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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 7h

holy shit, thank you for the Massive outpouring of support! your kindness and enthusiasm mean the world to me. we're currently sitting at #3 on itch's top selling books list. wanna see if we can bump that up to silver or gold? 👀🥉🥈🥇

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 2h

Items modified with Packaging, Cans, or Plastic Jars will appear under an item they’ve been used on. There is no limit on lifespan, nor the amount of plastic jars you can use. If transporting towers of jars sounds fun, maybe wishlist? s.team/a/3119170 #gamedev #indiedev #wishlistwednesday

Screenshot of a pixelart game. Exos, a beetle, looks at their cargo. There is a single piece of lone packaging, along with three pineapples and a dead fish egg. Underneath the pineapples are a plastic jar, some packaging, and a metal can.

Exos is in a shop. There is a tower of plastic jars with a dead fish egg on top.

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NTVtuber Network @ntvtubers.bsky.social · 6h

🧡 Sept. 30th is Orange Shirt Day, or Truth and Reconciliation day. Join us today in spreading awareness and uplifting Indigenous voices, and providing survivors and families of those affected with support on their healing journeys. EVERY CHILD MATTERS 🧡

EVERY CHILD MATTERS

From the 1800s to the late 1990s, the United States and Canadian governments alongside Christian churches created and ran residential bording schools to force Indigenous children to assimilate.

Over 150,000 children attended, and many suffered abuse or died.
Today we honor and respect the residential school survivors, their families, and communities, and remembers the children who never returned home.

TRUTH & RECONCILIATION

Native Vtuber Network

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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 10h

sliding in a touch late—hello, #HorrorWritersChat! i'm vert, i like queer psychological, gothic, and folk horror (amongst many, many other subsets and themes), and my music tastes are equally vast and varied. lately i've had a lot of rabbitology on repeat?

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✩ astra ☕️🐺🌟 ✩ @astralouve.bsky.social · 18h

Today is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada. We remember those we have lost. We honor those taken from us by the residential school system and we honor those who survived, their families and communities. We will never forget and we will carry them with us.

illustration for truth and reconciliation day. the illustration features a wolf looking forward, standing with its pup who is also looking forward. there is a circle behind them with an eight point star dreamcatcher and three feathers. the words "EVERY CHILD MATTERS" are featured on the side of the circle

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 15h

Okay fine I'll check out The Amazing Digital Circus.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 18h

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

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Wolfechu @wolfechu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would rather have Chris Chibnall return as showrunner than AI episodes. If you know me, you know how low that's sinking to

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

there's a reason I almost exclusively use my QTs as a "yes, and" tool

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)

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V. E. Phemera @visceralhit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Helloooo my beautiful bsky followers. Does anyone have a review of Beyond Bringers that YOU would like highlighted on the campaign page? And the name you would like it credited to? You can DM it to me and I may quote you in a review section <3 (can’t make the section too long, gotta cherry pick)

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly most of my big learning moments in life have come about as a result of a friend going "hey it makes me sad that you said that."

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 29/09/2026

ha ha hahahah hah... hah...... oh no relating to something too much also hurts in a good way

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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MELT: REFRAIN: A 🔞 queer trans horror novel about toxic corporate vampires in love, and other four-letter words. One part Gothic, one part psychological torment; all sex and death. Everything changes for the worst all the time. What are you going to do about it? Available now on Itch & Payhip. 🪦🕊️

Promo image with the cover of MELT: REFRAIN and extra info. It says: a queer trans corporate Gothic horror novel. Non-linear, multi-POV, first in a series.

The cover illustration features two characters, one in bright red, one in dark teal. The man in red is disheveled and smoking, eyes obscured in shadow, and the man in teal is behind him, mostly obscured and dangling a lowball glass over the first man's shoulder. Smoke drifts up from the cigarette, partially obscuring both their faces. The backdrop is black and dark red, and is textured a little like viscera. The title text has a similar texture and is outline in neon red.

Excerpt from MELT: REFRAIN.

If Simon hadn’t been so desperate already, Hector really would bite him open, drink him half-dry and make him woozy and pliant. But Simon’s saucer-wide pupils and laser focus on the red pooling on Hector’s chin and seeping into his beard belie his composure. It’s not like Hector’s ever been turned—no doubt something out there could mold a vampire into something else, though he’d rather not dwell on the possibility—but he’s got the gist over the years, how it eats and eats and eats at someone if they don’t get what they need. Born vampires have it bad enough already; what exquisite agony something even worse must be, the basest parts of oneself parched and undeniable.

Available now on Itch.io and Payhip.

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emerson @chxckens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think in a lot of "doomed" narratives, killing the character/characters off in the end is actually, like, the easier way out. i think that sometimes (sometimes!) it is more interesting to be like. well actually no all of that happened and now they still have to live. like that's sometimes harder

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harry @hairy-son.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this tweet changed the way i think about a lot of things

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This works both ways, too. It's kind of baffling how much I'm starting to resemble my father.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

Nothing is less fun than the kind of "not getting anything done but being 167% committed to not resting either" that comes with adhd

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🌸Anime Themes🌸 @animethemes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anime: Kakegurui/Compulsive Gambler Style: Opening Track: Deal with the devil Artist: Tia Year: 2017 Studio: MAPPA #Anime #Animesky #AnimeThemes #AnimeOpening #AnimeOpenings #AnimeOP #AnimeSongs #AnimeOST #Kakegurui #CompulsiveGambler

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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

You-yes you! 🫵🏿 Are you - a speedrunner / challenge runner - interested in charity fundraising - looking for more activities and camaraderie w/ your Black peers year-round - Black? (Obvy) We want to hang with you in BaF! 🫶🏿 We're fundraising for Race Forward in February and would love to have you!

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026

this is so real and anyone with more than 5k followers on this website can attest to it

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not to get political on main, but I hate... no, I absolutely loathe gambling, I abhor it! I despise this predatory industry, what it does to people, how it targets vulnerable people, and how it worms its way into everything. If I ever got into power, I'd criminalise these companies.

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026

if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#NexusDND The absolute psychic damage now that I can fully talk about "Give It All" in the context of Nox 🎶A girl looks to the stars and dares to dream On the world she'd make her mark, it seemed This phantom in my mirror starin' back I realize that girl is gone She’s gone, she’s gone, I’m gone🎶

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not quite, but there are specific weapons that I have decided are their "canon" weapons for my favorite classes. Warrior: The Thunderstorm Viper: The Skyruin Twinfangs Black Mage: The Omega Rod Scholar: The King's Codex

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a job that requires coordination between multiple Scions, tbh. You wouldn't think so with Lucid being less than three feet tall but there you go.

"The thing is, it’s something all the Scions have learned by now – that sometimes, to get Lucid Chime to do anything or go anywhere, the only thing for it is to pick them up and carry them there.
It isn’t often called for – while their Warrior of Light is an immovable object in the face of most people, they are a purring kitten to most of the other Scions. Y’shtola still sometimes recalls with no small degree of amusement how, at an otherwise routine visit to Ul’dah, Lucid had gone from glaring several Monetarists into a corner before turning around, seeing her there, and beaming fit to burst to wave her over.
But sometimes, drastic measures have to be taken.
“Nooooo, betrayal! Put me down!”
“I will in just a moment,” G’raha soothes, carrying the squirming, kicking Lucid towards the sickbay.
“Once we get to a bed to put you down on,” Alphinaud adds, tagging along behind."

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think Lucid's gimmick literally might be "their entire team is different flavors of Alcremie", because Warrior of Light or not, they are a culinarian first and foremost. Each one probably favors one of Alcremie's possible move types, though (Grass, Normal, Dark, Fairy, Psychic, Gigantamax)

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man it sure always does come back to Lina Inverse, doesn't it. 🎶If instead of wavering about the distant future You break down the realities in front of you One by one They'll change into ordinary sand We can't be worried about appearances Let's break in through the front gate!🎶

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Slayers Evolution R Opening (English Subtitles) [Fair Use]

YouTube video by CSM

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#FFXIV I swear, multiple times I've thought "you know, I've got downtime until the next patch, let's try to fully unlock a relic weapon." And then I always hit a point of "why am I doing to myself" and never touch the thing again.

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I tend to make glams more for classes than for occasions, but this has so far served as my General Purpose Crafting glamour. It's meant to signify Lucid going "fuck it, I'm too eepy to go adventuring today, time to lounge around the inn room and craft 100 chondrite ingots.

A screenshot of Lucid Chime in the outfit they wear when crafting items. Lucid's hair is down loose. They are wearing a baggy sweater, soft fingerless gloves, green pajama pants, and white slippers.

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Legend of Mana" defined my narrative style but I do think Final Fantasy 9 counts as my "origin" game. It feels like when I first took my step from watching my dad play games to playing them on my own initiative.

The box art for the Playstation 1 video game Final Fantasy 9.

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vert ⚡️🪶 MELT: REFRAIN OUT NOW @subvertebra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hello! i truly appreciate everyone’s support, thank you. unfortunately i still have about $700 to make up within the next week, so while you should still hire me (info below), i am also going to jingle my tip jar a little louder! thanks again for sharing!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When the time comes for the cultural revolution necessary to get out of this mess we need to set up a cabinet position like the Department of Hobbies that supports literally anything that gets people out of these brain breaking sites and counteracts this collective breakdown

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I always wondered how parts of the brain were so good at taking over for other parts and, uh, this kind of helps explain it for me!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Hi everyone telling me about the coming economic crash! That sounds like the perfect time to enact a green new deal. "But we won't have the resources" ... I mean, do you remember what precipitated the first new deal?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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Rhem @rhem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

History is a good discipline for introverts because it ultimately takes very little to get people talking and then keep them talking about what matters to them.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So the vibe shift wasn't imaginary, it was just obviously not permanent. And yes, there was still some Trump backlash (Snoop Dogg and Target found out the hard way) but the real shift back was Minneapolis. All the celebs were quiet at the Golden Globes before and much louder at the Grammys after.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 23/09/2026

the thing i find most strange about this current wave of pr about don’t worry you can skip the grinding, you can speed up the cutscenes, don’t even worry man is that ff7 (original) is so simple it was a not insignificant of people’s literal first game ever and it sold a billion playstations

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