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Rye Zuul

@ryezuul.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, editor, reviewer, pet appreciator from Manchester. Commissions, editing services available at [email protected]. https://patreon.com/RyeZuul https://ryezuul.substack.com/ SFF, horror, occultism, religion, philosophy. Any pronouns. 🖤

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Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · Jun 16

Whoa, I have 2k followers, cheers everybody!

Probably time for me to do an #artshare - MONSTERS, Satanism, occultism and the GOTHIC please! Introduce yoselves, post, repost, comment and like if you have the energy. :)

I am sure you know the drill; #noAI #nonft #art - be edgy & sexy but SFW-ish

A city god i saw in a dream, watercolour/mixed media, A4

Baphomet as I saw her in a dream, digital, Procreate

The Doom Slayer, knee deep in the dead, gouache on black paper, A4

Sephiroth, inks and watercolours, A4

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 28m

Cybermemetic brain worms, atrophying your creativity as a service.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 22h

Iain Watkins murdered in prison.

Kash Patel rules it a suicide.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 23h

It was a motion photo and I can't seem to choose different frames right now.

This is one of the frames which I had to screenshot lol.

Pretty little bugman.

#cat #caturday

The same Bengal in the sunshine but with more face showing.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 1d

Took our Bengal boy out into the garden today for a play in the October sunshine.

#cat
#caturday

A Bengal cat on a wooden bridge in a ray of sunshine

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 1d

No worries, I realised and didn't want people thinking she was already gone and making me feel like a fraud. It comes in waves. Right now we are snuggling up and watching trash.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 1d

She's not gone yet, but it feels like it's soon.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I probably misread. I should finish setting up the Etsy first

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 1d

Nice! Hey, am I in this list, or could I be? 😊

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keert.bsky.social @keert.bsky.social · 1d

Our merch shop has these and more!
keert.teemill.com/product/carg...

Profits from sales help fund our community not-for-profit work, the t-shirt is made from recycled t-shirts and can be returned for credit at the end of life

#CargoBike #IsleOfWight #CircularEconomy #Virgo

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Kerrith 🇨🇦 Killustration Studios! 🎨 VGEN IS LIVE!!! @killustration.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday to me! 🎂

As is social media convention, I humbly ask for reposts to spread my work to be shared with others!😀

🇨🇦 Hi I'm, Kerrith of Killustration Studios!

❤️ #Comics, #OCs!

vGen Store: vgen.co/Killustratio...

Inprnt: www.inprnt.com/profile/kis/

🔗🌲: linktr.ee/KerrithJohnson

Acceleratrix Portrait
A Woman stands in front of a starfield and slightly smiles.

5hr 34min

Program: Clip Studio Paint

Brush: Houston Sharp Oil Thick Paint Brush
🐰 🪐

DnD TTRPG - Portraits - Knights

A Tiefling Knight readies her blade!

3h 46min

Program: Clip Studio Paint

BG Brushes:
Houston Sharp
CLOUDS - cloud softest

Clouds
Thick Wispy Clouds
Textured Fluffy Clouds

Devin Elle Kurtz
Distant Grass Block in
Grass Block in Softer

Hair 34
Hair 40

effects - air particles
texture - dots - ash

Brush: Houston Sharp Oil Thick Paint Brush
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Galactic Heroes Comic Character Bio Info
Written by: Nire aka Acceleratrix
Code Name: Solguard
Real Name: JJ Gladwyn
Age: 16
Powers: Solar Manipulation
Home Planet: Earth
Species: Human

Bio: A cadet in the Earth Alliance Academy, JJ followed in his brother Grant’s (H2O) footsteps to join the group of explorers! Now with the coming threat to Earth, he’s become the Solar Sentinel of the Starways: Solguard of the Galactic Heroes!

Comic: Galactic Heroes by Kerrith Johnson of Killustration Studios
🐰 🪐

DnD TTRPG - Portraits - Knights
A Kenku Knight is excited to doubly strike!

4h

Program: Clip Studio Paint

Brushes
Houston Sharp oil thick brush

🐰

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 2d

Got this t-shirt in the post today from @keert.bsky.social - it looks so good in person and I cracked up at my joke for British millennials of a certain age.
#art #commission #merch

A picture of John Virgo in a cargo bike basket.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever make this into a film or series, can I request this character be played by Julian from Trailer Park Boys?

a man with a beard is sitting in front of a picture

ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in front of a picture

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 2d

Crummock Water reflections

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 3d

Before you DM me, just know I look like this

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the tag!

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the #artshare ! I'm Rye, a traditional and digital artist and I draw and paint and ink a mixture of fan arts and #OCs. 🖤

#tradart
#art
#fanart

A living fabric man, digital

Lilith from Diablo 4, acrylic inks

Psylocke from X-Men, multimedia

Samurai water witch, watercolour and gouache

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 3d

My scalp was itching, as if an angel was whispering to it.

I look up and see this.

Am I going to die tonight, BlueSky?

#cat #caturday #spoopy

BIG CAT FACE

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 4d

Oh you've seen everything? What about a cat hugging his own legs?

#cat #caturday

A savannah-Bengal cross hugging his extra long feet

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 4d

Full broadside from kurzgesagt on Generative AI, the great cultural cancer.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 5d

Actually I would say to my past self that the fire is fire and I doubt I could do much better fire today. 🔥🔥🔥

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 5d

Show me how you draw armour! 🛡️

(This is one of my first ever digital artworks from a couple of years ago so it's not very good - but I think the armour rendering is pretty cool!)

A Satanic Valkyrie in a frozen Hellscape.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 5d

I actually do use the following enough to potentially be a legal problem:

"Sorry, I don't speak nonce."

CNBC @cnbc.com · 6d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 5d

"I am so fucking horny."

CNBC @cnbc.com · 6d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social · 27d

I declare my Lilith #WIP #painting finished!

Very pleased with how it turned out.

Just need to sort out a frame now and give it to my mate.

#art #diablo #tradart #acrylic #inks #fanart

Lilith from Diablo 4 in acrylic inks