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Iron
@ironnorivn.bsky.social
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Visual novel dev, editor/proofreader, higher ed nerd, punster extraordinaire.
Admin of https://vndev.wiki/ & VN jam statistician
she/her 🏳️‍🌈 日本語OK
https://ironnorivn.wordpress.com/
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Iron @ironnorivn.bsky.social · Apr 8
Lots of new followers lately, so hello! I'm Iron (she/her). I'm a visual novel editor/developer with a passion for stories that touch on the fundamentals of what it means to be human. I'm an admin for vndev.wiki, where I curate & create resources for VN developers!

See my latest/current projects ⬇️
Key art for visual novel "Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon" from Crystal Game Works. A woman with long, red-blonde hair is standing in a green field of grass and flowers, arms crossed and eyes peacefully closed. She's wearing a red Victorian dress with white sleeves. Around her are three men, the love interests from the visual novel. They are each wearing formal Victorian clothes - one in blue, one in green, and one in purple. They all have brown hair in various shades & styles. Logo for the visual novel "Spring in Her Step". Green bubble letters are on a pick background with white polka dots. The dot on the letter i in the word "Spring" is a small pink flower. A green leaf sits outside the background on the left, as though it's resting up against the rest of the logo. A screenshot of a CG from "Spring in her Step". A brunette woman with medium skin tone is excitedly twirling in an olive green dress, while a man stands behind her, giving a thumbs up and a goofy grin. He is wearing a dark blue collared shirt, and has medium-short red hair and freckles. The textbox reads: "Ty: Every cute girl needs a cute prom dress! What d'you think!?" The VNDev Wiki logo. One of the DevTalk mascots, Cherry, smiles in front of a library background. Next to her is white text that reads "VN Dev Wiki". Cherry has dark red hair, blue eyes, light skin, a purple shirt, and jack-o-lantern earrings.
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joel-rocketco.bsky.social
Me aging as I read this post all the way to the end
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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solarprotag.bsky.social
WE DID IT, WE HIT POSITIVE!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Screenshot of the Steam Page sidebar for The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not, showing that it hit 10 reviews on Steam and earned an official Positive rating.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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arimiadev.com
Steam has cleared my next game's release on December 8th!! 🙏

Mari's Magical Deliveries is a short otome with gameplay about a witch helping her father's delivery business and making new friends along the way. 3 LIs (2 male, 1 female), delivery minigame, room customization & more!

s.team/a/3563380/
Mari's Magical Deliveries a purple-haired chubby girl in a white and red dress rides a boom over a night cityscape
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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randallmakart.bsky.social
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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highimpactsex.bsky.social
new post: Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.

mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

i tried to write as honestly as i could about the whole experience because it made me rethink how to listen to survivors. i hope more people play this game.
Mimidoshima
Wednesdays is a game for survivors of sexual abuse and those who want to listen to them.
mimidoshima.neocities.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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esselfortium.bsky.social
YOUR SOUND / DUD GOLD
two eupho-inspired songs from my upcoming yuri album Til Our Particles Scatter
double single available now

🎵Bandcamp: esselfortium.bandcamp.com/album/your-s...
📹 Your Sound MV: youtu.be/WmdmIdgGXUQ

vocals: @splendiferachie.xyz & @renko.studio
cover illust: @adirosa.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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theonion.com
"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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meiri.itch.io
Are you trapped in convert/compress using shady AI-slop sites hell? Crying over updating dozens of file paths? Do Ren'py web builds make you want to scream?

Behold the latest in Anti-Suffering Technology: Free Yourself.

meiri.itch.io/convert-comp...

