iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

One artist who's work literally all of you have seen, ALL OF YOU, was blown away when we played a sketch game online because I could quickly draw images...easily. Another friend who makes his living entirely through art told me he had ZERO natural talent which blew me away. How. HOW! They ...

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 05/01/2026

Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

And part of the shit you gotta make is business shit - networking, marketing, finance, legal, operations (arranging gigs, inventory and supply-chain management, etc.) and a lot of people just aren't interested in doing that work!

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Nervous Hair @nervoushair.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I need to make more of my dumb trash.

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yamaking666 @yamaking666.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

this this this THIS THIS THIS

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Ghostbuster Keaton @awesomerobots.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Keep making things, if for no other reason than out of spite.

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Izzy Lee @izzylee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The main reason I’m still here!

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

in some conversations i have said talent is more a fixation with pushing through/not knowing when to quit because you like doing it.... and coming out the other side 😎

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a man in a suit and tie is saying that he can do this all day .

Alt: steve rogers (pre cap) saying "i can do this all day"

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🇺🇾 Gissel Escudero 📚 ✍️🎨 @gisselescudero.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

People go "I'm not good at this, I have no talent," and I'm like "DUDE, YOU'VE ONLY TRIED IT FOR A WEEK." It's so annoying.

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Katherine Derbyshire @kderbyshire.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Tenacity is a superpower.

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Susan Blackwell Ramsey @blackramazoo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The poet Molly Peacock agreed when she said “In a world where talent is common, persistence is synonymous with success.”

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Pseudandry @pseudandry.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

It's so true! I'm an arts person who went to art school and I quickly saw the difference really was tenacity. On the other hand I have no natural talent at cooking and baking and now I'm a pastry chef because I was stubborn and worked hard and ran face first into anything I couldn't do with that

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 15/01/2026

I think the infrastructure required to support one's ability to make shit for a long period of time is something that's eroded over the years, and as a result, has impeded the work of a lot of artists. It results in people being underrepresented, but it's hard to count who's missing.

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Honestly I think that’s all it even is.

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Sharon "Screams in Perimenopause" Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I was a production jeweler for years and there is a vast and expansive difference between the skill required to do something once and the skill required to do something 100 times. It really does take persistence.

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Jeffery J. Manley @manleycomics.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I keep going. Even after 25 years of making comics and not gaining an audience. I keep at it.

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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Julia Cameron once said "All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.”

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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My kid's soccer coach liked the saying, "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"

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Vampire Step-Dad @handle.invalid · 15/01/2026

I feel like this is super evident in music. Especially with bands. You move through the scene and see some INCREDIBLY talented people that go absolutely nowhere. They stop too soon. They don't have the drive. And then you see people that work their ass off and make it doing pretty basic stuff.

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Anna Zand @annazand.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I am constantly hammering this into the Zandelions.

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