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Ferro
@ferrovore.bsky.social
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Not actually a rust monster. Artist, author, cartoonist, married to @ComputerHusband.bsky.social, over 40 but still here. I make weird queer art and reblog a lot of comics so I hope you're interested in either. (she/her)

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I needed to goof off after doing a few hours of comic refs/inks today, so I drew my handsome sons doing what they do.

If you were not previously aware that this is the Priestguys' dynamic: this is the dynamic!

If you were not previously aware that I draw 'em as weird critters sometimes: behold!
A digital sketch of the leads from The Priestwife webcomic depicted as snouty living puppet creatures with long fluffy tails, as the artist is wont to do; the Priestwife himself is on his back with his legs around the High Priest, who's looking down at him with an enormous grin. "Please...please...!" begs the former, getting a response of "Please what, darling?" from the latter.
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Beautiful gift art of my beautiful sons drawn by the equally beautiful @irisjaycomics.bsky.social, available in "digital cleanup" and "I just used my phone" flavors for your viewing convenience.

You should absolutely go to a furry convention some time, magical things can happen there.
A truly magnificent interpretation of the "Yeah, we're gay, keep scrolling" meme except created using pens and whatever markers were lying around at the table, with the leads of The Priestwife webcomic, the titular Priestwife kneeling sassily at the High Priest's feet. My scanner could only do so much to capture the highlighter-pink socks Iris drew the High Priest wearing. Good grief. It is also very important to emphasize that the High Priest is in a leopard print thong and a cut-off tee with a picture of Garfield on it and the legend "Wine Me, Dine Me, 69 Me." Does he even know it says that? Choose the answer you think is funniest. It's the same picture as the last one but photographed right out of the sketchbook to better convey the mass of this thing, and also so people who like seeing the nicks and dings of sketcing in a convention space can appreciate those without my digital cleanup getting in the way. Due to the lighting in our house the photo is a lot yellower than the scanned version. It's still magnificent in every way.
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Did you know it's homoerotic unicorn-men o'clock? It was very important I finish this sketch from last week before switching over to the actual work I needed to do today.

Didn't feel like drawing dicks, DID feel like drawing crossed horns. It counts! #FerroArt
A black and white digital illustration with a dark red stroke and border effect, the image depicting the leads of The Priestwife as nude unicorn satyrs. Their tails are loosely entwined, their horns are crossed, and the High Priest is hauling on a chain connected to the crown-collar the Priestwife is wearing; the latter seems pretty pleased with the arrangement and is touching at the High Priest's face while keeping his bracelet-bearing hand cocked on his hip. No genitalia is on display but it is still VERY gay.
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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"I should draw the High Priest as a unicorn satyr."

"Yes. I should do that RIGHT NOW."

So I did! #FerroArt
A digital illustration of a masculine character who vaguely resembles a satyr with unicorn parts in place of a goat's. It's a variant of the High Priest from The Priestwife webcomic, so he's got his trademark bejeweled blindfold and long black hair pulled back with a hairpin. The picture is mostly black and white with some spot color for the golden jewelry.
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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My son is here, and he is legion!

When I saw that #Stickerapp had glow-in-the-dark options, I HAD to see how those turned out. Even accounting for my camera trying to boost the glow, they're quite nice right out of the mailer after only a little time in the Nevada sun!
A photograph of a set of Stickerapp custom glow-in-the-dark stickers, still in their packaging and resting on a wood-grained tabletop. They depict the High Priest from the comic The Priestwife making a quizzical expression. A photograph of the same stickers as the previous image, now glowing in the dark as advertised.
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Found the piece I did for the Chessmaster 5000 Tarot-A-Go-Go zine from back in 2016 (curated by @irisjaycomics.bsky.social) and for nearly decade-old art I'd say it still holds up! I will never simply recreate Rider-Waite layouts if I can help it. #FerroArt
A black and white digital illustration of the High Priestess tarot card. This has been realized by depicting the titular character as a snake-haired woman with thick glasses and multiple piercings; she's clad in polka-dot pajama pants and a tee reading "Pobody's Nerfect." An elaborate hookah is cradled in her lap. Her snake-tresses curl around the hookah, one of them inhaling from the hose to let her exhale smoke from her human mouth, while another snake head drags a slice of pizza along the ground.
July 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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You don't HAVE to post a face you drew that you really like if you see this, but it'd really keep with the whole spirit of the exercise, you know?
A drawing of the High Priestfrom the webcomic The Priestwife; he's a narrow-faced, light-skinned character with long black hair, a large nosering, and a bejeweled blindfold. He's gesturing with one hand while pursing his lips and emitting a little question mark of curiosity.
July 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I'm still out of pocket but that can't stop me from participating in #makeaterriblecomicday2025 this year! I'll probably be reusing this gag later after refining it further, but refining is NOT the point of the exercise, so here's my trackball again.

Yes, this is pretty much canon.
A rough trackball-and-MS-Paint picture drawn on a white void, featuring the shakily-drawn faces of the leads from The Priestwife. Q: What is the best thing about your sacred spouse? The Priestwife, a vaguely Central-Asian-coded man with a goateed face, pierced ears, and a golden glow in his dark eyes, replies: "He offered me dignity despite deserving none, he gave me new purpose despite having nothing left but spite, and he gave me to the Bell as a knight when most would've considered me too far gone to bother, much less worthy of its burden. That enough for you?" The High Priest, a man with long black hair, a bejeweled black blindfold, and a prominent golden nose ring, grins as he replies: "INCREDIBLE thighs. Why, what did he say when you asked?"
June 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Looks like they fixed Maple's air conditioner just in time for @chibichaser.bsky.social's birthday today! Here's to plenty more of 'em!

(thanks to @computerhusband.bsky.social for suggesting the pose for this, too)
A digital illustration of Maple, a fat brown rabbit woman with a pronounced neck ruff, reclining on a red-cushioned sofa. She is extremely naked save for her gold heart-shaped locket and yellow hair bow, and is speaking to someone through a fancy gold and white receiver phone with a long curly cord that's gotten caught on one of her erect nipples. "You have no idea how nice it's been since they got the dang A/C fixed! Felt like I couldn't have a stitch on me while it was out..." The joke is that she's a nudist anyway.
June 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Me: "Okay, so this one SL outfit I'm working on needs a little something extra as a finishing touch, surely THIS time I can avoid attaching a big rotating halo thing."

My dumb ass, inevitably:
A Second Life screenshot of a medium-dark-skinned masculine avatar in an elaborate blue and white robe/dress with a front so revealing he's had an extra bikini glued on so his nipples stay covered up for church. There is, inevitably, a big gold and blue gizmo that resembles the celestial clock of Prague floating a little ways behind him, studded with red flames to match the gemstones in his jewelry. He looks VERY smug.
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Happy #WebcomicDay!

I'm Ferro and I make @priestwife.bsky.social, a weird fantasy/horror story about living with things that will kill you. 192 pages of curses, ghosts, giant bugs, and stylized grue await thee, with six more on the way this Thursday.

Check it out at priestwife.neocities.org!
A black and white promotional image for The Priestwife webcomic, showing the titular character (a burly, hairy man with pointed ears and distinctive two-tone hair) being cradled by the High Priest (a thinner, more delicate man with long black hair pulled up in a high ponytail and a large amount of jewelry, including a bejeweled blindfold and prominent nose ring). The Priestwife's legs are covered with a piece of fabric and his hands are wrapped in bandages, a bracelet of white beads around his right wrist, and there's a gap in his chest leading to a black void. Something dark trickles from his mouth and down his chest. The High Priest has his hand over the Priestwife's eyes and it's not immediately clear if he's supporting the latter's head or forcibly covering his eyes. A page from The Priestwife webcomic, showing the Innkeeper merrily waiting outside a closed door with a tray of food in hand, only to be startled by a glowing eye staring at them from the other side of said door. A page from The Priestwife webcomic, showing the High Priest (now clad in full black robes and an elaborate feathered hat) touching at a shrine and speaking to the Priestwife (now clad in full armor and wielding a glaive) that they've finished "this part" of their duty. The Priestwife asks if he should announce their return, which he ends up doing by kicking in the door to the inn and declaring, "Good news! We fixed your shit!" A page from The Priestwife webcomic, showing a giant beetle rampaging towards the viewer, the ropes from a harness meant for a piece of farming equipment whipping around as it smashes through a fence. A female character with an eyebrow scar (the Local Hero) comforts the feathered dinosaur she's riding and asks the Priestwife, currently mounted on a horse, if he can safely lasso something that big. Upon his assent, she tosses him a rope and yells for him to "get to it."
May 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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From the archives: Hugh abed. This sketch was directly responsible for informing a lot of his evening routine, like being a sleep-drooler.

Character created for @s2b2.bsky.social!
A digital sketch of a long-muzzled creature with a half-flayed face sleeping peacefully on a pillow with his tongue flopped out onto the pillowcase. He has curly hair, mutton chops, and multiple eyes, and he's wearing a tasseled sleeping cap.
May 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Casual gaming wins again! I potentially could've gotten this a few weeks ago but wanted to take a little break from getting my last few thousand mastery points, as is my wont.

Next week: back on that horse, Legendary 3 isn't THAT far off...in the grand scheme of things...kinda...
A Warframe screenshot showing that a player has achieved the rank of Legendary 2, along with the perks they get for doing so; this requires an absolutely absurd amount of play time and at least a little bit of game mastery to achieve.
April 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Realized I hadn't posted any front views of Figaro here on Bluesky. You're welcome? #FerroSL
A Second Life screenshot of a purple-skinned avatar dressed in blue and gold. His long, eye-studded hair is black with white tips to better resemble the dainty black-and-white-feathered wings on his shoulders. Part of a painting of someone standing at a window ("La Ventana" by Miles Cantelou) is visible behind him, as is a segment of ochre-colored wall. A close-up of the same avatar as before, now better showing off the VERY large gold fangs and black saliva hidden behind his face veil, which is nowhere near opaque enough to actually conceal them. He's regarding the camera with a lightly quizzical expression, at least as conveyed by his head position and eye shape; the lack of lips provides a challenge.
April 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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So I crashed last night mid-gallery-exploration, but having finished the sole errand we planned for today I am right back at it. The young man still needs culture! You can also more clearly see some of his...situation...in this lighting. #FerroSL
A Second Life screenshot of a purple-skinned avatar dressed in blue and gold observing some Cubist-adjacent paintings at the Center Ground Gallery of Art. The angle shows off the avatar's long purple tail, the feathered wings growing from said tail, the matching wings spreading from his shoulders, and entirely too many eyes in places eyes tend not to be found. He looks fascinated by the art before him.
April 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Today's activity: making a new Weird Little Guy from an abandoned avatar WIP, then sending him to art exhibitions to enjoy the fruits of others' labors (and engage in digital performance art of my own w.r.t. THIS thing quietly existing in semi-public).

SL is fun. SLURL in alt text! #FerroArt
A Second Life screenshot of a masculine purple avatar clad in blue and gold, captured while observing part of a digital art exhibit, that being "Chromatic Dreamscapes" by Ren Matsura as part of the Grab By The Horns art sim (SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GBTH/105/163/35). The avatar has wings, a long tail, and eyes in a lot of places they usually are not; he's peacefully engaging with the art and entertaining whatever thoughts are passing through his weird little monster head.
April 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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One of my favorite parts of contributing to @s2b2.bsky.social is that I regularly get the chance to go absolutely bananas with my title cards. These are all from the same series (the one with the orcs), hence the shared geology theme. I love letterforms! #FerroArt #typography
A title card for the story "Xenolith Cache," rendered with swooping prog-rock inspired letters with a glowing meteor streaking behind them. A title card for the story "Pyroclastic Flow," which has elaborate overlapping letters laid atop a meticulously stippled background (much of which was sampled from a different stipple-heavy project by the artist). A title card for the story "The Heart's Own Cementation," featuring harsh, blocky letters on a black background. A title card for the story "Unearthed Substratum," showing elaborate looping letters atop more symbol-adjacent letterforms, all against a background of interwoven hatching.
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Today's art post just happens to be a photo from a @fortunamedia.bsky.social promo shoot for Book of Shadows: Paradise Lust, and gee but isn't that art familiar? The layout and design team made all my work (I wrote the text and did the letter/sigil design, too) look GREAT! #FerroArt #blood
A photo of a copy of Book of Shadows: Paradise Lust (an angel-themed collection of illustrative pornography) open to a double-page spread. The primary illustration shows a trio of abstract dish-faced angels engaged in some intense, but presumably consensual, bloodplay with one another, depicted in stark white, black, and red, with the opposite page including a fancy capital and title paired with some grimoire-style information about the little angel buddies; it's printed in white text on black with the critters' name and a subtle background glyph both written in red. It's really sharp-looking because graphic design really can be somebody's passion.
April 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Today's art uploads: some illustrations I've made in the past for the extremely normal* smut I submit to @s2b2.bsky.social several times a year. My army of sons grows ever-stronger with each passing hour and you can read about many of them today! #FerroArt

*no it isn't
A digital illustration of two figures cosplaying as tokusatsu characters and posing for a photograph, labeled "OCONomiyaki 7 Anime and Hobby Meetup: Spring Fling!" One is a man whose entire body is covered in a purple sentai outfit (not intended to represent any particular series), while the other is a harpy with brown and cream feathers whose orange sentai outfit (also an original series) has been made to accommodate for his unusual anatomy, particularly his wings. A digital illustration of two vaguely Muppety creatures talking to one another, one small and seated on a very high stool so he can operate a 70s-style TV camera, the other towering over him despite standing on the ground. The former is a little bespectacled guy with horns, a clipboard, and a sweater-vest that matches the argyle fabric on the insides of his ears, while the latter is a huge maroon monster in a chef's outfit; he's lifting a strand of long white hair out of his eyes. A digital illustration of two adventurers, one a skinny guy all in black with a sword in one hand and a plume of purple magic eddying from the other, the second figure a very fat elf with a ruffled blouse, lots of jewelry, and a fistful of lockpicks, one leg kicked up playfully. The wizardly one has a really prissy expression and tanner skin than his comapnion, who's beaming and is implied to have stolen the wizard's wallet. A digital illustration of two men in vaguely Victorian attire, one clad like a laborer with long dark hair escaping a flat cap, the other wearing vaguely aristocrat-adjacent clothes beneath a heavy fur coat, smiling as he holds aloft a lantern. The first figure holds a lit hand of glory, red energies flowing around the pair as it burns, while the latter has six fingers on each hand and one of his eyes reflects the light of his lantern like a wolf's. An elaborate angelic seal is drawn behind them.
April 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Working on more comic panels today. Have continuing proof I play too much Warframe (I drew this five whole years ago, sheesh). #FerroArt
A digital illustration of a vulpaphyla from Warframe -- something like a white, gray, and raspberry alien fox with no visible eyes and prominent "horns" tipped with glowing nodes -- drawn in a cartoony, anthropomorphic style. It's got a big overbite of a grin.
April 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I'm working on writing today, but I can spare a shot of my horrible son, Rahm. This man's personality sucks in so many ways and I love him dearly. Will I ever use him for anything other than a digital dress-up dolly? Who knows!
A Second Life screenshot of a light-skinned masculine avatar with delicate features and pointy ears. His hair is long and black with little golden blossoms shot through it, with the length in the back pulled up into a bun fastened with a fancy hairpin (not pictured). He's wearing a white dress with a fur-collared gold and white cloak, and there is a truly unbelievable amount of jewelry going on in his face/hand region. He's got one hand on his chin and is looking off into the distance thoughtfully.
April 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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They're either sleepy or WAY too honest and sparkly, and either way they give him negative poker face, hence the sunglasses. 100% a titty-having chap no matter the version!
A digital illustration of two men sitting on a green sofa, the smaller one one reading a book and the larger one reading the same book over the first fella's shoulder. The smaller one, King Diarmuid, has pale skin and dark hair styled in a sort of pompadour undercut held with a silver circlet; he's got sharp teeth, pointy ears, and red eyes like a classic vampire (despite not being one), and he's got a set of truly impressive black and silver high-heeled knee boots going on. The larger one, Lloyd, is just wearing a set of teal pajama pants that match his eyes, pendant, and nail polish, with a set of sunglasses pushed up away from his face; he's got medium-dark freckled skin and very long white hair with a golden shimmer. They look comfortable together. A digital sketch of the previous two characters, this time dressed more like RPG protagonists. Lloyd, whose expression is maybe a bit TOO intense, offers the reader a pamphlet from his satchel, while Diarmuid, sans crown, holds a book and quill at the ready while wearing a serious case of Resting Bitch Face.
March 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I'm drawing these two again! Added a nudity warning just in case due to how tremendously Lloyd's nipples are OUT, despite both him and Diarmuid being Ken dolls here. I'll draw them normal-style eventually... #FerroArt
A phone picture of a pencil sketch of two Muppety-looking characters, one with dark fur, light hair, and a heavyset build, the other far skinnier with dark hair and tail tufting and exaggerated eye makeup. They're exactly the same height. These are a weird variation of the existing characters Lloyd and Diarmuid, who are usually NOT felt creatures or mammals that vaguely resemble felt creatures.
March 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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For many years I'd traditionally draw them in Halloween costumes, too. It's safe to assume that references to movies, video games, etc. are profoundly noncanon.

Were they first inspired by a certain dark fantasy manga? I don't know what you're talking about. #FerroArt #orcs
A digital sketch of Sarouth White-Hair, an orc with dark green skin; small, downwards-pointing tusks; and long white hair styled to conceal his left eye. He's dressed in a variant of Thulsa Doom's armor from Conan the Barbarian, the pants being restyled into a skirt bearing his clan pattern, and he's holding a brown-scaled snake in one hand. A digital illustration of Sarouth White-Hair dressed as Astor from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. This is primarily a hooded purple robe with a lot of gold jewelry, with said character's usual magical orb device replaced with a pinkish glass orb held in a bone frame meant to evoke Sarouth's holy symbol. He looks like he's having a great time! A digital illustration of Riaag Bough-Breaker, a tall, fat orc with long black hair and a full beard, dressed as Goldlewis Dickenson from Guilty Gear Strive. This involves a horned skull tie tack, a matching horned belt buckle, and chaps and a military jacket over a light brown shirt and a pair of jeans. He's got said character's trademark giant metal coffin with Area 51 signage plastered all over it. He, too, seems to be having a great time. A digital illustration of Riaag Bough-Breaker and Sarouth White-Hair dressed as Guts and Giffith, respectively, from Berserk. Riaag carries a Dragon Slayer and is wearing a variant of the Berserker Armor sized to fit a very fat wearer; he's got his right eye closed to mimic the character he's portraying. Sarouth's hair is especially long and wavy, and he's paired a skirt with Griffith's cavalry armor and distinctive Phantom of the Paradise helm, which he holds in his hands. The joke is that when I was first putting these characters together I'd been reading an awful lot of Berserk at the time. See you at the next eclipse, everybody!
March 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Time for more orcs? Yes, it is.

Presenting Sarouth White-Hair (radical cleric and somewhat grudging avatar of his subterranean blood god) and Riaag Bough-Breaker (his bodyguard, disciple, and ride-or-die homosexual life partner). Yet more characters created for @s2b2.bsky.social! #FerroArt #orcs
A monochrome digital illustration of a masculine orc in a flowing black robe dancing as dust and pebbles follow his movements. A front-facing bearded vulture spreads its wings above him and both are placed against an abstract background that evokes a crop circle. A digital illustration, this time in color, of the same orcish character from the previous image with a lot more layers of red to his clothes and his face unconcealed by his hood, though his long white hair has been styled to fall across his left eye. A much bigger, fatter orc with lighter green skin stands behind him, clad in scale mail and a helmet made from the pelt of an enormous wolf, and bares his impressive teeth at an unseen target; this orc boasts a full beard and is armed with an axe and large shield, and the skull of another orc hangs from his belt. A digital illustration of the white-haired orc from before, shown in two states: one clean-shaven and dressed in his usual priestly regalia making a beatific gesture, the other with stubble covering his face, his hair clearly having been shorn in the recent future, and no jewelry; his hands are bound in front of him, his claws have grown long, and the elaborate red tattoos all along his arms and upper body are on display. While he can't cover his left eye with his hair, he's willingly keeping it closed. Something unfortunate has come to pass between these two states. A black and white illustration with some green backing added to replace its original transparency. It shows the two orcs from before embracing, the smaller one kissing the bigger one's forehead, and while his hair hasn't wholly regrown yet it's long enough to pull back into a ponytail. He's painted a holy symbol around his (still revealed) left eye. The bigger orc looks up at him fondly.
March 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM