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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 · 24/06/2025

I have the anniversary edition of Skyrim on the Switch, like a real adult. /s

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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 · 16/03/2025

No real order: 1. Ministry - Game Over 2. Blurpz - Escape 3. Morbidi i Mnoći - Put 4. Kino - Spokonaya Noch 5. Nine Inch Nails - Down In It Here’s a 389 song playlist of my favorite 1980s songs too. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The 1980s in Music - YouTube

Goth, post-punk, rock, new wave, and other music I like from the 1980s. Arranged by year. Table of Contents: 1981: Kraftwerk - Heimcomputer 1982: New Order -...

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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 · 05/03/2025

Similarly, alien invasion fiction is just “what if Europeans were colonized the same way they colonized everyone else? Spooky…”

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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 · 20/02/2025

Definitely the two Fleischer ones are my favorites. I respect the comic version, the Famous Studios shorts do have their moments (mostly before the 50s), I might give Robin Williams a pass because it was a good performance, everything else is a no from me.

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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 · 19/02/2025

I think the image quality is better on this site. There’s a big art community here too

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

The US was a complete utopia before last November, didn’t you know? *sarcasm mode*

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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 · 18/02/2025

That’s how this entire decade so far feels.

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Սուրեն Օգանեսյան @surenity.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

As long as he’s going to impersonate Hiтlеr he might as well impersonate his final act.

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

Yeah, apparently to them genocide is only bad when Russia does it. (I mean it is, but it’s bad when anyone does it.)

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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 · 14/02/2025

I’ve boycotted it since 2015, when Turkey threw a fit about Armenia’s entry referencing the Armenian genocide and forced them to change the song’s name because it was “too political”, and then Ukraine won with a song about genocide.

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