Ross Hopkins, Commissions Open
@rasputinzero.bsky.social
Writer, artist, creator of the webcomic "String," Londoner, malnourished leftie and kind of a crank. He/him until such a time as I get bored with heteronormativity. Taking commissions at: https://rosshopkins.co.uk
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Hey doods! Sending the word out that I'm a comic writer and artist available for commission or hire via Etsy, Ko-Fi or my own website.
rosshopkins.co.uk
I do pages! Prints! Character portraits! Infographics! Writing! Proofreading! Whatever creative services you need, I'm happy to supply.
rosshopkins.co.uk
I do pages! Prints! Character portraits! Infographics! Writing! Proofreading! Whatever creative services you need, I'm happy to supply.
Come pick up this year’s WIP Comics anthology at Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend (table F11 in the Bubbleboy section) featuring a physical AND a digital contribution by yours truly, two comics in one package! There you’ll also find the first two issues of my debut mystery comic, M.O.D.S.!
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Come pick up this year’s WIP Comics anthology at Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend (table F11 in the Bubbleboy section) featuring a physical AND a digital contribution by yours truly, two comics in one package! There you’ll also find the first two issues of my debut mystery comic, M.O.D.S.!
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Have you checked out my run ‘n’ gun shooter book yet? 👀
Run ‘n’ Gun: A History of On-Foot Shooters 🏃♂️🔫
Opens with guest forewords by Mega Man’s legendary producer, Keiji Inafune and Cuphead creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer.
Available here: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/...
#bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #gaming #booksky @davecook.bsky.social
Opens with guest forewords by Mega Man’s legendary producer, Keiji Inafune and Cuphead creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer.
Available here: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/...
#bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #gaming #booksky @davecook.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Have you checked out my run ‘n’ gun shooter book yet? 👀
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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⚔️Epic dark fantasy
👻Spooky monsters
💞MM Romance
✨Folklore, but make it queer
📚+Complete trilogy
📗New standalones
🌶️Stretch Goals
🌈Stickers & Swag
Get all my books bundled:
👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter
#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #queerwriters #queersff #romantasy #⚔️ #lgbtqwriters #💙📚
👻Spooky monsters
💞MM Romance
✨Folklore, but make it queer
📚+Complete trilogy
📗New standalones
🌶️Stretch Goals
🌈Stickers & Swag
Get all my books bundled:
👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter
#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #queerwriters #queersff #romantasy #⚔️ #lgbtqwriters #💙📚
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
⚔️Epic dark fantasy
👻Spooky monsters
💞MM Romance
✨Folklore, but make it queer
📚+Complete trilogy
📗New standalones
🌶️Stretch Goals
🌈Stickers & Swag
Get all my books bundled:
👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter
#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #queerwriters #queersff #romantasy #⚔️ #lgbtqwriters #💙📚
👻Spooky monsters
💞MM Romance
✨Folklore, but make it queer
📚+Complete trilogy
📗New standalones
🌶️Stretch Goals
🌈Stickers & Swag
Get all my books bundled:
👉 suncatcherpress.com/Kickstarter
#🌈📚 #mmfantasy #mmromance #mmsuspense #queerwriters #queersff #romantasy #⚔️ #lgbtqwriters #💙📚
Oh I see how it is. Years and years of diligent creative work and I might get a couple likes by accident, yet one throwaway The Good Place meme and I'm suddenly the most popular man on the internet.
I don't even watch the show!
I don't even watch the show!
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Oh I see how it is. Years and years of diligent creative work and I might get a couple likes by accident, yet one throwaway The Good Place meme and I'm suddenly the most popular man on the internet.
I don't even watch the show!
I don't even watch the show!
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, the Defenders of Relativity Trade Union meets in the attic above the bingo hall.
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
String - Chapter 8 - Page 039
Nancy and Rab Q set about synchronising their access to the Glasgow string, and Nancy seizes the chance to ask Rab about a sensitive topic.
stringcomic.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, the Defenders of Relativity Trade Union meets in the attic above the bingo hall.
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
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Thought Bubble Festival starts today!
A week-long celebration of comics held across Yorkshire! With social events, workshops, talks, and loads of comic goodness for you to enjoy.
See the full programme of events here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...
A week-long celebration of comics held across Yorkshire! With social events, workshops, talks, and loads of comic goodness for you to enjoy.
