Remember to look out for young maple dragons on your walks this autumn. 🍂 They tend to get a little dizzy during their first flight attempts and appreciate a hand to safely land on 🌪🍁 #cuteart #artyear #smartist #dragon #illustration #art

WE'RE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF STEAM TODAY 🥳🎉

200+ visual novels. 100+ developers from across the globe. 1 week. have you fallen in love with your next story yet? there's even more demos to try not and 50+ discounted visual novels, so find your next favorite story today ✨️ store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...

toxic yuri jam is one of the biggest visual novel itch game jams in terms of entries submitted and i really want to believe a big part of it is that I've managed to convince people you can do the thing i do too. I've read like half the entries myself and it makes me so proud to see everyone who did

To celebrate the Fall in Love Festival, here's a new look at one of the illustrations for Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon drawn by Hisuri Rii! Elm finds a relaxing shade tree to read under—will you join him? 🌹 Wishlist our otome: store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...

*kabedons you* hey. you don't need to draw to make a visual novel. just join a game jam and get to it. you are stuck in the labyrinth of perceived genre conventions. go read slime feet and snowcorpse necromancy. just make a visual novel you need no skills for it only time. just do it. do it scared

September 27th is Irina's birthday! Happy Birthday to the lovely dancer of Forget Me Not~ 🩰🌹 #forgetmenotvn #art #ocs

For every OffKai Expo event we bring to you, we'll continue to be a place where online friends meet! Our original theme song, "Where Friends Meet", is out NOW below! Give a huge thanks to Silvi and everyone involved in creating the tune as we celebrate through the years!

making vn is easy you just write a book and then you read back each line from that book and think what facial expression are they making and then you draw each expression and then line by line you add a tag for the face they are making. the best part is you only have to do this a few thousand times

The showcase is now live! Join us for 20 game trailers from the festival with all sorts of genres and art styles ✨

I ran across this on Mastodon last week. Observations from someone who moved to rural Idaho, and found things far less dire than she imagined. We have WORK TO DO, but it is a fight we can win.

I was in charge of illustrating and designing some 20s-inspired outfits for the performers at #OffKaiFest2025 ! 🎶✨ Thank you OffKai Expo for the opportunity ! ! ! #Tomoya_rt #ririsyart #hazumillust #クララスト

hop on visual novels NOW !! I've gathered 200+ romance-themed visual novels from 100+ developers across the globe and categorized them by romance type, genre, mechanics, amount of love interests, and more. NO EXCUSES TO NOT PLAY ROMANCE VNS ANYMORE!!! store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

Physical Switch and PS5 versions of Studio Élan visual novel Please Be Happy are available for preorder on Amazon and will release on March 31, 2026. Switch: www.amazon.com/Please-Be-Ha... PS5: www.amazon.com/Please-Be-Ha...

A horse walks into the lounge... 🐴💫 #OffKaiFest2025 is just around the bend, and the stars of the night are all dressed for the occasion! Sam-Joe is proud to invite you to the Twilight Reverie Lounge for a night of live performances, drinks, and true elegance!"

My go-to explanation for little kids people I've just met is "I have a left-handed brain." and they IMMEDIATELY comprehend and adapt. It's an extremely good comparison that alltists can easily grasp.

Not only is The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not in @vnstudioelan.com's Fall in Love festival, but its brand new trailer will also be part of the showcase on Sept 26th! It'll be hosted by Lirie and Ran over at www.twitch.tv/lirielirie, so you don't wanna miss it!

YaoiGameJam 2025 has officially ended!🎉 Congratulations to everyone that submitted a game this year. We are breaking the record with a total of 64 brand new games! 🎉 The previous record was 41 games back in 2022. Check them all out here: buff.ly/3xEB3XE

I think you should force yourself to interact with art that's "bad" every so often. read a cringy fanfic. play a tiny game. watch a subpar movie. see an amateur play. experience art that's not "masterpieces" because "bad" art deserves to exist and can sometimes give you more emotion than "good" art

Help a Disabled Trans PoC w/ Surgery! #TransCrowdfund #MutualAid My total hysterectomy is scheduled for Oct 8, 2025 & I have my top surgery consultation on Sep 17, 2025. Big problem: I'm poor and can't afford the hysto. Bigger problem: I may not have insurance next year. gofund.me/99801fcf7

Are you ready to RAISE YOUR VOICE?! We're announcing today the Visual Novel Development Network (That's DevTalk!) is running our first ever RAISE JAM. Raise Jam, or Raise Your Voice Jam, is the first ever game jam focused on bringing voice acting to games first and foremost! itch.io/jam/raise-2025

just walked past a shop window selling an 18oz tumbler. d’you think 18 ounces of tumblr would be a lethal dose for someone uninitiated

caprice in capris eating caprese with capers saying capiche!! thank you to the studio elan discord server member who funded this. #Twofold

added a few more community copies of my trans boys love romance visual novel that's cutesy and slice-of-life for no reason crystalgameworks.itch.io/canvas-menag...

At the end of the month we'll be hosting our very own Steam festival, celebrating over 200 romance-themed visual novels from 100+ developers! Join us Sep 24-Oct 1 💕 Are you a streamer / game reviewer and want to collab with visual novel devs? Join our festival press list: forms.gle/Ebv2QWtnPavM...

in just a week after releasing, my game for #YaoiJam2025, Bread Makes the Heart Aflutter, hit 100 downloads! Thank you to everyone who's decided to check out my fantasy romance game with bread and cute boys. #visualnovel you can check it out here! solarprotagonist.itch.io/bread-aflutter

Thank you for everything, Trainer…! #umamusume #haruurara

for anyone else having issues with spam comments on itchio, here's custom css i'm testing to hide any comments that have links in them: .post_body p a {display:none;} .post_body p:has(a)::before {content: '[link removed from comment] '}

We've been making progress on the post-demo parts of Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon! Here's a new look at one of Rowan's scenes~ Wishlist our upcoming vampire otome on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...

And your #VeloxFabula3 theme issss.... SENTIENT CITY/SETTING!! Good luck and have fun jammers!!!

My interview with @makevisualnovels.itch.io and @vimividivici.bsky.social is out! Thanks to both of you for taking the time. It was wonderful. thegeekiary.com/the-biggest-...

They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!

the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

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These paypros still need to be pressured over this shit! If you havent made any calls yet, now is a great time to start doing so because theyre only continuing to ramp up their shitty censorous behavior!

#VeloxFabula3 starts in a week! Will see you Monday for some theme voting. Get your theme ideas in before then!! itch.io/jam/velox-fa...

LIVE 🔴 ANIME BOOK CLUB #93 🌸 Bloom Into You 📚 Volumes 1 & 2 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=aMvc...

no idea what the video is about but it's one of my fav youtube thumbnail

Here's the way I see it: OFCOM purposefully targeted 4chan & KF because it knew people would feel uncomfortable siding with 4chan & KF. Esp the media, left-leaning activists, etc. It's an attempt to stress test censorship by building a precedent off targets inconvenient to defend

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

I have a few bills coming up so reminder that I'm open for marketing consultations for visual novels and story-driven games! I've been a developer for 10~ years and have marketed several successful visual novel Kickstarters as well as led commercial game teams. ✨ arimiadev.com/consultations/

despite everything I am really happy to announce my next Steam festival, aimed at every kind of romance-themed visual novel! we'll have special sections depending on romance type (yuri, yaoi, etc.) as well as story genre types and even granular things like amount of LIs or character customization 💖

Had a cool sit down with @walker.1ks.ink and @vimividivici.bsky.social for an interview to talk about our community and the Spooktober visual novel jam! It's shaping up to be another great year for the competition.

Announcing... Fall in Love Festival, a romance visual novel Steam festival hosted by us! 💖 Join us on Steam from September 24-October 1 with 100+ other visual novel developers to celebrate the wide world of romance-themed visual novels💕 Are you a streamer? Collab with us: forms.gle/Ebv2QWtnPavM...

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Thank you everyone for getting us fully funded on our first-ever Kickstarter!! 🎉 What now? We'll be sending out backer confirmations (including final shipping prices) at a later date, once we have more solid info on it. In the meantime, we'll continue working on the game ✨

Final 45 minutes for our #otomegame Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgw...

Märchen Line: Dystopian Far-Future Military Dating Sim. "Soldiers Don't End Wars- They Fight Them." nthcircle.itch.io/marchenline