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writing things + making short fiction games as a hobby, posting about stuff i like and stuff i make from somewhere in SEA.

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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ok WHY in the name of all that is holy and pure is 'sit still' not a good response to 'i'd like to take a look at you, please' in bird time?? #fireemblem
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
finally finally FINALLY finished the full game after releasing part 1 for #otomejam last year! NIGHTMARE GIRL is complete and available now: ghost-heart.itch.io/nightmare-girl #visualnovel #otomegame #datingsim
ghost-heart.itch.io
Nightmare Girl | FULL GAME by ghost-heart
A completed free short VN about learning to trust yourself and others
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
happy #yaoiday! been a much much busier year than i anticipated and i've only just been keeping my head above water, but will post more about his reluctant thrall as soon as i'm allowed to!
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
games i dug in 2025 (that came out in 2025) ⭐ promise mascot agency ⭐ the séance of blake manor ⭐ silent hill f ⭐ clair obscur: expedition 33 ⭐ dispatch honourable mention to urban myth dissolution center for truly excellent pixel art
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
first BL read of the year! MY INSTRUCTOR WON'T YIELD by deme kingyobachi, published in english by kodansha kodansha.us/series/my-in...
english cover of MY INSTRUCTOR WON'T YIELDjapanese cover art for 千葉教官はなびかない (chiba kyoukan wa nabikanai)
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
at the end of both 2024 & 2025, i didn't really have time to stop and take stock of the previous year before the new one started. so gonna take a sec to acknowledge that in 2025 i: - won 1st prize in the jnovel club OLN contest - published the first part of my first ever VN - watched 53 movies lol
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 17/12/2025
On the heels of the failure of big money pushes for NFTs, crypto, wearables, and the metaverse, it is absurd to hold the position of "AI is inevitable and we must learn to live with it." It's also a craven position that suggests we shouldn't fight for what we value. We decide our own fates.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
working on the rest of NIGHTMARE GIRL! there are two more characters that weren't introduced in the first part of the game, and here's one of them 👀 #screenshotsaturday
a guy with brown hair and dressed in office clothes (white shirt, red tie, brown slacks) stands in the middle of an office 

a text box along the bottom of the screen reads
MINOSE
--ten whole minutes for a catch-up on why you've turned into a space cadet.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
personally don't trust people who claim to love a manga series and can't name the artist/creator(s) who made it. and there are more such people than you'd think!!!
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Steph Blakey @manifestephanie.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
KIRYU-CHAN! 🔪✨ #yakuza
Isometric fanart of multiple Majima Everywhere encounters from Yakuza Kiwami. Majima runs into Kiryu in different parts of a Kamurocho street corner in various disguises or hiding spots. Goromi, Hannya-Man, and 24-Hour Cinderella are among Majima's disguises.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
i cannot prove this by any means but that has not stopped me from becoming unreasonably convinced that arachne's voice and character design from hades 2 was modelled on kristen chenoweth
image of an anthropomorphised grey spider with blond hair and a humanoid faceimage of a blond woman (kristen chenoweth) in a black shirt smiling at the camera
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Blerdy Otome 🎮 Indie Games! @blerdyotome.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
So fun story, I was laid off from my job earlier this week w/ no notice. Support for my content is really important right now. Especially on YouTube & Twitch where I'm monetized already. I've also increased my Ko-fi goal, but every little bit helps. Sharing is appreciated! 💖 ko-fi.com/blerdyotome
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Buy Blerdy Otome a Coffee
Become a supporter of Blerdy Otome today!
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
got the true ending in silent hill f awww yeah
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 17/10/2025
have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
eeeeEEEEEEEEEEE
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Mr. Hover Hands 👻️ @mrhands31.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
finally started my true end run of silent hill f aaaaaaa come on hinako we can do this
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a girl in a school uniform is standing in a dark area with red flowers
Alt: a girl in a japanese high school school uniform navigates a strange, darkened street with red flowers growing incongruously in the middle of the road
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Ryan H 🎮 @ryanhgames.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The environments of: 🪭 Silent Hill f 🌸 This game is gorgeous!
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
watched the apartment (1960) and vertigo (1958) over the weekend because they make a pretty good double feature if you don't mind the somewhat depressing thing they have in common #filmsky
poster for billy wilder's THE APARTMENT. 
"movie-wise, there has never been anything like THE APARTMENT, love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!
jack lemmon
shirley maclaine
fred macmurray"poster for alfred hitchcock's VERTIGO
"james stewart 
kim novak
in alfred hitchcock's masterpiece
VERTIGO"
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
art as escapism is fine but art cannot JUST be escapism, art cannot always be comforting, or make you happy, or bring you joy. sometimes art does the opposite, for a reason (or not!), and that kind of art is just as important too, if not more sometimes
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
wholeheartedly agree with the premise of 'make it exist first, you can make it good later' but also most of the artwork i've seen in the specific meme format that's been floating around already looks good even at the make it exist stage lol
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
i want to read the next volume so badly *i* could die
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Itch.io's mass delisting of paid adult content has also affected safe-for-work games with yuri or lesbian themes, devs claim
A new report features claims from LGBTQ+ devs that Itch.io's delisting of paid adult content has affected safe-for-work games with lesbian themes.
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CrimsonChains @crimsonchains.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Been watching and really enjoying The Summer Hikaru Died! Just such a fascinating story with beautiful themes and imagery~ I'm sure I'll draw more from this show <3
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
between this and silent hill f, september 2025 is looking up
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Coffee cat @honeyedcoffee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
currently reading, and enjoying immensely. ocean's godori by elaine u cho was one of my favourite reads last year, so been looking forward to this for aaaages #booksky
the cover art of teo's durumi (the alliance, book 2) by elaine u. cho.
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored! You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org
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Stop payment processors from censoring games!
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/08/2025
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
two films that feel like they have a lot in common thematically. didn't know much about either one going in, but haven't been able to stop thinking about both of them since watching #filmsky
movie poster for ALL OF US STRANGERS, directed by andrew haighmovie poster for ALONERS, directed by hong sung-eun
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
oh what this voice cast is *stacked*
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
aaaaand i didn't include the #yaoiday tag on this. hopefully i'll get better at the mortifying ordeal of self-promotion at some point 🫠
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
since it's yaoi day (8/01) i guess i can mention that my bl light novel won a prize in the 2025 j-novel club light novel contest, and...is getting published at some point?? mailchi.mp/j-novel/jnco...
key illustration (by tetsuhiro nabehima) from the j-novel club original light novel contest. text reads 'jnc original light novel contest 2025 winners announced! thank you for all the amazing submissions!'His Reluctant Thrall by ghost-heart

When Damion wakes up in a luxurious apartment with no memory of getting there, he's immediately suspicious of the dazzlingly handsome guy who owns the place… even if he did bring Damion in from the cold after finding him passed out on the street. But Damion's right to be suspicious, because it turns out that said dazzlingly handsome guy is a vampire. And now he wants to make a deal with Damion. But it's not for blood. Or even for a one night stand. It's for something much weirder… it’s to enter a court of political intrigue that he may not be able to exit.

To be published as a J-Novel Knight title!
