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Ryan “TK” Cicak

@ryantk.bsky.social

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California-based Artist, Writer, and Performer. Cats, Comics, Coffee, Cthulhu. 🚫 AI 🚫 Hate

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Dec 13

Taking a big swing this January on the new apps; the big return of my Monster Mash January Challenge! Please join me in making some art based on 31 of the fiercest femmes in cinema history! I’m a chiller on the challenges; all media welcome (no AI!). I’ll make some low-impact lists, too.

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 2d

7. Ghoul
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawllowernClub2025 #cyberpunk #ghoul

An illustration of a cyberpunk ghoul; a desiccated corpse in silhouette. Neon lights are glowing inside its skeletal frame, while wires and electrical diodes seem to hold it together.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 2d

6. Werewolf.
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Werewolf #CyberpunkWerewolf

A cyberpunk werewolf against a blue circle. The werewolf has glowing tubes and lines at its joints, and metal enhancements on its head and over its eyes.

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Marcia @marciaillust.bsky.social · 3d

curious. anyway,

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5. Forest Sprite
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #ForestSprite

An illustration of a cyberpunk drone against a pink circle. The drone is a sphere with translucent/holographic wings and green lights.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 4d

4. Haunted.
#Haunted #Haunting #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #MabsDrawlloweemClub #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkGhost

An illustration of a man and his ghost. The man is mostly in silhouette, with cyberpunk implants. Behind him is a translucent ghost with digital glitches. They are framed by a green rectangle.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 5d

3. Witch
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Witch #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkWitch

An illustration of a cyberpunk witch; a woman in a beanie and jacket with pink glowing circuitry across her face and vials of magic elixir being pumped into her back. She is silhouetted against a yellow triangle and projecting a black hologram in front of her.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 6d

2. Familiar

#MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #MabsDrawlloweenClub #Drawlloween #Cyberpunk #Familiar

An illustration of a cyberpunk cat, with vials of glowing goo attached to its back and implants on its neck, against an irregular yellow rectangle. Text reads “Familiar”

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 8d

1. Spooky Intro
#MabsDrawlloweenClub2025
#SpookyIntro #Drawtober #Cyberpunk

An illustration of a cyberpunk person, a barcode on their forehead and neck, and tubes coming out of their head.

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Sweeney Boo @sweeneyboo.bsky.social · 16d

Buttercup and Bubbles #powerpuffgirls

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 26d

I still ask that you check out my non social media options to look at my arts. I have a free patreon tier.

Orange cat in the garden. Bubble says “confront and destroy god.”

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 21d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Sep 8

I think about this a lot.

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caitlin🎀 @caitlinfilms.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Was thinking about doing a nice #BrideOfFrankenstein piece for her 90th anniversary!
But which one?
The Stitchwork Girl, my #FolkHorror interpretation?
My years-old guess at what a @realgdt.bsky.social Bride might be?
The classic @universalmonsters version?
Or something new?
Lmk in the comments!

The Stitchwork Girl. A pastoral scene with a wondmill and rolling hills in the background. A woman sits in the foreground in a gauzy shift, stitches apparent at her joints, neck, and chest. Her hair is in a wild beehive, adorned with flowers and full of protruding twigs.

Isabella, my idea of a Bride of Frankenstein in the style of Guillermo del Toro’s #DevilsBackbone and #PansLabyrinth. Jessica Chastain as a woman floating ethereally, though her neck, leg arm, right leg, and feet are flayed to expose her muscle underneath. She wears a floaty dress, tattered by fire and lightning. The right side of her face is an emaciated rictus, her eye socket full with clockwork. Metal bracework adorned with scarabs holds her skinless limbs, and she wears a wooden corset.

A black and white illustration of the classic #UniversalMonsters Bride of Frankenstein, uplift and screeching. #UniversalHorror

The Brides of Frankenstein. Elizabeth and the Bride of Frankenstein locked in a loving embrace. Elizabeth has short blond hair and is dressed in a light top embroidered with flowers. The Bride wears a dark, angular dress with dark floral embroidery.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is why early childhood education in the arts is SO important. It's much easier to develop this when the stakes are low and you'll be praised for your effort rather than the result. So that when you get to age 9-12 and start to care, you'll be juuuust good enough to push through and not stop.

EG ☕ @lzr-mki.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 30

Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later

Jack Newhouse @chirurgic.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is literally every problem

Boomers rant against UBI because they would be getting money from the government they don't need and don't understand that determining whether they need it is more expensive

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kestrel Girl, Mouse Boy

Pencil color texture of a kestrel girl and a mouse boy Playing

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Aug 27

#GetHEXED this Halloween!

Terror Vault's HEXED event trailer, October 2025

YouTube video by Into the Dark Productions LLC

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · Aug 27

Whoa this is one weirdo dinosaur!

Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Aug 26

Current mood is “spitefully persisting.”

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Aug 26

Study of Naya Kotko’s work.

Digital drawing of a woman in a long fur coat, wearing a cowl with bat wing ears.

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Steel Haze @pauloprudente.bsky.social · Aug 22

this came to me in a dream

"MECH DESIGN TRIANGLE"
on the top there is a tank, on the left "monster" and a xenomorph, on the right an angel.
inside the triangle, up top there is a tank legs armored core from gen 5, then below it a wanzer from front mission. below it, to the left, the inital ac from armored core 3. below it stinger's ac. blow it, to the left, the mind beta ac from ac6 using reverse joint legs. to the right, the nineball seraph. to its right, the strike gundam. below it, white glint. to the right of white glint, gundam schwarzette. below schwarzette, to the right, the wing gundam zero. on its left, the exusia from ac5. on its left, a bit up is Kshatriya and a bit down is ac6 CEL. to the left of Kshatriya there's the nachtreiher frame from ac6. below it, to the left, the filial from ac2.
outside of the triangle: between the angel and the tank, a jet plane; between the tank and the monster, a beetle; between the mosnter and the angel, a emoji pointing towards "you"/"the camera", below it, written "the nerd reading this"

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · Aug 20

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:

Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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