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Ro Salarian
@rosalarian.bsky.social
Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them.
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I really fucking love working on this comic. I love writing about resisting fascism and illustrating it with cute middle aged women. If you haven't read it yet, you should start!
magicalwomencomic.com
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I'm so into folk art these days, you have no idea.
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I've got a few!

Rosalarian.com/shop
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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It's true, it's so fucking true. The first thing outta the holster when these jokers try to square up is how looooong their little prompt took them to write.

Like a 12-year-old on DeviantArt. This drawing took me THREE DAYS, so you better comment!
AI art guys try to sell the tech as a great time-saver/labor-equalizer but also insist it requires LOTS of skill and work. It’s a funny negotiation that gets to the emptiness in how some people see art. Hyper outcome-focused but unsure of how to measure that artistic outcome except by time invested.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Speaking of things that were trendy despite being basically poison and got shoehorned in where they were unwanted and unneeded during the 20's, one of my local friends has begun referring to genAI as "radium"
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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THE NEW VINE WILL TAKE YOUR CONTENT like everybody is excited because “vine is back and they don’t allow AI!!!” But that is only because they want new content to scrape for training AI. Don’t be fooled.
Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.

Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.

The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.

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November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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I gotta catch up but this comic has BEAUTIFUL FATNESS and WEIRD BUG OVERLORDS and MIDLIFE CRISES and GAYGAYGAYS it's fun and touching and good!!!
I really fucking love working on this comic. I love writing about resisting fascism and illustrating it with cute middle aged women. If you haven't read it yet, you should start!
magicalwomencomic.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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#SFFChat
I'm a big fan of @rosalarian.bsky.social's work! They do intelligent, beautifully-drawn graphic novels and comics, often with oddball humor and sexy 18+ content, with lots of queer and genderqueer characters and themes. Body Builder is an especially quirky, queer-and-gender-affirming story.
#SFFChat Q3: Shout out a trans writer or artist whose work you admire (or a trans character from a trans author's work!).
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My least favorite genre of trans person is the kind who sees another trans person being happy and says "If I can't be happy, you can't be either," and does what they can to bring down every trans person around them.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Stoned enough to be making up my own religion, and my partner comes in with a very thin knotted up chain and asks me to untangle it. Bruh.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
When I argue against AI, I'm always met with "Oh, but you already use AI. It's in this and this and this other thing." But I either do NOT use the thing or only interact with it because it's been forced into my life. I want it gone!
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Okay this is actually 100% accurate
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I decided to do a new printing of Eat Me while I still can. We don't know if/when work like this will be outlawed, but physical copies survive as websites go dark.

This is literal food porn. It's very silly smut. Preorder through Nov 30. Ships in Jan.

www.rosalarian.com/product-page...
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I decided to do a nicer printing of these books instead of the PoD. If you already ordered, you're automatically upgraded, and if you haven't already ordered, go do it!
www.rosalarian.com/product-page...
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Happy International Men’s Day to all the incredible trans men out there. Thank you for existing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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yeah. The thing is

Artists are getting the praise because they achieved something personally. It’s not *just* that some work of art looks cool, but it’s the fact that *YOU did this* and we are sharing the happiness of your accomplishment.
If you want to learn to make art, there are countless people out there willing to help you. The only thing is, you have to be willing to try. The AI pushers want what they perceive is the kudos for having made the art, but they don't want to try.
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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AI is inherently anti-human

Please stop using it
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This incredibly wonderfully queer Tarot deck is the one I’m working with this month and I love it. If you’re a Tarot person, may I recommend you treat yourself to @rosalarian.bsky.social’s marvelous deck?
Tarot
www.rosalarian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A friend of mine is a teacher and accidentally bought some AI art and got completely roasted for it by her students. The youth hate AI and it gives me some hope. The youth give me hope in general.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I really fucking love working on this comic. I love writing about resisting fascism and illustrating it with cute middle aged women. If you haven't read it yet, you should start!
magicalwomencomic.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I've got 99 problems and almost all of them could be solved with money. Money could absolutely buy me some happiness. Just a big hunk o cash.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I’m selling signed copies of Black Arms to Hold You Up on my store at daygloayhole.gumroad.com/l/blackarms. I also keep some mini-comics, stickers and older titles on there. Come through!
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I decided to do a nicer printing of these books instead of the PoD. If you already ordered, you're automatically upgraded, and if you haven't already ordered, go do it!
www.rosalarian.com/product-page...
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hulu refuses to understand that I do not want to keep watching High Potential, that it is one of the worst written shows I've ever seen and the handful of episodes I watched before I realized that have made me overall dumber for it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Abortion pills are safe, effective, and common. In fact, 63% of all abortions in the U.S. are medication abortions. #AbortionAccurate
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM