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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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We love you too!

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Thank you, Don!

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 10h

get out of my head, I’ve had this exact same anxious thought

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 14h

one of my favorite positions! #gay

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 15h

Same to you. 🫂

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Thanks! We did so good!

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*gay gratitude*

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SANK U

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takes cute to know cute you son of a bitch

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Thank you, Justin!

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

gay

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Thank you and I adore YOU. 💛

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Today is my fifth wedding anniversary with @homoagogo.bsky.social. I couldn’t ask for a more loving, kind-hearted, patient, curious, principled, and silly husband.

I love you, J. 💞

Me and my husband at a diner. He’s staring at me while I’m blushing.

Me kissing my husband at a diner in a super fucking gay way.

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Your whispers are appreciated and I return the sentiment 💛

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You’re one of my favorite people on this bitch of an earth. 💛

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Love you right back! 😚

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This GPS sucks!!!! 🫂

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

Sending you big hugs from fuzzy-butted men wearing crocheted jockstraps (just save me one) 🫂

Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

My anxiety about the world is at a constant thrum, which exacerbates my gastrointestinal illness, which makes me cranky and anxious. It's great*.

*it sucks and I want off this ride

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

fucking gottem

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Excited for more reasons than I can count, but largely just happy to see a “lost” piece of Falcom history finally make its official English debut. 💖

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Geis YsVI walked so that Ash Carbide could run

refint/games @refint.games · 1d

Only 3 days left until Ys vs Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga launches digitally on 10.10.2025!

Featuring art drawn by River from Studio Pom!

#YsvsTrails #Trails #Falcom #Ys

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Derek @astralcitymini.com · 1d

your boyfriend, if you… play your cards right 😏

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Hey, I appreciate you reading! And that's an apt metaphor for how it made me feel too.

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Thank you for opening this contest up to Bluesky! It's a relief that I can participate again.