iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 04/09/2026

Miss mixing vibes on the Playa. The Burn is going on right now & (wet tho it may be) playing w/the Burning Band & DJing for a camp or an art car are highlights of my life; ain't nothin' else like it. Maybe try to convince myself to do a marathon Playa vibe thing tonight or tomorrow...

Playing for Elektra at Burning Man 2025 right after the Man burned. Bucket list goal right here, playing a sunrise set for an art car at the Burn.

A previous version of myself, playing my heart out at Center Camp's "Battle of the Bands" in 2015.

0140

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 01/09/2026

Your rooster looks like my Pickle, only probably bigger.

A football that thinks it's a rooster. Or maybe the other way around.

020

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 27/08/2026

mmmMMMMMmmmhh, you salacious tree, you... ... Yeah, I dunnow either, but I wanted to spank it approvingly...

090

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 26/08/2026

Current tally: * 4 eggs removed due to no growth *4 eggs still in the incubator (but probably goners) ... AND FUCKIN FOURTEEN HEALTHY BEEPING BABBIES SEND HELP JFC

5432

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 25/08/2026

One of the pullets (Shepherd) made a nest in the weeds then abandoned it when we moved it. Put the 18(!!) eggs in the incubator; they were tiny & I'm like "Bantams!" Turns out it don't work that way; size means nothing. Candle them: uh oh, all live. 7a this morning, they start hatching. Fuck.

Baby chicks omfg go back in the eggs I can't do thus again this year. 4 hatched so far, and I expect a good number more over the next 20-40 hours.

5190

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 12/08/2026

Made a new intro for my video projects. Doing the paper unfolding is the first time I've done stop motion. Super neat to see after it's put together. Also, I figured by the time i re-interpreted my logo with my left hand that it would get better. It did not. :P

4355

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 06/07/2026

I made a dum meme to "celebrate" coming back to work after a week of chill PTO.

060

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 27/06/2026

I made little plastic nubbins to mount rubber hands to my grabby arm, and made it 10x less useful but 1000x more hilarious.

2304

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 15/06/2026

Working on the 2D port of my Furality set, and I cut out my favorite scene as a teaser. I call this one "JORB DESTROYS THE UNIVERSE". Huh? No this is TOTALLY the version that played at Furality ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.... What do you mean @joh.wtf wasn't in it?!?!? Are you sure??!?! O.).o

7467

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 09/06/2026

So this happened... Finally found an avatar that out-of-the-box fit "Reveille", my pre-VRC self, circa 2006-2020. Took a whole 5 minutes of wearing the public version before she was getting personalized/dissected in Blender, hahah. @.).@ AV is the "Nyxian" by @legacytwotails.bsky.social

It's a noodle dragoness! Huge fluffy red mane, black scales, face noodles, the works. She's standing in the "back yard" of The Church of The Infinite Beat in VRChat.

12354

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 09/06/2026

Seems my Furality set's replaying tonight, 12a PST/3am EST/8am BST. Not ideal, but it's the last chance to experience 200ish hours of video work made for this stage, as I thrash 8 screens w/134768 keyframes (not counting brilliant lights+lasers) in 3 dimensions. You won't see it like this again.

Strawberry Protato replay on Monday night (Tuesday morning technically) at midnight PST/3am EST/8am BST.

The animation dope sheet for the screens. I swear there's a hidden message in there somewhere.

7408

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 05/06/2026

My husband collects books. Sometimes they're... ahem. Well. Sometimes a lady needs her oscillators calibrated.

Audels "Practical Guide to Servicing Electronic Organs" book cover, with a certain hormany proof in the corner looking pleased with herself.

1391

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 19/04/2026

I'm actually playing a set today, for Sunday Service. 2p PST/5p EST/10p BST.

071

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 01/04/2026

I do so love getting bread, so the thought of some gooey strawberry smooshed between seed-loaded breading is a delightful thought. Bread is pretty great.

Two packages of furry bait keto bread, sourdough on the left, seed bread on the right.

Furry-bait keto seed bread. It has a artsy wolf head in an eastern style chomping on a slice of bread with butter on it. Rar.

Furry-bait keto sourdough bread. It has a artsy wolf head in an eastern style chomping on a slice of bread with butter on it. Rar.

0130

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 19/03/2026

I'm spinning tonight at Transient in VRChat. 6:30p PDT 9:30p EDT 1:30a GMT

Event poster for Transient. It says "Transient / Doors Opem March 19th 19:45 EDT / at / Cyber Rave / Featuring DJ's (sic) / 20:00 Chaos Wicker 21:30 Strawbs / 23:00 ManicLandIzzy 00:30 FeoDohn

There are images and logos of each of the DJs in the four corners.

This will be one of my rare public appearances this year that isn't S4 or Strawberry Jam (if I ever actually start that back up), so come check it out if you want some Strawberry Vibes.

060

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 14/03/2026

Come to Stage Flight tomorrow for some brain-meltingly trippy visuals, and my 4th narrative set/experience. I'm using Stage Flight's superwide 32:9 screen to do some crazy shit. DON'T MISS IT.

26422

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 10/03/2026

Goodbye Dora, you headstrong little explorer, lone wolf amongst the flock, the last of our Rhode Island Reds. You were smart, inquisitive, reckless, and you were full of personality. These past two weeks you slowed down; it was your time, as is the way of things. You will be dearly missed.

Dora, our little explorer, in my husband's arms, looking fluffy and as charming as ever. You could just pick her up and hold her gently, like cheeseborger. She died peacefully, in her sleep, amongst her flock, which is all I could have asked for her end. She was, I think, my favorite of the flock, and she'll be sorely missed. Farewell, Dora. Chicken heaven won't hold you any better than fences could, and may you enjoy your afterlife exploring in the hereafter, as you did in life.

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

3180

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 03/03/2026

Sometimes shrines of random intention grow like weird little mushrooms at the base of a repurposed cat litter bucket full of hydroponic pothos and bamboo.

It's a shrine that formulated itself of a household god gifted to me by a strange creature whom I should track down to say hello to. There's also a statue of the war god Ku, a tin of Oops, all eels, a brass top made by a deceased neighbor, a gas station butane torch, the brass hand of a clock, wooden matches, Baybel cheese wax, an old glass ashtray, and a strange thrift store wood statue (not Ku) and a weird incense holder that probably isn't an incense holder, and might actually be a tentacle.

060

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 09/01/2026

Strawberry Jam returns in March, after I get back from Nordic Fuzzcon. Might return to a 2-hour format, might stay w/3; currently undecided. Dare I ask, but what do Y'ALL think (if you think at all)?? :P Keep in mind, I'll default to "what feels good to me", but I'd still like other opinions. :P

It's a picture that says "The Strawberry Jam...returns in march".

There is a screaming protogen on the bottom left. Sorry, she's just really excited.

150

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 06/01/2026

Did you know hydration is directly linked to your serotonin levels? Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, facilitating nerve cells' communication of mood, learning, memory, sleep, & more. So when someone in VRChat says "HYDRATE!" it's more than dodging a hangover; water is the REAL Happy Juice!!

It's a sticker of the math problem meme BUT IT'S ALSO A BIBLIOGRAPHY!!!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11430579/

https://americanbehavioralclinics.com/the-importance-of-staying-hydrated/

https://impact.deakin.edu.au/2022/03/water-really-can-provide-some-relief-from-anxiety-and-help-us-see-the-glass-half-full/

1142

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 30/12/2025

At ass o'clock this morning, in the bitter cold, a nice lady from our ISP came by and swapped out some parts for our ONT. One thing I never thought I'd get in rural PNW was gigabit fiber, much less a free upgrade to 2.5gbps. @.).@

380

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 29/12/2025

Like her people, Bali has reverted to a round state.

The newest isekai, That Time I was Reincarnated as a Warm Orb But Actually a Naked Cat in a Blanket in the Rural Feudal Pacific Northwest.

(It's a Donskoy cat wrapped up like a ball in a soft blanket)

160

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 26/12/2025

I'M PLAYING TOMORROW FOR TEMPLE OF LIGHT, 12pm PST/3p EST/8p GMT in VRChat! This is the best set I've ever done, a return to my psychedelic roots, featuring Desert Dwellers, CloZee, Shpongle, Govinda, Entheogenic & others, wrapped in psychedelic visuals sure sure to MELT BRAINS. DON'T MISS IT!!

Event poster for the event! ALSO I HAD MY TIME WRONG IN A PREVIOUS POST I AM NOT CLOSING, I'M JUST AFTER OPENING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOON PST/3pm EST/8pm GMT!!!

161

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 21/12/2025

I am playing at KALEIDOSKY, in VR, TONIGHT, at Midnight PST/3a EST. My husband Verminiferous will be dogging the controls of Synesthesia, providing live visuals while I play live. So, not "A"live, but "2"live! ... No... No, that doesn't work. WHATEVER.

1131

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 11/12/2025

I'm doing Kaleidosky on the 20th (I think), & Temple of Light on the 27th, both of them closing (or close to). Last sets of the year. I will be playing much more rarely next year, so if you want to catch some Strawberry Vibes, here's your chance.

Event Poster for a collab event.

CHRISTMAS MEGA RAVE
TEMPLE of LIGHT
Tygron vs Airenwolf
Spitfire vs Shrooky
Saklly Lad vs Cacklecore
Noopalley vs Veroxyde B2B Sundra
Beamflare vs Jayceebeats B2B Mayflower
Strawberry Protato vs Loprov B2B Daratomic B2B Tsop

I'm not sure why these are "vs" since they're sequential, but hey, what do I know.

090

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 14/11/2025

I needed a poster, so I made a poster. I think it looks pretty good. Feels like it's been forever since I touched Procreate.

An image of Strawberry in a lotus position with 4 holographic arms arrayed at her sides. Behind her is the symbol of the Infinite Beat atop a starry field that's been smeared with the "liquid" tool. There is a frame made of a hodgepodge of portal imagery made from spirals from Motion Array, but they were too busy so I repurposed them as texture layers for the frame, background accents, and an overlay of the Infinite Beat. The Infinite beat has a pseudo 3d effect I so with hard shading generated by shifted selection masks and hard contrasting hue, saturation, and brightness-shifted layers. The arms are repurposed elements for my NFC 2025 promo movie. I had to delete my tail because it was cluttering things, but it was extraneous, anyway, and detracted from the overall balance. I'm also an idiot and made the image at 2k, later up-scaled to 4k. Whoops. The holograms are two layers of arms with different angled chromatic aberration, heavy bloom, a blue point light top layer, noise, Gaussian blur auras, and a fine-zoomed "glitch". They are NOT transparent, rather I used a difference layer and a hard light layer with low opacity to give the illusion of transparency.

3405

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 03/11/2025

No Strawberry Jam today. I'm taking a "Me Day" to try and work on some on-going DJ/VRChat-related depression, and to focus on spending some time with my husband for our 7th wedding anniversary. See y'all next week.

It's an awful black screen with pixelated, RGB-torn text and pixelated images.

Section 1
Header Image: A pixelated icon of a jar of strawberry jam/jelly with the bubble-words "JAM" on top
Header Text: No Strawberry Jam Today, I'm taking a "Me Day".
Header subscript: (which often ends in me being depressed because I didn't play, but here we are...)

Section 2
Body Image: Pixelated image of a strawberry jam jar
Body Text: Also it’s my and Vermin’s 7th wedding anniversary so we’re gonna be stoned, lazy, and fat, and I wanna to think about something other than stressing about my DJing-crisis-of-faith.

Section 3
Footer Image: A pixelated strawberry
Footer Text: See y'all next week.

0192

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 31/10/2025

I have 3D-printed food. Protogen food. PLA bologna, a protogen's favorite deli treat.

A misprint of the bottom layers of a round base, printed in wood PLA that is too old and needs to be discarded but holy cow does it look like bologna.

5272

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 30/10/2025

I'll be playing for ENDAMU in VRChat on Friday the 31st. Start time is 3p PST/6p EST/10p GMT. I'm aiming for 3-ish hours, but I'll play as long as there are folks there vibing. Since this is a long one, I'll be simulcasting to Twitch, but it will be far less chatty, and redeems will be disabled.

061

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 27/10/2025

Strawberry Jam No 121 is here, & I didn't increment the number by 100 again! 3 hours of meditative JAM, live in the Church of the Infinite Beat, in VRChat & on Twitch.tv/strawberryprotato Note: US is still in DST until this weekend; UK is back to GMT. 3p - 6p PST 6p - 9p EST 10p - 1a GMT

091

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 27/10/2025

Halloween paint job. Inspiration obvious. Worlds: The Last Drop - Arcane — deschamps Jinx Arcane QG — NIIINY

A feral protogen gal done up in glowing graffiti, ready to pounce, crouched on Silco's desk from The Last Resort in the Arcane show.

A questionably sane protogen gal done up in glowing graffiti, indolent and insolent, staring at a card and asking "Why?"

A definitely not sane protogen in Jinx's den from the show Arcane, with Jinx's rocket launcher (named "Fishbones").

A VERY definitely not sane protogen done up in glowing graffiti, in Jinx's den from the show Arcane, with Jinx's rocket launcher (named "Fishbones"), launching an energy blast at something that is about to not exist.

2243

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 25/10/2025

Ship's Log, Stardate 6969.420: 2 hours since power failed. Whole-ship backup non-op, 2nd time. Soup tasty but insufficient. Estimated power restoration ~2am. Rationing has begun. Inclement weather continues. May have to eat the ensigns soon. Will save a limb for Bali; live on, glorious meatbag.

A fuzzy sphynx cat.

Some sphynx cats are fuzzy. Bali is the peach fuzz kind. She's a little flabby meatball. She has the amazing ability to transform into a meat polyp, attaching her greasy, sallow flesh to whomever in the bed is warmest, sinking into that sumptuous warmth with all the certitude of a xenomorph spider hot-to-trot for the voluptuous verisimilitude of a comforting tracheal oviposition.

Luckily she is with teeth, rather than acid.

Seriously, though, this power outage sucks. I wanted to go to Stage Flight. I'm likely to miss a gig tonight. I may not be able to host S4 tomorrow. The FOMO is crushing. I get in VR so little these days, to have a weekend that I was going to dedicate to it pulled away by shitty weather just sucks with epic levels of suck-i-tude.

370

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 20/10/2025

Strawberry Jam No 220 is comin' up soon! My (mostly) weekly musical meditation and jam session is back after BLFC, and we're ready to lay down some groovy beats to chill with and get our heads back in order. Wheeee!!! Strawberry Jam no. 220 strawbs.tv (twitch) 3p - 6p PST 6p - 9p EST 11p - 2a BST

The usual billing for The Strawberry Jam. A blown up picture of my office carpet with graphics and words:

A 60s-style marquee that looks like I ripped it off from a sleazy motel says:

The Strawberry Jam #220 (the number is in big pixelated text)

On the left:
In VRChat and on Twitch
strawbs.tv
3p-6p PST
11p-2a BST

On the right is a layered stack of strawberry jam jars, flanked on each side by Strawbs and Strawbs, who are saying: "Chill Vibes Groove Forever" or possibly "Chill Groove Vibes Forever" or maybe they're separate. Not really sure, but since there are two Strawbs, it's already confusing.

192

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 13/10/2025

Oh yeah, I'm playing the pool at BLFC, Weds night at 10:30p. Dress warm & come vibe. Pretty colors maybe, but don't breathe the water; it won't enable pretty colors, but 58ish minutes of Hypno-Organodic PsyTech with live trumpet might. (AV don't kill me plz)

I took Yukon's original poster and cut it up and made it look like a bad representation of a bad tube TV with iOS Pocket (Procreate for the iPhone). It's a VRChat photo of a Protogen, face down in some random pool world. It says:

Wednesday - BLTV Live
BLFC
Pool Stage
15 Oct

On the right is the full lineup:
8:30p - DJ Acronix
9:30p - Chris Uruz
10:30p - Strawberry Protato (there is an arrow pointing from this text to the floating Protogen)
11:30p - Wren

The text in the middle states:
Don't worry, the vibes are in and she's spinning her favorite music.
(In smaller words) And is totally not facedown in the pool
(In even smaller words) ...probably...

1192

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 06/10/2025

Strawberry Jam No 119 is today. Pre-BLFC Jam, so mostly just practicing. May switch things around or just take a break after BLFC. Music scene is getting samey, & I'm bored w/it & myself. Need to find new direction. Anyway. SJam 119, VRChat + strawbs.tv (Twitch) 3p-6p PST 6p-9p EST 11p-2a BST

041

Strawbs 🕉️🏳️‍⚧️🎶🎛️ @strawbs.tv · 29/09/2025

Strawberry Jam No 118 is happening today. Been a bit. I'm in a depressive slump due to... Everything. My creative spark is flickering & I badly need a personal, musical meditation. Come join me for meandering emotional wibbles, where I try to find... Something? 3p-6p PST 11p-2a BST strawbs.tv

It's just a basic stupid graphic w/the usual:

The Strawberry Jam #118
In VRChat and on Twitch

strawbs.tv (which just forwards to twitch.tv/strawberryprotato)
3p-6p PST
11p-2a BST

And then a goofy recycled Telegram sticker and a corny "comic book growing" thing of my old Strawberry Jam bottle I photoshopped like 3 years ago.

Seriously, though, I'm just... Tired. All this shit, toxic co-dependencies and their closet skeletons, my own assumptions and expectations spun out of control, my ego getting more of a grip on me than I wanted... VR was feeling toxic, and I was happy to shear off that funk, but now it just feels... Empty.

My friends groups have all moved on, and I have no real core group anymore. I'm just "Strawbs from S4" and all anyone wants to talk about is S4 or their own sets they're working on. One dude come up to me the other day, complimented my music, said they loved it, then started talking about dubstep and their favorite producers and tracks, and I was like "That's great, but I don't know any of these; it's not really my vibe." Then they CONTINUED to talk about DEATH and DESTRUCTION and KILL 'EM ALL and DO YOU FEEL ME, and it's like "NO I DON'T, FRIENDO, I JUST SAID THAT'S NOT MY VIBE".

Feels like I'm spinning the same shit, the same way, for the same people, and we're all just breathing in recycled farts. Is it changing? Is it evolving? Probably? But I'm in a place right now where I can see it.

I missed Strawberry Jam for 2 weeks. That's never good for me. I always forget how much I NEED to play this, how much it heals & helps me. Even when I'm getting crushed by the world, by the evils, by a govt that doesn't care, and KNOWING that some of the people in my circles VOTED for these callous fleshbags operating in mockery of sentience, because they just DON'T UNDERSTAND the reality of the threats, even then, when I'm at my weakest, I need to do my Jam..

But so often, I just don't have the spoons....

Sorry for the Alt-text ramble.

180