iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

why when i order a paperback book nowadays (even the MMPB!!) they all have HUGE margins, type 16 font, and a paragraph break for every sentence 😭😭😭 plus the pages are so thick and textured yuck!!!! i miss old paperbacks urghh! if i wanted a large print that's what i'd order... 700 pg by 1300 pg...

photo of 700 page When the Moon Hatched by 1300 page Towers of Midnight. they are the same thickness, Towers of Midnight is shorter by ~1.5inches

photo of both books opened to page 64. on the left is huge margins, large font, tall line spacing, and excessive paragraphs. on the right is a tight line spacing page with smaller font and margins

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my anxious ass keeps getting 3-5hrs of sleep, which then makes me Very Anxious, which then makes me sleep bad,,, anyway, even tired, i got almost 500 words handwritten today. i want to be more proud of myself than i Feel, ya know? i'm staying more disciplined, but i'd love to be excited too ;n;

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what a lovely thing to find in my mailbox this morning: jury duty summons ... fucking hell.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

depression and stress got me reading 600/990 pages of a wheel of time book in 24 hours. my only escape from The Horror is immersing myself completely in these characters, who are also going Through It, but in cool and brave and powerful ways. meanwhile i call in sick and huddle in my blankets... 💔

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ashamedd bc i joined artfight just to struggle so hard with human faces (which are all the attacks i wanted to do). i really dont know what or why the block is there, but i feel like my interpretation of others' human ocs is going to be so Bad and Wrong that they hate

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

only drawing a lovers gaze will cure my artblock 💔 played around with the muted palette style, but idk if i like it yet. i cant find a sketching/lining brush that hits the way my normal one does, but it takes 12 hours to line anything (and i just dont have the creative stamina for that rn 🥲)

sketch with loose colors in a very muted palette. two people looking longingly at each other. the woman, Laela, on the left is looking up and gripping the man's shirt. Avett on right is looking down at her, his posture is more pulled back, yet their noses are nearly touching. a bright sphere is behind their heads, and a thorny flowered branch is in the lower right corner.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

and what if i told you all i had new blorbos to rotate? 👉🏼👈🏼 💕 from my new novel project, here is (the initial sketch of) laela and avett hehehe its hard to narrow them down visually, more than my birds ever were. rn i'm still planning so things abt them change more i guess?

rough sketch of a woman with her hands on the face of a man kneeling before her. he looks up at her with a pleading look, while she looks searchingly into his eyes

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

OH YA! the tree saga is resolved, but as its final goodbye, the professional tree trimmers felled it right onto my fence 💀💀💀 they rebuilt it the next day (though pretty poorly...) the tree no longer hangs over my head, literally, so it is what it is!!!

photo of a large tree having just crushed a section of fence

another view, how close it got to my garage

the rebuilt fence which is crooked and unevenly spaced with planks

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

not me excited for artfight when i havent drawn since april 💀 i have 2 tiny sketches from may and june and i've Attempted to finish either the senna or alessia pieces more than i cant count, with no luck (or progress). i'm afraid the humanoid ocs i want to attack will be more difficult now sobs

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

tentatively joining af ! i havent drawn much at all this whole year and af has (the past 2 years) gotten me to finish at least a few!! i dont know about adding anymore ocs, despite having a handful more, but the itch to draw is there. i just need an external motivation lol

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

coping with work busy season + wanting to move by reading whole books in a day 💀 no scrolling for me (except on zillow!) project hail mary, pride & prejudice, the firm, a knight of the seven kingdoms, and warbreaker in the past 2 months. all 4/5 or 5/5 stars ! i hope everyone is doing well!! 💕

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

already having a bad time... gets poison ivy. 😭 cant i just relax for ONE DAY please !!!!

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

yap yap, here's an update ! iskra's dress designs are so beautiful 💕💕💕 i need more practice, but i love them smm !! tentatively calling her Alessia (did i say this yet?) also her wings arent all green, but i do want them to be based on a green hummingbird (ruby-throated maybe?)

wip of a bust+torso drawing of a feminine woman dressed in a dark green and gold accented gown. red curly hair peaks out from a headscarf. she rests her arms her on a low wall. wings remain unfinished and colored green

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A MONTH AGO ??? wtfwtff ;n; its worse than my time blindness thought. i did work on my first piece of the adopt from iskra last night, i cant settle on her wings tho. (why are hummingbird wings actually a pain to color???)

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i'm sorry for barely replying here lately 😭 i know i left multiple people on read urghh sending u all love and a happy, restful weekend 💕

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

a pair of northern flickers is making a home in the dead tree <3 now i kind of hope it getting chopped gets delayed ! they are so cute

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

i think the most annoying part of my job is being Asked for a budget and then LITERALLY NO ONE follows it AT ALL. me: we need to be careful until after our big sale weekend manager: places order for new PCs (which we Could use an upgrade but why literally right after i ask you to hold off??)

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i miss my ocs. i miss feeling good. if it aint one thing, its another. stress is really getting to me

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

wip of the new girl from iskra ! 💕 i've been swamped with dayjob and yardwork so its taken me multiple nights to even get this far 😭 i am already hating work busy season. not that i got that much of a break this winter anyway urgh

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Iskra @stellartombs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This wasn't planned for the first ever version (~2020/21) at all, but now Alastor and Amarantha's relationship became literally my favorite OC relationship ever. I need to draw them together more often. 1/?

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

built this makeshift puzzle board so i could move it around and started a puzzle on it ... to find out its too big to fit through doorways ??? 😭😭😭 so now its stuck living on my couch+ottomans omg, also this puzzle is HARD. it has straight-edged pieces all over the middle too aaaghh lol

photograph of a large piece of cardboard with pink paper taped on with a partially started puzzle on it. it is sitting on a couch

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

this week actually killed me. my car got the "she is so rusty i wouldnt recommend doing anything else to repair xyz and just wait for it to caput" from a Very Trusted, Very Chill mechanic. which tbh is better than the folks who took my money, broke stuff, and left me high and dry when itd keep -

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

my th. character profiles being pre-rework makes me want to blow the whole thing up 😭😭 like, Senna's dad's name isn't even there ?!! how OLD is all this !! aaggghhh the landing page is 85% good info, but every oc has a Bunch of outdated info. sad bc i like the formatting but so much is wrongggg 🙃🙃

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

oohhhggghhhh i want to refine this one i thinkkkk (senna piece is kicking my booty)

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

phew !!! i love wings, but damn does lining them take ages. i'm so excited to color this aahhhh i have the itch to draw and i really hope it sticks around after i finish this lol

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

50/50 whether i color senna's wings correctly ... this was not one of those times lmao its definitely supposed to be black tipped ?? OOPS but i am having a v good time refining this sketch today 💕💕

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

my biggest op: the dead tree in my (essentially) vacant neighbors house which has had massive limbs fall on my garage 3 times now. tbf i AM lucky it hit the center instead of either door or they wouldve been destroyed but ummm ...

photo of a large dead branch leaned against the pillar between two garage doors, the gutters knocked off.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

3, pretty organized! i just spent a few weeks going through all my old notes that were in various places and putting everything canon in either my notebook or scrivener (or both). before this id say a 6... shit was all over lol last thing i need to do is redo toyhouse bc its so outdated ughhhh

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

[redacted] i really want to bitch about work so bad, but also shouldn't. so just know i'm fucking fuming LMAO. 🤬🤬

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

me, the big sap that i evolved to, sobbing over the woodburning gift my bestie MADE (i willl cherish this forever) with "my greatest friend" etched into the back like 😭 i'm not kidding guys i cant even think about it without tearing up wtfwtf my poor heart lately, i dont usually cry like this !!

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

doodling around and uh, AJ, i think Ezra is subconsciously Influencing me loool fluffy ears and tail and the horn shape ?? was just making pretty shapes and playing with trying to make godlike creatures (which i made more complicated by dragons already being a thing in illimaia) and ended up with

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

i don't know how people keep up with commenting back to tens-hundreds of comments bc i get like five (which i love btw, this is not me complaining abt the amount) and my brain is straight up overheating bc they make me so happy i can barely think of how to reply 😅😂💕

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

past me, with my whole chest: vizael is the third son! current me: bro wtffff, not only does viz have middle child vibes but also if i'm going to make him heir/king then i have to conveniently kill Both of his brothers ??? feels like such a cop out lmao

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

[no rb yet] i really wanted this piece to have a hint of hopeful air to it, but its so icy and dull. its pretty and maybe it should stay this way. i dont feel very hopeful ? fighting off depression is so annoying, i miss Feeling. i miss Caring. also sorry its probably cronched to hell, bsky does not

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

i might redo the rendering on this later as i'm too gloomy to know if i'm doing the bg and shading any justice... but the lines are done <3

work in progress of a digital piece by caye, featuring my ocs, Adanael and Rieta. two aves (birdfolk) with white wings creating a diamond shape around them. a small sun is providing some backlighting.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

looking back at Ancient Cloudspire texts, i really think tavi changed so so much that some old scenes, he's got thilas' voice. or rather, thilas took his old voice lmao like in one of my OG versions of him meeting senna he's flirty and goofy and Not Himself (now), but its 110% how thilas acts.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

my best friend is moving states away and damn is every lost friendship ripped open, raw and burning, now. i keep avoiding it during the day, but my dreams are filled with old friends, those out of reach beyond my memory. my biggest struggle is believing my friends want Me around.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

maaan i'm so rusty writing, i got maybe 400 words and my brain is dying already raaahhh!!! 😂😂 counting it a win thoo, as i am finally out of migraine stupor enough to write even a tiny bit yay<3

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

me: ah i think i will mod my steamdeck's skyrim tonight and start a new playthru 💕 ... its now 1am and i'm finally in game ... i fear we may not get much sleep tonight 🫡😂

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

i dont really get 3am scaries, but i DO get 3pm scaries lmao worst time of the day frfr

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

my reward for going to the work meeting even tho my allergies/pressure migraine are so bad: warm latte and cozy slippies <3333 animal crossing update AND new marvel rivals season tomorrow 👀👀 its boutta be a gaming filled weekend eeee 💕

photograph top down of caye holding a latte in a pink mug held above black slippers. a cozy sweatshirt is also shown

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

ya girl actually stayed up til 3 Still working on this, so another update for the pals and a zoom in on their faces 🫡💕 just the wings and then i might adjust the overall colors. while turquoise is the house Cosora color, i don't know if i want to use it here

another wip of a digital piece featuring two of cayes ocs, Adanael and Rida

zoomed in view of the faces from previous photo

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

the entirety of Gladiator later... some progress on the linework 💕 something sooo soothing about soft lines aaa it may take ages, but i enjoy the process of it very much !

half finished linework of digital artwork featuring cayes two Aves (bird-human) ocs, Adanael and Rida.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

i watched The Fall 2006 tonight, and i swear id seen it before but i had entirely forgot the whole premise ??? golly gee i was sobbin also i def remember watching it at like 14-15 and being like 👀👀 at "grown man" lee pace. and then today being like "ah yes, a man 3 years younger than me 😭😭" 😂😂🫨🫨

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

me: man, if only scrivener had photos on the corkboard, then itd be perfect ! scrivener Does, in fact, have this ability. lmaoo (this is about the fifth time this has happened to me, scriv has so many features that are kiiinda hard to find first off, but very robust) and a lil preview <33

screenshot of cloudspire's scrivener page

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

man, rebuilding my worldbuilding notes (and compiling them from 2-4 sources depending on the character/subject) is actually so time consuming 🫡 i got to 7 characters in 3ish hours ? and None were mains... this was 6 parents of the mains and then i did Adanael too. alphabetical (minus Halle) so um,

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

morning stretchies with senna <333 i don't know what i'm on or when it will run out, but i'm having too much fun to care. i am finally drawing again aaaa

flat colored art of caye's oc, Senna Maywood. she's kneeled on the ground, wings relaxed beside her, arms stretched high above her head with a content expression

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

dragon <3 say hello to Goldeneye's first sketch. she's Caeladun Port's resident dragon. (Senna's hometown/Isa's birthplace). her true name is more like "The Golden Glint of Sunlight on Bared Teeth" (very rough translation of dragonspeak). but, she's vain and likes being called Goldeneye in common

rough sketch with loose colors of a ruddy red dragon portrait with a golden, shining eye.

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

decided this year i will just draw whatever and also not think too hard about Every Piece. some things are just sketches and that's alright ! so, here's a rare spice for my alt (i think the second one and its just suggestive lmao) i fear my heart has been gripped by these two ! // thilas & rin

(suggestive but not showing anything) cayes two ocs, thilas and rin. thilas is kissing her sensually on the collarbone, her head is tilted back, eyes closed. the colors are muted

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alt.caye ⟡ @altcaye.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

i think my birds have returned from the war! one wip (Adanael and Rida - who i’m considering renaming tbqh) and one loose sketch i’ll probably not fiddle with much more of Rin and Thilas 💕

rough wip with loose colors of cayes two ocs. Rida and Adanael are both white winged aves. he is sitting proudly, looking down to the viewer with a sword in his lap, while she stands behind with her arms wrapped around him gently. she holds a small pitcher in one hand. their wings form a diamond and a sun is shining above their heads

rough sketch of Rin (dark haired and winged aves) dancing with Thilas (brown hair and wings) his head is on her shoulder heavily.

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