Ariel Slamet Ries
@arielries.bsky.social
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
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Buy Strange Bedfellows and find me elsewhere: https://www.arielries.com/links/
Repped by @lindacamacho.bsky.social
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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 ⬇️
Projects in thread ⬇️
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I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too.
We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.
We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.
#SaveSpeech
Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin
Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin
Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too.
We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.
We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.
www.kobo.com/us/en/list/b... Strange Bedfellows also made Kobo's best graphic novel of the year list alongside some heavy hitters, if you needed more reason to check it out 👀
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
www.kobo.com/us/en/list/b... Strange Bedfellows also made Kobo's best graphic novel of the year list alongside some heavy hitters, if you needed more reason to check it out 👀
Sharing the opening pages of Strange Bedfellows to convince you to buy it day one:
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Sharing the opening pages of Strange Bedfellows to convince you to buy it day one:
2075. The car height arms race has reached a tipping point. Cars are now minimum 100 feet tall
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
2075. The car height arms race has reached a tipping point. Cars are now minimum 100 feet tall
[snorting derisively] that's not very walkable cities of you
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
[snorting derisively] that's not very walkable cities of you
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
i was mentally prepared for the okama stuff in one piece i just wasn't expecting oda to be kind of dark woke about it. wdym there's a gender ascendant utopia inside the prison led by a drag queen with hormone powers. and she force femmes her ops
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
i was mentally prepared for the okama stuff in one piece i just wasn't expecting oda to be kind of dark woke about it. wdym there's a gender ascendant utopia inside the prison led by a drag queen with hormone powers. and she force femmes her ops
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Turn off Autorun Python in your Blender preferences as a precaution
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Turn off Autorun Python in your Blender preferences as a precaution
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Logging in to say hello, the second SCAMP is this Saturday, Nov 15, at Leichhardt Town Hall.
It's a 100% comicbook-focused arts festival/market, featuring over 65 creators from across Australia.
Check out the amazing poster by @arielries.bsky.social
More info here: www.instagram.com/scampcomicsf...
It's a 100% comicbook-focused arts festival/market, featuring over 65 creators from across Australia.
Check out the amazing poster by @arielries.bsky.social
More info here: www.instagram.com/scampcomicsf...
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Logging in to say hello, the second SCAMP is this Saturday, Nov 15, at Leichhardt Town Hall.
It's a 100% comicbook-focused arts festival/market, featuring over 65 creators from across Australia.
Check out the amazing poster by @arielries.bsky.social
More info here: www.instagram.com/scampcomicsf...
It's a 100% comicbook-focused arts festival/market, featuring over 65 creators from across Australia.
Check out the amazing poster by @arielries.bsky.social
More info here: www.instagram.com/scampcomicsf...
do you think in your 80s you're still able to surprise yourself with what you can do. for example just now (demure age of 31) my sriracha fell on the floor and a truly novel screech exited my mouth
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
do you think in your 80s you're still able to surprise yourself with what you can do. for example just now (demure age of 31) my sriracha fell on the floor and a truly novel screech exited my mouth
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Everyone… I just need to rent a place to replace our tent. My family has fallen very sick because of it, Don’t forget us even with the ceasefire it’s an illusion to divert attention from us. Our suffering has worsened, the situation is extremely dire and I’ve lost everything except my trust in you.
My dearest friend set up the weekly and monthly donation options so that we can stay alive after a tent was destroyed just 100 meters away from us last night. The sand covered our faces while we were still alive.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
I’m deeply depressed and can’t keep begging one by one for help anymore.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Everyone… I just need to rent a place to replace our tent. My family has fallen very sick because of it, Don’t forget us even with the ceasefire it’s an illusion to divert attention from us. Our suffering has worsened, the situation is extremely dire and I’ve lost everything except my trust in you.
the medium is often the point but sometimes i wish every piece of media in the world had an audio equivalent. im going for a walk rn like god... wish i could listen to one piece
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
the medium is often the point but sometimes i wish every piece of media in the world had an audio equivalent. im going for a walk rn like god... wish i could listen to one piece
just had the realisation that I am an adult with control over my finances and could splurge on a crab (to cook and eat) for myself at any time
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
just had the realisation that I am an adult with control over my finances and could splurge on a crab (to cook and eat) for myself at any time
an overcast friday evening that's not too cold. what i perfect night to walk down to my local video store and re--FUCK!!! FUCKKKK!!!! FUUUUUCK!!!!
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
an overcast friday evening that's not too cold. what i perfect night to walk down to my local video store and re--FUCK!!! FUCKKKK!!!! FUUUUUCK!!!!
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Spent a few hours finishing up Strange Bedfellows this morning! Beautiful comic, a little bittersweet with extra sweet. Superpower fueled romance / grappling with adulthood story. Perfect to give my brain some refresh time.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Spent a few hours finishing up Strange Bedfellows this morning! Beautiful comic, a little bittersweet with extra sweet. Superpower fueled romance / grappling with adulthood story. Perfect to give my brain some refresh time.
jerkin hard or hardly jerkin
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
jerkin hard or hardly jerkin
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I illustrated the poster for this year's SCAMP! I will also Be at SCAMP, on the 15th of November at Leichhardt Town Hall. More info: www.cockatoocomics.com/scamp
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I illustrated the poster for this year's SCAMP! I will also Be at SCAMP, on the 15th of November at Leichhardt Town Hall. More info: www.cockatoocomics.com/scamp
I illustrated the poster for this year's SCAMP! I will also Be at SCAMP, on the 15th of November at Leichhardt Town Hall. More info: www.cockatoocomics.com/scamp
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I illustrated the poster for this year's SCAMP! I will also Be at SCAMP, on the 15th of November at Leichhardt Town Hall. More info: www.cockatoocomics.com/scamp
the insight that being a cartoonist gives you into shonen manga is that sometimes scenes like this is writing what you know. oda really wrote this from the heart i can tell. I've been here
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
the insight that being a cartoonist gives you into shonen manga is that sometimes scenes like this is writing what you know. oda really wrote this from the heart i can tell. I've been here
changing my hinge profile to say "like zohran mamdani's wife i am also a cartoonist you met on hinge, so if you too have socialist political aspirations i could be your lucky charm"
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
changing my hinge profile to say "like zohran mamdani's wife i am also a cartoonist you met on hinge, so if you too have socialist political aspirations i could be your lucky charm"
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Today marks 108 years since the Balfour Declaration, which in 1917 saw the British Empire promise historic Palestine to the Zionist movement laying the foundation for waves of ethnic cleansing and the ongoing colonisation of Palestine by apartheid Israel.
November 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Today marks 108 years since the Balfour Declaration, which in 1917 saw the British Empire promise historic Palestine to the Zionist movement laying the foundation for waves of ethnic cleansing and the ongoing colonisation of Palestine by apartheid Israel.
do you think there were charlie chaplin yumejoshi back in the day
November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
do you think there were charlie chaplin yumejoshi back in the day