m keeping this screenshot for potential future use.

(from “What Did You Eat Yesterday? / Kinou Nani Tabeta?”, the live-action adaptation of a manga)
An older Japanese man, looking severe and/or disappointed, asks his adult son, “Are you half-assing the homosexual lifestyle?”
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heather @elflock.bsky.social · 20h
leafs
[ #art ]
a sketch of a pair of wolves playing in a pile of autumn leaves. a bright leaf falls from the trees above and catches both wolves attention.
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 19h
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