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Raeliyah / Sam
@milvusrae.bsky.social
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She of many names. Art/SCA/Personal account.

Regalis dei Falchi, Unser Hafen, Outlands. 🦌👑🌿

See @milvusscribe for the author stuff.

https://linktr.ee/Milvusrae
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All of these games go SO hard. I play tested Cosmic Century Knights and it's genuinely one of my new favorite games for the character building mechanics alone. Back this one. Strong vouch.
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
Alaskan bird painted on an Alaska cruise #oceaniariviera #oceaniacruises #stellersseaeagle
A small watercolor of a mature Steller's Sea Eagle with the white forehead, shoulder, and tail feathers. It is perched on a weathered branch against a blue sky.
August 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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It's on the website now so I guess I can scream about it: my extremely awesome husband was invited to be Science Guest of Honor at COSine next January!!!

I'm so proud of him, and he's thrilled! Get ready for some Very Enthusiastic Science!!

www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Josiah with a life size model of his favorite "dinosaur", the Quetzalcoatlus. Josiah is reaching up to touch the model's keel bone: he is nearly as tall as its shoulders.
April 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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milvusrae.bsky.social
I just liked painting a raven 🤷
A small gouache painting (6x8) of a raven perched on a grapevine with leaves and fruit, against a purple and yellow sunset sky
March 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
I just liked painting a raven 🤷
A small gouache painting (6x8) of a raven perched on a grapevine with leaves and fruit, against a purple and yellow sunset sky
March 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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definitelyvita.bsky.social
People are always askin what they can do so here we go
February 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND!!!!!!!! @pringusmcdingus.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.

A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.

Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.

They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.
Claude Cahun with hearts on their face and I AM IN TRAINING DON'T KISS ME shirt
February 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
Josiah thinks I should call this one "God's kitchen window"
A watercolor illustration: a round geometric stained glass window like form in gold over a star field/nebula like background with blues, reds, and greens.
February 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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milvusrae.bsky.social
I forgot how much I love colored pencils some times. This is done.
February 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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milvusscribe.bsky.social
Decided on a flame lynx point 🤷 but this nebula kitty is finished
February 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
milvusrae.bsky.social
Portraits are hard. Why do people have such faces??

Anyway. Sketch of gift art for my neighboring Baron & Baroness because they're awesome and also got me a lovely thoughtful Midwinter gift & I want to do something lovely for them in return. (If you know the Righ Tuatha in question, shhhhh)
A pencil sketch with vertical, horizontal, & diagonal reference lines of a couple in the middle of a dance, gazing adoringly into each other's eyes. It is from approximately the waist up, and on 6x8 paper with 3/4” margins.
February 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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elisabethalba.bsky.social
Quote re-post with yer wings
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Quote repost with yer wings!!
A colored pencil illustration of a gray lightning-trailing eagle against thunderstorm clouds and a pale blue-gray sky. A gouache illustration of a white fork-tailed hummingbird against a low sun; the tail forming a parhelion around the sun. The hummingbird has rainbow iridescence on its wings, tail, and head.
February 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
milvusrae.bsky.social
More random acts of art. Work in Progress - my only excuse for this was I had old seasons of "Outback Opal Hunters" on in the background while I worked on another project.
A watercolor & colored pencil illustration of a desert canyon at night - where a galaxy band would normally be in a night sky is instead veins of black opal with lots of rainbow flash. The foreground and parts of the opal veins are still unfinished.
February 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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milvusscribe.bsky.social
Ok what color should the cat be, y'all?
I was thinking lynx point? 🤔 What do y'all think?
A colored pencil drawing, same as the one in the post up-thread, but more vibrant with more layers of pencil. There's thin threads of black like nebula or lightning in amongst the pinks and purples and blues of the swirls. The cat is still blank and uncolored.
February 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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dreamstobecome.bsky.social
What if you ran away to the countryside and discovered your society crush is the heir to a secret fey family and you have to fight off their other suitors to secure the marriage??? 😳🫣
ericfarmer.bsky.social Eric Farmer wrote half of Sword Opera @ericfarmer.bsky.social · Feb 4
What if we kissed by the seaside? 💋

Or, what if we fought with swords instead? ⚔️

Check out Sword Opera, the #ttrpg of melodramatic action! Featuring the art of @nightjargames.bsky.social (featured below) and @cesious.blue - so you know the drip is incredible.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...
A line and ink drawing, but the shading is in green. We see two sword wielding duelists standing below an Italian style castle at the sea's edge. The duelist on the right is bearded, with a sword in his right hand and a gauntlet on his left. He is standing with an open posture, as if taunting the other duelist. His opponent is completely covered, with a tall, pointed cap and a half length cape. They are holding 2 swords. At the bottom of the image is a logo for the game: Sword Opera, an RPG of melodrama and violence. This text and a pair of drama masks with a sword through the mouth. All of this is over a paint-like stroke over the bottom third. Art by Galen Pejeau
February 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
milvusrae.bsky.social
Today's art progress
I forgot to take a "before" pic but it was linework and the white lightning and a little shading on the leading edge of the wings.

