Rue Sparks (They/Them)
@ruesparks.bsky.social
📚 Author 🎨 Artist ❤️🩹 Advocate
Queer Adventurer | Stubborn Spoonie | Mental Health Rebel “Just be kind.”
https://www.ruesparks.com/links
Queer Adventurer | Stubborn Spoonie | Mental Health Rebel “Just be kind.”
https://www.ruesparks.com/links
I am late to the acrylic marker party and I’m so ashamed. It’s all the things I love about acrylic and none of the things I hate??
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I am late to the acrylic marker party and I’m so ashamed. It’s all the things I love about acrylic and none of the things I hate??
I am making anti-holiday cards and #neurodivergent / #mentalHealth / #chronicIllness bookmarks because why the hell not at this point.
2025 was a pre-apocalyptic shite show and I'm coming to terms with my own issues with emotional blindness and lack of body awareness.
www.etsy.com/shop/ruesparks
2025 was a pre-apocalyptic shite show and I'm coming to terms with my own issues with emotional blindness and lack of body awareness.
www.etsy.com/shop/ruesparks
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I am making anti-holiday cards and #neurodivergent / #mentalHealth / #chronicIllness bookmarks because why the hell not at this point.
2025 was a pre-apocalyptic shite show and I'm coming to terms with my own issues with emotional blindness and lack of body awareness.
www.etsy.com/shop/ruesparks
2025 was a pre-apocalyptic shite show and I'm coming to terms with my own issues with emotional blindness and lack of body awareness.
www.etsy.com/shop/ruesparks
No one:
Me in my copyright page: So fun fact, the Luddites weren’t really anti ALL technology. They were pro workers rights and evaluating technology based on whether it increased the quality of the product and made workers jobs easier. Funny, huh? I wonder why that would be relevant right now…
Me in my copyright page: So fun fact, the Luddites weren’t really anti ALL technology. They were pro workers rights and evaluating technology based on whether it increased the quality of the product and made workers jobs easier. Funny, huh? I wonder why that would be relevant right now…
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
No one:
Me in my copyright page: So fun fact, the Luddites weren’t really anti ALL technology. They were pro workers rights and evaluating technology based on whether it increased the quality of the product and made workers jobs easier. Funny, huh? I wonder why that would be relevant right now…
Me in my copyright page: So fun fact, the Luddites weren’t really anti ALL technology. They were pro workers rights and evaluating technology based on whether it increased the quality of the product and made workers jobs easier. Funny, huh? I wonder why that would be relevant right now…
“What kind of #neurospicy are you?”
Me: *researching the evolution of European helmets on a random Sunday*
Me: *researching the evolution of European helmets on a random Sunday*
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“What kind of #neurospicy are you?”
Me: *researching the evolution of European helmets on a random Sunday*
Me: *researching the evolution of European helmets on a random Sunday*
Treatment for my hearing loss failed. It’s permanent.
The constant ringing in my ear is likely due to my brain looking for auditory input that isn’t there. It’s may or may not eventually fade.
Sometimes I think about how so much of growing older is learning how to lose.
#artProcess #HearingLoss
The constant ringing in my ear is likely due to my brain looking for auditory input that isn’t there. It’s may or may not eventually fade.
Sometimes I think about how so much of growing older is learning how to lose.
#artProcess #HearingLoss
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Treatment for my hearing loss failed. It’s permanent.
The constant ringing in my ear is likely due to my brain looking for auditory input that isn’t there. It’s may or may not eventually fade.
Sometimes I think about how so much of growing older is learning how to lose.
#artProcess #HearingLoss
The constant ringing in my ear is likely due to my brain looking for auditory input that isn’t there. It’s may or may not eventually fade.
Sometimes I think about how so much of growing older is learning how to lose.
#artProcess #HearingLoss
More #characterArt for #Wildforged with @mementoviverepress.bsky.social
Artists are always chasing the feeling where we get so immersed in the process, ie “flow.”
Working on this #illustration everything just… clicked. Like it was something I’d already made and I was retracing the shape of.
Artists are always chasing the feeling where we get so immersed in the process, ie “flow.”
Working on this #illustration everything just… clicked. Like it was something I’d already made and I was retracing the shape of.
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
More #characterArt for #Wildforged with @mementoviverepress.bsky.social
Artists are always chasing the feeling where we get so immersed in the process, ie “flow.”
Working on this #illustration everything just… clicked. Like it was something I’d already made and I was retracing the shape of.
Artists are always chasing the feeling where we get so immersed in the process, ie “flow.”
Working on this #illustration everything just… clicked. Like it was something I’d already made and I was retracing the shape of.
I had the honor of working on a couple character #illustrations for #Wildforged with @mementoviverepress.bsky.social Here’s a process breakdown!
