iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Going to a showing of The Princess Bride at work because none of these euro kiddos have seen it.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yall can just listen to Lolita podcast by @jamieloftus.bsky.social for free

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when I am not playing Hades, I am probably talking about Hades

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Archie is a floof with a dog inside. Here he is after a bath, giving me the utter betrayal face.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

me, telling my students about barks

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wanna do something extra fucked up to your players? Just tell them! They'll have a better idea of what's going on, will self-select into the extra harsh stuff, and will enjoy the whole process even more!

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes interviewers & students ask me what the best thing was about working at Blizzard and I open my mouth to talk about the time that I asked @sdanuser.bsky.social for advice on making mixtapes and he got very serious about it but then I tell them something they want to hear instead

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One time I started the interview by leaning into the camera to apply lip gloss and I got an offer. Some people want you to be nervous around them, and it shows.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey" is an incredible book by Kevin Murphy of @rifftrax.com fame, a beautiful and intelligent account of a year of daily moviegoing. Because the year was 2001, it is a stark account of our culture shift.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first cycle of my class on game writing was a fever dream. I spent a year or so developing a method to teach all kinds of game writing in one portfolio project, then I had a six-week long panic.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's official, Canada: you must call Janet "Miss Jackson"

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

me after two weeks of 4- to 8-hour VO seshes something about it just knocks all the juice outta me

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Sad Cat Lounging

ALT: Sad Cat Lounging

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Me, meeting new Romanian colleagues: “I’m a big fan of your deadlifts” A+ social interaction

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Noah Lugeons @noahlugeons.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

How the fuck are we gonna have a Trump presidential fitness test? What are you gonna have to do? Cheat at golf and lie about your height?

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The Anno games are so alluring, so hypnotic. Don’t sleep on their soundtracks. They’re labors of love. I’ve been doing some writing on the one coming out soon. The storytellers on this title are so good (not just me ☺️). I love going through the editor just reading their work. This game is a gem.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I found a farm near my new German home. There are vending machines there for eggs, ice cream, oil, vinegar, pasta, dried fruit, potatoes, and other oddities. I bought quail eggs. I bought the scissors to open them. Now I need recipes for quail eggs.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I’m told I need to find a way to live together, in harmony, with these loathsome bigots, and I don’t really feel any desire to try. I would rather work to undermine them, to humiliate them, to deny them peace or joy.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Idk what I’m talking about but as a game writer, I am confident that I could make it work @mikedrucker.bsky.social

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I miss my dad. His bigotry stole him from me. Now he is fully fascist, and this is his legacy to me and to his grandchild. I want to yell at him today. I want to write a scathing email that will do nothing. He’s the enemy now. I can only keep my family safe from him.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Rise of the Guardians (2012) character concept art by Dermot Power.

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I made my best friend buy me flowers and then I watched a rainstorm with my other best friend

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 29/05/2025

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

technically it's a polyghoul

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Everyone wants to move to Europe but nobody wants to order a glass of Riesling, be handed a pint of Riesling, and then get super drunk with fountain pigeons because of being too shy and confused to ask questions

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璡/peri @onedayfour.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

ripples

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Sarah Arellano @sugarvenom.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Americans in the comments calling folks who leave cowards Acting like they’re going to stay and fight… mmk You gonna buy guns, learn to shoot, and kill the ICE agent who breaks your car window? You won’t even download Duolingo

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🧪Ƙrịịm💉 @hngarianturtleneck.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

happy mermay! MAY i kick the door with this one? i'm pretty proud of this one 👉👈 #fnafduskloungeau #mermay2025 #fnafmoondrop #fnafsundrop #DL!Moon #DL!Sun #kriimart #mermay

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Anna Svab✨ @svanha.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

120525 ✨✏️✨Redraw I don’t often redraw my stuff mainly because I don’t really have the time to dwell on old stuff and checking every minute on my progress, but also because I mostly like my old artworks as they are🤍 #mermay2025 #mermay #mermay2025redraw

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Noah Lugeons @noahlugeons.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Leela isn't the brightest bulb in the bank, but she's got fantastic comic timing.

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Roger L. Jackson @rljtoday.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

If you're interested you can hear me now as Plasma in the Netflix series DEVIL MAY CRY. The glottal trill you hear in the voice is me, not special effects. Have Uvula, Will Travel.

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Steven Pumpkin Spice 🦇🎃 @silent0siris.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

All I can say is I have a rock solid conviction that the way to win in an era of AI arms races is to simply get even more human. Embrace the weird, quirky, opinionated, sharp, friction. In a sea of AI generated paste, all seeking to hit the average audience, that’s what’s gonna stand out.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/04/2025

Happy Alien Day, the annual promotional event that allows me to post even more about Alien. 😁 Looking forward to some announcements... But first, here's H.R. Giger working on the first movie's creature. #AlienDay

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

As those who have studied history understand, an autism registry is a five alarm fire… Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?!

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Gender affirming medical care isn't always available, but with his tattoos @jockbuns.bsky.social can mold his body to create what he wants to see in the mirror. Read about his relationship with his body art in this beautiful comic from our archive. www.ohjoysextoy.com/i-just-got-t...

Today's autobiographical comic is written and drawn by JOCKBUNS, who described himself for today's transcription as; male with he/him pronouns, of a short, chubby tattooed, hairy, trans man body with top surgery scars; a shape similar to that of a Bear! This transcriber (me, Matthew, hi-hello!) will add that he appears white, with brown hair, and wears thin white round glasses. The comic is colored in oranges, browns, and teals with big white breaks in between panels, which helps give the narration nice beats and pauses. The vibe lends the comic an air of intimacy and friendliness

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Opens with JOCKBUNS (whose professional name is capitalized, but I don't want text-to-speech to shout-it-out so will refer to him as JB going forward) in bed, half nude, wearing a beanie, as he gesticulates towards an old wire TV. His left arm is all wrapped up in a bandage.

JB - I just got tattooed!
And my arm is all wrapped up, so I can’t draw much.

JB pulls out his Nintendo Switch. He takes a moment to think to himself, and the camera pulls in on his face.

We see JB standing in front of a mirror, wearing a neckerchief and tight underwear. His tummy and body are on display as if being seen in a mirror.
JB - The downtime got me thinking… about the relationship between my body confidence in my tattoos.

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JB is now on display as a nude life model, flexing his muscles in front of all the students, narration supports the visual.
JB - My tattoos have been a transformative tool for my self-confidence.

The camera zooms in on jocks arms, thick and heavy with tattoos abound.
JB - Allowing me to replace the negative energy I felt toward my body with positive.

He closes his eyes, and emanating from him is the words 'I love myself' with sparkles as the students continue their studies.

Next, we see JB lying on a bed in a tattoo artist shop with shorts and socks on he’s lifting his hand up in a thumbs up. A word balloon creeps away from him in a skull and crossbones shape, inside it is the words 'Worth it.'

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We're somewhere else again, a more abstract place - on the wall is a flyer with an illustration of JB's chest without the surgery he's since had. Next to it is the words 'For Sale, Titties: No Longer Wanted'
JB supports the visual with some narration: Gender-affirming medical care isn’t always available.

JB - And can take a long time to access even when it is
We see a calendar with '732 days' on it next to the words 'without a mustache' and a sad face emoji.

JB - I see my tattoos as a sort of additional or alternative therapy. A way of molding my body that I am in control of.
He's back in front of a mirror, using a sharpie to draw onto the glass, so the drawings appear on his body. He’s got a devious grin on him, as he says, 'Perfect!'

We’re back in the tattoo artist's parlor. The walls are littered with beautiful little illustrations as a burly artist leans over and continues his trade on JB.
Tattoo Artist - Looks rad!

JB gets up and looks at the new tattoo on his ankle, in a mirror, giving himself a thumbs up with sparkles.

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We're shown a full wall of the tattoo artist parlor, as JB looks at the art. Every inch of the wall is framed illustrations, some of horses, others of hearts and suns and moons, and even swords and cats; all kinds of amazing stuff.
Underneath this is some narration from JB
JB - I used to struggle with body image issues a lot. My dysphoria made me feel like my body wasn’t mine. It was always against me. I didn’t find it beautiful.
We see three rapid panels back to back.
Jock shows us his left forearm with a big horseshoe tattoo on top of which is a banner, saying 'Stay Lucky', the tattooed looks imagined and not-yet-real, or a work-in-progress.
The neckerchief, half nude JB continues to study himself in the mirror, holding up a phone with an illustration on it to his body he considers the art.
Then we see him scrolling through an artist's portfolio on their Instagram with the words Flash Sale.
Underneath these panels is some narration:
JB - The realization I could get colors, artwork, and imagery I love permanently slapped on my body was a game changer!

JB goes to work on his tablet, behind him are floating tattoo ideas one of a snake and another of a dragon, the ideas floating around.

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Words to live by.

Screenshot of a tweet by @louisethebaker

The text reads, "I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted."

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