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a pile of wordsmiths with adjacent interests. ∃'s hangout. experiences : rinions.itch.io website core : rinion.studio forum : world-end-atelier.discourse.group

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🌙 @rinion.studio · 20/09/2026
"I don't want to give up the shape, really; 

I'm just tired of the other associations."
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 20/09/2026
a face ? between the crowds
opal, standing in a train. they are only visible as a sillhouette, with text and color filling the space.opal, standing at a subway platform. they are only visible as a sillhouette, with text and color filling the space.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 16/09/2026
If you've enjoyed (or at least read) any of the three VNs we've made this year, you may also enjoy this trio of thoughts closing out the set. > log.rinion.studio/apocrypha/A-... > log.rinion.studio/apocrypha/Di... > log.rinion.studio/apocrypha/Th...
Three visual novels on itch (https://rinions.itch.io/), presented as a set.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 14/09/2026
oh yeah, also been making progress on this again! found a much better workflow for it. having fun. unsure how much longer it'll take; i still need to run some tests.
a table of text options relating to cards
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 14/09/2026
friend reminded me i had forgotten to keep playing pacific drive, so we've been on that again lately, and it really is just one of the best games ever. also i have to replace damn near every part of this car now
the left rear door. it is made of steel. it is fragile, cracked, breaking, cracked, and also cracked.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 12/09/2026
(ok well technically there's like 4 reasons the devil is a tennis ball, but this is one of them. rare mentioning our own writing, go read science)
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 03/09/2026
I think I'm just going to keep doing smaller portions of the larger whole as they find footing. > log.rinion.studio/scrawls/Some...
Hey so also what the fuck is up with RMB and right-click menus? No, seriously. I don’t even mean in the “everything in W11 is worse than it ever has been”, why is so much depth allocated to a secondary menu that has no particular attempt to maintain any standard or coherency? And, while I’m here. Hi. WIMP. Post-WIMP. What the fuck. Oh my god. Why does everything emulate mouse buttons or keyboard buttons instead of being its own device. Losing my mind.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 01/09/2026
will definitely need to take a break from the project relay after this VN (i am so tired and not just from the doing all this) but it's going well! ← allergic to sharing my wip writing
an image of a desk, with a rabbit shape on the left and a desk lamp illuminated in yellow on the side. behind the image is a larger space with unclear shape and detail in mostly monochrome.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 29/08/2026
what is it you see, when you see ? me
the silhouette of aria standing on a path somewhere, with image recognition boxes and other silhouettes (a guitar and a rabbit) over her. several of the labels are mismatched.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 27/08/2026
i want to translate more sorcière... i want to write more vn... i want these two peripherals to arrive so i can do some weird stuff with them...
mostima arknights: "Unemployment is sounding more appealing by the second."
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 24/08/2026
do you ever feel ill thinking about what a character has become through happenstance? one born a vampire and cursed by dead-end plots and cancelled campaigns, now the embodiment of an ill-fated star by her unending. blood and shadow and a lust for life that disregards her mortality. the other her counterpart, light and thunder, good fortune, they can never be happy except chasing each other. they used to be sisters, they used to be unrelated, they used to be something else entirely, they cannot exist without the other on the stage to bolster their presence, at least one of them has snuck into my head and lives there to orchestrate their tragedies to come
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 24/08/2026
the same hikari, with shinobu standing to her left
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 24/08/2026
hikari
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 21/08/2026
trying my best to understand how to use a trackpad for normal input types (nothing is fucking documented outside of closed source apps ever aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
The Ranger Sign for Raikou
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 18/08/2026
i love textures
a torso crop of a larger piece of someone against a fence
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 17/08/2026
grabbing my own thoughts off tumblr but they don't fit in a screenshot www.tumblr.com/retrograde-o...
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 16/08/2026
bluesky went down like right after we posted this, so i'm gonna be sorcièreposting on and off for the rest of the month. have some chapter titles
5. Mysterious Beauties are guaranteed to have a certain power level.
6. If you’re a beautiful girl, you’re can intervene in anything, anywhere, in any way you like.
7. The face of a beautiful girl means the rhetoric of a beautiful girl, among other things.
8. “Beautiful Girl” is a skill with an indiscriminate blast radius, so please take care using it in public.
9. beautiful girl (n.) 1 a device that leads to ruin if used too easily, or relied on too often.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 16/08/2026
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 04/08/2026
i'm very allergic to talking about our writing while it's in progress, but i'm also /really/ happy with this section. mechanics are going to take a hot minute to get coherent, still.
## Beliefs and customs
Are there gods, in Alabaster? It's anyone's guess, but if they are, they're either silent like the dragons, or long since deserted. Or maybe they're the land itself, or maybe the gods are the castles of Epitaxy. What does it mean to be a god, to be revered? Are not the overlapping halls, the bulwark against chaos, the ashen and moon-pelted sea, the wells to bedrock; are these not gods as well?

These are, of course, not all there are. Feel free to divine anew.
### I BELIEVE IN THE MOONS THAT FALL AT NIGHT ON THE SEAS WE DO NOT TRAVEL, LIGHT INTO DARKNESS, SPHERE INTO PLANE, ONE DAY I WILL SEEK THEM OUT
### I BELIEVE IN THE ASH THAT SWIMS, RISES, FALLS IN ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE FOR THE FALLEN, THAT SHINES WITH THE COLOR BEYOND TIME
### I BELIEVE IN EACH AND EVERY STAR, THE HEAVENLY COURT THAT OFFERS A TOAST TO MY DREAMS, THE LIGHT THAT OBLITERATES AND SEARS JOY INTO MY BEING
### I BELIEVE IN LOVE AND HATE, I BELIEVE IN THE WORLD I LIVE IN, I BELIEVE IN THE PASSION THAT DRIVES AND CONNECTS AND SEPARATES US ALL
### I BELIEVE IN DRAGONS, FOR THEY SPEAK TO ME; I BELIEVE DRAGONS, FOR THEY SPEAK TO ME
### I BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE HIGHEST HALLS THAT NONE SPEAK OF FOR REASONS I DO NOT KNOW, I HAVE SEEN IT DANCE ON THE PEAKS OF OUR TOWERS
### I BELIEVE IN MAGIC, I BELIEVE IN ART, I BELIEVE IN EXPRESSION THAT WORDS DO NOT CAPTURE
### I BELIEVE IN THE DEEPEST DEPTHS, THAT THERE IS SOMETHING FURTHER THAN THIS WORLD, THAT CALLS TO ME IN THE HOUR BETWEEN EACH DAY
### I BELIEVE IN MYSELF, WHAT I MAKE, AND NO OTHER
### I BELIEVE IN OUR CITY OF BALAS, AND I BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING AT THE END OF LABRYS
### I BELIEVE IN CHANGE
### I BELIEVE I AM HAPPY
### I BELIEVE WHAT I AM DOING IS RIGHT
### I BELIEVE WHAT I AM IS FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG
### I BELIEVE NOTHING
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 28/07/2026
> with some playing card blanks on hand ordered some squares for /this/ project (remember like 3 months ago when we posted about this? it's changed three times since then), and picked up standard playing blanks with them. ... this shit's hard. why am i trying to design two card games??
cards depicting a phoenix of sorts, a fish, various rivers, a triangle, and two halves of the golden gate of the ecliptic
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 28/07/2026
ah ok! much more freeform than the alternative thankfully. bad photo bc i don't have our emotes file on me rn but generally it's mostly dependent on simplification of detail and working at 500px or smaller (i either do 500 or 300 because they're easy to work with for me) +
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 27/07/2026
with some playing card blanks on hand, i found myself wondering what the Songbirds Fortunes might look like in practice. this system scratches my brain in such a specific way (as does much of snow's writing)
a take on the songbirds tarot cards, in the order of the text
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 23/07/2026
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 21/07/2026
IT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED (cleanup pass sometime in the future) (future chapters whenever we have a spare month to translate ig)
an image of a file titled "Meaningless Meaninglessness - Masaya Chiba (TL Draft 1).pdf"
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 18/07/2026
hey that's not french
「不気味ではないもの das Un-unheimliche」
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 16/07/2026
wait hold this should have been in the first post. not remaking it but here u go
Basically, what I'm saying is that Gwyndolin is a non-binary trans woman and an Empty Spaces girlsnakegodthing (this is why her counterpart in moonlight in *Elden Ring* is a plural dollgirl who is really into death and knifeplay and hangs out with wolves) who isn't out to the world at large but chills with her girl friends while they all struggle with identity and self-perception issues in a land that the gods have long abandoned, landlocked by the knowledge of how the world perceives artificial changes to life and anything either *strange* or related to their designated enemy of the dragons and draconic (especially since her family kills and locks those away) and still choosing to bear the responsibility of taking care of the other girls around her.

And that also makes Aldrich a chaser? I think?
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 12/07/2026
i don't think i'm ever finishing these two compositions so i'm deciding to post them anyway. unbeatable is the game ever and i need to draw more of it.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 11/07/2026
one of the things that i can't realistically accomplish but yearn for the means to every day is the ability to reach into everyone's brains and remind them that words are social and contextual. not surgical, not fresh out of dictionaries. you can't translate things, you can't /understand/ things, if you only think of words as independent blocks that only assemble when being read. dictionaries only exist because people want to have a reference, but everyone uses them as a prescription not just for what words /are/, but what they /can be/. language is always swimming under the surface of institutions and running along out of earshot of the dictionaries that chase it and try to pin it down. contexts exist outside what people want to admit for words that have baggage to them, because there are the words-as-used and the words-as-invented dimensions to language. there is the word that exists in one culture and the same word—the exact same word!—that exists differently in another. and culture, too, is fluid. why did the author use these words {why did the author choose these words as an individual, why did the author choose these words within the wider context of the culture they exist in, why did the author choose these words in the context of the piece as a whole} ? why did the translator choose use these words { why did they use the phrasing, spacing, order, specific meaning, why did they use one phrase over another, why did they coin a new term or stitch two together } ? translation is not an inherently neutral concept, it is an action. there is no One Singular Correct translation for everything, and to call things mistranslated because they don't match the exact dictionary meaning you found on some website, stripped of all other context, is ludicrous.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 11/07/2026
language isn't real, it can't hurt you.
The theme of *Don't Move Too Much* was "From excessive connection to a-Meaning-ful severing". Excessive connection, from the point of view of this book, is the infinite ambiguity that is the source of Meaningful Meaninglessness. And the "a-Meaning" in "a-Meaning-ful severance" is Meaningless Meaninglessness. By severance that is **Meaninglessness without Meaning**, one slips out from infinite ambiguity—this is, in other words, the finitization of Meaning.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 11/07/2026
recently picked up an old Sony audio recorder (for a few different reasons), and it's quite nice to have! it's also so weirdly light. i forgot technology can be this light and also be good.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 08/07/2026
orbit sitting down with "agitates me beyond reason" displayed on the monitor"

the text reads "<= it just spent an hour trying to figure out why
the tablet scaling broke but it turns out that 
having two monitors is evil and fucked up and
the driver doesn't recognize that the other one 
is plugged in if it isn't turned on but what if i
don't want it to be turned on all the time and 
the best part is this probably isn't even a linux
issue because tablet drivers are like printers 
they just kind of do whatever they want"
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 06/07/2026
the lancer campaign continues to be indescribable.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 04/07/2026
yeah. (or should i say, Real.) this is definitely some of the most convoluted stuff i've ever worked on translating bc it's got so many different bits of theory in it
"No matter how the net of image and language is constructed to enwrap something, there will always be some aspect that slips through and is left behind in the process. The Real stands on the other bank, across the river from where Meaning gives rise to infinite Meaning; it is Meaningful Nonsense.[^11]

Incidentally, the construction detailed above also bears much resemblance to Kant's Transcendental Idealism (超越論哲学).

To borrow Kant's words, what we are aware of is "Phenomena", and beyond that is an "Object-itself" (物自体) that we cannot gain knowledge of.[^12] Lacan's The Real roughly corresponds to this Object-itself of Kant's. Kant said that it is impossible able to speak of things as they really are, and redefines philosophy as something that attempts to analyze how humans conceive of things. This places transcendental idealism in an equivalence to early modern philosophies.[^13] As of Freud's influence on psychoanalysis, there is also introduced the dimension of "Sex"[^14]which poses the question of whether a subject possessing subconsciousness experiences sexual thoughts (essentially, is desirous towards) things. Looked at this way, psychoanalysis is the successor to early modern philosophy.

(1) On one hand, we can say provisionally of something that "this is this"—I shall term this "Finitization of Meaning". (2) However, that same something is both infinite and ambiguous. This is because within any something is always hiding the Meaningful Nonsense, The Real."
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 01/07/2026
need so many monitors and tabs i might as well just be allowed to dive in like they can in GitS
a stack of tabs on different writers and concepts between france and japan
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 30/06/2026
possibly the worst screenshots i've ever posted online, thanks bluesky. this is from tonight's session of translation and i feel so chuuni after it
(1) On one hand, we can say provisionally of something that "this is this"—I shall term this "Finitization of Meaning". (2) However, that same something is both infinite and ambiguous. This is because within any something is always hiding the Meaningful Nonsense, The Real.

The rain of Meaning continues falling toward all things. It does so because there is a deep hole there.  Drawn along by that rain, Meaning emerges. The rain of Meaning is something that absorbs Meaning into the drain.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 30/06/2026
untrue equivalencies but i can't get this quote out of my head
(1) On one hand, we can say provisionally of something that "this is this"—"That's that, and this is this." -Roland
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 28/06/2026
i love you tachikoma
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 26/06/2026
You know what? Here. You can see this. This is the next writing project, after we finish getting through 意味がない無意味.
"Okay, so, English is pretty Cis. This is where the core of the disconnect comes from, and why it is so incredibly difficult to explain anything."
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 25/06/2026
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 24/06/2026
#makeaterriblecomicday2026
There's a specific type of image that I really enjoy. (image of pukeko DAMNATION meme, image of a bunny on a printer captioned Happy Monday! Let's give it our bunny nothing)

Gifs, emotes, a bunch of options. (image of a scrungled owl shape)

Sometimes it's a friend's creature. (image of a cat being held up to the light, image of a dog on a couch)

That's it. 
That's all I want to share. 
I just really like when animals are Shaped and get into places they shouldn't be.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 24/06/2026
i love violence! (if i cared about prescriptivists i think i would not be able to translate at all; had to put something down as "a-Meaning-ful" earlier to properly keep the right meaning to it) it's certainly an improvement on whose, so i'll add it to the list for next time, thanks
footnote 8: "非意味的切断"—Not Meaningless 意味がない nor Nonsense 無意味, but the negation of meaning applied as a quality. Hence, a-Meaning-ful, to keep it in line with the rest.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 21/06/2026
this. will take A While. (i think this is like halfway through a rough outline; need to watch several shows and read several books and VNs and find a handful of research articles, yippie)
A word count listing 3,544 words.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 20/06/2026
it is a weekend of cleaning up code while we await feedback
note: "my little screen-recorder tool broke on wayland and i don't want to bother spinning up OBS just for this, but."

note, rotated to the side: "T-spins the notes to clear a line, or something."

note, rotated to be upside-down: "you can also do them upside-down i guess if you want (i haven't found a use for this but why not)"
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 18/06/2026
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" > log.rinion.studio/apocrypha/Sh... #<
Left side: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Right side: "What does it mean, that it is always easier to speak 
in roundabouts, that the human shape is one that feels donned only that {I} be recognized as one who bears a sapience? Truly, do compare me to the summer's day, for whatmakes the {self} seems more of a scene than a body. Representation fails. Representation fails. Recreation and rendering fails. Understanding is not possible; only its failure is."

Left side: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 17/06/2026
Oh shit, I didn't know the site was from MOCHIKIN, that's sick. Also, pretend that's the original Mirror's Edge on here. For some reason the site only pulls up Catalyst.
Northern Journey / Mirrors Edge / Tunic
Hyper Light Drifter / Ena: Dream BBQ / Lobotomy Corporation
Lunacid / Bat to the Heavens / UNBEATABLE
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 16/06/2026
like seriously this is actually so—wait post cancelled i discovered we left a tiny keymash in one of the Foreclosure-Erasure translation footnotes i should fix that later
(start heading) 2 (1) Interpretive frameworks of Sexuality[9] (end heading)
Before we begin analyzing interpretive frameworks of Sexuality, first, a review of prior research. Ishida Hitoshi uses the following categorization: "In our current time, the nature-related subjects that make up 'Natural[10] Diversity' are Biological Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity—elements of identity treated as 'innate', and defined as exclusive categories" (Ishida, 2006:164). Within movements fighting against homosexual discrimination, this framework of Gendering (ジェンダー化) accentuates the framing of Sexual Orientation as something immutable and innate.Footnote 9: "Sexuality", as the capitalized noun, here and elsewhere in the translation refers to the topic and categorization under discussion. This is partially sylistic echoing from the existing Abstract and title, partially to reflect that the word being used comes from the loanword "セクシュアリティ" and not other terms with similar meanings, but also because the word is sometimes used in contexts where "Sexuality" and "Sexual Orientation" encompasses romantic orientation as well—a general term for a classification of identity labels.↩︎

Footnote 10: "Natural", as in, "Having to do with the nature of someone or something". The kanji 性 translates to both sex and gender in different contexts, so another possible translation would be "Sex/Gender Diversity". There is the double issue of needing to encompass sex and gender as seen in the rest of this sentence, and determining if the framing of the article as a whole justifies defaulting it to "sex".↩︎
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 16/06/2026
this is where we're at with it btw. it's so rough out there.
A footnote marked "3" reads:

In all cases that "Nature" is rendered as a proper noun within this translation, it represents the kanji "性" with the intended reading of "The nature of an individual". This is a term equivalent to both "sex" and "gender" in English in different measures (used for both "Sexual Orientation" 性的指向 and "Gender Identity" 性自認, among many others), however, it also equally holds the meaning of "nature" as in "the nature of an individual" (**not** implying naturality in either social expectations or from an evolutionary lens) *and* "-ness" as a suffix-equivalent to apply to other vocabulary (e.g. 自明性 "self-evident-ness", or "self-evidence")—there is no one English word for this that I am aware of, hence it is compressed to a capitalized version of the meaning with the least inherent skew.
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 02/06/2026
The journey proceeds apace, bringing us to Songbirds. > log.rinion.studio/reminiscence... With TYVNJ2 as an immediate shift of priorities for this month, there is currently no accompanying vignette. In its place, have an excerpt.
‷ | Oh my god??? We were gearing up to beat him down together though??

⏻| this is what happens when you she/her the it/its, chat. be careful this month.

∃ | well, uh, yeah. he’s going down nearly immediately. any specific way you want to do it?
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 01/06/2026
shitposting through the sinus issues (working on other things but everything else is so hard to Post About) (this is maybe comprehensible to like 10 people here)
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🌙 @rinion.studio · 31/05/2026
feeling quite sick after returning from the trip, but there is just enough energy to draw some things (inner screen later) (it is very nice to have a bespoke lockscreen again)
phone lock screen
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