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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In this illustration for my upcoming Oz book, it turns out when Zinnia wished death into Oz, it accidentally cost someone their life. Now she has to live with that guilt. #ArtSky #WizardOfOz #Illustration #Grave

Zinnia falls to her knees in front of a tombstone, in shock, grief and guilt.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My latest finished illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, where Scraps the Patchwork Girl attempts to get Zinnia to skip down the Yellow Brick Road together, but she refuses. Woot the Wanderer is more willing. #artsky #wizardofoz #patchworkgirl #illustration

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

As Woot the Wanderer and Zinnia travel northward through Gillikin Country of Oz, they’re about to be ambushed by an old companion, Scraps. #OzArt #ArtSky #Illustration #WizardOfOz

Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, waits behind a tree as Woot and Zinnia travel up the Yellow Brick Road of Gillikin Country, the shortest of the roads and a little off-route, but the easiest way through the wilderness. How dare they go on an adventure without Scraps!

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The map of Oz in my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, as drawn in-story by Woot the Wanderer himself. Based in the maps drawn by Dick Martin and James E. Haff for the International Wizard of Oz Club. #FantasyMap #WizardOfOz #ArtSky #Illustration

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My wife sketched this drawing of the Egyptian Goddess Qedesh on paper, while I traced it, colored it and added shading/textures. #artsky #Egypt #Kemeticism #Goddess

The Goddess Qedesh sits on a lion holding a bunch of blue lotus flowers, with Her name written in hieroglyphs beneath, against a papyrus background.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In this illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish”, Zinnia enjoys some pumpkin spice tea with Jack Pumpkinhead. #WizardOfOz #Illustration #ArtSky #JackPumpkinhead

Ozma is Jack’s “father” because she was still a boy when she brought him to life, and Dorothy is his “mother”, both as a “Return to Oz” reference and because DorothyxOzma is the OTP, I don’t make the rules.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues Page 8 You probably know by now that Harry doesn’t follow advice very well. But at least he’s not getting mixed up with Zeus and Hera. You can find previous pages on the official website: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com #artsky #nephthys #webcomic

Harry bids Nephthys farewell, while Todd the Grim Reaper warns Harry not to get mixed up in the family drama of the Egyptian Gods.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is the scene in “Zinnia’s Wish”, my upcoming Oz novel, where Zinnia first puts on her gloves, gifted to her by Ozma so that she doesn’t accidentally кill anyone with her “Touch of Death” that she wished upon herself. #WizardofOz #illustration #ArtSky #Ozma

In “The Magic of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, Glinda gifts Princess Ozma a dress made of “spun emeralds”. How she was able to make thread out of emerald is never quite explained, but let’s just chalk it up to magic. These long gloves are from that outfit, and Ozma gave them to Zinnia so she doesn’t instantly kill everything she touches with her hands.
They’re supposed to be bright green, of course. I tried my best to make them still look shiny and sparkly in greyscale. It’s an important character development for her, adding the only real color to her wardrobe besides shades of grey, courtesy of Ozma herself. Symbolic of Ozma’s protection of Oz.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The latest illustration for my upcoming Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish” is from the chapter where Zinnia is under house arrest in the palace after wishing for the power to bring death into Oz. The art on the wall is a redraw of a John R Neill illustration. #illustration #wizardofoz #ArtSky #Ozma

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is a scene in my novel where Zinnia and her friends stop to spend the night with a family of bee keepers, who’s problem is that when the spell that keeps people in Oz from aging took hold, it left their son a baby for over a century, not even old enough to safely eat honey. #WizardOfOz #ArtSky

The Winkie beekeeper Meghur declares about his son, “I wish he had been at least as old as this boy here when that spell hit.” Woot, across the table, gives a sheepish look, while Zinnia watches in mild amusement.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I spent today working on this illustration for my upcoming Oz book “Zinnia’s Wish”, of Woot the Wanderer and Zinnia setting out on their journey from the Emerald City, consulting his map of Oz. #ArtSky #Goth #WizardOfOz #Illustration

Zinnia holds a map of Oz, wearing a weary expression in anticipation of their dangerous journey, while Woot looks on confidently.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues Page 7 You can find this and previous pages on my Facebook page, as well as on the official website, where you can also check out some character bios and the official blog: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com #artsky #webcomic #Nephthys

Harry pulls on Nephthys’ headdress only to find it’s connected by an elastic band which painfully snaps back onto Her head, embarrassingly. After this Nephthys drops a letter for Harry to give to Her son Anubis.

