iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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paisley nerdywhispers (Commissions Open) @nerdywhispers.bsky.social · 10h

even more illustrations for under hollow hills characters! #illustrations #ttrpg #underhollowhills (I'm still trying to make rent, if you can support me, anything helps)

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 5h

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 3h

free throw contest

a stylized 3d render of young link shooting a bomb like a basketball into the large spinning goron vase in ocarina of time.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15h

fantastic work here, a service to history

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Erin Returns!! @woodaba.bsky.social · 16h

slander for your least favorite episode of doctor who just dropped

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 15h

AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR THEE: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR ME: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

an approximate graph of a poll saying that ~80% of americans think "america would be better off if more americans worked in manufacturing" whereas ~25% believe "i would be better off if i worked in a factory." the republicans polled were slightly higher in both before somebody gets mad at me for not making this about that

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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the thing; they had toddlers signing away their rights to see their parents through the Bush & Obama years. These atrocities have been happening the whole time.

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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

i've had this idiotic joke in my head for way too long and needed to exorcize it

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Lhuzie GET WINTRY SQUAMA! @strigarosa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Available NOW at: ITCH: cyberneticcoven.itch.io/wintry-squama AMAZON: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7FJPNC6 OTHER BOOKSTORES: books2read.com/u/bQ0GY7

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Wintry Squama by Lhuzie Fénix

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paisley nerdywhispers (Commissions Open) @nerdywhispers.bsky.social · 19h

NOW PLAYING DUNGEON TOUR TRAILER - "Everything matters."

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22h

anydice is so useful for shit like this btw. curious how Forged in the Dark rolls work? here you go, "chance of at least this level of success" for 0, 1, 2, and 3 skill pips. The fact that success rates increase by 25% for the first few skill dice produce really clean, noticable power increases

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Slowly decompressing with an ink drawing.

a work in progress photo of a drawing in blue-grey ink of swirling water patterns. Only the central whirlpool design is drawn in, with spiraling water radiating out from it. The paper is taped down onto a board with blue artists tape.

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

One of my favorite and most effective design patterns is "tell the player exactly what you're gonna do to them, then do it." You can be SIGNIFICANTLY meaner to the player if you simply tell them ahead of time that that's exactly what you'll be doing, and also the suspense of the warning is a delight

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Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my most nuanced ttrpg take is the entirety of the book "Triangle Agency" available from haunted table games

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cari •ᴗ• @caridescent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

on my puter 🐟

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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Haze Arquebus @reapthegirlwind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

finally, bugfuck nowhere

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Coral 🪸🐶 @coral.dog · 28/09/2026

Fun fact: Fruit Iterators isn't as good as "Recursive Chocolate Bites," but nobody really understands how to eat that cereal.

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rita @ritatreats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

unbelievable how true "bsky staff cant handle furries" becomes over time

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A somewhat maximalist, very collage-heavy experiment piece this month, using a lot of my photography and some old Slovenian art

Digital collage and painting on vertical canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi (he/him, transmasc) and a skeleton
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

This piece is almost entirely composed of photographs I took. It features a central long corridor that disappears into the darkness, every side of it a different texture. The left and right walls are photos of old walls, the ceiling is wood, and the floor is an enlarged photo of a gingerbread cookie I bought in a Polish shop in Ljubljana once, overlaid with an assortment of Turkish delight from Lidl. I've had these two photos for like 3 years and I'm so happy to finally put them to use lmao

In the front, slightly left stands a knight, who was traced with a lasso tool over a relief sculpture from Celje. He's wearing a dark armour with very colourful accents on skirt and flag, and his head is a fire. On his knee guards, one can spot a unicorn and a stag beetle in trans flag colours.

In the upper right corner, a dragon's head is sticking out of a wall, the fire it breathes joining in with the knight's fire hair. For this head I used a photo from an ornament on one of the 'healing springs' near my hometown. It's coloured in somewhat garish colours that reoccur across the picture, magenta, aqua, green and blue, and notably three of its fangs depict the white, pink and blue or the trans flag.

Lastly, underneath the head stands a skeleton, cut from the famous Danse Macabre fresco from the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje. The skeleton is orange with green shadows, and splashes of magenta on some parts of its body.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Don't engage" is such a hard lesson and it took me a lot of years to learn it. Im still tempted! Sometimes people say the most frustrating shit in the world and it just feels like being unacceptably passive to just let it go, but thats the trap. You're immediately judged harsher by replying at all.

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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

truly tickled by this recommendation for “things that feel like elden ring”

Looking for books, worlds with expansive lore, dark but also immensely beautiful gothic vibes. Deeply sad/ melancholic undertones and wildly bizarre and exciting creatures and aesthetics
There's something incredibly beautiful and romantic, but deeply unsettling about the entirety of the Elden Ring universe and I would love to read something like that
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Ima be 100 percent Honest. The Old Testament bro

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ttrpgs are a generally myopic field of design and have a small fraction of the creative variety present in other kinds of games, and this is somewhat (although not entirely) due to social pressure and aesthetic standards historically exerted by conservative players, designers, and publishers

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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 28/09/2026

HOW CUTE ARE THESE AHHHH THE REAL DECK OF CARDS IS GONNA BE SO BEAUTIFUL 😭

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leo 🦈 @darlingthresher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

some ppl think having theater training is a huge advantage in playing rpgs, or having like clever engineering knowledge or game design experience or etc but my secret theory is the most transferable skills by far are sales and public speaking

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scene_four 🔜 PAX Unplugged! @scenefour.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was thinking today about how RPGs need not be “fair.” Yes, if you’re clever, creative, and charismatic you will be better at a lot of games. That’s literally a good thing! You can be skilled at RPG play the same way you can be skilled at board games or sports.

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Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Go check out the first episode of the latest season of Play to Find Out from @itsquinns.bsky.social (with editing and sound design by our very own @brianflaherty.bsky.social ) This season they're playing Necronautilus by @worldchamp.bsky.social

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paisley nerdywhispers (Commissions Open) @nerdywhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

look at some of these cool illustrations i did! they were commissions for an Under Hollow Hills campaign! #illustration #commission #ttrpg

Burning Jack, a kind-eyed older gentleman dressed in fancy red clothes.

Willow Briar, a performer in grandiose purple and gold clothing and large antlers.

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Ollie @olliemnjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Virus

Digital painting of a dimly lit computer lab. All monitors are switched off except for one at the centre showing a small, blank window

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paisley nerdywhispers (Commissions Open) @nerdywhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"My veins are wires, my eyes are burned in. It hurts." Now Playing Dungeon Tour is a hostile, depressed roleplaying game that follows a group of twenty year olds investigating a haunted game which follows them home. Find the playtest materials here: nerdywhispers.itch.io/now-playing-...

A girl sits beside a pure-red mirror copy of herself, with various papers and technology scattered on the ground. One of these reads "MISSING: Our Son Is Missing" The words "Now Playing Dungeon Tour" are in the center.

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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

piracy is culture-building. file sharing is pro social. it is good to send your friends links and files and zips and pdfs and stuff. some of the tightest knit most incredible fighting game communities are built around pirated games and downloaded roms and this is not an accident its a feature

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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not messing with this one. ~~~ #art #osr #ttrpg #illustration

Drawing of a warrior with a crow head, with an asian attire, holding a sword.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Ryan Lynch @outridercreative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Psst. Hey You. Yeah I'm talking to you, the freelance illustrator over there. Try doubling your rates on your next quote and see what happens.

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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Superman, Lois Lane, and The American Way. #Art #Comics #DCcomics #Superman

American Way
pg 1
panel 1: a sci-fi rocket flies through space.
caption: In the vastness of space, a world beyond our imagination falls into destruction. A rocket containing its soul survivor travels across the cosmos.

panel 2: we see a young brown Chinese Indonesian girl smiling happily at nasi tumpeng meal in front of her. Her parents sit beside her, also happy.
caption: Years later, on Earth, a young Chinese Indonesian girl witnesses the massacre of her people.

panel 3: a barongsai head is burned.
caption: Chinese culture was banned from the public for years. Their names changed to assimilate with the rest of the Indonesian people.

panel 4- a looted building on fire.
caption: Much like how it was for Jewish people in Europe, the Chinese were often scapegoats for political tension in Indonesia.

panel 5- the young girl is carried by her father (a light skinned Chinese man with glasses) as he walks through a crowd.
caption: They were the scheming greedy minorities, hellbent on taking over the world. This sentiment was a holdover from Dutch colonialism. The girl's father warns her:
father: <This isn't the first time something like this happened, and it won't be the last.>

panel 6- darkness.
caption: she didn't know it at the time, but this was the American Way at work.

page 2
panel 1: a baby cries as it is carried by an elderly couple.
caption: The rocket lands near a farm in Smallville, Kansas. An old Jewish couple raise the young survivor as their own son.

panel 2- the young Chinese Indonesian girl is carried away by her parents, who are despondent. She sobs.
caption: Across the Earth, the girl and her parents flee their home. The parents recall what they witnessed 30 years ago.

Panel 3- flashback of Indonesian citizens, a man in a mandarin collar and sarong with a woman wearing a scarf, glancing to the side.
caption: The United States funded the disappearance and mass deaths of alleged socialists,

Panel 4- Two women talk to each other. One is light skinned, wears glasses and holds a book. The other is dark skinned and wears a headscarf.
caption: Gerwani feminists, trade unionists,

Panel 5- A Chinese citizen prays in front of incense sticks.
caption: along with racial and religious minorities through the Indonesian military and right wing.

Panel 6-the young girl and her parents walk amongst the wreckage of looted buildings.
caption: to the United States, it was a crime for the communists to want something different for themselves. Millions of lives were the price to pay for America's anti-communist crusade in the Cold War.

Panel 7- ashes spread across a lit fire off panel.
caption: "The Jakarta Method" would be exported to other countries to cement America's place as a global superpower. A scheme to take over the world.

Page 3

panel 1- a young boy levitates above crops, his eyes red from recent use of laser vision.
caption: The couple learn that their adopted child possessed inhuman power. But they knew how this would look. He was, after all, a foreigner.

Panel 2- close up of a sewing machine, sewing a Superman super suit. We see the House of El "S" symbol up close.
caption: To protect him, they made sure his displays of power never threatened the American conscience. He would be presented as a strongman who served the people.

Panel 3- Statue of Liberty.
caption: The young girl and her family arrive at the land of opportunity. Home of the American dream.

Panel 4- the young girl, in a kebaya and sarong, looks sadly to the ground.
caption: The girl if forced, again, to change her name. Whatever remains of her home are stripped from her over time.

Panel 5- the girl grows up into a teen. She takes off her kebaya, and now wears trousers.
caption: This is the American way, the song of assimilation. The girl naively hopes she can rise above bigotry if she plays by these rules.

Panel 6- The teen is now a grown woman. She is in a purple business suit and skirt, her hair tied in a neat bun.
caption: maybe she could prove that she wasn't the subhuman they saw.

Page 4
panel 1- Superman stands proudly against a clear blue sky.
caption: An exceptional strongman debuts in Metropolis. He is dubbed the "Superman" by that very girl, now fully grown. When asked about the source of his abilities, he assures the press that there's nothing abnormal about him.

panel 2- a young Black girl holds Superman's hand, as a white boy in a cap smiles next to her.
caption: His greatest strength is his humanity.

panel 3- Superman smiles as reporter microphones surround him.
caption: He makes sure to emphasize this point, just as his adopted parents taught him.

panel 4- Superman stands proudly next to the American flag.
caption: So that no one would question his citizenship.

panel 5 & 6- A crowd of Americans cheer, clapping their hands and raising their children above their shoulders happily. Superman lifts a car above his head.
caption: It's the American Way to be kind, to champion the oppressed.
Superman: What could be more human?

panel 7- The grown Chinese Indonesian woman holds a journalist's recorder. She has an ambiguous expression.
caption: Superman is human. He promises.

panel 8- The woman, Lois Lane, walks past Superman- her eyes closed. Superman walks past her with his eyes mirrored and closed.
caption: When Superman and this woman assure others that they are not alien, when they have to hide how alike they truly are... that is the American Way. Why, it's the American Dream.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every day I'm confronted with the reality that a large portion of this hobby's participants looked at that "player showing up to a game of 'Vampire: the Masquerade' with a half-elf druid" anecdote that did the rounds recently and genuinely thought the GM was the bad guy for rejecting that character.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eventually we're going to have to acknowledge the fact that we're not going to be able to constructively address the GM burnout problem as long as our definition of "bad GMing" includes "having any preferences whatsoever about what kind of game they want to run".

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