Storenvy Fall Sale is now LIVE! - rukis.storenvy.com

Tons of new items, and every order gets a free signed 5 x 7 print, Orders $100 and up get a special gift! (It's a surprise ;)

rukis.storenvy.com

Hey all, we're back from Furrydelphia and that marks the last of our conventions until Midwest Furfest- which we ARE in fact confirmed for! Yay!

With fall, we're taking the time to do some inventory for our shop and our convention table, and finally getting around to updating what we've got for sale online, including a butt-ton of Originals I've been saving up, and some new merch! Seems like a good time to do a fall sale to me.

You can find our Storenvy here - https://rukis.storenvy.com/

It will remain open, but the Sale, including posting all new Originals, will start on September 12th at 5 PM EST
ALL ORDERS will come with free 5 x 7 signed prints of new artwork, and Orders over $100 will come with a free mystery gift. I'm keepin' it a secret, but it's brand new, and I think everyone who gets one will enjoy it ; )

I'll have more details on the new stuff that'll be available over the next week, so stay tuned!

We're home, but dealing with a lot of cleaning and catch-up around the farm. I'll keep everyone posted when I'm able to return to furry work. Won't be too long.

We're off to Anthrocon!

You can find us at Booths F14-F16 in the Dealers Den this weekend. Come say hi, and squeeze the Luther plushies <3

We'll be selling Art Prints, Wallscrolls, Dakimakuras, Dice, Playmats, Wooden Gaming accoutrements, Coins, Books, Plushes, T-shirts, and more! We've also got a whole bunch of swag we're giving away ENTIRELY FOR FREE! Seriously, no strings, you do not need to purchase anything, just come by and get some free stuff.

NO KINGS / NO TYRANTS
Art Stream Tonight! 8 PM EST
If you, like us, cannot make it to a protest this weekend, join us on the stream tonight! I'll be working on a piece of art I'll be giving out for free as a sticker at Anthrocon!
https://picarto.tv/Rukis

It's that time of year! We are opening for Re-Subscriptions for 2025 Menagerie and Female Menagerie Mailing List / Art Collection, with a few key changes this year. We've been going strong since 2011, delivering 52 images a year per list, that's 52 All-Male images, AND 52 All-Female images, by the artists  Rukis and  Ulos12. But this year, we are upping the stakes and adding a NEW ARTIST! Welcome,  shinigamigirl! A long-time friend and an incredibly skilled artist, she is going to be a wonderful addition to the list this year, and we're thrilled to have her on board ❤️ I know y'all will love her work!

We are increasing the amount of images included in the list! Going forward, a year's Subscription to either list entails you to 69 (nice) Anthropomorphic Pinup images, 23 drawn by Rukis, 23 drawn by Alastair, and 23 drawn by ShinigamiGirl. The images are delivered via e-mail throughout the year. If you subscribe to both Female and Male Menagerie, you'll receive a total of 138 images over the course of the year.

Our list price has gone up to $30. The list has been $20/year for about a decade and a half now, and our skills have grown, and the number of images and artists has now increased, so I hope folks will be understanding about that.

I am also going to be opening an exclusive Telegram Group this year for all list Subscribers, where you can find the images in case your emails get dumped into spam or you accidentally delete them. We've had lots of weird burps like that over the years and I really wanted us to have a repository for all the art, where you can download and even see some WIPs as we work on them! Way overdue, if you ask me.

We'll be doing our yearly Kickstarter, where you can subscribe for a number of special tiers, receiving things like Full Res images, Prints, Dealers Choice pics and even Commissions, from all three of us! You can follow our Pre-Launch page HERE - https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....e-project-2025

We'll be launching this Kickstarter TODAY, 1/16, at 1 PM EST. Give us a follow if ya please ❤️

If you'd like to subscribe to either Menagerie List (Male or Female) without using the Kickstarter, you can do so by emailing us at - menageriesubs[at]hotmail.com -
Specify whether you'd like the MALE list, or the FEMALE list, or both, the email you'd like subscribed and the email you'd like invoiced

We are about to embark on our way to Chicago for Midwest Furfest! We will be vending there this weekend in the Dealers Den same position as last year, at B6-9! I'll have two new books available this year, as well as a ton of new art, and other wares. The two books we're releasing are 'Brothers in Arms + Benefits' (the long-awaited book of Luther/Grayson stories) and 'Instinct 3', a multi-gender adult art book <3

I did my very best, but alas I was not able to get through every Storenvy order before we had to leave. Worked up to the literal last hour, but there were a lot, and I'm a one-person army. All remaining Storenvy orders from this past week's sale are set aside, but awaiting packaging, and will be sent out after the convention week. Thank you for your patience!

And lastly, our Kickstarter is about to enter its last week! If you like my books/art, and would like to support probably my biggest project to-date, and get yourself Limited Edition copies and exclusive merch to this Kickstarter, you have a week left!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....ntern-windrose

It's Black Flag Week! From now until 12/1/24, all orders from Storenvy this week get free swag! If your order is over $30, that includes a wooden pendant and a free 5x7 print, which you can see here -
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58957053/

https://rukis.storenvy.com/

No Coupon code, no fuss, no muss. Every Order between now and 12/1 gets the free stuff, period.

The Red Lantern - Windrose Kickstarter is LIVE!
Help me tell the finale of this story!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....ntern-windrose

Red Lantern Windrose is the novelization of the 'Anchor Series' of Red Lantern, namely the story that takes place throughout the graphic novels. This is the main tale that all of the novels, short stories, and graphic novels are woven into, and the penultimate story for the lead characters of the series- Luther, Amon, Dhaval, Isolde, Grayson, Esha, and many more. Probably most people's entry into the series. I will be novelizing the main story, over the course of the next 2 years. It is slated to be 3 total novels, fully illustrated and finalizing the complete story for the central story-line of the Red Lantern universe. Finally. I'd like those of you in particular who've been waiting over a decade to finally see the main story-line unfurl. I'm excited to share it with you all!

Official Announcement!
The 'Red Lantern- Windrose' Kickstarter is launching this upcoming Monday, 11/11/24

Give our launch page a watch!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....token=3a56dfb4

This is the 'Anchor Series' of Red Lantern, namely the story that takes place throughout the graphic novels. Probably most people's entry into the series. I will be novelizing the main story, over the course of the next 2 years. It is slated to be 3 total novels, fully illustrated and finalizing the complete story for the central story-line of the Red Lantern universe. So you can finally get some satisfaction after all these years of waiting.

To be clear, this does NOT mean I've halted work on the graphic novel series, but it does mean I've accepted that illustrated novels have become my strong suit, and earnestly are a FAR better and more inclusive, in-depth way for me to tell a story with so many characters and converging story-lines. Putting my ego aside as a 'comic' artist has been hard, but I am one person, and the comic pages take 40-50 hours apiece and do not allow me a survivable income. It's a passion project and will remain so, but I think it's just about time, after over a decade, that you all got the full story, wouldn't you say?

I have a ton of work already completed for this project, and will be posting art over the next few weeks as the campaign gets going. Please follow us on KS so you can get updates, and notified as soon as the campaign launches. Thanks!

Hi all. Um, I was not able to post about this earlier, sorry about that, but hopefully it'll become clear why in a moment.

We have been out power, water, and internet for the last 9 days. A 50 ft. tree fell against our home, and while no one was hurt and the roof held up (yay!) it badly damaged our dog fencing, and is currently sitting on top of our power box and heat pump / ac unit. The power was restored today, and we were able to start up, so power box seems unharmed. Heat pump is TBD, and we're not sure how much damage we'll need to repair to the fencing.

We've cleared another tree that fell in the front with hand tools, but the one down against our house is too big for a bow saw, a maul and gumption. So, we're looking into the least expensive and safest way we can find to clear it. We'll also be thoroughly cleaning and airing out our home over the next week. We lost 90% of our refrigerated/frozen food, and spent the last week having to cross state lines to find anywhere we could get potable water. We have a well, so when the power goes out... water goes out. Animals go through around 10 gallons a day, so this had us making a lot of trips on dangerous roads to collect gas and water, not just for ourselves for but for the neighborhood. We caravaned with the neighbors to a GA state park on one occasion to get a shower, collect water, do dishes and laundry.

And we were lucky.

There are houses in my area that are just... gone. We were incredibly fortunate that the tree that fell only tipped our roof and split before it fell, so it more slumped onto us than plummeted. We pulled together with local neighbors to share resources, and yesterday, a grocery store nearby finally opened up. Local gas stations have begun opening as well. We are getting back to normal.

If you can or are able, reach out to your AT friends and family and make sure they're okay. We are very, very far inland in SC, basically right against the state line, and were STILL hit hard. And there's another one coming.

I am obviously incredibly behind on posting, mail-outs and communication. I will be doing my best over the next week to catch up, but I'm going to ask that everyone be patient with us. We are exhausted and very shaken up. I was IN the room the tree fell on, I saw it come down through the window, and I'm a bit rattled. But we've endured, and are very aware how fortunate we ultimately were.

Hey there! Did you know there's a new Red Lantern novel? No???

Well that's probably my fault, because I never posted anything about it being out here on FA XP Whoops.

My newest novel in the RL Universe, 'HeartTheft', is now out! - https://furplanet.com/shop/search.a.....rch=hearttheft

Taken in by an Abbey at a young age, Isidor of Ebon Gables is an inquisitive, passionate, fiercely pious young Akita in a rigid society where prescribed roles for all good folk are not just a road map for how to live one’s life, but part of his faith and his holy profession. Isidor is a Templar — pledged to an Order of armed enforcers who keep a vigil over the purity and adherence to religious edicts that their ruling class must follow — as well as an Inquisitor in training, elite Templar who execute the Church’s orders that are best left in the shadows. Concealing the secrets of the upper-class, spying, and hunting the Church’s enemies are all in a day’s work.

“The Heart Thief” is one such enemy: an infamous antiquities thief who is suspected of stealing one of the Church’s most holy artifacts. Isidor is dedicated to tracing the clues left by them and bringing them to justice as a means to prove himself. But unearthing the truth behind the crime — and the criminal themself — may bring more to light about the nature of the Templar Organization than Isidor is prepared to learn.

When new knowledge challenges conventional wisdom, doubt and introspection challenge doctrine, and a young man so accustomed to following his heart feels it lead him towards a future that is contradictory to who he believes himself to be… where will his journey of faith, love, and the search
for truth take him?

Get your copy now, here - https://furplanet.com/shop/search.a.....rch=hearttheft

In case it isn't clear (and I'm sorry about that, really!) -
The Hardcover of HeartTheft is the entire story in one, both books combined
The Softcovers are Book 1 - Covenant, and Book 2- Apocrypha

We're embarking on our yearly trip to Anthrocon! We will be in the Dealers Den, as well as the Art Show, with lots of new stuff, and a new BOOK!

Come find us at Booths M01-M04

All Storenvy orders on pause while we are traveling, and I won't be as responsive via email. If you need to get in touch with me for any reason, leave me an email and I 'll get back to you after the weekend <3

Storenvy Drop Today! The time has finally come. I'm swimming in Originals and large Canvases, Acrylic Prints, Wood Prints, and various other unsold pieces I've accrued from my last few convention Art Shows. I can't bring ALL of them to AC this year, so I'd love to find some of them homes.

The Sale Opens today at 7 PM EST - https://rukis.storenvy.com/

Store is open til then, that's just when I'll be posting the drop of all the new stuff. Keep us bookmarked! We'd appreciate it <3

All Orders today, Saturday and Sunday will come with a FREE 5 x 7 Signed Print, and any Order over $200 will come with a free rough sketch from my sketchbook. These are existing rough sketches I have on hand, not commissions, to be clear.

To claim the free sketch, select the item from the store and put it in your cart, it's $0.

Thank you all for... well, everything! As ever <3

Due to the waves of 18+ furry artists being banned on Patreon, I am establishing a fallback plan over on Subscribestar. This page is NOT active yet, and won't be deployed unless I'm forced to migrate, but if you'd like to bookmark it - https://subscribestar.adult/rukis

We arrived home safely from Texas Furry Fiesta, and are recovering our strength. Quite an eventful, exhausting, but exhilarating TFF this year! Thank you everyone who stopped by and said hi, and I hope to see some of you at Anthrocon soon!

Basic updates for the next week -

- Menagerie Art Packs for the end of the 2023 year will be going out next week

- Menagerie F / M 2024 Lists begin this upcoming week, so look out for your first batch of images!

- HeartTheft is entering EDITING MODE, and we had a really productive meeting with  Furplanet about it this weekend, so I'm reinvigorated

- Getting back into my commission work next week. Streams start on Tuesday, once my voice is recovered (I am hoarse as a mf right now)

There are only TWO DAYS LEFT in our Menagerie Kickstarter, and we're getting closer to our end tier Stretch Goal, which will be an entire illustrated short story set in the RL universe!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....e-project-2024

'Menagerie' is an ongoing 10+ year collaboration with one founding idea - publish a Yearly Erotic Art Anthropomorphic mailing list with a variety of species and body-types. We've been going strong since 2011, delivering 52 images a year per list, that's 52 All-Male images, AND 52 All-Female images.

A year's Subscription to either list entails you to 52 Anthropomorphic Pinup images, 26 drawn by Rukis, 26 drawn by Alastair. The images are delivered via e-mail throughout the year. If you subscribe to both lists, you'll receive a total of 104 images over the course of the year! These specific images are not posted in any of our galleries.

This year, we're also including the Art Books that stem off of this work into our project goals. I'll be publishing Menagerie Volume 4 for both the Male and Female collection, and Alastair will be publishing his adult athletics art book, 'Athleticum'. Backers have the chance to order one or each of these, either as part of their tier or as an add-on.

Boy, at some point when I wasn't paying attention last night, we reached our final Stretch Goal! I've cooked up a new one, not certain we'll reach it, but let's try! I'd love to do it!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....e-project-2024

The NEW Stretch Goal is as follows -
$20,000 - Steamy Illustrated Short Story, featuring Red Lantern Character Pairing we will determine by Poll! (10k minimum word count, Full Color, 2-Character Illustration, Available to Both Lists)

Menagerie 2024 Kickstarter is Now LIVE!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....e-project-2024

'Menagerie' is an ongoing 10+ year collaboration with one founding idea - publish a Yearly Erotic Art Anthropomorphic mailing list with a variety of species and body-types. We've been going strong since 2011, delivering 52 images a year per list, that's 52 All-Male images, AND 52 All-Female images.

A year's Subscription to either list entails you to 52 Anthropomorphic Pinup images, 26 drawn by Rukis, 26 drawn by Alastair. The images are delivered via e-mail throughout the year. If you subscribe to both lists, you'll receive a total of 104 images over the course of the year! These specific images are not posted in any of our galleries.

This year, we're also including the Art Books that stem off of this work into our project goals. I'll be publishing Menagerie Volume 4 for both the Male and Female collection, and Alastair will be publishing his adult athletics art book, 'Athleticum'. Backers have the chance to order one or each of these, either as part of their tier or as an add-on.

I'll be launching our 2024 Menagerie Kickstarter on Monday, Jan. 22 at 8 PM EST, follow us until then!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....e-project-2024

'Menagerie' is an ongoing 10+ year collaboration with one founding idea - publish a Yearly Erotic Art Anthropomorphic mailing list with a variety of species and body-types. We've been going strong since 2011, delivering 52 images a year per list, that's 52 All-Male images, AND 52 All-Female images.

A year's Subscription to either list entails you to 52 Anthropomorphic Pinup images, 26 drawn by Rukis, 26 drawn by Alastair. The images are delivered via e-mail throughout the year. If you subscribe to both lists, you'll receive a total of 104 images over the course of the year! These specific images are not posted in any of our galleries.

This year, we're also including the Art Books that stem off of this work into our project goals. I'll be publishing Menagerie Volume 4 for both the Male and Female collection, and Alastair will be publishing his adult athletics art book, 'Athleticum'. Backers have the chance to order one or each of these, either as part of their tier or as an add-on.

Anyway, keep an eye out! We've just got the Pre-Launch page up right now, but I'll post more details here tomorrow.

I'm going to be updating my Storenvy tonight with a bunch of new items for the new year, including Originals, Large Wall Art/Prints, Wood Prints, some really funky, wild art my girlfriend did, and a NEW T-Shirt Design! Give it a look-see if you can, Drop is at 7 PM EST - https://rukis.storenvy.com/products

This is for any folks who Pre-Ordered my 'Characters of Red Lantern' Art Book. First off, thank you <3

I came back from MFF and came down with a case of Covid a few days later, and I've been waiting on a negative test to start packaging. That began in earnest this weekend. I'm a one-person show, and I have over 60 packages, but I'm making headway. I will be working on packaging orders right up to the end of the year. Wave 1, which would be some of the first people who ordered, will be going out on Wednesday. I've packed them all with a bunch of free stuff, and they will be coming in discreet packaging. Thank you again!

Hey all, so I came down with a positive Covid test today. Given the timeline, I'm guessing I was infected on Sunday right at the tail end, which makes sense given that I know a few other folks we spent time with who've since come up positive.

Basically 1/3 of the people I know who went to MFF at this point have had a positive test, so long story short if you went? Get tested. I only started showing symptoms today and they're relatively minor, but I still tested positive, so. Get tested.

We're doing fine, btw. Quadruple vaxxed and we've had it before, so it's just a minor cough. We are hibernating at home now.

I'm home from Midwest Furfest, and getting started on catching up over on Patreon/Emails, etc. I am not certain if I'm streaming on Thursday, likely not because I have a doctor's appointment. I'll make announcements if I'm able to.

Massive thanks to everyone who stopped by my table or picked something up at the art show. Y'all keep a roof over our heads, and I'm eternally grateful <3

Hey there! Happy 'eat too much with your family/found family day'. Really that's every day at my house, I can't speak for y'all, but nonetheless....
NSFW READING STREAM TONIGHT!
9 PM EST, so everyone has time to eat dinner and digest
https://picarto.tv/Rukis