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Emilis Borealis
@emilisborealis.bsky.social
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🚀 ​Artist, worldbuilder & solo game dev making a 2D scifi game in GDev5 about cool starships and lesbians in dapper uniforms. I also make Sims 4 cc & mods sometimes.

🌌 AuDHD, Queer Lesbian, late 20s, Swedish 🇸🇪
⚓ likes scifi, tall ships & horses 🐴
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Emilis Borealis @emilisborealis.bsky.social · Oct 7
Behold! All my space lesbian blorbos! (and other related details ive crammed into this chart lol)

I've been building this world since like high school so ive had some time to add onto this cast 😅. They're all women save for 2 & all are queer :3

P1: command, starship, senior staff, admiral's staff
Part of a bigger character chart. This one shows the 5 command officers and a rank abbreviation cheat sheet. Part of a bigger character chart. This one shows the ship AI and the starship itself, with some additional stats and details about the ship as well as a list of embarked spacecraft and vehicles. Part of a bigger character chart. This one shows the senior staff officers. There's 12 in total. Part of a bigger character chart. This one shows the admiral's senior staff officers as well as her guards and sentinels (special operatives)
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callme0wl.bsky.social
Hot take

I think social media/content creation ruined gaming

Gamers don't explore anymore. Nobody is willing to take risks. People wait until their favorite content creator drops a video, then they follow their advice as if it's the only way to play. "This game sucks!" because they're not
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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kelsijosilva.bsky.social
Its profoundly irritating to be barred from buying something that is legal to buy and own 🤷
acvalens.net Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.net · 20d
Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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thoglistudios.com
🐴 ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER 🐴 Horses of Hoofprint Bay – a lovingly hand-drawn 2D point and click barn buildup game where you take care of horses, train them, and compete for prize money! Breed adorable foals, hire and manage staff, and build the stable of your dreams!
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
emilisborealis.bsky.social
@gameengines.bsky.social

I would like Construct please!

I'd also like Gdevelop removed!
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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thoglistudios.com
Hello! 👋 🐴
We're Thogli Studios and we're working on a cozy 2D stable management game about training and caring for horses. We're getting ready to officially announce our game very soon, so please make sure to follow & sign up to our newsletter if you want to hear more!

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October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
emilisborealis.bsky.social
I return from the dead to announce I've got TWO new Boreal Vibrance sets up, for mermaids and CoL animals!
...only a few more parts to go now (before the fairy EP drops and gives me even more work lol) 😂

www.curseforge.com/sims4/create...

www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/b...

#sims4 #ts4 #ts4cc
A sims 4 cc promo with a title ontop saying "Boreal Vibrance Ocean" and 6 distinct sections; 1. a pale green-haired mermaid with orange and turqouse octopus-like eyes, text says "Handpainted Maxis Match Eyes. Mermaid Defaults + 8 Addons". 2. A tan female sim with vitiligo and black curly hair and orange eyes with purple swirls in them, and a dark grey-skinned mermaid sim with black hair and a big scar across each eye and eyes that are black with a faint grey outline. Text says: "6 unique variants to create all sorts of mermaids". 3. A dark-skinned blue-haired mermaid with blue watery/shiny eyes and a greyish pale-skinned grey-haired sim with light grey reef shark eyes. Text says: "Bonus cuttlefish, shark & drowned variants". 4. An east-asian black-haired mermaid with watery amber brown eyes and a koi fish tail visible in the back, and a pale white mermaid with coral red hair and blue eyes with swirls in them. Text says: "17 vibrant swatches in total!". 5. A light tan mermaid with blond box-braided hair laying down on the side, she has one purple and one golden eye, both with w-shaped pupils and colored sclera like a cuttlefish. Text says: " Heterochromia & contact. Optional addons. Found in skin details & face paint". 6. An in-game closeup of the dark grey mermaid with the black eyes, showing a slight sheen on them. Text says: "custom subtle specular for a pretty & more natural eye gloss/shine". A sims 4 cc promo with a title ontop saying "Boreal Vibrance Oats" and 5 distinct sections; 1. A brown and white-spotted cow with brown eyes. Text says: "Handpainted maxis match eyes, Cottage living animal defaults". 2. A black and white-spotted cow with brown eyes, a brown rooster with amber-yellow eyes, and a white llama with brown eyes. Text says: "vibrant & rich eyes for cows, llamas, chickens, rabbits & foxes". 3. A fox with yellow eyes and two rabbits; one white with pinkish red eyes and a black, white and tan-spotted one with one brown and one blue eye. Text says: " Species accurate designs. Realistic pupil shapes, accurate colors & side-facing herbivore & chicken eyes". 4. A blue llama with dark blue eyes and a rainbow and white-spotted cow with dark blue eyes. Text says: "15 unique eye swatches in total, across all species and their color variants". 5. An in-game closeup of a fox showing a subtle sheen to their eyes. Text says: "Custom subtle specular for a pretty & more natural eye gloss/shine".
June 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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callme0wl.bsky.social
Ranch of Rivershine officially released the other day and GO TRY IT COSY GAMERS I PROMISE IT'S WORTH IT
callme0wl.bsky.social 0wl @callme0wl.bsky.social · May 8
Every cosy gamer should put Ranch of Rivershine on their wishlist because the final update is coming out soon and it's a shining example of how horse games can really be part of the cosy game genre.
Ranch of Rivershine screenshot in autumn of a dappled red mare and her dappled palomino foal Ranch of Rivershine screenshot of a blue roan sabino horse with black tack and blue saddle/ribbon Ranch of Rivershine screenshot of a dappled grey appaloosa foal on a lead rope Ranch of Rivershine screenshot of inside the stables, showing three mares and one foal
May 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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malicedafirenze.bsky.social
There's an actually good horse game (I believe, full review still upcoming) now out in 1.0 that you should definitely check out if you're not aware of it yet
May 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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malicedafirenze.bsky.social
I literally just said the word pronouns and this is getting so much reach again 😭
screenshot of the numbers on a twitter post, it has 2.3k retweets, 12k likes and 218k views
April 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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malicedafirenze.bsky.social
There's only <48h left on the Kickstarter campaign so I'm trying to bait the bigots into making our game go viral again 🤞🤞🤞

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aes...
screenshot of a twitter post saying "if you support Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori on Kickstarter, you don't only get to play the most ambitious single player horse game ever, you get to piss off these people as a bonus 🥳🥳🥳" with a screenshot of the pronouns exchange that went viral in September screenshot of a twitter post that says "gang I'm gonna need y'all to make this shit go viral one more time for the sake of the kickstarter campaign to reach the Falcon Hunting stretch goal. Don't make me talk about pronouns again", it's a quote tweet of my viral post from September
April 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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malicedafirenze.bsky.social
Guess what's on the main front page of all of kickstarter right now 👀👀

horse girls stay winning. One week to go and some really exciting stretch goals left to reach. 🙏🙏🙏
screenshot of the kickstarter front page, prominently featuring the campaign for Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori
March 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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squeamishnerd.bsky.social
I made a list

bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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spacecolonystudios.bsky.social
Only two days to go until the launch of Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog! Can you believe it?

Our final stop is Cassandra Quinn's quarters and, uh.

Well.

Hmm.
February 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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osbytree.bsky.social
omg is that what I think it is?!?! moderns ONE TILE kakelugn/Kaakeliuuni/masonry heater(/stove) ?!?!?!?!?!??!
I'M GOING TO CRY 😭😭
I HAVE BEEN WANTING THAT FOR AGES
My scandinavian houses will look so good!!!!
(and Seriously crying for real,for real)😭
February 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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squeamishnerd.bsky.social
I found the western entrance to Gothenburg Central Station, so it's not only based on Stockholm
Nordhaven in The Sims 4. In the middle is a white building with green copper towers. Western entrance to Gothenburg Central Station. A grey building with green copper towers.
February 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
emilisborealis.bsky.social
It took me reading the names of the town & neighbourhoods and a closer look at the trailer but that new sims 4 EP world is 100% swedish, not dutch 😲

They even got "Björn" with the swedish ö in one of the business names and I didn't register that until my brother pointed it out 😂
February 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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mishellbaker.bsky.social
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
There's good news too.

"Coal-burning in the EU power sector peaked in 2007 and has halved in the years since."

Since 2019, the growth of renewable energies has avoided €59 BILLION in fossil fuel imports. Which is cool for taxpayers.

And emissions have fallen considerably, to everyone's benefit.
January 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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spacecolonystudios.bsky.social
With the release of Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog less than two months away that nightmares where we only sell 49 copies in our first week have started, so if you could wishlist / preorder a copy on Steam / PlayStation / Switch today that'd be great 🥹🙏✨

store.steampowered.com/app/2118420/...
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog on Steam
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
store.steampowered.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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alexisflower.bsky.social
drives me insane when artists turn off their patreon bc they cant keep up or whatever. Keep up with what?? It's not a contract, all your weird patreon issues are self imposed. Apologizing for arcane stuff like people aren't adults who are paying voluntarily. Stop it
December 24, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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audhd-psychnp.com
Dr. Nicholls has some information about the exit ramps out of burnout and they're sometimes where we wouldn't expect, I think. This info has made a difference in my life.

I feel like I'm finally recovering instead of just treading water but it's so slow.
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
emilisborealis.bsky.social
No but seriously how am i having an easier time with the legs even tho i made each a single png than a stupid goddamn NECK

😭😭😭
December 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM
emilisborealis.bsky.social
Current mood
2d horse model in spine. Neck and head is detached from the body, also there's a second head peaking out behind the first one. It's a little cursed.
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
emilisborealis.bsky.social
Anyway my spotify wrapped and it's like a very weird mix and mostly kinda obscure artists apparently 😅
Spotify wrapped. Top artists: Iniko, first to eleven, derina harvey band, renaeiry, cornelia jacobs. Top songs: jericho - shiloh cinematic remix, i turn to you, run to me, jericho, self control. Amount of listening minutes: 22 897.
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 PM