iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Being far less attached to social media than I was a year or two ago means that now I sit around thinking things like “god I love jjajangmyeon” and that thought just stays inside of my head instead of going anywhere (except for right now I guess)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/01/2025

god at lunchtime on day 5

screenshot from exotic animal photo reference repository:
BIRDS
COMING SOON: FISH

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Talking to my therapist this morning and not really wanting to get into [politics, society, the world feeling like garbo, etc etc], so now I’m just calling it “*gestures into the air* the Miasma”

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Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA a comic/poem (1/🔶)

Comic cover rendered in blue and orange hues. The title of the comic is BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA, written and drawn by Olivia Stephens. The cover illustration features a Black person with short coiled hair standing in waist high water and staring upwards with an orange glint reflecting in their eyes. The sky features a harsh, dramatic orange texture.

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Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo @massmice.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year, MICE friends! We just uploaded some photos to our gallery from MICE 2024, so we can ring in the new year and celebrate the old 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for all your support and here's to another year 🥳🐭 buff.ly/4a9yOaU

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Radiator Comics @radiatorcomics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The 2024 @massmice.bsky.social Mini-Grants are here! For the past 5 years we've partnered with MICE to offer distribution to all their Mini-Grant winners. We've just added THIRTEEN fantastic comics to our distro catalog! www.radiatorcomics.com/collection/2...

Seven brightly colored self-published comics displayed on a bamboo table. Each comic is a different size and the lush drawings that adorn them indicate their depth and breadth of styles comics can come in!

Six brightly colored comics displayed on a bamboo table.

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hot alligator selkie in question

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“She’s an alligator selkie.” “Oh that’s hot.” “Yeah I made her really hot on purpose.” “Selkies gotta be hot, that’s how they get kidnapped. …Did I just victim-blame selkies…” (@maggiedreadful.bsky.social)

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We found a place near the meetup venue that will write in ricotta on your pizza for a few extra bucks so we can never not have pizza messages ever again (this one was from the week after the election)

A pepperoni and sausage pizza that has “I’M SAD :(“ written on it in piped ricotta cheese

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Fieldmouse Press @ SPX M2-3A @fieldmouse.press · 01/12/2024

Today's opening day! Check out our submissions page for more info - we're looking forward to seeing what you have come up with!

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Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Excited and honored to have been the artist for MICE @massmice.bsky.social 's convention poster this year!! I'll also be a featured guest! Come see all this awesome comics talent in Boston this December~! 🐁🐀🐁🐀

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’m making the staff schedule for MICE right now (🐁 COME TO @massmice.bsky.social NEXT WEEKEND 🧀), and the title I have given my role is Galaxy Spider. This is more succinct than “cross-eyed and staring into the universe while trying to manage 120 people in my fragile spreadsheet web.”

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Babs (Indie Comics Most Famous Butt) @newdmodel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“I’m a Work of Art” (cw: nudity, body issues, disordered eating) 1/19

I’m Babs! And I’m an art model! Sometimes I’m a painting! Sometimes I’m a drawing! I can even be a sculpture!

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

People have been telling me I should get back to Bsky and then all of a sudden a bunch of followers arrived so, I guess I am here again, hi

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Why do these girls keep dancing up on me can’t they tell that I’m a bottom

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

I miss Twitter but weirdly I have been treating IG stories like Twitter, I should start using Bsky again…

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Blind Alley No. 272

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

i don’t always pay attention to british politics. but when i do, it’s to laugh at things like “the prime minister goes on tv looking like a sausage in a wet lycra 3-piece to beg for his job”

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 23/05/2024

This has been in the entry way for three days so I wrote a curators note for it.

A half finished to go latte. A little placard next to it reads “coffee milk. Artist unknown. May 2024. Mixed media.”

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Abrian Curington @abrian.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Dear artist/writer/maker, I just UPDATED my quick guide to helping your hands not to hurt. If you want a copy, head here: abriancart.gumroad.com/l/HandMainte... Can't afford it? Just read the whole post, I've got you covered. Kindest Regards, Abrian C

Drawing of a hand with wiggly fingers, in a brace.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 20/05/2024

I saw this last night and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The adventures that ox must have had.

A tweet from Lucy Huber (@clhubes) about a toy ox with wheels dating back to 5000 BC: "I like this because it means before cars existed little kids were still obsessed with cars they just were like 'imagine if a cow had wheels and went vroom' "

A Cucuteni child sits on the floor playing, holding an ox toy above their head. Above the child, an imagined scene of the ox is flying through the air. The mother lovingly tends to the family ox in the background.

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

Boston, I'm doing this next month! www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...

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Dylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Babe wake up, new Hemingway luxury variant just dropped

Craiglists ad posting of a Gucci shopping bag and baby shirt. Text: “gucci baby shirt 0-6 months never worn”

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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

We'll be at The Greater Roxbury Book Fair this Saturday with a lot of other cool Boston literary folks! We're excited to have a table and to be working with Comics in Color to sponsor a comics workshop with LJ Baptiste and Jonathan Todd. See you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/savor-the-...

