iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

played for 30 min and my hands gave up great #hEDS

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

i'm gonna buy Hades II and either play it in 2 days or 2 years

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I assume you've been to other locations already but I always like stopping by Kinokuniya (bookstore) since there's none where i live :)

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Bangtan is back MY SHAYLAAA (Ｔ＿Ｔ) throwback to my Life Goes On fanart

Digital illustration fanart of the band BTS. Photos spread across the table, highlighting warm and comforting moments where the members laugh and enjoy themselves. In the middle is all 7 of them in pajamas, giggling and piling on each other, written words "what a relief that we are seven".

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

just read Joon's Weverse post and sorta understand how people can go to war for 1 person #BTS #RM #Namjoon #BTSFesta2025

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I also got to meet a fellow Vietnamese person who was the head of the Hanoi Association of People with Disabilities and we had a lovely chat. I didn't know much about the disability movement in Vietnam and was filled with hope to learn more.

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Also look at this professional person doing professional things +

A professional photo of Buffie hunched over a music stand, drawing on her iPad, pursing her mouth in focus. Buffie is a Southeast Asian woman with black shoulder length hair, wearing a powder pink blouse and bright blue pants, sitting on an electric wheelchair.

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I realized I have not posted the full image on here. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to do #graphicrecording for the Commitment panel at the #GlobalDisabilitySummit 2025! It was a great learning opportunity to stroll around and see all the work being done around the globe! #GDS2025 #GDS +

An information-packed, colorful digital illustration capturing the main ideas of the panel “Leading
The Way: Featuring the Most Impactful Commitments for Disability Inclusion in Development
Cooperation”. The title sits clearly in the middle, illustrated by three people with disabilities
looking up and forward to the future. Fanning out from the title, a circle contains the
commitments by the three co-hosts of the Global Disability Summit 2025: Germany, Jordan, and
the International Disability Alliance. Surrounding the circle are 9 distinct sections featuring the
commitments of 9 organizations, each illustrated with straightforward symbols and keywords.
The sections are outlined with four alternating colors: yellow, green, orange, and blue. A light
blue frame ties everything together as well as holds the event logos and the artist’s signature at
the bottom. All the illustrations and texts are hand drawn and hand written, giving the artwork an
organic look.

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

omg i stumbled across a fellow Berlin graphic recorder :D would you like to chat a bit to share experience? (no pressure of course)

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

however i also want to say that some parts of my life did change more positively after my disabilities got worse such as my research skills, my understanding of disability justice, etc. but i wish there were other ways to acquire those growth lol

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

absolutely, i saw a tiktok that compared having a chronic illness with someone having a child for the first time - your whole world is upended and you have so many things to consider now every time you want to do anything +

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

and i think if people actually meant to say "find joy despite it all" people can say that instead, because this phrase better acknowledge the impact of disability while still encourage joy :)

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

my disagreement was with the phrase "don't make your disability your personality" because it indicates a lack of understanding of how all-consuming my disabilities are and also the tone tend to be patronizing +

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

another sketchbook self portrait 🎨 i can never get my nose right 🥲 and yes that is Tony's chocolate as the background it's my favorite. #gouache #painting #selfportrait #gouacheportrait #acrylicgouache #portraitpainting #dopamineart #tonyschocolonely

A sketchbook laid tilted, displaying a bright, colorful gouache portrait of a young Southeast Asian woman with shoulder length hair, cheekily glancing up. A brush and paint palette is included in the photo, as to suggest the process of how the portrait was painted. The vibrant red wrapping paper of Tony's chocolate is glued on the page to serve as the base for the portrait.

A zoom in of the person's face and hair, showing obvious thick brush strokes, especially the highlights in her eyes and glasses. Decorative stars drawn with colored pencil litter across her hair and face.

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I understand the instinct to want to separate "disability" from "living your life" from "personality". But may I remind you of that Annie Dillard quote "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" I don't "let" my disability become my whole personality. It is already who I am.

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

As for hEDS (and its friends): I can no longer do a lot of activities that align with my identity that often/that well anymore. Whether it's drawing, painting, crochet, activism, hang with friends, or simply "have a think". I am more irritable, often not as sharp or funny as I want, (3/4)

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I think for my neurodevelopment stuff or depression it's a bit easier to explain: this is how my brain has always worked. And I know "personality" is a complicated psychological concept, but for me my "self" reside in the brain, which is neurodivergent. (2/4)

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I understand the intention behind this sentiment (that you should find joy despite it all), but it does reinforce this idea that "disability" and "the self" can be neatly separated. Here's how my #EDS #autism and #ADHD influence "my whole personality" (1/4) #chronicillness bsky.app/profile/buff...

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Buffie (@buffienguyen.bsky.social)

"Don't make your disability your personality" Well if my disability is influencing how and even IF i can do things i that aligns with my identity/personality, it's a bit hard to not let it influence…

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I know I say this every week but the line up is crazzyyyy

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

i am *too* aware of EDS this EDS awareness month 🥲

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm sorry to hear that even basic self care is hard right now :( we're in this together

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It's always nice to have internet camaraderie with fellow EDS-er 🥲

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

i'm spending #EDS awareness month appropriately: in a massive flare up, in bed, crying 🙃 i fucking hate chronic pain it makes me feel like i'm losing myself

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's no longer cold

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

hi Catherine, it's no problem at all! i appreciate you sharing my work 💕 I hope you had a great GDS :)

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Global Disability Summit today in Berlin. The following graphic recording by buffie nguyen @buffienguyen.bsky.social is brilliant. Here is my attempt to describe this great illustration in ALT text. Please comment on how it works for you. Thank you. Here it is:

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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Another one of my favorite Ghibli drawings. This one is pretty old, back when I frequently used colored pencils

The forest god from princess Mononoke in the unicorn tapestry. The palette is grey, red, and black

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oks ⁷🪻art @insights-png.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Looking just like a painting 💅🕶️ #jhope

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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

conversation with the ancestors

Three panel comic. The first panel shows a person at a drawing tablet, looking frustrated. She says "I must think of deep, meaningful things to draw!" The second panel shows the same person looking up at a caveman crouching nearby, drawing a cow. They say, "No you don't." And the person at the tablet replies "Wow, you're right!" Panel 3 shows the caveman giving a thumbs up while the tablet person says "Thanks, ghost of neanderthal! Wow, you did thumbs up too?" The caveman replies "Hell yeah."

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

belated but Happy Year of the Snake 🐍✨ it's my zodiac year, so i thought to combine the snake with the flower that i was named after, "Quỳnh" (Epiphyllum) #art #ChineseNewYear #snake #procreate #YearoftheSnake

An inked digital drawing of a thin venomous snake winding around a flowering plant. The Epiphyllum flowers are in different stage of blooming, its flowers and leaves weave in front and behind the snake's body. The subject of the art is solid white against a rich red background.

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

the sailor moon transformation lol

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

the 7-8pm is highly relatable

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

3 minute jimin is such a cute idea

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

gotta love a muji pen 💕

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

1st this is so cool i just saw Kaz Rowe promoted your work and was trying to find a way to buy it in the EU! 2nd i'm always so glad to see art by fellow disabled creators. this made me realize how my chronic pain is so invisible in my own hourly comic, 'cause it's just so ingrained in my everyday

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

gotta love the little otaku in the making 💕

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Buffie @buffienguyen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

despite following the hashtag for many years, this is my first time joining Hourly Comic Day! a pretty busy day for me 👩🏻‍💻 #HourlyComicDay #HourlyComicDay2025 #HCD #comic #art #artchallenge