Sign in

Niall Rixon

@niallrixon.bsky.social
439 followers 1.5K following 581 posts

South African Animator/Illustrator. Likes books, history, ttrpgs, board games, videos games, and podcasts too. No A/I here

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Niall Rixon
BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 23h
💀 DOL GULDUR 💀 For Tolktober days 1, 2 & 3. #Tolktober #Tolktober26 Moon | Forest | Necromancer
Illustration of Dol Guldur from the Hobbit by JRR Tolkie. An evil hill-top fortress vignetted by twisted, leafless trees. The fortress overlooks a forest canopy with black butterflies above it. In the distance is a lonely mountain, an even further mountain range and behind a gap a volcano.

A stone staircase leads up to the fortress door which is glowing from the inside. Cruel windows resemble spider eyes and fangs. Two turrets with crenelations that look like raised hands. One of the crenelations is broken off. On top is a henge of 5 stones with 4 shadowy figures between them. An altar in the centre of the 9 shapes. A crescent, ringlike moon is eclipsing the central stone.
There are 9 stars in the red sky.

Hidden in the top branches are the words Dol Guldur.

Colour combination of red and teal overlapping risograph style.

Did you know that the name Dol Guldur is not used in the Hobbit but is mentioned in the Lord of the Rings as a dwelling place of Shelob's brood.
2520152
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 12h
620017
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WE ARE BACK BABY I appreciate you being reasonable, Travis, despite our fundamental disagreements on fair use. But we will meet again. youtu.be/zjPRAM0WDgw
youtu.be
I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
372062190
Niall Rixon @niallrixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stripping away trans rights, yet at the same time sponsoring the transition of Si (deadname Ai)
010
Reposted by Niall Rixon
🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🦋
262395573
Reposted by Niall Rixon
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
no....no!!!!!
lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(
4973871455
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A ferret, a mink, a stoat, and a weasel are starting up a new band called Weezel
3954861618
Niall Rixon @niallrixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Actually, I think you’ll find that vikings didn’t wear horned helmets” - guy sporting biker-leather armour and white guy dread-mohawk
010
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒 @grimalisk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Vampire
2724167
Reposted by Niall Rixon
caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TOLKTOBER ✨⚔️ DAY 3 - NECROMANCER 💀 #artsky #tolktober2026
Drawing of a hooded cloaked figure doing some magic to revive a dead guy
226074
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
5486042706
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
202100192461
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Photo of a vintage book cover featuring a bearded man chopping planks of wood in half. Title and copy read

Defeating Wood

Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved

Gary Arkanasse
253018860
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Batman Day
71094158
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#3460 Press shift to crouch
A comic about a super buff guy doing squats at the gym

Panel 1.
He is squatting down and counting '4'

Panel 2. 
He stands back up, looking satisfied.

Panel 3.
He squats back down counting '5' but is suddenly surprised by a loud 'bleeeoop' sound.

Panel 4.
He stands confused saying 'what the heck?' as he looks down at the 'sticky keys' message box that has materialised in front of him.
16617
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
101235252
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have another batch
A middle-aged man with a greying beard, dressed in fur clothes.A warrior with a shiny eye. A noseless witch.
251268301
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
172989637
Reposted by Niall Rixon
BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
FLAILSON
3 headed spiked flail icon in white, superimposed over an old greyscale gouache painting I did of a construction site.
221550
Reposted by Niall Rixon
dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 11/09/2026
. 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ manifes— 🔥 🕯️ 🔥 ah shit fuck 🔥 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🔥 🔥 🕯️ 🕯️ 🔥 🕯️ 🔥
122755747
Reposted by Niall Rixon
caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek day!! Here are all the babes I’ve drawn so far #artsky #treksky
6364104
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:
6957191591
Reposted by Niall Rixon
romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented
80189715291
Reposted by Niall Rixon
2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Simon Davis
Slaine
0412
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
oglaf.com/pinchybouquets/
Comic strip!
Panel 1
A pale yellow landscape hosts a face-off between a woman and a giant scorpion. You mean giant as in big for a scorpion? No. This is the size of a car.
anyhow, sorry-
Panel 1-
Scorpion- Sorry! Sorry! I didn't choose this!
woman- what?

Panel 2
Scorpion- I didn't ask to be a huge scorpion but I am. Claws and stinger are what I have to work with.

Panel 3
woman- So you're going to sting me to death for lack of options?

Panel 4
Scorpion- I don't like it any better than you do.
Woman- Well don't do it then. Open a florist or something.

Panel 5
Scorpion- Wait you can just do that?

Panel 6
Market tent. It's a florist's and the scorpion stands behind the counter. A man browses the flowers.

panel 7
The man holds up flowers
Man- These jonquils are pathetic

Panel 8
The scorpion leaps at the man, stinger to his face
Scorpion- Shut the fuck up don't ever disrespect the flowers

Panel 9
the man lies on the ground foaming at the mouth
man- You're... a terrible florist...
Scorpion- Not from the flowers' viewpoint.
Flower- Damn straight
162974579
Niall Rixon @niallrixon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just imagining how much the story of the Fellowship of the Ring would be messed up if clerics existed in Middle Earth. The death of Boromir would lose its gravity if he just got resurrected 5 minutes later.
000
Reposted by Niall Rixon
caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just girly things 💅✨ #artsky
Two women wearing only thigh high boots kneeling and holding a large cane with a image of a skull above them
9520125
Reposted by Niall Rixon
marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
84296789520
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Kevin 🌱 @wankadoodles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Posting all of these today. I loved doing one on her birthday every year that I could. We have lost one of the brightest lights that has ever shined.
2783633288
Reposted by Niall Rixon
chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
genAI is rapist technology. lack of consent and thrill of domination/conquest is the feature, not a side effect. it's about taking and violating the sanctity of what's precious to others.
41739718
Reposted by Niall Rixon
caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Scully #artsky
Pinuo Drawing of scully from xfiles on the phone holding an alien plush and she says “Mulder, it’s me…”
8846130
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
1144661
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is Batzorig Vaanchig, Mongolian throat singer. Original post
621778391
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
I don't know how well threads work on bsky but I'm gonna try and post all my fauxnimated Elric pieces in relatively high resolution in three connected posts. Here we have Elric, Elric's throne room, Prince Yyrkoon, and Princess Cymoril
371291397
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Did a Scandinavian testicle-eating fish write this?
News headline: Scandinavian men can return to the water: testicle-eating fish is a myth, with image of a piranha-looking thing.
27718148
Reposted by Niall Rixon
more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MILFS in YOUR area have gone SILENT. our SCREENS are showing NOTHING. we don't KNOW where they WENT
3473691941
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
12940201067
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highly usable post from last year
@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
139138783853
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Noro @noro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
beach #oc
112208623
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
110137
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Julian @minikinetic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Round-up of the first two public domain stories I illustrated this year: the third Nancy Drew novel (The Bungalow Mystery) and The Maltese Falcon.
71093190
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.
The hill I will die on: games are the opposite of fun and I'd ban them for anyone over 12.
622008171
Reposted by Niall Rixon
caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There he is, Big Ron #artsky #sauron
Drawing of portrait of Sauron wearing his crown with three stars above his head
929881
Niall Rixon @niallrixon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
how do you send me a traffic fine notice from a *dot ink* domain and not be expect me to see it as a scam
000
Reposted by Niall Rixon
𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
bloody cheesecake
Red Sonja leaping implausibly.
311787331
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.
gizmodo.com
Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills
"Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend.
39586224
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Tiny Skald | COMMISSIONS CLOSED @tinyskald.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Artist! Show your long hair art I think this is the longest hair i've ever drawn
219951
Reposted by Niall Rixon
Julian @minikinetic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My illustrations for the Odyssey.
182062504
Niall Rixon @niallrixon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I've had a long day.
an orange bat speaking into a microphone with a speech bubble say "I've had a long day".
030
Reposted by Niall Rixon
2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Simon Davis
Stone Island
0353