#VNDev
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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semanticmw.bsky.social
🎂 Celebrating 20 years of #SemanticMediaWiki! Born in 2005 by Denny Vrandecic and Markus Krötzsch, SMW has since then powered 1000s of knowledge bases around the world. Thank you to everyone who contributed code or otherwise! youtu.be/M5HoCqB6Fh0
#MediaWiki #SemanticMW #KnowledgeManagement
20 years of Semantic MediaWiki
YouTube video by Semantic MediaWiki
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October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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inioli.bsky.social
OS Idol Win-chan 🖥️ ⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖
Digital illustration of OS Idol Win-chan drawn in a colorful anime style. She is drawn inside of a windows XP screen. She's smiling wide with her mouth open, pointing a finger at a big cursor next to her. Behind her is the default windows XP wallpaper of green hills with a blue sky. On the top left, there are 2 icons - a PC and a file folder. On the bottom right is the trash can. There is a task bar at the bottom of the image. It shows an open program called 'incza.exe'.
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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vnstudioelan.com
On this day 2 years ago, Twofold was released on Steam & itchio!

Thank you everyone that has followed Olive on their journey through college and navigating the many relationships in their life 💚
3 anime style characters sit in a diner with a brunette green haired character looking out the window at autumn trees Twofold
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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qtori.art
Just relaying information thats been spreading around twitter regarding its new AI powered content algo.

If youve come over from twitter, Hi and welcome. Good to have you here!
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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vndev.bsky.social
The Spooktober Awards Show is this weekend! Don't miss the culmination of DevTalk's biggest event of the year!

Join us as we reveal the winners of this year's competition - and award $3,000 USD in prizes!

Live with @chizukoyote.itch.io Sunday at 8pm Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgk...
Spooktober Visual Novel Jam 2025 Awards Show
YouTube video by Chizu Koyote 🧭 V雑
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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lilshpee.bsky.social
TL Note: Chuunibyou means "Aura Farming"
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
ironnorivn.bsky.social
Can’t wait!
vndev.bsky.social Lemon @ DevTalk @vndev.bsky.social · Oct 24
The Spooktober Awards Show is this weekend! Don't miss the culmination of DevTalk's biggest event of the year!

Join us as we reveal the winners of this year's competition - and award $3,000 USD in prizes!

Live with @chizukoyote.itch.io Sunday at 8pm Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgk...
Spooktober Visual Novel Jam 2025 Awards Show
YouTube video by Chizu Koyote 🧭 V雑
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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meiri.itch.io
Doce Fim's demo is out!

Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this emotional visual novel. Will you open yourself to trust?

FEATURING:
⭐ A queer cast
⭐ Mental health themes
⭐ Voice acting
⭐ Cinematic camerawork
⭐ 4 hours of content

s.team/a/3808270

#VNDev #indiedev #gamedev
Doce Fim ~sweetend placebo~ on Steam
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
s.team
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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maureenjohnsonbooks.com
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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chlowski.bsky.social
she truly is a queen
assignedmedia.org Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Oct 20
18 Oct 2025 -- Pop star/singer Sabrina Carpenter will now use her arena tour to funnel proceeds through the Sabrina Carpenter Fund to benefit the Transgender Law Center. Good on ya' SC! @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Sabrina Carpenter Expands Tour Fund to Support Trans Rights
Sabrina Carpenter expands her tour’s charity fund to support the Transgender Law Center, using her platform to promote trans rights and real-world allyship.
www.transvitae.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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pavlovforgoths.com
here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update
Avatar whatacartouchebag Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image. 5d Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine. So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do: In the url bar, type in about:config It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue. One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy. The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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offkaiexpo.com
Surprise 🎉
#OffKaiGen5 will be July 24-26, 2026 at the San Jose Convention Center! ✨

Save the date and come celebrate with us! 🎡🎪
October 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Oct 17
i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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crystalgameworks.com
🦇 new devlog 💕

Today we're taking a look at the progress on Day 5 in Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon! Lucie has a Very Normal lunch with Elm and Cecil...

Read it here: crystalgameworks.com/october-2025...
OCTOBER 2025 DEVLOG Day 5 Progress & Festivals
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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arimiadev.com
my friend is running her own Steam festival and is searching for streamers & press to help cover the event! if you enjoyed Fall in Love Festival & Otome Games Celebration, you'll love hers as it's focused on choice-driven narrative games (esp visual novels)💖

sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Choose Wisely Press / Content Creator Form 2025
This is a form for streamers, content creators, and press interested in covering the 2025 edition of the Choose Wisely Festival. The Choose Wisely Festival is a choice-based narrative games celebrati...
docs.google.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM