iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sarah 💜 @vyletbunni.com · 11/10/2026

i have righted a wrong for this playthrough. tetra no longer loses her melanin when dressed as zelda.

A shot of underneath Hyrule Castle. Linkle is in the background looking shocked. Tetra, in princess garb, looks unsure and concerned, looking towards King Daphnes Hyrule.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

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❄️Beth ❄️ @rollinrabbit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This shot makes me ill, how the fuck did he do that shit. I can't even rotate a fucking ball.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

trans people, you need to live long enough to piss on the bodies of those who tried to kill you. then keep living

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i've had my fancy RGB keyboard for like five years and only TODAY did i realize i could program it to change the caps lock key to another color when caps lock is active.

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

replaying the original Dark Cloud, because i was never able to beat the final boss as a kid... and the protagonist (toan)'s character model has cloth physics? in 2001????

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

some creatures you might find in the woods.

Two panels; top is of some glowing sprite type creatures huddled together in the grass and the second is a big black serpentine creature with blank yellow eyes moving slowly through the forest.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 24/09/2026

Aw you need AI to write code or fix bugs for you? You need AI to write for you? You need computer to come up with your ideas? 🥺 What a shame your skills and knowledge are so woefully lacking that the mediocre output of AI seems good to you.

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Dan DiIorio @trampolinetales.com · 25/09/2026

Doing some work on my next game, just paused and had a moment of thinking "I love doing this." If you use generative AI, not only are you a talentless hack, you're robbing yourself from the joy of the creative process.

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laney @saltmalk.in · 23/09/2026

every time I feel the need to make my art more palatable I channel my inner bjork

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been quiet over the last month or so... during which i have made the uncomfortable realization that i am on the spectrum in a big way. and i'm not sure what it means for me! it explains a lot of things, but just knowing doesn't really solve most of the issues it causes. so i'm just like... now what?

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Xenomorph frogs sculptures by Li Changchun

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

yeah that checks out i guess. lmao

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

turns out, animating what is essentially a balloon with legs is harder than it sounds!

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

taking a break from dev for the first time in like eight weeks, and i gotta say, doing other stuff is pretty cool. (also giving some much-needed TLC to my plants. i am so sorry my children)

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Goss Sheridan @ SPX @katesheridanart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

lowered the price on these bird + plant sprig commissions to help fund my surgery! email katesheridanart@gmail.com with your bird, your plant, and any relevant reference

COMMISSIONS: $100 single $150 pair. Drawings with flat coloring and some gradient of a scissor tailed flycatcher perched on a sprig of flowering indian blanket; a male and female northern cardinal perching on stalks of goldenrod; and california quail with orange cali poppies

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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i love this game! 🥰🥰

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Diana Chan @thingsbydiana.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

💫 Galaxy Tiger or T(eye)ger?

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And the song of the summer is- yes, for the 34th year in a row, it's "Toxic Love" as sung by Tim Curry in Ferngully!

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Ferngully Toxic Love HQ

YouTube video by Razor Candy

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˖˚ʚわかɞ˚˖ @skaspec.yuri.agency · 28/07/2026

cannot stop thinking about this spongebob storyboard panel

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Background paintings from The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Re: ATLA! That's reassuring, but omg what an unfortunate situation.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/07/2026

“Cigalia” perfume bottle for Rogers & Gallet, Paris. René Lalique, 1910.

ornate perfume bottle and box, seems to have dragonfly wings as a motif

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

testing the topology on my new player character model by slapping on some super basic clothes and applying a walk cycle from another project. looking pretty good so far :) #indiedev

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Kati Knitt @katiknitt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If artists prices seem high to you, remember that freelancers have to pay for their own healthcare and stuff and we are working on a project basis, so we have no real job security (if that is even much of a thing anymore anyway)

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

behold my prototype frodel (frog model)! i'm so excited to polish up and animate this little dude

smoothed low-poly model of a frog, shaped like what can only be described as a balloon with legs

same model, but showing the frog's exceptionally round wireframe

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D, Hunter of the Dead 💙🌙✨ @dekubrush.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Being a digital artist is exhausting 🤷‍♂️

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

is anyone even surprised at this point?

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🍁🎃Eski🎃🍁 @eskiworks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ai stole from us. it looks like our art because it is stealing OUR art. And now we get to add mitigation of ai blowback to our list of things to manage as artists. 🙃

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

woke up to canadian wildfire smoke creating a haze over northwest ohio. 🙃

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

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Gord McGladdery @asitp-gord.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

IMO using AI for cover/album art is announcing to your audience that you think your own creation is worthless.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

hating your art is not a virtue, it's a sign of burn out or mental illness. the same way your muscles ache if you exercise too much or your stomach hurts if you're starving. learn to identify it as a sign you're pushing too hard or expecting too much of yourself somehow and check in with yourself.

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

we have the World's Most Perfect sunflower in our front yard. look at this thing. bright, round, girthy, leaves bigger than my head. Green Hill Zone-ass sunflower.

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

pivoting to a smaller project for a bit to take a break/learn some new skills ✌️✨️

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Tessa! 🌻 @copperlightning.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

it would be devastating to lose critical trans support in ohio (my neck of the woods)!! if you can, please donate to help keep them going!

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Can you explain this gap on your resume?” Yes I was being a merry fellow

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