Rika⁷
@commanderrika.blacksky.app
Writer+Illustrator. She/Her.
💜 Blackness 💜 Books 💜 BTS 💜
Stories in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, and Apparitions
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Stories in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, and Apparitions
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Rika⁷
@commanderrika.blacksky.app
· Sep 1
What takes you out of time? And what is sweet enough to bring you back into it again? Read Marika Bailey's "Gifted and Talented" today and consider what moves you so that you could move others:
Gifted and Talented - Small Wonders
Being beyond time is a revolution against creation most bodies aren’t built to bear. It’ll kill you, that dark matter time.
smallwondersmag.com
Hi! I have a story out in Small Wonders today! This is a little horny gremlin of a tale and I hope you take a chance on it, if you're into words and whatnot.
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Never forget that the highest paid public employee in almost every state is a state university coach (football or basketball)
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Never forget that the highest paid public employee in almost every state is a state university coach (football or basketball)
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Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
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My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
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Something that strikes me in reading about this AND reading about other major figures in the news is that we have designed a system in America where the absolutely worst people are handed the largest, most powerful megaphones. It can’t be accidental. We built it on purpose.
So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this.
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Something that strikes me in reading about this AND reading about other major figures in the news is that we have designed a system in America where the absolutely worst people are handed the largest, most powerful megaphones. It can’t be accidental. We built it on purpose.
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What I’ve observed amongst some of the children of my friends is that if you are not intentional in preventing your child from buying into anti-Blackness they’ll succumb to it.
Exactly this
And, to some extent, we are all raised with anti-blackness that we have to unlearn.
And, to some extent, we are all raised with anti-blackness that we have to unlearn.
There’s also being raised to be anti-black so that rejection is just the excuse needed to justify selling out.
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
What I’ve observed amongst some of the children of my friends is that if you are not intentional in preventing your child from buying into anti-Blackness they’ll succumb to it.
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there’s an elite sickos class solidarity story about how the kind of people who should have been reporting on things like Epstein are also weird sex pests
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
there’s an elite sickos class solidarity story about how the kind of people who should have been reporting on things like Epstein are also weird sex pests
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She IS Dani Moonstar 🪶….
MOONSTAR #1 Variant Cover by me
MOONSTAR #1 Variant Cover by me
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
She IS Dani Moonstar 🪶….
MOONSTAR #1 Variant Cover by me
MOONSTAR #1 Variant Cover by me
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November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
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idk what happened now but yes
anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
idk what happened now but yes
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And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
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Just to reiterate, Marxism is not "skip to the part where I don't pay for anything and fuck everyone else"
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Just to reiterate, Marxism is not "skip to the part where I don't pay for anything and fuck everyone else"
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Huge news today, if you missed it; Chris Duncan was released from Louisiana prison after being wrongfully convicted for nearly three decades.
@psfrench.bsky.social wrote this devastating but important read this spring on Louisiana’s rush to kill Jim despite junk science.
@psfrench.bsky.social wrote this devastating but important read this spring on Louisiana’s rush to kill Jim despite junk science.
The Human Cost of Jeff Landry’s Drive to Resume Executions - Bolts
Chris Duncan’s death sentence—built on the testimony of two discredited doctors—illustrates just how faulty the system can be.
boltsmag.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Huge news today, if you missed it; Chris Duncan was released from Louisiana prison after being wrongfully convicted for nearly three decades.
@psfrench.bsky.social wrote this devastating but important read this spring on Louisiana’s rush to kill Jim despite junk science.
@psfrench.bsky.social wrote this devastating but important read this spring on Louisiana’s rush to kill Jim despite junk science.
Crawling on hands and knees to be plugged back into the machine
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Crawling on hands and knees to be plugged back into the machine
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literally no one asked you to "archive" my *checks notes* 99c book.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
literally no one asked you to "archive" my *checks notes* 99c book.
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Because people are treating it like a juicy spectacle and not like a significant failure of journalism and a condemnation of the industry.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Because people are treating it like a juicy spectacle and not like a significant failure of journalism and a condemnation of the industry.
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
🚨Urgent🚨
This is our life in Gaza. We have become displaced, heartbroken, and without shelter. Our tent was flooded by the rain and is now ruined. We cannot sleep & we are freezing cold.
We desperately need your support & donations to buy a tent ⛺️
Please give your hope
Don@te Pls 👉 urls.fr/DzYN15
This is our life in Gaza. We have become displaced, heartbroken, and without shelter. Our tent was flooded by the rain and is now ruined. We cannot sleep & we are freezing cold.
We desperately need your support & donations to buy a tent ⛺️
Please give your hope
Don@te Pls 👉 urls.fr/DzYN15
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
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I htink I read every book with Jody Lee's cover art on it when I was a teenager. Think Mercedes Lacky, Lloyd Alexander, Michelle Sagara & more of your favs.
She has scanned & put up her art for sale fineartamerica.com/profiles/3-j...
She has scanned & put up her art for sale fineartamerica.com/profiles/3-j...
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I htink I read every book with Jody Lee's cover art on it when I was a teenager. Think Mercedes Lacky, Lloyd Alexander, Michelle Sagara & more of your favs.
She has scanned & put up her art for sale fineartamerica.com/profiles/3-j...
She has scanned & put up her art for sale fineartamerica.com/profiles/3-j...
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the handmaiden wip
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
the handmaiden wip
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A very limited amount of in stocks of the Tangerine Yoongi keychains will be available in my shop this Friday November 28th at 11am eastern
🍊 2.5” Acrylic Charm Keychain
🍊 Double Sided
🍊 Cat head shaped light gold clasp
🍊 $12usd each + shipping
🍊 yelhsaart.etsy.com
🍊 2.5” Acrylic Charm Keychain
🍊 Double Sided
🍊 Cat head shaped light gold clasp
🍊 $12usd each + shipping
🍊 yelhsaart.etsy.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A very limited amount of in stocks of the Tangerine Yoongi keychains will be available in my shop this Friday November 28th at 11am eastern
🍊 2.5” Acrylic Charm Keychain
🍊 Double Sided
🍊 Cat head shaped light gold clasp
🍊 $12usd each + shipping
🍊 yelhsaart.etsy.com
🍊 2.5” Acrylic Charm Keychain
🍊 Double Sided
🍊 Cat head shaped light gold clasp
🍊 $12usd each + shipping
🍊 yelhsaart.etsy.com
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Too many people see pirating as a form of protest. And it's not. At all. Boycotting is a form of protest. If I ran up in Target and started stealing things, that's not sending a message about Target's practices.
Stop making up reasons why pirating comics is good. It’s not good. Spend a few dollars and buy a book. Quit being a fuckin parasite
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Too many people see pirating as a form of protest. And it's not. At all. Boycotting is a form of protest. If I ran up in Target and started stealing things, that's not sending a message about Target's practices.
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🏺🗃️ Something else I love about this? It shows women together gaming: they're playing knucklebones
#Matriarcha
#Matriarcha
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🏺🗃️ Something else I love about this? It shows women together gaming: they're playing knucklebones
#Matriarcha
#Matriarcha
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More than a dozen children were taken out of a Chicago apartment building during a federal immigration raid.
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
More than a dozen children were taken out of a Chicago apartment building during a federal immigration raid.
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
One man said he worried about his 6-year-old nephew, who clung to his legs when agents knocked down the door.
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social