Every once in a while you get a project that just hits different. Something about this book, these characters, this moment helped my own art grow ❤️🔥
Every once in a while you get a project that just hits different. Something about this book, these characters, this moment helped my own art grow ❤️🔥
October 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I had the honor of working on a couple character #illustrations for #Wildforged with @mementoviverepress.bsky.social Here’s a process breakdown!
Every once in a while you get a project that just hits different. Something about this book, these characters, this moment helped my own art grow ❤️🔥
Every once in a while you get a project that just hits different. Something about this book, these characters, this moment helped my own art grow ❤️🔥
CW #Death #Grief #Widow
16 years since we said “I do” under a lighthouse. 20 hours from home on an unfamiliar beach, removed from the vagaries of college, family, health. Uncertain of where we were going but certain of each other.
8 years since I said my last goodbye, though she never heard it.-
16 years since we said “I do” under a lighthouse. 20 hours from home on an unfamiliar beach, removed from the vagaries of college, family, health. Uncertain of where we were going but certain of each other.
8 years since I said my last goodbye, though she never heard it.-
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
WIP #animation based off World’s First Cinema song “The Underneath.”
I’m relearning animation in new software after 6 years of being so physically restricted I couldn’t manage it.
#artist #illustration #mentalhealth #depression
I’m relearning animation in new software after 6 years of being so physically restricted I couldn’t manage it.
#artist #illustration #mentalhealth #depression
September 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
WIP #animation based off World’s First Cinema song “The Underneath.”
I’m relearning animation in new software after 6 years of being so physically restricted I couldn’t manage it.
#artist #illustration #mentalhealth #depression
I’m relearning animation in new software after 6 years of being so physically restricted I couldn’t manage it.
#artist #illustration #mentalhealth #depression
#Animation test for Love Story of a Hero and Villain.
I was inspired by how charcoal discs look when you light them, a line of spark runs through it.
This #book dissects tropes, so the character is both a Shadow Walker and associated with fire. Can’t get ashes without some fire first 🙃
I was inspired by how charcoal discs look when you light them, a line of spark runs through it.
This #book dissects tropes, so the character is both a Shadow Walker and associated with fire. Can’t get ashes without some fire first 🙃
September 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#Animation test for Love Story of a Hero and Villain.
I was inspired by how charcoal discs look when you light them, a line of spark runs through it.
This #book dissects tropes, so the character is both a Shadow Walker and associated with fire. Can’t get ashes without some fire first 🙃
I was inspired by how charcoal discs look when you light them, a line of spark runs through it.
This #book dissects tropes, so the character is both a Shadow Walker and associated with fire. Can’t get ashes without some fire first 🙃
Just uh.. leaving this here:
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Just uh.. leaving this here:
Did I mention it’s epistolary? 🙃
Prose, illustration, comics, news articles, texts, letters, animations… nothing is off limits.
Because apparently I am playing “gotta catch em all” with storytelling formats and now that I’ve published a novella, novel, and collections I got bored of them.
Prose, illustration, comics, news articles, texts, letters, animations… nothing is off limits.
Because apparently I am playing “gotta catch em all” with storytelling formats and now that I’ve published a novella, novel, and collections I got bored of them.
September 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Did I mention it’s epistolary? 🙃
Prose, illustration, comics, news articles, texts, letters, animations… nothing is off limits.
Because apparently I am playing “gotta catch em all” with storytelling formats and now that I’ve published a novella, novel, and collections I got bored of them.
Prose, illustration, comics, news articles, texts, letters, animations… nothing is off limits.
Because apparently I am playing “gotta catch em all” with storytelling formats and now that I’ve published a novella, novel, and collections I got bored of them.
BWAHAHAHA- Sorry I amuse myself sometimes.
TFW the art decides what it wants and you are but a hesitant passenger/kidnapped by the narrative and just go along with it cuz why the f not…
…Just me?
#AnimationSky #ArtSky
TFW the art decides what it wants and you are but a hesitant passenger/kidnapped by the narrative and just go along with it cuz why the f not…
…Just me?
#AnimationSky #ArtSky
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
BWAHAHAHA- Sorry I amuse myself sometimes.
TFW the art decides what it wants and you are but a hesitant passenger/kidnapped by the narrative and just go along with it cuz why the f not…
…Just me?
#AnimationSky #ArtSky
TFW the art decides what it wants and you are but a hesitant passenger/kidnapped by the narrative and just go along with it cuz why the f not…
…Just me?
#AnimationSky #ArtSky
When you’re working on an animation to a song about depression, but you’re also contrary AF and love color.
N-n-n-n-Neon Sadness 🙃
#ArtSky #AnimationSky
N-n-n-n-Neon Sadness 🙃
#ArtSky #AnimationSky
September 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When you’re working on an animation to a song about depression, but you’re also contrary AF and love color.
N-n-n-n-Neon Sadness 🙃
#ArtSky #AnimationSky
N-n-n-n-Neon Sadness 🙃
#ArtSky #AnimationSky
Why do we love villains?
This is a love story to the messy, convoluted, sometimes toxic and sometimes introspective relationships between villains and heroes.
Keep updated on “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (and if you’d like, pledge to keep me going!) on my #Patreon #bookSky #writerSky
This is a love story to the messy, convoluted, sometimes toxic and sometimes introspective relationships between villains and heroes.
Keep updated on “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (and if you’d like, pledge to keep me going!) on my #Patreon #bookSky #writerSky
August 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Why do we love villains?
This is a love story to the messy, convoluted, sometimes toxic and sometimes introspective relationships between villains and heroes.
Keep updated on “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (and if you’d like, pledge to keep me going!) on my #Patreon #bookSky #writerSky
This is a love story to the messy, convoluted, sometimes toxic and sometimes introspective relationships between villains and heroes.
Keep updated on “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (and if you’d like, pledge to keep me going!) on my #Patreon #bookSky #writerSky
It’s heeeere! Working on a new multi book project, Arche//TYPE, all in a mix of visuals and prose. Queer focused sci-fi and fantasy, but also meta AF.
First installment is “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (for fans of enemies to lovers to enemies to…)
Find out more on my Patreon!
First installment is “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (for fans of enemies to lovers to enemies to…)
Find out more on my Patreon!
August 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It’s heeeere! Working on a new multi book project, Arche//TYPE, all in a mix of visuals and prose. Queer focused sci-fi and fantasy, but also meta AF.
First installment is “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (for fans of enemies to lovers to enemies to…)
Find out more on my Patreon!
First installment is “Love Story of a Hero and Villain” (for fans of enemies to lovers to enemies to…)
Find out more on my Patreon!
… I have a feeling I’m going to regret starting #animating again sooner rather than later.
My body is perhaps not ready but I am stubborn AF
My body is perhaps not ready but I am stubborn AF
July 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
… I have a feeling I’m going to regret starting #animating again sooner rather than later.
My body is perhaps not ready but I am stubborn AF
My body is perhaps not ready but I am stubborn AF
All my #writing peeps, the page for the Pause at the Threshold Summer Solstice Mini-Retreat is live!
Links to all events and newsletter signup, and full event details. 100% free event!
Kickoff is this Saturday for the Summer Solstice 👀
www.ruesparks.com/pause-mini-r...
Links to all events and newsletter signup, and full event details. 100% free event!
Kickoff is this Saturday for the Summer Solstice 👀
www.ruesparks.com/pause-mini-r...
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
All my #writing peeps, the page for the Pause at the Threshold Summer Solstice Mini-Retreat is live!
Links to all events and newsletter signup, and full event details. 100% free event!
Kickoff is this Saturday for the Summer Solstice 👀
www.ruesparks.com/pause-mini-r...
Links to all events and newsletter signup, and full event details. 100% free event!
Kickoff is this Saturday for the Summer Solstice 👀
www.ruesparks.com/pause-mini-r...
May 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
May 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
ALL OF IN THE US RIGHT NOW…THIS CAME OUT WHEN?!
May 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
ALL OF IN THE US RIGHT NOW…THIS CAME OUT WHEN?!
WHY ARE THESE SO TOMELY WHAT THE EVER LOVING F-
AAAAAAAAAGH
AAAAAAAAAGH
May 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
WHY ARE THESE SO TOMELY WHAT THE EVER LOVING F-
AAAAAAAAAGH
AAAAAAAAAGH
“As for Greece, Berthold rightly observes that ‘invulnerability is only there to be broken or circumvented’; in other words, the mythical logic of invulnerability is that it should be incomplete.”
-Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts, Richard Buxton
Follow for “Hubris” updates!
-Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts, Richard Buxton
Follow for “Hubris” updates!
April 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“As for Greece, Berthold rightly observes that ‘invulnerability is only there to be broken or circumvented’; in other words, the mythical logic of invulnerability is that it should be incomplete.”
-Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts, Richard Buxton
Follow for “Hubris” updates!
-Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts, Richard Buxton
Follow for “Hubris” updates!
More Hubris Project. Playing with style as opposed to the painterly direction.
IDEK exactly where this project is going TBH. Something-something-the Mighty Dead-something-something-Character Archetypes-something-something-ichor & the hubris of mortals...
Damn fun though. #indieartist #indieauthor
IDEK exactly where this project is going TBH. Something-something-the Mighty Dead-something-something-Character Archetypes-something-something-ichor & the hubris of mortals...
Damn fun though. #indieartist #indieauthor
April 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
More Hubris Project. Playing with style as opposed to the painterly direction.
IDEK exactly where this project is going TBH. Something-something-the Mighty Dead-something-something-Character Archetypes-something-something-ichor & the hubris of mortals...
Damn fun though. #indieartist #indieauthor
IDEK exactly where this project is going TBH. Something-something-the Mighty Dead-something-something-Character Archetypes-something-something-ichor & the hubris of mortals...
Damn fun though. #indieartist #indieauthor