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anime artist, visual novel developer and card gamer. she/her #visualnovel dev at @crystalgameworks.com & marketing at @vnstudioelan.com. I read too much shounen manga and collect doujin games.

💜 my blog: https://arimiadev.com/
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arimia @arimiadev.com · Oct 19
hiya! I'm Ari, a visual novel developer, marketer & artist—a clown of many hats. I make genderqueer romance & fantasy visual novels solo and I'm the marketing lead at @vnstudioelan.bsky.social ✨

I read too much shounen & doujin VNs.

💜 my blog: arimiadev.com
❤️ my gaymes: crystalgameworks.itch.io
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wendeego.bsky.social
For Crunchyroll News, I wrote about the underdog success of Gnosia: an experimental visual novel released for a dead console in 2019, only to be adapted into a high profile anime series this year. www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
A blonde-haired person with violet eyes and a suspicious expression.
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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aksysgames.bsky.social
Happy Launch Day!

A fairy-tale filled with love and fixation, woven together by those who carry the blood of the fairies. So begins the revenge tragedy of a girl bound by a hapless fate.

Mistonia’s Hope -The Lost Delight- is available for @Nintendo now!
Buy Today - http://bit.ly/NewReleaseAksys
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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endysis.bsky.social
A noble lord brings two squires along on a hunt. One is a gentle boy who should not exist. 🌟

The other is a girl who dreams of plunging a dagger into her master’s heart. 🗡️

Trail of Stars, my short, (bitter)sweet fairy tale visual novel, is out on steam! 🌟

store.steampowered.com/app/4006140/...
Cover art for Trail of Stars showing the two squires sitting back to back looking up at the sky. Screenshot of two figures on horseback silhouetted in the woods. The artstyle is paper cut out and storybook inspired. "They trotted along behind the main party, she on a chestnut stallion, he on a white mare." Screenshot of a starry sky with a half moon and foliage framing the screen. "The magic of the woods had run dry; the boughs no longer sheltered them with their sanctuary." Screenshot of cropped artwork of the girl running while the boy reaches for her hand. "The way he always did when she was sick or afraid."
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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kinmoku.bsky.social
1 DAY TO GO until VIDEOVERSE releases on consoles! 😱
Feudal Fantasy artwork of Hanzo and Umi from the game VIDEOVERSE. Hanzo - "One day remains..."
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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vizodi.bsky.social
#Bettelful
Gavis Bettel (HOLOSTARS ENGLISH -TEMPUS-) staring directly at the viewer over his blue/pink-tinted glasses. He is pushing the glasses up against his face. Gavis Bettel (HOLOSTARS ENGLISH -TEMPUS-) staring directly at the viewer over his blue/pink-tinted glasses. He is pushing the glasses up against his face.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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antonarcana.gay
19 year old mutual: Have you perhaps considered that shipping the princess with the knight has a problematic power imbalance, hmmmmm?

30 year old mutual: Thinking about ordering jerk chicken for lunch
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
arimiadev.com
realizing I drew a lot of rimias this year
anime style illustration of a blonde girl holding a love letter to her face and blushes, smiling and looking off to the side Happy Valentine's Day 2025 anime style illustration of a grey haired boy and a blonde girl sitting on a cobblestone bench talking to each other while leaves fall around them anime style illustration of a blonde girl holding balloons and smiling the the viewer anime style illustration of a blonde girl in a witch Halloween costume holding a lollipop and smiling to the viewer with 2 grey haired chibis on either side of her
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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arimiadev.com
screenshot of the anime 16bit Sensation: Another Layer of a guy sitting at a computer in a darkened office. the subtitles say: Bishojo games are made by people who can't make regular games.
January 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
arimiadev.com
every day so far this month has been swapping between scripting in renpy, writing for nano, and reading nonfiction of the harlequinade 😵‍💫
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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tendermiasma.com
Both Ana's patreon and kofi have been suspended within 24 hours of each other. She's been doing invaluable reporting on this exact censorship
acvalens.net Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.net · 2d
Given how bad this is getting, I've opened a Donation Tier on SubscribeStar. One-time or recurring, this is one way to help me while combating this nonsense

Content permissions being updated as I speak

subscribestar.adult/acvalens
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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fruitbatfactory.bsky.social
We're having a Fruitbat Factory publisher sale on Steam this week! Almost all titles up on big discounts!

🍊100% Orange Juice -75% off!
🌊SeaBed -40% off!
🌘MAMIYA -40% off!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/728/F...
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
The Trans People Take on the World Bundle is live on itch with 32 books for just $35 USD, all featuring trans characters, largely written by trans creators!

