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Ryan JL 🍊

@recycledoj.bsky.social

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Illustrator, graphic designer, and writer with a focus on sci-fi. Currently drawing Center World. thecenterworld.com

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · Oct 18

I'm Ryan, and I draw a sci-fi noir webcomic titled Center World! It's available, all free to read, on my website: phoenixan.com

And also, lately, I've gotten into making maps for Quake? You'll see the occasional blog post about that and other creative hobbies I get into too. #introductions

Center World's main character, heather, sitting on a ground. She wears a long coat and is illuminated by pink, blue, and purple hues.

Sample comic page from Center World, Chapter 8, Page 17. Heather eyes a pistol on a ground, picks it up, and fires with a gun in each hand.

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 1d

I really liked the character designs for this.

Digital ink sketch of a lady ranger clashing with a lady death knight. The death knights wields a sword while the ranger has a wrench.

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David Roy @davidroy.bsky.social · 2d

Important discovery yesterday.

Grafitti script reads “shrimps is bugs.”

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure about this version, but the Ultimate Edition's CD key worked for me to activate on Steam back when I bought it (same deal, branded as Games for Windows).

Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 4d

These seem really good for a concrete+lava level.

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Veldrin @veldrin.bsky.social · 4d

Glory, mein Liebling

Fanart of Glory from Shadowrun: Dragonfall - A cyborg lady with long messy dark brown hair, wearing a tube top, big puffy brown cargo pants with a brown jacket wrapped around her waist, and combat boots. Her arms are entirely menacing looking cybernetics with vicious looking clawed hands. Her eyes are red and deeply shadowy.

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 4d

Felt like messing around.

Black ink drawing of a snake fella in a skirt-sweater.

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 4d

Dark star over my head

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Quake Map of the Day @motd.cataclysmal.org · 4d

Author(s): ComfyByTheFire
Title: Starslave
An Egyptian ruin with a dark secret.

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/starslave.298/

#copper #difficult #egypt #egyptian #horror #large #singleplayer #story #slipseer #quake

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alex krokus @alexkrokus.bsky.social · 5d

Sandwich Specter [1/3]
while concepting the book, this was one of the first dialogues i wrote in my notes app. from the proposal to the script to the editing to the making of the final art, this first exchange with my father's ghost was a keystone for the book's story

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Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✰ @shizamura.sarilho.net · 6d

HOT BUTTONING ACTION!

🌟 Read latest O Sarilho Update 🌟 #spiderforest #webcomics #comics #sarilho

6 Panels.

Panel 1: Angela turns back, to Miguel, as she finishes covering the stiches.

Angela: Can you help me with my shirt?

Panel 2, 3, 4: Miguel holds the shirt so Angela can put her wounded arm through it and proceeds to button it up.

Panel 5, 6: Angela stops Miguel's buttoning by holding his wrists before finally speaking.

Angela: Twice now you've saved my life. I never even thanked you properly. I'm sorry I shouted at you. I want... Let me make it up to you.

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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 6d

comic
long project
pain trash can
it has many names

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 7d

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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mcnostril @mcnostril.bsky.social · 8d

This is how prestige levels should work in videosgames.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 8d

A woman asks her partner "what do you get up to for ninety minutes in the shower?" her partner replies "normal stuff." We cut to her in the shower. She hunches over, one hand against the wall, hair obscuring her face. She says "weak..." she pause for a bit. Then once again she says "weak..."

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 8d

I finally got around to doing a write-up of my thought processes for each of these: thecenterworld.com/2025/10/quak...

Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 9d

Make it pop more.

Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 10d

This type of thing is really fun to watch.

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 11d

[inktober day 10] did you see that? no? oh then never mind

Illustration with ink pen of a subject looking into its distorted reflection on circular mirror in a convenience store. A shadow looks back behind one of the aisles

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Marc Knelsen @marcknelsen.art · 13d

some lizalfos

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𝕮𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝕬𝖑𝖇𝖚𝖘 @canisalbus.bsky.social · 14d

✦ Papaver ✦

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah, I've made plenty of people mad by sprinkling around lightning gun ammo in a Quake map while sticking the lightning gun in a very hard-to-find secret.

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hayden johnson @haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 26d

every AI ad is like

“hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?”

and then the phone is like

“sandwich”

and the guy is like

“wow”

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Ryan JL 🍊 @recycledoj.bsky.social · 18d

I actually had no idea there were YTP with Keeping Up Appearances, and now I need to look this up.

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eli shroom's altered ego @shroompunk.com · 19d

technicolor malware

#FurryArt #avian

Drawing of a cyborg bird man seated in front of an oldschool computer desk but turned away, refusing to look at the monitor. He has metal arms and a metal face obscured under fluffy orange feathers, and is dressed casually. The computer monitor meanwhile is far less chill, and glows a sickly greenish-white while it seems to vomit fluorescent colors onto the desk.

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Ty Door Hand Hook Car Door @glitchritual.com · 20d

I'd always told @squimoo.bsky.social I'd do some sort of guest page for TSB, and I'm happy to have made good on that promise! Wanna see what Rising Sand would look like with electricity? This is perhaps the closest you'll ever get.

Read TSB! It's for breakfast now!
Read TSB; it's a cereal! Wow! ✨

✨🪐✨ The Space Between ✨🚀✨ @the-space-between.bsky.social · 20d

Just when you think it's another shitty miserable Wednesday 🌟THE SPACE BETWEEN🌟returns - with a guest page from, who else but, @glitchritual.com of @risingsand.glass fame.

In this week's page, Ferelith and Vexen make their way back to the Wild Wagon.

🌟READ IT HERE🌟

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