iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At CVS I saw a hook-like dental tool with the pimple popping tools. In the makeup section. Near the feminine hygiene products. Which is next to the harsh chemical acids we call cleansers, for acne. And I'm not supposed to like the idea of the new Hellraiser game as much as I do?

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

—about how many things keep happening back to back that should have some time in between them. All of this happening at once is messing me up rn. /Upsetting

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

* Car had a screw in the front driver's tire and Walmart Auto Care center was closed at 7pm. /come the fuck on! * Went to a local autoshop that was about to close and got it patched. /lucky * In the truck with my dad as we went to that autoshop, I had a mental breakdown—

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

* Got a letter in the mail that my Trazodone had a voluntary recall for not being as effective, took my med to the pharmacy with worry, got them replaced for free. Let the pharmacy tech keep my letter so she could double-check the incoming truck for the lot number. /Scary, positive, kind interaction

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

* Applied for financial assistance through the hospital for ER bills I can't pay and got approved, payments refunded. /positive * Without a leech field, the septic tank has started to dump what we flush out into the yard via the air intake pipe. Might as well just shit in the backyard. /horrifying

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Things that have happened to me in the 4 days with tone tags: * Broken dryer fixed for free by the small business I bought it from because the owner has some pride to his products and "I wanna make sure my products work" has me hooked as a lifelong customer. /insanely positive

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Two years ago the landlord gave in to get the septic pumped. The guy told me "this house is on our list having a slumlord and there's no leech field." Guess what? Now everything from the toilet goes out into the yard via an air intake pipe. Guess who needs to mow the lawn? (Me)

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm kind and get used. I'm helpful even when it's detrimental to myself. I work 210% to burnout. We're all in this together. But why when I say/do one shitty thing in retaliation, my karma is -4000? Others are shitty humans and get everything, it's so fucking exhausting.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somehow Ai is convincing people they can start small businesses in my town, or advertise businesses/services that don't have good logos and stuff. I'm mad. And I want to support small businesses in my area. But they're using Ai. So I shouldn't support them??

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I take a week to rest so that I have energy to do something fun this weekend and I see I've wasted time because we're $400 short on rent (like every month) I want to eat and sleep and be productive with the energy I have and it's not the "right" kind of productive.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been working on the whole picture since January. I think the hold up has been me trying to get back into art, and, I don't want to compromise on Ekho's design but he's very detailed. This much of the lineart was done on PC but I colored Blade in on Procreate. #humanmadeart

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Children shouldn't interact with the LGBTQ's media! It's inappropriate!" Hey Jeff, I've been hearing radio commercials about your erectile dysfunction since I was 5 & I'm 34 this year. Been hearing about old man limp dick syndrome since I was in kindergarten. Retroactive WTF

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Tonight isn't a full moon but it had a double rainbow around it. Phone cameras haven't gotten me a good night photo my whole life so I scrambled inside the house for my iPad. Husband drove around while I threw the basics down and finished it at home. Took 3 hours. #art #procreate

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If my omeprazole prescription can be $9 with insurance, can it just be $9 without insurance?? Before the CVS app updated, it said my 90 day supply was gonna be $305. A minute later when it changed, I made a panic pterodactyl noise because wtf.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

What is something you feel compelled to do regardless of its probable impact? I learned once, perhaps from the internet, that a lot of Earth's water is stuck in bottles, in landfills. And will be stuck for a LONG time. So any time I have a bottled drink, I empty it completely.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

My soul says be an alt goth girl. My dream aesthetic is alt goth girl. What works for me mentally and physically is a baggy T-shirt and jeans, no jewelry and no makeup. No socks in bed. My bank account says "food is more important. Thrift shopping isn't cheap anymore."

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Alright, lesson learned. Don't try to post storytime in 280 characters unless it's multiple posts. People suck at understanding too much text, and too little text. I guess 500 characters is the attention limit for people to comprehend anything.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What's the oldest reaction image you have? I'll go first with this one that Google Photos decided to remind me of 😂

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NOBODY TOLD ME THE MET GALA WAS TODAY ME—I WRITE FOR AN OC WHO IS A FASHION DESIGNER— AAAAAAA— I could have been looking forward to this up until today but nobody else near me cares about fashion enough to know and I had to find out through the news at the VA—

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

April 30th - I took a bunch of photos of the sky before taking Brandon to work because I saw something flying. I didn't check to see if anything was on the launch schedule. #photography

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

What's something weird and unexplainable in a game that you can't recreate? I'll go first. In Skyrim for PS3 I would open the front door to my house and a dead dragon would be in the front lawn. That same dragon would appear alive for me to fight in the next place I went. 5x+

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Introduced my parents (probably not for the first time ofc) to System of A Down, started with BYOB. As soon as it starts, my dad smiles and shakes his head. And my mom is like "you know what I can absolutely see Brandon singing that one." Ofc! 😩 It's on the road trip playlist.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Night 2 of BALL IN THE HALL before bed. I had attempted to forfeit after a few kicks because I wasn't feeling it, but quickly I gave in to play. Tonight was my night to score points! I got the ball past my husband 4 times and he got it past me twice.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Nothing kills the spirit more than having an idea full of hope, love & kindness as knowing your landlord is considered a slum-lord in town. She pays 3-5x in the long run for shitty/no handiwork. Why would she listen to an idea to make the flower bed out front look nice?

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Phones I/my husband have had, that I still have, that are worst almost nothing now and I would maybe get $100 TOTAL selling them: * Moto E4 (x2) * iPhone 6S * Moto G Stylus 2021 * Moto G Stylus 2023 * Samsung A16 (x2) * Moto G 5G 2024 (x2)

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Whenever I need to do the laundry, or dishes, my brain goes "NOPE" and I end up outside. Right now I'm using the blankets that covered the plants in winter (and smell like cat pee) as tent covers from the sun. Some of my plants need 6+ hrs but Florida sun bakes everything 🤔

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I must insist, and I IMPLORE brands to stop STOP adding stevia/fake sweeteners to things that say "no sugar added". CapriSun, Del Monte, Dole, Great Value, and more. If it can't be put in fruit juice or a tiny amount of sugar, DON'T MAKE IT SWEET. FFS it ruins what I'm making.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tonight husband & I played an awesome game called BALL IN THE HALL. He convinced me a $5 ball should go in the cart. I had gone on about how I wanted to be more into soccer/volleyball growing up but I bruise easily. I don't think we've laughed so much/had so much fun in a while.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

These ads for Viagra online are ofc Ai, but the more unhinged that they get, the funnier I find them.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

April 28th, 2026 — I have lived on this property for one year and I will live here for another. In doing some yard work to clean out the big sticks and rocks I don't want to mow over, I keep finding small things like this, zip ties, and bottle caps. I feel like an archeologist.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I don't know if my dad was joking when I was talking about music. He hadn't heard of The Gorillaz for some reason. So of course I show him Feel Good Inc, but I forgot the music video has Murdoc topless, and the ladies are all over him. I cut the video off so fast—

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I did not know (somehow, ME, the one that listens to NIN music almost non-stop for years) that Trent Reznor has had new stuff out this year and last year. And I love the lean into 80s synth and game music here and there. Excuse me while I go play songs 1,000x each.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It makes me wonder why I ever stayed as active on Twitter as long as I did, because the interactions are surface level, distant and I still have the vague impulse to fight people in the comments because of the memory of hostility.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And asking for help with positive results. But also—admittedly, roasting the silliness we post and the OPs are good humored about it because they're not being attacked.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Or at least in the neighborhood, in the know, and I have community. Everyone's open the same way my own family is about things like gut health and other bodily functions. But also mental health and sharing what's good in their lives in a realistic way.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

With places like Threads, and even Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram, I actually feel like I'm a part of the community in some way and not shoved into a corner of hate. On Threads specifically, I feel like I may not be blood related to the family, but I'm in the house.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I keep trying to return to Twitter because that's where a lot of good artists are, still posting their art only there. I used to be an avid user because there was an active roleplay community for Hazbin Hotel. But every time I go back I'm like "where's the lore?"

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I've been trying to do gardening over be on the Internet and ofc you know it's not working. But today I ended up outside in a chair, in the yard, staring at the grass and the dirt while the sprinkler did it's job. Not boredom? Just... Needed to stare blankly at something I guess.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

From 2018 (I think) until the end of 2023, my "most listened" music was Nine Inch Nails & anything to do with Trent Reznor. 2024-2025, it was rain music and thunderstorm tracks. So far this year it's an even mix of both 😅 Trent is my spirit animal when my brain is in the dark.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Looking at NASA's astronomy picture of the day for April 26th, 2026. And I must insist that at first I thought this was a picture made by Peter Mohrbacher that was in progress.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hey, so when I try to come up with lore/events for Hell in my Hellaverse fanfic offshoot, I'm trying to think of really fucked up shit that happens/exists there. Like, you know... Prediction markets where you can bet on and influence tragedy, war and the like. Just a thought.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My husband has to work all day/night. I'm going to try my damndest to sit still and play a video game, and not wander off to do anything else that isn't feeding the cats. All of this stuff is going to be within arms reach. Healthy? Well I won't be passively starving, so ye 😊

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Me out here building my own story lore. I use the Christopher Neural voice to read both posted and unposted writing so I can catch plot holes and out-of-character moments. It’s helped me give Ekho the bigger role he was always meant to have. Johnathan and Naomi, too 💕

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Coming up on 1,400 hours in Stardew Valley and now I've got all kinds of mods so I'm about to double that.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Things ChatGPT has helped me with for chapter 78 of the fanfic. I am basically treating this like a big ol essay project or something. Having a summary of each chapter, and examples of improvements really helps. I don't always go with what it says, but I'm more focused on plot.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Why my computer randomly tell me "plugged in" like it hadn't been, or like it's reminding me it could stop itself from being plugged in at any time?

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

So I have seen carpet cleaning videos, people mowing lawns/tackling overgrown yards. Pressure washing, drain cleaning/plumbing videos. I even follow a guy who livestreams his day as a trucker. You know what I actually want to watch so badly? Roads being ripped up and repaved.

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Never pushing myself to mow the lawn and do yard work 2 days in a row. FFS. My spine, neck, head, sternum all hurt. My nose needs salve on the inside or it bleeds from dryness. At least I can say the lawn doesn't need mowed for a while.,

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Caitlin Serviss @xotheforest.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Having to leave feedback for things often because, like today, Motorola decided I needed their smart lock screen "glance" thing again. My feedback: Stop turning this on automatically, I don't want it. Please and thank you.

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