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Savor the Square presents the Greater Roxbury Book Fair

Join us for author talks, workshops, and storytimes at the Greater Roxbury Book Fair!

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

No, they just lost one of their guys.

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Three travel weekends in a row means I have a collection of half-eaten snacks in my backpack: spicy peanuts nibbled at in Seattle and upstate NY; grapes that went up to Toronto, met some strawberries in Boston, and came back to Queens; crushed granola bars that successfully avoided ravens in Juneau

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Why are all multivitamins in gummy form, I just want something to put in my pill case so I don’t forget to take it

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

MICE applications close this week! it's my favorite indie comics show!! their app process makes more sense than anyone else's IMO (application-based, some discounted spaces set aside for first-timers, you can only exhibit every other year so more folks have a chance to table) www.micexpo.org/apply

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Chicago Alternative Comics Expo @cakechicago.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

As a volunteer run non-profit; table fees only cover a portion of CAKE's expenses! Keeping alternative comics publicly accessible as a free to attend show is important to us and your donations help maintain that! Consider donating to Chicago Alternative Comics Expo: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

Image: photo layers of chocolate and castella cake with a vintage style cake woodcut in the middle. Instead of candles, the cake has art supplies. TEXT: Paypal: Cakechicago Venmo: Cakechicago Donate to CAKE. As a completely volunteer run 501C3 nonprofit organization your tax deductible support is vital to keep chicago alternative comics expo going.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

10PM on a Wednesday

a comic. panel 1: spatzle, a duckling, peeks through a doorway. “Are you crying?” she says. panels 2-4: her mother, sitting mostly shrouded in darkness, wipes her eyes and says, “yes.” panel 5: Spätzle approaches her. She is tiny while her mother looms large, huddled in the darkened corner. “What’s wrong,” Spätzle asks. Her mother says, “everything.”

a comic. panel 1: Spätzle’s mother says from the shadows, “I wish I never met your father.” panel 2: “I wish I never left my parents.” panel 3: “I wish I never came to america.” panel 4: Spätzle site on the floor by her feet. “I’m happy you did those things. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t be here.” panel 6: from the darkness, Spätzle’s mother says, “go to bed.”

a comic. panel 1: Spätzle and Fanlee sit together. Fanlee is reading and Spätzle appears to have been drawing, but she’s distracted. panel 2: Spätzle says, “hey real quick can you tell me you like having me around”

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 17/04/2024

“Before you croque” was right there

A Food & Wine feature titled “8 French Sandwiches to Eat Before You Die”

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Nothing radicalizes you like seeing all your freelancer friends have to pay 30% taxes on their poverty wages. Everyone is out of work, under employed, underpaid if at all. There are no savings and no safety nets. Groceries cost $80 every trip. It feels like I'm bleeding to death.

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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Masquerading as an AI so I can get my job wrong 83% of the time and not get fired, while billionaires keep giving me money to try and make me slightly better.

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Therapy is hard you guys, did you know this

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 13/04/2024

You’re never alone when you have eye worms

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Gory Battlefield @garybutterfield.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

I love it when a prescription is like 800 dollars but the doctor tells you about a secret ritual you can do where you go to a website and download a pdf that looks like a car wash flyer, and you show it to the pharmacist and all of a sudden it's like 18 dollars. Everything is fake and stupid.

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

rip to the boring darlings

Photo of a diary entry from March 26, 2024. Text reads "Tried a new exercise on an outline-in-progress: Took each scene and put two checkboxes down."

Two blank checkboxes follow: "fun to draw" and "funny."

At the bottom is a self-portrait of Gale Galligan writing intently on a stack of paper, muttering "justify your existence or perish".

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Olivia Li ✨ @olovia.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

A cop just poked their head into the subway car when we stopped at Penn and asked “You guys good? Everything good?” I assume this is a new initiative for them to try to justify the NYPD swarming fucking everywhere on the MTA nowadays.

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kaylee rowena 🫀 @kayleerowena.com · 09/04/2024

the HAUNTS kickstarter hit its first stretch goal!! all $20+ backers now get a free haunted house sticker with their copy of the book! only 9 days left to grab your copy! 🏚️💖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kay... (reposts appreciated!)

a mock-up of three stickers of a purple haunted house surrounded by holographic ghosts.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

One of my favorite weird cat guys: Le Chat d'Ostende. George Catlin, 1868. www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-1...

Oil painting of a weird, shaggy, almost werewolf-like brown cat with a somewhat humanoid face. He’s sitting on a table with a red tablecloth, and a sewing kit sits spilled open beside him. A needle and thread fly through the air in front of him and his right paw is held up oddly as if he threw it. His expression is cold and remorseless.

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