Risto

LV 34 • ✝️ • 🇨🇦🇺🇸 • 🍰🎀 • Live2D artist & rigger • hobby digital composer, animator & game dev • pfp: mudphrog • #ristoworks #pawprintsparlor

[Side Scrollers Podcast @SideScrollerPod]

Joining us TOMORROW on the show!

♦️ @Rev_says_desu
♦️ @darlingstrawbie

[Elaine Light @ElaineLightVT]

Credit page for all the people that worked on the twins channel in some way.
Tags are in comments for anyone that wants to follow them on twitter!
Thank you for everyone that showed up today and chatted, followed, lurked, and gave. We still have a lot of work to do yet we are blessed by the turn out and all the love <3 We couldn't do what we do without y'all!

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

this is soooo wholesome whaaaa

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

˗ˏˋ ♡ strawb x @shopuwumarket ♡ ´ˎ˗

excited to announce my limited time valentines keychain! huge thank you to uwumarket for working with me on this special drop!

we must sell at least 50 keychains for production to begin, so please consider supporting! wahwahwah~

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

━・✿ OFFICIAL RETURN STREAM
♡┆feb 9th - 2pm est

see you there (: waiting room below

[Rev says I love my wife @Rev_says_desu]

Dear Jesus, thank you for loving flawed people like me so much that you would die on a cross for me. You gave grace to us when you could have easily sent judgment towards us.

[Rev says I love my wife @Rev_says_desu]

Hey men out there, here’s a reminder…you matter.

I’m sorry some vtubers have let you down recently. But, YOU MATTER.

Regardless of what some say, let’s just work on ourselves, mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Keep your chin up and keep grinding brother 👍

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

just watched a podcast episode on hell and wow was it sobering… john bevere did a great job, he always does. and he was right when he said it should bring tears to your eyes. guys hell is a very real place and it is for eternity. i say this out of love, please repent and get right with God while you still can. you may not believe in God, and i would never force you to, neither would God, but there are very real eternal consequences for not believing. i don’t want to see anyone suffer that fate. it’s not a party in hell, its eternal fire, loneliness and torture.

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

I haven't forgotten about this reply, I just wanted to wait until I was in the proper headspace to address it, and address it as well as I could.

The truth is, I was a self-proclaimed agnostic for a long time. And when I first thought somewhat seriously about God again, I was a major skeptic who wanted actual proof of His existence. I was always a "facts matter most" type of person, and one of the biggest reasons I always had an issue with Christianity was because it all seemed like a big storybook to me. How could all these miracles actually have happened? And how am I supposed to blindly trust what people say happened in this old book when it all had allegedly happened so long ago?

But that's when I started really digging into it for myself, because I just felt a need to. Plus, I do love history, many of you know I went to school for that as well, so it was all of importance and genuine interest to me.

You will find many Christians that argue that you don't need to "prove" anything, you can just have faith and faith alone. And while that is true, I believe it is possible to prove it happened historically. And I am certainly not the only Christian who believes this. You should not shy away from asking questions, after all, how else do you seek the truth?

Firstly, it is not a disputable fact at all that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person, virtually all historians, including non-Christians, agree on this based on early sources (Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger, Lucian of Samosata, and more).

So the real question becomes: Did Jesus die and rise again? This is the central question to focus on. Because if you can prove this never happened, that is how you destroy the argument for Christianity.

There are documents, lots of them. There are over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament that can be compared and verified, far more than for any other ancient text. Compare it to Homer's Iliad, which has about 1,800 manuscripts. If you stacked the documents of the average classical work you'd get around 4 feet, but if you did it with all the New Testament manuscripts you'd get over a mile high.

And I want to stress that there are real, tangible documents that exist to this day. This was only 2000 years ago. Don't get me wrong, that is a long time ago, but when I realized this, it made me see it a bit differently: 2,000 years sounds like forever, but it’s really only about 50 to 67 lifetimes, figuring people lived around 30 to 40 years on average, passing down accounts and beliefs to their children. That is fascinating to me. And the honest truth is, it really wasn't until the most recent years that the concept of any God at all was "silly" to this many people, like it is today. Historically, this was never the norm.

And on these very real, physical manuscripts, they wrote things down. They recorded things back then, paper and pen existed. Records existed. The sources get as close as 20-30 years (or even closer) to Jesus's life and resurrection. For example, Paul's letters (like 1 Thessalonians) were written around 50 AD, just about 20 years after Jesus's death around 30-33 AD, and the Gospels followed within the next few decades.

Jesus definitely died on the cross. He was brutally tortured in many ways, with whips made of leather strips embedded with bone/metal/stone fragments, designed to tear into the skin and muscle, ripping flesh and causing severe bleeding and trauma. This alone often left people near death from blood loss. Large iron nails were driven through his wrists and feet. A crown of thorns shoved on top of His head. And finally, a Roman soldier thrust a spear into Jesus’ side, as recorded in John 19:34, producing “blood and water,” a detail consistent with medical analysis suggesting fluid from a ruptured pericardial sac or pleural effusion, confirming he was already dead. Jesus undeniably died.

Over 500 eyewitnesses claimed they saw Jesus after He was crucified. Many of the eyewitnesses still alive during the time Paul wrote this. They also wrote that women found the empty tomb, but in those days women were not considered reliable witnesses in court or society, so if they were lying to try and make a believable story, why use women? It would make no sense.

You have to understand that Jesus' followers also died brutal deaths proclaiming all of this as true.

It was common to allow those being persecuted an opportunity to recant in order to avoid suffering. The enemies of Christianity had reason to offer an opportunity to recant, since recantations would be valuable to them. If any of the apostles had recanted, as modern skeptics sometimes suggest as a possibility, the non-Christians who received the recantation or heard about it would have had an incentive to make that recantation known.

But most of the apostles were martyred, and none recanted. Peter was crucified upside down, James was beheaded, Andrew was crucified on an X-shaped cross, and others faced similar gruesome deaths. Why would all of these people die brutal deaths for a lie? Even a skeptic like Paul, who hunted and murdered Christians, completely changed and became a leader in the church after seeing the risen Jesus.

Mass hypnosis isn't possible on this scale, it would be a miracle itself if that were to somehow happen.

People don't knowingly die brutal deaths for a lie.

The truth is there is a lot of evidence, but I am unsure if all the evidence in the world is enough for people who already have their mind made up and their heart hardened. You have to be willing to look at the evidence with an open mind and heart. And if you do, I truly believe God will present Himself to you amidst it all, and you will feel the truth as He changes your very heart inside you, and fills you with the Holy Spirit. You will become a different person.

Jesus is VERY REAL and ALIVE and He is coming back. He is GOD and you can choose to research for yourself and accept the truth, or you can wait and face His judgment. But this isn't a cult, and I am not misguided, quite the opposite.

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

how on earth could God use me?

a new video is live now on my channel!
i hope this video blesses you!

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

im very aware that the change of my content has probably made many people think i have lost it. a few years ago i’d have thought the same thing. but i cant let others false perceptions of me keep me from speaking the truth and being honest about Jesus Christ because He saved me!

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

i was taking a break from twitter for a bit and only posting maybe once a day, so i know the last 24 hours have been a lot from me, but this is important!

too many people are afraid to voice their opinions… too many people are afraid to even say that charlie shouldn’t have been murdered, or they have to preface it by saying “i promise i didnt like him but…” and it’s MESSED UP! it is so disturbing that in 2025 you can get murdered for having political opinions!

and even more messed up that people are celebrating it! celebrating an innocent man being MURDERED and his wife and children WATCHED it happen! you think those videos were traumatizing? imagine being them… SCARRED FOR LIFE! apparently his little girl ran towards him during the chaos because she was SCARED! she wanted her DADDY! and now she will NEVER have him again! as someone whose dad died when i was a baby, i can tell you first hand it’s hard to grow up without one! and i can’t imagine losing him like THIS! with people cheering!

if you are celebrating this tragedy, just know that it isn’t too late for you to repent and go to the Lord for forgiveness. but who knows how much time is left to do so! repent before it’s too late for you!

i believe charlie is in Heaven, where are you going? because our time on this earth is but a short mist compared to ETERNITY. we have souls inside these bodies and this is NOT their forever home!

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

new mousepads are live!!!! (＾▽＾)
featuring me & rev! they are SO beautiful and the quality is so high! there are 2 versions (festival & stained glass) available ONLY UNTIL october 3rd! then they will be gone forever! no restocks!!
they are so pretty!!! 😭😭 order now!!!

[Risto @ristoreborn]

Pomodoro timer apps are so goated. Being forced to pause for a beat really helps me to pray for what I'm doing and for others.

[Risto @ristoreborn]

@032Zero happy birthday ichigo !! hope you have a great one m8!

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

ITS FINALLY HERE! ◝(⁰ ᗜ ⁰)◜

MY VERY OWN 2 NEW FLAVORS! this wouldn't be possible without all of your support! thank you so much!! 😭🤍

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

you can use this on my new collection btw
don’t forget to use code STRAWB too 👀

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

₊˚ʚ ᗢ₊˚✧ ﾟbecause of my hiatus i haven’t hit 1k yet on iriam but im back and so close… if you want to support my activities please consider downloading iriam and following me! i am streaming frequently there and its a lot fun!!!! :D

[strawb 🍰🎀 @darlingstrawbie]

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[Risto @ristoreborn]

@TheRareJer Just learning for now but yep, making a game has always been my Main Story Quest. here's to hoping I can stick to it this time around :3

[Risto @ristoreborn]

getting back into game dev has been really boosting my mood.

the first half of 2025 has been rough with financial emergencies and overhauling my commissions shop, but i think i'm going to take a break from shop prep for now. might still do emotes but that's it for now