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Sarah Mancuso — Music for Myhouse, Supplice, Heart of the Woods, Please Be Happy, and your next project!

Composer, instrument developer, Doom mapper, and a bunch of other stuff

Music at esselfortium.bandcamp.com
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esselfortium 🏳️‍⚧️ @esselfortium.bsky.social · Nov 25
If you like yuri and pop rock, have I got a single for you!

Your Sound (ft @splendiferachie.xyz) is a lesbian panic attack about separation anxiety, backed with the explosive slow-burn of Dud Gold (ft @renko.studio).

Bandcamp: esselfortium.bandcamp.com/album/your-s...

#anime_eupho #kumirei #yuri
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arimiadev.com
the game I directed & programmed, Witch You Want, was featured in this 💖 we're bringing it to Steam very soon!
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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envelopevn.bsky.social
Happy new year everybody!
Here's a first look at our new project! More information to come soon ✨ !!
January 3, 2026 at 12:40 AM
esselfortium.bsky.social
people are always talking about "liverwurst" when we should be trying to "live our best".
January 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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krmtdfrog.bsky.social
First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up. We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better. But the thing that actually makes me sick—and the main reason I’m quitting—is the "Desperation Score." We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior. If a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as "High Desperation." Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: "Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he’s desperate enough to do it for $6?" We save the good tips for the "casual" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust.
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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vnstudioelan.com
Here at Studio Élan we've developed & published numerous yuri visual novels, but at our core we're a small indie team. If you'd like to support our future endeavors so we can keep bringing LGBT+ games to the world, please consider supporting our Patreon 💖

patreon.com/vnstudioelan
Get more from Studio Élan on Patreon
creating Yuri Visual Novels, Comics, Short Stories + More
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January 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now.

happy new year everyone!
a stylized 3d illustration of a pregnant woman on a bike in a street with many musicians.
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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keliratelian.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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papaira.bsky.social
tonight on the new year's tree i'm wishing 100 Reviews to Upwards Rain the post office of farewells 🎉 IT'S ALMOST THERE PLEA

store.steampowered.com/app/3449030/...
Save 33% on Upwards, Rain! The Post Office of Farewells on Steam
Deciding to break protocol to lend a helping wing, Rain, a flighty little courier takes a skittish girl by the name of Mila on an adventure through the inner workings of a mysterious post office. Toge...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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renko.studio
【Renko 2026 Goals】
I thought since I did a 2025 recap, I'd do a 2026 goals post!
Most of it is more or less what I'd really like to do this year, or more of! (I'll try to do a JP ver soon.)

Of course, I want to add neat things to stream, as well, on top of all these things.

I'll be in your care!
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 AM
esselfortium.bsky.social
watanare is so good. episode 17 was everything i wanted out of this show (and yet i still hope for more of it someday)
January 2, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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tonyacatte.bsky.social
For May, I wanted to dip into the classic Doom mods and WADs well once more.

I covered the classic RTC-3057, a ZDoom-powered mod that made Doom feel more like a horror game similar to System Shock.

Now I kinda want a spiritual successor to this...

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RTC-3057 for Doom: Doom with a tinge of survival horror. - You Found a Secret Area!
RTC-3057 was one of those Doom mods making use of some the new features ZDoom brought. And it does those damn well.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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katie.bzky.team
well, 2016 was a hard year, but we made it through. hopefully 2016 will be better.
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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scwiba.bsky.social
Me trying to convince myself not to keep working on a wad I "finished" 5 years ago: The UnMaking anniversary update isn't real. It can't hurt you.

The UnMaking anniversary update:
Doom 64 screenshot. A broken pyramid is floating in space next to a crumbling techbase, with a bridge formed between them out of crates and loose bricks. A temple flooded with blood. The ceiling is hidden in shadow. The interior of an icy library filled with a thick fog. The remains of some sort of stone structure rising out of an ocean of rust-colored liquid.
January 1, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
Happy New Year from Eric Zmiro's "Prehistorik 2"! 🎉
Large yellow text on a black background: Yeaaaa.... My game is still working in 2026 !! Programmed in 1992 on AT .286 12Mhz. ... enjoy oldies!
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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ryanhowe.bsky.social
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
Graphic saying 'The democratization of art does not come from a billionaire's machine' with a pencil centred in the middle over the text
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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inconvergent.net
many current problems began when people started trusting computer. you must never trust computer. computer is the machine that hates you
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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esselfortium.bsky.social
Happy new year! Here's a peek behind the curtain at Til Our Particles Scatter, the yuri concept album I'm releasing in early 2026, featuring vocals from:
Renko - @renko.studio
Lisa Reimold - @lisareimoldva.com
Hayley Nelson - hayleynelson.com
rachie - @splendiferachie.xyz
and more :)
January 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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altazimuth.dev
I wanna try drawing more this year, and getting past the urge to can it even if I know it's not well-done.
Here's a comic inspired by a thing that actually happened.
A crude four-panel comic drawn in a ruled A5 notebook. The first panel is three digits grabbing onto a dripping ice cube (with ice to the left). The second panel is a crane game, the crane fully closed and a round stuffed toy of a cow being dropped. The third panel is of the ice cube bouncing off a foot and sliding into the shadow under an object. The fourth panel shows a stick person stood in front of a fridge freezer with the top door open and mist pouring out. A small puddle is on the flood from where the ice has slid under the unit. The stick person is stood still standing as if they are holding the ice cube. The word "Fuck" is present up and to the right of their head.
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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bearpigman.bsky.social
Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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yuriposts.bsky.social
Artist: ree (re-19)
Media: hibike! euphonium, liz to aoi tori
Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/73818152
Danbooru tags: 2girls bad_id bad_pixiv_id black_hair blue_hair blue_sailor_collar closed_eyes commentary_request hibike!_euphonium kasaki_nozomi kitauji_high_school_uniform liz_to_aoi_tori multiple_girls neckerchief ponytail ree_(re-19) sailor_collar school_uniform shirt short_ponytail simple_background sitting smile speech_bubble translated watch white_background white_shirt wristwatch yoroizuka_mizore yuri
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
esselfortium.bsky.social
happy birthday to the year
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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magicariot.com
Hi everybody - in honor of the “Magica Riot” audiobook winning a Transfeminine Review award, I’m putting the whole Magica Riot audio series so far - Magica Riot, Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius, and Magica Riot Full Bloom - on sale for one week in an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/177864/mag...
Magica Riot Audio Series Bundle by Storm Maiden Studios
A bundle by Storm Maiden Studios, $25.00 for Magica Riot - Audiobook Edition, Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius - Audio Edition, Magica Riot: Full Bloom - Audiobook Edition
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January 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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arimiadev.com
my 2025 end of year review is now complete.... phew, what a year. I released 5 games by myself and 4 different games I marketed, went to 1 convention, hosted 2 steam festivals, wrote 90k for visual novel scripts.....

read it here: arimiadev.com/2025-year-in...
2025 art in review
December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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renko.studio
【Renko 2025 Recap】
I decided to try doing a yearly recap and realized I was crazy busy and fortunate this year for all the amazing opportunities.

I also released a page for now that also lists my 2025 works with videos & where you can listen to some of them, so please check it out!

renkomatic.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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4nokivn.bsky.social
📧 Happy New Year 2026!

Newsletter: A recap of what I was up to in 2025 and a little preview of some character designs for my upcoming project: Olga Doesn't Die!

4nokivn.beehiiv.com/p/happy-new-... #vndev
Happy New Year 2026
Time is but an illusion
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January 1, 2026 at 3:51 AM