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Keo

@keoblau.bsky.social

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European mountain lion 🐆 | 30 tea person 🍵 musician 🎸amateur photographer 📷 bear appreciator 🐻 vegan 🌱 nonbinary (they/them) & queer 🏳️‍🌈 degrowth, metamodernism ⏩ Visual novel creator @dawnchorusvn.bsky.social

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · 1d

And Greece for me is isolation - me on the outside looking inside, experiencing and immersed but never able to mingle, like a drop of oil in the water.

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · 1d

When I think of home, I'm thinking of Greece. I'm thinking of eating skepasti in my room, alone, over my laptop placed on a kitchen-table-turned-desk, Nick Cave crooning the verses of Balcony Man in the background.

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · 12d

I love Spooktember

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · 25d

suffering from Greece deprivation

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Tausen Lion @tausenlion.bsky.social · 25d

Ehkä tänään meillä on ihana päivä, sinä ja minä yhdessä, eikö niin?
-- Maybe today we'll have a wonderful day, you and I together, right? --

(Ah yes yes, I love what is not loved, more fanarts of my favorite "susi poika" after I finish commissions)

#dawnchorusvn
#mikko

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · 29d

How the summer of 2025 looked here

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Sep 8

The peak writer experience

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Sep 8

All three mentioned are great, with France being my favourite among them (no offence to the UK and Belgium) but the Netherlands might just be the nicest all around. I wouldn't be planning a move there otherwise!

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've got such a backlog omg. But I just came back from Sverige and before I move on to more pressing things, this is how I'm going to remember it:

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Aug 29

As much as I like working on Dawn Chorus, I also can't wait to have my life back. I'd never guess how big of an undertaking this would be. I avoid glancing back, it's still time to march ahead, but this September I think I hope to make time for other things too. Like replying to people more often.

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Aug 29

The work on Dawn Chorus first started in 5th of September 2019 with me and @hqpng.art, soon later joined by @roborak.bsky.social. The last six years of my life were devoted mostly to nurturing this project, writing daily until the VN became longer than the entire LOTR trilogy.

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Aug 29

v0.50 comes out later this week. It'll close the whole day 4, leaving only the last stretch of day 5 and epilogues.

There's so much to do still. Finishing Broken Harbours, putting both it and Dawn Chorus on Steam. Releasing merch. Work on UI and rewrites. But I can finally see the end from here.

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jul 21

None, but it would be fun to make some finally. Been meaning to for a while, there's just always something else to do

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jul 1

I was surprised to see they weren't in the US - that *is* the norm in Europe. Though for NFC it felt like half the attendees arrived by Monday and everyone else by Tuesday

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jul 1

After days of travel I've reached my destination: Barcelona Pavilion, a structure designed by Mies van der Rohe and raised in 1929 for the World Expo of that year. When I entered - the rush of blood to the head, the feeling of touching something celestial - walking out, I stepped into my 30s.

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jul 1

Praha, Wien, Venezia, Padova, Monza, Como, Locarno, Luzern, Bern, Chamonix, Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona.

Finished last week: about 3750km done in rather unimpressive 12 days of travelling, with two rules: only train travel allowed between towns, and no hurry.

A map showing an approximate map of my travels down to Barcelona

A polaroid of Dawn, the sculpture sitting in a basin in Barcelona Pavilion, lying on my notepad containing notes from the trip

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jul 1

The place where I touched the sky and my eyes shimmered with tears

I'm still unpacking mentally after the trip. It's been a long and intense one and coming back wasn't easy. I hope to get to writing a few sentences about it soon, maybe publish it as a blog post!

A view on icy mountains from the stony path near Signal Forbes

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 25

Saying a tentative hello to my 30s

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ahh! I'm glad you reached for it :3 I'm finishing it slowly, lasted me for most of the trip, but there's so much in it, and a lot of it not easily accessible

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 22

Enlightenment that elevates, or an alternate state that feels closer to something pure or divine, or blissful at least

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 22

If it won't make me reach transcendence, I'm not interested.

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Americans not ensuring the secularisation of their nation contributed so much to both the world's plight and very funny content

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Trains #8&9: Trenord/SBB ETR 524, Monza ➡️ Locarno

Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 4: Monza.

A town modern and with an industrial feel, but still cosy and green. And with one of the nicest parks I've ever been to.

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Keo @keoblau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 3: still Venezia in the morning. In Caffe Brasilia the owner passed me un caffè (espresso - implicitly) smiling and I drank it at the bar, feeling like a part of the family.

Then, my favourite town in the whole of the country: Padova. Local and cosmopolitan, true and extravagant.

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