iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i've been trying to write this for half a decade now. on creation, brains in a jar, corpse husband, the pandemic, cinderella, and a variety of other topics that make sense together i promise vickyagain.bearblog.dev/discorporati...

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Discorporation, or You're More Than a Brain in a Jar

04 Oct, 2026

Content Warnings: vomiting, dissociation, covid-19 pandemic, minor body horror, death

A few weeks ago, Joan He, an author I follow and admire, posted a note, anachronism.

The latter half resonated with me, particularly where He questions if she will always be herself even without a face, a voice, a body, etc. That she will still exist in the works that she has made.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

going back to my roots with a tiny blog. here's what i got up to in september vickyagain.bearblog.dev/september-20...

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"September 2026 Wrap-Up

01 Oct, 2026

It's been years since I've regularly posted on a blog1, but I miss blogging. I've wanted to start back up again, especially now that I have the free time associated with being an adult with a full time job2.

I've been scared though."

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

forgot to post my beautiful bread please admire

Photograph of a bread loaf in a dutch oven with a beautiful split along the top.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

this is the billy layout i have rn in my parents house for all my ya books...everything behind what you see used to have other books stuffed behind, but i culled the herd last year so it's not double stacked anymore

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

in terms of input: - more bg3 - still chugging through house s4 - watched the clue movie and the heathers with beth - more reading

Storygraph month cover collage for June showing Radiant Star, Yesteryear, The Hunger, The Apothecary Diaries LN 16, and Who Buries the Dead.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

quote with your yellow art ! ⭐

Illustration of a girl surrounded by farm animals, in a corner of a fence with fields of wheat in the background. She's holding a chick and there are pigs, a bull, chickens, a snake, rabbits, and a doc.

An illustration of two people sitting at a bakery table corner, where one is a woman with green skin and red hair staring lovingly into the eyeys of another, a white man with dark hair who is absentmindedly dripping icing out of a piping bag onto the table. There is a fox and baked goods in their surroundings.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ajuga reptans, the blue bugle 🪻 8x8 inch acrylic on canvas. #art #bloomscrolling #painting

A painting of a flowery head of a bugle, rendered in a stylized, almost cartoony way. The background is vague swaths of paint resembling leaf cover.

Photographed closeup of an ajuga reptans.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

continuing the trend of a lot of input with - played a lot of bg3 - continuing house (on s4 now) - watched clueless - read a lot (summer reading challenge season!!)

Storygraph graphic showing cover collage of The Merciful Crow, What Angels Fear, When Gods Die, Why Mermaids Sing, Where Serpents Sleep, What Remains of Heaven, Dead Silence, Platform Decay, A Parade of Horribles, Break ROom, Where Shadows Dance, When Maidens Mourn, Why Kings Confess, and What Darkness Brings.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

quick scribble study a la @katherinelam.bsky.social valves and DI loops and cable trays and heat exchangers and pumps and regulators and improperly mounted flow meters and flow switches and thermocouples and that one portable nitrogen tank in the basement

Digital illustration of vague silhouettes of piping and cabling equipment in layers of yellow and blue.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

scene from Whisper of the Heart (1995) for #CafeDot Studio Ghibli redraw challenge. acrylic on 14x14 inch canvas. #art #studioghibli

Photograph of a square canvas showing a dreamy pink and purple building entrance with glowing yellow light. There's an arched doorway partially opened to show a shop, with small animals playing instrument statues outside and a frame of different baskets and flowers around the exterior of the building.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

a lot of input tho... - started watching house (i'm on s3 now) - watched murderbot s1 - watched project hail mary - read stuff - saw local performance of Deathtrap live (was really good!!)

Photograph of Storygraph month cover collage showing Apothecary Diaries LN 9-15, Project Hail Mary, Immortal Longings, Zero Sum Game, and Three Years After Falling Off a Cliff.

Storygraph cover collage for April 2026 showing The Death of Vivek Oji, I Am Average and Unremarkable, All Systems Red audiobook, Real Americans.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

a lotttt of input tho this month! - read 13 books - watched 5 seasons of tv (percy jackson s2, bridgerton s3, s4, apothecary diaries s1, s2) - plus a little more misc tv

Storygraph wrap up graphic of covers, showing Strange Beasts of China, Year of the Reaper, His Majesty's Dragon books 1-6, A Love Story from the End of the World, and Apothecary Diaries light novels 5-8.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

a scene from Pom Poko for the @cafedot.bsky.social Studio Ghibli redraw challenge! 14x14 in, acrylic on canvas. #art #painting #studioghibli #cafedot what do u think the tanuki are saying wrong answers only!!

A photograph of a square canvas showing a painted scene of tanuki examining a branch on a hill bordering fields, with houses and power lines in the distance.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

2 hr doodle night, some random fantasy characters 🗡️ #art #ocs #ocart #fantasy #dnd

A digital illustration with line art and cell shading of a large purple goblin in a loincloth and cape reaching out to the viewer, a yellow themed pixie flying angrily, a red tiefling looking unamused with multiple daggers and broken horn, a yelling cyclops in armor lunging with a sword, and a cute baby owlbear jumping.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

here's all the Matcha's (& co.) i drew for the little Where's Waldo style game i made for the #CafeDot game jam last month! #gamedev #indiegames didn't win, but a very respectable second place for my first solo jam 🎉 tinhovercarinice.itch.io/wheres-matcha

A graphic showing a green cat in the following positions: stretching, holding a fish, holding pistachios, eating strawberries, frolicking with pumpkins, holding a potion, making a Korean love symbol, in a box of lemons with a lemon hat, in a gardening hat with a trowel, with catnip, sleeping in flowers, running with milk, hiding pineapples, sleeping on a cloud, chasing chocolate, and in a banana suit. Plus, a white cat in a red apron looking distressed; and two brown cats, one mischievously pressing a red button, and one chilling on a lounge chair.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

random hobby excursion into using up my old origami paper 😳 #art #origami #modularorigami

Photograph of multicolor and multipaterned origami icosahedrons, one a stellated icosahedron, the other truncated icosahedron with holes in it.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

finally another update, done with sock #1 after a demoralizing redo of a too short toe onwards to craft night tomorrow! #wip #knitting #knitsky

Photograph of a foot in a yellow and dark multicolor sock, with another sock on the floor beginning to be knitted on DPNs from the cuff. The multicolor yarn is rolled in a hank and the yellow yarn is in a ball.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

catching up on the #CafeDot ghilbi redraw -- here's Taku's house from Ocean Waves 🌊 #art #painting #StudioGhibli 14x14 inch, acrylic on canvas

Photograph of a square canvas showing a doorstep lit by an overhead light, with a stone wall and fence enclosing a garden. the light is rendered in yellow to pink to blue, while the shadows are a cool blue tone.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

hooray! 🎉 made a tiny little Where's Waldo-esque game for the #CafeDot 2026 game jam! #indiegames #gamedev this is my first time making a whole game alone, but i'm really happy with how it turned out for one week of effort. go find Matcha now! tinhovercarinice.itch.io/wheres-matcha

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

knife, for my little Where's Matcha? game coming this weekend!! #artdailies

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Found it! I don't remember anything from the first two books I read aged ago tho so 😔

And those moments are:

I wish, wish, wish I had never agreed to change the order of the series and move Bloodwitch to #3, while Iseult’s book after.

The ripple effects of this decision (which was handed to me as a directive on high due to a sales situation) continued to haunt me into Witchlight.

For one, I didn’t plan the series reveals that way! And I had already written and published Truthwitch when this news came to me, so I couldn’t go back and undo all my foreshadowing…

For two, because of these locked-in story elements, Aeduan’s personal reveals and arcs had to be completely re-reckoned. They just weren’t meant to happen before Iseult’s…so now I had to almost split his story…while also splitting hers…

It was a mess.

I wish I had pushed harder on making Witchshadow two books.

In actuality, this would not have been an issue in the first place if I’d had my original series arrangement (Truthwitch, Windwitch, Threadwitch, Bloodwitch).

But because of the switched arrangement, I had to add plot to keep things moving. Which meant by the time we got to Iseult’s book, she had…well, too much to deal with.

The story had ballooned thanks to, again, ripple effects. I won’t rehash why making this one book was so tough…but I really wish I’d pushed harder on this. (Read the link above if you want more insights.)

I also wish I had not written Sightwitch as such an integral part of the main series—or that I had made clear to my publisher that Sightwitch was book 3 and not just a separate prequel.

The marketing around that book really hurt its performance out of the gate, and it never did sell to the UK—a fact UK readers bemoan to me constantly.