A multitude of genres and vibes are included, including an epic dark fantasy romance by me, Powder and Feathers!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
arimiadev.com
reading a 50 year old book that had....smoking ads in the middle of it

(also it's so old / cheap that the spine broke at this part)
A smoking ad in a book that says C'mon Come for the filter. You'll stay for the taste. A smoking ad in a book that says I'd heard enough to make me decide one of two things: quit or smoke True. I smoke True.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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jules.su
Chuck Schumer's office number is (212) 486-4430.

They open tomorrow at 9am EST. Call and tell them what you think.
jules.su Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 4d
Let’s be 100% clear:

If Dems cave right now instead of Reps nuking the filibuster, then Dems will be solely responsible for our healthcare costs skyrocketing, and handing Trump pure unlimited power.

Telling your opposition (who is trying to kill you) that you will always fold.
gmbn.bsky.social good morning, bad news @gmbn.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: At least ten Democrats are expected to pass the Republican CR package in exchange for a promise for a December vote on ACA tax credits and language related to RIFs.
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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theo.twofold.page
I worked on this UI set!! It's available for free and fully functional for Light.VN.

Please check out the other designs by Kuusou-san on ko10panda.booth.pm as well, they're all gorgeous!
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
arimiadev.com
haven't talked about it here yet but I've been doing nano this month and it's gone well so far! trying to finish an old script (lost lune) and started a new script (harlequinade timeloop romance) and I've made a lot of progress on both so far, currently at over 8k words written this month 💪
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
arimiadev.com
I feel like devs would feel more comfortable "marketing" their games if they realized it's just *talking*. you're literally just finding ways to communicate with others about your game. how do you explain the game to them? what key art best represents it? are there any events it'd fit in? that's it
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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astrokatie.com
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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bloodygoodgamer.bsky.social
It's too late Battler, I have depicted you as the hotheaded human and myself as the unbothered and radiant Witch.
Meme of Youtube video edited to be How to shut down Anti-Witch Arguments by witch lifestyle, description reads "You can support my work by becoming my furniture. An angry red headed man in a suit, Battler umineko has they attack in blue in front across from an unbothered witch Beatrice umineko with blonde hair and the red text Say this.
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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akumajoaurora.bsky.social
I am not fucking joking when I say the English-speaking video game world would be nothing without GameFAQs. Everyone and their mom used it (literally, my mom and all her friends). If you played video games in the 2000s you probably knew GameFAQs in the same way most people know, like, Wikipedia
sharkabytes.bsky.social Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 8d
Hey, happy 30th birthday GameFAQs! Launched on November 5th, 1995!

The earliest scrape I can find on Wayback is December 1996, but I doubt the site changed much. But yes, here it is in its earliest days as the Video Game FAQ Archive!
A snap of the text-heavyu VGFA Archive with various console choices to click on, and a what's new
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
Hey, happy 30th birthday GameFAQs! Launched on November 5th, 1995!

The earliest scrape I can find on Wayback is December 1996, but I doubt the site changed much. But yes, here it is in its earliest days as the Video Game FAQ Archive!
A snap of the text-heavyu VGFA Archive with various console choices to click on, and a what's new
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
arimiadev.com
just a handful of screenshots from today's work.... please appreciate my scene direction
Elm This is....part of a favor for Rowan. Shopkeeper Seven last week, yes...five the week before, but prior to that I can't recall any for some time. Not since that awful business all those months ago." ??? "That's a rather morbid topic for an afternoon stroll, isn't it?" "My eyes widen in an instant. I'd forgotten completely! Three days ago, Ambrose mentioned that he was waiting on a reply from Mr. Driscoll that was several days overdue."
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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aikasacolle.bsky.social
#PitchYaGame!

🏹Red Rebellion is a sapphic fairy tale mashup as female Robin Hood teams up with Red Riding Hood to save their town set in a historically accurate medieval England.

🌈By a female director/writer!

🔗👇Play the demo and wishlist now!

❤️RT

#indieGame #gamedev #yuri
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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hanakogames.bsky.social
🥂SAVE THE DATE! 🥂

Galaxy Princess Zorana is set to launch on Steam on November 21, 2025 - that's two weeks from now! #gamedev #LongLiveTheQueen

store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
Galaxy Princess Zorana on Steam
You are the Evil Emperor's only daughter, but can you claim the throne? Raise stats, make deals, appoint advisors, and scheme your way through the Imperial Election - unless an assassin gets you first...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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woodaba.bsky.social
every clip people post about northernlion is him saying some "you need to touch grass. engage in earthly virtues, the pleasures of the spirit and the mind. reject dopamine. seek transcendence" while he plays 'Subway Surfers But It Makes You Addicted to Slot Machines' in the background
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM