iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sasha Feather @sasha-feather.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i think this happened in a Vorkosigan book

Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: 0/10 Second chance: 2/10 Fake dating: 5/10 Friends to lovers: 10/10 Age gap: 0/10 or 10/10* (see below) Found family: 10/10 Grumpy x sunshine: 10/10** Pregnancy: 2/10 (100% love kid characters tho) Slow burn: 10/10 Love triangle: 2/10***

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Realised I never posted this Rivendell drawing I did from my Lord of the Rings phase last year.

a black and white drawing of a grand house built against a cliff with waterfalls, some blue colour was added for added lighting and to suggest evening.

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thinking again about @nathanburgoine.bsky.social's careful (and very gentle given how frustrating this shit can be!) essay on "who gets to tell their own stories, who profits the most from them, and what that means for queer men in these spaces/the culture" apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t...

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The Shoulder Check Problem

Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

why is it with neurotypicals that when I avoid making phone calls, I'm "terrible at keeping in touch," but when I text regularly & they never text me back, it's a perfectly normal/acceptable preference to hate texting?!

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

doing a project where I'm (re)reading all of Discworld in chronological order, from the very beginning. I definitely did not appreciate how complex these books were when I was younger! the older I get the more I respect them

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Buut-Buut the day he came home (plus the first few weeks; that's him in my lap)

picture of a little white fluffy puppy with a mischievous expression on his face staring up at you from
the floor

a small white fluffy dog sitting on the lap of an Asian person with glasses and shoulder-length hair

picture of a small white fluffy dog standing on the edge of the dishwasher right next to the dishes, looking innocently at you

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reading Moby Dick is either 200 pages at a sprint OR I get stuck for months because Ishmael won’t stop measuring a whale. I’m miserable. I’m obsessed. I want to throw myself into the sea. I want to give Herman Melville a wedgie

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

a lot of the award-winning books I've tried to read this year feel like they were written to, well ... to try to Win Awards, which is a mode of writing I *hate*

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

fellow introverts, please give me lots of virtual hugs and praise, I just survived 2.5 weeks of having houseguests 😭

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I suspect that my partner is choosing the video games he plays based entirely on whether the titles sound funny & cute. the last 3 games he bought were named: Pikuniku, Smushi Come Home, and Öoo

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I will never come to terms with the fact that there are an odd number of days in a week. if you want to do a routine "every other day" you either have to do it Mon/Wed/Fri or Tues/Thurs/Sat/Sun, which is not EVEN or EQUAL and that is JUST. NOT. GOOD!

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

have we figured out a nice way yet to read pdfs on a desktop computer yet? (or is that still a generally terrible experience)

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

sometimes I look at my dog (who's been chomping a toy for ten minutes straight) and think, "I KNOW how smart you are — why do you DO that?!" and sometimes my dog looks at me (who's been staring at the small black rectangle in my hand for ten minutes straight) and thinks the exact same thing, I bet

small white bichon frise poodle dog sitting at the edge of the dining table begging for food

small white bichon frise poodle dog staring straight into the camera with a pink silicone bone in his mouth

small white bichon frise poodle dog sitting on a cushion looking melancholy with a piece of someone's shirt in his mouth

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Lark 🔞🍉 @sensationseekng.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

guess i'm crying about fiction and fanfiction at 5pm on a monday. no, not any particular story, but how it's all of us saying hey, this is what it feels like

screenshot of a tumblr post of a photo of a book post by vexheart book says "borders and divides. There are large, glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry. But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm say-ing? Does it also feel this way to you?" author - Kazuo Ishiguro, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ah, yes: what I have always called the "undiagnosed neurodivergence hat." see also: frances hardinge 🖤

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm rereading T. Kingfisher's sad paladin books and the gnoles are just the best thing in the world. I wish I was a gnole. in fact I am trying to become more gnole-like, and I think this will be good for my mental well-being 🦡

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am proud of being an autodidact but unfortunately my instructor was incompetent

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

folks who keep a list/tally of books read every year — do you count novellas, graphic novels, and children's books as one book, or half? (it feels unmathematical to count short things as a whole book, but I also love novellas/GNs novels/children's books A LOT and don't want to disrespect them!)

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Queer dating app, but if you match it assigns you both to a dnd group so that you can get to know each other in a real life situation (protecting the realm from the hordes of darkness or smth)

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 23/07/2026

Found this gate in York. It had a standard lock, plus a padlock and a chain holding it shut. It was very very securely closed. The only thing on the other side is a blank wall. The only conclusion I can make is that this is a magic portal to hell.

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I know that I shouldn't give him food when he's begging, but sometimes I have to because he is so round

small white bichon frise poodle cross looking up at you from on top of a chair. he looks very sad and his face is a fluffy round circle

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Fic Clique @ficclique.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We often plug our Discord server on the podcast (and that's because it's a lovely space!) so here's a periodic reminder that you can join our multifandom 18+ server at discord.gg/yVN3gmPNGJ and chat about fanfiction, tv and movies, music, recipes, arts and crafts, and more with other Ficlets 💙

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Join the Fic Clique Discord Server!

Check out the Fic Clique community on Discord - hang out with 195 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

every time someone mentions the year 2019 I think, "oh yeah that was about three years ago?" and then I do the math and ☠️

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I WANT TO OWN MY MEDIA FUCKING TIRED OF RENTING BRAH

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thomas w schaller @thomaswschaller.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Thank you so much to Juror Ana Laura Salazar for selecting my painting, "City of Light" for the San Diego Watercolor Society's 46th International Exhibition. Thanks to everyone at SDWS for all the hard work they do. 30X22 inches. #art @bsky.art

#watercolor of Paris Skyline featuring the tower of Sant Chapelle

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

when you put in an acquisition request at your local library and they are v. nice and buy the book! ... but then a dozen people put a hold on it before you can this happens to me constantly. oh well, at least I'm making some other readers happy? :P

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@outpourgame.bsky.social I just played the demo for Outpour and I can already tell it's going to become one of my favourite puzzle games ever 💜 Impeccable level design! And the music + visuals are also wonderful — I played it while it was raining outside and the vibes were perfect

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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

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Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

just had to send a letter by post, which in the year 2026 is an executive dysfunction nightmare because who keeps envelopes around anymore?! who has stamps?! and how many of those things am I supposed to use?!

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

there are two types of people: 1) people who are constantly assembling a grand theory of every single thing we encounter so that we can predict & understand how everything in the world works, 2) people who don't do that, I guess

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A recent @newscientist cartoon p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

Scientist type:
Modern professional scientist
vs
Enlightenment gentleman scientist

Funding:
research grants and private investment
vs
enormous inheritance

Assistance:
team of ambitious young scientists
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maid, nephew, gardener

Method:
cautious experimenting in a controlled environment
vs
test on self at home

Safety:
detailed risk assessments and standard operating procedures
vs
heavy tweeds

Reporting:
paper published in peer-review journal
vs
tell the chaps at the club

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melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

what do you want prints available: mcapriglione.art

four panel cartoon comic of a cat talking to its owner. in the first panel, the cat yells "i want!". in the second panel, its owner says "what do you want". the cat is zoomed in on the third panel and silent. in the fourth panel it says "I WANT!" again

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

the only six fanarts thing I ever did was Austen heroines and people yelled at me for making Emma Woodhouse look villainous

the six heroines of Jane Austen's novels: a bored/depressed Anne Elliott in a bonnet, a terrified Catherine Morland pulling covers up to her nose, a pissed off Elinor Dashwood next to a weeping Marianne, an Elizabeth Bennett with her bonnet blown off in the wind, a scheming Emma Woodhouse sitting in the dark, and for Fanny Price an empty box with just a forehead and eyes peeping out from the bottom left corner

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I have a Libby library book due in 9 minutes and I am READING READING READING. it's me against the clock

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

little dog, sleeping Buut-Buut's favourite place to nap is on the couch, in the narrow valley between my partner's outstretched legs. I think he likes being cocooned + using our legs as pillows

Small white bichon frise poodle lying on someone's leg with a blanket draped over him, sleeping.

Small white bichon frise poodle curled up in a crescent shape on a green blanket, looking melancholy.

Small white bichon frise poodle sleeping on a couch, in the "valley" space between a person's two stretched out legs. The person (my partner) is holding a game controller.

Small white bichon frise poodle sleeping on his side on a couch, using a blanket like a person might. You can see his paw pads.

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

very sad day when a favourite podcast puts in ad breaks. I don't mind that there are ads. podcasters need to make money! it's just that then I can't use the pod to fall asleep to anymore

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

one thing I don't like about the internet is how it mostly spotlights "talkative" people. irl, some of my best friends are the people who sit quietly in a group setting and never talk about themselves and only pipe up to say something supportive or funny

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

One reason I started this project was a hunch that despite a genuine & welcome turn to queer friendliness from the Nebulas & Hugos, there was still brilliant quality, accessible Queer SFF they were missing. This list of 10 has *zero* Hugo or Nebula noms between them. I might be on to something.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

the love song of j. alfred prufrock the power ballad of j. alfred prufrock the country-western crossover hit of j. alfred prufrock espresso [remix] feat. j. alfred prufrock the love song (j. alfred prufrock's version)

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

why does this always happen: you spend all your time thinking about books and then the moment someone asks what you've been reading, you forget every single book you've ever known

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 02/03/2026

sample ✨

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Rita @ritahuman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

does anyone else find that winter is so long & bleak that you just go numb? and it's only when spring comes that you wake up and realize, "oh wait, I've been REALLY depressed this whole time"

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 19/04/2026

Whatever you do,

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN."

Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

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