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Chris🎃

@ctian.bsky.social

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Head Chef of food themed publisher comicalfoods. I love playing ball and cooking up high concept story worlds for my creative projects ⬇️ #kumans #celestialfeast #JTFP https://www.comicalfoods.com

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · Apr 28

I cook stories and share recipes. Here's a few of my projects! A comic book, short story anthologies, and a card game.

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 4m

Climate fantasy! Very cool!

Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 5m

👀

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A Carew @justonecarew.bsky.social · 15m

Vantis wants to become the world’s first necromancer and finally step out of his brother’s shadow. Unfortunately, there are a few things getting in his way:

💸 the sudden loss of his research funding
🧙🏾 his ecoterrorist brother
⚔️ an impending war
🌊 environmental disasters

#questpit #querying #f

A ship sails through a starry night. The stars are perfectly reflected in the still sea below. A massive dark shadow swims below the surface. Yellow text at the top reads: The Ocean Rising, a Climate Fantasy by Annie Carew. Yellow text along the bottom reads: adult fantasy. 110K words. Complex family dynamics. Necromancy and other strange magic.

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Same here! Thank you!

Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Got me at monstrous fish. That 1st quote is🔥

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Milo (he/xe) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @milosometimes.bsky.social · 3h

THE LIGHTHOUSE + BLOOD IN THE BAYOU

Callum Point, a queer transman moves to a dead-end fishing town only to find it full of semi-mad townsfolk, monstrous fish, and an ever-present fog that whispers to him.

#QuestPit #Q #A #H

A moodboard consisting of 9 images. They're outlined in black.
The background is of a grey ocean.
Two images are quotes of black text on a grey background.
They read "I have the sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of the waves" and "The sea and I are long time lovers"
A foggy seaside shack, with an abandoned boat leaning against it.
A hand reaching through murky water.
On a piece of grey paper is a sketch of a compass in black ink.
A pile of grey fish.
On dark blue waves, with a dark blue sky and seagulls flying around it, is a fishing boat.
A view of a grey ocean through a porthole.

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Cool! Interesting body swapping concept!

Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Lovely presentation!

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Love it! I'm thirsty for more!

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Rachel Blaine @rachelblaine.bsky.social · 3h

ARE YOU THERE GOD IT’S ME MARGARET X TEEN WOLF

Her friends get Bat Mitzvah’s, Amara gets an uncontrollable hunger for blood.

🩸Tween vampire
🫆Dead bodies
👯‍♀️Mean girls

#questpit #MG #W #H #F

Blood; blood; blood oranges; crime scene; vampire; investigation; menstrual cup; tampons; pads

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you! Its my 1st time playing around with horror, so much to learn!

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Gus Ryer @gusryer.bsky.social · 12h

ASHES OF THE SUN ➕ HORIZON ZERO DAWN

When a machine god severs the world from ancient nanotech, two engineer priests, a blademaster & her warrior-poet twin must hunt it for a cure—and revenge.

Failure will doom the world to divine wrath. Success will be deadly.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF #F

A giant spaceship hovers over a dusty, walled fantasy cityscape. In the foreground, two figures stand in shadow looking out over the scene. The words "An Agent's Guide to CASCADE, by Gus Ryer" is along the top. His website, gusryer.com, is below.

A slide with metadata and story elements for CASCADE:

Genre: Science Fiction with Fantasy Elements
Wordcount: +-130,000

It shows the book covers for the following:
ASHES OF THE SUN, Django Wexler
THE ARCHIVE UNDYING, Emma Mieko Candon
ELDER RACE, Adrian Tchaikovsky
NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE, Claire North
Ps5's Horizon Zero Dawn

Below that are the following phrases:
Found family
Failed terraforming
A vast, hidden history
Nanotech magic system
Epic fantasy quest in a sci-fi world
Ancient mechanical gods
Arachnid mammals & guard drones
Sword (1) vs. Railguns (lots)

$A warrior woman with a winged helmet, armor, cape, and spear is along the right side of the image, fractured into triangles. Part of the following pitch is along the left: 2,000 years in the future, a galactic human empire fell, severing TRAPPIST-1e from other inhabited worlds before its terraforming could be completed. Wild nanotechnology ravaged the land, and civilization fell into a dark age. Eventually, the God Keepers—engineer priests who restored ancient nanotech—rose to power. While Lendi dreams of life outside the God Keepers, Falder is desperate to keep his best friend from abandoning their order—and him. But, when an ancient machine god crash-lands in a ball of fire and gray death, it severs Keepers from nanotech, plunging the world back into chaos. Meanwhile, Sedna and Renfrik have little patience for Keeper rules or mysticism. But, when a flood of nanites in the god’s wake consumes their home, they’re left with nothing to protect but each other...$

Chapter 1

THE RUSH IS ON! This Tuesday, Planetfall, Inc. announced it would join the rash of megacorps racing to deploy terraforming infrastructure through the newly stabilized Taurine Strait. Previously dominated by New World Corporation, the franchised development of pseudoterra worlds is slated to be the hot market sector of the twenty-fifth century.
-Excerpt from InvestSyder: Stellar Ed., June 15, 2398

The streets of Mahyan never fully slept. Night’s darkness, not yet broken by either the sun’s rise or the blinding, baleful Eye of Toros, wrapped Lendi more completely than her robes. Still, she couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. She wanted nothing more than to run.
An eager vendor barred her way with his stringy arm. “A fine morning calls for a fine meal, miss.” He smiled and fanned out a selection of skewered mutton and whalemeat wrapped in sea grass. Pungent, spiced oil dripped onto the dusty street.
Lendi glared at him, her legs practically vibrating with the..

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 3h

Celestial Feast ☄️
A team of offworld scientists investigate alien "whale falls" to save their planet from a great flood. By me & @imagine2create.bsky.social & @ryanresolute92.bsky.social

Full of:
👾 #Jellarks
🧑‍🚀 Divers
🦠 Virus
🌀 Storms
🕸️ Food Webs
☄️Celestial Events
🧊 Jelly

#Questpit #W #Sci-fi #H

Jellgrove cocnept art by Christian Ochoa showing alien jellyfish with a tree inside of it.

Jellark concept art by Ryan McCowan showing alien jellyfish designs

Jellopod concept art by Christian Ochoa showing an alien jellyfish/squid design

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 2d

#worldjellyfishday We working on an alien jellyfish sci-fi project called Celestial Feast! 🪼🪼🪼

Here's some of our concept art by @ctian.bsky.social and @ryanresolute92.bsky.social

Jellgrove concept art. Alien jellyfish creature with a tree growing inside of it. Art by Christian Ochoa

Alien jellyfish creature concept art by Ryan McCowan

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 23h

Gunship illustration for 'DarkSpace RPG' - launching on Kickstarter soon.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmi...

#RPG #DarkSpace #SciFi

@darkspacerpg.bsky.social

Black and white digital illustration of a Gunship spaceship. Central hull is ALL gun, and two further guns on each side.

Close up - Black and white digital illustration of a Gunship spaceship. Central hull is ALL gun, and two further guns on each side.

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 21h

🔥

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Luke Ridge (Commissions open✏️) @lri.bsky.social · 21h

Another oldie. A little colour idea, messing about with a design. ColErase pencil overlaid with Copic pens. Illustrated around 2020.

#Xenovember #handmade #pencilart #creaturedesign #monsters #colourart #scifi #Sciart #darkart #Alien #Xenomorph #pencilart

A bright blue xenomorph looks off into the distance. Flesh coloured tubes run about the sides of his head. A large sky blue beak is lined with serrated edges and a long yellow tongue.

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RyanM @ryanresolute92.bsky.social · 21h

Blade Bugs

Illustration of Kleavor with Scyther and Scizor behind him and to his sides

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Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

I just wrapped up a brand-new introductory adventure for Unworthy! Kick-start your first session with The Djinni's Lair -- a detailed adventure full of mysterious creatures, duplicitous NPCs, and a rich, desert-themed setting.

gomezwritesgames.itch.io/unworthy

#ttrpg #ruleslite #OSR #noAI

Product mock-ups of The Djinni's Lair, an adventure for Unworthy. The mock-ups show two-renders of the tri-fold adventure. The left mock-up features sections with adventure hooks, rumors, village encounters, loot, an adventure map, and room descriptions. The right mock-up features NPCs and the cover of the adventure, showing a blue-skinned djinni. Unworthy -- a TTRPG of Living Weapons and the dipshits that wield them. gomezwritesgames.itch.io

Product mock-up of The Djinni's Lair, an adventure for Unworthy. The mock-up shows a render of the tri-fold adventure. The left panel features enemies, including a fat-tailed scorpion, veiled chameleon, and a horned Viper. The center panel features NPCs. The cover of the adventure shows a blue-skinned djinni looking menacingly at the viewer.

Product mock-ups of the character sheet and enemy card template for Unworthy.

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 1d

Damn ville! 🔥

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 4d

progresss

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 1d

Coool

Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 2d

#worldjellyfishday We working on an alien jellyfish sci-fi project called Celestial Feast! 🪼🪼🪼

Here's some of our concept art by @ctian.bsky.social and @ryanresolute92.bsky.social

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Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 5d

Updated some website branding text for comicalfoods. Every year that passes comicalfoods evolves a lil bit. We used to cook up comics, then did stories. Now its projects.

Chris🎃 @ctian.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a writer. I write to do lists every day. I write a lot of worldbuilding. Started blog writing again. Maybe one day I'll write more stories.