@rickeydoesit.bsky.social
Writer & Illustrator - Xennial, Queer, Bipoc, Nd, Music lover. - Commissions open! DM me if interested - He/They
Rickey: (asking about her latest song) Do you think Mavis Staples… (loses train of thought)
Brian: Probably sometimes, but I don't think that's how she got her name.
SUCH a beautiful song. Not the kind of thing I typically come across, but I'm so happy I did!
12.12.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Name the last song you’ve heard
Calum Scott - Dancing On My Own(Tiësto Remix)
- "So far away but still so near. The lights come on, the music dies. But you don't see me standing here. I just came to say goodbye." #calumscott #tiësto #dancingonmyown #musicsky
Same to you! <3 <3 <3
12.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you!!! <3 <3 <3
12.12.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0YES!!! Me and my partner have been saying this daily since we saw it!
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Songs that just barely missed being on my 2025 mix playlists
Petey USA - Model Train Town
- My 2nd top played song according to Wrapped, despite not being the case according to Last.FM
"...I laid my head upon your beating heart." #peteyusa #modeltraintown #musicsky
Top played songs of November 2025
# 6 - 13 Plays - Mavis Staples - Beautiful Strangers
#mavisstaples #beautifulstrangers #topsongs #musicsky
Fall Playlist 2025 - Love Love Love*
Track 25 - David Byrne, Ghost Train Orchestra - Everybody Laughs
- "Everybody dances, everybody stops. Everybody wants what everybody's got." #davidbyrne #ghosttrainorchestra #everybodylaughs #musicsky
*See pinned post for full playlist
Name a song by this artist but not your absolute favourite
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
- The only song I know by him, but it's a staple in my family.
"Where can I find a woman like that?" #rickspringfield #jessesgirl #notyourfavourite #musicsky
The National - Light Years
- "Oh, the glory of it all was lost on me 'til I saw how hard it'd be to reach you." #thenational #lightyears #musicsky
ALSO, I think putting "quantity" limitations on myself will honestly make it better, like how Jaws is only good because they couldn't get the shark to work, so they had to shoot around it and make it this unseen entity which is what really makes Jaws JAWS. #rickeydoesit 6/6
11.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and your brain is satisfied, and you don't end up actually doing the thing. But for the first time in WHILE I feel hopeful, as if my dream is within my grasp again, as long as I'm willing to just grab it! Lol 5/6
11.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I mean, I still have to design all these characters in the specific art style of their era, so that's gonna be a LOT of flexing my art muscles. I dunno. I heard you're not supposed to tell people your plans and ideas, because you get the same dopamine hit as actually doing it, 4/6
11.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0most EPIC story in the *smallest* way possible. Now in the last 24 hours, I've got new layouts in my head, chapter breakdowns, all of which feel VERY manageable. So yeah, I can do this! As for focusing on my art... I can kinda do both? 3/6
11.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hell, for a while I toyed with making it a "choose your own adventure" book or card game! And yeah, it would work REALLY really well as one of those, and I'd love to be the person who did that... But I lost track of the heart of the original intention. I wanted to tell the biggest, wildest, 2/6
11.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
So I *think* I'm on the other side of this DEEP depression. And I've kinda come out with a great new way to approach Ramona & Clay. The problem was I started getting carried away... Too many alternate realities, too many possible paths... 1/6
11.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0So that means I'm stuck with "fat" and "very, very fat?" lol
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Of Monsters and Men - Love Love Love
- "Oh, 'cause you love, love, love when you know I can't love. You love, love, love when you know I can't love. You love, love, love when you know I can't love you." #ofmonstersandmen #lovelovelove #musicsky
person as if some other representational entity is talking about how great they are. I usually roll my eyes at this kind of thing so hard they might fall out of my face. But fuck, why not me? Why can't I be "amazing?" Fake it till you make it right? 2/2
11.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've decided, in 2026, I'm describing myself and everything I do as "amazing." Like "check out this amazing new illustration from renowned artist Rickey Does It." lol. I see people do this kind of thing all the time... Call themselves/their work amazing. Talk about themselves in the third 1/2
11.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
So Brian is having his friend make him an octopus themed venetian carnivale outfit, so i decided to take a stab at the design. Never did anything like this before, or even knew what a venetian carnivale dress looks like, but i think for a first draft, it looks pretty...... AMAZING! lol
11.12.2025 21:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh. I never heard this/them before. Thanks for sharing!
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Songs that just barely missed being on my 2025 mix playlists
Great Grandpa - Doom
- Reminds me of turn-of-the-century Radiohead. "It's funny how I need you. Damn." #greatgrandpa #doom #musicsky
Top played songs of November 2025
#7 - 13 Plays - Noah and the Whale - 2 Atoms In A Molecule
- "And if love is just a game, then how come it's no fun? And if love is just a game, how come I've never won?" #noahandthewhale #2atomsinamolecule #topsongs #musicsky
Revival Choir - Phone Calls
- "But for now your voice feels like an echo. When you hit the crescendo, my heart gets down so low." #revivalchoir #seanatkins #phonecalls #musicsky
Fall Playlist 2025 - Love Love Love*
Track 24 - Mavis Staples - Beautiful Strangers
- "But sleep easy, like baby Jesus in a manger. Oh, sleep easy like little Jesus, beautiful stranger." #mavisstaples #beautifulstrangers #musicsky
*See pinned post for full playlist
Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life
Day 90 - ABBA - Gold
- The end of the "I was watching a lot of Behind The Music and used a 5 for 1 deal to get a bunch of 'best of' albums" era. "Voulez-vous... Aha!" #abba #gold #musicchallenge #musicsky
One of the last great memories I have of my mom is my sister giving me a ride home, it's raining, and this song comes on the radio, and me, her, my sister and my partner all start singing together. <3 <3 <3
11.12.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It really is such a good album. Not a fan of live stuff from any artist, but the first half... MWAH!
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