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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 02/10/2026

Normally I just ignore the AI slop shit that YT keeps trying to recommend for me but I couldn't help but go ??? at the "nonstop 1 hour BGM" selling point on this thumbnail If I wanted to listen to music that sounds like X Japan for an hour...why would I not just listen to an X Japan album...

YouTube thumbnail for an AI-generated X Japan cover album

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 22/09/2026

Thank you, Apple Music, for sending me a push notification alerting me to the release of a 1999 album which I have listened to on this specific platform literally dozens of times

Album Released
mind soap from Raphael is now in your Library.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 17/09/2026

The pickle emoji proposal is so good www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/252...

3. BREAKS NEW GROUND

YES - I know the resistance here in getting this approved will be that cucumbers already exist in emoji form. The pickle is SO much more, after sitting in the brine, it becomes something entirely different, and as I previously stated, transformed. Cucumbers are a wet, diet food associated with being healthy. Pickles are a treat and are beloved. The two are not interchangeable.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/09/2026

Steam does require permission for games to be included in festivals, it’s listed in the documentation for third-party events and I know people who have gotten dinged for including a game that was submitted by a developer who forgot to inform their publisher partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pr...

Get Permission & Set Expectations

• 7) Steam Approval is Required - Use of sale page tools and any on-Steam promotion are subject to approval by the Steam Events Team.

• 8) Secure Third-Party Approval & Manage
Expectations - As always, Steam requires you respect the intellection property (IP) rights of others and secure appropriate permissions to include any games, assets, or IP in your event. Keep participants informed of the status of your event, and don't promise a level of visibility unless it's confirmed. See Event Visibility section for more details.

Note - Even if your Event's Sale Page is unpublished or hidden, adding games to it will automatically enable the developers of those games to see your contact info, event name, and event date in their Steamworks dashboards.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/09/2026

Just got finished watching a documentary about the lead up to the 2020 Olympics. Fascinating stuff

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 01/09/2026

Bonded in Darkness is participating in this year's #FallInLoveFestival! Wishlist my gothic enemies-to-lovers vampire BL game now: store.steampowered.com/app/4914850/... And make sure to check out the festival page itself for more great romance VNs! store.steampowered.com/curator/4624...

Bonded in Darkness in the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, Sep 1-9

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 19/08/2026

I realize this is probably a coincidence but damn if I didn't get jump scared in the grocery store book aisle

Photo of the cover of a book titled "A Date with Death" by Kelly Creagh, with the tagline "He's got his scythe set on her." The cover has an illustration of a skeletal Grim Reaper gently holding the chin of a blonde woman wearing glasses, and he has a scythe with a "G+H" atop a heart and crossbones

Photo of the back cover. "The grumpy/sunshine dynamic of my dreams! Fantastical and fun—this one will have you giggling and kicking your feet." -Lana Ferguson, USA Today Bestselling Author

Helena

Grim had done something to me, reached into me with that dark essence, wound his smoky wisps around some inner part of me.

Those constricting tendrils had since fled, but a small twinge of sorts remained. Not painful so much as it was regretful, the soreness more emotional than physical. Almost like I'd needed that squeezing of my spirit, that soul-deep touch that had stirred and sung to me an instant before sending me into oblivion.

As if, with that intrusion, he'd fixed something I hadn't known was broken, and now whatever that something was longed to be fixed, adjusted...again.

Grim

I was quite literally a monster, and my thoughts had no business trespassing on the reprehensible territory they now dared to venture into.

I'd taken an oath not to interfere—in any way—with the lives of the living.

Aside from that, my soul, which belonged entirely to my station and to the Hallowed Halls, certainly had no right to yearn for another taste of hers.

Hadn't I horrified the poor woman enough already?

I was not human and had not been for a very long time.

Therefore, I could no longer permit myself to take my human form in her presence—or even at all. Doing so only enticed me to behave like a human—to think like one.

Desire like one.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 02/08/2026

So I know this is from a trailer and not the game itself but spiritually I think it deserves a @newvgadvisor.bsky.social ping

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 01/08/2026

Celebrate #yaoiday by wishlisting my gothic vampire BL game on Steam 😊 store.steampowered.com/app/4914850/... #vndev #blvn

Illustration of two men in a swordfight. The textbox reads "The clang of our weapons has become as familiar to me as the chimes of my own grandfather clock."

