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Emily Riesbeck, Professional Monster
@emilyriesbeck.bsky.social
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⚧️ she/her. Author: It's Your Funeral, Mountain, The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl (Out NOW!!!). Repped by Au Literary Management.

Website: https://emilyriesbeck.com/
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currently reading (very interesting!!!!). Probably common knowledge but did yall know that PT Barnum didn't get into the circus business until he was 60 (and already wealthy)?
cover for Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America by Andrea Stulman Dennett
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Just two days left to get a honey of a deal on 11 amazing comics from myself and other awesome cartoonists, including @binaryandlove.bsky.social and I's comic about a lonely rag doll who stows away in a gift box meant for someone else!

itch.io/b/3344/spin-...
promo for the spin rack comics bundle, available now on itchio: https://itch.io/b/3344/spin-rack-comics-jam-2025-ghosts Featuring a list of comics found in the bundle. a promo page for Childish Things, a comic by Emilyy Riesbeck and Julie Lerche about a rag doll.
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Can't decide whether this is a great pic or I look like a crazed maniac whose going to chpp you up with an axe.
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I love my new tits very very much
Emily in a black turtleneck sleeveless dress Emily in a black turtleneck sleeveless dress. She is smiling.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Playing Dispatch, which is really fun. Every chapter I say some shit like "Invisigal's the GOAT! Flambae is MY SECRET WEAPON." Then the day ends and the game is like:

Most dispatched: Prism
Most successful: Prism
A cake from The Office which reads "it could only be you." Jim's face has been replaced with Prism from Dispatch
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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i love silksong so much that after nearly 100%ing it casually, i went back and immediately started another playthrough. I didn't intend for it to be a "speed run" but i got through act 1 quickly with minimal extras, so i challenged myself to beat the game with basically zero upgrades. did it!
silksong game completion screen
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Some aesthetically pleasing rotting pumpkins from the neighborhood this morning.
A jack o lantern all squished Two more squished rotting jack o lanterns
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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me
doop in a maid outfit.
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The other side has the rough draft which didn't go so well lol
A really bad hornet drawn on a pumpkin
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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We carved a hornet pumpkin
Emily in a maid costume holding a pumpkin carved like hornet from hollow knight Emily and Angie holding the hornet pumpkin and posing
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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ITS HALLOWEEN AGAIN BITCHES YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS BRB ON MY WAY TO DUST UR STUDY
Emily in a maid costume with a feather duster Emily in a maid costume with a feather duster
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Got a job Interview and need a job bad so the fit is submissive and hirable today
Emily dressed in khakis and an orange button down shirt that ties at the front
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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new icon, courtesy of @binaryandlove.bsky.social ft the protagonist of our short comic, Childish Things!

Check out the book here: emilyriesbeck.itch.io/childish-thi...

and the Spin Rack Comics Bundle, including this and other amazing comics: itch.io/b/3344/spin-...
a rag doll, missing one button eye, with half her hair ripped off, and her stitch-mouth undone. She smiles, bearing sharp needle-like teeth.
October 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A lonely rag doll, desperate to be loved, stows away inside a gift box.

CHILDISH THINGS by @binaryandlove.bsky.social and I is available now for purchase as part of the Spin Rack Comics Jam! Check out ours and other comics here: itch.io/b/3344/spin-...
the cover for Childish Things by Emily Riesbeck and Julie Jerche. A rag doll with button eyes holds open the jaws of a pair of scissors that threaten to cut her. page 1 for Childish Things by Emily Riesbeck and Julie Jerche. In the window of a toy store, the rag doll watches other toys bechosen and purchased. Wanting this for herself, she sneaks up to a section of gift boxes, pushes one open, and slips inside. Page 2 for Childish Things by Emily Riesbeck and Julie Jerche. The Doll falls into the box and replaces the lid. The box begins to shake, and she peeks out to see that someone has bought her! Page 5 of Childish Things by Emily Riesbeck and Julie Jerche. The rag doll struggles against a hand that reaches to one of her button eyes and pulls it right from her face. Then, the same hand brandishes a pair of scissors, threatening to cut her.
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Tomorrow... something new from @binaryandlove.bsky.social and I just in time for Halloween.
A fearful rag doll holds open the jaws of scissors threatening to cut her in half. The rag doll has purple buttonm eyes, a patchwork purple and peach dress, and red yarn-like hair. The scissors are being held by a pale-skinned hand with a bandage on the pointer finger the same color as the doll's dress. Art by Julie Lurhce.
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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BIG dungeon for Draw Steel tonight! We are delving into the lair of some lizardmen who are being controlled by time pirates.
A kitchen table with a large elaborate dungeon map on top. The map displays a deconstructed space ship built into the walls of a cavern in order to mine from it.
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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are there any writing doldrums worse than the "trimming the wordcount and working the verbs?" I'm so bored and fed up with this book lol
doraline's dad looking like shit at his stupid computer.
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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alternative title: "Leonardo Decaprio Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing" (i thought it was pretty good, the second act specifically was great)
poster for paul thomas anderson's One Battle After Another.
October 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This is the only dress I have that hides the compression bra so I wear it all the time
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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cis people do shit like this and still have the nards to call *us* cringe. fucking lunacy.
graham llinehan in his stupid posterboard sign that says trans kids don't real. He wore this shit to court? Get a grip, man!
September 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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aight this game is pretty good
Hollow Knight: Silksong. An NPC, Sherma, a small bug with a straw hat, rings a chime and sings: "gate gate gate! nicest gate i've met! Gate gate gate! Greatest miracle yet!"
September 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Anchor Root, btw.
a picture of Anchor Root, a feale ant gnoll. SHe has pale grey fur with a brown muzzle, brown eyes, and big gnoll ears. She wears a green cloak with a necklace of bones.
September 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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coming back to our strength of thousands campaign after a big timeskip.
Darth vader asking "Where is Padme? is she safe? Is she alright?" but padme has been replaced with "anchor root." Anchor Root is a beloved, shy gnoll NPC from the Strength of Thousands adventure path for Pathfinder 2E
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Still alive <3 probs gonna go get some paints for my skaven from the LGS today
September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM