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tally ho! 👋 nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 日系４世 in japan 🗾 slow reader 📚 yuru camper 🏕️ 御朱印 hunter ⛩️ 日本語 self-study 💮 blogging @ https://renkotsuban.com 🖥️ the english-speaking half of @nicegear.games 🎮 runs @indietsushin.net 📰
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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 6d
New #blog post! New Year's Resolutions and other musings. Happy almost-2026 everyone!! Just a little more!!

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📏 The Weekly Measure: 2025 W52
It's The Weekly Measure for 2025 W52! New Year's resolutions and other musings!
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🎉 あけましておめでとうございます！！ Happy New Year!! 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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indietsushin.net
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎆🎉🥳🥂🎊

Today's games:
🍄 MOMIBOSU by @pengxpeng.bsky.social
🃏 My Card Is Better Than Your Card! by @utustudios.com
🦆 Windswept by @weatherfell.bsky.social

Here's to another great year of awesome #IndieGames!!

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Happy Hour! 2026 New Year's Special!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
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December 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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nanaekawahara.bsky.social
Hello I introduce myself🐶
I'm Nanae, Japan-based illustrator.

こんにちは！イラストレーターの河原奈苗です。
犬と音楽が好きです🌟
Mainly use Japanese but can speak English as well.
I looove music and dogs.
Plz check my works on the links below!

PORTFOLIO🏠 nanaekawahara.com
ALL LINKS🫖 lit.link/nanaekawahara
#artshare #illustration
my works' layout from all link feed 'litlink', my favourite things are gathered. リンク集litlinkは左のようにレイアウトして、これにサイズを合わせて右に二つ作品をおきました
October 18, 2024 at 5:55 AM
renkotsuban.com
Got some fun games lined up for tonight's NYE marathon 👀 Feel free to drop in/out as needed and help us ring in 2026 in style!!
indietsushin.net インディー通信 Indie Tsushin @indietsushin.net · 2d
It's almost time to ring in the new year, which means another New Year's Eve #HappyHour #streaming marathon extravaganza!! Join us tomorrow night (December 31 21:00 UTC+9) as we play through some cool #IndieGames and welcome in 2026!!

www.youtube.com/live/OuSdZBw...
Happy Hour! 2026 New Year's Special!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
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December 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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machineiv.bsky.social
888 to 685. 203 votes over them.

In the words of the noted philosopher, “To the extreme, I rock a mic like a vandal, light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle.”

Thank you all. Next step? The #iHunt feature film that’s currently in development!!!

www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
1-page comic
a ghost makes friends with a cat, but they can't touch. the last panel the cat is also a ghost and he has picked her up and is petting her and smiling
December 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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indietsushin.net
It's almost time to ring in the new year, which means another New Year's Eve #HappyHour #streaming marathon extravaganza!! Join us tomorrow night (December 31 21:00 UTC+9) as we play through some cool #IndieGames and welcome in 2026!!

www.youtube.com/live/OuSdZBw...
Happy Hour! 2026 New Year's Special!
YouTube video by Nice Gear Games
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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calamitynolan.bsky.social
I released an #indiegame this month! I made it for the #20SecondGameJam, it's called Rush Boss: CurseRime and I think you should play it if you like Hollow Knight + Silksong! calamitynolan.itch.io/rush-boss-2

Here's a bunch of videos, gifs, and screenshots detailing the 3 week #gamedev process 🧵
Rush Boss: CurseRime by calamitynolan
20 Seconds to Beat the Boss!
calamitynolan.itch.io
December 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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bungakureport.bsky.social
読売新聞「今年の3冊」欄（2025年12月28日（日））で、菊池信彦編『人文学を社会に開くには。　パブリックヒューマニティーズから考え・行動する』が紹介されました（選・清水唯一朗氏）
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December 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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retronauts.bsky.social
One week early for our Patreon subscribers: with 2026 around the corner @jparish.bsky.social @atariarchive.org @benjedwards.com & @pettycommajared.bsky.social look backwards to the games of 1976 and 1986
Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/146874...
cover art by Greg Melo: a gathering of video game heroes who debuted in 1986 (Kunio-kun, Simon Belmont, Pit, Link, the hero of Dragon Quest, one of the Bubble Bobble dinosaurs, the ship from Arkanoid) surrounded by enemies who debuted in 1986 (a big dragon, Doh, Medusa, a slime, a Metroid)
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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zackdavisson.com
Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April!

The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.

amzn.to/4jmUDIG

@dandq.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
renkotsuban.com
The #iHunt books are super fun and incredible, I highly recommend them. Also check out this short film (in the QRT) and vote for it!!

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December 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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enikofox.com
christmas is over but our sales aren't store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...

kitsune tails is the award-winning gay fox girl SMB3-like, 33% off

midboss ($5) is a turnbased body snatching roguelike, kitsune zero ($2.50) has more fox girl platforming and UHD ($1.64) is a cute block pushing puzzler
A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote: "Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+ midboss key art showing the imp holding a plague rat and zombie head, as well as the warlock, ghost, and skeleton ultra hat dimension key art showing the protagonist bea in a witch hat surrounded by blobby creatures called spluffs wearing a variety of other hats kitsune zero art showing yumi, a brown haired fox girl, protecting yasunori, a cute nerdy wizard guy from a scary samurai
December 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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doodlemancy.com
Potion Stand Story is still on sale until the 31st!! itch.io/s/173460/win... ✨ #indiegame #visualnovel
Elly muses about whether or not the sun or the moon would win in a fight: "Well, the sun is way bigger, but by comparison, the moon probably has the agility advantage, so it's not a guaranteed win... the bigger they are, the harder they fall and all that..." Elly browses potion-making supplies at Pot & Ladle potions have sold out for the day, and Elly says "THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SEE" fake box art for Potion Stand Story for the "FaeStation 2"
December 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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decoster.bsky.social
Another reminder that Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You is on sale on both Steam and Itch, with additional community copies up for grabs on itch!
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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hauntedbouncy.bsky.social
Poetry is often underappreciated we're trying to change that.

We want to show folks poetry can be a powerful call for change as well as a cathartic form of expression, especially for marginalised communities. 💙📚🌈

#queerbooksky #disability
hauntedbouncy.bsky.social Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · Nov 24
If you're looking to expand and diversify your understanding of poetry, check out our Poetry Bundle!
Featuring:

A Body More Tolerable by Jaye Simpson
A Fate Worse Than Death by Nisha Patel
I Cut my Tongue On A Broken Country by Kyo Lee

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#booksky 🌈📚
The cover of I Cut my Tongue On A Broken Country by Kyo Lee The cover illustration seems to be a painting. you can see the texture of the brush strokes. Almost everything is in shades of green. The portrait of a young femme person nestled in large leaves lake those of lotus, with pink flowers sprouting across and maybe out of them. Description: Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant memory or a flaming future. Kyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics including lineage, family, war, and hope. i cut my tongue on a broken country explores the Asian American diaspora, queerness, girlhood, and the relationships between and within them, pushing and pulling on the boundaries of identity and language like a story trying to tell itself. i cut my tongue on a broken country documents a search for love. It's a eulogy for the things we gave up to get here. It's an ode to tenderness. It blossoms and bleeds in your hands. the cover of A Fate Worse Than Death by Nisha Patel The core shadow of two open, upwards raised hands, as though dunked in ink and stamped onto the otherwise completely white cover. above, the name of the author in italisized font and below the title, both in red. Description: A Fate Worse than Death is a stunning poetic investigation of the worthiness of disabled life as told through the author's evaluation of her own medical records over the course of a decade. Living with treatment-resistant diabetes, bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and complex chronic pain, Nisha Patel reveals how her multiple disabilities intertwine with her day-to-day life, even when care or treatments on offer are not available. As she works through her bouts of illness, neglect, and care, Patel reveals how poetry provides a way for her to resist the sway of medical hegemony, and instead offer complex accounts of pain, sickness, anger, but also love. Navigating the menial and capitalist systems of health care and paperwork, documentation, and forms, Patel uses clinical texts in visual poems that show how words like patient and client underscore more medical access and denial of coverage than words like person and care. As she asks us to consider if her life is worth living - and saving - the future of Patel's disabled body and her desire for it is a building meditation as the collection progresses, ending with less of a finite ending of cured illness and disease and instead a look at how we can embody hope and joy in a disabled body, as it is the body, like time, that goes on. The cover of A Body More Tolerable by Jaye Simpson An illustration of two wolves biting each other in front of a red background. The title of the book is presented in diagonal font which has a very hand script character Description: a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts, the book examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. Gone is the soft, kind, gentle girl that author jaye simpson once thought she would become. Instead, she unravels the sticky threads of colonialism with poems that exact lyrical acts of self-surgery. In these visceral poems, teeth gleam, graze skin, and sink into flesh, becoming bloodied and exposing the animalistic hunger that lies within. Pulsating with yearning and possibility, a body more tolerable is a book that resists typical notions of physicality and sex to dream of a world more divine. It is a call-out into the canon for a new age, one filled with retribution and recompense.
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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sarahclark.bsky.social
Happy holidays from Phonecall who has gotten Quite Blue Colored on this side!
Phonecall, the beautiful blue, red, white, black, and orange fish
December 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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nicksuda.com
Here are 10 of my favorite records released on #Bandcamp in 2025! I don't want to rank them, so they're sorted chronologically by release date. All of these got CONSTANT rotation in my listening habits this year.

A bit more on each in the thread!
A graphic combining the cover art of my picks for my 10 favorite records on Bandcamp of 2025, organized chronologically by release date. Going from top left to bottom right: - Pink Siifu "BLACK'!ANTIQUE" - clipping. "Dead Channel Sky" - Andreas Tilliander & Goran Kafješ "In Cmin" - Brendan Byrnes "Astral Bloom" - John Platter "In the Know" - L.I.E.S. Records "The Definitive End of a Genre 2010-2025" - Authentically Plastic "ROCOCO RUINE" - the black Albumen "OVERGGINNIT" - Hidden Operator "In Orbit" - ZAKLADKI "Blackhole Clock Trigger"
December 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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thaliarchus.bsky.social
Good night and good luck, pilots.
A tower of some kind rises from a lake filled with spikes. Pink/purple tinted. [Granbelm]
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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ruins.net.ve
hice un fanzine grupal (con tantas personas que no cabrían en este post) en videotome super para lara y para la jam of the year jam del excmo. @eufrasiodev.bsky.social

a leer ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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sed by FUTURE RUINS
Play in your browser
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December 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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amaitorte.jp
The Kingdom of Felismans: Episode 3 Page 1-2 Published on Amaitorte Website
The Kingdom of Felismans
Episode 3 Page 1-2 Published
en.amaitorte.jp
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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milliesquilly.com
Blog post: Decker Wrapped 2025, or an overview of pretty much everything I've done in #Decker this year milliesquilly.com/my-decker-wr...
My Decker Wrapped 2025
yeah yeah everyone loves to post things generated by various 'platforms' about what they passively consumed over a year but fuck that I am writing my own thing about things I've actively created!
milliesquilly.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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machineiv.bsky.social
Help us whoop this fucking AI slop garbage merchant.

#iHunt currently has 436 votes. It has 320. About 37 hours remaining. They could do another bot rush.

So let's blow them the fuck out.
machineiv.bsky.social Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 4d
We were in first place in this film award voting.

A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.

Now it's personal.

Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.

Reshare? VOTE!

www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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scorestudios.bsky.social
Took the kid to the Puk puppet theatre for a performance of Strawberries In The Snow. Pretty cool theatre experience with lots of history!
www.puk.jp
The exterior of the Puk puppet theatre Signboard for the Puk puppet theatre Poster for the show "Bonfire of the 12 months" or "Strawberries in the Snow"
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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thanaorchard.bsky.social
hi folks, my lowpoly character creator is out now!

its free or paid (honor system) so anyone can play!

i would love to see your creations! this is the first version so ill be adding more stuff and im curious what yall would like to see added

play here: thanaorchard.itch.io/thanas-chara...
December 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM