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Ripley LaCross
@ripleylacross.bsky.social
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(they/he) Cartoonist, Illustrator, gender rebel, and cryptid. Oh Joy Sex Toy, the Hiker Trash Dictionary, It's Always Something, and other TTRPG nonsense.
PDX - @Helioscope

Links: https://ripleylacross.carrd.co/

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Sometimes you're squattin' on the porcelain throne and a comic idea smacks you so hard that you gotta shit it out ASAP.

#art #comic
COMIC PANEL 1 Title: "WHY RIPLEY LOVES THEIR HANDHELD BIDET" A handheld sprayer squirts across the page, its tube-pipe-thing wrapping into a heart. Comic (c) 2025. Ripley LaCross COMIC panel 2 Looking through the open door of a bathroom, Ripley sits upon their toilet, pants down, and holds the bidet sprayer up for the reader to see clearly. Word balloons: "Because hand-held bidets are more sanitary than those that go in the bowl (where your poop goes!)" "The spray is powerful but wide, so it doesn't feel like a laser-focused water flosser on your taint.) "And it sprays only where you aim, no wiggling or squirming necessary." "And most importantly... ...because it makes it easy to wash my ass whenever I fucking want!" Comic (c) 2025. Ripley LaCross COMIC panel 3 THE END Balloon, from off panel: "How'd you even get in here??" Comic (c) 2025. Ripley LaCross
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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BUENO
Photo of my hand holding the Bueno bar that had gotten stuck. The original three items are still stuck, but I got my chocolate 😤
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Okay clearly we need a new method.
Same snack machine pile up with a bag of chips on top now. Sigh.
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Life is cruel.
Photo of a snack vending machine. A bag of chips is stuck precariously at the bottom, all I gotta do is get something to knock it down. Free chips!! The one directly behind the chips was "Not Available" so I ordered the bar above it. Not heavy enough. I wasted my money.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Had to urge to sketch Skyler, early campaign and late. #art #dndcharacters #originalcharacter
Two pencil sketches of the same woman with white blonde hair and light freckles. On the left, she's wearing a knit scarf, and has her hair braided into a crown with fluffy bangs and locks hanging from her temples. On the right, her hair is let down, with a smaller braid crown, longer bangs, and her scarf exchanged for a dark cloak. Both drawings are framed by frost.
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Yes, you've heard of stone soup, but have you ever heard of stone SANDWICH?
Photograph of what appears to be a sandwich with a bite taken out of it, but made of soap stone. It's sitting on my sketchbook, on my scanner, because it's like 5lb and is a good paper press. Photograph of the same sandwich from the other side. Stone "lettuce" and other toppings, hang out from the sides, and the "bread" cross section is pockmarked and scratched up.
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I don't even think I can glue this, aaaauuuggghhhh
Photo of my glasses, the frame has broken away from the lense at the hinge
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Thinking fondly of the crew at Helioscope today. For the past 8 years they've been like family to me, through good times, bad times, weird times, and great times. I wouldn't be where I am today without any of them, and for that I'm extremely grateful.

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Photograph of an open sketchbook. On the showing page is an inkwash drawing of myself sitting on a rock with a backpack, water bottle, and sketchbook, looking fondly at a mountain. Text: I never thought there could be a place out there in the world that both validates my passions and ambitions and offers me the tools to grow and move forward. But here it is. Right in my backyard. Thanks, Helioscope. Ripley LaCross. Sept '18 - '19
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
Fake magazine cover featuring a scruffy janitor in a jumpsuit with a push broom looking away from the camera. LONELY JANITOR monthly Why doesn't anyone talk to us? Page 31 Making the pay: 10 tales of revenge. Page 42 Should YOU make them pay? Page 47 25 ways to make them pay dearly. Page 55 (THEY ALL DESERVE TO DIE AT YOUR HANDS) Issue #5 Vol. 2 Feb 07 $3.99
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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You just died

The 6th picture in your gallery us what killed you

Oh no
Selfie I took at City Liquidators in PDX in front of one of their several taxodermied elks.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Rearranging my workspace has helped me *want* to sit down and draw, and the window behind my screen is doing ✨something✨ to how I observe my own process.

Here's a #WIP of my boy Cricket, resident black cat scapegoat with a cursed sword.

#art #pathfindercharacters #originalcharacter
A half inked sketch of a portly catfolk character. There's a larger portrait, showing his whispers and scowl, and a full-body standing in a casual fighting stance holding a serrated short sword. Cricket (he/him has hair chopped close to his scalp around his equally short ears. He's wearing a vest with fur lined collar.
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Did a double take on this lmao, I have the same linens!
Photograph of my cat bathing in a sunbeam and napping at the foot of my bed.
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Without downloading any new pics describe your gender
Gender not found. Have this photo of a hole a squirrel dug in my raised bed.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Me: Oh no I'm so overbooked this week, but I have this afternoon free maybe I should draw??

...

*rearranges their entire workspace instead*
Before photo of my workspace, my oxmouter is tucked up into a corner under my peg board, flanked by two large shelves including one tall KALLAX reaching for the ceiling. It's kind of dark, and awfully cramped. After photo! The tall KALLAX has been made horizontal and stacked on top of the other, and shoved against the wall the desk was once against forming a kind of console. The desk is now against the same wall as the window, without the shelf blocking all the light. It's much more airy and open, and far less cluttered!
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I turn 37 in 7 days
Photo of Jake Gyllenhaal saying "Uh, I've done nothing to prepare for this situation."
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

If they call you "family", run.
IASIP meme, character sitting on a couch talking to someone else across from him (off camera) saying "Well, first of all, no employer has your best interests at heart, so not that down."
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Witnessing the ocean's subwoofer.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Fossils are neat.
Photograph of my hand holding a stone that has ribbons of sea shell striking through it. Found on the Oregon coast. Photograph of a small stone with small, spiral of a shell exposed through the worn away material.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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We deserve good things.
Photograph of a dramatic sunset through wispy clouds over a rolling coastal beach.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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#WarRavagedPortland

The trees are beautifully ablaze. Holding on tight to this last gasp of autumn color before the winter gray settles in until March.
Landscape photo taken on Mt. Tabor in Portland, OR, looking south. The view is framed by Douglas Firs, Western Red Cedar, and beautiful crimson Elms (?). The distant landscape is a collage of different colored trees--dark green, yellow, and orange--fading into a soft blue and cream as the sunset approaches.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Post you from a different era.

c. 2006. Fresh out of high school the only thing I had to worry about was how I was going to afford art school (I didn't) and will I make it out of this town at all (I did).
Photograph of Ripley, age 17, sitting on a yellow slide in a friend's backyard. Their hair is brown and cut short at the chin, and they're wearing a ton of jelly bracelets (as was the fashion) along with a spagetti strap top and dark wash jeans. They're holding their glasses in their hands, they absolutely had spectacles at that age.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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My window is very pretty right now.
Photograph of my window, the view packed with golden leaves, half obscured by blinds and prism privacy clings. The room is in shadow, a nearby shelf, plant, and blanket are bathed in moody light. I only get this for about a week every year before all the leaves drop, I must enjoy it while I can.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Something about the @nwmoca.bsky.social's ribbon cutting today and seeing my own comics on display kicked me in the butt to pull out a forgotten 7-page comic script and see if I can actually do it. #comic
Screenshot of my Clip Studio workspace with thumbnails for a 7-page comic on the far left, plus two roughed pages with blank text boxes on the right. The depict a figure tying their shoes, leaving their house, boarding a bus, transferring said busses, riding a bus, and then standing at a trailhead. What's it about you ask? Probably hiking, duh.
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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There's a new sketchbook post for paid members over on #Patreon 🌞 #art

In this collection of spreads we explore someone's backstory while introducing a new crew!

www.patreon.com/posts/142541...
Cover image. SKETCHBOOK: OCTOBER 2025 Patreon.com/RipleyLaCross Preview sketches, in cream and purple, include an anthro elk and opossum, a Dwarven woman with long hair training with a rapier and hand musket, a veiled Tiefling and construct, with faded text in the background.
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Trees are asleep, post hole.
Photograph of a smooth cut stump where in the middle a crescent shape has rotted out, forming a deep, dark, moist, pit of lichen.
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM