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Ripley LaCross

@ripleylacross.bsky.social

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(they/he) Cartoonist, Illustrator, gender rebel, and cryptid. Oh Joy Sex Toy, the Hiker Trash Dictionary, It's Always Something, and other TTRPG nonsense. PDX - @Helioscope Links: https://ripleylacross.carrd.co/ | #art | #comic | #originalcharacter |

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · Feb 7

Hey hey, I'm Ripley! Cartoonist and illustrator drawing all sorts of ttrpg nonsense, sex-ed comics, and the occasional smut.

Links: ripleylacross.carrd.co

Redraw of a meme. Two panel comic, Ash sits in a candle-adorned chair in Telbin's magical mansion library. #art Art by Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross

Panel 1: Ash is looking over a large book.
Text: "...Right. You can't just go librum incinderae and expect--"

Panel 2: Same as before, but the book is now on fire. His cigerette is on fire. The candles on the chair are torches.
Ash looks somewhere between shocked and dumbfounded.

Updated concept art for Cricket. Less nervous, more serious, more vicious. Running with vigor. Slashing with twin, bloody knives. Laying on the ground in his own blood clutching his chest and staring incredulously at an unknown attacker. #art Art by Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross

Portrait of a Scoundrel’s Bedroom, 2022
Blue and gold isometric illustration of a run-down fantasy bedroom, complete with hammock, loaded chest, daggers on a barrel, and a bright window casting warm light into the space. #art Art by Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross

Swordtember 2022 illustration. A black woman with ringlet hair crouches on one knee with a hissing sword crusted with ice, ready to strike.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 44m

Patrons just got a collection of tiny watercolor paintings from my trip around Mt. Hood on the Timberline Trail! #art #patreon

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 5h

Hnnggg

Rosemary Travale @travale.bsky.social · 6h

The satisfying sounds of a good tape peel

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

He got PEOPLE TEETH

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 1d

Money, too.

Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Jan 7

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

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BRUZZESE✸ @bruzzeseonline.bsky.social · 2d

No social media space since the invention of the smart phone is a haven. They're labs for commerce. Go hang out in your friend's shitty apartment.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I have done a small amount of adventuring. Supernatural? Nah, the real and natural are far more interesting.

A black and white photograph of myself standing atop Eagle Rock in southern California, a large rock formation that looks like an eagle with widespread wings.

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Mt Hood is a very good place to wander if you ever get to Oregon!

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

What a whole ass mood. We were never free from toxic beauty standards!

Even though I love just looking like Some Guy™️ these days, part of me always returns to "This isn't what I was told to expect."

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, had I the equipment I could be in the Sleep Sounds business. Got this video just the other day.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

I wish Rain on Tent sounds didn't give me anxiety hahaha even if I'm in my real bed my brain is running in circles like: You gotta figure out how to stay WARM and DRY and how to PACK UP THIS WET TENT while not soaking all of your STUFF.

I'll just take regular Rain sounds, no tent need apply 🤪

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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)

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I'm back.

Selfie of myself standing in front of a wooden MT HOOD WILDERNESS - MT HOOD NATIONAL FOREST sign on a tree. The sun is shining and I'm a little sunburnt after 3 days on the mountain.

Photograph of Mt Hood/Wy'east's eastern flank against a rich blue sky, still dusted with fresh snow. Alpine shrubs and grasses roll in the foreground.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 4d

Art vs Artist

A sketchy digital illustration of a man with short, cropped hair sitting on a church altar before a glowing stained glass window. He's sitting with his chin on an upturned palm and his other hand hanging between his legs with a sharp blade. He's wearing a dark red trench coat, fingerless gloves, and a long trail of smoke snakes upward from the cigarette dangling from his lips.

The stained glass window features the symbol of Lathander, the God of New Beginnings in the Forgotten Realms. #art @RipleyLaCross

Mirror photograph of myself standing on a dim, warmly lit room, dressed in all black wearing my battle vest, fishnet tanktop, harness, and wide rimmed hat.

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 1d

And yes: this means people who aren't American too. You should be asking your politicians why American companies have so much power and sway over what you can do with your money and what you can view online!

Also, a lot of countries outside of the USA are trying to do ID laws and other Spyware.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 1d

No more people telling me they aren't sure if their voice matters in this fight.

Every politician should be working for you and be willing to listen to your thoughts, no matter how silly they may seem.

Stop worry about your image and start acting now.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I'm back.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 4d

See yall on a few days.

Selfie of Ripley, in backpacking gear, holding up a peace sign in front of a Pacific Crest Trail junction sign.

Photograph of Mt Hood/Wy'east, dusted on fresh snow, partially hidden behind clouds.

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 4d

Do tell! 👀

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 4d

Art vs Artist

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Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 5d

Idk, this was pretty big, sounded way to deep to be a drone.

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 5d

See, I knew that's what I saw. Slowly passed over SE around 11pm, the weirdest light pattern I ever saw under a chopper, and it wasn't registered on ADS...

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao yeah the extent of my fandom interaction is Stardew Valley and even then I'm just kind of... BEYOND the outskirts of it, throwing my crumpled up balls of fanart toward the fringes.

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 5d

They're not even hiding it anymore, and yet the media and people who have power to change things are acting blind.

Ripley LaCross @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not going to have free art time until next week, but...

a man in a bathroom with the words " and if you 're interested you 'll know where to find me " below him

ALT: a man in a bathroom with the words " and if you 're interested you 'll know where to find me " below him

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