Riley

@riley.northsky.social

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36 | gay disaster and professional nerd artist. Art direction/graphic design/occasional silly drawings. (She/her is fine)

Fun bug fact: those aren't his true feets. They’re prolegs. Which are like little appendages that come out from the larval abdomen in some butterfly/moth larvae. It’d be like if a human baby had a fleshy hand like thing come out of its belly button to help him crawl around
A very close-up image of the underside of a bright green caterpillar clinging to a plant stem. It has tiny sets of little appendages that sort of resemble Venus fly traps that it's using to hold onto the stem of the plant.
A screenshot of a text conversation that reads: [Entomologist]: Absolutely!! I was thinking of grabbing snacks but then thought you might not want snacks with the dead bugs so I didn’t get anything lol But we got tea And diet soda And bubbly water Me: You underestimate my ability to not be grossed out by things 💅 Also dead bugs? I think you mean art supplies. But it's okay, I also have some snacky things I can bring. E: Lololol you’re right, should not have underestimated
A cropped shot of a digital painting of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. The crop shows just their torsos with Stede's hands grabbing Ed's lapels and Ed's tattooed arm grasping Stede's shoulder. It is primarily in pinks and purples.
A photo of a person laying against a red-striped hammock. They are wearing teal glasses and the book Network Effect by Martha Wells is covering half of their face.
A photo of a person laying back in a red striped hammock. They are wearing teal colored glasses and their dark hair is up in a bun. They are smiling. Their light colored shirt has blue writing that reads "First of all" [you can't see it, but underneath it reads "I'm a delight"]
A digital portrait of Sir Terry Pratchett. He is looking upward and smiling. It is signed Riley.
A very basic sketch of a man holding an axe and sticking his tongue out
A rough and messy digital art piece of a Denham from A Killer of Men played by David Dastmalchian. It features a black-haired man in a bloody wedding dress with a necklace of rings around his neck. He is rendered in black and grey with red highlights and a red background. He is licking an axe blade. it is signed Riley '26.
A photo of a stack of sketchbooks with a pencil sitting on top. The page shown has a pencil drawing of Edward Teach from Our Flag Means Death. It is signed Riley '26.
A screenshot of a fundraising page for The Trevor Project. The banner shows a purple illustration of lit candles. There is a photo of a young man in front of a snowy landscape. It reads "in honor of Erick Hagen." There is a donation progress bar with $0 raised and an orange Donate button.
A screengrab of Michael Scott from The Office (US). He is sitting in the conference room and is saying, "Well, happy birthday, America. Sorry your party's so lame."
A series of illustration panels of a crossover between Backrooms and Bob's Burgers, showing the front of the Sofa Queen's store as Captain Clark's, the Sofa Jester as the Cap'n Clark monster, Louise Gene and Tina in the downstairs of the furniture store partially disappearing through the portal, and a cardboard cutout of the Sofa Queen in a long empty hallway.
A photo of a man shaving in a mirror. He has a baby on his left who also has shaving cream on her face. A photo of a man shaving in a mirror. He has a baby on his left who also has shaving cream on her face.
A digital painting of an alien head and hands. There is a video player embedded in the head and control buttons in the fingernails.
A digital portrait of a woman from the shoulders up. She has her eyes closed and her hands in her hair. She is done in shades of teal.
A photo of me smiling big in the backseat of a golf cart. There are multicolored garlands behind and beside me hanging from the top of the cart. An asexual pride flag is resting against my face.
A back-of-camera picture showing me sitting in front of a wall of various books. I'm wearing a teal-colored shirt and my long dark hair is down around my shoulders. I have my cheek resting on my hand and the other hand resting on a black cat, who is looking at the camera.
A picture of a painting of Edward Teach from Our Flag Means Death. He is shown facing away and to the right in just black lines with brightly colored pink, orange, and purple octopus tentacles curling around his body. You can see watercolor paint and paintbrushes to the side.
A page of black and white illustrations under the heading Alex Birthdat Flash Tattoos! It shows a dog wearing sunglasses, a coca cola bottle cap, an alligator wearing a birthday hat, a Ghostface figure petting a small dog, and a heart with a banner that reads I heart Alex.
A graphic about Cool S by Die Booth. It has a colorful pastel illustration sheet behind it with dogs, butterflies, cubes, skulls, arrows, and more. It shows the original cover for the book with a graffitied wall. Arrows point to the book with small exposition blurbs including "The Craft Meets The Monkey's Paw," "demonic arts and crafts," "rancid 90s nostalgia," "be careful what you wish for," "mysterious and cool," "too much of a good thing," "trans best mate (is the only voice of reason)"
A picture of a book being held aloft in front of a large bookcase. The book is hot pink and reads Cool S. The title has a cutout behind which you can see blood-stains underneath, revealing the Cool S symbol drawn in blood. The author's name, Die Booth, is written in green and purple at the bottom.
A digital portrait of Izzy Hands from Our Flag Means Death season 2. He is facing away with his body 3/4 turned from the camera and his face downturned in profile. He is accented in golden sunlight and against a green background with black ink splotches. On it is written a poem that Con O'Neill wrote about Izzy's backstory: I’m often asked about true love And never really answered. And its not because I’m running scared It’s cause I’m just a Bastard You see the thing with me and love It’s never what it seems For some it’s flowers, hearts n stuff And for others more obscene See I like it dirty, nasty, crude I like feeling used and shatterd. And sometimes when the moon is full I like my bollocks battered. But sometimes I feel more inclined to hold a hand or two. A seafront walk, a gentle kiss, in crimson violet hue. I think one day, my life will show. That love was not for fools. It takes some guts to hold a heart while cleaning jizz and drool. It takes more guts to give your soul to another without care. And to let them lead you down a path that you never thought you’d dare. Stride’ and let you soul soar free entwine it with another. Strike out and let your loins exlpode...just make sure he’s not your brother. For sex is sex and love is love and sometimes both combine. And when they do ...fuck me it’s cool, ask steak knife.... no, I lie. And then to me, till now, my loves my story is untold. I play my cards close to my chest because I’m very old. But if I was to say three things, a map could soon be drawn. My story starts the 18th year, after the day I’m born. A kind young man who turned my head. And made me weak at knee. A gentle soul who stole my heart and in turn set me free . A ring I had my mother's stone. To him one day I gave. But as I offered on that day. My love went to his grave. And so to sea I went to be. A man of rage and hate. And finding there a kindred spirit I became his best, first mate. With Ed the love was different our hearts were no…
A digital painting of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death season 2. It is a capture of the second moonlight scene kiss from the shoulders up, showing Ed gently cradling Stede's head as he kisses him. There is a rainbow gradient in the background and a loopy heart between them. It is signed Riley '25
A digital portrait of actor David Dastmalchian, using a reference image by Mike Ruiz. It is done in shades of blue with pink and green highlights, a hyper blue rectangular background, and set against black. He is facing the side with his hand to his chest. It is signed Riley '26
A video of the progression of creating a digital artpiece called Starmaker. It shows the process from grid, undersketch, sketch, to layering on color and finalizing. The piece shows Crowley from Good Omens wearing a dark green cowl and with a constellation above him.
A pencil sketch of Crowley from Good Omens season 1. He is glancing over his shoulder and is wearing his sunglasses. It is signed Riley '19
A digital painting of Crowley from Good Omens series 3. He has long curly hair and is wearing a dark green cowl. His eyes are downcast. A constellation of stars is behind him as well as an ornamental halo around his head. It is signed Riley '26.
A cropped portion of a partially completed digital portrait. A brownish red sketch is visible underneath shades of reds and browns and greys. Two partially hooded eyes and a nose are visible.
A picture of Rae (cheersm3dears) and myself in front of a blue sky. We are pictured from the chest up, Rae is wearing an orangey-goldenrod top and has her red hair in braids with a skull and crossbones bandana holding her hair back. I am wearing a black "crew for life" shirt and an eye patch over my left eye.
A photo of me in front of a red wall, a beige floral curtain, and a cabinet of books. I am wearing a black hat with a white plume, my long dark hair is down and flowing to my waist, I am wearing a black corset and a black belt with a silver buckle and I am facing to the right in profile.
A screenshot from a tumblr post by user glowing-beetle. It's a meme of Ryland Grace sitting cross-legged inside the Hail Mary cockpit. The meme reads, "love is in the air? Wrong! Taumoeba leak" Underneath the poster has written, "Has this been done yet?"
A photo of a hand holding a leopard gecko in front of a bookcase. The hand is wearing a black ring. The gecko is holding onto a finger by his little hand.
A screengrab of Rocky the Eridian from Project Hail Mary inside his geodesic xenonite dome.
A digital painting of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death season 2 episode 3. Stede is a merman. They are facing one another underwater. The painting is rendered all in blues and teals. It is signed Riley '24.
A photo of a panel at New York Comic Con. The moderator is dressed in black and seen to the side. Behind the speaker's table are four people, a woman in red (Cindy, who worked for Random Acts), a man in a checkered shirt (Jackson Bird), myself in a dark navy shirt, and a man in a black suit and white shirt whose name I can't remember. Audience members can be seen in the foreground.
A screengrab from the viral Wizard of Oz fight. The guy in the black hoodie is holding his hands up at Doug and saying, "you're gonna look at me and tell me that I'm wrong?" Doug is making the Italian pinched hand gesture back.
A photo of the book The Murderbot Diaries volume 1 being held in front of a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. The book cover is illustrated in shades of purples and greens and shows a humanoid robot on the front.
A screenshot of a tumblr post by user phantom-of-the-501st. It reads: Remember that this is not the proof that they love each other. It shows a still from the ending of Good Omens season 2 episode 6 where Crowley is pulling Aziraphale into him to kiss him. Beneath that, it reads: That was a last-ditch attempt from Crowley to get Aziraphale to stay
A photo of me and my black cat. She is close up to the camera and slightly out of focus, her green eyes gazing out past the camera. I am in the background and to the side, my long dark and white hair is falling around my face and my hand is on my leg. There are tree limbs and a blue sky behind us.
A closely cropped shot of a woman with dark brown hair parted down the middle who is shown just over RFK Jr.'s shoulder. She is watching the exchange between RFK and AOC and smiling.
A screencap of Aziraphale from Good Omens season 2 episode 6 after the kiss. He's got a hand to his lips and tears in his eyes.
A digital portrait of a young woman in a dark cloak. The portrait shows her from the shoulders up with the moon and several white moths encircling her. She is holding a candle with a spirit-carching net in front of her chest and it's casting shadows on her neck and chest. The piece is signed Riley.
A wall on which are hung several pieces of Titanic memorabilia, including a decorative life preserver that reads TITANIC LONDON 1912 that is also a clock with a painting of the ship on its face, a reproduction of the front page of the New York Times from the day after the sinking with a headline that reads TITANIC SINKS FOUR HOURS AFTER HITTING ICEBERG, a framed illustration of the sinking from Reader's Digest done in blues, black and greys, the cover of a music book called The Titanic's Disaster with title in both English and Hebrew, a set of small floating shelves made out of the TITANIC VHS tapes, and more.
An image of Stede Bonnet from Our Flag Means Death, season one episode 1. He is in his cabin and wearing a white shirt and his golden robe. He's making a gesture with his hand and face that suggests he's asking someone off screen something enthusiastically. There is a white speech bubble at the bottom pointing to him.
A cropped photo of a page from Project Hail Mary. The text reads: puts out-might be a lot more common in our galaxy than we think.” "Think we'll find more of them? Intelligent species?" "Who knows?" I say. "You and I found each other. That's something." "Yeah," he says. "It really is something. Go do your job, old man." "Later, Rocky." The lines from "Who knows?" to "It really is something" are highlighted.
A picture of three hands holding a variety of fossilized shark teeth and bone fragments
A screenshot from a Google search of Royal Mail post boxes. The top image shows a red, tube-shaped post box labeled Antique & Reclaimed Red Royal Mail Fibre Glass 'ER II...
A photo of a leopard gecko inside a curvy hollow rock dish. He is a pale tan color with brown irregular spots. There is a small brown and white dog in the background.
A screenshot of a tumblr post from user wine-dark-sky: I was so scared they were heading for a romance subplot but congrats to Project Hail Mary for going for the far funnier option of 'trolley operator' and 'guy she is actively tying to the tracks.' What a dynamic. Movie of the year.
A picture of a hand holding up an intricate and unusual fork in front of a white and cream colored plate
A still of Ed from Our Flag Means Death, season 1 episode 10. He is laying on his back in the blanket fort, wearing the breakup bird robe with a pot of marmalade resting on his stomach.
A still of Stede and Ed from season 2 episode 8 of Our Flag Means Death. They have just reunited on the beach, are facing one another and gazing at one another lovingly. Ed has his hands on Stede's shoulder and chest.
A sketch of Zheng Yi Sao from Our Flag Means Death. The background is a mid-ochre and there is a pink grid over her face. She is turned slightly to the side facing the viewer.
A digital painting of Zheng Yi Sao from Our Flag Means Death. The background is a red and light grey stained glass cloud window. Zheng has long black pigtails flowing and is wearing her dark teal jacket with a vertical red stripe. The art is signed Riley '26.
A shot from Project Hail Mary. Grace is outside the ship amidst the Patrova line awash in InfraRed light. There are sparkling red particles all around him.
The Philadelphia Chicken Man lookinglass Summary: Ed had an idea. It was a little weird, and probably not the best idea for a very well-regarded artist who was at the whim of shareholders and a board, but. If he was going out, he might as well go out with a bang. He straightened up the stack of flyers, grabbed one of his staple guns out of his workshop drawer, and set out down the street. He started in the immediate radius of the Walmart, tacking flyers up to light posts and bulletin boards. COME WATCH ME EAT AN ENTIRE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN 3rd NOVEMBER WILL BE THE 40TH CONSECUTIVE DAY THAT I HAVE EATEN AN ENTIRE ROTISSERIE CHICKEN 12 0’CLOCK NOON THE CHICKEN WILL BE CONSUMED ON THAT ABANDONED PIER BY WALMART THIS IS NOT A PARTY -- (This is absolutely not as absurd as it sounds, but it's still pretty absurd.)