iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my windows are open its 70 out the saxophone guy is on the corner again bc its warm, playing sax 10 floors down, i do lov when living in the city feels like a movie

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my neighbors are listening to really loud cocteau twins. whether they like it or not.

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is clementia, she does desk work at a plastics manufacturing company. she becomes obsessed with the angel who lives in the factory boiler room, she wants to be accepted by it

drawing of a woman with a blonde bob and corporate clothes and costume angel wings

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i need to re-watch lego batman to learn the lessons of Opening Up

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i was a BIT emotionally vulnerable last week so now im all done and i am back to having 0 access to my feelings but i need that access NOW bc i need to be mushy about smthg on a time sensitive basis. can soomeone take all my avoidant coping skills and ...... just put them far away from me

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

me when everything is falling into place but in a way that gets me overly riled up excited

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

showing horsey game at chicago indie game showcase this sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Indie City Games @indiecitygames.org · 02/09/2026

Dropping the FULL CIGS LINEUP FOR INDIE GAMES, TTRPGs, VIP SPEAKERS, and more! Stop by for CIGS on 9/13 at Ravenswood Event Center! Tickets are already going about 3x as fast as last year, so make sure to grab yours showfloor or VIP tickets soon!!! 💚 www.tickettailor.com/events/indie...

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a small but necessary thing is that i only wanna perform our games/parties in spaces with gender neutral bathrooms. which in chicago, that is NOT a limiting venue requirement... i'm happy i can be picky

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i love chicago, we've been going to this monthly house-music party in the park thats like mini-festival vibes, dj's, fire performers and ppl flowing and dancin - the park leads into the gay beach where ppl are running around nude, dj's and dancing, swimming. so u can just bop around both!

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

TOMORROW NIGHT IS GONNA BE OUR FIRST SHOW AT A BAR!!! IM SO EXCITED!!! and proud!! and nervous!! but thankful the bar is taking a chance on doing our party game in their concert space?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

the growth between this sketch redraw is really exciting to me ... the right one feels a lot less intentional

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

pisstol!!!!! he is one of my oldest oc's he is in a heist crew in the 80s and he love love looooves it

cartoon of a character with a blonde mullet and a pastel 80s miami outfit and a pink pistol with little charms and stickers on it. in one pose he sits bored resting his pink pistol against his head. In another pose he is self harming, and he says "no, like, im listening" in a speech bubble.

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

had a so nice monday today!! woke up at 1 pm (post-furry-rave-sleeping-in) with my gf to see that my roommatebff had picked up my fav giant cinnamon rolls for me and ma gf! after she went back home, i spent the rest of the afternoon by myself at the gay beach bobbing around in the lake v_v

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i can tell that im past the teenage phase of hrt bc im not as into machine girl anymore

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

pisstol is one of my fav oc's but i dont draw him that often bc his color palette is so opposite of what i typically draw so im like maybe everyone will hate me and unfollow me if i do that

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

organizing promo stuff in my google drive for bloodrage and im like .. ok we look puh-retty cool actually

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

cinema is important bc whenever i catch myself doing some stupid self-sabotaging shit bc oh woe is me, i can be like STOP ur doing a banshees of inishirin thing

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

starting a collection of quotes like this

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Indie City Games @indiecitygames.org · 28/07/2026

We're SO back on our 3rd year of Chicago Indie Game Showcase (CIGS)! Join us 9/13 at the Ravenswood Event Center! CIGS is a one-day con showcasing amazing indie games from Chicago & Midwest Area. We'll also have guest speakers, DJ sets, tattoo artists, and so much more! Tickets: bit.ly/450rk88

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

also i kinda wanna make a social party game i could sell on steam that other ppl could run at their own parties ... i think that'd be a fun challenge

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the passion is there still tho, and i have more ideas!!! posting em for my own accountability: - bring bday game to a level i can show publicly - seance in hellheart church - i wanna make a NOT alt-ctrl game .. a sanctuary defense ... exploring smthg quite personal

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ive been hoping to use this year as a time to polish up what i already have, but last year, functionally making 3 games from start-to-finish left me so burnt out that im like. still recovering.

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

bloodrage needs serious controller re-working to be able to show in the spaces i'd like (both con spaces and we wanna try bars...) im conceptually proud of PAN, but not proud of the rushed art and level balancing and i wanna polish up my bday party game to be smthg i can pitch to bars too!

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

its honestly been years since i brought a project out of "glorified game jam" and actual serious polish that i forgot im like. allowed to do that.

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

when its not summer and i cant live like this i start getting cranky and also when its the weekdays and i have work and i cant live like this i also get cranky

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

last week stats: thurs: danced 2 hours. 1 concert, 1 dance party fri: danced 7 hours STRAIGHT. 1 bday party, 1 stranger's pregame i ended up at, 1 dance party sat: recuperated. sun: danced 5 hours but had a nap in-between. 1 dance party

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is cool (the first one especially)

New legislation signed in Illinois:
HB 4834
Removes testosterone and other hormones from Illinois' list of controlled substances
HB 5095
Enshrines the self-selection process for gender markers on state IDs and driver's licenses
HB 5492
Requires insurance companies to cover up to six months of prescribed hormone therapy

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I never asked for any of this

A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

having a corporate job is great actually i saved a bunch of good noodle points and got $50 ulta stuff FOR FREEE

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Explain your @ in art school i had a tumor fuckin with my adrenaline that made me constantly manic and so i'd work/play super hard til i dropped, like a windup toy jittering forward til it dies lol. winduptoy was taken tho. so was my tumor! (my work ethic is more sustainable now.)

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

oh claudia... forever one of my favorite fictional characters, and the tv show just writes her perfectly. i love u claudia!! u guys i adore the show. i think it completely honors the characters and narrative more than the book lmao. its just perfect ITS PERFECT! #iwtv

digital illustration of claudia from interview with the vampire. she is wearing a puffy rococo dress and slouched over in a fancy chair. her face and dress are spattered with blood like she just ate someone

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

i have been some kind of very-not-sober, drenched & rained-on & bug-bitten, 20k steps from walking or dancing, collapsing into bed in the wee hours for 3 days in a row now and thats not from beyond wonderland or whatever else is happening in chicago thats just. normal chicago life

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

She is very lonely

A unicorn resembling a neuron styled like the titular character of The Last Unicorn

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Wurm Fud (DOUR TOWER) @wurmfud.itch.io · 03/06/2026

Hey yall, Slaughter Void launches today in just a few hours; it's a game that wasn't supposed to get this far, that @smeli.bsky.social and I made together for fun a couple years ago. It would mean the world if you checked it out. #indiedev #swordandsorcery store.steampowered.com/app/3333980/...

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Slaughter Void on Steam

SLAUGHTER VOID is a heavy metal dark fantasy slasher where hesitation is death. Chain kills, keep your momentum, shape your build, and slaughter your way into the Void.

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

she got TWO entire bars to sing happy bday to me this year during my bday barhopping, by exploiting each bar's PA system, and then very gently asked if this was enough attention bc if not she could be worse center of attention x center of attention relationship

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

PARALIVES EARLY ACCESS RELEASING ON MYYYYY BDAY TODAY????????????????????????????????????? ive been waiting for YEARS

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

the wild things world that was created by my friends during my bday party! The barcode idle mechanic was inspired by a game by @mtylpg.bsky.social !! Players could scan and level up their critter and discover secrets to customize their building from a basic tree to towers and rainbows

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

ive been trying to think of a new instagram handle for my vanity insta for like a couple weeks now. my life is incredibly difficult and complex

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

some critters i've been drawing when i hang out at bars! last one is my neopetsona cheerio :D

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

i got a lotta compliments on my pool playin this weekend :D i didnt win any games but i think the encouragement is helping me like be less anxious about practicing a Skill (pool) in the Public Eye (a very crowded bar)

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★ windupthing ★ @windupthing.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

how tf have i been sick like every single day of april can i catch a break PLEASE

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socks magocs @socksmagocs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is my cool new baphomet tattoo drawn by @windupthing.bsky.social I love it so much 😭😭

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nattie ✨ vaaasm @vaaasm.com · 14/04/2026

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Nattie, a 2D pixel artist and solo gamedev based in Chicago. I'm open for freelance pixel art and animation for games - as well as any GameMaker programming roles! 💛💜 PORTFOLIO🎨: sites.google.com/view/vaaasm/... 📧: vaaasm.dev@gmail.com #pixelart #gamedev

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