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 15/07/2026

What the hell kind of SEO stuffing bullshit did I just wander into

YouTube search results for the query "moi dix mois live". The videos are unrelated videos with thousands of views and AI slop thumbnails with dramatic titles: "1 night stand,she preg twin,38y infertility prince know overjoyed,bring them back,doted!" "Reborn!Whole family hears my inner thoughts,exposes my vicious sister's schemes and changes my fate!" "She insulted me,called me a dog because I was broke!After I became CEO,she begged me to forgive her!" "My Sister Stole My Fiance, But I Married The Powerful CEO And Drove Her Crazy."

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/07/2026

Even on my personal account that has adult content visible, there's only one porn game and it's actually a BL game lol

Cabernet, Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate, Sleepover: reWake, Monster Con

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/07/2026

Side note: considering Steam's tendency of slapping random games into the More Like This section of every VN page, I feel like I lucked out by actually getting a decently relevant selection of games

A Date with Death, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, Cabernet, Monster Con

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/07/2026

Surprise! I'm going to be releasing my free gothic vampire BL VN Bonded in Darkness on Steam, and the store page is now public!🦇 Add it to your wishlist to be notified when it releases later this year! store.steampowered.com/app/4914850/... #vndev #blvn #indiedev

Screenshot of the Steam page of Bonded in Darkness

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 06/07/2026

So it might not surprise you to know that I regularly check for new VN demos on Steam. Lately there's been a developer flooding the VN tag with AI slop eroge that all have basically the exact same capsules (exactly three AI-generated anime women with big tits, bottom center logo). It's so annoying

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 04/07/2026

...and second of all, the gothic vampire BL romance visual novel Bonded in Darkness. (I have some really exciting news about this game coming up soon, by the way!!) $60 bundle: itch.io/b/3682/the-p... $10 pay what you can bundle: itch.io/b/3684/the-p...

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 04/07/2026

There's only a couple days left for the Power of Pride bundle! Here's a friendly reminder that I've got two games in the bundle: first off, the Game Boy mad scientist polycule escape game Emmy's Lab Escape... $60 bundle: itch.io/b/3682/the-p... $10 pay what you can bundle: itch.io/b/3684/the-p...

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 22/06/2026

So let me get this straight: Valve thinks people will be lining up to buy their PC-console at One Thousand US Dollars in order to play Stardew Valley at a desk with a keyboard on a regular computer monitor

Promo photo for the Steam Machine showing a person playing Stardew Valley at a desk with a keyboard and PC monitor

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 21/06/2026

Alas, the sole movie theatre in town is not cool enough to show yuri on the big screen

Adolescence of Utena - Sorry, no showtimes have been announced yet for this theatre. Showtimes for Friday and beyond are usually posted by Wednesday afternoon.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 29/04/2026

I see that I missed some truly riveting stuff by not checking my twitter list for a while

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 06/04/2026

Hello #InternationalAsexualityDay, here is my video game about an asexual vampire that you can play ✨right now ✨completely for free It's a short enemies-to-lovers gothic romance visual novel 🖤 natashaluna.itch.io/bonded-in-da...

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 03/04/2026

This is the funniest reason for a character in a romance game to be non-romanceable

While Girlfailure Art Club features four main heroines, it seems that only three of them – Shoko, Kana, and Rinne – are romanceable. The fourth girl and president of the art club, Yurie, is a diehard Yumejoshi (self-shipper), who pairs herself with the fictional character Tobari Kyoya from the in-game manga Home Problem Hitman Deborn (which are parodies of the character Hibari Kyoya and Katekyo Hitman Reborn! manga series by real author Akira Amano, respectively). Given that you are nowhere near as charismatic as Tobari, Yurie will not respond to your romantic advances.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 02/04/2026

...it turns out the reason is just that the plays it's based on do the same thing. Kind of anticlimactic lol Weirdly I've seen multiple people who're disappointed that the game doesn't include any romance in either version, but nothing about the Steam page seems to indicate there would be any...?

Photo of the all-female cast wearing magic school costumes

Photo of the all-male cast wearing magic school costumes

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 18/03/2026

I just noticed that the answer to the AI generation disclosure is now included in the game's info panel on itch. You've now got double the reason not to use one of your 10 tag slots on "No AI" When you only get 10 tags, you gotta optimize

Screenshot of an itch.io game info panel with "Content - No generative AI was used" at the bottom

Screenshot of an itch.io game info panel with "AI Disclosure - AI Assisted, Graphics, Text" on the bottom

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 18/03/2026

We were having perfectly lovely spring temperatures before yesterday the weather came up and reminded us that ACTUALLY 🤓👆 it’s still winter until the equinox on Friday

A screenshot of my weather app showing how the temperature went from 67F to 32F over the course of March 16

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 25/02/2026

The problem with being a VN fan is that every "for you" recommendation on Steam is filled with a random selection of games that are obviously aimed at separate non-overlapping audiences which no human being would ever think to group together

"Recommended For You" screenshot from Steam Next Fest showing visual novels titled Untamed Lust (3D porn), My Toes Story (anime foot fetish), and Your Crown Is Mine (political sim)

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 18/02/2026

I made a whole game about this dynamic that anyone with an internet browser can play for free natashaluna.itch.io/bonded-in-da...

Screenshot showing a man named Julien covered in blood laying at a doorstep saying "Does it matter? If you're not going to help me, then just close the door and leave me to die. There's no need to drag this out."

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/02/2026

So did itchio users suddenly get SUPER interested in frutiger aero aesthetics or...? It's not even an official tag so idk how more people are getting to Seascape Paradiso via it vs the anti-ICE bundle going on

Screenshot of the itchio analytics of my game Seascape Paradiso showing the top 3 incoming referral URLs. At the top is the "frutiger aero" tag on itch, followed by the No ICE in Minnesota bundle page, followed by the itchio homepage

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 01/02/2026

I generally agree, but I think the Morrowind viewer count probably says more about the one specific vtuber currently playing it than about how popular it is compared to the other Elder Scrolls games

Live Twitch streams of Morrowind (573 total viewers) showing a vtuber with 400+ viewers playing it and three streams with <100 viewers

Live Twitch streams of Oblivion (21 total viewers), showing 5 streamers with only a handful of viewers each

Live Twitch streams of Skyrim (567 total viewers), there are a few streams with a few dozen viewers or more, plus a few with about a dozen viewers

Live Twitch streams of Oblivion Remastered (112 total viewers), there are quite a few streams but none have more than 11 viewers

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 30/01/2026

I like how this spambot copy pasting my entire display name makes it look like the DM is telling me to play a game I made

DM from today at 12:11 PM. Message: “hi Natasha ☠️ Play At the Poison's Edge @ itch.io, really liked ur vibe tbh 😉 gotta be honest, i make intimate content. if u enjoy that sort of hot, personal things, i'd really like to have u on my onlyfans. my messages r open there so we can chat right away? its complimentary to talk by the way! the link is here”

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 02/01/2026

PSA: If you're making a Ren'Py game where you can name the MC and you don't want to come up with a default name, it's super easy to block the player from playing the entire game with an empty name (this is a quick thing I did in a test project, I'm sure there are other solutions as well)

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 22/12/2025

PSA: Answering "No" to the AI generation disclosure on itch automatically adds your project to the "No AI" tag ( itch.io/games/tag-no... ). Adding it to the tag field too just wastes one of your 10 tag slots (if you want a visible indicator that no genAI was used, add it to the description instead)

Screenshot of the tag field and AI generation disclosure on an itch.io edit game page. The tag field has "no-ai" filled in and a red X next to it. The AI generation disclosure answers "No - This project does not contain the output on Generative AI" and has a green check mark next to it.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 15/12/2025

me seeing the news of the one-off Versailles reunion in Paris next summer

The meme of the angry kid going congrats, happy for you, nice

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 11/12/2025

That Not By AI badge set you’ve been sharing isn’t as useful as you think it is. Here’s your regular reminder to read things before spreading them

Who Can Use the Badge
The Not By Al 90% Rule
Understanding that there is a blurred line between what is considered Al-generated Vs human-generated, if you estimate that at least 90% of your content is created by humans, you are eligible to add the badges into your website, blog, art, film, essay, books, podcast, or whatever your project is for non-commercial use, and, with a subscription, commercial use. The 90% can include using Al for inspiration purposes, supporting legal documents such as privacy policies (assuming that legal is not the main focus of your content or service), non-user-facing content such as SEO meta tags or code, and looking for grammatical errors and typos.

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 10/12/2025

Just got the new iOS redesign update…not sure how I feel about about this half-aero aesthetic (song unrelated)

Screenshot of my lock screen while listening to music

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 02/12/2025

“Love” that they gotta make an exception for blockchain shit

Additionally, when we [Epic] filled out the IARC Questionnaire based on the content that we reviewed, it received an Adult Only (AO) rating. Products with AO ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store (the only exception is for products in cases where an AO rating was applied solely due to the usage of blockchain or NFT technology).

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