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do you like magic? sci-fi fantasy? original comics and illustration featuring SUPER gay original characters? then you're in the right place!

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🚫 AI, CRYPTO, NFTs 🚫

Links: https://artistic-menace.carrd.co
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#art #intro
hello out there, I'm Ripley, and I'm a queer digital illustrator and fiction writer!

- I primarily draw/write abt my own projects (limited fan art)
- this page DOES contain NSFW 🔞 but it's not a focus
- I am NOT currently open for comms
- this is not my job it is my passion - I LOVE stortelling!!
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them.

Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”
December 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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doing research is half the fun of world building and writing!
regardless of fiction or stories with a historical framework

if you don't do the research, or half ass the research (gAI is half-assing it. full stop.) then you get at best ahistorical nonsense, or worse, straight up lies.
There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
December 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I am... very tempted to add a few short stories to the Patreon queue I started.

I have stuff from early FA, the NYE 2053 blurb, some random excerpts from the 1980s/90s of FA that I need to edit still, and a complete 3-part thing about how Talis and Ev (start to) get together.

I could do it....
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
ooo also forgot about my redbubble, please consider buying cool pronoun shit from it to support a small queer artist this season :)

www.redbubble.com/people/Artfu...
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
lowkey forgot I made this hahahaha
I finished another thing! I haven’t properly drawn Nathan in a long time, so this was good to do.

(also I was focused on him, not the bg okay)

#art #illustration #oc
December 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I've been very offline recently because of work, but here's a small Patreon update!

www.patreon.com/posts/decemb...
december update | Broken Dimensions
Get more from Broken Dimensions on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Reading only first and last chapters #oilpainting #art
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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In Illinois, ICE agents have been documented swapping license plates to hide their identity. Under Illinois law, this constitutes a Class A misdemeanor.

The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Sun Dogs
December 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Sorry for using comics and art to vent and cope with the world changing around me. I will return to drawing whimsical and silly frog wizards and adventures.
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Sighted users often use bold or large fonts to create the appearance of headings in documents. People using screen readers have no way of understanding these visual cues. Use heading styles from the styles menu to correctly format headings.
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This is a very divided vote. It means we've been encouraging dissent. It now goes to the full committee. Please keep calling and urging your reps to reject it
KOSA passed out of the subcommittee in the House on 13-10 vote. Meaning that they are FINALLY listening to some opposition. But not enough to prevent the other age verification bills from passing, let alone this.

They MUST listen to opposition. Losing this fight is NOT an option.
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HOW SMALL HE IS BEING
Holy crap....this is a Pumpkin toadlet and it is the best
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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You don't necessarily want to use the exact same alt text each time a specific image is used. Alt text must consider the context of the image and why it's being included on a site, post, article, etc. In other words, alt text depends on where you're including the image and why.
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
something I haven’t been doing much lately in my work (that doesn’t really mean much because I’m not working on or finishing anything truly polished) is focusing on the composition of a given piece
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I finished another thing! I haven’t properly drawn Nathan in a long time, so this was good to do.

(also I was focused on him, not the bg okay)

#art #illustration #oc
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
haven’t drawn any of the Eagriss siblings in a long while, so here’s a sketch of Ciar I did some color experimentation on

#oc #brokendimensions #art #digitalart
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM