iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Back to work a week from tomorrow. Part of me is in mourning. Part of me knows I will function better with a return to structure and routine, and Lord know self-imposing either of those things doesn't fucking work for me.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The days in Maine this past week felt so much longer, even though I was going to bed far earlier. I was out and about, hanging with my family, walking in the sun. eating nourishing food, reading books, and not scrolling on my phone. ...Wonder if that means anything 🤔

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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 13/08/2026

This is a sign: You need more references and resources in your life! 🎨

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Taking my son to Community Strings violin today does at least ensure I have an hour of quiet reading time at the library. So there's that.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Half relieved that my brain has decided Waiting Mode no longer precludes chores, so I can at least do SOMETHING productive, but does still preclude any and every creative endeavor I could care to partake in.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Her video on "Escape from Tomorrow" was my introduction to Jenny Nicholson; pleeeease tell me she's going to look into "Return from Tomorrow," the sequel which was released in like, April, that I am just learning about today. I need to hear her take on this, *please.*

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ESY is taking everything out of me, lolll. Saturday is #fiestaenlacalle, Fiesta en la Calle in Lawrence! Come see the art show, my wife and I both have pieces on display alongside dozen of other amazing artists and makers.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Debating putting my Queer Little Creatures up on #ArtFight, even though they are the OCs that recur most frequently in my art, lolll?? I might do it just beause I find them adorable and I would love to see other folks put them in Situations™

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My son begged to do ArtFight this year, so we set an account for him, co-monitored (with his knowledge and approval) by me. He doesn't have any OCs up yet, but he's making ref sheets for them. The link to his profile is in mine; my ArtFight, as you might expect, is allyourcrookedheart.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Two and a half weeks left until one of my favorite art events of the year, Fiesta en la Calle at The Essex Art Center! Come see my art and the art of dozen of other incredible local artists and makers! #art #localart

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Any of my fellow elder millennials miss late-Web 1.0/early-Web 2.0 enough that they still keep active on old school platforms? I'm not leaving modern social media, but like... it'd be fun to find a community on one of the old school platforms.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Ok, so... say you want to purchase for download an eBook with a UK release but no US release... who would a someone in the US do that, reliably? I have some folks who have offered suggestions, I'm just casting a wider net.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Posted elsewhere, but our Pride Month show opened in Newburyport last week, and an hour into the artist's reception, my piece "Morning Ritual" sold! My first gallery sale, and I'm so thrilled with the fact that it's going to a young fellow trans masc, a half-year into their HRT journey.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Got the email back from Essex, "I See You" was officially accepted into the exhibit. It's a little different from what I normally draw, so I'm excited.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

On the plus side!! I apparently did get a piece accepted into the Essex Art Salon, and I will also be exhibiting at the Chalk Gallery in Newburyport for thier Pride and Joy exhibit. Pride and Joy opens tomorrow, I believe, and Essex on on July 11th!

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Mmm, the fact that this post is two months old may perhaps indicate that I did not, in fact, get back on track. If I'm being honest, I am deep in a state of overwhelm and hoping that breaking for summer (even with ESY happening) might at least somewhat alleviate that.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The Red Dwarf zine I wrote smut for should be going live at the end of the month, and I literally can't go back and read that fic... lol. Not because its smut, but because I'm so afraid it's BAD smut. I'm hoping anyone in the fandom will put me out of my misery by reassuring me its not total trash.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Got a few chores done this weekend, finished a commission, wrote 500 words on my ongoing fanfic, and bought myself a series of little treats. Maybe I'm finally getting back on track.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I cleaned my coffee maker for the first time since I stopped using it in October (well; it had been cleaned after its last use, but I descaled it). Between a lower need for caffeine & an earlier wake up time, I can now enjoy a cup of coffee before leaving for work and forego the travel mug.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I've stagnated on the same book for a month, not for lack of enjoyment. It literally is like a book per month or a book per year for me. (It's already been 3 books this year, so not quite *that* dire, but still).

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The fic that inspired this was one I started for a digital zine, until the INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER wound up being a full 1700 words -- and when I say "introductory," I literally mean in took 1700 to literally establish the premise

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

TFW I have roughly 5,000 things I want to do SO FUCKING BADLY but instead of doing the 5,000 things I want to do SO FUCKING BADLY, I'm literally sitting here, watching Secret Sleepover Society, and obsessively thinking about the 5,000 things I want to do SO FUCKING BADLY

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Doubled my T dosage. Still on a pretty micro-microdose, but if everything stays good with my blood work, I'll be up to a "typical" low dose in a few weeks 🤞

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I just gotta get through this week and then I have a 9 day vacation...

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The problem with me and writing fics is I'll have a pretty simple straightforward idea, and yet once I start writing it can wind up sustaining for 500 words or 10k words and I have no way of knowing until I'm in the thick of it

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Ah, Jesus Christ, I never finished this digital painting. Sigh. Throw it on the pile.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

One of our internships sites is a library, and everything I'm here i remember how much I like libraries and how I should go more often, but I literally have hundreds of unread books at home, so like... what am I doing?? I'm stressed about my existing TBRs, all I need are new ones w/deadlines.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I recently regained access to Netflix and the workday is slow enough that I'm just Googling different iterations of "best shows to watch on Netflix" and screencapping titles that sound intriguing. I can't even articulate what "kind" of show i like, so I can't ask for recs, it's all just vibes, lol

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

They handed my son a sword, oh God. Ohhhh God, he has a sword.*

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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 16/01/2026

Sticker Mule is supporting ICE, even making and giving away pro ICE T-Shirts. Why not get your stickers made by Anti-ICE Queer Crafters! bsky.app/profile/kgar...

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Been telling my son to lay out his stuff for the convention since Monday, so of course we will be doing it together, tonight.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The level of hypervigilant panic even the most seemingly mundane work tasks send me spiraling into is ridiculous 🫠

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Nano🔥 @nanocolors.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Likely the last digital thing I'll finish prior to Arisia:

A digital painting done in purples and gold. A woman with long flowing hair, head tipped dramatically back, rests a heavily bejeweled hand on her chest. Three elaborate daggers are stabbed deeply into her throat. She bleeds a vivid purple from her wounds.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Deeply resentful of having to leave my house this morning. At least it's a four day weekend for me.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

They're having a Night Market at the convention I'm going to next week, meant for folks to trade trinkets or small handmade items, and I'd really love to do a few mini (3" x 3") canvases for it this week, but that's going to be wholly dependent on my energy levels at 3pm after working all day.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I finally finished something yesterday! First finished thing in 2026 but also the first finished thing* since, like, August: *That I'm currently allowed to share

Digital painting of a woman bending forward and the waist and hugging her legs. Her legs are stylized into scissors with ornate handles extended up from her hips. She stands in front of two painting of long auburn braid, matching her own long auburn hair. She had no face, only a black void where her face should be. The painting is done entirely in shades of rose.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Spent a week caught up in an obsessive doubt spiral about whether or not I ever booked my hotel for next weekend because I could not for the life of me find a confirmation email before finally getting an "Your Upcoming Stay" email from the hotel yesterday.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In a fun addendum to my late watch of "Heartstopper" I started yesterday, I walk into the school today to see the GSA is running a "Heartstopper" marathon next week.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm never in the vanguard of pop culture consumption, but I wanted to make it a point to start consuming more new-to-me media in 2026 and just started watching "Heartstopper" today and GOOOOD I just want to pinch everyone's checks

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Did not get a Bingo in 2025, let's see what happens this year:

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Two weeks later, and I'm still playing the same games of "HRT or cold?" though after two weeks and absolutely no additional/worsening symptoms, I'm super hopeful its the HRT. Also, will the symbolism of a fresh start help me become more active on here like I keep saying I will? We can hope.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Currently playing a game called, "Am I Getting Sick, or Is It the HRT?" with the weird feeling in my throat.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The nurse practitioner called me like, over 2 hours early and got my telehealth out of the way before 3:15?? So now my body has decided it is time to crash after a day full of hyper-vigilance. I might do some Christmas shopping.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I had five doctor's appointments in October, after having not seen a doctor at all in over 5 years. Needless to say, it was mildly overwhelming. My next touchpoints are a telehealth visit the 9th and then my annual on the 29th, so hopefully things are slowing down somewhat and I can breathe a bit.

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 23/11/2025

#art

They'll tell you that the arts and humanities aren't practical and then read poetry at funerals and weddings, cry over films and search for meaning in ancient philosophy.
Surviving is one type of practicality, knowing why we bother is another.
— ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Been pretty quiet on all my social media (always quiet here; keep saying I'm gonna change that, but I suck at it) but lately it's been cause I've been dealing (productively and positively) w/a lot of health bullshit, but also I've started HRT so -- just a lot of shit changing and going on, lol

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I'm 26 days into a self-imposed 31 day fanfic writing challenge, and not only have I been having SO MUCH FUCKING FUN writing fic for this fandom (having written 25k words), the time away from digital/visual art means I am actively interested in returning to it & feel refreshed instead of burnt out.

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🌈Jess/Bex (they/them) @crookedheart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Finished a portrait of Yasmin Finney. This one went surprisingly fast - two days (someday I'll be good about actually tracking the hours spent...)

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