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rickyrad.bsky.social
Ricky @classes
@rickyrad.bsky.social
750 followers 2.1K following 590 posts
he/him. 21. Floridian 🪦 (🔜🇸🇪 2Yrs)
Eeepy wolf 💤. micro/macro 🌃.

Anthro + Econ major 📚. flute player 🎶. urbanist 🌆. languages 💬. radical 🏳️‍🌈. trying to art 🥲

Reposts a lot, will be 🔞
DMs open! :D

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You might like this dissertation too:

(Not open access unfortunately 😭, but I have it ;3)
ABSTRACT IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE FURRY FANDOM JESSICA AUSTIN September 2018
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Fursuit head in progress! (Again… this is my 4th attempt at a head base lol)
My foam head base at 3/4 view. Lit from the side just off camera from a desk lamp. You can see numbers and labels all over the foam.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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also played the Finale "Make our Garden Grow" the next year. Was a very touching piece. Really resonated with the original lyrics too:
[CANDIDE, spoken] No, we won't think noble because we're not noble. We won't live in beautiful harmony because there's no such thing in this world nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth. Marry me, Cunegonde. [CUNEGONDE & CANDIDE] We're neither pure nor wise nor good We'll do the best we know We'll build house, and chop our wood And make our garden grow And make our garden grow
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Evolution of my sketchbook pages across the past three years… incidentally enough, not a whole lotta actual art T^T

Mostly me just ranting off about how much it sucks for me to draw, and my strategies for (potentially) improving… So yeah, have a piece of my mind! 🥲
Sketchbook layout of mostly pencils sketches of furry hand studies, in a sea of ballpoint pen hashes and scribbled notes everywhere with sticky notes plotted throughout. The date ranges within 2022. Sketchbook layout of some breakdown studies from artists I’ve followed, plus some leg anatomy studies. There’s now some colored highlights throughout, and pink sticky notes used. Still a lot of writing of me going off incessantly about my bad art TwT. The date ranges within early 2024. Some drawing of incomplete paws and a hand. The rest is splashed with texts and colored highlights and pen markings, along with multiple colored stick notes. A whole page composes entirely of writing… because my brain won’t shut up ;-;). The date ranges within 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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It’s so funny when I wholeheartedly disagree with a textbook, of which wholeheartedly disagrees with current politics lmao

(Also this aged like milk big time lol)
ECONOMICS IN THE NEWS “The U.S.-China Trade War” Former President Trump imposed tariffs on some imports from China. (Source: Microeconomics, 14e. Michael Parkin)
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
(The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas) “This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.” —Ursula K Le Guin
October 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Cat blank staring at camera “Not arguing with anyone under 5’5 whatever you say labubu”
September 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Decided to go on a “lil” river walk at a request of a certain lil noodle~ (you know who you are ;3)
Paw prints all over Boston’s Seaport. Water fills the craters closest to the water.
September 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Reminding me of this scene from PowerPuff Girls

Same logic xD
September 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Just wanted to doodle something while chilling in the room. Wasn’t supposed to take me 4 hours, but alas! Might’ve gone crazy with the filters, but I just wanted something cool and be done with this lol.

Now I must sleep for Megaplex! 🫠💤💤
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Megaplex, I am *ON you <:3c 🌃
Macro Ricky leaning on the Hyatt Regency Hotel at Megaplex. He’s looking towards the viewer, almost smirking. The vibe is cozy, almost… nostalgic? Idk I was just playing with filters and ended up with a lot of depths of field effects lol.
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Post-modern concrete landscape?? Megaplex, I am in you!!! >:3 🐾🌃
View from Rosen Plaza, looking out at the Hyatt Regency hotel. It’s dark out, city lights everywhere.
August 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Size difference be like
Two massive silver sousaphones laid down on astroturf with a smol piccolo in between. (Taken during marching band practice on water break lol)
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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😈😈😈

Better watch out~ hehehee~
“666 followers”
August 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Okay, I was wondering what was happening. Glad my suspicions of it being hacked are confirmed 😭

Your account randomly followed and DMed me. And I was so confused. Blocked right away. Sorry that happened to you though, went thru something similar. 😰
DMs from the hacked account, @hexaina666. “Hello, are you busy? I know it's a little awkward, but I have something important to tell you.” 5:11 AM “Huh? What is it?” 6:38 AM
August 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Took just 50 hrs this time!… across 8 months… 😭😭

Yeah, was trying to be more experimental and strategic with techniques this time. Shading was a beast, and usually that’s my strongest skillset. The last 0.5 second does no justice… 😵‍💫🥲
July 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Pondering.
Dark, late evening, mid-horizon, aerial setting with city lights sprawled across the scene. Macro Ricky is in a sitting, hugging knee, pose. He is staring down at the city, looking ponderously.
July 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Oh hell yeah!! >;3
Luv to see the glutamate number!
621 Followers!
July 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Feeling smol between two giants? So me~ x3

Time to start off Anthrocon @@
Small building packed between two high rises in downtown Pittsburgh
July 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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(This took forever to rehearse lol)
June 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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TAIL FINISHED!!!
My fursuit tail.
June 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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They’re modeled after the real thing in Atlanta xD
June 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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@ktqtpi.bsky.social to stomp your traffic problems out!

🚗 @milobarks.bsky.social
📸 Me
June 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I was also wondering why SkyScraper followers export seemed to have been frozen, and now I know why! Those extra 90 accounts were either blocked, or just became a ghost ,w'
Screenshot of "BLUESKY FOLLOW EXPORT". Consists of a loading bar, stuck at 83%, with a number of 461 followers available for download to Excel.
May 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Found a cheap way to check the real number of followers you have

Scroll all the way down your followers page, then just CTRL+F “Follows You”, and then you’ll get your actual follower count

Gotten and blocked alotta bot accounts lately, but the count doesn’t reflect that

So I was curious! ^^
Screenshot of using CTRL+F in searching “Follows You” to find real followers count. Written follower count: 549 Actual count: 461
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM