Love and Deepspace posted mocktail recipes garnished with toxic Datura and flame lily

On October 1, 2026, the official Love and Deepspace accounts posted recipes for five non-alcoholic “Special Blend” drinks themed on the game's slimes (Artsyblobbu, Fiendyblobbu, Pilotblobbu, Snowyblobbu, Stellablobbu), inviting followers to “Shake, swirl… and take a sip! One taste of this Special Blend and you won't forget it.” The bases were ordinary mocktail fare: peach juice, honey, simple syrup, gelatin sheets.

The garnishes, though, were lifted from in-game items without, it seems, a check on real-world safety: Artsyblobbu's drink was topped with flame lily, which contains high traces of the toxin colchicine, and Fiendyblobbu's called for Datura, a psychoactive plant known for causing hallucinations.

Followers pointed out the toxicity quickly, and a day later the team appended a safety notice to the original thread: “All drinks shown are fictional and for in-game purposes only. Do not attempt to recreate or consume them in reality.” The notice was not issued as a standalone warning, so anyone who saw only the first post could have missed it. Neither Papergames nor its social team said whether anyone actually mixed or consumed the drinks, and no illnesses were reported in the posts or their replies.

The pile-on was fast because 2026 had already been rough for the otome hit: the cancelled werewolf love interest Valko had left the fanbase — one that organizes boycotts and billboard ads — primed to police official missteps, and the cocktail thread became another venue for that grievance within hours. Kotaku and GameSpot covered the episode.

No reported illnesses; a day of pile-on replies and a safety notice appended to the original thread only, a day after the recipes went up

Garnishes were copied from in-game items with no check on whether they are safe to consume in reality.

The post's own copy — “take a sip! One taste… and you won't forget it” — read as an invitation to actually drink what it described.

The walk-back came a day late and was appended to the original recipe thread rather than issued as a standalone warning.

It was an unforced error by a studio whose already-primed fanbase scrutinizes everything from card art to cocktail tie-ins.

Anything you tell fans to make gets read as instructions. If a recipe names real plants, a two-minute toxicity check beats appending a warning a day later inside the original thread.

Papergames left the safety notice appended to the recipe thread and did not answer whether anyone consumed the drinks; no illnesses were reported. The episode stacked onto a rough year for Love and Deepspace, which per Kotaku's coverage is not “printing money like it used to” after the Valko cancellation. The practical takeaway the coverage left players: treat the garnish list as fiction — the flowers on top, not the mocktail bases, were the hazard.