iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aaaaaahhhh it’s time it’s time happy 👻🦇🎃FIRST OF HALLOWEEN 🎃 🦇👻 I started carving stamps earlier this year for use on Halloween cards, but then I got some requests for patches, so here are a few scraggly attempts on that front

Fabric patches featuring bats and winged skulls and teeth and leaves and angler fish, printed in black ink on white linen

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Common trope : ghosts make things cold. Leg w/the mystery shin splints turned cold again for no reason, so it’s probably ghosts. Zee took my foot pulses and they existed on both sides so I don’t need to go to the ER, but it would be nice if we could get to the bottom of this haunted blood issue

A picture of me dressed as a skeleton holding a skull, with a ghost in the background

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

abbvfghgghhh I’m doing the thing again where I don’t say stuff because stuff is bad but it’s the ambiguous bad without concrete answers. Last MRI revealed a torn hip labrum + a deep fissure in the cartilage, which aren’t things that heal. Still unclear how much function I can get back though

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Jamie ran a glowy mushroom workshop and I got to crawl around the yard looking for sticks and I stole a big ol’ bag of ‘em like some kind of dryad bandit. Then after my hard day’s banditry I went inside and pet multiple cats and they were all very soft and restoring.

Some glowing clay mushrooms, along with sticks and moss and fake bugs

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I haven’t figured out how to tell this story without making people’s eyes glaze over, but the experience was so surreal I have to write it down anyway

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There’s a folktale I like about a prince who wants to get married but his family has trouble finding him a wife on account of he’s a big ol’ snakedragon who eats people

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When it comes to classic monster alignment I’m team Frankenstein, but that’s a little monsterqueer of me If we’re keeping things to the vampire/werewolf binary I fall solidly on team werewolf, which is why it’s absolutely infuriating that I like so much more vampire media than werewolf media

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nothing like a MERMAID ENCOUNTER to remind you that limbs function differently on land vs. in the water

a mermaid and I are both sitting on an inflatable shell in the water, sharing mutual nose boops

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Yesterday Ashes asked what kind of tea I wanted and I said apple cinnamon Five minutes later it handed me this mug with a dramatic “bone apple tea! 😀😀😀” …I now know what it tastes like to consume a liquid pun

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Last October I cut 143 tiny branches out of cardstock and 1 sliver of flesh out of my finger with a dull x-acto knife in order to make the year’s Halloween cards. The craft gods’ demand for blood seemed seasonally appropriate, but it did take an awfully lot of time and blood for only 13 cards

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Physical therapist this morning: discusses my testosterone use, calls me “girl” Me: 😕 Good thing you have useful opinions about my skeleton 😕

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As a non-artist, GenAI has had one significant upside in my life: it changed the conversation I was hearing about who is supposed to draw things

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Upside to being spayed beyond becoming surgically capable of enjoying Mad Max Fury Road: medical forms!

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Did you know that lotion can do something besides cause a temporary and unpleasant slime sensation on your skin? This may be common knowledge, what with the availability of “lotion” as a product people actually buy, but it is NEWS TO ME

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Successfully put on a silly outfit for the tea party, thus maintaining an ✨aspect of identity✨ despite feeling untethered from my essential self

Me, wearing green and yellow face paint and an antler grown and a big ol’ eyeball necklace

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Infuriating: Apparently crawling around as a primary mode of locomotion for a solid month can mess up your knee! Aaaaand I’ve been crawling around for a solid month CONSEQUENCES! Ugh!

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Been so distracted by all the nonsense going on with my body that I forgot to post the one good thing that’s happened to it lately: my sixth tattoo session with Mar!

Black and white tattoo sleeve with the night sky and trees and and some abstract water with the reflection of the moon

Still the same sleeve, but from yet another angle

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

SAM: “I wish there was an acceptable hug emoji” ME: “At least we’ve got something better than jazz hands 🤗 now” SAM: “Wait what?” ME: “🫂” SAM: “Oh! I thought that was a video camera with bee wings”

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Interaction with the phlebotomist at my blood draw yesterday:

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I used to think I wasn’t picky about sleeping surfaces because I don’t need a pad when camping, but NOPE

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

OBSERVATION: The cat I’m sitting has written his plans on the calendar, but he doesn’t have thumbs

A calendar (human business redacted) with a doodle of a cat head on the 7th marking my arrival, and another on the 11th saying goodbye

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I feel like a ghost. Or my leg does, but that’s ME I know too much of my identity is tied up in my legs, and maybe leg isn’t the healthiest place to keep the core of one’s personhood? AND YET this is the state of affairs

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Zim’s foster kitten didn’t play fair She was just a tiny motor in a fragile ribcage. I pet her for a SOLID HOUR and every time I tried to take my hand away she’d just nuzzle in again

A little baby kitten with her eyes closed and a paw on my hand

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Haven’t been posting much because I don’t know which mushrooms I am anymore Am I still the front mushrooms? Or have I transformed into the back mushrooms, rotting behind a lively facade?

A group of mushrooms, naturally bunched in a gradient from living to dead

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

You know that plotline where your friend is a superhero but you’ve got no idea until it’s 1 AM and you’re both stumbling home from the bar and you get attacked by muggers and your friend, in this hour of need, is forced to reveal that they’ve been training jiu-jitsu since age 3?

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Typical monster fallacy: assuming everyone would want to be a bridge troll

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fifth session on my sleeve yesterday!

Me with a partially finished tattoo. It’s black and white with the night sky and trees and some abstract water

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Sometimes I can be a little uuuuuhhh absent minded about things? But luckily my friends know this, so Lyric sent MULTIPLE reminders regarding the cabbage they left in fridge for me

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Last night at dinner we were discussing who, upon death, would be the best candidate to leave a ghost

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I feel like an industrious little squirrel preparing for winter, except summer is the season of dread and acorns won’t help with that

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The best part of going in for physical therapy is seeing Roger. He’s always there in a new outfit, ready to give me a high five or hold my hand

A life size plastic skeleton wearing a floral scarf, flower shaped sunglasses, and a straw hat, holding my hand

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Trying to schedule transportation to the new Sunday night roleplaying campaign but me and my ride both have unmedicated ADHD and it’s like

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My old coworker Abby cut my hair yesterday. She’s a lot happier as a stylist than she was as a barista, despite the occasional HAIR SPLINTER

A picture of my hair. It’s faded out and back from the ears and curly on top

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I was hanging out with Robbie and Lyric and found myself wishing, as I frequently do, that I could make a little doodle. Like not even an ✨artistic rendering✨ of anything, stick figures would be fine, but I can’t even usefully stick figure

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I said I’d eat my hat if I was wrong, and now here we are

Me wearing a hat made out of cabbage, and then me eating that hat

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Here are your starting parameters:

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

In physical therapy, a thing they usually do is ask for a list of ways your injury impedes daily life. This is how, after explaining that I am BARISTA I need ARM, I wound telling my PT about Mara taking me on a tour of his new house

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Good morning companions! I am stressed about my TENDONS and my JOB and the GOVERNMENT. But it seems I am still king of the ephemeral snow pile? So at least there’s that.

Me, sitting on a big ol’ pile of snow in front of the state capitol, holding a stick triumphantly aloft

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Tattoo update! Still quite a bit to go, but ✨the vision✨ is coming together

Progress shot of my unfinished tattoo sleeve: dot work night sky with moon and stars, pine tree silhouettes, oak leaves + branches

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Slept through the New Year’s party, but @samuelhblack.bsky.social and @free-bearz.bsky.social brought me in effigy and it looks like I had a great time

An action figure of the fish man from the Shape of Water playing So Clover

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A nice thing about going back to work is seeing everyone’s time skip character redesigns. One has new glasses that make her whole face look different, another has waist length blonde extensions, and I have the beginning of a tattoo that… I never posted pictures of??

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

So. A butterfly just landed on me. A live butterfly. It is December 24th in Wisconsin and there is snow on the ground.

A butterfly on my hand inside. It’s mostly black with yellow and blue spots along the edges and it has swallowtails

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Usually when I say “there’s something magical about starting a walk in the dark and watching the sun come up” the magic in question is just a feeling

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Fortunate that I’m not plagued with doubt as to whether my friends actually like me. They do! Aw yeah!

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Common thought “I never know when it’s appropriate to ask for a ride to the medical clinic when technically I could take the bus or walk” actually FALSE. On occasion it is very clear!

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m in a queer horror book club that meets every other month in the Corporate Dystopia Room of the local grocery store

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rattonic.bsky.social @rattonic.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

In further orange-things-making-me-happy news, I recently started buying bags of habaneros in an effort to reduce the DPS (dollars per Scoville) of my weekly grocery bill. If you ask my mouth, this is going great!

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