iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💯💯💯 as he feels safer getting close to your vestige, I think he feels safer being vulnerable and creative and putting his thoughts to the page. If I can humbly suggest... maybe the journaling manifests in the sketchbook where he attempted his shitty bird sketches?

Quote from UESP detailing houseguest dialogue from companion Sharp-as-Night:
"I'm not known for relaxing, but sometimes I'll let myself bird watch for a bit. I'll take notes of the types I see in different places. Even tried sketching them once, but the results were pitiful. So bad you couldn't even tell they were birds."

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

woman standing in front of a power point screen that says

I AM A DUMB BITCH WITH TERRIBLE TASTE
I WILL NEVER CHANGE
I WILL NEVER IMPROVE
THAT IS A PROMISE!!

I genuinely do not know the source of this. If you know pls tell me. I got it off Tumblr 1000 years ago

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I decided to pick up container gardening as a hobby at the top of the year because I knew it was going to be a stressful one (for different reasons) & I wanted an excuse to be outside more/take advantage of our south-facing patio. Here's my first real harvest from the chaos garden!!

green beans, jalapeños, carbon tomatoes (maybe?? I thought all those seedlings died out but idk what they would be otherwise), chocolate cherry tomatoes, Cherokee purple heirloom tomatoes, green bell peppers

A ground floor apartment patio overgrown with plants. If you're reading this the Lakota squash has taken over and trapped us inside PLEASE SEND HELP

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

seeing all the other names/scrolling through my LinkedIn feed genuinely feels like this

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone, etc etc

the storefront of an abandoned Party City, its neon sign removed, but the outline of the letters still very visible

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A quote too good to cut down for this thread... at the expense of a link card. Oh well. Worth it. from Alien: Into Charybdis by Alex White. Added alt text for easier reading:

Xenoarchaeologists call someone’s first exposure to alien cultures the “depersonalization effect,” the sudden recognition that the universe isn’t human, or for humans. These strange blasphemies remind Kamran that civilization is an illusion—that time has long existed without it. Kamran is just a collection of chemicals—an unnoticed spark in the galactic timeline, as random as the next blip of a species. When he dies, he will be forgotten, because he is meaningless.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

March & April reading summaries. Bit of a slow reading year compared to last year because of Reasons™ but I've really enjoyed what I've read. Truce at Bakura and Antimemetics Division are my standout faves, maybe even for the year so far.

TheStoryGraph March 2026 reading summary for user OKCryptid

TheStoryGraph April 2026 reading summary for user OKCryptid

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

She for sure would try to kill me

Stinky the Hutt (Rotta?) from The Mandaloroan and Grogu I guess

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

February reading summary Not much to say. Pretty good month overall 👍

TheStoryGraph February reading summary for user @okcryptid

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Anime is real. Pokemon are real. Oddish is real, and three apples tall, and he's my friend.

A red and white graphic celebrating 30 years of Pokémon, customized to my favorite Pokémon, Oddish. Oddish is a little blue radish-shaped Pokémon with big green leaves sprouting out of the top of its body and little red eyes and a happy mouth.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Jan 2026 reading summary PWMOV was a DNF for me last year & I'm so glad I gave it a second chance 😭💜 Play Nice was my standout fave from this month. Too much to say about it. So scary and so good. Overall, feels like a good start to the year!

TheStoryGraph January 2026 reading summary for user @okcryptid

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Decided to make something to commemorate this milestone. Behold! My 2025 book blanket! All books in reading order as granny squares with color of yarn representing genre. Finished just in time to curl up inside and read some more.

A picture of 14 different skeins of acrylic yarn, all different colors with text denoting what genre they will represent in the finished project:
Maroon - mystery
Red - adventure/thriller
Pink - romance
Bright yellow and black with multicolor specks - Star Wars
Soft gray with multicolored specks - nonfiction
Bright green - humor/comedy
Forest green - literary/general fiction
Teal - science fiction
Corn flower blue - fantasy
Dusty pale blue - memoir/biography
Purple - spicy romance
Black - horror

A stack of one hundred crocheted granny squares of many colors with the ends all woven in. The stack is strung up on a length of yarn to keep them together and in order. In my house we called this the granny square shawarma

A crocheted 10 x 10 granny square blanket with squares of many colors denoting various genres of books that I read in order last year. They are joined by a dark gray heather border with a nice crab stitch around the edge. I had trouble making it lie perfect on the carpet because my dog Riley thought we were playing a game. If you see any mistakes, no you didn't.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

𝓗𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰

Riley, a fawn Chihuahua mix dog with big brown eyes, lying on his back with his floppy ears inside out and his paws very demurely tucked up on his chest

Riley, a fawn Chihuahua mix dog with big brown eyes, lying on his back and curling his body in a way that looks deeply uncomfortable. But apparently he loves it

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Also added these fine additions to my collection this year. See alt text for names/author's and why I decided to collect them

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

NEW PERSONAL RECORD!! I made it to 100 this year 🎉🎊📚 My top 10 in no particular order: 1. Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White 2. The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling 3. Old Soul by Susan Barker 4. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by MJ Wassmer 5. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Cover collage from TheStoryGraph of the 100 books read in 2025 by user @okcryptid. Full list of titles can be found by clicking into the quoted post and scrolling through the attached thread.

TheStoryGraph 2025 end of year reading summary for user @okcryptid

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Lived experience watching Heated Rivalry episode 3 with @blacksuitsora.bsky.social we were like ohhhhh 😮 GAME CHANGER

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My angel of a mother-in-law made me a Sharp-themed hat after he shipped. Here is her incredible beadwork. It being a baseball cap especially tickled me cuz of the many "women want me/fish fear me" hats I imagined Sharp wearing after the team settled on his non-combat perk. 🧵2/3

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

3 years ago today, companions systems designer (& one of my favorite people) Carrie said she was turning on Sharp's "brain"--he would start responding/reacting to things in game. In my mind, this day became his birthday. I ended up referencing it in his lore. Happy birthday, Sharp-as-Night! 🧵1/3

Screenshot from the UESP page for Dimik-ei, a character from The Elder Scrolls Online.
Player: What was Sharp like when you knew him?
Dimik-ei: "Well, he hatched under the sign of the Thief, if that tells you anything. He's sly and stubborn and his thoughts run a lot deeper than he lets on."

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

November reading summary Finally I can unblock the murderbot spoilers tag on Tumblr. What do you MEAN I have to wait til May for the next one!! Scared Sexy series has been delightful & getting 3 new Caitlin Starling books in one year makes me feel hashtag blessed. Late thanksgiving post I guess

TheStoryGraph November reading summary for user @okcryptid

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Decided to do #NaNoWriMo this year entirely on a whim. Only made it about halfway to 50k, but unlike all the years that I finished before, I'm really pleased with where this story is headed and plan to stick with it beyond this sprint.

A screenshot from an ellipsus document (the honorable MVP of this NaNo attempt; highly recommend as an alternative to google docs):
Document info
[REDACTED] DRAFT
Edition
Created: Nov 1, 2025 - 12:55 AM
Edited: Today - 09:49 PM
DOCUMENT STRUCTURE -
Words: 26804
Characters: 146574
Reading time: 2h 14m

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Actually. Just realized there were 37 returns on "heartbeat" (singular) for the entire trilogy. So that's like 12 times per book. Mabe it was an editorial mandate and Andor's "No more than 12" is actually a reference to that

Screenshot of search results from the Heir to the Empire trilogy by Timothy Zahn searching for the word "heartbeat"

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Look we gotta give him credit for paring it down from "a handful of heartbeats" in the first half of the book to just "a pair" for most of the rest. Tho he does put in one more "handful" near the end. As a treat

A search page in the Kindle app for the word "heartbeats" appearing in the book Heir of the Empire by Timothy Zahn.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

October reading summary Victorian Gothic was a fucked up and evil little book (complimentary)

TheStoryGraph October reading summary for user okcryptid

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Two years of night have turned me into a nocturnal animal

A plasma tv screen backlit by multicolored LEDs showing the title screen of The Batman (2022)

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you could see the films I've seen, you wouldn't try to stop me

A movie ticket stub to the film Event Horizon (1997)

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

been playing balatro for almost a year now and honestly it's the best $10 I ever spent

Soldier protecting sleeping child meme but the soldier is labeled as "Balatro" and the child he is protecting (labeled "me") the bullets, knives, and grenades have labels of "bad social media posts," "being alone with my thoughts," "doomscrolling," and "25 mins of movie theater previews"

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Jimbo Balatro really said No Kings

A mobile screenshot of the card-based roguelike game Balatro. Painted deck (+2 hand size but -1 joker slot), gold stake, ante 9/8, round 21, jokers are Baron, Blueprint, Square Joker (holo) and Ride the Bus (holo). Baron scales xMult by the amount of kings held in hand, and I worked hard to get my kings in deck up to 12, but in this hand of cards, there wasn't a single king. Didn't know Jimbo was a patriot 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤡

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This is not a dream. We are using your bluesky feed as a receiver. I am posting this from the year one nine nine nine. This post has reached your feed in order to alter the events you are seeing.

A movie theater ticket stub for the film Prince of Darkness (1987) dir. by John Carpenter

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"The promise of the information age was unparalleled access to every single last bit of human knowledge at every moment, and the reality is a collective civic mental life that permanently teeters on the edge of madness." -Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call

Gray book cover for The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"She had a fondness for stray animals and slightly damaged things ... which primed her to look kindly on a man like him. But she ought not to. Strays bit sometimes, and certain old books were suffused with pernicious mold." -Silvia Moreno Garcia, The Bewitching

I would really love it if this platform could get link cards to work consistently. This is the book cover of The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno Garcia, a gold bird filled with pins on a green background. Beneath it, a hand with fingers encircled and pointer finger slightly extended reaches up toward the title in gold.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

spoilers for Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator but FUCK these movies really put the love in Lovecraft didn't they

Shot from Re-Animator (1985) where Dan Cain is on the floor curling into the fetal position while Herbert West huddles over him with a shock blanket. And they were roommates

Shot from Re-Animator (1985) where Dan Cain, covered in blood, hovers over the similarly blood-covered and lifeless body of his fiancee Meg Halsey. He looks tenderly down at her and his right hand is raised, poised to administer the vibrant, glowing, yellow-green re-animator serum. Somehow this is the height of romance to a freak like me

Shot from Bride of Re-Animator (1990) where Herbert West approaches Dan Cain with arms outstretched, holding the heart of Dan's fiancee, Meg, cupped in his hands. There is simply no heterosexual explanation for this

Shot from Bride of Re-Animator (1990) where Herbert West gazes upon his creation, the Bride, one tenderly caressing her face, the other taking her hand like they are about to dance. They used to like, MAKE movies, you know?

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

BEE 🐝 MY VICTIM 😩💔🪝💀

A movie ticket stub for the gothic masterpiece Candyman (1992)

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

September reading summary. Fell into a bit of a slump! But I finished my yearly re-reads of The Locked Tomb as we carry on through alectopause. I kept their ratings off this summary because they are implied 5-star reads.

TheStoryGraph September reading summary for user @okcryptid (that's me)

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Great interview & so excited for Starmetal 3!!!!! 😭 Just curious if any of these moments you mentioned made it into the game? Into Charybdis is on my TBR list but The Cold Forge gave me nightmares (complimentary) and WOW there was so much in there I would love to experience as a player

Question from interviewer Paul Semel: So, how did you come
on Alien: Rogue Incursion?

Answer from Alex White: They really liked both of my
novels. When the team reached
out to me, they gushed about
how many the moments from
my books they wanted to
replicate in gameplay. I found it
deeply flattering, and it was my
first ever Los Angeles writers
room.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

also look at these two goofballs. they just did this naturally. besties?

Two companion characters from The Elder Scrolls Online, Sharp-as-Night and Azandar al-Cybiades. They are standing close together in a circle of green arcanist runes during a moment in Azandar's first quest. Azandar has one hand up like he's preparing to cast a spell, and with the way they are positioned, it looks like his arm could be around Sharp's waist. People who know Sharp understand that he would normally not be cool with this, so one must assume that he and Azandar are besties to account for this close contact without someone losing an eye.

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I made another one. based based based based based on real experiences trying to impress them

The "waow (based based based)" meme but the person yelling is saying "your friend keeps pickpocketing the city guards" and the person who says "WAOW" while thinking "based based based based based" has been edited to look like Tanlorin from ESO. Also there's a lil "rapport increase" widget in the bottom left like in the game

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Juli @okcryptid.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

August reading summary. Anticipating every Murderbot book to be five stars from me. Just Add Writer got me out of a (personal) writing slump. Really helpful and insightful read. And WOW, My Death... Don't have the words or space to rave about this one at length. Lisa Tuttle is so special to me.