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Ricki☕🪄

@rickihirsch.bsky.social
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☕I make things that seem fun when it seems fun to do them🪄 📽️Videos: www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch 📝Writings: rickihirsch.neocities.org 📨Inquiries: ricki.hirsch.vt@gmail

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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 3h
A friend asked feedback on a script and it found me at the intersection of big thoughts™ about girlhood and post-Soviet scholarship. New post is up about whether nostalgia can be reparative. Is there anything to repair for a woman who feels like she was never a girl?
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What Use is Nostalgia to a Woman Who Was Never a Girl?
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 11h
I had the same thought. I wonder if it was easier to write a character a little further from home.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 12h
Fascinating interview. In older interviews I've read, Takako Shimura hadn't mentioned personal struggles with gender identity as a motivation for writing Wandering Son. Really puts the story in a different perspective. www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/20...
In the English-speaking manga community, your works are particularly highly regarded for their yuri and LGBTQ themes. What first inspired you to start creating these kinds of characters and stories?

Shimura: It all started because my own gender identity was ambiguous. For a long time, I couldn't accept my own femininity. Then, one day, I thought, “What if I created some characters based on my own thoughts at that time and drew a manga with them as the focus?”

Since the beginning of the 21st century, social awareness of LGBTQ people has changed significantly. Along with this, the market for manga with LGBTQ themes has also grown, particularly in the United States. Have these changes influenced what you depict in your works or the way you think about these themes?

Shimura: I think they have. I've started to think about responsibility more deeply and seriously than I used to, and I've come to fear that my insistence on my own way of thinking could become a one-sided imposition and crush someone's spirit. In my twenties, even though I was already an adult, I was still on the receiving end of what was given to me by "adult society," and I could refuse or rebel against it. But as I've gotten older and become an adult myself, I worry that I could always become a source of pressure and burden for the younger generation.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 15h
She even said I wrote like an "essayist". Not even a video essayist but an essay-ass essayist 🥲
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My very brave and beautiful wife/editor describing the voice in my latest written piece as "confident"
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Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Jungle Pocket Roar
ALT: Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Jungle Pocket Roar
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The answer is always whatever seems the coolest to you. I haven't read a book by him that I haven't at least enjoyed
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think you'll find some more that clear the bar
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It makes my skin crawl tbh
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Baronhaynes @baronhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Idea by @decentdoicm.bsky.social and @mstangdoespuzzles.bsky.social
meme of a person telling a computer to say "i am alive" and responding with astonishment when it does, but they're playing Lifeline and Rio responds with "leave the room? ok" instead
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over the past week, it's been staggering to see how much people's brains have been cooked by parasocial relationships. You've got real adults out here sincerely believing they know a guy, even talking about him like a friend, based on heavily edited videos designed to hold your attention.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know I'm going through it because, whenever I sit down to sketch, I just want to draw hands.
A drawing of a hand holding an apple.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know I'm going through it because, whenever I sit down to sketch, I just want to draw hands.
A drawing of a hand holding an apple.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mediocre might be overselling the writer here
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ya know, reactionaries usually at least try to hide the underlying sexual pathology unlike whatever is going on with this Harry Potter genderbend thing.
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aoi @lalala-aoi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
さむがりさん
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know if I'll ever be fully over losing my dog but I do know I'm getting better at drawing her. Greyhounds are such oddly shaped creatures.
A charcoal and colored pencil sketch of a greyhound laying on the grass in fall
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know if I'll ever be fully over losing my dog but I do know I'm getting better at drawing her. Greyhounds are such oddly shaped creatures.
A charcoal and colored pencil sketch of a greyhound laying on the grass in fall
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These days, I don't understand how anyone enters more than one game if at all.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I didn't think that was possible
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Packing my bags now
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Ranveld @ranveld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Diana Cavendish #art #lwa #lwa_jp #littlewitchacademia
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hold up, could this be the prophesized time for us to finally meet and/or deliver muscle busters to each other???
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My very brave and very beautiful wife is encouraging me to travel to Frosty Fausting but I don't think I've got it in me to be nasty like that anymore 😔
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you. I've been losing my mind watching adults cooked by parasociality make this about their comfort
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stephen King period pieces are fun until a character talks about Google being useful and you realize you've already lived through this one
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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
夜の色ふたつ
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You think you couldn't love her more but then she says her favorite Mountain Goats song is "Werewolf Gimmick"
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hell yeah
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FUCK
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice is about centering the victim and preventing further harm. JG acknowledged that he was barely punished. He then went on to make a lot of money being professionally popular thanks to doors that wouldn't have opened if he had been punished initially. This really ain't complicated.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You're not progressive to appropriate the language of restorative justice to rationalize your ambivalence. Either JG being a rapist is disqualifying for you or not. If you were comfortable with your conclusion and what that says about you, I don't think you would be publicly arguing about it.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If the lived experience of being a woman were fictional, it would certainly be a horror story. Unsurprisingly, the genre has a long history of pulling from the lives of women. New post is up about banal horrorsᵀ of being a woman and what it means that I wake up and choose this for myself every day.
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The Mundane Horror of Being a Woman
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In the distant year of 2022, Bridget transitioned going from queer icon to a different kind of queer icon. I've got a new post on community and canon developments since then, how transness is embodied and holding onto joy in historically dark times. The discourse never ends.
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What That Yo-Yo Girl Doing?
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You're a real one for this
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flip phone minato @minatums.drive-in.lol · 02/10/2026
🪽𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮? 𝘖𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘕𝘰, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭...
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gotta go fast
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Basically, I'm a super genius but also spiritually French(?)
A print out from 12 axes showing 94% compatibility with Albert Einstein and an overall orientation of leftist accelerationism.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beautiful
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
tumblr post:
weepingchoir
Aug 31, 2023
Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs
Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

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Aug 31, 2023
Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head.
You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tickets for Mystery Wrestling in Philly secured! I've got no idea what to expect and I'm real hype
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finding out someone you admired wasn't who you thought they were is painful. I understand the impulse to retreat into cynicism when it happens. However, it hurts because you cared about someone. Going through life being afraid to invest in other people sounds pretty lonely.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Same. Having been that way, living life to avoid being hurt is a sad way to be.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finding out someone you admired wasn't who you thought they were is painful. I understand the impulse to retreat into cynicism when it happens. However, it hurts because you cared about someone. Going through life being afraid to invest in other people sounds pretty lonely.
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you. I have developing arthritic issues but I don't wanna die never having taken a tiger driver
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I gotta art gooder
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kanj1.bsky.social @kanj1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#dungeonmeshi
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rane | 💚 VGEN @raneblu.com · 30/09/2026
🎨
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forgotten by gravity. Forever our bastard.
A charcoal and ink drawing of Pac's entrance in AEW as part of the Death Riders. He is seated with a towel around his neck.
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