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zakkarii
@zakkarii.bsky.social
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Artist and queer romantasy author that plays games and tells stories. [they/him]

One half of Travelers of the Veil:
@veiltravelers.bsky.social
My Bestie: @cheekighost.bsky.social

🔞 || https://zakkarii.art
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Drinking eggnog out of the carton while cutting out maps and paper miniatures for my first #Drakonym session this weekend, what a good evening

#ttrpg
A line up of vague and simple characters printed on paper and cut out with a folded tab, so they stand up. They stand on a printed tabletop RPG battle map and a cutting mat.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Next video is a longer one 👀 Juuuuuust under 40min!
Timeline from DaVinci Resolve of a video after editing. There's a peek of a character sketch at the top in the video preview.
April 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Because I haven't dipped into enough projects...I got a set of gouache paints yesterday to finally try my hand at them.
Gouache swatches. Primary color gradients and some strokes of various mixed colors.
April 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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"What are you up to now, Zakkarii? Working on that book draft?"

Hahaha..........ha.......................yes....totally the book draft.......yep.....
WIP screenshot of an Affinity Publisher workspace. There's two tables of color swatches (reds and oranges), labeled as such with their matching hex codes. Text says the color family, and to roll a d12 dice.
April 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I have a new short story you can download for free in exchange for signing up to my newsletter!

It is...
📙 6,700 words
❤️ A Brief M/M #romantasy adventure
🔥 An HEA with spicy epilogue

Sign up here:
www.zakkarii.art
Cover art for "The Rogue and the Witch", a short M/M story by Zakkarii Aarlen. Depicts a man in black with a sleeveless tunic, scarred arms and face, and short "rogueish" black hair (badumtss). He's grinning at a paler man in a green cardigan with witch-y hatch, long pale hair, and gloves. He's holding a blue vase with a striped plant.
April 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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No joke, I've almost finished my book cover!! Have to apply the text still and any other final adjustments.
Blurry image of two male characters with dark blue transparent overlay and text that says "Coming soon..." Background image is blurry enough to not really distinguish anything besides a brunette guy and one with gray hair
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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new #PNGTuber form just dropped
Stylized chibi person with blue hair and shaved brown sides wearing a black shirt, pants, shoes, and gloves. The tshirt has a color wheel. The person is wearing a dark blue veil with gold glitter, and it has a star and moon dangling off the corners of the veil. They are holding a sword.
March 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Stop everything! I took a really good cat photo!!! I didn't even edit this one, I'm amazed.

Starring @cheekighost.bsky.social 's void cat 🥰
A black cat loafs on an office chair. In the background is a snow covered patch of grass and a pine tree, as seen through a patio door with vertical blinds opened. It's a soft image with low contrast and cozy vibes.
January 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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THEY'RE HERE. (Story Engine deck and backstory expansion already owned before this photo)
Photo features the following Story Engine deck boxes: Deck of Worlds Lore Master's Deck Story Engine Bridge expansions for all 3 decks Fantasy world expansion Humble Roots backstory expansion
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Cooking!
Very rough pencil sketch of an outlaw, gender not defined. No facial features, just vague clothing and build.
January 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT

I am SO excited for this, YES.
Folding mini table with booklet stapler, bone folder, and printed booklet of "The Devil They Buried", a ttrpg by Kienna Shaw.
January 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Hmmm I don't see those options even after downloading the Google calendar app.
Google calendar details
January 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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"If I sketch the cover out, maybe I'll start my book's 2nd draft..."

We'll see if that line of thinking gets me going. I'd like to get going on it, and have it published in April.
A grayscale rough sketch of two vaguely humanoid figures with glowing balls floating around them and poorly written "Mage Heart" text on top of it.
January 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Not the final resting place for our stash (waiting to make the old printer vanish). Looking forward to making this collection grow this year. One of my goals is to save up enough rewards at the local game shop to buy a Big Board Game.

Dunno which one yet, but it'll be BIG.
2 stacks of games, starting with left stack: Agatha Christie's Death on the Cards Vaalbara Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth Chronicles of Crime: 2400 Monopoly: Millennium Edition Right stack: Catan 5-6 Player Extension Catan base game Anna's Roundtable (fan made Fire Emblem game) Scythe
January 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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During cleaning, I dug this up and attempted to give it a good polish. This game has SEEN things... 😂
The metal case of Monopoly: Millennium Edition. It's got oxidation/dirt spots all over it and the metal is dented in many places.
January 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Aries is making good on his resolution to nap more, apparently.
Big gray cat with white fluffy stomach and armpits lays on his back snoozing. His limbs are outstretched, and his fangs are poking out.
January 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Thanks! Really what I meant by "silly" was that any sci-fi coming from me is going to be more like Star Wars instead of something "hard sci-fi". I'm not very good at being funny on demand, so it'd be as serious a story as anything else I do.

And grappler ships look a little silly. 😆
The El Dorado, a yellow sleek spaceship, locking arms against the Outlaw Star, a red spaceship with a big spiky behind. Literal arms, by the way. Metal arms have clasped "fists" as they enter a power struggle. (Source: the anime "Outlaw Star")
December 31, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

The energy to embrace the cringe and do whatever I want! I'm gonna make mistakes and make stuff and have fun.
Connor (CDawgVA) in an extremely poorly fitting cosplay of some anime waifu, resulting in a basically shirtless pasty Welsh man in a skirt. However, this is from a recent vid that had a bunch of clips from his earlier YouTube days of wearing cheap cosplays. He's a successful Youtuber now. These "cringey" old videos helped him get to where he is now.
December 28, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Played a couple games of "Lord of the Rings: Duel of Middle Earth" with @cheekighost.bsky.social tonight. She beat me twice, but I almost won the 2nd game if not for a final play that resulted in her Hobbits reaching Mount Doom. Definitely fun and will play it again.
Board game with cards and tokens spread out across a green Christmas tablecloth
December 26, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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Interviewer: Why do you want this job?

Me: So I can commission and wear this outfit to a pool or beach somewhere on occasion
Benoit from the movie Glass Onion, who's wearing his swim attire that consists of a blue/white striped shirt and matching shorts in a material similar to Terry cloth.
December 22, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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When a game gives you information on the setting's calendar but not an actual calendar so you spend 20min in Sheets making one because your peanut brain has a hard time visualizing a timeline without visual aids
A spreadsheet calendar for one year in Covens of Midnight's setting
December 13, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head.
Jurassic Park cast looking at the big noodle neck Brontosaurus eating leafs omnomnom
December 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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Added a new node to the Reynir character map this morning 😁

Green crew formed an unintentional pentagram, what are they up to...

#ReynirAP
A node map in Obsidian. Colorful circles connected by lines. There are no labels.
December 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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-enemies she's fighting, and what location she's in. It also tells her what week, season, and year it is, and what her character's current "quest" is. The cards have art, NPC ones say who they are. Cheeki is able to move the cards around to her liking. (I'm using Roll20 Jumpgate beta)
Black card with bright red border and red/white text. Has a black/white portrait of a man with light hair, tan skin, stubble beard, white tunic, and vest with intricate patterns. Text says: Lorenz (he/him) Passive NPC Age: 43 | Trade: Architect Grandson-in-law to Yanas. He's in charge of construction in Reynir. There's a Bond track of 5 empty circles. The Roll20 Jumpgate beta lets the GM place assets outside the board boundaries. This board has cards on it and the ones not in play are outside the edges, hidden from the player. This helps avoid the resizing issue that Roll20 has when dropping art on the table, because the art is here already but out of view, and not cluttering the GM layer.
December 5, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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*caresses screen longingly*

One day...I will run such fun scenarios with you...
Square Enix store page showing the $59.99 Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG starter set
December 5, 2024 at 3:31 AM