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Ryuuza - Commissions open!
@ryuuza.bsky.social
1K followers 1.2K following 1.2K posts
Non-binary (they), 39, UK AuDHD artist.
💖 Final Fantasy, Soulsborne, horror

Web: ryuuza.co.uk
Commissions: vgen.co/Ryuuza
Patreon: patreon.com/ryuuza
Shop: http://ko-fi.com/ryuuza
Art tags: #ryuuzaart #friendpostingfriday
18+ alt: @ryuuzarotic.bsky.social
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NO NO NO NO NO NO STRIPE THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE IDEA
Why the hell would *anyone* want to remove human input from the dispute process?! Least of all PAY EXTRA for the privilege?!
Immediately logged in and switched this nonsense off. Read the damn room.
An email from Stripe. It reads: "Hello, We're excited to share that you'll get early access to Smart Disputes, starting in November 2025. We'll automatically enable this new product on your account Ryuuza. Smart Disputes will help you save time managing eligible disputes on card transactions and recover revenue – with no action needed from you. Benefits to you: Managing disputes is time-consuming and it can be difficult to know what evidence to submit. Smart Disputes helps: Save time: We automatically compile evidence and respond to disputes, so you don't have to spend time fighting them. Recover revenue: Our evidence is compiled using AI trained on real dispute data from the more than US$1 trillion in payments Stripe processes annually, to help you recover disputed revenue. Get started with no integration required: Unlike other automated dispute management solutions, Smart Disputes is built into Stripe, so there's no extra work to integrate. How it works: We'll notify you when you receive an eligible dispute on a card transaction and automatically compile evidence for you. If you don't take action before the dispute deadline, Stripe will automatically submit this evidence on your behalf. You can always choose to accept the dispute or counter it manually before the deadline. Only pay when you win: If you win a dispute using Smart Disputes, you'll pay 30% of the recovered disputed amount. If you don't win, then no fees for Smart Disputes apply. The fee for receiving a dispute still applies to all disputes, including ones countered with Smart Disputes. How to turn off auto-submission: If you don't want to use Smart Disputes, then you can turn off auto-submission in your Dashboard. If you opt out, you can still manually submit evidence generated by Smart Disputes once it is enabled for your account. If you have questions or would like to manage or close your account, please visit our support site – we're here to help. – The Stripe team."
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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???🐱???
My black and white cat watching a videogame cat on my TV. (We have low lighting in here, so her black parts are a little tricky to make out.)
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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DIVILMENT
My black and white cat, caught wrapping herself around a footstool and attacking the legs. The same cat, letting go of the footstool and trying to deny everything.
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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#IXtober day 31:
"How did you survive...?"
"I didn't have a choice.
I had to live.
I wanted to come home to you."

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Garnet and Zidane are reunited, after Zidane was thought to have died during the escape from Memoria.
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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#IXtober day 30:
"Why defy your fate? Is the will to live that powerful...?"

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. The eight heroes (silhouetted in the foreground) face off against Necron, the final boss and personification of death and despair.
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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#IXtober day 29:
The Dark Messenger

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Once they reach the crystal, the party (represented by Zidane in the foreground) faces off against Trance Kuja.
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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#IXtober day 28:
Memoria

#drawtober #FFIX #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. The party (Amarant, Eiko, Vivi, Zidane, Garnet, Steiner, Freya and Quina) stand facing the entrance to Memoria, the final dungeon.
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#IXtober day 27
"I won't let this world exist without me!"

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Kuja, now in his Trance form, begins his destruction of Terra.
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#IXtober day 26:
"You're not alone!"

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch, themed around Final Fantasy IX. Zidane has just discovered his origins as a Terran genome and the other party members rally round him; Garnet (with her hand on Zidane's shoulder), Vivi, Eiko, Quina, Steiner, Freya and Amarant (turned away, trying to look aloof). In the background, Garland, Zidane's creator, is silhouetted and facing away.
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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#IXtober day 25:
Journey to Terra.

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch, themed around Final Fantasy IX. The party's airship travels over the sea to Terra's entrance portal. In the background, are the four shrine guardians (Fire: Marilith, Earth: Lich, Wind: Tiamat and Water: Kraken), who the party had to defeat in order to unlock the portal's seal.
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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#IXtober day 24:
"Remember the way I was... for me."

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Garnet cuts off her hair with Zidane's dagger and lets it fly away in the breeze.
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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One of my all time favourite albums is currently a whole dollar on Bandcamp. If you like prog or power metal and haven't heard Suspyre, The Silvery Image is well worth a listen!
suspyre1.bandcamp.com/album/the-si...
Screenshot of a Facebook post from the band "Suspyre". The text reads: Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of our first album, *The Silvery Image.* To celebrate, we reduced the price on Bandcamp to $1! (We don't get any streaming royalties from this album, otherwise). If you want a CD, we still have hundreds left (and it's the 2008 remaster with a bonus track...which I should really upload to Bandcamp). " Underneath is a thumbnail with the album art for The Silvery Image.
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#IXtober day 23:
"O holy guardian, hear our prayer."

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Garnet and Eiko use their crystal fragments to summon Alexander, a guardian deity to help protect the kindgom of Alexandria. Two of its four wings appear from behind Alexandria castle as it emerges. The moon shines from above.
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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#IXtober day 22:
"And you, Brahne...
Your tragic role in this drama now comes to an end!"

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Kuja (foreground), on the back of a silver dragon, summons the Invincible (airship that looks like an eye with a target reticule, showing through the clouds) to turn Queen Brahne's Bahamut summon from an enemy into an ally. Underneath in the background, Brahne's warships are approaching the Iifa Tree from the sea, all about to be destroyed.
October 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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#IXtober day 21:
"MOG!"

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. After meeting Eiko and entering Madain Sari (ruined city with rocky outcrops), Eiko calls out for her Moogle companions. Mog, the one flying above, is the last to arrive.
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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#IXtober day 20:
"I... so happy..."

#drawtober #FFIX #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Quina and Vivi have their "wedding" at Conde Petie, standing on a platform on a stationary boat.
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"Hey old friend, it's been a while..."

#FFIX25FanArt #FFIX #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
A painting of a scene based on Final Fantasy IX. This depicts a head canon scene post-game, after Zidane reads Vivi's letter. Vivi has since passed away and Zidane visits his memorial in the Black Mage Village cemetery - his hat and iconic blue coat are draped over his mage staff. The sun is shining brightly from above and the coat blows gently in the breeze. Zidane, hands behind his head, greets him with a loving, yet slightly sad smile on his face.
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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#IXtober day 19:
"My friend who knows lots of things told me that this is what "death" was, and we had to bury him."

#drawtober #ffix #FinalFantasyIX #RyuuzaArt
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Vivi discovers the cemetery in the Black Mage Village and the two mages either side of him are explaining that they bury their friends here when they "stop moving". In the background are various grave markers, using clothes and possessions of their friends.
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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#IXtober day 18:
"Odin, come to me!!!"

#drawtober #ffix #finalfantasyix #ryuuzaart
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Queen Brahne has summoned Odin, who descends from the sky and throws an exploding spear at the Kingdom of Cleyra below. Silhouetted in the foreground is Queen Brahne's airship, the Red Rose.
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Submitted my FFIX Fan Art Project piece! ;u;

Patrons and Ko-fi supporters get an early preview before I post it publicly next week. All support helps me continue creating as a disabled artist, so please consider doing so!
patreon.com/ryuuza
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Screenshot confirming my submission to the Square Enix official Final Fantasy IX Fan Art Project. The URL underneath (https://sqex.to/9BOPx) leads to the FFIX 25th anniversary celebration page, with all the different projects, including a link to the fan art submission page.
October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#IXtober day 17:
"Overcome by grief, the princess must sleep for a hundred years..."
#drawtober #ffix #finalfantasyix #ryuuzaart
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Queen Brahne looks on as Kuja puts Princess Garnet to sleep.
October 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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#IXtober day 16:
"Freya! Where you been?!"

#drawtober #ffix #finalfantasyix #ryuuzaart
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Prince Puck has been grabbed and held up by an antlion (monster in the background). Freya has arrived just in time to help Zidane and Vivi rescue Puck.
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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#IXtober day 15:
"Ironic, isn't it? Looking up at the sky from inside a globe."

#drawtober #ffix #finalfantasyix #ryuuzaart
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Dr. Tot and Garnet are on the inside of a broken globe of Gaia, inside Dr. Tot's tower.
October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#IXtober day 14:
"How ridiculously weak..."

#drawtober #ffix #finalfantasyix #ryuuzaart
Digital black and white ink sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. Beatrix stares down at Zidane and Freya's defeated party (out of shot), while "the mysterious man" Kuja prepares to leave on his silver dragon.
October 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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#IXtober day 13:
Burmecia

#drawtober #ffix #finalfantasyix #ryuuzaart
Digital black and white sketch of a scene from Final Fantasy IX. It's raining heavily, as Freya looks upon the ruined Kingdom of Burmecia, from the opening archway.
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM