iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

only halfway? 😭😭😭 (i was expecting this to be a 20-hour VN but i’m 25 hours in and it sounds like i have 25 more to go…)

dialogue box from a game

Narrator:
Oh, by the way! You're about halfway through the game now! Go you!

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Yunna🌿 MSQSG B34 @taotaotuzi.bsky.social · 17h

早上好 MAJULAH EORZEAAAA

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ginger!—what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what the devil is ginger, I say

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pursuit of Jade 16-18 - Jin Yuanbao(?) lost aura when he lost his earmuffs - i continue to stress about Fan Changning’s sporadic absence - really liked the closure we got with the nosy auntie character (FCY’s ops in the village). i was skeptical at first but it was a satisfying arc

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

people have been hoarding bottled water and i don’t think the government’s advisories about not hoarding bottled water are gonna help when they’re not offering any assurances about what they’re doing to mitigate the consequences 💀 mind you, meteorologists have been talking about it for months

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

turned on the AC in the office today…. not for me but for the muachee/mochi for a family friend’s tinghun 💀 they’re just chilling with me rn, at least i get to benefit

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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.

An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

seeing ppl say MTL isn’t A///I bc it’s not generative (implying M.TL is better)… from a TL pov, does it really matter…?

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i swear no one hates readers as much as k-corporations

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

crazy how ppl aren't aware that the south has already been experiencing drought and low power supply (they've been having rotational brownouts for a while now).... a consequence of TV being dead, i think. like, it's so insane that news is so avoidable now bc you're supposed to watch it on youtube

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my 2026 reading pet peeve is when books do chapters with alternating povs/timelines but the structure isn’t working for me

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

recently dropped m@nhwa: the one where the ML is an idol and he has a secret disability where he passes out every time he has to read something cold (eg. a script) due to Trauma (one of the first things he tried to read as a child was a newspaper article about his parents getting murdered)

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

can feel a shift in the ecosystem bc this is the 2nd time i’ve spotted a centipede in my bathroom when i’ve gone 10 years without seeing one 😱 not sure if they’re coming from the sink or one of the holes in the ceiling 🙃 meanwhile, i haven’t seen the little (practically invisible!) spiders in months

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oil crisis economic crisis power crisis heat crisis and water crisis when will it end

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anecdotal + would it kill you to respect the locals and just speak ENG instead of forcing them to speak tagalog? what happened to the 🇵🇭 BiLinGuAL pride lol anecdotally, i default to tagalog in cebu (only for asking basic questions, bc it’s easier for me to speak politely in tagalog) and nobody GAF

Same here! Experienced it first hand in Cebu back in 2016. Nag-Tagalog ako, and when they learned I'm from Manila, sinabihan ako in a mataray manner na pwede lang ako mag-English or Bisaya. First time to experience discrimination in my own country.

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

meant to do a bit more (non-webt00n) reading but the only reading i got done was thread after thread of local celebrity tea 🥀 but at least i’m now up to speed on why people hate #her

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

really recommending the p0dcast Light Box, which is a docu-style series about the pop music industry and how A///I has been affecting it

Description:
Mark Henry Phillips has spent twenty years making music for a living. Then one night he typed a few words into an A/I music generator and it did his job better than he ever could. In ten seconds. Basically for free. Light Box is what happened next: a season-long investigation into what A//I is doing to music and the people who love it. What happens when a machine can do the thing you thought made you, you?

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

can now confidently say that that the electric wire birds are starlings, they still look glossy to me AND i have finally confirmed (through binoculars) that their eyes are red 🥹 how nice of them to stand a little closer to me, usually they’re on top of the pole 🥹

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

from yesterday’s journal

- 8-9PM: heavy rain
- centipede in the bathroom

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

v glad to have tried h0bonichi (daily) so i now know its system isn’t compatible w my habits! it’s also not compatible w my financial status lmao not sure if i’ll go back to muji/midori next. crazy idea: what if i quit physical journaling for a year? i alr maintain many digital journals lol

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it’s always so incredible when our athletes win international competitions, considering the nonexistent government support. to win, in spite of your country 😭😭😭

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why are IRL normies becoming a cdrama-watcher at a time when i’ve become a cdrama-non-watcher 😭😭😭

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Person I Am Desperately Trying To Befriend* has revealed to herself to be a cdrama watcher so she has been upgraded to Person I Am Desperately Trying To Convince To Watch NiF *we were friends in HS, but now have no common ground

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wratty @wrat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Foxfire - A Short Rest. I wrote a short story in the alt text #wratsarts #Foxfire

Most denizens of Horai are always on the move. One day whilst out on a journey, the Dragon King stopped to take a rare moment of rest in the peaceful Forest of the Fairies. Nodding off for a time, their slumber was disturbed by a tiny commotion of voices.
"Goodness, it's fallen asleep, asleep on Their Royal Highness's Royal Robe!"
"How bold! How dare!"
"Oh so bold! BOLD!!"
Small fairies had gathered around their feet. And right on top of the hem of the King's robe was another creature. Dark as a void, warm and soft to the touch. It also appeared to be.. snoring.
The Dragon King gazed warmly upon the creature and said nothing, for it was merely another weary traveller on the road, traversing the realms of The World Between.
Back to sleep.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oil is a sliding thing

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lost money at midautumn dice game, as usual 😔

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the taro mooncake was too sweet, and the lotus mooncake from the same shop was weirdly bland. the filling is barely sweet and the yolk tastes… unsalted. maybe it was made for older people in mind 😂

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

glossy starlings, i think! it’s hard for me to tell if a bird is black or just backlit, but these ones were close enough that i could see the glossiness of their feathers (though i gave up on binocular pics and just used my phone camera)

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

multitasked to half a cdrama episode (Archives: Nanyang), 3 completely unrelated video essays, and 1 podcast episode lmfao my brain is so done with this day and so is my back 🥹

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

K0miket haul! i’m only keeping one of these stickers 🤣

- K0miket k0miks zine
- Wounded Little Gods by Eliza Victoria
- The Intercession, a full-color comic by LICHJUNO, katusrolle, and Dakilang Diwata

sticker collector book (idk how to call this lol) by wronglyke (fish-themed cover)

stickers by fran aka mak:

- “PHILIPPINES MENTIONED” meme (maybe of an OC?)
- heart-shaped nakamura pin
- akihika sticker

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

❌ new stickers ✅ place to put old stickers

a sticker book. the cover is illustrations of various (local?) fish by wronglyke

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in and out of k0miket in 30 mins bc i am now immune to stickers 🫡

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

agreed on a credit card application (through phone) for the welcome cashback + considering cutting off an existing card but now that i’m googling the perks of the new card, they seem not very much 😭 may my application be rejected 🕯️

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i’ve been listening to the Small Gods audi0b00k and i’m finding the new Andy S*rkis narration really hard to get through 😭 i was fine with his reading of Fell0wship of the Ring though? but this one’s just not hitting. i guess it doesn’t help that i’m very attached to the audio drama voices

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

last week i saw a woman and her teenage daughter automatically hold hands when they were at the crosswalk (they let go immediately after). thought that was cute

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

happy mid-autumn! i’m discovering that i’m not really a taro person 😂

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

finished Y*steryear—the first chapters were okay but it falls off and never get back up and i think it’s because of the writing? it’d be fine as a movie but i just found it so weak and dry in text form that it was hard to tell when some lines were intentionally meant to be weird or not

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i heard they unbanned d!sc0rd ahaha honestly i was more surprised at how fast the telcos moved to block it

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

extremely proud of myself for giving a little a heads-up on discord RIGHT before i lost access (i can technically still open the app but it seems read-only and i’m unable to load the PoJ thread). I ATEN’T DEAD and all that

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i think the government’s recent actions VS r*ddit & d*scord have been bad but i also personally think that there are multiple factors and forces in play here and everyone’s kinda oversimplifying the issue

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Raw Heart: ‘The Lovers’ Fan Zine ❤️ @rawheartzine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Are you ready to dive deep? 🫧 Our fanzine, Raw Heart, based on 'The Lovers' by Studio Heartbreak, is open soon for an interest check! (1/3) 📒🦋 | #atozines #zinepromo #thelovers #zine #fanzine #rawheartzine #charityzine

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i love mooncake season but i hate “should we bring back tradition” season bc: my bros just want to gamble but aren’t committed. my dad is a doormat when it comes to my bros so he pushes me to organize. my mom wants to benefit from gambling but is not willing to contribute to the pool 😅

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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ooooh they're putting out a 4k restoration of Raise the Red Lantern which means there's a 5% chance they'll screen it in our cinemas at some point? haha

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