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tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

please enjoy this illustration by Erik Blegvad of a man with four cats in his lap

it’s a line drawing of a man in a big comfy armchair who is overwhelmed by four cats who have decided to stand on his lap

Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I checked Wayback, and it seems that paragraph has been there for a while, back when the policy was "no smut of IRL humans, no glorifying sexual violence, no sexual content of minors."

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My favorite toxic yuri jam game got removed :(

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 24/07/2025

Clown behavior. Payment processors shouldn’t get to decide what legal products you can buy, and the extent to which @itch.io has pre-emptively censored tens of thousands of titles is unacceptable. Visa and mastercard aren’t government bodies, but they’re acting like they are.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

submission descriptions for VNs are always funny because there really are only 3 categories: an intentionally vague description of what the story, an elevator pitch of the story, or an extremely upfront description of what kinks are in it

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Dusting off this account to say toxic yuri game jam goes crazy this year

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I agree with Xuu! Artstation is popular, but I don't know much about it past that.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Yeah, the degree to which danbooru is a load-bearing pillar of the AI-generated hentai ecosystem cannot be overstated lmao. Sadly danbooru's users are like that DW meme where it's "that won't stop me because I can't read!" you can literally slap a DON'T UPLOAD TO DANBOORU and they'll still do it.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Apologies for the soapbox there lol, every time I see AI discussion nobody seems to know how important that site is to anime AI models (and how much of its userbase just does not care about 'no reupload' watermarks)

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Every tag on Danbooru will be fed to the AI, and they have a tag for everything. Low res uploads, watermarks, "adversarial noise" (glaze), etc. Because DB tags for that, the AI learns what those are, and anybody using an AI can tell their generator to avoid adversarial noise, watermarks, etc.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Also a big one, arguably the biggest one if you have an 'anime' style: DMCA all your art off danbooru. Get added to the banned artist list. Their elaborate tagging system means that every big anime-focused AI model, without exception, trains heavily off that site.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Slowwwwwwly getting there!

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

is script done? no is script *almost* done? yes close enough

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Hopefully close to finishing the script today!

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The rest of the world may be cowards, but I am ready for the David inspo board. I need to see his roots (dead anime moms)

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Not too many new words today, but got a big chunk of the original block knocked out. 1.7k of the original left, 15.4k words. Habe I ever said I thought this would be a short VN.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

15k words, 2.8k left of the original block! Wahoo.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

14k words now. Of the original 7k 'block', there's still about 3.6k left I need to revise.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yup. Soulsov's latest chapter did a really good job of it, IMO. The author's webcomic background really shines through in the direction of the visuals.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It's got a lot of potential for directing, too! If you've got something like a military battle for example, you can move the column to the center and show the two armies on either side. Which would feel more natural than the good 'ol vertical line dividing two completely separate shots approach.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Remember, if somebody buys 50 copies of OTD and you don't think you can drink all that without dying, it is always ethical to offload some of the drinks onto your infant. Honestly, they should thank you for it, that stuff's expensive and they're getting it for free -life advice from Victoria Masters

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

you busy? the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey is here. it wants us to—yeah, beat each other to death with bones

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Nice! Really loved the sprite art direction being a sorta 3d-esque sorta thing!

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

24 hours later, the staging in SoulSov is realllllly good. That little change that darkened the screen except for Loic and Ysme when they're whispering was really smart, and there's a ton of other little minor things that you don't realize are happening that really elevate the experience

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The SoulSov writer hiding their cards and not hinting at all to the fact Tutu existed (via preview images and such) until Chapter 2 released is peak comedy

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

it was a secret third thing (yuri moment)

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

There were a lot of other big fandoms on tumblr out there at the time (Superwholock, Disney, etc) but none of them really were the creative career juggernaut that Homestuck was! It really was one of those things where you had to be there. Don't think something of that scale will ever happen again.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It really is interesting seeing the trajectories of people who first really emerged on the scene during Homestuck's heyday. The Kevin Bacon of creative careers.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Making a little deal with myself to work on Game. And then play SoulSov part 2.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Cool, thank you! They're all great designs.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Cool setup! Can I ask who the bugs on the left in the second photo are (and the one with the tail on the far right, second photo)?

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Saddest part is that I had to change some details from the initial idea, BUT those details were also a big part of my hook. RIP to my poor meow meow having to do customer service.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Got the rough draft done, 7000 words! End result will probably be a lot longer, rough drafts for me are just blocking in the actions.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If it's just setting up 3D backgrounds in Blender it's easy, but so much of this is animated! Props to the developer.

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Helix @triplehelix.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Played the demo for Set Yourself On Fire! Really good writing re: existential ennui. Also holy crap how did they do this in Ren'py

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