iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

robots hit that cute spot for me where they are like. trying really hard to be an alive and functioning organism. humans have existed for millions of years but robots less than a few decades and they are just. trying their best. i love them so much

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nobody told me that part of being an artist involves having to avoid the skinwalker that looks exactly like you and tries to swap bodies with you while you're asleep

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

another robot comm wip. this is a horse i made her legs slightly too long in this one but it looks silly so please enjoy horse form (still need to add various limbs) also this is entirely fake 3D it's just me committing crimes with godot's polygon2Ds

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it done. gonna move on from this right into another thingy and see how fast it goes in comparison

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

jarring how godot has an interface for manipulating polygon2d points right in the editor (not talking about the polygon tab) but it stops existing the moment you decide to add a single internal vertex to the polygon. like "nope, this is too much for me, you're on your own. use the inspector" ??????

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

very close to finishing 1st comm. god it took way longer than i hoped, i was expecting to build the rails as i went but not to the extent of scripting 4 different production utilities, but here we are!! i'm excited to see how fast the next ones go. i really need them to go fast i'm SO stressed...

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my ocs are these frail plants in my head and i just want them to grow. i want them to deepen their roots and hold my thoughts still. i want them to sprout from my skull, bask in outside light and metabolize, lend me sugars and nutrients, cover the corners of my vision with their colorful blossoms...

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

workflow improvements. figured out how to get godot to read aseprite files and bring em into the project + do atlas-generation with layer metadata (to reference layers by name and find their atlas location) the entire rig no longer completely breaks when new layers or frames are added... so joyous

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

9 games that probably shaped me in some way 1st column: exploration games with bizarre forlorn worlds 2nd column: wacky shooters with hidden lore (and the number 2) 3rd column: JRPGs with high-tech anime women (and the number 3) my9games.net

the triad of exploration games with bizarre forlorn worlds
1. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2. Rain World
3. corru.observer

the triad of wacky shooters with hidden lore (and the number 2)
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Portal 2
6. Splatoon 2

the triad of JRPGs with high-tech anime women (and the number 3)
7. Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation
8. Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Ace
9. Persona 3 FES

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've been refactoring my godot driver system and every time i add something new i keep thinking "this would make it so easy to animate NSFW" or "this would make it so easy to animate robot gore" because these are apparently the two things i have in my mental vocabulary to describe "well-animated"

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thinking how the idolshells make little monuments and use past instances of themselves as the statues. amidst the piles down in the recycling sector, there's a monument of two discarded instances locked in a loving embrace. despite the damage, they both look happy. the couple is still fond of it.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

flirting behavior

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

idolshells have articulate sensor-dense hair strands that lock together like feathers to form da anime tuft shapes idolshells doing the happy excited hair fluttering makes me so happy.... they are like secret bird women...

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

idolshell removes her neuralbox from her body. shoves it into a rental body. beats the shit out of her own body with the rental. the body's personality cache pathetically resists. she hates her body. it's a goddamn liar. she pins it down so hard it forms cracks. it stares back as if it were her.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore one day i will animate robot gore on

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a simple rule: the more i can animate cute robot girls with code and math instead of keyframes, the happier i am (this was also animated only with drivers)

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

need to touch it up a little bit more but i'm happy with it

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

thinking about reson as a skill. all idolshells have proficiency at extracting reson from reson crystals to form their attacks. more advanced users tend to manipulate the crystals themselves (working at conduit-level) and shape them to their will. so, many of the skilled users converge on geomancy..

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

wip. working on girl on da right. i'll clean it up more. she's not going easy on me lol. the beginning of spriting's always the hardest part weapon idea: telekinetically manipulated crystal whip with bladed end. works like a tail. when she splits into two it also splits into two separate tails.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i've noticed a shift in my creative outlook where i've gotten more fearful of searching outside myself. there's things out there that hurt my delicate ability to create. they pull me deeper into passive observation rather than inspire or encourage me. it stopped being impressive to me and just hurts

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

how awkward do you think it is when an idolshell's neuralbox gets caved in mid-performance and she's dead but the body keeps talking and acting but grows increasingly incoherent since it's no longer receiving her signature's guidance do the others escort her offstage while the body is very confused

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i love idolshells and how they live in a big derelict structure and how all they do is play with each others' physical instances like barbies except the barbies are their bodies but the idolshells fundamentally occupy a third-person relationship to existence yet they REALLY want to be the barbies

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

working on robotgirl commission!!! yayayay!!! needed to figure out design b4 making proper sprite to animate, so this is da preliminary sketch :>

-# she is like a geode. she has brittle red crystals growing in her that can move like flesh.
-# one of her abilities involves bisecting herself. the crystal grows out to replace the missing halves of both sides of the body, creating two separate humanoid bodies she can manipulate.
-# she can fuse the bodies back together when she's done. yay!

-# various fastener clips line the center of her body so she's less likely to spontaneously rip in two from impact forces.
-# the red line going through the middle of her is crystal that's jagged and sticks out a bit in some parts... her neck is entirely composed of the crystal but has braces for supporting it
-# the things on the sides with da white are mechanical bits with hair wrapped around them. might be her antennas lol

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

having fallen off of the face of the earth with 3D modeling + animation for years makes me really really really sad and i'm scared too see in what ways i've stagnated but i can also feel the birth of a prosperous new era coming where i'm not just defined by 3D modeling + animation alone

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

other idolshells sending transmissions: "come onnn eleven... move your physical instance for our embodied RP... there's a no AFK rule in this sector" eleven completely motionless and staring at a wall: "wdym i'm here" (AFK stands for Absent From Kinematics)

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SpongePierre @spongepierre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

quote text reminded me of a doodle so i touched it a little bit

cerise: "So, what the hell happened for **you** to be the one to hurry over to **me*, all matted and teary-eyed?"
"That's so unlike you, Vespid... You're like, way more stoic than this."
("Though, I'm liking whatever this is.")

(vespid is very upset but she's default-faced while crying.
actively failing at physical embodiment.)

(cerise is brushing vespid's hair)

vespid: "Ah... well..."
"I fell down the stairs in the District."
"That startled me more than I thought it would."
"I wasn't sure what to do over there, Cerise."
"I didn't bring anything back for you."

cerise: "Oh, um, wow? Yeah. You're fine..."
"Those stairs can be goddamn scary."
"I wish I could have gone there with you."
"I was busy with duties this time, sorry."
"Let's go there together next time."

vespid: "Of course, Cerise..."
"I think that would be very wonderful..."

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

parella fucking up so bad. she just wants to get recycled + reinstanced IMMEDIATELY bc god damn being this instance SUCKS. genuinely furious she's inhabiting the version of herself that fucked up right now. she can't fucking STAND it. destroy the body. grind it to DUST. new body to create distance.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

an idolshell removing her neuralbox. she alters her signature such that her body interprets her box as not-her. she, a dissociated box, can now talk with the cached personality in her body's head. it shows seams without her, but this is what everyone knows her as. she can't talk as well without it

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

tbh, with all the recreational devices/simulacra the idolshells use, eleven getting her first Profoundly Good Somatic Experience from utterly stupid garbage she found like the [HDMI To Chicken Soup Converter] isn't unlikely she gets neurologically rewired by it like: "wait. the body can do that???"

eleven is on the floor convulsing with tears streaming down her face because she is plugged into the HDMI To Chicken Soup Converter. it is plugged into her crotch. the other end is plugged into is a bowl in front of her. it is producing turquoise chicken soup. the bowl is overflowing. eleven is producing corrupted vocalizations. part of her is emitting a beeping sound.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

do idolshells sound like horseshoes when they walk on tile floor or do they sound like slightly wet squeaky sneakers

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i'll never get tired of doing shitty mouse drawings. i keep giggling at parella's enormous hand buried in croquet's hair. all her sensors are there. in idolshell culture that's like physically handling someone but croquet doesn't care (her impenetrable aro shield and she smoke tiny carrot cigarette)

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

silly doodle. the thought wouldn't exit my mind

doodle of a frame (around 1:02) from the "heavy is dead" youtube video but with eleven, parella, and croquet in place of heavy, medic, and spy.

eleven is dead with her face down and ass up. there's a splatter of dust near her face. parella and croquet are investigating the scene of the crime.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

spent today working on reusable property driver for the animations i do in godot. akin to what blender has. my current setup is messy so i want to improve it. results so far are... frustrating and informative. i'm succeeding, but i'm angrier at my brain and my willpower than i want to be right now.

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

beautiful and amazing DAW. i'm probably going to attempt migrating to this from bespoke because i crave the node-based workflows www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNu...

youtube.com

SEPTABEE (100% free DAW I secretly made entirely by myself over the past five years)

YouTube video by Lost Robot

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

yeah i'm doing more of the #deltarune thing

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

idolshells aren't culturally fond of hiveminds and think they're annoying so they casually bully and gossip about other shells on the moon who turned themselves into collectives. the gamma collective is a popular victim.

captioned photo shared by an unknown idolshell of two gamma instances inside of a district shop. one instance is active and conscious but locked up and missing her limbs. she reacts to the viewer with nervous surprise. the other instance is inactive and reduced to a limbless torso facing away from the camera.
there is an "on sale" sign between the two instances.

the captioned text says:
"peeked one of the shops... guess which collective is getting her instances captured and sold on discount again (if you're reading this gamma quit cloning yourself)"

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i like occasionally going back and writing worldbuilding notes alongside my doodles. seems like a good habit

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

really like red girl i posted... maybe i'll name her nitra? literally nitro but with feminine nominative. most idolshells have obvious but sideways names for their theming so it fits in hehe she's one of the oldest girls i've made so she deserves lots of love must design her as racecar fairy!!!

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

recently drew robot girl i made in 2015 roblox she's like a vague mix between fairy and racecar. her weapon was a laser minigun. i still think her wings are cool if i bring her back as an idolshell i wanna lean more into da racecar theme. she needs more distinct red. i have another Very Red Girl

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

inching my way back to animated 3D model commissions like a worm. i want more variety this time since multimedia work genuinely makes me happier animated 3D was probably the most expensive + longest turnaround thing i could have offered back then (which makes it more stressful than other things :D)

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

old vespid animation back when she had redundant jet boosters!!! gonna make more animated robot girls like these and set up commissions on ko-fi for them. i like doing these and they're decent turnaround!

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𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚜 @dustbots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i think there's something endearing about how the idolshells would theoretically be capable of instantiating 50 of each individual member of their society if they changed enough but they don't want to since they don't wanna be a hivemind of instances even though they're practically designed for it

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