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Rii the Artificer

@riirambles.bsky.social
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Traveling crafter and traditional artist, mostly with Ren Fairs. Making things constantly, fascinated by all techniques and lore. She/They

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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Went to go check a friend's Lion's Mane spot with them, and we were successful! This is the first time I've ever returned to a spot that produced in the past and found a second flush. This was so exciting. Happy fall, y'all.
A large lion's mane mushroom growing out of a stump.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dark weekend, lost work due to rain, so trying to work on my other projects. Working on developing more full outdoor scenes, taking breaks to draw cats for my mental health.
A sketchbook lying open on a wooden desk with several micron pens scattered to the sides. The sketch is a backpacking tent set in a sketchy woods scene.A pen and ink draeing of a cat on its back, wristed in a cute pose, looking at the camera.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't get why people use cheat codes in games, but then I'm also the type that enforces new rules on myself to make the game more fun. E.g. in Skyrim I have several games where I only used magic instead of a real weapon, and made sparse use of fast travel because it "wouldn't work like that."
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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sometimes I’ll see a toddler with an iPad and think about how I learned to tell what time of night it was by how close the coyote howls were
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Slow going on structured things due to a few personal events, but I think I've emotionally attached to my sketchbook again, so getting lots of practice while things work themselves out. This is a familiar pattern and why I'll never really stop drawing. I just take breaks.
An ink drawing of a rose splaying to the left. The pencil lines underneath the ink show through in places.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was 13. I was in the rural midwest, so pretty isolated from danger, but I remember the unhinged nationalism. We sang "Proud to be an American" with my class in the mandatory fall choir concert. The song still makes me feel trapped, shallow, wondering what else I'd do just because someone told me.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
illustration of two farm workers loading the crop onto a truck, with “Happy Labor Day!” text, UFW eagle emblem in a red circle, and 09.07 date.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some crowquill practice before I start a big drawing. This is my favourite tool
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Cowboy Roll” • Pen, colored pencil, and copic gray marker on paper. A lone cowboy sits atop a hill in the foreground. He yells out to his colleagues “last one” before rolling down the hill like a silly boy. When he reaches the bottom he sits up and says “just one more.” In the background of the piece we see two other cowboys on their horses and a 3rd horse eating grass. It’s likely these cowboys have been waiting here for sometime. Artist’s note: I like the line work and expressions in this one. I try to keep most of my drawings as single panels so creating movement and time-lapse in one frame is a good challenge.
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Some people believe that we are collectively suffering from an ‘eclipse hangover’ and that the overwhelming, crushing physical discomfort in your chest is actually just your skeleton trying to shift back to its natural feral shape. The only cure is Lycanthropy. Good luck, babe
Digital art, my work. A comic page of a women changing into a werewolf. The text reads ‘Embrace change’
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Monthly update blog. www.twelfthhouse.art/blog/aftergl...
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Afterglow Career Musings, and Headed into Fall with Ink — Twelfth House Art
A few years back, I was commiserating with a friend over at their house about rebuilding after the pandemic. They asked a question that I suppose would've been normal under usual circumstances, but se...
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Eye break. Feeling pretty good about what I can draw in a day these days as long as I take care of myself. Need to keep up this momentum in the weeks to come. (I should also restock my jewelry shop, but I have time for that.)
A sketchbook lying open on a lap deskwith a micron pen. In the sketchbook is a drawing of a hare leaping to the left, looking like it's fighting somrthing.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This was specifically inking practice, so I intend to do better, but this might be my new favorite hare sketch (at least in recent memory). Like the fur textures I'm figuring out.
A drawing in an open sketchbook of a hare leaping, paws outstretched in front of it like it's batting something, eyes narrowed, ears up.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After a protracted tear-down, travel, set-up cycle, finally back to drawing! Working on refining my inking style this morning. I generally like my scribbliness, but trying to introduce more finesse. (Using a headlamp because rain is making it dark in here.)
A starkly lit sketchbook with an alert hare, it looks like it was startled by something. The sketcbbook is laying on a faux wood lap desk, with a metal pencil case, micron pen, and kneadable eraser. In the background is a Van Gogh-inspired pencil case and a red backpack on some blankets.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 22/08/2026
Modern Times, a for-profit café in Minneapolis, changed their business model to offer food to everyone for free, running on donations alone as a way to support the community through the ICE occupation. We've produced a zine offering an analysis of the experiment. crimethinc.com/zines/post-m...
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Post Modern Times: Post Mortem
You can read the text of this zine in full online here, complete with hyperlinks to additional sources.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Fascinated!
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Lëspreüh @lespreuh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hello there
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Was just mourning a friend who died of being poor here, so this is timely.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Arrived in the NE, and the mushrooms are popping! I've found enough sulphur shelf to know I've found better (it's early), but the black trumpets!!! I don't think I've ever found them without help before. Found a path that had these clustered around the edges, so many. Didn't feel bad taking a few.
A small plastic tupper with a palm-sized orange shelf mushroom known as "sulfur shelf", and five crinkled black cone-shaped mushrooms known as "black trumpets."
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen
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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I Scream everyday for help,but No answer! 💔 My child Ibrahim is dying,suffocating from acute pneumonia&severe dehydration. Is his innocent life worth nothing to you?! 🚨Just €200 for life-saving medicine.Please,don’t look away this time before it's too late! Save Ibrahim😭😭 chuffed.org/project/191450
Handwritten medical document titled "Patient Register," featuring Arabic text, numerical data entries, and a diagnosis noting upper respiratory tract infection and dehydration.Baraa gently examines the abdomen of her son Ibrahim lying on a medical examination couch. A sign on the wall behind them reads "SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES PALESTINE".
A white watermark of the camera at the bottom reads "shot on POWER P55"
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Realized I haven't touched my sketchbook since I got my booth assignment for OCF. Fixing that today. No references other than the memory of watching a bear pass by my camp the other night, and memories of pride a month back.
A sketchbook page with a bear, the animal, as well as a bear, the gay man archetype, drawn upon it.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Saw the Hadestown movie today. They did such a good job with it, emphasized every important beat and really showed off the actor's work. It was only supposed to be out for five days, but they're extending it! The revolutionary musical or our time imo (the colors are black and red for a reason!).
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Take them, it’s unsafe to go alone #art #dnd
Ink sketch of miceInk sketch of hedgehog
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think next month's blog is gonna be about the gratitude I have for the places jewelry-making has brought me, while not wanting it to be the only thing I ever become known for. Still enjoying the basking right now, though and I'm genuinely grateful.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
All the big pieces from the show the other week! All these are on the website now!
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
Blueberries beginning to ripen in a field in Georgia. Credit: Zaydee Sanchez for ProPublica.A trove of passports that federal prosecutors say had been confiscated illegally from farmworkers by labor contractors. Obtained by ProPublica.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
(A blog is informal and I can go about my day without wanting to go back and edit it again, I just wanted to get some thoughts out, literally only my mom reads it, I am fine, I can hang out with my friends and do a thing for the first time in months, I am done with working...)
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I wrote a blog about The Oregon Country Fair to put a bow on the whole thing. I feel like I wrote about 1/3 of the thoughts I have, getting into and vending at this event was a massive achievement for me and I'm honored to have done it. ✨️ www.twelfthhouse.art/blog/just-go...
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Just Gotta Walk Around - The Oregon Country Fair — Twelfth House Art
It was a lovely crowd. I didn't hear anyone balk at my prices, in fact, a number of people told me I should raise them. It was nice to be in a place where hand-made art was the norm rather than the ex...
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
signs posted at a metal bar in the UK that help security screen for neo-Nazis. More metal bars should do this esp ones that play black metal.
signs posted near the front door of a bar show neo-nazi symbols that are often used on Tshirts and as tattoos to help security screen for neo-nazis.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Doodled my friend's dog as it ran around the yard, somewhat because I wanted to thank her for letting me stay for a few nights, somewhat as a decompression from OCF exercise. I wanna do moody ink drawings, but I have to say I'm kinda in a colored-pencil mood more often than not these days.
A drawing of a brown and tan scruffy dog, posted on the fridge by a geometric eye magnet, and a smooth, oblong spinny magnet.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I can't believe how beautiful and perfect my booth worked out! The absolute perfect experience vending for my first time at OCF! So excited for the opportunity, and I'm gonna try and be even better, cooler, weirder next year! Thank y'all for having meeee!✨️
A rustic booth with a kiosk built around a tree. It's decorated with tie-dye fabric. A sign on the back wall says "Twelfth House," and there's jewelry set on the counter of the kiosk.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I can't get a photo to post (tried like 3 times these past few days), but my booth is so gosh darn *pretty* at OCF right now. I am so happy to be here. Can't believe this is real.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I've been working for this moment for two whole months and it's ten (?) days away. Ahhh www.twelfthhouse.art/blog/further...
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Further and Further - On the Way to The Oregon Country Fair — Twelfth House Art
I knew getting into The Oregon Country Fair was going to be a stretch. A friend of mine who lives in Eugene, seeing my work, said that I should apply. I clicked on the link to the application they pos...
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I was just contacted by some folks organizing support for a person recently granted asylum(!) who needs some help traveling across the USA. If you have some spare points or miles, please reach out ✌️
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I love this phase. It's going somewhere, I swear.
A copper wire-wrapped pendant in progress. An oval-shaped woven frame holds a dark red and green polychrome jasper partially held in by a tree sculpted of wire. The branches of the tree are unfinished and sprawled everywhere. A strand of carnelean chip beads is placed around the pendant.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am loving dedicating myself to a task, and I'm very happy to be making jewelry to show off at such a major event. That being said: after mid-July I want to hard switch to ink drawings again and dedicate the same amount of time and energy to it. It's been too long!
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When I lived in Eugene one of my first summers traveling, over 10 years ago, I traded some of my first wraps for more stones at the drum circle next to Saturday market. This is literally a dream come true, and I plan to bring my very best stuff! #oregoncountryfair #oregon #ocf
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A promotional image for my upcoming show. A flashy green and amber labradorite stone with a wirewoven sterling silver frame is set upon a piece of wood on the forest floor.

There is text overtop of it that reads: "Catch me at the Oregon Country Fair! July 10th-12th, Veneta, OR. Twelfth House Art, Booth 181"
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a wraith with a long scythe floats over a reflective pool on a surreal, desolate landscape with many moons. There are two guys in sunglasses looking at him blankly. The wraith solemnly says to the guys, “welcome… to the edge of eternity.” Panel 2: one of the guys is taking a photo on his phone of the other guy, who is smiling and posed in front of the landscape, giving a chill “hang loose” 🤙 hand signal. Both of the dudes are wearing fanny packs and the one posing for the picture is wearing a Messi Argentina jersey. The wraith, looking mildly annoyed, says, “stop that.”
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Many of us are enjoying #MemorialDay with family at picnics and barbecues, but many farm workers are laboring hard to put food on our tables. Let's give a big shout out to these hard-working people. #WeFeedYou
Farm workers in a field with mountains in the background, wearing hats and bandanas. Text reads "Happy Memorial Day" and "#WeFeedYou." Mood is respectful.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm going full analog joker and just refusing to print anything. You want handmade, you get handmade.
A small white box held by a white person's hand over a purse. There is hand-written words on it, which read,
"Twelfth House Art,
Inspired by the stars."
There is a heart drawn in the middle and simple little sparkles are drawn around the words.A copper pendant with an agate at the top and labradorite at the bottom, surrounded by coiled copper, in the shape of a figure eight. The necklace is laying in a white box, held by a white person's hand, held over a purse in a tan vehicle.
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you’re “distressed” by seeing a trans person in public you’re probably too weak to go outside really.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is something I've been sure about since I was a kid. You shouldn't have to just be any one thing. You are not your job.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I was just thinking similar things after finding myself yelling at my friend (the empty room, had anyone witnessed) for being too dead to see the pretty things I'm making.
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Rii the Artificer @riirambles.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I got into the Oregon Country Fair with my jewelry! By far the biggest thing I've ever been juried into! I spent a few years of Oregon and a summer in Eugene, so excited to see it again. I traded some of my first wraps for stones at the Saturday market over ten years ago.
A red and purple labradorite and copper pendant with leafy details, set on some mossy ground.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Alex says "well, I've staked my career on being a silly clown..." She continues "I sure hope no outside circumstances conspire to make me less silly." Alex looks at a story on her phone that reads "Breaking: The Killings will Continue!" Alex smiles in desperation. There is a deadness behind her eyes.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I just want to make beautiful art and stories and it's so hard 😭
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