iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine my surprise when this turned out not to be a Michael Jackson cosplay anime

Art for an upcoming mafia anime. The person shown is wearing an outfit that looks nearly identical to Michael Jackson's outfit in the Smooth Criminal music video.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't eat the cake at a baby's birthday party, y'all.

A baby Sim blows out candles on a birthday cake. Droplets of spit blow out from her mouth. She is held by her parent.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Once again, I am BEGGING for a coffee table book of Miss Piggy's best looks. Nobody is on her level.

A screenshot from a Vulture article about Miss Piggy. A soft focus portrait of Miss Piggy takes up most of the screen.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That second one reminds me of Aquanaut ☺️

An orange aquatic robot swims underwater.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

...This is what you chose to wear to the funeral?

A Sim with green and brown hair wears a clubby type shirt with a straps that buckle around the neck, a pair of booty shorts with string underwear showing, pink thigh highs, and black studded ankle boots.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I think this might be the first time I've ever played with a full house of Sims

A screenshot of the Sims home screen shows the family I'm currently playing. There are 8 household members - 2 adults, 1 teen, 2 kids, 2 toddlers, and a dog.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My toddler Sim has a bob and once I put this shirt on her, I realized I accidentally made Dora the Explorer. So I gave her a purple backpack. :)

A toddler Sim stands facing us in Create-a-Sim. She is wearing a bright pink t-shirt and a purple backpack, like Dora the Explorer.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

@deykxn.bsky.social I've been enjoying your Rockwell series SO MUCH! I've laughed so much over the past few days thanks to you. When it was time to redecorate my legacy heir's room as he became a teen, I used a Rockwell poster 😁

A Sim sleeps in a double bed with light sheets (bottom center). The walls of his room are plastered in music, movie, and anime posters to the point that posters are overlapping each other and even covering up the art he made when he was a child.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Here's my reading wrapup for January. Audiobooks saved the day. 💙📚

I read 34 books last month. My top 2 books were The girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larson and The Between by Tananarive Due. Average book length was 258 pages and average time to finish was 3 days. 93% fiction and 6% nonfiction. Top five genres were fantasy, romance, manga, thriller, and mystery. Compared to December, I read 100% more books, 45% more pages and 100% more hours. I read 3/4s digital to one quarter audio.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Hook looks like he's about to teach us what hip-hop is #AEWDynamite

Dena the hip hop instructor meme. She's wearing a blue pullover and black pants.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Oof. This year was awful, next year'll be more of the same barring a miracle, so...

Screenshot showing how many gamerscore points I earned on Xbox in 2025 vs. 2024. There is a massive difference - an order of magnitude. 1,850 this year and 19,410 last year.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I got added to this doozy of a list a while back 😂✊🏾

Screenshot showing I was added to a "racial separatists and supremacists" list on bluesky.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Ticketmaster NEVER messages me about some shit I actually want to go to. Why tf would I want to go to this?!

A screenshot of a notification from Ticketmaster. The text reads, "get ready for the presale. Shop Matt Rife presale tickets today. Use code gigs"

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Watching Hangman vs. Omega and... I think Kenny's pants might be the basis for my next nail set. 🤼

Two wrestlers are locked in battle. One of them is wearing very pretty black and silver pants with large rhinestones.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I don't review every book I read, but I'm trying to do it more often. It's fun to look back on my thoughts.

A screenshot of my rating of Blood on the Tracks Vol. 2 by Shuzo Oshimi from the Storygraph app. There is a good amount of information there like my star rating (3.5) and some labels like "dark" and "emotional", but the main point is that my review says, "Bitch, unhand that child!"

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I'll bring tea in a thermos for when (if?) we're done

A Black man in a beige T-shirt chokes himself with both hands.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I'm still not great at making my lots look super lived in and cluttered (do I need the TOOL mod?), but I think I did a decent job making this place rundown! #Sims4

A screenshot shows a dirty, rundown house in the Sims. There are holes in the walls, water stains, dirt, and smelly substances. A Sim stands in the bathroom, facing away from the camera. His plumbob is red, indicating he's uncomfortable or upset.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I am trying so hard not to squeal looking at these pictures

The brides cut their wedding cake. They're looking down at the cake and they both have their hand on the knife. The cake is white with two tiers. There is greenery on each tier and a silver heart-shaped cake topper on top.

The brides happily feed each other a bite of wedding cake.

The brides have their first dance. One of them has an orange plumbob over their head, which means one of their needs (for example, hunger) is low.

The brides tiredly walk along a stone path, heading back to their home in the near distance. There are trees, flowers, and shrubs everywhere.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is the first time I've EVER had a wedding go off without a hitch... if you don't count the fire.

A screenshot from The Sims 4. Two Sims, one Japanese woman with icy blue hair and a Black woman with two-toned (brown and blonde) locs, walk down the wedding aisle toward a wedding arch. Their backs are to us. The guests are seated and sort of paying attention.

One bride on the left (wearing a white dress) puts a shining ring on her bride's finger. The bride getting a ring is wearing a black dress.

The brides kiss, holding each other closely.

The brides walk back up the aisle after exchanging vows. The bride in black is closer to the camera.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

No the fuck I won't also like this, YouTube.

A screenshot of the YouTube app, showing that I searched for "cozy black girl". YouTube served me the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney eugenics-ass video, with a label reading "you might also like this". Terrible search result.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I'm rereading Mockingjay and SPOILERS I forgot about Finnick. I had my head in my hands like 👇🏽 And then I had to get back to work, so I really set myself up for misery

A cutie patootie chihuahua with light brown fur has its paws up near its ears. Its mouth is wide open too. The pup looks shocked and dismayed.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Here's an example of what I think is out there.

Screenshot showing the title and authors of a research article on Last Week Tonight.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I went to a library event and we got free books! All of these were on my TBR! Wooooooo!!!

It me, smiling. I'm Black, I have an afro. I'm holding four advance reading copy books in one arm.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is sending meeeee 🤣 I've never had an original experience

A screenshot from YouTube. On the left, a Black girl wearing black headphones and a black t-shirt is smiling widely while looking to the left. The title of the video is "The panties are droppin! Toto 'Hold the Line'". The channel name is BrittReacts.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I got so mad at this part of the book... I could've cussed more, actually. 🙂‍↔️ 💙📚

A screenshot showing one of my notes from Libby. The last line is "Man... FUCK!!!" Sometimes I feel very strongly about what I'm reading and cursing is the appropriate response.

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Here's my April wrap-up! No clue how I managed to read so much, except that I'm not actively having a mental breakdown due to living in hell. (I'm just passively having one.)💙📚

A screenshot of my Storygraph reading stats from April. I read 33 books, 8,195 pages, and my average rating was 3.94. My highest rated reads were My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due, Mushroom Rain by Laura K. Zimmerman and Jamie Green, and Fungi Grow by Maria Gianferrari and Diana Sudyka; they each got 5 stars. Average book length was 231 pages and it took 3 days on average to finish a book. I read 10% more books and 12% more pages compared to March. The number of pages I read per day ranged between 1 and 650, approximately. This line graph goes up and down in peaks and valleys, as I don't consistently read a certain number of pages each day.

A screenshot with more of my Storygraph reading stats from April. I read 78% fiction, 22% nonfiction. 75% of my books had less than 300 pages, 22% had 300-499, and 3% had more than 500 pages. I read mostly digital (91%), with print and audio making up 6% and 3%, respectively. All the info I just described is shown through pie charts. Finally, my most read genres are depicted in a bar graph. I read 8 fantasy books, 6 comics and scifi books, 5 romance, and 3 middle grade. (Books can have multiple genres.)

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Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️ @frockyeah.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I just saw my little brother yesterday. This was right after we got finished breathing in each other's faces because he is only happy when there's less than a millimeter of space between us.

Max the shih-tzu lhasa mix, giving me a dastardly side eye because I dared stop petting him, probably. He's sitting on my lap.

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