iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 01/09/2026

Hey Auckland: in a few weeks, Good Morrow Tattoo studio will have my apparel in stock for you to try on and buy. Might be helpful so you don't have to guess at sizing online :)

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some tattoo artists are complaining waaayyy too much about clients in their content.

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Taking big steps to wrench any and all control of my life back into my own hands only to keep finding creepy notes all over my house left there by my ex!!

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izzy ✶ team mystery @syrentats.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

8th art fight attack (actually stabbed and attacked irl) for @finchtt.bsky.social !! [ #artfight #oc #ocart #ocsky #artsky ]

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I will never understand being a nightmare is airport security. They’ll just make you stay here and then what? What’s the plan?

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If artists of all mediums in this country are going to keep dodging their taxes the least they could do is not loudly brag about it all the time

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Lately I’ve just been stenciling shitty sketches onto clients for custom tattoos if not completely free handing them and they’ve been amazing at trusting the process

Tattoo on back of lower leg. A female knight kneels before a fig tree

Tattoo on upper arm. A pillar and banner that are healed surrounded by a new crumbling wall

A double edged axe tattoo on the forearm

A vine of tomatoes tattooed around the upper arm

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In other news, I opened a tattoo studio. It’s pretty cool #kikorangi #tattoostudio

A mirror selfie in a stained glass mirror surrounded by artist merchandise and trinkets

Showing three fully set up tattoo stations with moody lighting and wall decor

A living room like image showing the waiting room of the tattoo studio with couches and a dining table

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I’m now fully caught up on the Benoit Blanciverse and I hope they just keep making those moving they are so much fun

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you want me having your work up in my space to be some sort of epic own then be my guest but I can count on one hand the people within the NZ art community that I truly do not fuck with and it’s because they are either predators or have severely fucked me over in a very personal way.

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m having dreams about being stuck to the studio floor forever so that’s how that’s going atm

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Why would we use AI to plan our space when the sims exists and is already ripped onto our computers???

A close interior shot of a room in the sims

An interior shot of a building in the sims

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Something I’ve been working very hard on is finally coming to life and I am so so so beyond excited and scared

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I’m not looking at my phone I’m taking care of business

A screenshot of a conversation on discord where an image of pencil sketches of Leon Kennedy from resident evil franchise of video games has been sent. It seems two threads of conversation happening at once have crossed over in a funny way to imply this image is importantly business related

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

With all due disrespect I will not be taking criticism from someone who can’t write a simple email without ChatGPT

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Hmm. Would it end my career to move to Hamilton

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Hello #kikorangi I am a tattoo artist based in Auckland. Specialising in medieval & fantasy illustrative tattoos. I have loads of time coming up for flash or custom projects! finchtatts.com

A tattoo flash sheet of Organic leafy filigree in various forms

Tattoo flash sheet depicting pomegranates on branches and one sliced pomegranate with a sword through it in a woodcut style

Tattoo flash sheet featuring trad style tattoos but in a woodcut style

Tattoo flash sheet featuring some weapons like swords and a flail alongside horses that have horns and wings. One has swords through it.

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✨ Kato Garrigues (He/She) ✨ COMMS OPEN @kgarriguesart.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).

A Facebook post by Sticker Mule's owner Anthony Constantino. The post says "I support ICE ICE BABY. If you want a FREE T-shirt DM me your email". It has an image linked of a black shirt with ice-looking text reading "I support ICE ICE Baby"

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It’s going to take me 3hours on public transport to do what could be done in 30mins with a car. This is why living in Auckland is the worst actually

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 11/01/2026

Splashing into 2026, the Trash Panda Gang Sticker Club is BACK with a new theme and style...it's 🐳 Friends From The Sea 🐳!!!! This month's holographic friend? The Orca! If you missed out on the set last year, you can join from the start and get every sticker here: pepperraccoon.com/products/tra...

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Started my own cover up project today and forgot how much I hate tattooing myself? Pain and suffering

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vee ✿ @veetelier.com · 07/01/2026

Don’t know who needs to hear this but stop quitting your job to do artist alley and conventions, there are no benefits or health insurance and it is so unpredictable and the competition is worse than trying to get into Harvard lol

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Making a solid effort to consume less short form content to stop my brain from dissolving and I’ve been making so much art instead??? I have more creative energy??? I feel my spark returning

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

First game of 2026 ☑️ Clair Obscur is a profound exploration of the cycle of grief that has completely devastated me. 5/5🌟

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

As I creep closer as closer to it I am harshly reminded of all the things I wanted to accomplish before I reached 30 and all of the road blocks that have left me in the position I’m in instead.

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Staring at an archive of old American trad flash and realising that it’s basically woodcut. Let me cook for a moment

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It’s been a fascinating journey watching my work come full circle in style and practice. I wanted so desperately to innovate and do something different and find easier ways to do what I was doing only to find myself back making what I used to make in the exact way I used to make it.

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New flash that I’m really proud of! First thing I’ve been fully satisfied with in a long time #kikorangi #tattoo

A tattoo flash sheet featuring a flail (top left), a rearing horse with wings (top right), a horse with wings and horns (bottom left), and two swords crossed over one another with one of them broken (bottom right). The tattoo designs are in a woodcut style

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Hey creatives just an fyi that the reason more people than ever are asking you to put labels on your art style or asking what your particular style is called is so they know what words to put into AI

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Clair Obscure putting tears in my eyes only a few hours in was not on my list of expectations for this game oml my shaylas

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I have managed living all over Auckland city for over 10 years now without my license. Every time I start to consider finally getting it (for emergencies/convenience) I am overcome with this deep sense of dread that chills my bones and I take it as a sign not to bother

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Lines down on a wicked custom. Actually so hyped about this one >:) #tattoo #kikorangi

Tattoo of a Tallneck robot from the video game Horizon Zero Dawn. The tattoo is fresh lineart on a calf. Next to it on the right is a printed out sketch of the same thing

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“I’ll make a calendar… next year” has become my new “I’d love to do a tarot deck”

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Marked safe from apple liquid glass update by still rocking an XR

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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The unflattening of the bsky logo is unsettling to me actually

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 09/10/2025

PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MY GOD THERE ARE LUNATICS STANDING FOR SEATS

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Had a lovely last day with my Nice Goblins tattoo family yesterday! Now onto new adventures! #tattoo

A mirror selfie showing an engraved mirror with the next “nice goblins”

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 12/09/2025

SNAKE TATTOO (he’s on his way to my buttcrack), by @finchtt.bsky.social

Tattoo of a snake and wonky stars on a woman’s back

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It turns out that integrating a new platform into my rotation is difficult for me oops

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This thread is exactly how I feel about genAI. Completely turned off by it on all artistic, intellectual and moral levels. I have no interest in anything it can say or generate. It is anti-human.

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

“They only have so many customers because they run ads” see here’s a funny thing about running a business…

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I have levelled up as an artist and drawn my friends fursona for them

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Please don’t mistake my loathing of AI art for a hatred of shitty-looking things in general. I love stuff that looks shitty. The early films of John Waters? Astonishingly shitty looking. But a real pervert made it look that shitty with his bare hands. That means something in this house.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

All the dudes with the most power in this country right now are the type of guys that you walk away from at parties

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For the past few years, I’ve been getting tattooed at this awesome studio called Nice Goblins. Spending time there reignited my desire to pursue tattooing seriously. In 2024, I became a resident artist at Nice Goblins. A dream came true.

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

One of the best things about working for yourself is that the executives (me) and producers (me) are on the same page with the creatives (me) about things being shit and will just throw out bad ideas anyone (me) has

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August 🥀 @finchtt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Guys help I’m actually having fun playing Marvel Rivals

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