iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 27/08/2026

my scrappy website provider is doing much needed upgrades to their systems which naturally means I want to do nothing more than working on my website………

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 16/08/2026

have I been working on things? yes. am I having fun? yes. is any of it worth the effort? i fucking hope so

a picture of me, the writer clown, in my natural habitat (the woods)

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 16/07/2026

i want to draw i want to write i want to make Little Video i don't want to troubleshoot why sidebar don't exist and only get widgets for $60 that won't even address my problem

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 16/07/2026

after fighting with wordpress (my ancient rival) for the past two days, I can officially announce that wp is worse to work with than drupal, a CMS held together by good will and fairy kisses. At least Drupals editor didn't crash soon as you looked at it.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 13/07/2026

The Great Drupal Experiment: 2022-right now. It was a valiant battle, I am proud of my efforts but must admit defeat. Thank you all for following this adventure, and for all your cheers of encouragement.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 04/04/2026

Even with the sound off, I heard this

A screenshot from Duolingos Latin lessons. The word is ”ignis” meaning fire, a common voice line from Baldurs Gate 3

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 26/03/2026

the seagulls are back!!!

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 23/03/2026

sorry to everyone who uses the same bank as me, I was going to do my bookkeeping just now and unplugged The Whole Thing

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 12/03/2026

”hey rowan did you get work done this week” no but I did write a 11k+ summary of a mash fic i’ve been noodling with

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Roma Gewska @gewska.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 25/02/2026

The past six months or so I've kind of re-started my career from scratch for reasons better left to a blog post and everything is taking *so long* but I think it'll actually be good?? hate to vague post but also maybe it's good that y'all know I'm not dead lol

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 25/02/2026

I've been trying to not resort to "I'm working a lot actually you just can't see it" because that kind of thing can be real demoralising but I *am* working a lot and sooner or later you *will* see it here's a sneak preview of a thing I'm working on!

A screenshot of a note from one of my video scripts. It reads "Add post-mortem script when mortem is post"

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 01/01/2026

It's a new year and I've already worked on three projects, all of them stupid. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ro...

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Rowan, weakly

I make comics, I post comics. Once a week? Many times a week? I'll never tell~

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 16/12/2025

Commission for letterofmarque.bsky.social from my 15-15-15 commission drive (now closed!) I've missed doing private commissions something fierce and this was an absolute joy to work on. 💗

A portrait illustration of a person with short auburn hair, leather armour and a blue cloak. The person is crying stoically.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 10/12/2025

My guy @iaoth.se and I have been watching Star Trek: TNG and oh boy unexpected favourite character right here let me tell you. Q knows what's up. (also if your partner sees your gender joy and makes a gif out of it the very next day, oh boy oh wow so lucky)

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 21/11/2025

I had to switch website providers partially bc I don't want to worry US laws will fuck me over bc my host is american, but also because my US website host can't understand umlauts so I couldn't update my debit card. 🙃

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Joakim @iaoth.se · 04/09/2025

📈 @lilyisthatyou.bsky.social is blowing up, go listen to her now to get in on the ground floor so you can say you were there when she made it big

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 04/09/2025

"hey rowan you haven't been online much lately, what are you up to" oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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Ashaa 🐦‍⬛ (Soma) @coyote.band · 28/07/2025

if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate

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GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global · 28/07/2025

A new petition spearheaded by prominent German journalists and game developers has gathered over a thousand signatures in the first day. Like other emerging protests, it aims at payment processors to take the pressure from store fronts selling adult games. www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Rhiannon Rasmussen @charibdys.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

worth reading article; wrapup at the end also includes actions to take to push back on this blatant anti-queer censorship. not to downplay the importance of having platforms for NSFW (a hugely broad category) but SFW queer and trans works have been hit by this (anything marked with "adult themes").

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 24/07/2025

I went to Stockholm (my home, my love, hopefully my grave) for the first time in two and a half years yesterday, (undiagnosed) autistic burnout is a hell of a thing

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🏳️‍⚧️ Bog Witch Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @bogwitch-girl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to askvisa@visa.com they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

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the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

personally i think when communicating with businesses like The Card Companies you're better off roleplaying a frustrated customer who wants to spend money. you are just a normal fuckin guy and who are they to tell you how to spend your money? it's a free country. you're an adult with income.

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Kris Straub (كريس) @krisstraub.com · 22/07/2025

lysistrata, but for labor in general

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 22/07/2025

Not a movie but I read Not Without My Daughter when I was ten.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 22/07/2025

PSA FOR AMERICANS if you sell things internationally DO NOT USE UPS they are a menace and a scourge and the worst fucking delivery service I have ever encountered in my life. USPS is fine. DHL is a pain in the ass but if you really have no choice, okay. UPS doesn't know other countries exist.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

As far as the great experiment that is the United States is concerned we have just about all the data we need and to put it in scientific terms EEEYIKES

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

VALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES: - tapping/drumming - singing - recording a solo metal album INVALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES: - bank robbery - fleeing the scene - driving to the canyon - gunning it to the edge, only to skid to a stop a few yards back - thinking that prison could be cool as like an experience

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword

Flash Gordon's Bones Malock: "Hhh. Only think I hate more than somebody cashing in a marker is the idea of backing out on one. Alright, Spaceman... let's go find your girl."

Bones Malock, under captions reading: "Bones Malock spins a rope they've made from strips of their clothing. The moment is now."

Bones Malock and Flash Gordon.

Flash: Okay... wait thirty seconds, then give me a distraction.

Bones: Got just the thing.

Flash: Do NOT blow the place up.

Bones: You're the boss.

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Andrea Corsini :•) @syqkos.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Some tape peeling of a quick portrait study I did today. Done with gouache and colored pencils, I feel like I kind of understood how to not get muddy colors a bit #art

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 11/07/2025

Been reading 'Romola' by George Eliot from 1863 and this jumped out at me:

And even these mechanical printers who threaten to make learning a base and vulgar thing - even they must depend on the manuscript over which we scholars have bent with that insight into the poet's meaning which is closely akin to the mens divinior of the poet himself; unless they would flood the world with grammatical falsities and inexplicable anomalies that would turn the very fountain of Parnassus into a deluge of poisonous mud.

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Arczi @arczism.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

gay king #zoro

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

a comic about vibleo granes (originally posted 6/23/2016)

A comic drawn in pencil by Emma, meant to look like a Penny Arcade strip. Gabe and Tycho are holding video game controllers and sitting on a couch(???). Tycho: i never understood why gamers aren’t on board with the whole SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR thing. A band of hardscrabble underdogs with colorful hair fighting a massive, corrupt system — isn’t that every FINAL FANTASY?” Tycho: “maybe we’ve just been playing by the rules of masculinity for too long. Since childhood, we’ve had to fall in step or face swift, brutal reprisal — the kind we now gleefully pass on as if it’s ’our turn.’” Gabe: “did you ever notice the weird seam that runs up the middle of your nutsack? Like the plastic molding on a shitty Happy Meal toy? What’s the deal with that?” Tycho: “that’s from when your dick was a vagina.”

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 09/07/2025

I've had scoliosis surgery twice, once to put in bone grafts/titanium rods and again later to *remove* the rods because they uh. Unhooked themselves from my spine. A thing that Does Not Happen.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 07/07/2025

On the whole, the internet has been a compounding series of catastrophic mistakes, but there have been occasional, brief moments of transcendence

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Username skymachine
Post:
tutant meenage neetle teetles

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If It Gets Too Real, Blue Can Always Turn It Off @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Taskmaster season 19's squad is a fun batch.

An illustration of the cast of Taskmaster series 19. From left to right: Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 05/07/2025

I've been listening to @totalusrankium.bsky.social on American Presidents all week while I ping pong between projects and it is Illuminating. (I'm only on Monroe, don't spoil the ending!)

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 03/07/2025

there's been construction in the building for what feels like years and I only slept four hours bc it was hot last night and this morning I was going to do the dishes and shower before running an errand so I don't have to be in a construction zone all day every day but the hot water doesn't work

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 01/07/2025

woke up at 4 am bc someone dropped this line on me in a dream and now I can't stop thinking about it

Engaging with capitalist society while trying to fix your mental health is like setting fire to the house so you can make soup

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 26/06/2025

hello bluesky I baked nearly 300 cookies today and they turned out so good

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

yes, clearly instead of 'brave girl' i must have meant 'burgle girl'. much sense you maketh

a spellcheck suggestion to change 'brave girl' to 'burgle girl'

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