Rook

Rook

@rookily.bsky.social

writer, artist, weird creature in the forest https://linktr.ee/rookily 🏳️‍⚧️ I'm very aware of politics and social problems; I just don't post about them here.

388 Followers 204 Following 283 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 years ago

hey I just met you
and this is crazy
the ocean is a bottomless void
and the idea of an "ocean floor" is one of many comforting lies that we tell children so they will be less afraid to continue living on this planet

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4 months ago
Bird sitting among some flowers, study

#dailyart 59: birb study

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4 months ago

I love when Halloween ends and the looming jingle bells of the holidays reminds me that 2 of 4 of our family unit's parents have chosen to be estranged for dumbass reasons. And I just gotta live with that around family dinner holidays. It's weird and never ends.

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4 months ago

is that what that fucking is? I've had a "cold" for like two weeks and haven't been able to focus. thanks for putting words to a problem.

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4 months ago
The meme depicts Jason Momoa tagged as "acute sinusitis with brain fog" sneaking up on unsuspecting Henry Cavill tagged as "me about to finally have time to write"

It's that time of year again. 🤧

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4 months ago

when the #WIPSnips reveals the book as a #LitRPG -- The 5th Hero is a Beast on #RoyalRoad

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4 months ago
a young miss sits in an arm chair tilting a book to her ghostly companion, who's pulling the "arm over back of chair not quite around shoulder" move. all the portraits hung on the wall look on in excitement of this development. go for it girls!!!

IT'S NOVEMBER but I'm not ready to give up the ghost just yet!! Go for it young miss!! 💚 #spookycute #ocs

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1 year ago
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Normalize this reaction
#art #artists

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4 months ago
Death tarot card. the grim reaper in black gothic armour rides atop a pale horse bearing a black standard. the social classes cower in fear before him, a priest, a soldier, a king lies fallen at his horses feet. a burning city can be seen in the distance and a river of blood is flowing past. a crimson coat is trailing behind the reaper.

. Death .
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Skelly in a sally #tarot #illustration #artsky #art

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4 months ago

Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.

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4 months ago

Sweet, I found my Pumpkin King👇🎃👑

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4 months ago

tlayudas are so good and yours sounds delicious. the pork belly is genius

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4 months ago
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Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai

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4 months ago
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Housing Haunts Me If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.

This piece from me about how as a millennial, housing anxiety haunts me, and I can't get enough haunted house stories. WITH incredible @meowwwls.bsky.social freelance illustration; such a joy to work with and got me and this piece INSTANTLY.

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4 months ago

A source familiar w/ internal workings at MasterCard notes the company does not plan to recruit additional call center workers for the Christmas season, as MasterCard does not expect higher call volume than usual. A resurgence of calls re censorship during the busy season would be huge strategically

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4 months ago

Everyday they buy a new pumpkin on the way home while they're giggling.

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4 months ago

I love this so much!

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4 months ago
Art of witches with bird skull heads, riding brooms at night

Day 28 for #repostober

The witches

#darkart

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4 months ago

Have you seen that it's a genuinely held belief for some AI techbros that if Good!Techbro doesn't make the inevitably punishing AI Overlord, that a Bad!Techbro will do it first, and it'll be much worse?

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4 months ago

I don't remember if I followed up this moment with the inevitable full-body effort it took to remove taloned fingers from leather gloves with holes poked into the end. #WIPSnips - The 5th Hero is a Beast on #RoyalRoad

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4 months ago
woman wearing a kind of dress made of ropes & light fabric. she is playing a strange musical instrument.

the full bard. you guys deserve this

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4 months ago
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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.

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4 months ago

several people living in my head and they’re all grabbing my heart and eyeballs and other such organs and wringing em out like a washcloth

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4 months ago

somehow I have AI bros following me so just a QUICK reminder I do not play that game, fuck all the way off with your AI slop. I do everything with my brain, and I'm happy to continue to utilize my "muscles" to draw and write.

Even if my body is in pain. :)

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4 months ago
cover for Water Kanin, featuring a glass man with a prism head standing in the water

Water Kanin publishes in 3 weeks! This is the 3rd book of my Glass Kanin series, featuring a man whose soul gets stuck in a bottle of ink (and that ink is alive and not interested in sharing his soul).

If you'd like to be an #ARC reader, you can grab a copy below!

dl.bookfunnel.com/ffehwffh3z

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4 months ago
Art of a red figure with a horse skull head and antlers. The figure holds a lantern and a staff. Night sky in background.

Day 27 for #repostober

Not-quite-Mari-Lwyd

#darkart

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4 months ago
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StoryBake by Tiny Ghost Chef Games A Baking-Adventure TTRPG

Oh no! The Tiny Ghost Chef is haunting my Itch page! He’s made StoryBake 50% off from now until Halloween night when he gets sent back to the spirit realm bakery! tiny-ghost-chef-games.itch.io/storybake

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4 months ago
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A free bird 🪶

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4 months ago
Xena x Callisto fanart from https://www.patreon.com/laurenknight Xena is standing over Callisto warning her to stay down. Callisto says “Gladly.”

Friday night Xena x Callisto from my patreon www.patreon.com/laurenknight

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4 months ago
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This is one of my favorites, so I'm surprised I hadn't posted it here yet

Study of a Wolf Conservation Center video, that I painted sometime in 2022

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