See the full programme of events here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thought Bubble Festival starts today!
A week-long celebration of comics held across Yorkshire! With social events, workshops, talks, and loads of comic goodness for you to enjoy.
See the full programme of events here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...
A week-long celebration of comics held across Yorkshire! With social events, workshops, talks, and loads of comic goodness for you to enjoy.
See the full programme of events here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/festivalprog...
I have decided an hour is too long for a job interview.
Think of the Rube Goldberg setup some of your applicants are suffering through in order to create a bookcase backdrop for the webcam. My ankles are shredded.
Think of the Rube Goldberg setup some of your applicants are suffering through in order to create a bookcase backdrop for the webcam. My ankles are shredded.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I have decided an hour is too long for a job interview.
Think of the Rube Goldberg setup some of your applicants are suffering through in order to create a bookcase backdrop for the webcam. My ankles are shredded.
Think of the Rube Goldberg setup some of your applicants are suffering through in order to create a bookcase backdrop for the webcam. My ankles are shredded.
That transphobia afflicts a vulnerable minority should be reason enough for the left to oppose it, but a more mercenary reason for the sake of the body politic to oppose it is that indulging it invariably railroads previously sensible folk into indulging a whole pile of other bigotries as well.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
That transphobia afflicts a vulnerable minority should be reason enough for the left to oppose it, but a more mercenary reason for the sake of the body politic to oppose it is that indulging it invariably railroads previously sensible folk into indulging a whole pile of other bigotries as well.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Tom Gauld’s “Tips for getting your novel published during a skeleton apocalypse”. Some very good professional advice here. Gauld really is a master.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Tom Gauld’s “Tips for getting your novel published during a skeleton apocalypse”. Some very good professional advice here. Gauld really is a master.
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"This art looks nice, have you tried selling it?" Gosh, dad, that never would have occurred to me had you not mentioned it just now.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"This art looks nice, have you tried selling it?" Gosh, dad, that never would have occurred to me had you not mentioned it just now.
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vekllei's smallest nuclear reactor
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
vekllei's smallest nuclear reactor
Drew this as a birthday gift, returning to a favourite subject of mine, the Bembridge lifeboat station on the Isle of Wight, encased in an early morning mist.
#isleofwight #digitalart #bembridge
#isleofwight #digitalart #bembridge
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Drew this as a birthday gift, returning to a favourite subject of mine, the Bembridge lifeboat station on the Isle of Wight, encased in an early morning mist.
#isleofwight #digitalart #bembridge
#isleofwight #digitalart #bembridge
A testament to the power of local journalism exposing the machinations of a ghastly thin-skinned anthropoid feeding off of England's archaic land ownership structure like an invasive strain of mould.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A testament to the power of local journalism exposing the machinations of a ghastly thin-skinned anthropoid feeding off of England's archaic land ownership structure like an invasive strain of mould.
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Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.
You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.
Square Enix wants 70% of its QA work to be handled by generative AI by the end of 2027, in partnership with the University of Tokyo's Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory. https://bit.ly/4qKdyQR
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, important people in suits are getting into urban spelunking too.
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
String - Chapter 8 - Page 038
Carol leads Lewis to the abandoned subway extension laid by Enid Johnson in the thirties, uncovering a hidden quantum passage.
stringcomic.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, important people in suits are getting into urban spelunking too.
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
stringcomic.co.uk/comic/blog/c...
Fresh congrats to Jonathan Bailey for being voted People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 2025.
Of course FFXIV players have known for half a decade, but nice of the rest of the world to catch up.
Of course FFXIV players have known for half a decade, but nice of the rest of the world to catch up.
Not everyone is broken up about G'raha staying behind in Dawntrail.
You think being the Champion of Eorzea is tough, try being her sidekick for five FFXIV expansions.
You think being the Champion of Eorzea is tough, try being her sidekick for five FFXIV expansions.
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Fresh congrats to Jonathan Bailey for being voted People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 2025.
Of course FFXIV players have known for half a decade, but nice of the rest of the world to catch up.
Of course FFXIV players have known for half a decade, but nice of the rest of the world to catch up.
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graha dancing through life (wicked)
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
graha dancing through life (wicked)
Another key skill acquired in my late-stage application to adulthood, I have Ironed A Shirt for the first time in literally decades.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Another key skill acquired in my late-stage application to adulthood, I have Ironed A Shirt for the first time in literally decades.
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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