iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the best things about this pod is how Blair takes a survival story not built for narrative (it was just Stuff That Happened Because That's Real Life), & she still takes you along it like a meaningful journey.

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"...the White Star line." Me: ........wait. like the—wait. OH GOD

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She saw a light like a star in darkness, underground, long ago, and his face in the light.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 21/09/2026

No thoughts, only this bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).

A very cheerful bat from the opening credits of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@yourewrongabout.bsky.social & @blairbraverman.bsky.social may have been talking about a girl on an ocean raft, but I heard myself in there too.🩷 My dad told me after the worst wave of his depression had passed that my words about my own experience in Bad Mental Health helped him greatly.

Image of text. A podcast called You're Wrong About with the title The Bluebelle wigh Blair Braverman. A quote is shown saying "May you never have to survive, and when you do, your survival may make someone else's survival easier in a way that you can never possibly anticipate."

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Line up here for the crying in the car at the end club: 🧍‍♀️ 🧍‍♀️ 🧍 🧍‍♂️ 🧍 🧍‍♂️ 🧍‍♀️ 🧍‍♀️

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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Finally listening to @blairbraverman.bsky.social on this episode, & as someone who has water-skiied many a time & dogsledded twice, I support the analogy!

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Not to be dramatic but everytime I watch the Legends of Vox Machina intro I can't believe it's real, I can't believe those nerds really did it, I can't believe I'm alive to see it all, dreams come true, we can't die we have to stay alive for season 5 #LOVM #CriticalRole #LegendOfVoxMachina

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ccattnipp.bsky.social @ccattnipp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Act like a ’90s anime villain power couple. #shadowgast #criticalrolefanart

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@blairbraverman.bsky.social: the waves are coming from multiple directions and crashing into each other Me, mid eyebrow pencil application: [GASP] A CROSS SEA!! #WhatToCarryWhatToBurn #wtcwtb

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@blairbraverman.bsky.social & @yourewrongabout.bsky.social have an uncanny skill in dropping madly inspiring quotes about hope when I'm least expecting it & most need it.

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"You can't give *everyone* in New York after 9/11 a horse." @notalawyer.bsky.social Peter Scalability Issues Shamshiri always here (But for real I *was* CLENCHED about this book that helped me, & the boys handled it really thoughtfully. Props.)

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

@blairbraverman.bsky.social: "These are all things he regrets." Me, taking careful notes, ah yes so Bob is *not* a turtle....... #wtcwtb

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I just think every good thing should happen to @blairbraverman.bsky.social. May her dog booties and kiddo socks be always matched. May her meat saw be ever sharp. 🕯

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Cracked 300 pages on the book draft Google docs! (Had to split it into two a while back because it kept glitching on my phone. Because I'm doing 17 things in life, I write a lot on my phone 🫠)

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Orde-Lees of the Endurance expedition was the original bitch eating crackers [Exactly 1.2 people on planet earth will understand this joke]

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Let it be noted that polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard recognizes the profound difficulty of being Home Team / Team Sarah.

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Sonny Hallett @scrappapertiger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Enjoying new podcast What to Carry, What to Burn. This first two-parter is about Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic exhibition, and her survival on Wrangel Island. It’s really well told by @blairbraverman.bsky.social & Sarah Marshall of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social 1/2

Black and white photograph of Ada Blackjack

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I am almost done with Episode 2 & jittery with inspiration for my book. What a joy! What a day to be alive & hear beautiful empathetic creative voices & to look at the spring flowers.

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Happy @blairbraverman.bsky.social podcast day!!! If she & @yourewrongabout.bsky.social have 0 fans I am dead (Shackleton mention count: 1)

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zmeess [commissions open!] @zmeess.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

one of the three tarot cards i associate with shadowgast, The Star 🌟 #shadowgast #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt

digital fanart of Caleb and Essek from Critical Role, based on The Star tarot card. it is styled like a painting done on tan canvas, with strips of unpainted canvas at the top and bottom. 'XVII' and 'The Star' are written in slanted cursive above and below the painting, respectively.
Essek and Caleb are in their garden, on their knees and hugging each other tightly. in front of them, there is a low strawberry plant, many berries visible from under the green leaves. next to them, on the ground, there is a ceramic jug and a watering can, on their sides as if discarded hastily in a rush to embrace, with water flowing from them onto the dark soil. behind the characters, trees and a cozy cottage house are visible in the background, and around them seven glowing motes are floating in the air.
both Caleb and Essek are depicted barefoot and wearing summer clothes: a darker well-tailored ensemble of short trousers and a short-sleeved shirt for Essek and a more rustic and earth toned combination of shortened slacks and a white shirt with rolled up sleeves for Caleb. Essek has dark gardening gloves on, with a subtle rose print on them, while Caleb's hands are naked. the soles of their feet and their forearms are smudged with dirt.
Essek is resting his chin on Caleb's shoulder with his eyes closed, while Caleb is slumped into his partner. his face is not visible, but judging from the position of his hair, he is hiding his face in Essek's shoulder. a tiny sliver of negative space between them is catching the setting sun behind them, and the filtering sunlight is creating a large glowing four-pointed flare over the darkened figures.

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Another new illustration I'm working on in between other things :)

A pencil drawing of a woman laying curled within an opened oyster, cradling a large pearl to her chest.

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Had to get a pap today. I had an irregular one so I'm on the annual schedule. In my nervous-joking mode, I said to the NP student "So it's like pap probation." Let me tell you, it killed, & as soon as my long time NP came in, she said "[Student] told me your joke, I love it, I'm using it that now."

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Steris could make the diagram but Taravangian couldn't make a Steris list #mistborn #cosmere #stormlightarchive #brandonsanderson

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Frodo: /heading for the village of Bree pursued by ring wraiths Me: LOOK AT YOUUU GOOOO, CROSSIN STATE LINES WITH YOUR SHAAAADOW #lotr #noahkahan #thegreatdivide #dashboard

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

If I were some kind of ring wraith or vampire or myrddraal I would simply not be afraid of crossing running water

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Willow & Roxas @willowandroxas.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A witch baking pies with a phoenix🐦‍🔥🥧🔥 These are April’s reward designs! If you’d like the print, the stickers, or both, make sure to pledge to a club tier on my Patreon by the end of this month #phoenix #phoenixbird #watercolor #witchart #piebaking

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Jeb 🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @jebdarsh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Sorry if I've been swinging wildly between these two concepts lately. These times are really trying.

A picture of a cute rabbit in a pink dress holding a sunflower that says magic and whimsy and a flame that reads political outrage.
Text reads We navigate these times by keeping hold of both

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It is now my personal theory that my library science textbook authors are @blairbraverman.bsky.social fans. #UglyDogs #MLIS

A picture of text where one of the textbook's subject heading examples is "Dogsled mail."

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Artists feel pressured to make new art too quickly at the moment. Normalise artists fucking disappearing for months. Just walk off into the woods for a year and come back with a single sketch. It’s good for you

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My brain, neck deep in learning about semantic relationships for my #MLIS degree, hearing these #FallOutBoy lyrics today: Ah, so it's an asymmetrical relationship

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zmeess [commissions open!] @zmeess.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #shadowgast

a painting of Critical Role characters Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast, based on the Rider-Waite Tarot's The Devil. it is styled like a square painting on a vertically oriented tan canvas, with narrow unpainted strips above and below it. a looping leaning script reads "XV" above and "The Devil" below.
Essek is a dark elf with gray-lavender skin and short white hair, dressed in elegant long dark robes and a silvery metal mantle piece, with the breastplate shaped like a beetle's back and long spikes curving off of his shoulders, radiating from his neck.
Caleb is a light-skinned ginger human, with messy chin-length hair and a beard, wearing a gray tunic with a brown leather coat over it, a thick scarf wrapped around his shoulders. his spell book is just slightly visible at his side.
the characters are facing each other, with Essek standing on the left and Caleb on the right. their right hands are raised between them, hovering under and over a floating hourglass that Essek is offering to Caleb; the violet sand in it is equally distributed between the top and the bottom halves and is not flowing down. Essek has his chin raised with a cool expression of confidence, while Caleb is looking at the hourglass with a deeply conflicted face, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes shining. Caleb's left arm down at his side is engulfed in orange flames.
above them is the dodecahedron shape of a Beacon, pale gray and iridescent; the pentagonal plane facing the viewer is oriented with one of the corners pointing straight down. six silvery threads weave around it, intersecting at nine shining points, one thread each passing behind Essek's and Caleb's heads, and one each wrapping loosely around them. their figures, dark purple and brown, illuminated by the faint glow of the hourglass and the flame, are silhouetted against a much lighter gray and overcast light spilling from tall pointed arches behind them.

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Shane's gasp as the credits roll on ep 4 of #HeatedRivalry is what the gasp at the end of Hamilton wishes it was

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Diving into #TheDevilYouKnow & I am blown away by Sarah Marshall's (@yourewrongabout.bsky.social) kind & caring interviewing of Marylyn through such a difficult topic. What a bittersweet delight to listen to. 🩷

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Aeor Occurrences: a #CriticalRole Mini comic The complete comic in a thread, part 1 of 3! #fancomic #comic #manga #criticalrolefanart #Criticalroleart #shadowgast

Page 1 of the mini comic. Essek and Caleb are exploring Aeor

Page 2, a monster has Caleb and Essek attacks, saving Caleb

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"Re-read kudos" comments on #AO3 gas me up like nothing else. You're telling me?? in this wide world of endless content?? you remembered mine & returned to it?? The best. I'll ride that high for days. #ArchiveOfOurOwn #WritingCommunity #Fanfiction #FanfictionWriting

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I forget how *lonely* writing can be. My friends & husband are supportive, but they don't read every word I write. Also the PATIENCE it takes to stick with a long work. The tenacity, sure. But the PATIENCE to know it won't be done tomorrow. Or even next month. #writing #WritingCommunity #writers

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Hey internet guess what I got accepted to a masters program !!!!!!! MLIS degree here I come

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Just saying if @yourewrongabout.bsky.social and @blairbraverman.bsky.social need a third guest for the next Survivalism as a Way to Talk About Feelings series, I'm your gal. 👀 COULD I talk for 4+ hours straight about Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance and survivalism and dying colonialism? Yes

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Let's hear your most obscure bisexual awakenings I'll start #Lego #LegoBelville #Belville #BiAwakening

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Uncle Riss @seaglass7000.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Cracked 70k on the book today!!!!!!!!!! And there's still more?? happening?? and coming out of me?? #Authors #Writing #MMRomance #HistoricalFiction #Romance #HistoricalRomance

Screenshot of text:
Word Count
Pages 172
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