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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
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
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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.
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 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 ❤️‍🔥
October 4, 2025 at 6:22 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
September 28, 2025 at 7:36 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 🙃
September 27, 2025 at 6:04 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
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
August 30, 2025 at 12:58 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!
August 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“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!
April 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM