#ruyak

[keydekyie]

the ballad of the exercise ball

[damnwtfisgoingon]

doodled @keydekyie 's boy, Ruyak, love this lad fr fr

[friendlyfoxpal]

It feels like whenever i want to draw @keydekyie's great characters. I also want to do with a crossover with Chrome and Poppy. Even if their worlds are both very different and unique. Definitely Ruyak and Kaelin's world is very well developed. I'd definitely recommend.

But anyways for this i ended up drawing the duos separately this round. Ended up basing Ruyak and Chrome's interaction based off the friendship between a wolf and a bear. Chrome and Ruyak maybe on much friendlier terms now compared to my last previous drawings of them. Remembering Kyie hoped they'd be friends, so i decided to grant that wish this time around.

Then we got Poppy and Kaelin. Kaelin's a blacksmith and Poppy loves tea. So i thought simply Kaelin would like inspecting one of Poppy's teapots for something in common they might have.

[eunoiareview]

Couch

cigarette scabs his children press with delicate fingers – trying to find something to soothe that doesn’t hurt. Grayson Ruyak is an undergraduate at the University of La Verne, studying creative writing and Japanese. Reading and writing have been pivotal to his life for as long as he can remember, and he hopes that through his poetry, readers will be able to find a sense of connection, honesty,…

[thesouthernmountains]

I think tumblr just deleted a very very good ask I was trying to answer about how many coats could be made from shaving Ruyak’s fur so that sucks

Answer was gonna be:

So many. But you could mostly only use the undercoat because trying to use the guard hairs would be like trying to weave 3-4ft lengths of fine piano wire into a garment. The coats you could make would be very warm and kind of stiff? Wearers would find they become oddly difficult to see when standing in the forest. Hmm, mysterious!

But Ruyak would be sad and cold so don’t do this to him :(

Also he would look Extremely Very Bad, so bad I refuse to draw it. please spare him from this fate

[mysticseasons]

OLYMPIC CHANNEL: HOME OF TEAM USA PRESENTS “OLYMPIC SKATING SPECTACULAR” WITH MORE THAN 30 HOURS OF FIGURE SKATING COVERAGE FROM 4 WINTER GAMES

Special Programming Begins Tuesday, December 26

STAMFORD, Conn. – December 21, 2017 – Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA presents “Olympic Skating Spectacular,”  beginning Tuesday, December 26, with more than 30 hours of figure skating action from four different Olympic Winter Games. “Olympic Skating Spectacular,” which leads into NBC Sports Group’s coverage of the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships January 3-13, features the greatest assemblage of Olympic figure skating programming ever seen on a single network in the United States.

Carolyn Manno hosts coverage, as it weaves though many historic moments in Olympic figure skating:

2002 Salt Lake Olympics: Sarah Hughes improves from fourth place after the short program to win gold, Michelle Kwan and Timothy Goebel each take home bronze. The pairs’ competition becomes one of the most memorable events of the 2002 Salt Lake Games, when a judging scandal leads to gold medals being awarded to both the Russian and Canadian teams.

2006 Torino Olympics: Sasha Cohen wins ladies’ silver, and ice dancers Tanith Belbin (White) and Ben Agosto also take silver.

2010 Vancouver Olympics: Evan Lysacek wins gold, and Yuna Kim also takes home gold, giving South Korea its first Olympic medal in figure skating. Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir become the first North American team to win the ice dance title, after European teams won Olympic gold at nine straight Games. Their training mates, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, take ice dance silver.

2014 Sochi Olympics: Davis and White win the first U.S. gold medal in ice dance, and earn a then-record score of 116.63 in the free dance. In the first team event ever held at the Olympics, the U.S. takes bronze.

Commentators on the archival programs include: Tom Hammond, Tracy Wilson, Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, Dick Button, Beth Ruyak and Andrea Joyce, with studio programming hosted by Bob Costas and Meredith Vieira.

Following is the full schedule of coverage for “Olympic Skating Spectacular” archival programming on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA:

Date/Time (ET)/Event

Tues., Dec. 26: 7 p.m. 2002 Salt Lake Olympics: Pairs’ Free Skate

9 p.m.: 2002 Salt Lake Olympics: Men’s Free Skate

Wed., Dec. 27: 7 p.m. 2002 Salt Lake Olympics: Free Dance

9 p.m.2002 Salt Lake Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

Thurs., Dec. 28: 7 p.m. 2006 Torino Olympics: Pairs’ Free Skate

8:30 p.m.2006 Torino Olympics: Men’s Free Skate

Fri., Dec. 29: 7 p.m. 2006 Torino Olympics: Free Dance

9 p.m. 2006 Torino Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

Sat., Dec. 30: 7 p.m. 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Pairs’ Free Skate

9 p.m. 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Men’s Free Skate

Sun., Dec. 31: 7 p.m. 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Free Dance

9 p.m. 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

Mon., Jan. 1: 6 p.m. 2014 Sochi Olympics: Team Free Skate

9 p.m. 2014 Sochi Olympics: Pairs’ Free Skate

10 p.m. 2014 Sochi Olympics: Men’s Free Skate

Tues., Jan. 2: 7 p.m. 2014 Sochi Olympics: Free Dance

8:30 p.m. 2014 Sochi Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

Wed., Jan. 3: 2:30 p.m.2002 Salt Lake Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

4:30 p.m. 2006 Torino Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

7 p.m. 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

9 p.m. 2014 Sochi Olympics: Ladies’ Free Skate

- NBC Sports

[vivacwinery]

Sneak peak at our next vintage Nebbiolo with John Ruyak from the We Like Drinking podcast! Jealous yet? #wine #bestpodcast #welikedrinking #vivavino

[simpleobjects-anexcavation]

Amy Tan with her editor, Dan Halpern, and Beth Ruyak, then Joyce Carol Oates with Beth. #communityofwritersatsquawvalley #communityofwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz4DWRaJzfq/?igshid=19mv9frxwjbac

[biffnix]

That was fun - I was interviewed for a delegate panel by Capital Public Radio, based in Sacramento, for an NPR show. It’s called “Insight with Beth Ruyak” and the host is Ben Adler. It’ll be aired soon online on capradio.org. #capradio #insightwithbethruyak #benadler #npr (at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByOFxCPH42vhRH2pEGbRiQcgNQ7AUfFS6Vi4Uo0/?igshid=1p7a06eluz4za

[keydekyie]

boop!

[cannabisresins]

Lori Ajax heads the newly re-named Bureau of Cannabis Control. During an interview on Insight with Beth Ruyak, Ajax said the state would be ready ... Read More...

[friendlyfoxpal]

Stand Off

Felt like drawing Chrome and Poppy, having a face off with Ruyak and Kaelin. Or at least the two beasts are. Just another fun little crossover. Ruyak and Kaelin belong to @keydekyie You should totally read their book! The Moth and the Bear! And a sequels coming too!! I'm very excited to read!! Though i'll definitely reread the first one to brush up on my memory of the story! Hope you guys like!!

[theruyak]

PROUD

I remember when I came out.  Oddly enough, the memory becomes more vivid as I get older.

I was driving home from school when i resolved to tell my parents, but I had no idea how the hell I was going to do that.  So, the first person I called was my older brother.  He was the quintessential big brother, blazing a path that I had attempted (and usually brutally failed) to emulate as I fumbled through school.  He also was on the other side of the country living in San Francisco, so I didn't have to look him in the eyes when I told him this terrifying secret.  We was incredibly kind, as is his way and as I should have expected, assured me that there was nothing wrong with me, and then immediately said that he was flying home so that he could be there when I told my parents.  We never really discussed it, but the truth was while I knew there was nothing I could do to lose their love, we had no idea how they would react.  I had in my life never heard them say anything about homosexuality quite frankly, but they were devoutly Catholic and that made name incredibly stressed with regards to this particular topic of conversation.

Anyway, I told him I couldn’t wait for him to fly out.  I had found the courage in that moment, and I had to tell them as soon as I could.

My mom had had surgery on her foot that day, so she was high as a kite.  My dad was in pre-trial mode so he was incredibly busy and a little short of fuse, but I knew that no moment would be the perfect moment.  So I went into the family room and told them I had to talk to them.

“Well,” I mumbled, “I’m gay.”

Silence.

The next moment has become now of the most formative moments of my life.  To fill the silence, as I tend to do in almost all situations, the I spat out the only words that I could think to utter:

“I’m so sorry.”

And then my dad looked up at me, an edge to his voice, and he said, “Eric, you have absolutely nothing to be sorry for.”

At that point I burst into tears realizing for the first time that I was going to be ok.  You have to remember, this was 2002.  I had no one to look up to in the media who was openly gay and living any version of a life as I had imagined growing up in my family.  I was terrified - for the first time I didn’t know what the future held and I knew no one to whom I could look for answers.  I was going to have to go it alone, I thought.

So I share that story mostly to illuminate the reality I was inhabiting at the time.  Fear, confusion, humiliation.  I had been brought up in a family that was deeply loving, but also the all boys school I went to was one in which even the teachers said “fag” and “faggot” as though it was your given name.  To be gay was something of which you should be ashamed.  To make matters even more complicated, several months later I was sexually abused by my high school mentor, and when I came forward about that all hell broke loose.  Suddenly everyone knew that I was gay, and even worse the fact that I was gay was used by my abuser’s supporters to attack me.  

“Sexual Deviant.” “He was asking for it.” “Obviously it wasn’t abuse, the kid’s a faggot.”

That was some of the more gentle commentary.  So in a nut shell, I was the only gay person I knew, being demonized for it by my community, and all I wanted to do was stop existing.  I felt like everything I touched was going up in flames and it was completely unbearable.  

When I got to college, suddenly there were other gay kids.  There were gay adults, teaching.  I got my first dose of the LGBT community.  I went to a support group for kids who had been sexually assaulted and met even more members of the community.  I came to understand the beauty in the sense of solidarity for the abandoned, those that at the time our culture had all but criminalized for being who they are.  The challenges I described just now are common threads through the experience of being a gay person in America.

What many of my straight friends don’t understand is that most members of the LGBTQ community are bound by, among many other things, the fact that we had to come forward, “come out”, about who we are.  At the time this experience was rarely pleasant, and often times would lead to a tremendous loss.  Parents abandon children, churches kick parishioners to the curb.  It is sometimes a very dark, very ugly business, and we are bound by that experience, that adversity.  Ask an LGBT person about how they came out and you are bound to jump right into some emotional hurricanes.

So, Pride.  What does this have to do with Pride?  

Last year I was home for a trunk show and a buddy from high school wanted me to go out with a couple of his friends.  To be honest, as much as I love him, he is a douchey, lacrosse playing, vineyard vines wearing kinda DC bro, so I should have known his friends would be somewhat similar.  When he introduced me, he said that I was his good buddy Eric, who “is gay but you wouldn’t even know it.”

Time froze for a second.  I had been living in LA where none of my friends ever spoke like that, so this was the first time in a decade where I had to actually ask myself how I felt about being gay.  “You wouldn’t even tell.”  That Ruyak rage came boiling up, and I was both shocked and delighted that this was my reaction.  What, you wouldn’t even know that I was a part of a community that saved me, that is filled with some of the most fantastic, loving, wild, accepting, human beings on earth?  Yes, no community is perfect, but it IS my community, and I would be God damned if I was going to have some ignorant Trump-fuck saying anything pejorative about my people.

“What the fuck does that even mean?”  I said.

My buddy immediately started to back track, realizing that he was dangerously close to an Eric confrontation, which few survive, and his friends idiotically tried to save him but really only made matters exponentially worse.  One of them finally said, “look it’s not like anyone would choose it.”

I am grateful that he acted such a fool, because I realized then and there my truth:  I would choose it.  I would choose to be gay if I had a do over and had the choice to make.  I love my life, I love the people that inhabit it, I am proud of the person that I have become through the adversities I had endured, and I appreciate life and love in a way that I don’t think I could have had I been straight.

I will skip the colorful way in which I casually savaged these bone heads, as it is neither here nor there (Yes, I did mention that no self-respecting gay man would dress like a Duke lacrosse player rapist at the age of 30, but again, bygones), and just say that I am grateful I had the opportunity to really think about how important my “gay-ness” is to me.  It has given me a life filled with incredible people, experiences, and opportunities to fight for all of the above.

So…

I would choose to be gay.

I do choose to be gay.

I am proud to be gay.

And I thank the sweet baby Jesus, Muhammad, and the flying spaghetti monster every day that I was made that way.

Happy Pride.  Xx

[eunoiareview]

Because The Wire Never Stops Winding

Because The Wire Never Stops Winding

And we’re all just going to bed                                                             alone Even rain tink against aluminum roof Even lightning whip through dark sky And I’m not sure how many nights I’ve run through the backyard barefoot Searching for something that isn’t there Grayson Ruyak is an undergraduate at the University of La Verne, studying creative writing and Japanese. Reading…

[thesouthernmountains]

Are there any other creatures as large or larger than Kenai?

I’m kind of answering this later today with a big ol size comparison chart on my main blog, but I can say most things that’d be larger than Kanai would be gods or sea monsters.

Kaelin’s unsurprised, but Ruyak is absolutely horrified by the idea of things bigger than Kanai. I’ve been meaning to draw a picture of his face reacting to this information, but I really should be writing. ^^;

[loyallogic]

Super Lawyers in the News: #FreeMeekMill, Cambridge Analytica and Georgia Gubernatorial Race

Super Lawyers and Rising Stars selectees are often in the headlines for big settlements, high profile criminal cases, awards and recognitions. Below are just a few stories from the last month.

Joseph Tacopina - The #FreeMeekMill movement has garnered quite the following in the last year. It's spawned a viral hashtag, caused numerous high-profile advocates to speak out on the subject and created plenty of conversation around criminal justice reform. Last week, rapper Robert Rihmeek Williams, a.k.a. Meek Mill, was released from prison on bail. His attorney, Tacopina, is a perennial Super Lawyers listee attempting to get Williams' charges dropped after it was reported that Williams' arresting officer might have lied in his testimony about the crime. As a result, the Philadelphia District Attorney's office supported the rapper's release on bail.

Learn more about the case.

Robert Ruyak - Ruyak, a Super Lawyers selection in 2008, will serve as co-lead counsel in a class action lawsuit against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for the misuse of personal data. The lawsuit claims Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, along with two other companies, obtained private information from nearly 71 million Americans to create "political propaganda campaigns" in the United States. "Facebook utterly failed in its duty and promise to secure the personal information of millions of its users," Ruyak told The Guardian, "and, when aware that this ... information was aimed against its owners, it failed to take appropriate action."

Read The Guardian's article on the lawsuit.

Stacey Abrams - Back in 2006, Super Lawyers featured Abrams in the Georgia Rising Stars Magazine for her work as a tax and health care attorney in Atlanta. She was an up-and-coming lawyer and author writing spy novels. In our 2006 story, she referenced her political heroes and political aspirations. Now, she's trying to make history. Abrams, already Georgia's House Minority Leader and the first woman to lead either party in the state's general assembly, is running to become the state's first Democratic governor in 15 years, its first black governor and the first black female governor in United States history.

Read about Abrams' quest to make history in The New Yorker.

These are only a few of the stories to include Super Lawyers selectees this month. To keep up with more Super Lawyers news, follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.

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