Most people would just throw a bunch of random hieroglyphs together for this and call it a day, but I went out of my way to make it actually grammatically accurate, I have friend who studies ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs who helped me, B. Niall Bjørn Nielsen. I posted the whole grammatical breakdown on my webcomic’s website. So basically it says:
This is your mother, Nephthys.
I wish to speak with you.
Please, meet me at the oasis.
Love,
Nephthys
(Ending the letter like that is a bit of a joke of course).

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

An unfinished illustration for “Zinnia’s Wish”. This is Scraps the Patchwork Girl, a living dummy from L. Frank Baum’s “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, and essentially my main character Zinnia’s complete opposite. #ArtSky #WizardOfOz #PatchworkGirl #Illustration

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This is Lan and Zinnia, the first illustration for my upcoming Oz book Zinnia’s Wish. I was originally going to leave it as line art, but Zinnia just doesn’t look goth enough unless you shade her in. This is a rough draft. First illustration of many. #ArtSky #WizardOfOz #Illustration

Zinnia has just dug herself out from under an avalanche that she was buried under for twenty years (because you can’t die in Oz), and is in no mood for her neighbor Lan’s silly conspiracy theories about Glinda the Good being evil.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Alcatraz High School: Celestial Daddy Issues Page 6 You can find this and previous pages on the official website, and also check out some character bios and the official blog: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com #ArtSky #Webcomic #GrimReaper #Medjed #Nephthys

Nephthys pecks at the window, as Harry presses his face against the glass and wonders why there’s a bird in an inferno. Meanwhile Medjed’s thinking about the bonus he could get from Osiris if he apprehended Set. The Grim Reaper (aka Gevatter Tod, or “Todd” for short) enters and explains that vacation he won at the end of Episode 4 has been cut short because the death rates are up and the Death Department is understaffed. He elects to bring Nephthys inside, which Medjed is not thrilled about.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Been a while since I shared some art, as I’ve been working on the illustrations for my upcoming novel. But I haven’t completely neglected my webcomic. Here’s a sneak peek at Medjed, a ghost-like ancient Egyptian deity only mentioned in the Book of the Dead. #ArtSky #AncientEgypt #Kemeticism

Medjed uses his telekinetic powers to levitate a cup of coffee at the break room for the Death Department in the astral realm. Note the slacks and shoes, and necktie instead of belt.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Here’s the cover art for my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish” by Kamui Ayami. Set in Oz in the 2020s, and based heavily on the original book series, it tackles the issue of immortality in Oz and its many drawbacks. #novel #coverart #wizardofoz

Zinnia, Woot the Wanderer, Scraps the Patchwork Girl and Chocolate Chunk the giant hamster make their way down the Yellow Brick Road in Winkie Country (where the land is yellow). Looming in the background is the hill across the border in Quadling Country upon which Zinnia’s hometown Flutterbudget Center rests, and the Emerald City can be seen in the distance.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Page 4 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Progress has been a bit slow while I work on publishing my upcoming novel “Zinnia’s Wish”. Read more of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/347/ #Webcomic #ArtSky #Sutekh #Wepwawet

The God Set confronts Wepwawet while Harry looks on in bewilderment. Set is hated for killing his brother Osiris, but Set accuses everyone of holding an unfair grudge over the whole ordeal that was thousands of years ago now.

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adamtritt.bsky.social @adamtritt.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I’ve updated my “The Decades in Music” mega-playlist, it goes back to 1970 now. These are my favorite songs of each year from 1970 to today. And yes, there’s still a lot of great music coming out in the 2020s. 🎧 surenity2.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-...

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The Decades in Music: 1970-2025 ~ Full Playlist

(Updated: April 6, 2025) I explained the thought process behind this playlist on a previous blog post . I’ve been hearing rumors about YouTu...

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

In planning for illustrations for my upcoming book “Zinnia’s Wish” I dug up some drawings I did of Ms. Zinnia Gair from her appearance in my webcomic a couple years ago. I won’t copy them outright but they’re certainly helpful as concept art. #Art #ArtSky

Three drawings of the only goth in the Land of Oz, originating from Alcatraz High School: Episode 4.

Four more drawings of the only goth in the Land of Oz, originating from Alcatraz High School: Episode 4. She’ll not be using a bulky 1990s cell phone in the novel of course, but I like that expression and might use it.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today is the Feast of Set, Lord of the Oasis. In celebration, here’s a drawing of Set from my upcoming comic page in Alcatraz High. 𓇼𓀢𓏛𓇓𓍢𓏏𓐍𓃩𓀭, Սութեխի պա՝ռք! #Sutekh #Kemeticism #AncientEgypt #ArtSky #Art

The God Set wears a devious grin, clad in an usekh collar with an ankh amulet, and a dark red cape.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My art of a pissed-off Thoth. He’s a really nice guy until you steal his book.

The ibis-headed Thoth with glowing red eyes and lightning in the background.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Some honest early impressions I have on BlueSky, both good and bad. Don’t worry, though imperfect this place is still better than Facebook in my opinion, and definitely better than the dumpster fire that is Twitter. surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/03/earl...

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Early Impressions on BlueSky

Follow me: https://bsky.app/profile/surenity.bsky.social I’ve been on BlueSky since about January, after becoming fed up with Facebook’s ne...

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Page 3 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Read more of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/347/ #Webcomic #ArtSky #Thoth #Wepwawet

After Thoth dismisses the class for lunch break (clearly needing a break himself from Sid), Harry bumps into Anubis’ son and secretary Wepwawet in the hallway, only for Set to make an appearance to his chagrin.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

One of my sketches from back in the day; it always bothered me in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West how Fievel could turn his hat inside out and it became a cowboy hat. So I drew what everyone else in the movie saw. #ArtSky #TraditionalArt #AnAmericanTail #Fievel

In this pencil sketch Fievel stands holding two cork guns and looking silly with his hat inside out, the implication being that it was only in his imagination that it looked like a cowboy hat. There’s a little tag on the inside of the hat reading Made in Russia.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I met St. Petersburg, Florida’s oldest resident yesterday, an anonymous 3,000 year old mummified Egyptian woman, who had previously been a carnival attraction before being donated to the St. Petersburg Museum of History in 1922. #ancientegypt #Kemeticism surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/03/st-p...

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St. Petersburg, Florida’s ‘Lady of the Nile’

The St. Petersburg Museum of History is a strange place. An exhibit on baseball history featuring signed baseballs from past athletes and ce...

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

On this day in 1992, Billy became a bully, as told by this short comic I drew in 2021. Don’t forget to wear green, or your nonconformity will be punished. #Webcomic #ArtSky

It’s St. Patrick’s Day at Ms. Stacy’s kindergarten class in the year 1992, but Billy is wearing only red and blue, while his classmates eye him cruelly. I based a lot of this on my own elementary school, which had an owl as its mascot and were called the Hidden Valley Hooters, and was once vandalized with a pair of breasts just like in this picture.

Poor Billy gets pinched by several of his classmates, until visited by a shadowy figure.

The mysterious Lackey encourages Billy on the path to being a bully. As we know now, the Lackey is one of those Shadow People who usually go after sufferers of sleep paralysis, but has found a way to feed off the suffering of bullying victims.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I finished like the 20-something-th draft of my Oz novel “Zinnia’s Wish” just now. About time too, she’s been about waiting about seven years for her story to be told. Next step, when I have enough money I send it to an editor, hopefully next month. I’ll be self-publishing.

The last panel of Alcatraz High School: Episode 3, where Zinnia finds out Loose-Headed Harry sold his life away to Anubis so he could chase away some bullies. This doesn’t have anything to do with my novel but it’s all in a shared universe you see.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

My wife Deborah and I worked together to make a homemade sistrum, a musical instrument used in ancient Egypt for rituals. I wrote a blog with the details of how we made it. #Hathor #Kemeticism #PaganSky #ArtSky surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/03/maki...

A frontal view of the sistrum with Hathor painted on the front. It was made with a forked tree branch, which we sawed, sanded and painted gold. There are three wires connected to it, with some coins and soda can tops.

A side view, with the hieroglyphs of “Dua Hathor”, dua meaning “praise”

The wood had a natural eye shape on it so we made it an Eye of Horus. Also here it says “Dua Ihy”, the son of Hathor and God of music.

The sistrum sitting before my bust if Hathor, atop my boombox and in front of my cassette collection.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I lost my stylus for like the thousandth time and can’t draw. So instead I’ve been looking back at my older comic pages. One page I feel still holds up is this one, in which we see how Mike reacts to “Cold Category”. For context: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/171/#... #goth #ArtSky

Harry and Mike were at the mall, and Harry asks Mike what he thinks of the “Hot Topic” parody store Cold Category. All of the non-goth band t-shirts and such make him do a PTSD-like thousand yard stare.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I need to look up Paralyzed Age, but I knew all the other bands listed. At least the guy at the end didn’t say Marilyn Manson.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Page 2 of the Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up. Terrible people always seem to have all the luck, don’t they? Read more of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/346/ #ArtSky #Webcomic #Thoth

Sid gets 100% on his Scantron quiz, shocking Thoth who remarks that the odds of getting 100% just by guessing are astronomical; but it was because the answers are in an obscene shape that Sid got it. Meanwhile Harry sneakily tries to change his answers, but Thoth catches him and gives him a death glare.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My latest blog, “Day of the Fight on Behalf of Sutekh the Great-One: Fighting Against The Nothing”, is up. In it I compare G’Mork and the Nothing from the film The NeverEnding Story to A𓌜p𓌜e𓌜p𓌜 and those in power who seek to demoralize us. #PaganSky #Kemeticism surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/02/day-...

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Day of the Fight on Behalf of Sutekh the Great-One: Fighting Against The Nothing

Today is another Kemetic holiday, the Day of the Fight on Behalf of Seth the Great-One. I would like to mark it by getting my thoughts down ...

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is some concept art for my webcomic of the Incan God of the Underworld, Supay. My wife Deborah (who is half-Peruvian) got a 3D print done which will help. He’s a very colorful deity, a challenge to draw but I’m up for trying. #Supay #Peru

Supay, the horned God of the Underworld, a realm known as the Uku Pacha. Miners still pray to Him today for safety, and the entrances to mines will often have a statue of Supay, to which they offer cigars, liquor and other things. I used lots of purples, gold, reds, as He is always depicted as very bright and multicolored. I’ll do more shading too in the final product, this is just me drawing him for the first time and trying to figure out how to pull it off.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“I realize that from the cradle up I’ve been much like the rest of the race. Never quite sane at night.” -Mark Twain youtu.be/DuE-fSKDnXU?...

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Twains lament- Organ music from Mysterious Stranger, Adventures of Mark Twain

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Oziana 2024 is now available, a collection of art and writing having to do with the Land of Oz books by L. Frank Baum and others. I contributed the artwork “The Moment Glinda Won Oz”, and the short story “Hope Melts Eternal”. #WizardofOz #Oz #ArtSky www.lulu.com/shop/dj-tyre...

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Oziana 2024

Oziana 2024 brings readers six new stories set in the early history of Oz. These stories were chosen from submissions to the International Wizard of Oz Club contests when a theme emerged; all are tale...

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It is the ancient Armenian holiday of Trndez today, where lovers join hands and jump over a bonfire to purify and bring good fortune for the coming year. A few years ago I wrote an educational blog about the holiday. #PaganSky #Armenia surenity2.blogspot.com/2020/02/trnd...

Ով, Աստվածային երկունքից ծնված
Ու արեգակի հրով բռնկված
Դու, Վահագնակեզ կանթեղների պես,
խարույկների ծես - Հայոց Տռնդեզ:

Ջորության կրակ, Հավատքի ճրագ
Դու, հրե վարսագ, դու գարնան կոչնակ,
Մեր Արիական ոգու հրե դեզ,
Ով, Վահագնածին - Հայոց Տռնդեզ:

Ի բոցույն օծված խարույկների պար,
եվ լույսով շիկնած ձոներգ աստղաշար
Դու, մեր սուրբ կնունք եւ ոգու հրկեզ,
Ով, Վահագնականչ - Հայոց Տռնդեզ:

And a rough English translation:

Who was born of the Divine heavens
And ignited by the fire of the sun?
You, Vahagn, like a torch,
The ritual of bonfire - Armenian Trndez.

The thirsty fire, the leap of faith
You, with fiery hair, are the herald of spring,
The fiery leap of our ancestral spirit,
Who, Vahagn - Armenian Trndez.

A dance of fiery anointed bonfires,
and a star-lit hymn
You, our holy baptism and fiery spirit,
Who, Vahagn - Armenian Trndez.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thank you for the 100+ follows! I’m meeting all sorts of interesting people on BlueSky. The art community alone is way above anything you would find back on Facebook. In celebration, I dusted off and updated this Meet the Artist graphic I first drew a couple years back. #ArtSky #SelfPortrait

Meet the Artist - Suren Oganessian (Soo-ren Oh-guh-ness-ian; named after my Armenian grandfather). The graphic shows me wearing one of my trademark outfits, a “goth fedora”, denim jacket and jeans, all black. I discuss my likes and dislikes, my favorite music genres, and languages spoken.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My wife was making ghost-shaped cake pops, and we had the idea to base them on the minor Egyptian deity #Medjed, who was known for having laser eyes and looking like a bedsheet ghost with feet. The belt/bandana is from a sour belt candy. #Kemeticism #PaganSky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed

“I know the name of that smiter [i.e., Medjed] among them who belongs to the House of Osiris, who shoots with his eyes, yet is unseen. The sky is encircled with the fiery blast of his mouth and Hāpi makes report, yet he is unseen.” - Ani’s Book of Going Forth by Day (aka Book of the Dead)

Another cute Medjed cake pops with different eyes.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Page 1 of the new Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is up! What will happen when Anubis and Set are finally in the same room together? #ArtSky #Webcomic #Thoth #AncientEgypt Read the rest of the comic here: alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/345/#...

Harry, all snug in bed asleep withnhis teddy bear, enters Thoth’s classroom in his dreams, where he is being made to take a scantron test for Thoth’s Introduction to the Astral Realm class. Meanwhile the older brother of his bully, Sid, makes a mockery of the scantron test, much to Thoth’s chagrin.

Harry: That’s the last question. Phew, as if I don’t have to take enough of these Scantron tests when I’m awake.

Thoth: Okay class, hand in your tests, let’s see how you did! *Thoth leans over Sid’s desk* By the way, I heard about that little outburst you had in the courtroom during your DUI trial. I do hope being in jail in your waking life has given you plenty of time to study, Sid.

Sid: Studying is for wusses. That test was a piece of cake, Bird Brain.

Thoth: I as it now? Well, let’s just see how Set’s “star pupil is doing, shall we? This ought to be a laugh.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Page 1 of the new Alcatraz High School short “Celestial Daddy Issues” is shaping up, as Harry continues Thoth’s (aka Djehuti) Introduction to the Astral Realm class, with his bully’s older brother Sid as a troublesome classmate. #Thoth #ArtSky #Art #Webcomic

Thoth standing proudly in front of a whiteboard, having just finished teaching the class how to spell His ancient Egyptian name ‘Djehuti’ in hieroglyphs: 𓆓𓎛𓅱𓏏𓏭𓁟 (Not sure how your device will handle hieroglyphs if you’re visually impaired; it’s a snake, a knot shaped like a double-helix, a baby chick, a half-circle, two forward slashes, and a seated figure of Thoth).

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Still got to be Covenant - Nexus Polaris. So much stuff going on, I love the blues and purples, and that mysterious woman at the center of it all who looks like she’s about to cast some kind of energy attack. It matches the vibes of the music too, which is melodic black metal.

The album cover of Covenant - Nexus Polaris.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I just encountered the hugest #Moth I have ever seen! Like I’ve seen birds smaller than this thing. And those pretty feather-like eyebrows. I don’t know if the photos do it justice.

Enormous moth with feather-like eyebrows, size of my hand I swear.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My favorite thrift store stopped carrying #VHS and #cassettes, this was the last they had. I haven’t been this bummed since Blockbuster Video stopped carrying VHS. I have a mountain of VHS tapes I need to digitize anyway. On the bright side, that sealed TDK SA was a steal.

A sealed TDK SA High Bias 100 minute Type II cassette, and a sealed hour-long Maxell UR Type I. I don’t tend to go for the hour long tapes much but I couldn’t pass up a sealed one. Maybe I’ll record stuff off Radio Garden with that one.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Random micro-blog thought: One of the many things that stops me from doing the “not all men” thing when someone bashes the male gender is remembering that for the most part they haven’t exactly been nice to me over the years either.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

My DVD Recorder has to be the best thing I’ve purchased in years. Is recording off streaming services to DVD any less ethical than recording from cable TV to VHS back in the day? I dunno, but nothing’s guaranteed to be streaming forever, just saying.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here’s my upcoming calendar of Kemetic and ancient Armenian pagan holidays this month. Might give you some ideas for alternatives to Valentine’s Day, such as Trndez, where lovers jump over bonfires for good luck, or the Feast of Nut. #PaganCalendar #PaganSky surenity2.blogspot.com/2025/02/arme...

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Armeno-Kemetic Holidays for February

Above: A neopagan celebration of the Armenian holiday of Trndez Well Gregorian New Years feels like about six months ago. What a long month....

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I still try to keep the Saturday morning cartoon tradition alive with my kid, but without cable TV and its brainwashing, unskippable commercial breaks that constitute the real brain rot people don’t talk about. Anyway, Tom and Jerry marathon on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/XDFKfdi...

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🔴 LIVE: Tom and Jerry | 85th Anniversary Full Episodes Celebration | Warner Classics w/ @wbkids

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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