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EJ Garand
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Graphic designer and Illustrator. 🚫GenAI/NFTs need not apply. (He/him/his)

https://ericgarcia93.github.io/fid/resume/
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Self-confidence is the better way.
THE VIRGIN SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR VS. THE CHAD ABSURD SELF-CONFIDENCE HUMOR
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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By that reckoning, we earthlings should at least be safe from northern permafrost collapse! 🫠
The risk of climate tipping points is rising rapidly as the world heats up. Estimated range of global heating needed to pass tipping point temperature. Graph provided by a 2022 Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Friendly reminder that politics is NOT a spectator sport that you partake in once every 2-6 years and then deliver color commentary every other day. The capitalist elite know this and the elected officials LIVE this, so issues like the ACA tax credits are something you have to care about well beyond any election cycle and across ALL levels of government that represent YOU. Sincerely, a concerned social democrat stuck inside a deep red state.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Holy crap, it’s Makaku!
Makaku in the Maggot Body as seen in the 3rd chapter of the manga Battle Angel Alita.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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No Mac collection can be declared complete without a boxed copy of one or all Marathon games!
An original 1994 game box for the Mac-exclusive FPS “Marathon” from Bungie Software.
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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First impressions on Ninja Gaiden 4 be like:
Me forgiving Phil Spencer for all the Xbox layoffs, cancellations, and price hikes because he helped to get development for Ninja Gaiden 4 off the ground (it’s the best 3D Ninja Gaiden game in 17 years):
October 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This is what Xbox looked like at its absolute peak:
North American box art for the 2001 video game “Dead or Alive 3” released on Xbox. North American box art for the 2003 video game “Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball” released on Xbox. North American box art of the 2004 video game “Ninja Gaiden” released on Xbox. A cropped photograph of Tomonobu Itagaki giving a thumbs up to the camera during The Ninja Gaiden Master Tournament World Championship at the Tokyo Game Show in 2004.
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Does anime count?
Blu-ray box art for the 2005–2006 anime series 𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘪𝘯: 𝘔ō 𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪 𝘯𝘰 𝘒𝘪𝘮𝘪 𝘦.
October 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Today is the day that the main character of an upcoming historical fiction novel that I hope to write passes away… 😔
A monochromatic photograph of an elderly man with white hair and beard, wearing a neat suit.
October 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Rizz Hayabusa.
A screenshot from the 2005 video game 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 rendered in 1920p resolution. The player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 is sitting cross-legged on a tatami floor holding the Dragon Sword in its scabbard, which he looks at fondly. A screenshot from the 2005 video game 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 rendered in 1920p resolution. The player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 is gently holding a fatigued Ayane, clutching a wooden bow, inside a wooden storehouse. A screenshot from the 2005 video game 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 rendered in 1920p resolution. The player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 is holding an unsheathed Dragon Sword in a striking position, with his back facing a wall of multilayered brickwork and stone foundation. Ryu's ponytail is draped over the left side of his chest. A screenshot from the 2005 video game 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 rendered in 1920p resolution. The player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 is inside Muramasa's Weapons and Tools, where he offers his Dragon Sword to the wizened old blacksmith Muramasa, who is pointing out a hollow insert inside the hilt of the Dragon Sword, where a curved jewel known as the Eye of the Dragon can be fitted inside. Ryu's ponytail appears to be flowing outward, as though a chilly air is flowing through Muramasa's shop.
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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A whole month has gone, and I have updated the shading on what still remains to be the only Pailin fan art online. 🇹🇭🐯

Hopefully she will get more love while I move on to my next piece of vector art! 💕
Siamese resistance fighter and guerrilla leader Pailin Chaladphukhealom, armed with a M91/28 Carcano carbine, sitting atop a large wooden crate with the emblem of the "Tigers" resistance movement painted across the front-facing planks. The background consists of a vertically-aligned flag of Thailand. Siamese resistance fighter and guerrilla leader Pailin Chaladphukhealom, armed with a M91/28 Carcano carbine, sitting atop a large wooden crate with the emblem of the "Tigers" resistance movement painted across the front-facing planks. The background consists of a vertically-aligned flag of Thailand.
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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All this talk about a computer-generated actress makes me wonder whatever happened to Aki Ross???
Aki Ross, the main protagonist of the 2001 animated film 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯.
October 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Give me Monna Haddid over this fake virgin “actress” any day!
A computer-generated woman with crimson red hair lying on a glazed porcelain floor with her behind facing the viewer, wearing only a thin satin thong that barely conceals her anus and vulva.
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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I’ll take Monna Haddid over a non-existent virgin anytime.
A computer-generated woman with crimson red hair lying on a glazed porcelain floor, wearing only a thin satin thong concealing her anus and vulva.
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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What’s your sign?
CAUTION 🐽👀🦏💦 Tapirs Can Spray Backwards 7–10 Feet Please Stay Alert! URINE DANGER
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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October 21st can’t arrive soon enough! 🥷
Key art for the 2025 video game Ninja Gaiden 4 featuring its two protagonists, Yakumo in the foreground, and Ryu Hayabusa in the background.
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I distinctly remember TV commercials from 2015 of f***ing Netanyahu conflating Obama’s Iran nuclear deal with the Holocaust.

AIPAC would be shouting ANTI-SEMITISM at the top of their lungs 24/7 if that had ever come to pass! 🙄
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (by Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff), referring to the Aesop's fable of that name.
September 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Me to all the fascists in America rn:
being a fascist is a submissive trait. what do you wanna give strongmen ultimate power for? to dominate you? slut.
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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FWIW this is the kind of “revolutionary leftists lit” that I read and believe more people should engage with:
The front cover of the 2002 non-fiction book “The Best That Money Can’t Buy” by the American futurist Jacque Fresco.
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Cheers to 20 years of the North American release of the single greatest action video game of the sixth console generation, 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸!! 🥷🎂
The front cover of the North American release of the 2005 video game 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸. Beneath the game title, the cover features a 3D-rendered bust of the player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 clad in his Legendary Black Falcon suit, with red flames rising in the background. A screenshot of the 2005 video game 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 rendered in 1920p widescreen resolution. The player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 is seen battling a trio of Bast Fiends inside an Underground Sanctuary, with one Bast Fiend engaged in a grapple attack, wrapping her claws around Ryu's neck. A screenshot of the 2005 video game 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 rendered in 1920p widescreen resolution. The player character 𝘙𝘺𝘶 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢 is seen inside a sewer tunnel decapitating a Crow Shadow Fiend using the Flying Swallow technique of the True Dragon Sword, while another Crow Shadow Fiend is performing a forward somersault to the right and behind the two combatants. A screenshot from the 2005 video game 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 rendered in 1920p widescreen resolution. 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳, a non-player character, is seen inside an open-air arena located deep within the otherworldly Fiend Realm, where she turns to face the sudden appearance of two Ancient Greater Fiends, twin sisters 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦 and 𝘐𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘴, the latter of which raises her whip-like arm to attack Rachel.
September 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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*laughs in unemployment*
How I sleep at night knowing that Charlie Kirk is in Hell, taking 19-inch backshots from the Balrog by the sulfuric lake of fire:
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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I have a real good feeling about the official Vtuber debut of @devidevaux.bsky.social coming next week… 🥜🎟️🎪
September 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Sharing my most recent labors for #LaborDay2025 as part of my online portfolio...

#ArtShare #BoxySVG #DigitalArt #Illustration #NoAI
Strewn between a dirt road and grassy field are random refuse, including a 5-yen coin, heartnut, water caltrop, and an open tin box containing pieces of hard candy, one of which is being nibbled upon by a mythical creature of Ainu mythology known as a korpokkur. Text at the bottom reads in katakana: 𝗞𝗼𝗸𝗼𝗿𝗼-𝗣𝗼𝗸-𝗞𝘂𝗿𝘂. A portrait of the plant species 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, also known as the Kamchatka fritillary, or colloquially as the black lily, illustrated with three leaves and one flowering body protruding from its stem, with only a blue-green background visible from behind. Space art depicting an icy exoplanet known as Neretva (a fictional designation of the real-life exoplanet 𝗟𝗛𝗦 𝟭𝟭𝟰𝟬 𝗯), of which the sunward-facing landscape is dominated by a single large body of water with a massive cyclone in the center, surrounded by solid ice-rock formations and sporadic cloud coverage that collectively resembles an eyeball. A distorted view of the Cetus constellation makes up the background of the image. Siamese resistance fighter and guerrilla leader Pailin Chaladphukhealom, armed with a M91/28 Carcano carbine, sitting atop a large wooden crate with the emblem of the "Tigers" resistance movement painted across the front-facing planks. The background consists of a vertically-aligned flag of Thailand.
September 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Despite taking nearly seven months of my free time, I have quite possibly created the first-ever fan art of the character Pailin Chaladphukhealom from the 2024 video game 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘦! (And just in time for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 DLC too!) 🇹🇭🐯
Siamese resistance fighter and guerrilla leader Pailin Chaladphukhealom, armed with a M91/28 Carcano carbine, sitting atop a large wooden crate with the emblem of the "Tigers" resistance movement painted across the front-facing planks. The background consists of a vertically-aligned flag of Thailand.
August 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Post a random picture, or else everything will go bad in September.
Childhood is when you Think Frieza’s the best villain Adulthood is when you realize his brother is cooler
August 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM