iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 27/01/2026

It is important to rest between bouts of having Opinions.

Orange cat snoozing on a yellow quilted blanket.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 21/01/2026

The boy praying to the holy image of a crustacean is giving me vibes of Drawfee's Crab Priest.

Illustration of a radiant, divine horseshoe crab. Text: "I AM A BOTTOM"

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 20/01/2026

I have his writing on my skin.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 20/01/2026

Bonus: the real-life cute guy I woke up to.

An orange cat snoozing on a yellow blanket.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 17/01/2026

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026)

Balamb Garden, from Final Fantasy VIII: a beautiful - and mobile - scifi military school.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 10/01/2026

Getting my little My Girl 2 moment on at La Brea Tar Pits, because of course.

Pasty white man in from bas relief of ice age animals.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 05/01/2026

I am a very sympathetic husband!

Text messages.
Him: "I think you reinfected me with another strain. I just got another fever/chill since yesterday."
Me: "What god did you piss off?"

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 28/12/2025

Mash up two unrelated TV shows. Star Trek + Spaced = Red Dwarf?

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 23/12/2025

Come over, Fortunado! I have a cask of egg nog in the basement. Nevermind all the fruitcakes.

Pee-Wee Herman handing off a fruitcake to a buff construction worker making a cell out of fruitcake.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 17/12/2025

My outfit for the day it happens.

Please don't make me describe this. Man looks like he's wearing the sluttiest sofa upholstery. His cock has its own pant leg.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 05/12/2025

I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future.

3 boys in a spacecraft made from a carnival ride. Explorers (1985)

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 02/12/2025

My 2025 Tidal recap has me pinned, stone cold

Album list:
1 Xenogears OST, Yasunori Mitsuda
2 Medulla, Björk
3 The Brutalist OST, Daniel Blumberg
4 Smoochies, Ashnikko
5 Munarvagr, Dangeim

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 17/11/2025

View from my morning seat at the café. Graffiti will always be one of your most reliable sources of news. Don't look away from it.

Rainy sidewalk featuring white lettering: "NEIGHBOR KIDNAPPED HERE"

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 20/10/2025

My body is sore; could use a rubdown, buddy

A middle aged homo in sweaty gym attire, arm raised, head tilted, staring you down

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 12/10/2025

Seamus, why are your ears in disagreement?

A snoozing orange cat on a yellow blanket. One ear points up, the other down.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 10/10/2025

Ope, my timeline pulled some synchronicity, Nisi!

Screenshot of a statue's naked rump, right above Nisi's post that says "Come on everybody and show me your hellhole"

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 21/09/2025

Sundays are for beds and cute boys

Close-up of an orange tomcat laying on floral bedsheets

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 08/09/2025

1988. You may not remember that these came out the same day, but I definitely do. I was seven. We were staying in a shelter for battered women & their children - a space so rich with a sense of purposeful community that it left a permanent mark on me. We saw these back to back.

Poster for The Land Before Time: cartoon dinosaurs trek up a slope before an epic prehistoric landscape.

Poster for Oliver & Company: a cartoon kitten rides on the hood of a NY taxi filled with various dogs.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 06/09/2025

Do you believe the Smoke Moon can change your life?

Cal Anderson Park is Seattle. Night. A water feature ripples over square stones under, reflecting street lights and a tiny red moon under a hazy sky.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 30/08/2025

Aww, I found a photo of my childhood living room from the 80s. My mom crocheted that afghan, and I kept the coffee table when I moved out.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 17/08/2025

Shortbus (2006): "and the hole is for singing the Star Spangled Banner"

Scene from Shortbus: The naked men perform oral on each other. One is singing the Star Spangled Banner into another's asshole.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 09/08/2025

My favorite Doctor and companion.

Dr Meredith Grey and Dr Christina Yang, cozy on a couch under a a heavy knit blanket.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 07/08/2025

Ghosts (US) has one of the all-time most terrifying subplots I've ever encountered, once you give its idea a little time in your head. It's a fantastic comedy show that has the balls to say "holes are bad." I happened to think of places like Derinkuyu after, with a swelling sense of OH NO.

Interior of the Derinkuyu underground city. A hive of ancient doorways carved in stone. It goes down, down, down.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 04/08/2025

Is it even a neckline if it isn't plunging?

Gay white man in a loosely buttoned floral shirt. B&W photo.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 02/08/2025

Saint Rat never goes unattended.

A group of young adults relax on a narrow ledge between wall and water. On the wall is Seattle's mosaic of Hot Rat Summer: a rat before a rising sun, with a heart drifting nearby.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 01/08/2025

Post a random picture or everything will go bad* in August *may include losing your leg to a confetti cannon

An electrical box painted with a rainbow and a portrait of Seattle legend Shelley Bauman, wearing long grey hair and a feather boa. Sign reads "Shelly's Leg is a GAY BAR provided for Seattle's gay community and THEIR GUESTS."

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 31/07/2025

Definitely Chichiri from Fushigi Yûgi. We love any sadboy clown, but this was my first.

Anime art of a handsome young man from a Japanese fantasy setting. He's removing a cheerful mask to reveal a serious face with a scarred-over eye. He is ADORABLE, dammit.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 28/07/2025

Fantastic Four expected me to believe that THIS man can live with Pedro Pascal and just be cool about it. Nuh-uh.

A blond twunk in a white tee at the opening of a stepbro gay porno. Oh wait sorry, that's actually Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 21/07/2025

It's a good time for me to recommend Dabble Writer! If you're looking for a good middle ground between Google Docs & Scrivener for your prose, this is the best I've found. And they're listening to what writers want, taking a hard No stance to AI.

(Email from Dabble)

Hey there,

A week ago, we sent out a survey asking how you felt about AI in writing tools. We wanted to hear directly from you, the Dabblers, to understand exactly where you stand.

Your responses were overwhelmingly clear: you don't want AI in your writing space.

We hear you and we care about what you have to say.

For that reason, we’re keeping AI out of Dabble.

A couple years ago we anticipated writers' concerns and codified our stance into our Privacy Policy: your data and writing will never be used to train AI.

While companies like Google are updating their Terms of Service to use your documents, emails, and photos for AI training, and Microsoft is shoving AI features into every corner of their products, we decided we’re taking a different path.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 21/07/2025

this is the ideal gay couple. you may not like it, but this is what peak faggotry looks like.

Flotsam & Jetsam from The Little Mermaid. Entwined. Long and wet. Staring into each other's eyes. They will mock you, hunt you like prey, and devour you whole.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 20/07/2025

Of course he is. Haven't you ever heard of "Bury Your Gays"?

Yamcha. Yeah, he dead, girl. Look at him, presenting his dead little ass up at your face from his pitiful little death crater. Orange isn't even his color.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 20/07/2025

I used to make logo wallpapers for *all* my WIPs. Eventually just got tired of Photoshop, but here's one for a dead collab project from many, many years ago.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 12/07/2025

Nothing says "summer" like Mamma Mia (2) in the park. Wish you were here. Yes, YOU.

Mamma Mia 2, playing on a screen in a park

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 11/07/2025

Pitch a movie (or show) with 4 images:

Ben Whishaw in a dapper suit, teasing his yummy chest

Raven Symoné, biting her tongue like she's about to stir the pot and start some shit

Astronauts floating around a grand cupola. (Concept art by Enora Mercier)

Solar spicules, like hot magnetic fur on the surface of a star

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 10/07/2025

When Mama Murphy asked me to build her chair, I erected it high above the town with stairs leading up. Once she took her throne, I removed the stairs. It seemed appropriate.

Mama Murphy, the Oracle archetype from Fallout 4: an old woman wearing East Coast Apocalypse staring at you like she's waiting for the drugs to kick in.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 10/07/2025

I am literally on the ending of a film script right now, and...

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 03/07/2025

Replace a word in a famous TV/Film line with "butthole." "Our buttholes! They're natural parachutes!"

Two middle aged women using colorful culottes like parachutes to float gracefully down.

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aka Bear Michaels @akabearmichaels.com · 30/06/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only

Meghan Markle, smiling in a light blouse

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