Because I couldn’t assume readers had read Sightwitch, I had to sneak lots of reveals and information into the other characters’ stories. Reveals that I didn’t actually want my characters to know yet, but that I needed readers to be aware of…

I’m looking at you, Aeduan’s mom.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

happy #PortfolioDay! i'm vicky, an illustrator who loves drawing richly detailed, atmospheric scenes that spark your imagination! ✨ i would love to be commissioned for book cover work, indie or trad pub! #art #digitalart #oc portfolio: vickywhodraws.wordpress.com

A digital illustration of a red-haired woman in a green dress kneeling next to a white-haired man hunched over himself as she drives a sword into his back. There are flames on the edge of her dress and in the foreground, while the man's hand is lightly over a dagger. In the background, backlighting the scene, are large stained glass windows.

A digital illustration rendered in colored pencil textures of a woman in an ornate red dress running up a stairwell, away from a horned, clawed shadow approaching from a side hallway. The scene is flooded in red lighting, with ornate gothic wallpaper, paintings, sconces, and wainscotting in the background.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

i think the moon bunnies i painted qualify as cute ☺️ #art_dailies #art #painting

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

sick? - mask up so u don't get sick - pink eye - sick of this painting study !! 44 min and what did i learn? nothing. ref Igor Shalyminov / Unsplash #art_dailies #art #artsky

Clip Studio Paint screenshot of a blobby painting of a woman lit by red pink yellow lighting, looking into the distance, masked.

Photograph of a woman lit by red pink yellow lighting, looking into the distance, masked.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

avian means a little more work on bok bok chicken today ! the second chicken now has eyes. #art_dailies

Screenshot of a digital illustration of an orange background with a banana on its side, with two tiny chickens standing on top of it, one who is wearing a banana.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

timelapse so you can watch my pain

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

painting study from yesterday; 35 min. struggled the whole way through lmao ref from Gabriela Wysocka on Unsplash #art #artsky #digitalart

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

30 min painting study // ref from Unsplash by Josué Sánchez

Screenshot of Clip Studio Paint program showing 31 minutes in Work Time and a canvas of a girl with long dark hair looking imploringly up. She is lit by blue and yellow light and rendered with a blocky, sketchy texture.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

socks, complete! finally perfected a sock pattern to fit my feet 🥰 #knitting #crafts #showmeyourknits #knitsky

Photograph of two knit socks on feet laid sideways on the floor. The socks are a ribbed knit in a yellow blue orange self-striping yarn.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

another timelapse from the archives, here's the one from "Monster in the Mansion"! 🕯️ the vision for this one was really strong, you can see i really just jumped right into the final composition immediately. #timelapse #art #digitalart

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

lmfao why does youtube need like 400% bleed on the header. you're telling me some devices are going to see only a tiny rectangle in the middle and some are going to see this whole thing???

A rectangular image showing slanted parallelograms of different intricate illustrations in a colored pencil texture assembled like a header. The illustrations are ordered in vaguely rainbow order, but there are three rows slightly offset.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

i did a good job of clearing out my WIPs folder this year, but these are actually the last 4 holdouts...something to look forward to in 2026! #wip #art #illustration

Partial lines and sketch for two fairies (human women with wings) lounging seductively in a forest area.

A sketch and color blocked illustration of a woman faced away from us painting a sunset using trees dipped in pinks and oranges. Her hair melts into a river.

A sketch of a women solemnly looking to the camera clutching herself in a messy room.

A sketch of two figures on a picnic blanket in a regency-ish park.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

here's the template i'd love to see everyone else's 👀 and not just digital art too! photography, baking, crafts -- show me everything!

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

i've been excitedly adding to this every month, and it's finally done! here's my 2025 Year in Art! 🎉 it's hundreds of hours all compressed into one teeny graphic 😅 template below if you'd like to share yours!! #art #illustration #2025recap

A dark green illustration reading 2025 Year in Art Vicky Again with slim vertical cutouts for each month showing 12 intricate digital art illustrations with a pencil texture.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

for the #CafeDot holiday art exchange, here's my piece of @pixelmage.bsky.social's webfishing character! look at that salmon! 🐟 #art #artsky #illustration

A digital illustration showing a humanoid character with a bob, cat ears, and cat tail, proudly holding up a giant salmon while on the dock surrounded by Webfishing paraphernalia. A lighthouse is in the background over a cliff with a whale in the distance.

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

lots of timelapses of mine that haven't seen the bsky skies...here's the one from my most recent piece! 🕯️ #timelapse #art #artsky #illustration

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vicky 💚 @vickyagain.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

on the altar of our love / martyr 🕯️ november's illustration! #art #artsky #digitalart #illustration #cafedot

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