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
not a magnamalo in the monster hunter stories 3 trailer filling me with nostalgia for the distant past of 2021
a still from the monster hunter stories 3 trailer shown during the nintendo partner direct: a large armoured monster (a magnamalo) roars at a pair of humans
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
was absolutely not expecting to see a trailer for this during a nintendo direct lol
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
[spoilers for metaphor re:fantazio] it's been months since i finished the game but i still find myself thinking about this
"In current, modern human society, anxiety has sort of come to unusual proportions," Hashino told me. For Hashino, the real monster is anxiety, which can stop people from progressing or moving forward in life. It's this general apprehension or internal panic that influenced "the idea of humans as the concept for the monsters in the game," Hashino said.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
was catching up on the apothecary diaries anime and jinshi and maomao's dynamic reminds me a little of haruhi and tamaki's back in the day (but with less slapstick and more Political Intrigue)
image from the apothecary diaries anime: a man with long purple hair (jinshi) touches the face of a girl with green hair (maomao)an image from the ouran high school host club anime: a blond-haired boy (tamaki) touches the face of a dark-haired classmate (haruhi)
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
sure, i haven't made any r18 games, but that's beside the point. it's not going to stop with r18 games. whatever regulation that storefronts like steam and itch need, it shouldn't be dictated by payment processors acting at the behest of groups with an agenda, religious or otherwise.
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Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
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ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
something that bothers me about itchio removing all of these r18 games b/c of payment processors is that a lot of the games which were removed were free, meaning no payment processors would even be involved with downloading them anyway
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 24/07/2025
itch delists and bans countless explicit games under pressure from its payment processors, blames anti-porn group Collective Shout
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Itch.io delists, bans games under pressure from payment processors and an Australian anti-porn group
Collective Shout’s campaign puts the digital platform against the proverbial wall.
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Ren'Py Tom 🇺🇸 @renpytom.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Steam and Itch taking down games they host is a problem for game preservation - and of course, I'm not a fan of people trying to censor what creators can express. This is one of the many reasons Ren'Py is free, and why its license means I can't censor what is made with it. 1/2
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Manga Mogura (Anime & Manga News) @mangamogura.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"Land of the Lustrous - Houseki no Kuni" by Haruko Ichikawa won the prestigious Seiun Sci-Fi Literature Award in the Manga Category! The series has already won the 45th Japanese SF Award earlier this year.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
not always good at commenting on stuff i like but idk with ai interfering with so many fields, especially creative ones, it makes me really happy to see people continuing to make art in spite of everything so i'm trying to get better at letting people know when i like something they've made
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
just updated Nightmare Girl (the VN i made for this year's #otomejam) with a couple of small fixes, and i figure now's as good a time as any to share a little bit about the character designs (at least for the two characters you meet in the first part of the game) ghost-heart.itch.io/nightmare-girl
Image of a dark alley with the words NIGHTMARE GIRL appearing over it in red Image of two monsters (one on the left with too many eyes, one on the right with a wide, terrifying grin). Text at the bottom of the screen reads 'Until its mouth splits into a terrifying, too-many-toothed grin.'Image of what looks like a thought bubble in the middle of the screen, with an apartment building in the background. Text at the bottom of the screen reads, 'What are you doing?'
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
what are the most heartbreaking games you've ever played? these are mine: 🏨 silent hill 2 remake 🕯️ devotion 👓 1000xresist 🤕 mouthwashing
in the top half ot he image, a brown-haired woman with her hair in a bun looks off to the side. below that are the words SILENT HILL 2 in white. in the lower half of an image, a blond man in a green jacket walks with his back to the camera. against a red background, we see a faint image of what looks like a spiritual figure wearing an ornate headpiece. a design made out of inky black chinese characters obscure the figure's arms. in between the two halves of the design, a smaller greyscale figure stands: a young girl with her eyes hidden behind a red blindfold, holding a strange object in her hands. the words DEVOTION are superimposed over the girl. close-up of a bespectacled purple-haired character staring at the camera. their left eye is yellow while their right eye is red. at the bottom of the image, the words 1000 x RESIST appear in red. against a black background is an image of an eyeball. the eyeball is framed by several layers of red lines, forming a design that looks like a keyhole, or like blood dripping. the word MOUTHWASHING appears in white at the bottom of the frame.
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ghost-heart @ghost-heart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
some games that i'm hoping come out this year and are good: demonschool silent hill f *sigh* vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2
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