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Reminder this is happening tomorrow! (Or the day after tomorrow if you're Australian)

9pm BST / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT / 6am AEST

Hopefully I have all those converted right....

If you're on Bluesky or Discord, you may have heard about a community run Pride event that's coming up in OSRS called PrideScape. It's being held both in protest of Jagex's CEO cancelling the new, official Pride events for both OSRS and RS3 but also to show there is still love and support in the community despite what bigots would have you think.

Anyway, I'm very excited to have the honour of contributing my art as a prize for the fashionscape contest that will be happening along with other festivities on the 21st of June! If you've ever wanted a commission from me of your OSRS character, now's your chance!

For more information about PrideScape please visit RenderScape on Bluesky, Rainbow Road on Bluesky or join the Rainbow Road discord

Good luck, everyone!!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

- Maus

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[sketchmaus]

If you're on Bluesky or Discord, you may have heard about a community run Pride event that's coming up in OSRS called PrideScape. It's being held both in protest of Jagex's CEO cancelling the new, official Pride events for both OSRS and RS3 but also to show there is still love and support in the community despite what bigots would have you think.

Anyway, I'm very excited to have the honour of contributing my art as a prize for the fashionscape contest that will be happening along with other festivities on the 21st of June! If you've ever wanted a commission from me of your OSRS character, now's your chance!

For more information about PrideScape please visit RenderScape on Bluesky, Rainbow Road on Bluesky or join the Rainbow Road discord

Good luck, everyone!!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

- Maus

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[sketchmaus]

Are you mad about Pride being cancelled in Runescape? Do you like to draw and/or write things that are both related to OldSchool RuneScape and being LGBTQIA+? If you answered Yes to either of these questions, consider joining the fanzine I'm helping organise with some friends!

I hope to see you there!

- Maus

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OSRS Pride Zine Project

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Theme: A Garden of Many Colours (Pride)

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We are creating a a digital fanzine highlighting the OldSchool Runescape LGBTQIA+ community through creative fanworks and commentary. We invite submissions of art, fanfiction, non-fiction and more!

ZINE SCHEDULE

Sign-ups open: Sunday June 15th

Project Check-Ins: Sunday July 6th, Sunday July 27th

Final Pieces Due: Sunday August 17th

Zine Release Date: Sunday August 31st

❤️SIGN-UP FORM: https://forms.gle/fkJ5En1qjDekNut99

🧡FINAL SUBMISSIONS: Email to [osrszineproject (at) gmail (dot) com] along with a bio (max 75 words)

💛COMMUNITY COMMENT - SUBMISSION FORM: https://forms.gle/f5D9V2rVXRMj2tgh7

💚WEBSITE: https://osrs-zine.neocities.org/

💙BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/osrszine.bsky.social

💜DISCORD: https://discord.gg/fSVdSZzHFr

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

The purpose of this zine is to:

Showcase creators from the OSRS LGBTQIA+ community

Express support for LGBTQIA+ OSRS players and staff members

Create a record of thoughts, feelings and actions on the topic of LGBTQIA+ representation and inclusion in the game

If this pilot issue is successful, we might look to develop the zine into a regular release with each issue on a different theme. LGBTQIA+ creators and queer theming would remain a cornerstone.

COMMUNITY COMMENT

As a centrepiece to this zine, we would like to collect comments from the community on the subject of Pride in OldSchool RuneScape.

What does Pride in OSRS mean to you? (Max 250 Words)

To read more and submit a comment: https://forms.gle/f5D9V2rVXRMj2tgh7

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

As a digital zine this project isn't limited by page count, and we'd like to take as many contributions as possible. The suggestions in the guidelines below are by no means exhaustive.

ART - Pride themed OSRS art, featuring NPCS and Player Characters alike.

Digital art and traditional art with good digitisation welcome.

Illustrations should be a maximum of one A4 page.

Comics may be longer, but please let us know in advance.

FICTION - Short fiction works about queer life in Gielinor. 500-2500 words.

This could be conventional narrative fanfiction, letters or books in the style of in-game texts, or any other format you'd like to write!

Stories should have an overall hopeful focus, and be the equivalent of a G or T AO3 rating.

NON-FICTION - Articles about any aspect of OSRS and queerness, 500-2500 words.

This might be an analytical piece on the game's lore or mechanics, a journalistic piece on the history or community, or maybe an extended reflection on the community comment prompt.

AND MORE - Poetry? Interviews? Sculpture? Just ask if you have a great idea that falls outside these guidelines!

IMAGE SPECS: maximum canvas size A4, 300 DPI, RBG colour, file type .png

WRITTEN DOCUMENT SPECS: file type .odt, .docx, .rtf, .txt. AVOID .PDF.

Any images accompanying a written submission should be attached separately and follow the image specs.

PROJECT CHECK-INS

Everyone works at their own pace. The project check-ins are intended as mile markers to support you, rather than audits to be scared of. For example, for written pieces you'll probably want to have finished a full draft by the second check-in date and be into the editing phase.

NO AI

No AI tools should be used in the making of your submission. This zine is a community showcase and we want to see your earnest contribution, even if it's messy and imperfect. If you need a hand expressing yourself, feel welcome to ask the organisers or other members of the Discord server for help!

FINAL SUBMISSIONS

Email to [osrszineproject (at) gmail (dot) com] along with a bio (max 75 words).

Final Pieces Due: Sunday August 17th.

PROJECT RELEASE

The zine will be presented in digital format. It will be available hosted on our website and as a free pdf on itch.io for download.

There are no current plans for a printed release.

This zine's place of publication is in the United Kingdom. Digital copies of this zine will be deposited in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland for preservation within 1 month of publication.

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On the 8th of June 2022, Giants Foundry and it's quest, Sleeping Giants, was released which means that today is it and Kovac's third anniversary! To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to redraw/recreate the wonderful promotional image by Terence Abbott (tezmobot.com)

I'm really proud of how this came out and I hope you all like it too!

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Little reference sheet I made up for Yirrkoo (Mostly for my own use but I wanted to post it anyway)

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I quite like Safalaan's RS3 design so I wanted to draw it

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Let's take a trip to Yokohama together⭐

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⭐️ The Oneiromancer 🌙

Originally this was just the middle doodle but I was having fun drawing her so...

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Myreque prevail!

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For anyone interested, you can now also find my art on Bluesky at @mausonline.bsky.social

I'm hoping to start tabling at some Australian conventions in the near future and figured it would be handy to for that kind of thing but I might also use it to post wips and what not, we shall see...

I also made a Twitter account for the same purpose but after the latest news regarding blocking and AI garbage, I'm unsure of how much I actually want to use it. Still, it's there just in case so I figured I'd mention it.

Thank you everyone as always for your support. Chronic health conditions makes things harder then they should be but seeing people like and interact with my art means the world to me. <3

Take care,

- Maus

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Hello everyone, it’s been a little while since my last post but I’m back again with some more Yirrkoo :D

The new funny little guy, Scarab, belongs to my friend who kindly let me rope them in to making an account so that I could finally, finally, finally complete Shield of Arrav……. Thank you, you are a life saver lol

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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Happy Pride Month, everyone!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Putting these together as they are a bit different to my usual stuff, I just felt like drawing something a bit more edgy dramatic

Plus it's always fun to try different expressions and angles

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Since I felt like I learnt some things practicing drawing Kovac, I felt emboldened to take a crack at another character who deserves more love: Ramarno! I've actually had a more proper picture of him cooking for a while now but kept getting stuck on it so hopefully now I've drawn him a few times, I'll be able to finish that one...

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I drew some more Kovac because I love him and wanted practice so I can draw him as well as he deserves! I also wanted to draw him sewing the Smith’s uniform himself, even though there is already an official explanation of where he got it, I think it would be cute if he had made it in preparation of finding a human to help him repair the Foundry.

+ Bonus shippy art under the cut (it is SFW I’m just shy lol)

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A fresh batch of Yirrkoo’s adventures straight from the oven-!

Thank you for all the kind messages on the last collection of doodles, I’m so glad so many people like my funny little guy and hope you enjoy this collection too <3

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More Yirrkoo!

It's been fun to doodle things I think of as I go through quests and what not so probably expect more of these c: