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Renkon

@renkotsuban.com

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tally ho! 👋 nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 日系４世 in japan 🗾 slow reader 📚 yuru camper 🏕️ 御朱印 hunter ⛩️ 日本語 self-study 💮 blogging @ https://renkotsuban.com 🖥️ the english-speaking half of @nicegear.games 🎮 runs @indietsushin.net 📰

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 14h

New #blog post!! Yes sorry, this is the third one today, I am on a roll going through my backdated #Blogtober! This time I'm talking about Bookmory, the (relatively) simple book-tracking app that has gotten me back into reading more regularly again

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📚 Goodbye BookWyrm, Hello Bookmory

Decided that BookWyrm was just not for me, and trying out a different book-tracking app, Bookmory!

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 14h

📚 Goodbye BookWyrm, Hello Bookmory

Decided that BookWyrm was just not for me, and trying out a different book-tracking app, Bookmory!

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 14h

New #blog post!! Yes sorry, this is the third one today, I am on a roll going through my backdated #Blogtober! This time I'm talking about Bookmory, the (relatively) simple book-tracking app that has gotten me back into reading regularly again

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#Blogging #Bookstodon

📚 Goodbye BookWyrm, Hello Bookmory

Decided that BookWyrm was just not for me, and trying out a different book-tracking app, Bookmory!

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-clasticartistic- @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 16h

I've raised the discount on the current Scanned Textures sale to 40% and have extended it to the 9th of Nov. All six packs feature 200 textures made by photocopying various objects in a 4000x6000, 300dpi JPEG format.

Itch:
itch.io/s/158932/sca...

BMAC (ST40SALE):
buymeacoffee.com/clasticartis...

Text - Scanned Textures 40% off sale, Till 2nd Nov 2025 (itchio/BMAC), 200 Assets per pack – 4000×6000 – 300DPI – JPEG, All 1200 textures sourced from real objects.

Image - (Textures top to Bottom) Metals, Papers, Textiles, Foodstuffs, Organics, Plastics)

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 20h

New #blog post!! Yes, again!! In the same day! Don't look at the post dates, this uhhh actually came out on the 6th 😭 But here's my #ShortBoxComicsFair haul! Go get some cool comics today!!

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📚 ShortBox Comics Fair 2025

The cool comics I picked up in this year's ShortBox Comics Fair! Get your fresh new indie comics before they're gone!

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 23h

New #blog post!! Pay no attention to the date that it's going up and the date at the top of the page, it's fine!! Here are my thoughts on the Kobo Libra Colour which I think is a Good Enough eReader to make as my primary device these days!

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📚 Ruminating on eReaders, part 2: The Kobo Libra Colour

A review of the Kobo Libra Colour, which I think is Good Enough

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中邑故一 @mogarism.bsky.social · 2d

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 2d

My sleep schedule is borked so now's as good a time as any for #Anki reviews and pomodoros! Come hang out if you need some company while studying or working!!

twitch.tv/renkotsuban

#streaming #CoStudy

Twitch stream with Anki in the center, my PNGTuber KochiKochi-san in the corner, a pomodoro timer for 25 minutes, and background of rain falling on leaves

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Linda Liu @ SBCF 2025 @lindersliu.bsky.social · 3d

happy mid autumn festival! you know what would go well with mooncakes and the full harvest moon… an angsty sapphic comic about hiding your true self from your traditional chinese family aha…

check out my shortbox comic in the 🔗 below! 🥮🌝

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 2d

Mastodon certainly does also have its issues with moderation but I can tell you that people like JS are ban on sight, at least from our instance

Even if you still keep posting here (which I plan to) it's always nice to have alternatives, eh?

Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 2d

If you are in gamedev in any way, even (especially??) if you are a hobbyist, and identify as LGBTQ, you can sign up for our server! It's cool and chill and a bit small (which is what you want, you don't want to stay on the big flagship mastodon.social instance for long, trust me)

gamedev.lgbt/about

🏳️‍🌈 Gamedev ❤️ LGBTQIA+

Your cozy & queer gamedev community is here✨

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 2d

Just a random completely context-free reminder that I am more active on Mastodon than on here :) And that if you need some help getting started with Mastodon/Fediverse, you can always ask me and I'll be happy to get you sorted!!

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3.42K Posts, 661 Following, 847 Followers · tally ho! 👋 nonbinary (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 日系４世 in japan 🗾 slow reader 📚 yuru camper 🏕️ 御朱印 hunter ⛩️ 日本語 self-study 💮 infrequent blogger 🖥️ wannabe amateu...

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 2d

This was a great read, and same for Never Eaten Vegetables!

H.H. Pak @hhpak.bsky.social · 6d

It’s an honor to announce that my new story, “Crabs Don’t Scream,” has been published in this month’s issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! Featuring an aroace-coded slapstick comedy about the horrors of falling in love across the space time continuum.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_10_25/

Crabs Don't Scream by H.H. Pak

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 4d

🌷✨ shortboxcomicsfair.com ✨🌷

comic by @weisanboo.bsky.social

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4d

you already know what's up

(steam sale rec thread (extremely condensed version cuz they did it way early and only a week long this year) is what's up)

as always, i focus on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help.

so, onwards!

a fake version of an old PC Gamer cover, edited to say SPACETWINKS REC THREAD, featuring Citizen Sleeper art

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 3d

Sweet dreams with Mini Uni

A tuxedo cat is peacefully sleeping while holding a small plush that looks just like him, covered with a white blanket featuring paw prints and his own image

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インディー通信 Indie Tsushin @indietsushin.net · 3d

Today's games:

🔥 Paranatural Spirit Stackers by @fluttersprite.friendandfairy.space
🧙 STACK by @juicybeast.com
🫧 Jelly Well by @walaber.com
🎲 Professor Gambler's Bone Scrambler by @livvyglizzy.bsky.social and @datagoblin.bsky.social

Check out these #IndieGames!

www.youtube.com/live/-_Zywfw...

Happy Hour! Paranatural Spirit Stackers, STACK, Jelly Well, and Professor Gambler's Bone Scrambler!

YouTube video by Nice Gear Games

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インディー通信 Indie Tsushin @indietsushin.net · 3d

Daikon and I will be #streaming #HappyHour tonight from 9PM UTC+9! The show is a #Japanese and English bilingual stream introducing some cool #IndieGames we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Zy...

Happy Hour!

YouTube video by Nice Gear Games

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 4d

New #blog post! I ramble a bit about my first two beloved eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage

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#Blogging #Blogtober

📚 Ruminating on eReaders

Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 4d

It's happening!! The hot new thing is blogging 💪

Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 5d

New #blog post! A mini photo walk to town, plus a game and some #BandcampFriday recs

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#Blogging #Blogtober

🦋 Wandering through October

A mini photo walk to town, plus a game and some Bandcamp Friday recs

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 5d

It's Bandcamp Friday and owning files forever is sexy, go get em and support artists with 100% of the profits today!

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 6d

Some ghost pokemon today 👻
#pokemon #art

Illustration of some ghost pokemon featured are duskull, dusknoir, dusclops, ghastly, haunter, gengar, alolan marowak, misdreavus, and mismagius

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 6d

New #blog post! Short and sweet review of some stuff I've been enjoying lately

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#Blogging #Blogtober

📏 Weekly Measure: 2025 W40

It's The Weekly Measure for 2025 W40! Short and sweet since we're still in Blogtober!

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 6d

Getting a super late start today but it's fine! It's cool! What matters is that we're doing pomodoros and #Anki reviews! Come hang out if you need some company while studying or working!!

twitch.tv/renkotsuban

#streaming #CoStudy

Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 6d

Unfortunately yeah, even tho RTK teaches you about radicals he doesn't tell you what those radicals are called in Japanese so you'll have to look them up yourself 😭 This is something I really wish he did, I wonder if the Kanji Learner's Course goes over this... it would make it so much easier haha