iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Saw Resident Evil this evening and it ruuuuuuuuuled! I don't usually do horror, but I love a Zach Cregger movie and this one slapped. It was so funny throughout the whole movie and had some really great intense sequences. I hope they make more set in this universe!

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My cleaning incentive for today was an IAR prerelease kit and it was PRETTY SOLID!!!

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wasn't that excited in the leadup to IAR but now that it's here, I'm buzzing about what decks I want to update! Marlynn's mostly set, but do I want to update Vynnset or build Viserai? Boltyn? Switch Ira to an Edge build?? I haven't felt so energized to update my CC decks in a long time!

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We dove into Chiikawa over the last few weeks and just caught up to the anime I wasn’t sure if I’d like it, but it’s the most amazing thing ever and I highly recommend checking out the subs on shady YouTube channels They just announced an English dub coming in October, which I will gladly watch!

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Usagi in a Yellow Bunny Suit Dancing

ALT: Usagi in a Yellow Bunny Suit Dancing

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m really bad at cleaning, so to incentivize myself to tidy up, I got myself a box of IAR! If I accomplish my cleaning goals today, I’ll open it!!! ٩( ᐛ )و

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The Zoe Starr, Revered Bard @thezoestarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How could anything so dang cute be corrupted? 🧟‍♀️🐈‍⬛️ #fabtcg

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is true for me-I don’t play Brute or Wizard or Warrior…ever, really, but in SAGE they’re a lot of fun (them being generally very powerful helps lol).

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not my stupid ass forgetting that Bsky hates videos…lets see if it works this time HERE is a timelapse! Blah blah blah composition, blah blah AU, etc.

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Josh Lau @josh-tcgz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling Atlanta situation in Fire Emblem.

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A modern Odyssey, unfolding in real time. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Prerelease weekend is the best! Nothing beats the atmosphere and energy in the room right before cracking packs and dooming about your pool (or celebrating crazy pulls). I was delighted at the number of locals who were trying to get Boltyn staples last night, I’m so excited for them.

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not my stupid ass forgetting that Bsky hates videos…lets see if it works this time HERE is a timelapse! Blah blah blah composition, blah blah AU, etc.

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2-1 on Levia for prerelease 4! Thrilling fatigue game against Vis, literally down to last cards and last life Almost fatigued Malice but she died to blood debt. Shoutout to sending a Permanent Internment for 11 😜 Died to Vis, fun game tho Treated myself to a box and got some goodies! #fabtcg

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy ‘Surpin’ Monday, gamers! Here’s a fun lil timelapse of this piece. You can see in the first 10 seconds several “serious” compositions. Looking at my deadline, I didn’t want to draw all that nonsense and pivoted to our beloved shadow characters in a street gang AU. Enjoy! #fabtcg #fabfanart

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Despite opening a very solid set of Levia cards, I went with Malice for my 3rd #fabtcg prerelease and went 2-0 Drop! I felt like my brain was finally ready to try the zombie plan and it worked out, but the event ran long and I had to run. Got a Magister in a second kit that I bought on the way out!

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Greg, Meataxe Apologist (he/him) @darth-prentiss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HAVE YOU COMPLETED YOUR SURVEY YET #fabtcg GAMERS?

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ended up event 2 on Levia, going 1-2 in some really close games. Except for R1 against a mirror, I got stomped! Then beat a Vis, and got overrun by zombies. Fun times, but Levia is kinda boring in limited! Can’t complain about another technical double Legendary day tho! Wtf! #fabtcg

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shoutout to my wife with the POTG for helping me actually rush these tokens out. The prerelease was sold out so I knew I needed a ton, and I was juggling day job BS while running around packing at the same time! I’ll probably have extras to put up on the shop, so stay tuned!

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went 2-1 on Viserai in tonight’s prerelease and struck gold! I opened a decent-mediocre pool and I think I got there in games against Baalghor and Vis with good play, but got roasted by Malice in last round. Fun and tricky format! #fabtcg

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

With Text! Normally I like to go handwritten, but this time I used a font, X Termination by ChequeredInk.

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Done with the artwork! Holy moly, I’m sleepy. This is the first time I’m using screentone and I have a lot more to learn! There’s so much I want to keep working on, but I have 3 hours before my first prerelease, so I gotta GOGOGO #Fabtcg #fabfanart

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Getting that nostalgic 2AM working on art vibe ☺️☺️☺️ it’s nice when you’re up late drawing something for yourself and not for a college art project or something.

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A light at the end of the tunnel appeared!

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

3 days till prerelease and I just picked up a sick coworker’s workload at the day job, sooooo…. May Ursur’s Shadow speed my hand 😭😭😭 Trying something different this time! Hope it comes out ok 😬😬😬 #fabtcg #fabfanart

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ended up 0-2 on the remaining rounds! So rusty! L v Dori: was a harrowing close game with great back and forth, but a misplay and all-NAA hand cost me tempo! L v Huntsman: I think this is a winnable matchup but I’m not good enough to see how yet lmao Now to catch up on spoilers!

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

GEM pack and random packs went hard for tonight’s #fabtcg #armoryrecap Totally makes up for getting the R1 bye 😅 Rebuilt Vynnset and I’m having a hard time remembering what to sideboard in and out 😅 but getting the bye means I get to goldfish for a bit and see if it jogs my memory.

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The award for biggest spittake of the week goes to…

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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yujiro Hanma kicked this Baki reader out of his own dream:

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

THEY KNEW!!! THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING!!!!! LSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS #MILB

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Ral ( openforcomms) @ralddd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

vynnset the iron "maid"en #fabtcg #art

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The Zoe Starr, Revered Bard @thezoestarr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New set of Arakni tokens finished! #fabtcg #araknimarionette

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 04/09/2026

Separating the art from the artist with JK Rowling is like separating the girl scout cookies from the girl scouts. Your opinion on the cookies is irrelevant, their purpose is to fund scouting. Which is good! But if every cent funded hate groups, it'd be bad, even if the cookies were yummy as hell

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Went 1-2 at tonight’s #FABTCG #ArmoryRecap but was 3-0 on Gundam packs 😎 My locals are way too good and I’m way too rusty, but it’s fun to catch up with everyone!

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Geez, however riled up people were about Exorcism, the discourse was 100x worse on Twitter. Every once in a while I think about tweeting and then I’ll just see how awful people are to each other over there and just close the app. Ppl really just over there choosing violence for no reason.

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Jake from Adventure Time with Coffee

ALT: Jake from Adventure Time with Coffee

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

…are we doing Banding? In FAB???? ಠ_ಠ

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just peeped at the Calling KC stream to see who made finals and I was EXTREMELY surprised with the hero matchup. What a cool game FAB is! www.youtube.com/live/-G4khaA...

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🔴 Day 2 & Top 8 Calling Kansas City | Flesh and Blood #fabtcg

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Managed to turn my middle seat out of 5 CONSECUTIVE AURORAS in a draft into a 2-0-drop during tonight’s #fabtcg #armoryrecap. I guess I drafted the superior Aurora cuz I smoked 2 of the others before having to leave for a dumb work thing 😮‍💨 What a silly night

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m not keeping it together this week, chat What the fuck

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OptimistTCG @optimisttcg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At long last, the GOATED LGS restock that was foretold!!! 😭

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026

if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world

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