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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing)

@queerwizard.co.uk

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Illustrator and cartographer. DnD 4E Apologist and Old School nerd. I'll make stuff for your game if you ask nicely. Welsh grrl in Scotland (She/Her) 💼: http://queerwizard.co.uk 📧: [email protected] 🎲: https://queer-wizard.itch.io

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · Sep 1

Hi #TTRPG #OSR #DnD friends - I am looking for cartography/illustration work in September/October! If you're looking for maps for your adventure module, or for your home game, send me an email at [email protected]!

My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 14h

I'm gonna fucking kill myself I sent a flirty text message but ended the sentence with a preposition

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 20h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

I made myself spooky - for Spookowe’en

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

Armour! 𐃃⛨

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Was there ever a Smart Glasses Lash in the first place, though?

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 2d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 1d

Working on something grungy 👀 #WIP

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 3d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3d

It’s real

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 3d

The cis DnD 5E player to transfem OSR Nerd pipeline

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 4d

I actually cannot wait.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 4d

Semi-successful bookstore visit

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 4d

this is such an enormous mood haha

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 5d

Insomnia fucking sucks

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 5d

Art vs Artist

#cartography #ttrpg

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 5d

I think it's a crime that Christmas has approximately thirteen million songs and Hallowe'en only gets one. Admittedly, it's a banger, but still.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 5d

Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.

**"I'll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry - worry that I wasn't quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn't live up to my mother's hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude."**
My life didn't quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily - on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions - but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn't quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with - Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people's living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks.
It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian - not for work, but so l could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage - something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I'm learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter - though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
**I'm writing this to tell you something simple:**
**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter - if you let yourself bloom again.**
Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.
You don't need to be famous. Y…

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Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · Aug 12

The Water Thief, caught

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 5d

The greatest horror movie ever made would not be allowed under these restraints

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 7d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 6d

I'm not kidding I don't think I remember any written I've of horror I've ever read that could be submitted to this

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 7d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 5d

Happy Friday y’all

Ripley Matthews (Transfem Vampire Art Thing) @queerwizard.co.uk · 6d

Green - it contrasts much better with the reds.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 7d

rolling into october...