iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

guhhh i dreamt of something clever AF to add the comic im nearly finished drawing 😭 rejig my precious, FINISHED pages , or, ignore the brilliant idea which came to me in a dream

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

omfg im free. i got so caught up in quotidian things that i forgot for a little bit. but i just remembered. im free ⛓️‍💥

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

when they’re playing my song

A photo of Jones the ginger cat with his head thrown back in delight, and his ample whiskers slayed out like dancing fingers

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i think my favourite part of inking comics is getting to replay jenny nicholson’s evermore video

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lesbian culture is taking up powerlifting so u can bridal carry all of your girlfriends

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

oh hell yeah, adding u to my orbit 😘

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

hi if u want me to pay attention you’re going to have go turn your instructions into a little story and sing it to me like you’re Donovan explaining what happened to Atlantis, thanks

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i love my gay cat 🌈 🐈

A photo of Jonesy, a ginger cat.
He is looking at the camera. A reflection from a suncatcher is casting a rainbow on his fur.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe Ed Sheeran is trying to join Radiohead. Did you ever think about that?

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

fear of doing the hot dog thing haunts makers of autobiographical comics too! i blame my propensity for comics hotdogging on having read a lot of those “illustrated guide to [philosopher]” books as a teen

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

mostly i don’t miss being a smoker. but, when i see a group of old friends sitting together outside the Turkish cafe, in a brilliant ray of spring sunshine, sipping their coffee & smoking their cigs in a companionable silence, ughh, looks soooo gooood 😭

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

cats, myrrh, crisp pink lady apples. tea brewed just the way she loves it, the good chocolate, sourdough with olives. lesbians persist, as ever, as always. like your favourite poems, the stars, the sound of a loved one’s laughter or a magpie’s warbling 💜

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

slowly, over a lot of time, it will start to make sense, i promise. you will understand why, and it will set you free. it was never about you, so you are not ruined. nothing was taken that you can’t build back. one day you’ll wake up & feel it in your bones. you are yours, and free. you made it x

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is the paradox of DV: the further away you get, the more clearly you can see it. my heart no longer races at the sound of footsteps. my mind isn’t hissing static. there is peace again, and with that comes clarity. and it’s sad how every DV story is kind of the same, but it’s freeing too

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s been 2.5 years since i left and yeah, im still talking about it. i spent 18 good months and 5 terrible years with this person. they wrecked me with surgical precision & took pleasure in my pain, confusion and fear. it was fucked what they did to me and no, im not over it

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

even more so, how revealing that the news i was moving out prompted rage & punishment instead of sadness. every action they took speaks so loudly to me now. they did not want a sovereign partner. the thing my lovers treasure me most for, is the thing my abuser feared and hated above all else

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it’s so revealing that my abuser’s response to my depression & withdrawal from the world was to pathologise me. that when i “withheld” what they were entitled to it was evidence of massive dysfunction. rather than me asserting my bodily autonomy. my right to say no

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

being loved so well now, the thing inside me just flows. it joins up with the thing each of my lovers possess. we all understand: sovereignty is non-negotiable

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

naturally, this too became a reason to abuse me more. how cheated they felt when i became this flattened, desiccated version of myself. they were Owed: magic, access, validation & praise. these things belonged to them, not me. how dare i stop providing

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it’s chilling when u see it clearly. my abuser saw something in me they can’t make for themselves & thought that if they possessed me, they’d possess it. of course, it doesn’t work that way. being with them snuffed out that magical thing they wanted so badly

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i was supposed to stay a ruin, but i didn’t. i realise now i never could. witches grow back big & fierce & hungry for the world. clear eyed, unbowed, unwilling to play pretend. all the things my abuser feared the most

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

every moment i feel peace is a reminder of my sovereignty. every flash of desire, a reclamation. when i smile my heart replies: we are beyond their grasp beyond their grasp beyond their grasp

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ahh yes, the ancient rite of all goth millennial australians: the watching of the nin closer video on rage at a pivotal moment in one’s psychosexual development and being fundamentally altered in a way one can’t ever fully explain or quantify

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hell yes, get in on this folks 🙌 can’t wait 💪

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nobody's Fool 🧵🦋☀️ #art

a digital drawing of Dolly Parton as the tarot card "the fool", based on the song Dumb Blonde. Instead of blithely walking toward the edge of the cliff, she walks away from it, her little dog Crackerjack at her feet. She holds a multi-colored bindle over her shoulder, with a spook of thread poking out, leading to the needle held aloft in her hand. She wears a purple-blue jumpsuit with a sheer neckline and voluminous sleeves. The whole suit is bedazzled and there is a scene of Icarus falling from the heavens into the sea on her lower half. The border is pink, with a repeating pattern of butterflies, sparkly crying eyes, rhinestones, hands with crossed fingers, flowers, broken hearts, and pocket watches.

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

to say this differently - *slaps washing line* this sunday morning backyard in suburban melbourne can fit so much lesbian yearning in it

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

u want symbols??? allegory?? sapphic desire?? the world’s romantic poets need to look thru my kitchen window & see my gf’s long black dress hanging on the hills hoist

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

to the person who booed the concept of polyamory during last night’s cinema nova screening of camp miasma: hope you’re ok. also, thanks for giving me & 2 of my gfs (also in attendance) a new in-joke to share & enjoy

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tim, dolly 😭 my camp-loving homosexual heart is big enough to hold my love for you both x

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Vale a bodhisattva in rhinestones

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

thank you for your service 🫡 (to bugs 🐛 🐞🐜🪲🕷️💖)

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

my job in the polycule is lift heavy thing

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

actual photo of the books on my gfs bedside table

A photo shows my hand in bed holding selection of books: 4 Warhammer manuals, China Mievilles “October” and Dante’s “Inferno”

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

to be fair, it’s been a helluva year

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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A photo of the beautiful ginger cat
named Jones. He is delicately grooming his front paw while stretched out on a red velvet blanket.

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ughhhhh too relatable. i think it’s ok to have a lil tattoo as a treat

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

i stg every time i write with a fountain pen a bit more of my soul returns to my body

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

bluesky is not a great place to get into it but broad strokes: you’re working on something important in the underworld x

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

oh 100%. what a tell that is, either they ignored their child so long it’s suddenly a “surprise”, or they saw but chose not to acknowledge or talk about it, or, they were so rancid in other ways their kid just knew this was a thing that must be hidden. whatever the case, it’s super revealing

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

specifically ia800502.us.archive.org/8/items/jame...

ia800502.us.archive.org

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katie @withnewmoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

oh i have kooky ass witch thoughts about this, u ever read any James Hillman?

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