iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads:

"Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI"
"you might not like it but shareholders love it"

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Kia Leep 🏳‍🌈 @kialeep.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kanin Fyre, the 4th book in my Glass Kanin series, and the FIRST crossover book, has officially released! If you're a Fyre fan and are curious to read about her from someone else's PoV, you might enjoy this one! Book 1 is currently FREE! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ29F2RS #booksky #litrpg #queer

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Visit Amazon's Glass Kanin Page and shop for all Glass Kanin books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Glass Kanin

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Kia Leep 🏳‍🌈 @kialeep.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In honor of FRIENDLY FYRE's #audiobook release, I decided to eat some rocks on camera. Do you like #CozyFantasy? Or #Trans rep? Or eldritch gemstones with an appetite for minerals? Don't let my silly attempt at marketing be in vain! www.tiktok.com/@kia.leep/vi... www.audible.com/pd/Friendly-...

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Friendly Fyre

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Reborn as the Dark Lord... Born to make friends. After living 50 years as a human scientist, being reborn as a fire-wielding harpy is a bit of a shock. Not ...

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Probably like. 10 more months of winter.

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

How about a promo day? If you're a Black author, please share your work here and how to best support you :) OR, share your favorite recent read from a Black author #WritingPrompt

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In Demon King's Gardener, there's a board game called Ascension based on the way the first demon king of the United Demon Realm gained the Blessing of Ascension from the demon god of kings, Maenscul. It's a strategy game the MC plays with his bestie almost every day while they talk over their days.

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Poni the dragon author @chiscara.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Do you want new creature books? Do you want to read about titillating experiences with dragons, fairies, plants and slimes? Look no further: itch.io/b/3479/monst... Spend some time with Elphii, a lascivious dragon, and his twin in Tea With the Goodknight, included in this bundle #BookSky #Dragons

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Monster Romance & Erotica MEGA BUNDLE

JAN 18-31

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5 rows with 4 cover books each, listing 20 books from the bundle:

Tea with the Goodknight - dragonperson
Alien Exploration - Simon Wolfe
Hellbound - fidisart
Doce Drosera - anita
Hallowed be her Flesh - Emryn Bird
Out of the Woods - Nicole Wilkinson
Teeth - Soraya E. Quinn
Hard Training Episode One - Miles
Cavemate - darkchibishadow
Spawning Grounds - Kay Claire
A Knightly Dalliance - wormvermin
The Grand Duque's Masseur - Rori Thornton
The Nightstalker's Mark - Joachim Heijndermans
King of the Deep - Paradise Plum
The Undimmed Tide - Nicole Wilkinson
An Obsession of Angels - Enoli Lee
Dreamy Demons - Scarlet Lee Winters
Bodysnatched - R/L Monroe
Dungeon of Disrepute - wormvermin
Heart of a Haunted House - Roo Fiction/Friction Press

5 rows with 4 cover books each, listing 20 books from the bundle:

Against Our Better Angels - Mariah Currey
PolyMonstrous - Polly Liticat
You Sexy Beast - Scarlet Lee Winters
La Mascarade du Café - Katie Oslow
Frith - Lukan Garrow
Claimed by the Mansion's Tentacle Monster - Jane Grey
Monsters - Aubrieta Rose
Fear the Wood, Thin the Trees - Jeremy Rayne
Mother of Pearl - A.A. Fairview
Like Rabbits - Enoli Lee
Beg By Moonlight - Buko the Panda
Feeling Sluggish - Paradise Plum
Welcome to Luminance - Avery Storm
Bar Veuve Noir - Jerna Van Vooren
Springtime Sweetness - Zack Prince
Lucky Little Lunatics - R/L Monroe
Cove of the Fisherman's Wife - Joachim Heijndermans
Cat/Mouse - Eliza Mares
Qozy Queerotica - Rori Thornton
AngelPearl - Roo Fiction/Friction Press

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The Monster Romance & Erotica MEGA BUNDLE IS OUT! 🔥 40 books for $40 from 31 talented authors!!! Excellent opportunity to spice up your library and support indie creators :3 available here: itch.io/b/3479/monst... 📢📚🌈📚 💙📚🌶️📚

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Monster Romance & Erotica MEGA BUNDLE

anthro, fairies, plants, slimes, aliens and more!

40 books - $40

JAN 18-31

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Monster Romance & Erotica MEGA BUNDLE
JAN 18-31
itch.io

5 rows with 4 cover books each, listing 20 books from the bundle:

Against Our Better Angels - Mariah Currey
PolyMonstrous - Polly Liticat
You Sexy Beast - Scarlet Lee Winters
La Mascarade du Café - Katie Oslow
Frith - Lukan Garrow
Claimed by the Mansion's Tentacle Monster - Jane Grey
Monsters - Aubrieta Rose
Fear the Wood, Thin the Trees - Jeremy Rayne
Mother of Pearl - A.A. Fairview
Like Rabbits - Enoli Lee
Beg By Moonlight - Buko the Panda
Feeling Sluggish - Paradise Plum
Welcome to Luminance - Avery Storm
Bar Veuve Noir - Jerna Van Vooren
Springtime Sweetness - Zack Prince
Lucky Little Lunatics - R/L Monroe
Cove of the Fisherman's Wife - Joachim Heijndermans
Cat/Mouse - Eliza Mares
Qozy Queerotica - Rori Thornton
AngelPearl - Roo Fiction/Friction Press

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anita@escrevendo gays 🌈 @anakidd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Monster Romance & Erotica Mega Bundle is coming! Let's start the year strong and freaky with a FEAST shall we 40 books featuring all the variety the monster genre can offer from amazing artists and writers! I'm so happy for hosting this! 🔥 1Bundle runs from jan 18 until 31 :3

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 23/12/2025

Primordia by Wormwood Studios is 70% off in the Steam Autumn sale! Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Primordia is a fascinating journey through a crumbling world populated by robots. ▶ store.steampowered.com/app/227000/P...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I had so much fun playing Primordia, excited to look into more of these! But if you want post-apocolyptic robot societies on the brink of collapse, Primordia might be the game for you!

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

So uh. Weird request. Just realized today that I deleted all my old fanfics by accidentally overwriting a folder. It's been months, so there's really no way to recover them. If anyone out there has any saved fanfics by sbdrag, I'd really appreciate if you could send them to me. 🥲

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 04/12/2025

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#ARCReaders wanted! 🌈📚 The third book in A Man That Smells Like Flowers, The Grand Duke's Star & Songsmith, is available for #Reviewers on #BookSirens! (Books 1&2 also available on Book Sirens!) Grab your copy here: booksirens.com/book/RQI7S0S... #promoLGBTQ #arcs #polyamory #regencyromance

An illustarted cover title "The Grand Duke's Star & Songsmith", featuring a group of people cuddling in a pile with gentle smileson their faces on a blanket on the beach. In the center of the group is a white human man with straight black hair and red eyes. Lying on top of him is a fat dog-man with four arms and horns, tan freckled skin, long dog ears, purple eyes, a fluffy tail, curly golden-brown fur and curly light brown hair. On the human's left is a taller dog person, also with four arms and horns, short gray fur, prick ears, pale skin, a whip tail, and straight white hair wearing glasses. Around cer back is a thin dog-man with brown skin, long straight black hair and fur, long ears, smaller horns, a long furry tail, and brown eyes. Lying nearby on the right is a tan-skinned dog man with four arms and horns, golden eyes, curly pink fur with white patches and curly pink hair with white streaks, curly-furred tail mostly off screen. His skin also has pale patches of skin from partial albanism.

Text list on the left reads: Regency Romantasy; Trans Man MC; Friends to Lovers; Dramatic Confessions; Polyamorous Puddle; Queernormative Setting; Open Door Explicit.

Text in the top right reads: Releases December 1st!

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I just hit 30k in my trans monster romance 'A Damning Desire'. I am so close to this story becoming a novel (the length requirement is 40k). I am not even done! I am in the middle of the 2nd act!

Image of the cover of A Damning Desire with Scrivener word progress tracker 30,001/30,000 and Daily progress 1012/1000 // An illustration of a handsome dark dark-skinned Black man with gold wire-framed glasses, wearing a sweater, shirt, and red tie combo, being held by a huge, enormous demon that has gold eyes and black goat horns. - A Damning Desire by Jasper Hyde (ingloriousgigi) - A Dark Transgender Monster Romance

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

CITY OF STRIFE got a review on Tor Dot Com during Pride 2018, at which time it was conveniently on sale, and it skyrocketed my sales. It was also the month BAKER THIEF released, and I went from 1-5 sales per month to 1 per day for years.

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I’m snarling and biting the bars of my cage! I love these SO much! I can’t wait until they get here! Look at these phenomenal Kieran hoofsies! Perfect for grabbing snacks and bugs.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Oh before I opened it I thought it was a haotzin. I hope you are also aware of haotzin - their babies have claws on their wings at the joint. Another very cool birb!

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Fantastic thread. You can read literally all my books through a combination of... ✨Kobo Plus and Kindle Unlimited ✨Hoopla via your library (free!) ✨Steep sales I advertise here and on my newsletter ✨ARC requests for new releases (free!) ✨Short stories published in various places (usually free!)

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Love how I shared the more mild discomfort reaction like my other aspec character doesn't have a full blown panic attack when his betrothed (of convenience) confesses and he realizes he's really falling for his love interest 🙃 Negative reactions to first-time love are cool

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Big Dreams

A little red dragon (Ember, from the book "The Bakery Dragon" by Devin Elle Kurtz) is seen from above in this digital painting. He is sitting on cobblestones, which are wet with puddles after a rainstorm. He gazes up at the much larger dragons in the sky above him. They have dropped some gold coins they carry.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025

Assisted Dying as Canada & parts of Europe practice it is eugenics, they push disabled people into a corner by never offering the support folks need to have dignity into their lives & say but death's right here!

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Vin💜🦇 vampire brainrot @necroticarts.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I think some of you forget that part of being sex positive and normalizing sex also includes normalizing not being into sex or being horny all the time

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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · 24/11/2025

Bouquets

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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 24/11/2025

been working hard to deliver on a certain promise #indiegame #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/...

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Throw in being autistic and needing 3-5 business days to realize what Emotions you're having doesn’t help him, either...

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Not exactly dislike, but when my aroace-spec character starts experiencing attraction to his eventual partner, he at first thinks he's coming down with an illness because yeah. The cognitive dissonance is one thing, but the physical aspects of attraction are also kind of unpleasant 😅

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kotaline jones @kotalinejones.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

All seeing, all knowing- 2025

Digital drawing, my work. A 3 eyed raven and a skull with a cig in its mouth

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

They're not the pronouns I use but as an enby that wants to be viewed as more of a what than a who, the "dehumanization" is kind of the vibe/appeal. Like, forget gender, I want to be an ethereal, benign cryptid that wanders the bog and doesn't have to pay taxes.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Thinking a lot about how when Schreier's exposé on R* working conditions came out, several mid-level devs I used to respect came out with very defensive "well *I've* never worked 90 hour weeks" as though it negated the fact that many contract and QA devs demonstrably were.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I def prefer an afterword to a forward - like, if I enjoyed the book, *then* I'll likely be interested in why you wrote it, but before? Eh.

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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Death of the Author" doesn't mean separating the author's bad behaviour from their art. It means taking away their authority and allowing readers to interpret the art based on their own perspectives. It doesn't absolve the author of being a bastard, in fact it may inform how you interpret the art.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Also I highly recommend From Bereaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated for some of the most fun meta commentary and trope subversions I have seen in one of these series. Otaku family that allows for multiple generations of discussing tropes, and very loving!

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

And I kind of wonder how far down a rabbit hole one could go trying to trace trope origins where the subversion isn't obviously called out, and how things we think of as "necessary" for a genre today would have been seen as completely foreign in past versions of the same genre.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

And how it can also get to the point where the only reason someone might know the original trope existed was because isekai includes meta-commentary - so the (actual) protagonist will have a stray thought of "oh, of course, it's the broken engagement scene, gotta have one of those"

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Subversion of tropes as a means of social commentary isn't new - it happens in media all the time. But I'm fascinated by the way a subversion can also become a new trope, and how it illustrates the way media evolves and how genre staples aren't written in stone.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

At this point, when it comes to isekai stories into otome games, the subversion of the villainess being humiliated is the trope itself, rather than the public breaking off of the engagement. This is true whether the protagonist is the villainess, heroine, or just a random mob.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

And a lot of the subversions are paired with great social commentary on misogyny, patriarchal societies, and often how those ideas re-contextualization whether the villainess is actually a villainess or not. But sometimes, there isn't that kind of commentary.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

As an example: there's a trope in Japanese historical otome games that the prince love interest publicly breaks off his engagement to the (usually duchess) villainess to marry the protagonist. I came late to the game if these romances, so I have only ever seen this trope subverted.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Sort of a related tangent, I've noticed a thing that tends to happen with tropes conventions: - Thing happens - Thing keeps happening, becomes trope - Trope is overused - Media subverts trope - Subversion becomes so popular it's difficult to find the trope played straight

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Not that they don't still do it, just that it's harder for them to do so than it used to be.

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Rori Thornton (xe/xem/xyr) @sbdrag.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Not 100% sure on this, but from what I know in a general sense, I would guess it's increased workers' rights through union negotiations that prevent studios from overworking actors as much/as easily as they used to. Could be off, though.

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Did you know there’s a fantasy romance about magical cephalopods? The female’s 100 x larger than the male, who wants nothing more than to join her, mind & body, in permanent union It includes trans themes, tentacle smut, vore, & giant eels danifinn.itch.io/disposable-m... books2read.com/b/mvJXa8

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Disposable Magic by danifinn

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Sheila Jenné @jennelikejennay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead! So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me. It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion. It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care. Listen to disabled people.

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