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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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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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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...
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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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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/...
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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1 DAY TO GO until VIDEOVERSE releases on consoles! 😱
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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
realizing I drew a lot of rimias this year
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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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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
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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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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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...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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)
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Chuck Schumer's office number is (212) 486-4430.

They open tomorrow at 9am EST. Call and tell them what you think.
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.
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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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
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
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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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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It's too late Battler, I have depicted you as the hotheaded human and myself as the unbothered and radiant Witch.
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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
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!
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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!
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
just a handful of screenshots from today's work.... please appreciate my scene direction
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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#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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🥂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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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