iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I spent way too long painting this axe tonight

An ork holding some manner of techno axe, red at the core and yellow at the edges

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is Cereal Airpurifier and he gets all the grenades because he was a point guard on his high school basketball game.

Ork boy with a red skull belt buckle and a grenade primed to throw

140

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And don't forget to have fun with it. You can always add a William Harrison Boring after the fact!

Boring has often been included in lists of places with unusual names.[4] In 2012, Boring was named a sister city of the village of Dull, Scotland, and later joined Bland, Australia, in the "Trinity of Tedium."[5]

041

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've started giving myself a strict time limit of no more than one hour per ork boy, purely to keep myself from thinking about things like whether or not a checkered pattern axe makes sense. I'm making a lot more mistakes but having a lot more fun with it.

An ork boy with red and black checkered axe and armor

040

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This weekend I picked up Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters from the library for our kid to read and I can confirm it rules hard.

Low quality image of JONNA AND THE UNPOSSIBLE MONSTERS depicting a cave girl looking kid with big red hair jumping away from monsters but she's like "this is a normal thing for me, I am not worried about the monsters one bit"

030

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Drilling barrel holes remains one of life's simple pleasures

An ork bannernob, assembled but unpainted. It's shoota now has holes in the barrels, even though they're pointing at the ground and no body will see them. But I'll know!

010

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thinking about a wargame where you run a PMC that built too many tanks and need to figure out what to do with them in utopic peacetime

Tank being used as a farmers market stall, covered in boxes of vegetables

2160

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Like this, but with more creative spelling and engineering.

000

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Maybe run them as a Malignant Plaguecaster?

010

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Gonna spend today trying to figure out what makes a good combat arena for skirmish tactics games and/or rpgs.

Map of Halos Blood Gulch showing the locations of cliffs, portals, and power ups

151

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Fall on the Metolius by Aya Morton, woodblock print

Woodblock print depicting the Metolius river, teeming with red kokani. In the distance, someone is fly fishing.

0193

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Dead killy, it's a good time to be painting green

030

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Ok so gen 3 had some wacky Pokemon decisions overall but Trapinch's evolution line feels like a clerical error that they're too embarrassed to correct.

Trapinch, which is like orange pac man dog, turns into vibrava which is straight up a bug, which then evolves into flygon which is kind of a dragon bug, but none of these have the bug type???

260

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Love to crack open the library book the kids picked for bedtime stories and find @losthiskeysman.bsky.social in the credits

Miraculous vol 1: pizza pursuit and other cat tales. The kids picked it as one of their library books.

Three of the stories have Josh Trujillo as the writer in the credits! You love to see it.

040

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

So clear! So navigable! Visually reinforcing the themes! It's a shame that you can only use this kind of visual design in science fiction and modern settings OH WAIT

The 1475 Chronicarum et Historiarum Epitome connects ideas in vertical colored chains

050

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Put this in your monster manual you cowards, not kidding

Godrick the Grafted combo chart, detailing the order of operations for his attack animations.

292

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Meanwhile in the game design journal

A simple line drawing of a tank shooting a cannon ball. It's from an Ed Emberly book. I think the purple one?

170

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Got myself a darning kit: - dowel end darning egg - sashiko thread - borrowed needle - socks that have kept it together surprisingly well - cookie tin deception

080

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Though I'm also tempted to find this bad boy.

010

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Yesterday I kitbashed a historically accurate viking shield surfer

A windswept viking sculpted by Victrix, axe aloft, stands on his shield. One must imagine him grinding or perhaps doing a kickflip off the longboat.

040

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It is unreasonable of me to expect Honey Ham to solve any amount of my problems but I'm still disappointed.

Package of deli meat that reads HONEY HAM - CONTAINS UP TO 20% OF A SOLUTION

1201

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My parents dropped off a box of 45s including a ton of children's records. My eldest combed through the whole thing while I was making coffee and emerged with the Rankin Bass Return of the King for breakfast listening.

A 45 sized vinyl record cover for the Rankin Bass production of The Return of the King, A Story of the Hobbits

0110

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

When I'm assembling minis and don't feel like trimming the mold lines

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. - Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

0161

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Getting into historical wargaming because the miniatures are cheaper and the lore is better. Starting with a 500 gold Norman warband for Pillage: Ransack the Middle Ages and borrowing The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris from our local library.

A Norman with spear and shield looks less than thrilled at the prospect of being involved in the Battle of Hastings.

1151

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

More games should have gunblades and axeguns and bayonets but they're a halberd. A flangethrower mace. Shot-chucks. Every weapon should be 2 weapons minimum.

070

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Trying to figure out how to capture the magic of looking up the ugly, obviously garbage weapon you just found in Elden Ring only to discover that it hits harder than the magic greatsword you get for beating the final boss of the whole game.

A picture labeled Warped Axe, a bent and busted axe that looks like total garbage. It does some of the best damage in Elden Ring.

140

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Also if you take a ttrpg, cut it into pieces, and bury one in your brain eventually it'll grow into a whole new ttrpg.

Marge Simpson holds a potato and says "I just think they're neat!"

0140

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Breaking news from Portland, today we saw a muskrat in the creek near the park I'm pretty sure

A muskrat, probably, in the creek by the park

3171

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I'm only halfway through the first Horus Heresy book but I'm really excited to learn what this means

110

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I need to do a better job taking pictures of my minis after I finish painting them. They have standards, after all.

050

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Without downloading anything new where are you at mentally?

The librarian from Buffy is a king and he's playing a pink DS and looking annoyed at being interrupted from playing his pink DS

130

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Motherfuckers all like "tally-ho!" In a blackletter typeface before doing a wheelie.

3 Ravenwing Black Knights, decorated with like 8 wings per motorcycle and wielding swords. One has a banner.

030

Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Somehow got it in my head that I should have a favorite space marine chapter and I think it's really coming down to who does Knights on Bikes best.

Movie poster for George A Romero's Knight Riders. A knight sits on a motorcycle with flail and shield. "Camelot is a state of mind"

3100