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Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Artist, writer, enjoyer of horror, gothic, and weird fiction
NO AI/NFT/repost without credit
@/icarussarts and @/icarusswrites on Instagram
Carrd link: https://icarussarts.carrd.co/

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Icarus (I. C. Aruss) @icarussarts.bsky.social · Jul 29

Carrd link in bio! Check for vampire project, scroll to the bottom of the page. Also, up for review on storygraph

There's a possibility that the epub version won't work. I strongly recommend that you get the pdf version instead

#indiebooks #horror #digitalart

An image announcing the release of I. C. Aruss's book debut, Stanza About The Purgatory, against a red background.

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Derek

@drawsderek.bsky.social

👀 next year!

ondeckbook.carrd.co

#selfpublishedauthor #t4t #queerbooks

December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM

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myuki ☢🔪

@aferalbastard.bsky.social

i love ocs. i love my ocs. i love my friends' ocs. i love my mutuals' ocs. i've surrounded myself with people whose ocs i love and it brings me unimaginable amounts of joy.

never stop making silly little guys. please keep sharing them. if they mean nothing to anyone else, they mean the world to me.

October 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Getting that one label on some of my posts is a confidence hit because it means my art of 2d gay people looks good and passable enough to trick an algorithm into thinking it's content that should be stashed away

December 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Who up dragoning they dungeons? D&D character for your viewing pleasure

#digitalart #oc #dungeonsanddragons #d&d #d&dcharacter #queerartist

November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Sad gay vampires posting. Again. Me when my bf situationship who i lowkey need to get rid of is so pretty and so he can live another day (we are engaged in mind games)
#indieauthor #digitalart #digitaldrawing #oc #originalcharacter #indiebooks #queerauthor #queerartist

November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

I was compelled to draw this as per the song.
Characters are from a book series I'm working on with my friends, and this specific piece is based on the sculpture Paradise Lost (1883) by Jean Gautherin.

#digitalart #oc #ocart #vampires #queerartist #indieauthor #indiebooks #digitaldrawing #gothic

A drawing of two characters, in the pose of Adam and Eve from the sculpture "Paradise Lost" by Jean Gautherin. One of them is a dark haired man, as Adam, holding a seemingly scared and angry "Eve", with black wavy hair and red bangs. They're both vampires, and this motif further is exaggerated by the yellowed fangs dipped in red surrounding them. Overlaid across the image are lyrics from "House featuring John Cale", "I THINK I'M GONNA DIE IN THIS HOUSE/IN EVERY ROOM, I HEAR SILENCE."

November 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Hello my non-existent bluesky audience. A friend of mine showed me these posts and said "hey Icarus you should draw your vampire freaks like this" and I said bet.
#queerauthor #ocart #oc #digitaldrawing #digitalart #indieauthor #vampires #gothic

October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Hi. I propose to you... Very angry very queer vampires
#indiebooks #horrorbooks #indieauthor #vampirebooks #gothicfiction #indiepublishing #gothic #writer #books #writing #reader #horror

Quote from I. C. Aruss's book, Stanza About The Purgatory, on a red background, that goes as follows: "Perhaps they were more alike in that regard than Anton wanted to admit. Quinn yearned for wine-red by nature, and Anton wanted nothing more than to flay him open and sypgon at least part of whatever the hell made Jansen so incredibly alluring to virtually everyone. They had a blade like a dog, a sick fascination like holy men with the devil, and a more-than-normal amount of stimulant in their body, which all coalesced into a heightened desire to crack this man apart on the bathroom floor with a rock or with their first or with Cain's fucking jawbone if it came down to it."

October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

More gay vampires posting on bsky because I'm trying to clear up my book related posting backlog haha

#indiebooks #horrorbooks #ocart #indieauthor #vampires #vampirebooks #gothicfiction #gothic #indiepublishing #queerbooks #queerauthor #selfpublished #digitalart #oc #digitaldrawing

October 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

These people make me ILL (my and my friends' characters)
#indiebooks #horrorbooks #ocs #indieauthor #queerauthor #queerbooks #vampirebooks #gothicfiction #indiepublishing #digitalart #digitaldrawing

October 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Bluesky is my book promo posts playground
#indiebooks #horrorbooks #indieauthor #vampirebooks #gothicfiction #indiepublishing #queerbooks #queerauthor #selfpublished #digitalart #oc

October 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM

Icarus (I. C. Aruss)

@icarussarts.bsky.social

Actual peak by the way!!

KaijuSeraphim -> SHOEBOX!!!!!!!! | Iron Garden Vtuber @kaijuseraphimvt.bsky.social · Sep 3

All right, migrating some stuff over to here.
I'm Seraph, an independent author. I'm currently working on my mecha-horror novella, Like A Dream You Can Feel.
You can read it here: archiveofourown.org/works/66512080
Judge my writing for what it is, not for the genre it has been claimed to by others.