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Valerie Raith
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Nerdy Transwoman. Into RPGS, Tokusatsu and Magical Girls. See my carrd!

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I commissioned this glorious piece, of my own Sona, "Valeria Wraith, Mistress of Critical Fates" from my dear friend @lil-cuddle-bug.bsky.social. I wanted am image of someone regal, divine, and aware of fate. This is the image of myself I want to present as a gamemaster.
A woman in a purple and gold robe, with a flaming purple right hand, a book dangling in a holster on either side of a belt with a planet/feather scale. She's holding a long golden staff with the same scale on one end. She's standing on the night-shrouded surface of a planet with a calm river flowing between canyon walls behind her. Islands fly in the air behind her, and the night sky has an open wormhole in it.
September 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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I commissioned this piece as the cover for my #Magiknights Campaign book from vgen.co/Clara_Madison

This perfectly captures the image I was going for, showing two prim and proper federal agents whos badges indicate that both women used to be magical girls.
The lighting and composition is stunning!
Two federal agents, both adult women, one with brown hair and light skin and one with curly hair and dark skin, stand on the front step of a house where the door is open. Both women are showing their badges as a precursor to interrogation. The badge for the woman on the left shoes the acronym HECATE, with a logo showing a witch's hat and the image showing this woman in a pink and white magical girl dress about to throw a punch. The badge on the right reads MERLIN, showing a logo with crossed swords and image shows a magical girl in a green dress holding a sword. The text on the top reads "Operation Ziggurat" and the text on the bottom reads "A Magi-Knights Awakening Campaign by Valerie Raith."
September 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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I commissioned @bitcrushnoah-1.bsky.social to make this interior art for an upcoming Magi-Knights Book titled "The Most Delicious Game" where the Magi-Knights will need to take part in a magical Iron Chef competition as preparation for a cult-backed restaurant later that night.
September 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Behold: Another one of my Glorious Mess open-face sandwiches.
Garlic bread, air fried with cheddarwurst and pepper jack on top, with two kosher dill pickle slices, Kewpie mayo and honey mustard, topped with fried jalapenos.
Two slices of garlic bread air fried with cheddarwurst and pepper jack cheese, each with two kosher dill pickles, Kewpie mayo, honey mustard and fried jalapenos.
September 2, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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An altered version of the map of Lake Ontario, identifying the lake as "Lake Peaked In Preschool"
August 27, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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A mockup of the Avengers Doomsday poster chowing Doctor Doom standing in front of an ornate window. The text, referencing a meeting that happened in the comic books is "Conan The Barbarian Called Doom A Vain Bitch" The subtext reads "And lived to tell about it."
August 27, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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I commissioned the wonderful @bunovia.bsky.social to make this cover and interior art for my upcoming #Magiknights book "Renaissance Refugee."

She totally nailed the mood I was going for and made these pictures sing. You should totally commission her!
An image showing two girls walking through the fairgrounds for a Renaissance Faire identified as"Queen Kira's Court " One girl is wearing a deep colored corset dress, and the other a suit of armor. To their left, and the right of the image, a humanoid any creature is beckoning to them from a multicolored tent. An image of a battle taking place in a darkened room. On the left is a female creature wearing a tattered lab coat and pants. This creature has the legs and eyes of a black widow spider, the blades of a praying mantis, the tail of a scorpion and the head of an angler fish. On the right side of the image is a mechanical warrior, bearing the form of a humanoid ant. The only color comes from a tattered red scarf around his neck that billows in the wind behind him. The two are about to fight, with the only illumination provided by the anglerfish bulb.
August 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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A poster showing the lineup of the X-Men Animated Characters on top, with the appropriate text below reading "Seriously, How Can You Not See The Allegory?"
August 20, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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Here's the finished piece! I love how you did this!
This book will be about a Magical Martial Arts Academy built overlooking Lake Superior. This school "Orbital Strike" teaches magical combat to protect Earth against invasion from the antimaterial plane.
Cover art for a TTRPG blook titled Orbital Strike: A Magi-Knights Awakening Campaign by Valerie Raith. The image shows a blonde girl in a blue uniform with gold piping and a glowing upraised fist symbol on her chest intercepting a punch from a blue skinned boy in a red vest. The girl is using her free hand to charge up energy for a counterattack. The two of them are doing battle on the foredeck of a Great Lakes Freighter Ship in the middle of an energetic storm. The ship is being pushed back towards the rocks.
August 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Dark Academia is when your library card lets you into the chained library, but not back out.
An image showing the Hereford chained library, with centuries old books chained into place,
August 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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I commissioned this interior art for my next #Magiknights book "Renaissance Refugee" from the ever magnificent @bunovia.bsky.social. Once again, you've nailed it, girl!
An image showing two figures about to engage in a fight. On the left is a female figure in a tattered lab coat and ripped pants. This woman has the head of an angler fish, the eyes and legs of a black widow spider, the tail of a scorpion, and the arm blades of a praying mantis. Opposite her, standing in the traditional Right to Left rule pose from Tokusatsu shows is a man in a sleek black ant themed armor with extending ant legs coming out of the shoulder, blades extending from his fore arm and ankles, and a long tattered red scarf fluttering in the breeze behind him. The battle is lit by the anglerfish bulb.
July 30, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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This one...
A custom made dress from Mochipan, showing the dark aesthetic of a medieval plague doctor made cute.
July 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Just a friendly motivation for all you lovely people.
A Venn Diagram using the first line of Stan Bush's "The Touch" -"You've Got The Touch. You've Got The Power"
July 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Daggerheart is great, but at my table, this image is the mood:
A generated meme version of a Waffle House sign that read "Dumb Place To Crit."
July 17, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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I recommend @bitcrushnoah-1.bsky.social for this.
We're working together on some of my books for the Magi-Knights Awakening RPG. Here's one of Noah's works for me:
Three spectral figures with flaming eyes. One thin one holds an X-shaped blade just out of frame. One wears a judge's robe and wig with the word Judgement written on the upraised hands as a clock face with swords for the clock hands appears in the air above it. One muscular being holds an executioner's axe where the blade is stained with ink.
July 14, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Special Delivery!
art from a superhero card game showing an alien woman wtih bony protrusions, pink skin, green hair, and a two-tone purple outfit. She is identified as Skyscraper, has 33 hitpoints, and her special power "Surveillance" allows the player to draw two cards.
July 13, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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The artist who made this amazing piece for me, vgen.co/emilyxx needs to make rent payment. Please commission my friend!
A magical girl in blue and black with a flame pattern on her cloak, levitates above a bonfire that is flowing towards her. lightning arcs across the forest landscape behind her.
July 12, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Fellow authors, without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?
The opening paragraph of a story that reads "Constantina Vanita is the only mother in human history who saved her child’s life by bringing them to Death’s door. And that’s not even in the top ten of strangest things to happen in that child’s lifetimes. Yes, lifetimes. Plural."
July 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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I commissioned this cover art for my Magi-Knights Book "Renaissance Refugee" from @kessiebree.bsky.social and as always, I'm blown away by her work. In this book, a relaxing day at the Renaissance Faire turns into a deep dive into an illegal cybernetics lab.
An image of a renaissance faire titled Queen Kira's Court. Two girls, one with dark skin, black and a burgundy corset dress and the other a fair-skinned redhead in a suit of armor with a yellow shield look to their left to see a humanoid ant creature beckoning them to assist it.
July 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Please enjoy this fake, yet could be totally real. Make Some Noise prompt.
An edited screencap of the Dropout Game Show Make Some Noise where the prompt is "A Paleontologist who has to explain why he named a new dinosaur 'Awesomesaurus Radicalus.'"
July 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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How about the cover art?
Done by Emily Jackson, here's the girl, Ruby Merrow, leaving behind the game she hates as a Magi-Knight walks her home.
A brunette girl in a school uniform and red shoes walks next to a magical girl in a yellow and purple dress with an extended umbrella protecting both of them from an afternoon rain storm. Behind them, a boy's baseball uniform lies in a trash can, abandoned by the brunette girl who doesn't want it any more.
July 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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(Yes the two in the second image are technically one hero)
A magical girl with flower shoes, a multi-hued pink skirt with a yellow ribbon on the back, a coat that looks like a doctor's jacket with a flowered cravat in the middle, long wavy pink hair, and a tiara with a heart and yellow flower decoration. An image of two video game themed superheroes with complementary orange and blue color schemes and a shared shoulder pauldron that looks like their helmet.
July 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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They played us like fiddles with this guy. Making it look like he was doubting his master, only to be using that to get closer to friends of Gentaro.
A Tokusatsu villain themed after the constellation Libra, with ornate robes and a wide central eye under a perfectly balanced helmet
June 25, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Post insane barely remembered book covers from your childhood.
Clearly this one didn't have ANY lingering effects on me, right?
A book cover showing a redhaired boy looking into a mirror and seeing a girl a look back. The title of the book is "Marvin Redpost, Is He a Girl?"
June 18, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Ok, I had to post when I saw the juxtaposition:

It's like even Aku is tired of dealing with Evolt.
A screenshot of two shared memes about villains showing a very frustrated Aku from Samurai Jack above Evolt from Kamen Rider Build.
June 17, 2026 at 8:47 PM