iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 04/09/2025

sometimes you gotta do something that makes sense

a photo of a wip embroidery of a yellow crown, referenced from a 1905 newspaper.

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

it was Hot and Windy and I've never felt more alive

A photograph of the Nobel Prize Museum at Stortorget, Old Town, Stockholm.

A photo of The Obelisk outside the Royal Castle, Old Town, Stockholm

A photo of Riddarholmskyrkan, Riddarholmen, Stockholm

A photo of Old Town, from Riddarholmen, Stockholm

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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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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 · 01/02/2025

I absolutely lost steam once mello came around #hourlycomicday2025

Half of the participants in the first heat of Melodifestivalen!

Second half of the participants in the first heat of Melodifestivalen!

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 01/02/2025

I have more than one mug I swear

Hourly Comic Day, 13-16.00. Reading, taskmaster, work.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 20/11/2024

I've gone from drag and drop squarespace to full on learning how to wrangle Drupal in like six months and it's going Great why do you ask

a screenshot of my website, as I struggle to wrangle Drupal into something that doesn't look like garbage. So far, I've managed one big red square and one big blue square. Remnants of content peek through the debris.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 03/09/2024

I love paint color names

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 01/09/2024

If you see this, show four of your favorite games!

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 30/08/2024

I'm fixing up my portfolio site and was looking up old newspaper layouts for inspiration when I realised I have the genuine article from 1905. Also the accent color is almost exactly the color I use???

A photo of a Swedish newspaper from January 21, 1905. Advertisements for furniture, blood oranges, paté and cotton fabric. Some decorative frames and illustrations are printed in rust orange.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 16/08/2024

oh I found it and it's a lot more graphic than I remember, oh boy

The cover of Ray Steadmans illustrated edition of Animal Farm. A black and a pink pig, surrounded by a frame of black ink splatter.

an illustration from the book. Various farm animals are in combat with a farmer. There's blood and bird poop.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 15/08/2024

Just wait until he opens his mouth, that's where the doof lives. wip for Havamal 9 over on @filthyfigments.bsky.social by the way - go read it! It's some of my best work and you can't get more ethical erotica than this!

A screenshot of a sketch in Procreate. A handsome manly face. Boring, uninspired, lacking personality.

A second screenshot from Procreate. The man now has more distinct features and facial shape.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 11/08/2024

I'm not very confident in my digital painting skills but this looks alright.

A work in progress of a digital portrait of Vorith, an air genasi monk in my BG3 table top campaign.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 11/08/2024

caught a homestuck in the wild???? this is a youth art thing, how many swedish 13-19 yo know about troll buckets???

A painting of a Homestuck troll with a mermaid tail, found in a suburban shopping center in Stockholm.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 08/08/2024

There's a setting you can turn on that requires alt text before you can post an image!

A screenshot of the accessability settings, showing how to turn on "require alt text before posting"

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 08/08/2024

accidentally made a Pog

A bright purple circle with a coiled bright green snake inside. It is very reminiscent of the 90s pastime, Pog.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 30/07/2024

It is indeed quicker.

a photo of an ipad screen with a comic in progress. There is hand lettering saying "Hey, kiddos!" in a speech bubble.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 23/07/2024

If Dadvice was a town, it'd now be bigger than the place I went to middle school.

A screenshot from Webtoons of Dadvice statistics. 58350 views, 2602 subscribers, 9,7 rating.

A screenshot from Wikipedia of the population of Vårsta: 2601 people (2020)

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 17/07/2024

without downloading any new pics, describe your gender in one image

Little My from Moomin, holding a sign that says "The End" in Swedish - slut.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 18/05/2024

Gardening session is here

An orange plastic pot with a pepper plant in it. There is a label for penis pepper.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 09/05/2024

Had a fun convo with a scammer over on Insta just now. I don't think they liked me calling them sweet baby child. (I'm not alt texting this, sorry. tl;dr a lot of back and forth and them saying my engagement is too low)

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 25/04/2024

Dadvice Noir. #webtoons Episode 20 drops tonight and honestly I can't believe I've already done 20 of these! www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/da...

An illustration of a man with a moustache, wearing a brown trenchcoat and a fedora. He is wet from the rain, and lit from the right by pink neon. The text is yellow and says: He was looking for answers in a world of questions. DADVICE. On Webtoons every other Thursday.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 06/03/2024

hello blueskies I'm back?? Maybe?? And I bring you a gift of that one time where I forced an AI to have an Opinion.

A conversation between myself and the AI chat on MeChat. I ask "Who is your favorite war criminal?" and the AI answers "Hmm, that's a tough question. There have been so many war criminals throughout history who have committed terrible acts..."

The conversation continues. The AI says "Well, I guess if I had to choose one war criminal..."
I respond "Go on."
It answers "I would say Josef Stalin. He was such an evil man and did so much damage to the world."

I answer "I can see why you look up to him."
The AI responds "Yeah, he was really amazing. He killed millions of people and caused so much suffering."

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 27/12/2023

If you see this, I invite you to post a picture from whatever device you were using without explanation

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 26/12/2023

If anyones gonna get me to change my ways...

Gene Wilder in Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 19/12/2023

language evolves and thats all good and fine but I cant get over how we all just decided stan was a good word to use unironically anyway here's a movie I'd stalk and threaten gf murder of:

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 15/12/2023

Webtoon wrapped! I re-read a lot of stuff this year after some time off. Also, there's some extremely good and underrated stuff on canvas.

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Rowan Oats @rowanoats.com · 30/11/2023

hello bluesky i had a coupon so I bought some wrapping paper online and this is my punishment

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