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Derek

@astralcitymini.com

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Professional editor and arcade romanticist in Chicago. Digital explorer. 🗺️ Café connoisseur. ☕️ Audiophile. 🎧 I post mostly about video games and gay shit. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · Mar 29

Announcing the launch of Astral City Mini, my personal blog featuring short-to-medium-form writing about video games, their music, and related miscellany.

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Astral City Mini

High-fidelity writing and state-of-the-art critique double your reading enjoyment!

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 10h

Happy to be in the Van-guard of folks Elaine-ted to wish you a happy birthday, Andrew! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 11h

Happy actual day of birth! 🥳 These are SO good. Catch you in Lumiose City later this week 🥊

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It was real good!

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Cashier: “thanks for stopping by!”
Me: “yeah, you too!”
Me five seconds later, when I realize:

two winnie the pooh bears are standing next to each other on a bed

ALT: two winnie the pooh bears are standing next to each other on a bed

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

🥲🫂

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Please do!!

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ILIFWY

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a person in a blue hoodie and brown pants standing in the grass

ALT: a person in a blue hoodie and brown pants standing in the grass

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SEGA @sega-west.bsky.social · 2d

Happy 1st Anniversary to Metaphor: ReFantazio! 🎂

Here’s to the quests completed, the battles won, and the journeys still ahead.

🎨 by: @say0ranarts.bsky.social

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cofffee @ffffcoffee.bsky.social · 12d

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Grateful to be a gay person in your phone!

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Major Glazer @willuwillu.bsky.social · 1d

I like my cock organic, free range, grass fed

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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 1d

dissidia 1 and duodecim were SO good and I am deeply sad the series went in the direction it did.

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

do not my friends become addicted to [dissiddia psp fighting games]. it will take hold of you, and you will begin to resent its absence

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

WHERE DO I GET EVE AND MIKA PLUSHIES (if the answer is “they’re one-off customs,” I understand but am sad)

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Beautiful photo set and photographer 🤩

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Leona Renee @hatsuu.bsky.social · 1d

Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga is here! 😊 I had the joy of voicing Elk. Thank you so much for having me!!

refint/games @refint.games · 3d

It's been a long road, but Ys vs Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga is finally out today.

Thank you for every message, every word of support, and for your patience.

We promised 2025 and we kept that promise.

illust: Gaha / Studio Pom

#Ys #YsvsTrails #Trails #Falcom

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Second coffee because I love to have fun

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Happy birthday, Ken!! I’ll miss you! 🍂

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

The way my heart leapt into my chest…and then SANK.

At least the soundtrack will be poppin’.

RPG Site @rpgsite.net · 1d

Square Enix will reveal a new Dissidia Final Fantasy game on October 14 for iOS and Android: www.rpgsite.net/news/18683-n...

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 2d

Thanks! Yeah, she’s there as a support ability. You activate it and her illustration appears with an animated flourish. Nothin’ crazy. But we Brandish-heads take what we can get (read: two tiddies)

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 2d

It’s a good question! I’m not part of the “core” team, so the particulars are unknown to me, but the publisher did reach out to me and offer a credit + physical/digital copies + a very small nominal payout for my contribution. That’s all I have visibility on.

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 2d

I know! Which is all the more reason I’m glad to hear you got it. Let’s play sometime!

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QUEEN

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 3d

Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga is a special project. It lives thanks to the hard work and contributions of many people, most of whom carried its torch much further and longer than I ever did. I sincerely hope it reaches the audience it deserves.

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Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga on Steam

Finally, the walls between Falcom's legendary RPG series, Ys and Trails, are broken for the ultimate dream match up! Fan-favorite heroes and rivals clash in battles once thought impossible, with suppo...

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 3d

...emulating Jess Chavez's work on Estelle, which I would put to use years later working on Cold Steel IV and Reverie. In many ways, my career has been a series of circles. Each of these I've only drawn with the support of countless others along the way.

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