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Rika⁷
@commanderrika.blacksky.app
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Writer+Illustrator. She/Her.

💜 Blackness 💜 Books 💜 BTS 💜
Stories in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, and Apparitions
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Queen Latina, Last Holiday
Queen Latina, wearing a red dress and a string of white beads around her neck. She is smiling. Queen Latina poses in a flowing red dress.
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
A Black woman with white hair wearing a blue dress stands in front of a stained glass window depicting pink lotus flowers on a purple background.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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artist! Quote with your yellow art! 💛
Portrait of a young dark skinned Black boy wearing dark glasses. Surrounded by a yellow and black background and yellow flowers.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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This portrait of Mercedes Reyes is part of a series called "Bread and Roses" spotlighting domestic workers as pillars of the international labor movement.

(Accidentally posted the screenshot before so now I get to talk about Mercedes and post the portrait again!)
Portrait of domestic worker Mercedes Reyes. An older Latina women is holding a bouquet of multicolored wildflowers. A bird holds a piece of bread over her right shoulder. Part of the collection Bread and Roses.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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QRP with your flower art
Portrait of domestic worker Mercedes Reyes. An older Latina women is holding a bouquet of multicolored wildflowers. A bird holds a piece of bread over her right shoulder. Part of the collection Bread and Roses.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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describe your cat's personality in one photo

(I miss him so much.)
A grey and white dilute tabby cat is curled up on a bed. He is smiling in his sleep. One little fang is visible.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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It's hard living in such a dangerous city. Never know when you go to the park to watch the fall leaves with your baby and come across such ruthless creatures.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hi! I'm Marika, an illustrator, designer, and writer. I like drawing people. 💜
Digital illustration, of a young Black boy wearing dark sunglasses, neon flowers in front of an behind him. Digital illustration, a young black woman her face partially obscured with flowers in color, she wraps herself in black and white newspapers. Digital Illustration, a Black woman with long white hair is wearing a dark purple dress. Behind her is a stained glass window in purple and green. Digital Illustration: A young Korean man with light blue hair, there are multicolored clouds behind him and orange tiger lilies in front of him.
October 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🌕 Please feel free to QRP with your blue #art 🌕

#artsky #btsfanart
Digital drawing of a young South Korean man (Kim Namjoon of BTS) in a blue shirt, in front of a blue background. The white silhouette of plants are in the foreground.
September 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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quote with your black and white #art
Black and white sketch of a mother holding her baby
September 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Still working on this. Slowly. Progress has been delayed by teething (baby has two (2!) teeth now) and the utter collapse of my executive function.

#artsky #wip
Digital drawing of a Black woman with curly dark hair. Her face is partially obscured by flowers. Two birds frame her face.
September 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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As fascism is an outgrowth of white supremacy, it has always been a method of empowerment for white women.
Book cover: "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" Author Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
September 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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No shade. But I can't unsee what I've done seen.
Screenshot of phone showing the moderation options for Bluesky. User has chosen to mute the word "Watto" forever.
September 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Hmmmm, my favorite portrait that I've done so far is this one of Jungkook. It just turned out exactly the way I wanted it to. Baby Star Candy xoxo
Digital drawing of Jungkook from BTS. A young Korean man with light blue hair is figured in front of a stylized background of stars and clouds. In the foreground are tiger lilies.
August 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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That is legit angry Yoongi! These assorted Yoongis below...I dunno, that could just be resting cat face.
Angry (maybe) Yoongi in a leather jacket and black fitted cap. Angry (maybe) Yoongi in a white shirt, a black fitted cap, and multiple silver hoops in his ears. Angry (maybe?) Yoongi, with platinum blond hair, long bangs almost obscuring his eyes.
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Ok so like while looking up all these Angry Namjoons it occurred to me that Angry Seokjin is also wildly hot but much rarer.
Angry Namjoon looking to his left. Angry Namjoon looking to his right. Angry Namjoon looking in disbelief. Angry Namjoon with purple hair absolutely NOT looking at Yoongi.
August 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Another day at the intersection of "Black tech innovators" and "AI", so I decided to make a sign.
Image of Joe Morton as the character Max Dyson from Terminator 2, who famously died to ensure his work wouldn't lead to Armageddon via Skynet. Written over the image, "Don't be the D.E.I in destruction of humanity"
July 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Jimin taking a picture of Taehyung and JK happily sitting on a tiny Yoongi in an armchair
July 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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QRP with your wings art! (I love keeping an art thread going, like ten years later 😂)
Digital drawing of a Black man in a blue hoodie, his arms outstretched. There are two wings behind him made of glass shards, and a yellow light shining down on him from above.
July 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I made her a wear a lace dress because I am a masochist who hates happiness. (Yeah it's flipped. I do that during the process from time to time.) #wip #artsky
Photo of an iPad open to a Procreate drawing. An apple pencil is on top of the iPad. On the screen are two image. On the left a small color reference image of a lace dress. On the right, a large black and white drawing of a Black woman, face partially obscured by flowers and birds.
July 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Do you know how long it took me to find this image? Worth it. WORTH IT.
Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook stacked on top of each other. Jimin is on top, at ease, and non chalant. The other two and beneath him suffering but smiling.
July 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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So like...I need some sort of push to finish this. I wanted to do art for my favorite chapter 2 song from each of the Tannies. The spirit is willing but the lack of executive function is kicking my ass.
Photo of an iPad screen open to the Procreate program. There is a drawing in progress of a brown haired man in a dark suit falling through clouds. An apple pencil is on top of the iPad over the drawing
June 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I've been thinking about this poem a lot.

"I don't think
I'm allowed
To Kill something
Because I am
Frightened"
Allowances, by Nikki Giovanni I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn’t And she scared me And I smashed her I don’t think I’m allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened
June 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Yoongi-boongi
Black and white photo of Min Yoongi of BTS, with longish wavy black hair. He's wearing a white button down shirt and has earrings dangling from one ear.
June 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers."

PUT THIS MAN IN THE SENATE. We are New Yorkers first and go fuck yourself second.
Screenshot from New York Times reporter Tim Balk on Brad Lander's post election speech: "As he wrapped up his speech, Lander again endorsed Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, "We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New York and Jewish New Yorkers."
June 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM