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Ross Hopkins, Commissions Open
@rasputinzero.bsky.social
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Writer, artist, creator of the webcomic "String," Londoner, malnourished leftie and kind of a crank. He/him until such a time as I get bored with heteronormativity. LLMs? Git tae f- Taking commissions at: https://rosshopkins.co.uk
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Ross Hopkins, Commissions Open @rasputinzero.bsky.social · Aug 17
Hey doods! Sending the word out that I'm a comic writer and artist available for commission or hire via Etsy, Ko-Fi or my own website.

rosshopkins.co.uk

I do pages! Prints! Character portraits! Infographics! Writing! Proofreading! Whatever creative services you need, I'm happy to supply.
My business card, featuring characters from my various stories and the styles they're drawn in from the moody to the colourful, still sticking close to a Quentin-Blake-meets-Tank-Girl aesthetic. From left to right: Varvi Dusek, Czech-Jewish modernist painter from 1930s Prague who's also a sleuth. Kyte, Prince Nadeen and Amrita, reincarnations of Hindu gods thwarting the machinations of the East India Company. Nancy Brilligan and Simar Qareen, fearless defenders of relativity against the malign forces of randomness plaguing modern London. Nada, a work-for-hire adventurer in a meta-fantasy world with her pixie minder, Seon. And last but not least my darling niece Rosie in a whimsical fantasy of her own holding aloft Twig, a loveable mascot character. Front cover of Monty Oaks Detective Squad Issue One, featuring young versions of the tiny detective trio investigating a tomb and their older selves bickering with each other. The Ditz, The Cool and The Brains are the little tykes in the front row. The Failure, The Bully and The Princess are their hormonal teenage versions in the back row. The main characters of "String", an urban fantasy web comic. Nancy Brilligan, Fearless Defender of Relativity against The Malign Forces of Randomness, monitoring London for quantum threats with her trusty instrument, her cricket bat, and the talents of Simar Qareen, her kid sidekick/kidnap viction blessed (or cursed) with strange violin powers. My FFXIV OCs, Rain Draconis and No'zaya Storm, joining in the main cast of Stormblood in a stirring rendition of The Measure of His Reach. Rain is getting really into the part.
rasputinzero.bsky.social
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, at first I was afraid, then I was Petrified.

stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
String - Chapter 8 - Page 068
Nancy and Si try the best they can merely to evade Alice's attacks, but it's a losing battle against a musician this skilled.
stringcomic.co.uk
February 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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unsounded.bsky.social
Lots of pages today, keep clicking forward. The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p20-23 posted!
www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...
February 20, 2026 at 5:04 AM
rasputinzero.bsky.social
Wait, people are only finding this out now?
rasputinzero.bsky.social Ross Hopkins, Commissions Open @rasputinzero.bsky.social · Dec 30
Same voice actor?

Same voice actor.

#ffxivspoilers
Benedikta Harman from Final Fantasy XVI facing down Halmarut from Final Fantasy XIV patch 7.4. MSQ spoilers ahoy. Benedikta: 'You're such a stunted infant it upsets me to look at you.' Halmarut: '...I'm so much older than you by crazy orders of magnitude?'
February 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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unsounded.bsky.social
The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p19 posted!
www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...
February 18, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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tiredparasite.bsky.social
#ffxiv the lumullings
February 18, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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jim.londoncentric.media
Love this so much, especially the juxtaposition of English folklore paths with an Amazon spokesperson going out of their way to deny a person driving their branded vehicle is an employee.
February 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
rasputinzero.bsky.social
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, not the department store!

stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
String - Chapter 8 - Page 067
The battle between Alice and the Defenders of Relativity ratchets up a notch, inflicting massive damage on Buchanan Street.
stringcomic.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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psudonym.bsky.social
Hey.

It's Penelo from Final Fantasy 12. Hi Penelo.
penelo from Final Fantasy 12.
February 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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secase.bsky.social
UPDATE: Rigsby WI chapter 4 page 223

Rigsbywi.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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unsounded.bsky.social
The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p18 posted!
www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...
February 16, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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badsocialism.bsky.social
The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
jeffstormer.gobirds.online Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 11d
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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millmint.net
hemingway on tape
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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shenpai.gay
Here is the Endwalker Finale Comic for Vul
February 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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millmint.net
recess dialectics
February 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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cadaverdave.com
Knights of Guinevere officially has the greenlight, folks!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oC8...
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE ANNOUNCEMENT
YouTube video by GLITCH
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February 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
Actually it's going to collapse because there's no profit model and it requires unGodly amounts of resources and cost to operate.
ariehkovler.com Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 8d
The predominent anti-AI position on bsky is that AI is useless, fake, shit and basically the same as NFTs, destined to collapse in months once everyone sees how poor it is. So anyone who suggests that it could improve or be useful to any boss in any situation in the future must be evil.
February 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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jacktindale.bsky.social
This is Peak Late Noughties Anime. You will never be as classy at this.

youtu.be/4pdqeu9LW2c?...
[Eng Sub - Higashi no Eden (東のエデン) Op] Oasis - Falling Down
YouTube video by krazywrath
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
rasputinzero.bsky.social
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, the queen ascends.

stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
February 13, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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unsounded.bsky.social
The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p17 posted!
www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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coneshotline.bsky.social
keir starmer waiting for the may elections
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
rasputinzero.bsky.social
Something I've seen over and over again with LLMs is people going "I guess it's fine if it's replacing grunt work in *insert area I'm unfamiliar with here* but there's basic practical stuff it's incapable of in *insert area I'm familiar with here*", it's the God Of The Gaps except with the economy.
badsocialism.bsky.social John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 7d
They clearly haven't thought it through: at a personal level it's very, very clear that no AI guru/etc has any idea what a historian actually does when they talk about AI in my own sphere
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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unsounded.bsky.social
The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p16 posted!
www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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malacandrax.bsky.social
Obscure titanic fanart in this day and age? More likely than you think.
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So. What if there was no Jack?
February 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
rasputinzero.bsky.social
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, if you'd kept practicing, Si, maybe you'd be floating too.

stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
String - Chapter 8 - Page 065
Carol does not brook any interference in her revenge scheme, which Lewis takes pains to remind Rab Q about.
stringcomic.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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unsounded.bsky.social
The Red Cost, Chapter 01, p15 posted!
www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/Th...
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 AM