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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Live on twitch for the first time ever in about an hour! Come hang out! twitch.tv/sprousealive

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Belated #Mermay - still owe final details, but pretty satisfied with this piece!

An illustration of a mermaid holding her tail. She is in front of a graphic art-nouveau style embellishment

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Red Shift A graphic novel via photography. We’ve shot just one page as a proof of concept. Still in post, but even the master contact sheet starts to get the vibe across! Also, see the storyboard we worked from!

A black and white contact print of different studio photos depicting sci-fi scenes. The title “Red Shift” is added in the center.

A drawn page of a comic book, depicting two characters aboard a space ship

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Space. Comics. Analog media. Character driven stories. Practical effects. Earlier this year I began to slowly bring a medium-defying concept into reality. A few weeks ago, with the help of amazing people, I shot a proof of concept for it. Can’t wait to share more about just what this project is!

A pile of black and white contact sheets featuring a couple of characters in a variety of scenes in a sci-fi setting

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Auto-translating video titles was bad enough. But ai-dubbing videos into English when I speak the fucking original language with no way to activate the original audio is the height of stupidity. AI can only make people dumber. Fuck YouTube.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Facebook is blocking me from sending this in a chat

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Hey look, my town made the news! ...

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Any of my moots know anything about PC building / upgrading and willing to have a convo about it?

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Light leaks show up red on regular c41 because they’re hitting the back of the film first and filtering through the red layer. Since redscale is already backwards, you’ll likely have white light leaks.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Gotta give Harmon Red (and any Redscale film) like 3 or 4 more stops than it’s rated. Very hard to overexpose, you just get more color filtering through the red layer. Your night shots look great!

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Do you ever shoot on film? A negative like this would have a lot of possibilities with darkroom prints

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I have also pushed Santa to 400 with mixed results, if you really want to do that the shots it worked best on were the outdoor ones

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Also it has a very thin base so I want to try cross processing it with a cyan filter, I think it could actually make very good slides!

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Thanks! SantaColor (and other identical respools) is my favorite color film right now. It can handle under exposure slightly better than other c41, so don’t let the weather hold you back too much! Some labs scan it very red, but it’s definitely possible to get more neutral tones from it.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Yosemite National Park, California 📷 Pentax Spotmatic SP 🔘 Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5 🎞️ SantaColor 100 (Kodak Aerocolor IV) #film #filmphorography #analog #analogphoto #35mm #slr #believeinfilm #nature #mountain #waterfall #yosemite #nationalpark #landscape #SantaColor100 #AerocolorIV

A photograph of the view from Columbia Rock at Yosemite National Park. The landscape includes jagged and rocky mountains featuring trees, most of which are tall pine trees. The sunlight that is low and directional, which provides a sense of depth to the mountain face. The sky is blue with a few wispy clouds, and a small and faintly visible moon.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A photograph of mountains in Yosemite National Park. In the foreground is a line of trees, and in the background a line of tall, jagged rocky mountains. A waterfall emits from the top of one of the mountains. The sky is mostly clear with only a couple faint clouds visible.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

That’s what I’m gonna try to find out as soon as I can!

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Do you find they have pretty wide availability, or are they more limited to a few select labels?

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I don’t need a ton of features as long as I can make my playlists! I’ll look into it, thanks!

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’ve never heard of Deezer but am seeking a Spotify alternative. How is it?

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Will is hardly a protagonist though. But 10/10 pull, Saga is incredible

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

@moderation.bsky.app - please fix this! Any time I post art and I apply the non-sexual nudity label, it gets a sexually suggestive label too that I need to appeal. #art #moderation #censorship #algorithm

A screenshot of the labels on a recent post of mine. The post (not pictured) was an in-process sketch of a character, shown nude but not rendered with any sort of detail and not in a suggestive way.

The screenshot shows two labels placed on the content: One, placed by me, indicates non-sexual nudity. The other, placed by Bluesky, indicates Sexually Suggestive content that does not include nudity.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Flat colors > cel shading > tweaks and details Tomorrow I’ll post the finished piece with extra details and the background drawn in! #art #characterart #character #oc #drawing #digitalart #clipstudio #color #shading #render #orc #dnd #d&d #dndoc #fantasy #orc

An illustration of an orc or half-orc humanoid character. The character has a grey mullet with purple tips and green skin. She has some facial piercings and gold arm bands. She wears loose fitting grey pants and brown moccasins. Her shirt is a cropped and sleeveless two-part top. One hand is in a pocket on her thigh, and the other is in a relaxed position near her knee and holds a rapier with the tip pointed at the ground. She is in a seated pose, though there is no background or chair visible.

The character is rendered in flat colors, with no shading or extra textures or details. The linework is black, which results in a bold and high-contrast look, but isn’t very dynamic.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

idk what happened in the caption or what “dead” was supposed to be

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Pose sketch > fit sketch > cleaned up lines Picking a pose that demands a prop such as a chair or something to lean on dead not my brightest idea #art #sketch #drawing #character #oc #characterart #artist #digitalart #d&d #d&dart #dnd #process #clipstudio

A sketch of a character. The character is in a seated, slouched pose. The angle of her legs and feet indicate being seated in a high chair or other object, although nothing is actually drawn for her to be sitting on. This sketch is just the pose, with no clothes or other details.

A sketch the builds on the previous one. Over the nude pose clothes have been drawn, including a rough idea of accessories. A line is drawn through where I envision later drawing a sword.

The cleaned up line work based on the previous sketch. Where the sketch indicated rougher ideas, thoughts have been fully fleshed out in line work that will serve for the final piece. The most dramatic example of this is a detailed rapier held in the character’s left hand, which was just indicated by a line before.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This week I’m going to do something AI “artists” can’t do - show you the process First, a sketch of the face. Some characters don’t make it past this point, but if I feel good about it, we keep going #art #oc #character #artist #drawing #sketch #portrait #fantasy #orc #d&d #dnd #npc #noAI

A digital sketch of a character portrait. The character appears mostly human, but she has pointy ears and small tusks, which characterize an orc or half-orc in many properties. She has a messy mullet with hand-cut hacked up bangs. Her expression is mostly neutral, but might be interpreted as a slight smile, smirk, or suspicious in nature.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I LOVE low ISO film, and you can 100% shoot it handheld on a bright sunny day. 1/50 shutter speed and f8 holds to the Sunny 16 rule, makes great landscapes and the like

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I don’t remember where I took this and I can’t be bothered to figure it out. Coastal SoCal, likely near Buenaventura 🎞️ Kodak Portra 160 📷 Mamiya RZ67 #film #photography #mediumformat #120film #filmphoto #analog #believeinfilm #architecture #street #socal #palm #flag #mamiya #kodak #portra160

A photograph of a building. There are palm trees beside it, about as tall as the structure. A flag waves atop the roof. The background is a clear blue sky. The building is made of stone and features some simple detailing along the top, and a fire escape on one side.

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River Joy @rivjoy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Unfortunately not in the USA.

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