iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Every so often the assorted media I'm consuming at a given time suddenly gang up to give me an impromptu therapy session

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Turtlesocks summertime funtime ☀️ @withoutthesour.bsky.social · 8h

[Mr Fanboy] but if I had a beautiful evil boywife who schemed and made us both a lot of money I would simply treasure him and buy him a diamond necklace RIP to Third but im different

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 27/09/2026

I will never stop clowning on Fei Du for "I am the abyss," it's the funniest thing anyone has ever said. If Luo Wenzhou had heard it he'd be throwing it in Fei Du's face every day, but he wasn't there, so I gotta do it for him.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 26/09/2026

My whole teenagerhood my parents despaired of teaching me self-discipline, and several decades on I still haven't really learned it, but I have mastered the art of arranging conditions so that I'll spontaneously wish to do the things I ought to be doing.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 23/09/2026

Every fall, when I put on my jacket for the first time, I find the little fingerless gloves my friend Claire knit for me. Claire passed away a few years ago, but these gloves hold my hands every year, and I'm so sad and so thankful.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 22/09/2026

What's great about writing Vier GMA is the actual plot can consist entirely of perfectly normal, even pleasant events, and yet he in his own mind is being raked over burning coals

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 21/09/2026

Sometimes I dream a creative project and then wake up just enough to refine a bunch of details, fully invested in whatever my sleep brain decided was a good idea. My favorite recent one was a story about an editor whose job it is to deal with plots that have been ruined due to isekai.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 19/09/2026

My crone era seems to be manifesting in puttering around picking up trash from parks and creeks

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 17/09/2026

Baffled, mostly. Flip a coin on whether seeing me would have made her skip the early 20s swerve toward fundamentalism, or gone even harder in an attempt to forestall the heathen queer future.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 17/09/2026

Again, this is not a typical Anthropeum score for me but I gotta crow: Anthropeum.com · Sep 17 2026 🟩🟦🟩🟩🟦🟩🟦🟩🟩🟦 83,348 · top 4% of players today!

anthropeum.com

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 16/09/2026

Have submitted my essential yuletide nominations. One slot still open in case something else occurs to me.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 15/09/2026

I'm in the fiddly, technical, moving-pieces-around stage of Eastport book 2 and I gotta say, it is SO nice to also have fanfic projects to give the spontaneous creative side of the brain some exercise too

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 13/09/2026

Once again looking warily at my draft and going "but really: how many heists is too many?"

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(I just think that if more dudes had been in the parts of fandom where people were reporting embodied, hallucinatory interactions with characters as real on the astral plane those dudes would be hyper aware that their feelings that insist AI is sentient are just a personal horniness problem)

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I see some younger queers using "stone" for "stone butch" as a modifier where they are very clearly thinking it means "REALLLLLLY butch" instead of "butch who doesn't want to be touched during sex" and I just. I need some little pamphlets to hand out.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 10/09/2026

Sabrina the day she came home

8 week old black and white kitten crouched warily on a bathmat, looking at a bowl of water that's almost as big as her

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 10/09/2026

Surely, given that every little move I make on the internet is being tracked and analyzed, the technology exists to go "this person has never visited our site before, let's let her read more than two words of the article that brought her before covering the whole screen with a subscription box"

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 08/09/2026

I'm in the mood for a thriller-ish kdrama, hit me with your best recs. I don't really mind what flavor: full psychological thriller, dark mystery, romance with suspense plot... just as long as it's well-written and someone ends up in fear for their life/questioning everything they know

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 08/09/2026

At this point I have to assume that ohm pawat's brief whenever they go scouting a new work boyfriend includes a Dimples Clause

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 08/09/2026

This is one of my most common irritants in otherwise enjoyable books. I need to see *movement* or there's no story. If the stuckness is the point, you still have to give me something new each time it comes up. (This is where an unfolding reveal can come in clutch.)

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 08/09/2026

Phenomenal score at the used bookstore today

Two books: one an anthology of lesbian pulp fiction, with a classic pulp image of two women in lingerie, and the other a collection of letters of Dashiell Hammett.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 06/09/2026

Lovely Canadian friend @kakikaeru.bsky.social is visiting and today we drove past an honest-to-god dumpster fire. A BIT on the nose

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 03/09/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but sapphic just means lesbian. You can cope and seethe and mald all you want, but if a relationship is between two not-men, it is both sapphic and lesbian. Period. Grow up and get off 2013 tumblr already.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

me, painstakingly explaining to my loved ones why it's funny to cast Due South's Benton Fraser in Heated Rivalry: you see, in the internet's earliest days, the prelapsarian era when none bore the scars of Strikethrough... them: we are riveted. please keep going. it's getting funnier by the minute.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it really has something for everyone on here: ✔️atrocious literary analysis ✔️a beloathéd celebrity ✔️a new low in shamelessly rebooting existing IP ✔️so many opportunities to infodump if your special interest includes the economic and social conditions of Dickensian England ✔️the Muppets did it best

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 29/08/2026

Very exciting to finally use the front burners of my stove again. They have been giving little to no flame for a long time now, and this week I finally told the landlord, who promptly came over and showed me how to clean out the burners (in a cheerful, handy-uncle kind of way.)

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

happy cover reveal day for GODBURNED! I can't wait for this book to be out in the world! :D @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This one is hitting me so hard. Dolly was such a rare and beautiful and strong force for good--to grow up with her as a light, someone who was From Around Here, was something I'll always cherish.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 25/08/2026

For me writing is a lot like breadmaking, or maybe brewing... bouts of intensive work interspersed with looong periods where the thing just does its stuff in the background, untouched by me.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 22/08/2026

If anyone watched The Old Guard 2 and wishes there was more fic about the angsty immortal lesbians, so did I, and this gift was everything I could have asked for. I love when love hurts and hate feels like comfort. archiveofourown.org/works/90750896

archiveofourown.org

Regret is Punishment Itself - SuaviumSanguineum - The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 19/08/2026

oh for once I have something to post for wip wednesday! Payback fic, hot off the press

Sun pushes Sky back against the lockers, one arm braced beside his head. Sky looks tremulously up into his eyes. "Phi…" he breathes.

"Why do you think I did all those things for you?" Sun says, his voice a snarl in his throat. "What do you think it really means? Go on. Take a guess."

Sky swallows. Sun, fingers curled, traces the back of his knuckles down Sky's throat, down to the open collar of his shirt and back up the side toward his ear. He leans in.

Sky twitches and starts to giggle.

"Cut!" calls the director, and Sky doubles over.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 18/08/2026

I hear it is #ButchAppreciationDay - I'll take appreciation both for myself and for Vi, who I've sometimes described as "if Rick from Casablanca was a butch Latina." I'd love to see TCOE in more libraries, so you can show love by requesting it from yours! Or buy at books2read.com/citizenofeas...

books2read.com

Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Citizen of Eastport by VB Ruth

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 18/08/2026

A long indulgent shower scene to convey connection and healing? In my WIP? It's more likely than you think.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 17/08/2026

It's true that those takes are really bad but the good news is you are at the very least making sure people who are avoiding them see them anyway and get mad about them. Here's why that's praxis: 🧵(1/????)

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 15/08/2026

In the same vein, borrow indie books on OverDrive/Libby. It can really make all the difference, and you get to read the book for free. 😍

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 14/08/2026

New game! I found a Rarity-85 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. OUTLIER · 871 points · 10 rare words. Only 53 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/NRESXR

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OUTLIER · Day 86

player-8357 scored 871 on Day 86 — can you beat them?

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bnrlibrarian @bnrlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

but if one doesn't unpack that, then begin to truly understand all the ways in which "faggot" is a gender minority position that is in fact significantly and violently marginalized, all sorts of weird shit is gonna continue to crop up!! where you least expect it!!

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Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Word of mouth is basically the only way small team projects can gain any traction. People hate ads with a passion, and ignore creators when they pitch their own work. But people will give something a chance when a person they know says they like something

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 08/08/2026

Got caught in a rainstorm at the end of today's book fair* and man, I'd forgotten how good it feels to be absolutely drenched in rain. I gotta do that more often *all books are safe and dry

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 08/08/2026

I know people mean well by it, but the "women and nonbinary" grouping always grates on my nerves. Nonbinary people are not women lite or the anti-men... they are their own third thing.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 05/08/2026

It's a good thing I'm watching Link Click as part of a weekly friend hangout, because otherwise I would be blasting through all of s2 in a day and then having the worst show hangover

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Jessamine @jmlowrey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is a good piece of writing that’s touched on things I’ve been thinking about for a while and especially the line, “The space between feeling and reacting is where our morality gets to live.” When I find myself flinching away from discomfort I do my best to interrogate why I’m flinching.

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