iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 03/10/2026

you know i should in fact figure out how to use wafrn. i do like their style. which is to say i received this in my email

image that says "I'm joining the war on autism on the side of the autism" with presumably some kind of wafrn mascot

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 05/09/2026

pwease i need it to be an agonizing negative space void of a relationship. i need that to live

catcrumb art of two crying cats wailing "NO MORE LOVE!!" and "BROKEN-ASS MARRIAGE" with a third picture of them holding paws angrily with arrows designating "hand" and "unlovable hand"

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 18/08/2026

1. oh cute quiz. delightful 2. yeah this tracks lmao. got me

Quiz Result: You Are Calliope
(image is of a dark-skinned girl with fluffy blue hair and a cute pink outfit)
You are Calliope! You are a sensible person whose eccentricities may affect your relationships but in a way that brings about insecurity.
You may be focused more on your own life much of the time though you still value your close friendships!

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 12/08/2026

i don't go here but this is cute... a little funny since i'd characterize myself as pretty determined but i think i'm just also aggressively selective about picking my battles. so yeah this all tracks (also nice idea to have a button to copy a text version, op; makes alt text really easy)

MY SOUL: KINDNESS (GREEN)
"No matter how many times I got hurt, I never let that make me cruel."

KINDNESS 79%
PATIENCE 61%
JUSTICE 61%
BRAVERY 60%
PERSEVERANCE 50%
INTEGRITY 48%
DETERMINATION 23%

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 28/07/2026

this time i'm not lying. chapter today

discord post from user "it's me i'm the prts5" yesterday at 11:29pm
#MyWorm and #MyWorm and #MyWorm and #MyWorm and #MyWorm

discord post from user "it's me i'm the prts5" yesterday at 11:31pm
[closure voice] holy fucking bingle

discord post from user "it's me i'm the prts5" yesterday at 2:12am
time headings getting real normal in this chapter
"Hell If You Even Know What Time It Is Now"
"Does It Even Matter Anymore"

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 24/07/2026

ellipsus stats how dare you call me out like this

screenshot of the ellipsus punctuation habits panel where em dashes vastly outnumber anything else by more than 100%

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 19/07/2026

now you may ask, carly, how much help did you get from claude code on these tens of thousands of lines of code? the answer is none because i do this for love of the game

screenshot of a github pull request titled "WIP DONUT [sic] TOUCH" that has 928 changed files, 13386 additions, and 53804 deletions

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 11/05/2026

i present to you my stupid css tricks. if you want to mimic the newer-style location/date headings in the arknights vn segments you can use this (it'll auto-match the current text color so no worries about light/dark mode or whatever) archiveofourown.org/skins/10571521

A preview of a header with a location and date, with a rhombus motif to the left side, displayed in both light and dark modes

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 09/03/2026

sending kal'tsit to the maid cafe dimension temporarily for the bit

screencap of the arknights home screen with kal'tsit in her maid outfit posed in front of the sanrio cafe background

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 05/03/2026

got into the creepy and freaky (...the manga title. not just generally) via @geostatonary.bsky.social and. i love... ms. bury... the gradual background escalation of her from bewildered garden club member to SCP PVP-er is so funny

manga panel with a portrait of a woman in tactical gear over a somewhat femme uniform holding a big shovel. text: "Who sent Agent Endo... as a special response unit. Endo, aka Ms. Bury... possesses supernatural abilities."

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 07/02/2026

reader, i was awake until 5am, anyway if i need to be really awake for 8 hours i know where to order boba from i guess.

discord screenshot from 3:14am from user with display name "it's me i'm the prts5" that reads: "meanwhile. it is 3am. i think i made a mistake with milk tea because i am the awakest i have ever been. i am either going to hate or love everything i've written tomorrow. this chapter has 118 footnotes."

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 20/12/2025

sometimes people ask me why i do what i do

Edit of the "I've made a robot that screams" comic:
Scientist 1: "I've written a fic where everyone has a bad time!"
Robot: [screaming]
Scientist 2: "Why?"
Scientist 1: ...
Scientist 1: [thinking. why indeed]

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 04/12/2025

i think maybe i need to touch more grass

screenshot from Discord Checkpoint, its year summary thingy, indicating that i sent almost 50k messages which puts me in the top 1% of discord chatters

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 21/11/2025

here's more. there were really some choice designs in this event

infinity nikki cosplay of marion from the arknights act or die event (I MEANT MOIRA IN THE OTHER POST THERE'S TOO MANY M NAMES)

infinity nikki cosplay of melanie from the arknights act or die event

infinity nikki cosplay of phantom/lucian/tragodia from the arknights act or die event

infinity nikki cosplay of shalem from the arknights act or die event

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 21/11/2025

got really into doing arknights cosplay in infinikki

infinity nikki dress-up of shelly from the act or die event

infinity nikki dress-up of greta from the act or die event

infinity nikki dress-up of marion from the act or die event

infinity nikki dress-up of tippi from the act or die event

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 10/11/2025

that said. i at least kind of have it working even if i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get custom fonts to work. uhh what info would people actually want on these cards btw

slightly jank opengraph image thumbnail concept that shows an AO3 work title and description with the canonical url at the bottom. it's a work in progress.

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 05/11/2025

the epic highs and lows of implementing oauth

a screencap of a code repository's commit history, featuring such status messages as "debug shit," "more debugging," "does this work," and "oops. different kid on server"

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 30/10/2025

YOU (jk i was already distracted by yuri)

you know that meme image of someone grabbing a cat on the floor where there's clear debris from a plant being tipped over in the background

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 28/10/2025

i've perfected my infinity nikki akane shinjo cosplay

screenshot from infinity nikki of the player character dressed up like akane shinjo from ssss.gridman, against a backdrop of floral arches

screenshot from infinity nikki of the player character dressed up like akane shinjo from ssss.gridman, against a backdrop of a stone path

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 16/09/2025

if u see this quote with the energy u bring to bluesky

I think this is from aqua teen hunger force and the drink cup is saying to the meatball "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this"

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 04/09/2025

"climbing uphill" parody about applying to tech jobs. is this anything

i’m climbing uphill, daddy
climbing uphill
i’m up every morning at six
applying to jobs versus two hundred guys
who are young and use chatgpt
who have already been to the gym

been waiting five months for phone screens
and watching the jobs just coming and going
with listings that look just like this
’til my number is finally called

when i join the zoom call
there’s a table of men
always men
(USUALLY WHITE)
who’ve been watching copilot
giving it prompts to sort through
a zillion CVs
trying to pass AI scans—

“I am a good person
“I’m an attractive person
“I am a talented person
“Grant me grace—“

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 30/08/2025

ok i understand what's intended here but. this is really funny.

a screencap from an email promotion from the rakuten kobo ebook store that says:

Recommended for you this week
Our top pick for you is:
Fascism

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 27/08/2025

working on something for the people at large

it's a screenshot of an html page that looks exactly like the itch game jam page more or less

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 26/08/2025

w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

manga panel of char aznable saying "No more about this. Do not share your views with me."

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 23/08/2025

twiddles my thumbs i got the application running on local with some new lexicon defs, started working out how many routes this needs, time for bed there'll be non-pink theme options. if you're a coward

UI design screenshot of something called "askproto" with a list of questions and answers on the front page

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c. ruiyi smallbird 🪷 @veryroundbird.house · 22/08/2025

now, call me crazy, but I could have sworn we already solved this with something called "sort functions" decades ago

screencap from a wired article about a reporter going to work at Notion for two days, where they have embraced "vibe coding":
"The assignment was simple. We would create a new skill in Notion called Alphabetize, so that when someone uses Notion AI to draft a list or table of popular dog breeds, the user can alphabetize the content with one click."

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