iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 05/10/2026

She's yelling about graphic novels again. I wrote a blog post about how to track work hours and do the math to build better work schedules. This speaks to graphic novelists specifically but it's good info for any freelancer!

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Graphic Novel Math

How comic artists can track work hours to manage time and build better graphic novel production schedules.

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igns @ignsart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#ffxiv #ff14

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Kallidora Rho @kallidorarho.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The author's brazen fetish, presented with such hedonistic flair and and open pride it makes you feel a little embarassed for needing to hide your own passions behind self-effacing jokes in order to preserve a sense of safe, pseudo-ironic detachment

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Luckyia @luckyiamelkor.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Sidurgu and Rielle #ff14 #FFXIV #FFXIVART

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Akameli | COMMS OPEN @akameli.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Commission for @witchsocks.bsky.social and her Leda 🏰 #VgenComm

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Luckyia @luckyiamelkor.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

after a heavy snowfall #ffxiv #ff14 #FFXIVART -Fray, Sidurgu and Rielle

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papa pia @papapia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Old comic I made for the Library of Etheirys zine 😄 I really enjoyed getting to explore Papa and Ardbert's dynamic!!!

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蝉 @semi929.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

＃ff14

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Kb-mon🔞 @kbmon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i... i literally could not stop thinking about this after reading "eyes like a succubus" lmfao

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anna @waboars.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Misc heavensward doodles i did while progressing on my alt ☃️

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Teeth 🍯 🦎 @icicleteeth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Doodle page for Wick 😌 #ffxiv

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#FanfestWOLExchange #Fanfest Thanks again to everyone I traded with! Here is the final look of my sticker book + the cards I got ! Don’t hesitate to say hi if you spot one of your darlings 💙 Part 1

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vati 🐍🔞 @titilvating.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

people who only think of shipping as romance cannot even conceive as shipping as thriller, shipping as horror, shipping as character study. very limiting worldview. you should expand your palate.

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YMR // 🎮 7.56 evercold waiting room @ymr18.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

my second attempt in drawing him and i think i improved a lot since the last time 😭[ #ffxiv #ffxivart #erenville ]

messy art with erenville from ff14. he is looking to the side.

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旳 @diesel2b.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Veiled Monarch #ELDENRING

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#FanfestWOLExchange Thank you so much to all the Warriors of Light I got to trade with this week-end, here is a little preview of my sticker book for now, still many more to add ! Shout out to @yomiakiya.bsky.social , thank you so much for your hard work 🙏🏽💜 Safe travel back home everyone !✨

My stickers for the Final Fantasy FFXIV WoLExchange

Pages from my sticker book , with other players precious Warriors of Light

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YMR // 🎮 7.56 evercold waiting room @ymr18.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

7 seconds till the test of your reflexes or what was it... [ #ffxivart #ffviiart #ff7 #ff14 #zenos #sephiroth ]

messy sketch of sephiroth from ff7 and zenos from ff14. sephiroth is flying a little bit above zenos, holding his chin. sephiroth smiles at him. but zenos looks at sephiroth without emotion.

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blue 🐻🐰 gateway fate 704 @dreadwyrmtrance.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

enshrouded meteor on my mind

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◾reira◾ @macarenses.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Here's the marmoset render of the figure! #ffxiv #ffxivart #zbrush

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Yomi || #FanfestWOLExchange @yomiakiya.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#FanfestWOLExchange Here is some info about the sticker trade timing! Location has not been announced yet as I want to find a location that can safely fit most of us! I cannot wait to meet everyone and see your beautiful items! #FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVFanfest @ Berlin

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 COMMISSIONS OPEN @blacksalander.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

trying something with my Selene artwork using dithering would anyone be interested in prints of something like this?, I kinda love the style

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

going through it atm but i finished a commission yay #pixelart #animation

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Teeth 🍯 🦎 @icicleteeth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The closer we get to Revelation the more I want to draw 7 guys 😔

Sketches of portraits of Red XIII and Cloud, some are uncolored

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Teeth 🍯 🦎 @icicleteeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Vern for Sat! 🍄 #ffxiv

Sketches of a viera with green hair, glasses, and a green coat. One holds a butterfly staff

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igns @ignsart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#ffxiv #ff14

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Sam Beck @sambeckdraws.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

im getting so side-tracked, i dont need this level of detail but it's too late for me now archive.org/details/medi...

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Medieval costume and fashion : Norris, Herbert : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Originally published : Costume & fashion. London : J.M. Dent, 1924

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igns @ignsart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

wip

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Yomi || #FanfestWOLExchange @yomiakiya.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🎇It is FINALLY Time for the #FanfestWOLExchange Signups and Merch!🎇 🖌️Main Art by: @yeinart.bsky.social Sign up link below 📃 List of participants: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 📃 Sign Up Form: forms.gle/mrVUcyxUAjyu... #FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVFanfest @ Berlin

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aurea @floribundawisteria.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

OH MY GOD THEY COOKED??? 😭💛💜

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sickos Selection #4 ❗ Another stupendously good collection of smut from 25 artists containing hundreds of pages of comics, art & prose for DIRT CHEAP. I have Forest Wedding in the bundle, a short porn comic about an arranged marriage between a human and a forest giant ❤️‍🔥 itch.io/b/3687/sicko...

a black & pink promo for Sickos Selection illustrated by the talented @gchoule below which the names of the Sickos Selection #4 contributors are lined up

Cover image of my short porn comic Forest Wedding. Framed in a dark violet & blue silhouette against a light teal background, a short human is offering a wreath of flowers to a tall, proud forest giant woman.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Daily bunny no.2821 has survived another year

Bunnies depict the end of the Anime "Mobile Suit Gundam". One lone bunny in a spacesuit drifts in space towards a small space vessel. Other bunnies, his crewmates, all happily come out to greet him, arms outstretched.

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Crimson Sun @crimsonsun.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The FFXIV playing cards demo deck! Look at my beautiful baby! 🔥 Info about ordering, on Patreon (you can access the post even without being a member) - www.patreon.com/posts/demo-d... If you have any questions please let me know #FFXIV

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boigir @dumbtree.net · 20/09/2025

play ffxi. you can stare at your character lovingly while a bug scuttles to your destination

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jess ☆ suffering @jessilla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

GOING TO FFXIV FANFEST IN BERLIN THIS YEAR? i put together a little guide for your stay here! 🧳 #ffxiv #FFXIVfanfest feel free to DM me if you have any questions! share it wherever you want, i just want to help out my fellow WoLs 🥺💕 docs.google.com/presentation...

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Berlin Fanfest 2026 - Little Travel Guide

BERLIN

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tea @steelpeach.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Ramza's and Delita's morning routine for @moonlightchef.bsky.social #FFT #ramlita ディリラム

A colored comic page showing a romantic scene between Ramza and Delita from Final Fantasy Tactics (mild BL)
Panel 1: Ramza is holding his ponytail up to show the laces on the back of his outfit being undone. He is saying "Delita, would you help me lace this up?" Panel 2: Delita is smirking and going "hm", hand on his hip. Ramza is smiling and blushing in the foreground. Panel 3: Delita is kissing the back of Ramza's exposed neck. Ramza is closing his eyes and smiling while blushing even more. Panel 4: closeup on the laces tied up into a bow by Delita.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

B&W photo of artist Lois Mailou Jones, standing at an easel and using a brush to paint, with an absolutely adorable kitten poised on her shoulder watching her paint. Adorbs!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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i @pondcell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

fatebreaker #ffxiv

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i @pondcell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

titania the dreamer #ffxiv

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HILLECTANT (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @hillectant.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

PLEASE CHECK OUT MY FRIEND'S GUIDE TO SWANA/ARAB CLOTHING!!!!! ESPECIALLY FFXIV PEOPLE WHO PLAY THAVNAIRIAN/CORVOSI/ALA MHIGAN CHARACTERS IM BEGGING YOU. orientalism erases the true beauty of these cultures and their traditional clothing and makes these valuable references VERY hard to find!!!

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Prema-Ja @premaja-art.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FF tactic

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igns @ignsart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#ffxiv #ff14

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✨ @adeuce-a2.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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🅑🅞🅧🅔🅡🅑🅤🅝🥊🐰 @boxerbun.fun · 30/07/2025

More than Meets the Eye🌱

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mizBun @mizbun.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A few weeks ago, when The Merchant's Tale dropped in FF14, a GREAT Tumblr post was made about the stuff that the content does RIGHT, and the things that are just Orientalist slop. Some ppl requested the post in image form and so I reached out to the OP to get permission to do just that! Spoilers! 🧵

Merchant’s Tale from FFXIV, Part 1

Credit where credit is due. FFXIV’s latest Variant Dungeon, Merchant’s Tale, came out this week in Patch 7.45. There’s been a lot of well-deserved criticism levied towards it already, because some of the most prominently marketed aspects of this new release - the gear, some of the bosses, etc. – have been Orientalist caricatures that are demeaning, racist, and frankly rather disappointing. It’s obvious why this is (sex sells and Disney’s Aladdin sells; hence the “exotic” belly dancer gear, the blue genie of the lamp, the flying carpets, etc.), and I won’t rehash those points here because that isn’t the focus of this post.

The point is this: there’s been some actual research & work that’s gone into Merchant’s Tale, and those facets should be recognized and praised and discussed, even as we are justly and rightfully denouncing the aforementioned Orientalism. I’m an Iranian-American; I may not be the best person to speak on this on account of how I am diaspora, but my grasp of Farsi/Persian and my cultural upbringing gives me enough background to recognize the work that Creative Unit 3 did put into this latest release. It’s my personal belief that we should be encouraging more and better representation, not less and worse, and until matters & industries & reach improve enough that we can enjoy homegrown representation developed in the countries best suited to represent themselves, we ought to give companies feedback to encourage them to do better (hire natives and first language speakers, do their research, understand what not to do, etc.) rather than to become entirely avoidant (“why bother with representing this culture when we’ll only get slammed for it”) or, worse, to start disregarding our feedback entirely in favor of what sells best. There’s enough good representation in Merchant’s Tale that it’s worth not losing sight of it, and I’m going to be covering all of those things in this post.

Be warned: spoilers await you.

Finally, before we start: please pray for the people of Iran.
The Framework

The first thing about Merchant’s Tale to reckon with is that it isn’t current-day Corvos, which is to say that it isn’t FFXIV’s closest analogue to the Middle East. It’s Corvos as depicted by a fictional collection of stories. Sound familiar?
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If you have no objections, I would start right away. Now, will you journey into the pages of ancient folklore with me?
It is a beautifully illuminated manuscript that bears a treacherous enchantment: it can draw the reader's very mind into its pages. Needless to say, such a rare tome is notorious among collectors of unique and dangerous documents. Now, I hope you understand the reason I requested your company. Might you keep me safe while I explore this world of fiction? Yes, er...I am...very thorough. But enough about me- surely you're curious about the book! It's entitled The Merchant's Tale, and it is a well-known fable passed down in Corvos, located in southern Ilsabard. The protagonist is a shrewd young merchant, and the story describes his journey to find the perfect gift to win the heart of a young maiden.

The tale in question also suffers from having countless versions:
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However, over generations, countless versions of the tale have been passed down and retold. I can't say for certain how this particular manuscript ends.

One aspect of the story is about as traditional as it gets in folklore. A young man winning the heart and hand of a woman:
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The protagonist is a shrewd young merchant, and the story describes his journey to find the perfect gift to win the heart of a young maiden.

If there’s any doubt as to what’s happening here, the reward for unlocking all thirteen routes of Merchant’s Tale is an eye mask that looks like sleepwear. Something you’d wear to bed.
A screenshot of the FFXIV facewear item "The Faces We Wear - Comfortable Eye Mask" which is a white eye mask with a black and yellow head strap.

And, of course, there’s both the genie and the flying carpet(s) which call to mind Disney’s Aladdin, based on Aladdin, a tale that originates in a certain collection of folktales. I’m not including the picture of the genie here, you’ve all seen it, but we will revisit the carpet later.

FFXIV’s Merchant’s Tale appears to be based on, or heavily influenced by, One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of mostly Middle Eastern stories. I say mostly because some are mostly inventions added to the collection at later times by Westerners. The prime example of this is Aladdin; look that up if you’d like more details.

The majority of stories found within One Thousand & One Nights aren’t very well known in the public zeitgeist, and we can probably attribute a great deal of that to vast gulfs in culture and sensibilities (old vs. modern). The most common and universal aspect of the collection, however, is the framing device: the stories contained in the collection are presented as stories told by Sahrzahd (commonly known as Scheherazade) to her husband the king starting on the night of their marriage. She regales him with these stories throughout the night, and ends mid-tale each time come sunrise; intrigued and possessed by the need to know how each story ends, the king always delays her execution (long story, you can look it up) until the next day.

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absolem @absolem0.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Burning #ffxiv

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Bura 🌱 Shop OPEN @burasto.com · 23/03/2026

Give my regards to your god // #ResidentEvil #RE4 #leonkennedy

Illustration of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 4, walking down a hallway full of zombies, looking at the camera. Teal and Red tones.

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) harriet ( @hattersarts.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

STRINGS ATTACHED 51 pages || nsfw comic || f/f || older boss/nepo baby MY COMIC IS FINALLY OUT IN .PDF FORM! Viv is not going to let this nepo brat ruin her busy work week but Cleo has has own tricks up her sleeve to make Viv listen... hattersarts.itch.io/strings-atta...

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