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Ariel Slamet Ries

@arielries.bsky.social

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Trundling sentient eggplant. Comics makerer, Ignatz award-winner, author of witchycomic.com Buy Strange Bedfellows and find me elsewhere: https://www.arielries.com/links/ Repped by @lindacamacho.bsky.social they / them

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · Oct 25

Hi! I’m Ariel Slamet Ries, an Australian-Indonesian cartoonist, illustrator, and eggplant. Prone to doing Bits. Interested in de-westernising SFF. My new graphic novel Strange Bedfellows is coming out in March 2025! See my socials and preorder it here: www.arielries.com/links/
Projects in thread ⬇️

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 2h

*guy who doesn't know what mochi is* hey can you get me some of those little foreskin icecreams

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3h

this would be tje "uber eats breaking point" for me i think

Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 6h

me as a 12 year old

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1d

This is such an important thing to remember - ceasefire or not, Palestinians are still without food, shelter, or medical supplies.

They still need help - you can donate to support multiple families here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

kind of incredible mouth horror tech in that one

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

yay!!

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ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 3d

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

i am glad people are enjoying #mycrabs so much. i drew them yesterday because i was feeling very burnt out on drawing only for work and wanted to remind myself that i love mark making for the sake of it

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

daddy dom is the fantasy of there being a type of man who is both responsible and competent

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

crabs

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 3d

crabs

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 4d

that's two employees that i can afford to feed (bugs that get trapped in their webs on the way to the green bin)

Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 4d

my ops resent me because I'm living large (one house spider in my kitchen window and one house spider in my bathroom window)

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 4d

yeah i want to go to the sponge store...

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 4d

WOWWW

Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 5d

eating icecream on a chilly evening then having a hot shower right after is literally what life is about. has anyone heard of this

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 5d

jake i have an entire page in my next book dedicated to the concept of "wet snacks and dry snacks" we need to have a symposium

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Joshua Santospirito @joshuasantospirito.com · 5d

Pitches open at Island magazine for comics to be published in 2026: islandmag.com/submit #comics #graphicnarratives

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 6d

'Conference of Zionists Will Colonise Palestine' - June 20, 1899, 124 years, 3 months and 17 days before October 7, 2023

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 6d

well to be fair they're implying here that she's yet to find her courage.

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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 6d

you should buy my book and encourage your friends to buy my book so they'll let me make the third one. the pitch for the third one is really really good and i want to make it.

it's october so it's a seasonal read~!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/taylo...

Hunger’s Bite

A specter is haunting the Atlantic! After growing up together on the luxurious SS Lark, Neeta Pandey and Emery Botwright are ready to start their lives. Emer...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 7d

idk, it seems quite timely to be showing radicals and activists as imperfect and thorny but still sympathetic and ultimately human, given everything happening in the world

Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 7d

honestly i think one of the real strengths of the film is that it does not feel didactic, it does not read as a political screed, it is a character driven film that is deeply interested in humanising those who choose to participate in revolution, warts and all

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 7d

the niche of people who are deeply unhappy that one battle after another isn't radical enough is so fascinating to me... thinking the 175 million dollar hollywood movie would be a radical leftist text is kind of a losing chess to a dog situation im afraid

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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 7d

look at my memes boy

Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 8d

strange bedfellows out of context