A hellebore plant with lots of deep pink and maroon flowers in various stages of life.

the hellebores are the stars of my early spring garden!

Newly opened cherry blossom blooms! The rest of the branch is bare with buds.

First cherry blossom blooms 🌸

Aster's Elden Ring character wielding the Obsidian Lamina weapon and standing at the open gate to the final boss battle of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC

Ready for NG+ - beat Shadow of the Erdtree this morning! The last boss took me a whole ass week 💀

Right I was shocked!! My baby is growing up

The letter 😭

My niece can text me now, and she sent me a letter to apologize for not texting me often enough. I replied with my own letter reassuring her of course, but I am really into whatever is going on in her brain that made pen pal-ing the answer here. I will be doing my best to keep it going.

A mysterious screenshot, perhaps from a videogame? It shows a barred window in low light, through the window you can see plants growing and some brighter lights beyond the plants. Some smaller plants are growing in the foreground of the image. The text "We'll be lost without you." is written at the bottom of the image and in the bottom right the Hollow Ponds logo can be seen.

Hollow Ponds is looking for a Social Media Content Creator to make video content for our next major release.

This contract role is remote with a preference for UK and adjacent time zones.

Job spec can be found here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hpxxj...

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

A unique green hellebore with a cluster of buds in the center of the open flower!

A dark almost black hellebore flower

A cheerful pink hellebore flower

First hellebore blooms of the season!

A banner with the title "upcoming 2026 releases" and the covers of four books: The curie Society: Game of Code To All the Boys I've Loved Before the Graphic Novel To Dance the Moon and Stars The Library of Memories

You know what's better than helping authors by pre-ordering their titles? Getting a great discount too!!!✨

Right now, you can use code BSO15 at checkout and get 15% off any of the books on my curated list of available and upcoming titles: bookshop.org/lists/books-...

Offer ends 4/1, don't delay!

Aster's Elden Ring character dressed in a pointy mage hat standing beside a very tall, golden goat that appears to be smiling.

Aster's Elden Ring character dressed in dark feathers and a black hood crouching beside a large, napping owl.

shadow of the erdtree wildlife

Oops forgot alt text 🖤 This is a photo of my backyard taken through a window. Large icicles hang down. There’s 20-30 inches of snow already on the ground. The trees are coated in fresh, white snow and you can see new snow flakes coming down.

I think I’m gonna die in this house

Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

Night in the Woods' publisher says TikTok is creating and running racist GenAI ads for its games without permission. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L

extremely jealous!! i need my snow to melt.

Surprising absolutely no one, Mary Shelley has fallen in love with Ranni

Aster's wooden kitchen table with a silver tray holding a series of vases, mostly holding dried hydrangeas. They are slightly out of focus and in shadow, highlighting a window with snowy pine trees in the distance.

Desperately trying to romanticize being relentlessly pummeled by snow this winter

Been playing Elden Ring again: it’s winter and I’m longing for gothic castles and a rotting civilization that isn’t my own. I named my character Mary Shelley because that freak would have loved this game.

CAN'T WAIT BABS

A graphic showing the cover for The Library of Memories, featuring a number of comments pointing towards the cover including: "omg it's real!" "look how pretty!" "it's me! Mom, I made it!" as well as a travel stamp with the release date of August 25th, 2026

The cover of The Library of Memories has been revealed and @lazyfishy.bsky.social and I can't WAIT to welcome you to the world we created!✨

You can pre-order the book and join the newsletter to get any upcoming news first here: www.thelibraryofmemories.com

OUT AUGUST 25TH, 2026!📚

Two hand-drawn cards featuring Moomin characters in the snow!

My partner & I like exchanging handmade cards, and we both just happened to do a Moomin theme this year ☃️

Aster’s hand holds up a hardcover edition of Daphne du Maurier’s The Infernal World of Bramwell Brontë that shows a photo of the author

I am falling in love with Daphne du Maurier and I don’t just mean her writing

Aster’s hand holds up a chunky, well-loved Hobonichi cousin.

a year in words 🤎

A snowy scene with lots of evergreen trees

a different world

Saurian Indie Game Showcase #168

4 games today!

YouWillDieHereTonight
Hidden Deep
Corgispace - @astertales.bsky.social (Thanks for the code!)
Soulframe - @soulframe.com

Starting between 5-6pmCST
VGA's recap Intro at around 3pmcst!

Place: www.twitch.tv/rexstrider

#Indiegames #Indie

Thanks, Tucker! I'll pass this along!

🕹️ I have content creator keys for CorgiSpace! 🕹️

Comment below, send me a dm, or email me if we're already connected!

We are also hosting a game jam (itch.io/jam/corgijam) to celebrate if you'd like to join the fun!

To celebrate the release of CorgiSpace, our new collection of 8-bit games that have short legs on purpose, Finji is hosting a game jam about making games that are SUPPOSED to be small!

JOIN THE FUN:
🕹️ itch.io/jam/corgijam
🐶 discord.gg/finji

🕹️ YOU ARE NOW ENTERING CORGISPACE 🕹️

CorgiSpace is a new collection of 8-bit games with short legs on purpose! This collection by Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and it's OUT NOW!

Get it today on Steam and itch.io!

Hey Finji fans! You should probably watch this. No reason at all, other than cool indie games, of course. 🤐