iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're biased, but we think so, too. Perfect animal!!!

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy birthday to our perfect and beautiful Peach Bellini Bellissima, aka Peep!! 🎉🎂🥳

Photo of a medium-haired calico cat. She's looking up at the photographer with wide green eyes and reclining against a red plaid blanket.

The same cat again, looking away pensively.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok who's in Tokyo during this time frame (November) and willing to go buy me the merch with the dot-eyes stylization,,,

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ALERT ALERT ALERT NEW ION ART IN THE YEAR 2026????

An official art drawing of Ion for the Tales of the Abyss x Tokyo Tower collaboration event in November 2026. He's wearing a black, white, and green cyberpunk-type outfit with shorts, a cat-ear hat, and sneakers.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

- I think your effort to capture the nuance and contradiction is really excellent. Thanks for writing this. I'm going to share it with friends and also rotate it in my brain for a while.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an excellent piece and your writing is beautiful. I wanted to highlight some specific parts, but I think the whole thing really just nails the various facets of this issue incredibly well. You've described the difficulty we face recurrently when a public figure's past comes to light and -

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @ Nuit Blanche 12 Hours Comics Event! @jpawlik.com · 01/10/2026

Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news? Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT... #Tapas

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A Tapas X Itch.io Bundle

We've heard the news that Tapas is shutting down on March 31st, 2027 and I want to setup an Itch.io bundle to help support the artists affected by this. If you have a comic on Tapas, this bundle is f...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/10/2026

Anybody accusing Loish of using AI is just admitting that they never paid any attention to online art spaces for the last couple decades.

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ozzie 🌟 @ozzieartmart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

ita bag darius (the one with the bag) belongs to @creamiicle.bsky.social ! these are our ocs #oc #art

darius and wilde. darius is holding an ita bag with homemade wilde merch on it, making the real wilde look uncomfortable and ask where he got that stuff.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

!!!! I almost forgot!! Thank you for the reminder. (Today is 10/02 in Canada, so I can still do it for tomorrow.)

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Momochi🥦FANBOX / skeb @bmbmomomo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🪭八仙！を日本で上映してくれてありがとう〜！谢谢电影八仙也在日本上映！故事和角色我都超级喜欢！🌊🌊🌊 #八仙 #AllWishesComeTrue #Baxian #FA

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think we also become more discerning the more we engage with storytelling and analysis, too. But we know what we like, at least?

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been pretty lucky and the specific things I'm talking about aren't really current or even mainstream popular. The people who like them just. Really like them, I guess. :|a But yeah, I understand the feeling of wanting to explain at length what the problem(s) were when I maybe shouldn't.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This has happened to me a few times and each time I feel like I'm experiencing a parallel dimension where [thing] is middling or even bad while everyone else is in the dimension where it's somehow phenomenal. Like. I straight up don't feel like I experienced the same writing in these cases.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You ever read/watch/play something and have such a different opinion and perspective on it compared to what seems to be typical that you feel a little insane?

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

omg I just remembered again that I'm waiting on some art and got excited

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It will vary from person to person. It's very likely some won't bother to cross-post at all. If you really like a work, try to follow its creator on social media, since they'll probably post about what they intend to do from here. Really a frustrating situation for readers and creators alike!!

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 01/10/2026

Thank you Tapas for giving us yet another great example of why digital "purchases" that don't come with DRM-free downloads are no purchases at all, just rentals with an undefined time period :) I just loooove spending hundreds to thousands on a digital platform only to have you take it all away!

Screenshot from the Tapas shutdown "Ink and Refunds" section, with highlight on the last two paragraphs that basically say "Can my purchases be transferred to other Kakao-owned services? No. Can I get refunds? No." You just lose everything you've ever paid for on Tapas!

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Years ago a friend made me a doll of similar proportions using needle-felted wool, which is a non-sewing option you could look at!

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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am a little under halfway to my goal and have to fill my slots by end of day tomorrow! please share!

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They're just not even practical. Like, you're not going to use more than one at once and unless you live next to a theme park, how often will it get used, period??? Definitely one of the worst merch types, imo. (And a lot of them look really hard to wash, making them even less likely to be used.)

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesss!!! Make those mannequins into fully-realized emotive characters!!!!! It's so cool to see how they get stylized over time.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm alway like "who the fuck is that (derogatory)" about the screenshots because the art is always so full of love and character and the actual model is like. A mannequin with some of the same features maybe. Smh. People do such great work giving uniqueness to their art!!!

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thisintermezzo art alt @adelaides-hall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I finally get to see the perfect version of me / The only problem happens to be it’s not actually me [OCs]

Drawing of the poster’s OCs in greyscale. Apostle Solis stands in the foreground, talking to people out of frame. He’s smiling and engaged and looks casual. A distance behind him, Saint Solis stands with both sets of arms crossed, frowning as he wordlessly observes. He has not a hair out of place and there’s a stylized saint halo around his head like the ones seen in religious art.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a weird thing for them to do, tbh. As I'm always saying, I'm a certified hater and I keep all that stuff to myself. This person needs to go be annoying in private on Discord with a buddy or something, jfc. It's not that serious!!! <- me criticizing them, not you

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The colors here are SO fun. I like that even though you didn't vary up the style too much, keeping in line with that princely vibe, the different colors give everything such different moods and flavors. You unified everything super well, imo! Really punchy!!

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oscar | Angel Diaclasis out now! @pepperbloom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

finished work for @reddishadow.bsky.social! i LOOOVED putting together some girlprince looks, thank you so much for the commission ^_^!!! pay me to dress up your fav: ko-fi.com/pepperbloom/... #pepperbloomart

digital illustration depicting thradii, a pink-skinned, scarred cyclops lady, in a variety of outfits. outfits include: a jade green matador-inspired suit with a cape and sash; a tailed waistcoat with poofy sleeves and spats; a frilly naval uniform with golden pauldrons and matching boots; a subdued formal suit in deep blues and greens; a v-neck blouse with a leather corset and baggy linen pants; a training outfit with a lacy top and red fingerless gloves. character/commission belongs to reddishadow.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had to look something up yesterday after I got this that is definitely getting added to the "algorithm thinks I'm a teacher" stack.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wheezing on the ground. I finally had the time to just sit down and finish another chapter of Astra fic. Wow, it’s a good thing we don’t have to think about Saint Solis now that he’s dead! <- uh oh archiveofourown.org/works/907414...

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is so transparently AI, holy shit. Listen, man, even if it weren’t I don’t need help making my thing marketable because it’s not meant to be marketed anyway. I’m playing toys.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I posted on Tumblr about updating my OC fic and got a DM almost instantly (that just said “hi”) from a zero-post blog with this bio:

Bio text that says, “I read like your future reader. I notice what others miss. Your story, tested honestly.”

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is moving in a positive direction next chapter, but Zihrun needs to be weird and a problem first.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh god, yeah, it really does!

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am so deeply perturbed by this description. You gotta link a video.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Exclusive offer for teachers in Canada!" smiles benignly at the camera

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mukkuru @mukubirdy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

✨HI AND HELLO!!! I have a shop now at @ACGGoods!!!✨ I'm opening my shop starting with keychains and stickers of the main cast of Tales of the Abyss! Grab them at the link below: ➡ mukubirdy.acggoods.com

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our cat does this too, except she uses the ugly meow for us and the cute one for being fake for guests.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been letting Deezer just play whatever after a playlist finished and I've found some stuff that way.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh my god sorry I misread your post. A cape... Hmmm...

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I checked several different dictionaries. I'm not sure what the context was for the sentence above, but a wen can also be "a large overcrowded city" in British usage.

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rigel ✨ @rirituuu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the #oohchiczine gilded gold edition was released yesterday so here's my full piece!! had such a blast for my first time participating, thank you for having me!!! ✨💛🌟 you can view the whole zine at oohchiczine.com you wanna look so bad oooooo @oohchiczine.bsky.social #ocsky

ooh, chic! gilded gold edition ft. my characters tsuyu, nico, and mikko in agejo gyaru, lolita, and shibuya punk fashion respectively. mikko is up front crouching while tsuyu and nico are posed on some stairs, leading up to the entrance of a livehouse.

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miel @ catgirl city (7.4) @miel.honeyviolets.gay · 23/09/2026

billions must learn the benefits of having a private offline journal & a group chat where you can talk about the bullshit that you can't put on the tl

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like Ion, Solis like "haha it's fine, my life doesn't matter for anything, but I'll do what I can". <-- outward energy makes people like him despite Everything anyway. Read Astra, thing I wrote after being deranged about green clones for [redacted] years.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's also canonically the case that replica Ion inherently radiates a peaceful energy that made one of his makers have an internal religious crisis + reconsider his clone prejudice. Solis doesn't have the "peace" quality specifically, but there is something inherently warm about him.

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Sage @thisintermezzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey @ my T4l3s of the 4byss-liker friends. You should read Astra Inclinant because my core conceit is sort of like, "what if O!Ion didn't die and had to exist alongside replica Ion while making himself increasingly more furious that his copy was so much better at coping with being alive than he is?"

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