iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Value by Rae Iolene 💙🗡️ • • 🚫No AI was used to write this poem. The photography is my own. I do not condone the use of my writing or photography in AI generators to any degree. • • #writing #writer #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #value #fightthepatriarchy #knowyourworth

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

1 July 2025 • Hello, July. 🗡️ 🍒 • • • 🏷️ #writing #writer #poet #writingcommunity #poetry #gaslighter #july 🚫No AI was used to write this poem. The photography is my own. I do not condone the use of my writing or photography in AI generators to any degree.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

To Silence a Muse by Rae Iolene 🖤💚 • Listen to Damocles by Sleep Token while you read this. • • 🚫No AI was used to write this poem. I do not condone the use of my writing in AI generators to any degree. #writing #writer #poet #poetry #silence #inspiration #sleeptoken #damocles #writingisart

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dawn by Rae Iolene • #writing #writer #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poems #inspiration #fallforme #sleeptoken • Listen to Fall for Me by Sleep Token when you read this. 🩶

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I need #sleeptoken to release more tour dates in the U.S., preferably the Midwest or CO. I need this like I need air to breathe. 🥹 #please #ineedtickets

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

4 April 2025: I love receiving handwritten letters in the mail and a chicken card, too.🐥🩷 • #fms_glimmer25 #fmspad #aprilphotochallenge #april #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025 #dog #dogs #ruby #cute

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

3 April 2025: I Am Not a Biologist • Rae Iolene Prompt: Write a poem that obliquely explains why you are a poet and not something else. 🏷️ #napowrimo #napowrimo2025 #writing #writer #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #biology

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

2 April 2025: If Hades had a Muse, too • Rae Iolene Prompt: Write a poem that directly addresses someone 🏷️ #napowrimo #napowrimo2025 #writing #writer #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

2 April 2025: Today I found out that my reading challenge books have their own shelves and display in the library. 📚 💕 ✨ • #fms_glimmer25 #fmspad #aprilphotochallenge #april #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025 #books #reading #teaching

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Magnum opus • Rae Iolene April 1, 2025: Write a poem that uses a new-to-you word. For extra credit, work in a phrase or reference to the Florentine Codex. 🏷️ #napowrimo #writer #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #florentinecodex #manuscripts #ancienttexts #art #literature #typewriter

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

1 April 2025: Cheers to 32 🥂 Lucas did a great job capturing this picture of me last night at my birthday dinner. Usually it’s me behind the lens. ❤️ • #fms_glimmer25 #fmspad #aprilphotochallenge #april #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m trying this again with the start of a new month. I like this idea of working with the same prompt every day. • #fmspad #aprilphotochallenge #april #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025 #glimmers

An inspirational quote on a beige background describing the positive concept of "glimmers."

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

9 February 2025 • Occasionally, I find myself eating my feelings. Meaning, chocolate raspberry ice cream with a side of cheeseballs and ranch. Very Midwest. Very Iowan. Very I’m angry at the world, okay. • #fms_I25 #fmspad #february #iowa #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025 #icecream #raspberry

A silver dish filled with chocolate ice cream, raspberry sauce, whipped cream, and a spoon resting inside, accompanied by a menu in the background.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

8 February 2025 • Ope time to get caught up on the photo challenge. Books are where the home is, yenno. • #fms_H25 #books #read #reading #fmspad #februaryphotochallenge #february #books #bookshelf #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025

A floor to ceiling green bookshelf is against a white wall lined with book.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

6 February 2025 • A funny pug leaving the small animal hospital at Iowa State University. 😂 🐶 • • • • #fms_F25 #funny #pug #dogsofbluesky #fmspad #februaryphotochallenge #february #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025 #dogs #disgruntled #curiouspets

A pug sits in the back of a Volkswagen, looking curiously through the rear window at the outdoor scene.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

4 February 2025 • The little baby Rube is such a potato. Rightfully so after going through back to back vet appointments. 🐕 • • • • #fms_D25 #dogsofbluesky #dog #fmspad #dogcuddles #februaryphotochallenge #february #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

3 February 2025 • Back to it. You know how it is…living in America. Some days you just have to sit and focus on breathing. C is for Cozy Fantasy, a new sub genre I’m learning about. • • • • #fms_C25 #cozyfantasy #booksky #fmspad #februaryphotochallenge #february #photoaday #fmspad2025

The book cover of The Teller of Small fortunes by Julie Leong.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

2 February 2025 • B is for Baking. I attempted to make heart shaped donuts last night. 🩷 🍩 • • • • #fms_B25 #fmspad #februaryphotochallenge #february #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025

Two heart shaped donuts heating in a pan, gradually turning golden brown.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hopeful that my #fmsphotoaday community finds me here. I can’t bring myself to do these posts on Instagram anymore. It’s not the same. • • • • #fmspad #februaryphotochallenge #february #photochallenge #photoaday #fmspad2025

February photo-a-day challenge list with letters A to Z for days 1-26; days 27-28 marked "Free Choice." #FMSPAD badge included.

February photo-a-day challenge list with daily themes from #FMS_A25 to #FMS_FREECHOICE25, arranged in four columns against a pink background.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Reading is rebellious. It’s why so many people want to ban books. They don’t want us to think. They don’t want us to ponder how stories, even in fantasy, can hold up a mirror to our own society. Our own world. Resist. Keep reading. #booksky #books #read #readingisresistance #fantasy #owlcrate

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

"Politics,” grunted Mash. "Easy to blame foreign folk for anything going wrong, when they're not here to say otherwise. Easier still when they look and talk funny, and don't pray to the Mother or her Sons."

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What I have to say to people who ask why I am still on these apps: They want to silent dissent. They want their voices and beliefs to be the loudest. If I voluntarily leave these apps then I am ceding my loudest platform & I am done retreating. Holding the line here. Joyfully.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A lot of my friends don’t have social media, so I had to explain what BlueSky is: “It’s the app created by the ex-Twitter guy, I think just to piss M*sk off, and now it’s bigger than Threads, which will likely piss Z*ck off.” My friends are very supportive of my app choices.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Walking outside in Northern Iowa is like entering the ninth circle of Hell. Accurate, considering the shit we all lived through yesterday, and will today, and for the next 1,000+ days. #ninthcircleofhell #dantesinferno

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We’ve stood strong before—this time is no different. Together, we’ve got this.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Someone needs to bring old school MySpace back so we can make an authentic space again. I want music on my profile. I want to create my own *theme* based on my current mood. The creativity in social media disappeared with the early 2000s. I want it back.

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

January would be a great time for Reputation (Taylor’s Version) to be released. Specifically on 1/20. #taylorswift #reputation

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Thank the gods for BlueSky. Meta is about to become a cesspool of evil just like X. 😒 #bluesky #meta #freespeech

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Elphaba cutting off Fiyero: “Do you think I want to be this way? Do you think I want to care this much? Don't you know how much easier my life would be if I didn't?” ✨💚 #wicked

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Rae Iolene @raesparkles.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Cheers 👋🏼 I’m Rae. I joined Blue Sky because it’s for community, but also because as a millennial, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for the early 2000s. 😌 I love collecting books and reading, especially fantasy books. I’m an animal lover. I rescued Ruby in 2017 and my four guinea pigs in 2021. 💕

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