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A short and smutty boys' love / yaoi visual novel set in Victorian England about a cocksure servant's attempts to turn his aloof, awkward master into his own personal plaything.

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Extra Chapter of BL VN All Scars and Starlight has been released!

Jan 28

Hello everyone! I've been working on this project for a while, and I'm proud to announce that I've released some DLC for my grimdark boys 'love' visual novel, All Scars and Starlight.

Scars is a BL story about a king whose throne was stolen from him in a coup, and the romance(?) which unfolds between the deposed king and his captor. As one might expect from the premise, it's rather grim, the characters have an incredibly unhealthy relationship dynamic, and there's a lot of drama. This is also an r18 visual novel with a fair amount of explicit scenes, so it is not appropriate for anybody under the age of 18.

The DLC adds about 80,000 words extra to the story, and it takes place one year after the 'good' and 'true' endings, but before the timeskip to the epilogues of both endings. To read the bonus chapter, you need to update the base game, buy the DLC, then read through either the 'good' or 'true' ending. You should be able to access the DLC after that.

Please note: you will need to clear these two endings again, even if you achieved them once already, because I had to edit the code of the game a little to allow for the DLC to unlock.

You can find the base game here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2827190/All_Scars_and_Starlight/

And the DLC here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4279090/All_Scars_and_Starlight__Extra_chapter/

I hope you enjoy it, if miserable anime boys crying a lot are your thing! I know they're mine! You should heed the content warnings for this VN carefully, though, since there's some dark stuff here.

- ebi x

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Hi everyone! If you find any typos or bugs in this VN, please feel free to post them here! I'd like to make this story as polished as possible, and all reports will be appreciated! Thank you for your time! - ebi x

ebihime

Dec 24, 2025 @ 8:23am

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Chapter two of The Thistle and the Flower has been released

Dec 14, 2025

Hi everyone,

Just making a quick post to let you all know that I've released a second chapter of my spicy BL visual novel, The Thistle and the Flower!

I actually wrote three chapters of this story (I might have mentioned that in my author's notes of the base game), but I only adapted the first chapter into a VN. I was doubtful it would sell well, and I wasn't sure if I could justify spending more time and money on an unpopular story while working on so many other things... (glances into the horizon)
Well, I was right, and The Thistle and the Flower sold very poorly. It probably won't recoup its initial production costs, which is often the way of indie VN dev, but!!! I enjoyed working on it, and I really liked the second chapter, and I wanted to turn it into a real VN anyway...

And so I did haha, surprise. Maybe you can see this as an early Christmas present?

I had initially planned to release the second chapter for free, but in the last couple of months Steam put out a statement saying devs of r18 games are not allowed to update their games to include more adult content which hasn't been through a proper content review: devs need to submit any additional r18 scenes as DLC so they can be checked to determine if they are 'appropriate' for Steam.

Because of this, I had to release the second chapter of this VN as DLC so it could be reviewed but even then Valve only reviewed the store page of the DLC, not the actual build, so I'm a bit ??? about this policy which meant setting up the second chapter was more of a pain than anticipated.

Since I had to release chapter two as DLC, I figured I mght as well charge for it, since it's around the same length as the first chapter and it has quite a few CGs. I'm sorry if this is disappointing, but dealing with Steamworks and setting up DLC is such a time-consuming process I felt like I owed it to myself to put a price tag on this hahaha......

I don't really expect this to have a lot of readers, but I think the second chapter of this story turned out very cute and I'm happy with it. I hope the handful of Yuel/Tavi likers out there will appreciate it as well!
Thank you for all of your support over the years, it's appreciated! I'm gonig to release chapter three as DLC at some point in the future too, so I hope you will all look forward to it!

You can find the DLC here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4237920/The_Thistle_and_the_Flower__Chapter_Two/ - ebi x

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Cute BL VN Where the Heart Rests has been released!

Nov 19, 2025

Hi everyone,

Quick post to let you know that my cute new BL visual novel Where the Heart Rests has been released. It's a wholesome slice of life story inspired by the anime Usagi Drop. It's about a couple of men who adopt a young child. There's a lot of domestic fluff here, and some yearning between the two adult leads. The romantic relationship is a bit of a slowburn, and it's kind of lowkey.

There's also a fair bit of hurt/comfort here because I think it's cute!

This should be a nice read for people who like cosy and cute romance stories with relatively low stakes and some light drama.

You can buy the VN here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4099090/

But please read the mature content warning. There is no r18 content in this visual novel, but it might contain some themes which would upset people.

- ebi x

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