I dunno what the lighting is doing with the clouds but it's cool I guess
A drawing of a grayscale eagle trailing lightning across a cloudscape, on toned tan paper held to a board with pink masking tape. It is unfinished, the clouds to the left of (behind) the eagle only barely suggested.
February 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
Birb
A small 2.5 inch by 3.5 inch watercolor portrait of a ferruginous hawk against a very blue sky.
February 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Hey Bluesky, things are continuing to be dicey here in the Mingault household. My partner is still job hunting.

If anyone has any leads on a #bioinformatics or #datascience position for a PhD, preferably in #Colorado or remote, I would be very grateful.

Here's his resume:
josiahseaman.com
Josiah Seaman
Bioinformatician specializing in Data Visualization
josiahseaman.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
milvusrae.bsky.social
One of the things I do for #mySCA kingdom (or really just anyone who asks) is make magnetic name badges.

I got the idea from an SCA #ScribalArt discord, & started w/ people teaching at or in charge of our Newcomers event.

& it kinda spiralled from there 😅

here's some examples of ones I've done
The most recent batch of badges - painted but not yet sealed or backed. A big batch of name tags, completed. Some have ribbons attached declaring titles or officer roles. One I did special: instead of painted white first, it is stained a light walnut color, and then the letters are painted on top of that. It was finished with bails so it could be hung on a ribbon instead of magnet pinned. The first batch I did for teachers at our Newcomers event, to make it as Newcomer friendly as possible. There are labels out ribbons with titles or roles on some of them.
January 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
I get to play #exalted again this weekend for the first time in a _while_ so get an art dump of characters
A chibi-fied lineup of almost all my exalted characters, 12 of them, with appropriate height scaling. Qismet, on the left, is the shortest guy, and Kallias, on the right, the tallest. A black & white & gold pencil and ink drawing of my three Zenith caste Solar exalted. Pyrrhus is top center, his hands clasped in prayer. Sneak, at bottom right, holds her artifact spear. Zaela, at bottom left, smiles shyly from beneath her crown. Cover art for my fan novel, Quickburned. At the right of the image, backlit by a desert mountain sunset, is the dawn caste Solar, Caleb Wraith. He is dressed in desaturated blues in a vaguely 1880s cowboy style: waistcoat and shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a large gold buckle just barely visible. There are orichalcum gold "pistols" at his hips, and a "rifle" resting on his shoulder. A red scarf is draped around his neck, and he looks off to the right contemplatively.
January 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
#mySCA #Outlands #ScribalArt I always forget the hashtags
milvusrae.bsky.social Raeliyah / Sam @milvusrae.bsky.social · Jan 8
I'll post a proper write up with better pictures on my SCA blog when this is actually complete, but here's the scroll I've been working on for the last few months. I did not finish by the deadline due to being fiercely attacked by life, but it was in a presentable state.
For Andreas' MoD elevation:
An award scroll for the SCA - a peerage elevation. The top half is a great many small figures surrounding the recipient's heraldry. There are creatures for the supporters, important people from his life, meaningful figures from his fencing history (eg from historical fencing manuals), and the heraldry of the places he's lived. The bottom of the illustrated half has a scene of the recipient fencing with a crowd of people, including his friends and family, watching. The bottom of the image is very tiny black letter calligraphy of the German translation of the text of his award (based off language of historical fencing masters being recognized by their schools and guilds)
January 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
milvusrae.bsky.social
I'll post a proper write up with better pictures on my SCA blog when this is actually complete, but here's the scroll I've been working on for the last few months. I did not finish by the deadline due to being fiercely attacked by life, but it was in a presentable state.
For Andreas' MoD elevation:
An award scroll for the SCA - a peerage elevation. The top half is a great many small figures surrounding the recipient's heraldry. There are creatures for the supporters, important people from his life, meaningful figures from his fencing history (eg from historical fencing manuals), and the heraldry of the places he's lived. The bottom of the illustrated half has a scene of the recipient fencing with a crowd of people, including his friends and family, watching. The bottom of the image is very tiny black letter calligraphy of the German translation of the text of his award (based off language of historical fencing masters being recognized by their schools and guilds)
January 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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New followers! #birds feed!

Here's my starter pack for good wings so far.

I haven't had the energy to go seek out new artists lately, but if you (or someone you know) can draw an anatomically accurate wing (regardless of skill level), send suggestions :)

go.bsky.app/Kz5iVLd
November 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM