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rileyisokay.bsky.social
Riley
@rileyisokay.bsky.social
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36 | gay disaster and professional nerd artist. Art direction/graphic design/occasional silly drawings. I talk about the gay pirates a lot. (She/her)
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rileyisokay.bsky.social
Okay. I need help. It's driving me absolutely crazy and the "what is this thing" facebook group hasn't helped so far. I know for sure that I have seen art JUST like this (or perhaps this exact art) on an album cover and cannot for the life of me think what album it would be. >
An oil painting in greens and black called "Sunday Morning" by Aondrea Maynard
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
rileyisokay.bsky.social
I just think Isis King
A photo of actress Isis King in front of a World of Wonder Presents step and repeat banner. She is wearing a teal-blue dress and her long curly hair is parted down the middle.
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
rileyisokay.bsky.social
Once again, very psyched for everyone seeing the Northern Lights. Also very normal-jealous.
A screengrab of Zac Oyama sitting on a leather couch with a deep red wall and a candelabra behind him. He is saying, "This is a huge moment for everyone but me."
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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The "sickos" cartoon: a black and white drawing of a man looking through a window saying, "yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
rileyisokay.bsky.social
Like. Imagine being this much of a soulless creep
A crowd shot from the ADA section, the backs of heads are seen. There is notably a very tall man is directly in front of the section wearing a black shirt and backwards grey cap
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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My hot take is that the ADA seating should always be right in the front of any venue (I don't think that's that hot of a take, honestly)
A photo from the middle of an ADA section at the House of Blues. There is a large wooden pillar right in the middle, obstructing the view of the stage. Ironically, this pole is where the handicap sign is posted. There are also tall stools right in front with people seated on them.
November 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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☠️
A picture of me in black and white. I am leaning against a concrete block building. I am wearing a black onesie with a glowing green skeleton print.
October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
rileyisokay.bsky.social
I had to get up and they were Not Amused.
A picture of me still in bed. My purple and blue covers are pulled up to my chest and two black cats lay on me, one on my neck and one on my side. A different view of the bed with a purple wall in the background. The two black cats are sitting facing in opposite directions and looking very put-off.
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Are self-recs okay? Because I love this one a lot. It's plotty but fluffy, happy ending, and it has magic (both, like, Vegas-style and also 👀 maybe real). It's also been podficced by @kninjaknitter.bsky.social!
Written: archiveofourown.org/works/45754954
Podfic: archiveofourown.org/works/46129417
A promo image for an OFMD fanfic called Torn and Restored. The image shows an image of Edward Teach as a stage magician, hands up and surrounded by falling playing cards. The summary of the fic reads: Torn and Restored, by lookinglass Summary: Edward Teach is an illusionist famous the world over. Bored and provoked by a less-than-flattering online article, he issues a public challenge: prove your supernatural or psychic powers, and he'll personally award you with a million dollars. Across the country and on his way to work, Stede Bonnet hears on the radio that Blackbeard has offered $1 million to anyone who can prove their preternatural abilities. He has to find Blackbeard immediately.
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Thanks, facebook, for reminding me that I've improved at digital art (there's 17 years between these WIP sketches, but 😅 also HUNDREDS of portraits in between. Practice is good and all of that)
A series of work-in-progress sketches of a digital artpiece of Frodo looking at Sting. In the top leftmost sketch, it is just black linework, with more color and details adding to his facial features as the sketches progress. I worked on this piece and left it unfinished it in 2008. An unfinished digital artpiece of Stede and Ed from Our Flag Means Death during the reunion beach kiss from season 2, episode 8. I am currently working on this piece.
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Just finished the Tithenai Chronicles by @fozmeadows.bsky.social and good lord. If you haven't read this series then what are you even doing? Just the epitome of queer empowerment in every possible way. The worldbuilding is gorgeous, I fell in LOVE with the characters and their relationships. >
A photo of two books held aloft in front of a bookshelf full of other books. The books in the foreground are A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, and All the Hidden Paths, both by Foz Meadows.
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A series of screenshots from the movie Bridesmaids. On the top, Maya Rudolph's character says, "you are soooo beautiful" over a cup of coffee. On the bottom, Kristin Wiig's character smiles wide with chocolate on her teeth.
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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No one is ever going to take this adult kicky feet child seriously
October 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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It's been nine years since he said this and I still think about it all the time. Because it's true. And it's been tested over and over again. They just... could not be forced to care. About anything.
With less than two weeks to go until the Iowa caucus, Donald Trump remains characteristically confident about his chances. In fact, the Republican front-runner is so confident, he says his supporters would stay loyal even if he happened to commit a capital offense. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible." The businessman, whose Trump Tower stands on the major Manhattan thoroughfare, cracked the joke Saturday to a receptive audience at the Christian college.
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Calypso's Birthday? It feels like a great time to re-share this little ficlet about belonging to something and really being seen, maybe for the first time.
archiveofourown.org/works/51068077
Crowded Table lookinglass Summary: Izzy just watches for a moment. “What do you feel,” he asks, after a moment, “When you do this?” John’s started on his eyes, using his fingers to dab blue, shimmering paint over his eyelids. “Feels like… being seen." Notes: I cannot believe I am here writing Izzy fic in the year of our Lorde™ 2023. I have never been an Izzy hater, more just like an Izzy-meh-er? But gdi the arc this character has been on this season is just gorgeous. I had to write this missing scene fic from Calypso's birthday. I literally just google translated the French, so apologies to any and all French speakers (if it's wrong, PLEASE let me know.) This is completely unbeta'd, and it's deeply unserious, and I realize how effing cheesy it is. But maybe some things can just be unserious and they don't really need a point. Title is from this song. It's about belonging to something. Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: Gen Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Characters: Israel HandsRoach (Our Flag Means Death)Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death)Oluwande Boodhari,Jim JimenezArchie (Our Flag Means Death)Fang (Our Flag Means Death)Wee John Feeney,Blackbeard | Edward Teach,Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Canon Compliant,Missing Scene,Episode: s02e06 Calypso's Birthday,Ficlet,Character Study,Big Gay Feelings,self discovery,Drag,The Author Has Suddenly Had Feelings About Izzy Hands,Self-Esteem,Fluff,Found Family,Apologies,12 Step Programs,Jenkensian Levels of Historical Accuracy,The Author Apologizes to the French,queerness Language: English Stats: Published:2023-10-24 Words:2,272 Chapters:1/1 Comments:33 Kudos:113 Bookmarks:22 Hits:603
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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🩵🩵
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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This is like when I looked up "nonplussed" after talking to a British friend to make sure I was using it correctly
A screenshot from the Oxford English Dictionary website from the definition of the word "nonplussed": non plussed /,nän 'plǝst/ adjective 1. (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react. "he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea" Similar: confused bewildered bemused puzzled perplexed baffled 2. INFORMAL⚫ NORTH AMERICAN (of a person) not disconcerted; unperturbed. "I remember students being nonplussed about the flooding in the city, as they had become accustomed to it over the years"
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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They turned out SO cute.
A picture of my face partially obscured by an enamel pin set. I'm wearing teal glasses. The pins are Stede and Ed from Our Flag Means Death against a bird robe print card that reads "you wear fine pins well"
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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There are also some new pins up on the Pirate Goodies shop 👀 So much good stuff over there. shopstands.com/collections/...
An enamel pin set of Stede and Ed from Our Flag Means Death set against a bird robe print card that says "you wear fine pins well." The set sits on a wooden table overlaid by a pearl necklace and a small rope.
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
rileyisokay.bsky.social
I enjoyed this.
A screenshot from a webcomic by The Oatmeal. It reads: AI art might eventually have the right number of fingers, but it'll never have a heart. (I know this is cheesy but fuck you I like it) There is a drawing of a paintbrush and a glowing red heart. A screenshot from a webcomic by The Oatmeal. It reads: You are a creator. You build words based on your passion, your discipline, and your pain -- worlds full of typos, mismatched lines, and wild tangents. And even though art itself -- this fragile, precious thing of ours -- is drowning in a sea of Styrofoam, I need you to know from one artist to another, There are three drawn flies or fireflies in red, orange and blue. A screenshot from a webcomic by The Oatmeal. It reads: that every mark you make on a page, even a squiggly, imperfect one, is still beautiful. There is a fly or firefly in green with a spiraled green like and glowing sparkles in blue, orange, green and red.
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Apropos of nothing at all, but I've met some of my very best friends through fandom, built a career because of fandom, have spoken on many a comic con panel because of fandom... I could go on. Anyway. I'm glad to be able to enjoy my very cool grownup hobbies and career that all center around fandom.
A picture of me and three other panelists on stage at New York Comic Con's "Fandom For Humankind" panel. We are sitting behind a table draped in New York Comic Con logos with a step-and-repeat banner behind us showing the Reed pop and NYCC logos.
October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Tried to do one of those color wheel things for my OFMD art. What I'm seeing is I need more purple and yellow in my art 👀 Also I love being able to see where my digital art has improved after drawing these fools over and over again during the last several years.
A sectioned image of nine pieces of my art, including digital paintings of Jim Jimenez, Stede Bonnet, Izzy Hands, and several pieces of Edward Teach, all from Our Flag Means Death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I'm so enjoying everyone's "you from a different era" posts and I would love to participate; however, I fear that me from 30 years ago is completely indistinguishable from me five minutes ago.
A picture of me from like 1997. I am for some reason wearing a straw cowboy hat and bandana. The photo is in sepia tone. A picture of me sitting in the car recently. I'm wearing a black shirt and floral printed romper.
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Oh hey, this one's mine! (In addition to the "in this house we love a man who goes to therapy" and "commentary on late-stage capitalism" tags). Pls enjoy 12k words of pure, unadulterated fluff. #gentlebeard
Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Relationship: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Stede BonnetBlackbeard | Edward TeachLucius SpriggsWee John FeeneyFrenchie (Our Flag Means Death)Roach (Our Flag Means Death)Ivan (Our Flag Means Death)Fang (Our Flag Means Death)Archie (Our Flag Means Death)Israel Hands (mentioned)Mary Allamby Bonnet (Mentioned) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern SettingEverything is Beautiful and Nothing HurtsHaberdasheryAlternate Universe - BakeryImmediately Down Bad Edward Teachimmediately down bad Stede BonnetBaked Goods As a Form Of LoveFluff and HumorDeveloping FriendshipsFirst MeetingsFalling In LovespringtimeNew BeginningsGood Self EsteemIn This House We Love A Man Who Goes to TherapyCommentary on Late-Stage CapitalismHappy EndingHealingAutistic Stede BonnetBlackbeard | Edward Teach Has ADHDJewish Blackbeard | Edward TeachComplete Against the Grain lookinglass Summary: “Well, welcome in,” Stede says. He’s genuinely delighted by how… genuinely delighted Mr. Moonlight seems to be by his shop. “We’ve got just about everything you could need for sewing or crafts projects, plus we’ve got a bit of a vintage shop going if you just look about, and then there’s an alterations department out the back,” he says. “I’m Stede, by the way.” The man—always moving, always in motion, it seems— stops revolving in place for a moment to face him. “Stede? With a ‘D’?” He asks, and at Stede’s nod, he holds out a hand. “I’m Ed.” -- Lighthouse Fine Fabrics and More (Alterations & Repair Services in Back) is Stede Bonnet's pride and joy—the cozy catch-all haberdashery and crafts shop he's always wanted. Life is good, until Edward Teach needs some black fabric dye. Then it's great.
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Please enjoy this photo of Tilly communing with some little gators.
A picture of my wife holding our white and brown chihuahua mix dog up to a clear tank. Inside the tank is an aquatic habitat for two juvenile American alligators.
September 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM