💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛

Comic artist, illustrator, sorter of library books. Creator of GQutie and It's Complicated! Business contact= rritchiearts AT gmail (he/they)

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

Hey, new followers! If you like my art, here's more places you can find it and/or help me make more!
✨Website✨ https://t.co/z5OGhUBpce
✨GQutie✨ https://t.co/V0lfxzyNCA
✨Patreon✨ https://t.co/kc8FoW0zra
✨PayPal✨ https://t.co/9U16XpwAZV
✨Email✨ rritchiearts @ gmail

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

People who use generative AI are trying very hard to not speak the truth, which is that they want products made with as cheap of labor as possible. They do not want to make art. They want to make money.

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

What if
A belonging outside belonging game with vampires
Or a firebrands game
Or powered by the apocalypse
I want vampires

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

I'm lucky that I haven't recieved much hatred first hand, but there's a reason why I don't make autobio comics anymore. I was trying so hard to be likeable and "good" that I nearly destroyed myself.

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

GQutie was this.

[Morgan M Page @morganmpage]

Believing, as a marginalized person, that if you just explain your humanity to people they will understand and treat you with dignity is beautiful but inevitably foolish.

[Goss Sheridan @killswitchkatie]

there’s more specific stuff i could bring up but what i really want to get at is that this is not an industry disabled people can survive in, and it is also an industry that takes healthy people and breaks them in half and abandons them, so it ultimately ends up failing all of us

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

I feel weak for dropping out before my career had really even begun, but now I can make art that makes me happy and stop and do something else if it doesn't. I wish everyone had the opportunities I do.

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

#comicsbrokeme bc I was getting paid $75 per 5-10 page comic breaking down complex social justice topics, and the more that I tried to work, the harder my brain pushed back, until I wasn't able to make anything at all. And I thought it was MY fault that I couldn't keep up

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

And people wonder why I haven't published professionally

This is awful and I feel so bad for this artist and everyone his life has touched

[Kendra @kendrawcandraw]

Every post about Ian McGinty is "he was the nicest dude in the world, he encouraged me as a young artist, he was so funny and kind" and then, inevitably: "he worked so, so, so much". He worked more than I thought was possible, just constant creative output.

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

Just for the record, I didn't "pick a side" in terms of gender. I was nonbinary for eight years, and being a man now doesn't change that. That part of me will always have been, and it still lives in me.

[🌵✌🏻🏳️‍⚧️ @pugteeth]

I'm going to be in an online poetry reading on the 21st at 6pm AZ time! If you wanna come thru please do, I'm reading 2 poems and it's fully subtitled!

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

The Risen King at the entrance to the shadowlands

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

Teacher and student

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

@pugteeth Honestly same? I'm happier than I've ever been but I've been noticing more and more lately all the ways that I can't seem to settle and instead keep eyeing the back door, so to speak

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

I'm extremely not doing hourlies today because it's Imbolc AND errands day AND I'm behind on my next radio show episode, but maybe tomorrow?? Or friday???

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

@KeikoGoblyn I'm so sorry... I remember her so fondly!! You are taking very good care of her

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

More of them

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

What if we were best friends who were separated by forces larger than us and forced to fulfil roles that put us always at odds, unable to truly ever be happy again... and we were both boys...

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

Like the original screenshot says, we are more complex than that. We are fluid, multi-faceted, etc. Boxes are fun! I love boxes. But tbh the thing that I love just as much as putting things in boxes is breaking the boxes themselves

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

This goes for astrology, too! I like that the Big 3 are gaining popularity, and I do make a lot of jokes about being All Fire, but everyone's got a little bit of everything! Even if you're like me and have a deficit in one element, we just build that skill over time instead

[💛💖 Ronnie Ritchie 💖💛 @rritchiearts]

But that doesn't mean we aren't capable of change, capable of building more strengths and adapting to weaknesses. (Caveat, this is separate from disability, pls don't tell ppl with disabilities that they just need to work harder)