calanthe milton
@melodioustear.bsky.social
she/her. disabled, autistic/adhd & queer, perpetually low on spell slots.
PhD @ university of kent, researching embodied Madness in interactive media through a Mad and crip lens. twitch affiliate. recklessenough.com
aka rebecca milton
PhD @ university of kent, researching embodied Madness in interactive media through a Mad and crip lens. twitch affiliate. recklessenough.com
aka rebecca milton
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schedule for this coming week! small chance Tuesday could be later as I'm out at yet more doctors appointments just before.
stream schedule this week - Weds could be disrupted by a docs call (I don't know what time it is), but unlikely as it's later on! <3
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
stream schedule this week - Weds could be disrupted by a docs call (I don't know what time it is), but unlikely as it's later on! <3
v sad to be missing my choir's concert tonight, but the outcome of the dentist appt was being put on pretty hefty antibiotics which have me feeling super rough. performing isn't the reason I go - I just love singing with people each week - but I still wish I could've been there.
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
v sad to be missing my choir's concert tonight, but the outcome of the dentist appt was being put on pretty hefty antibiotics which have me feeling super rough. performing isn't the reason I go - I just love singing with people each week - but I still wish I could've been there.
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A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev
Indie studio releases 10k human-made game assets so devs “don’t turn to AI” - Dexerto
Indie creators got a boost as a new 10k human-made asset pack launched to help developers avoid relying on AI tools.
www.dexerto.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism.
Support real artists, not con artists.
the words 'emergency dental appointment' are not ones I wanted to appear in my week, but we're on day four of this wisdom tooth pain and I'm so done.
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
the words 'emergency dental appointment' are not ones I wanted to appear in my week, but we're on day four of this wisdom tooth pain and I'm so done.
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TL;DR I love the franchise and I'm sad we probably won't see another DA game unless somoene else buys out the license and re-hires the old team. But it still won't be the same.
Happy #DragonAgeDay to all my Thedas peeps.
Happy #DragonAgeDay to all my Thedas peeps.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
TL;DR I love the franchise and I'm sad we probably won't see another DA game unless somoene else buys out the license and re-hires the old team. But it still won't be the same.
Happy #DragonAgeDay to all my Thedas peeps.
Happy #DragonAgeDay to all my Thedas peeps.
I don't normally post going live notifs but it's my affiliate anniversary! come say hi and celebrate seven years of being a twitch affiliate with me whilst we play Blue Prince <3
www.twitch.tv/melodioustear
www.twitch.tv/melodioustear
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I don't normally post going live notifs but it's my affiliate anniversary! come say hi and celebrate seven years of being a twitch affiliate with me whilst we play Blue Prince <3
www.twitch.tv/melodioustear
www.twitch.tv/melodioustear
once again rascal providing me with a blazingly brilliant articulation of much of my current thesis chapter.
I am so glad to see so many people talking about safety as something other than an absolute lately. RP is a place where people can explore. exploration is inherently risky. that is okay.
I am so glad to see so many people talking about safety as something other than an absolute lately. RP is a place where people can explore. exploration is inherently risky. that is okay.
"What do we risk when we play?"
Contributor @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social interrogates the path of her life through a joyfully violent larp that radically reframes safety and risk.
Contributor @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social interrogates the path of her life through a joyfully violent larp that radically reframes safety and risk.
I want to fight my friends in the back of a moving truck
What if some games are too risky to not play?
www.rascal.news
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
once again rascal providing me with a blazingly brilliant articulation of much of my current thesis chapter.
I am so glad to see so many people talking about safety as something other than an absolute lately. RP is a place where people can explore. exploration is inherently risky. that is okay.
I am so glad to see so many people talking about safety as something other than an absolute lately. RP is a place where people can explore. exploration is inherently risky. that is okay.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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Solidarity with every trans person struggling to keep their heads in the game today. Along with everything else, this is absolutely a war against our collective and individual mental and emotional health - against our very sense of self.
It's expected to feel the blow. But we stay fighting.
It's expected to feel the blow. But we stay fighting.
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Solidarity with every trans person struggling to keep their heads in the game today. Along with everything else, this is absolutely a war against our collective and individual mental and emotional health - against our very sense of self.
It's expected to feel the blow. But we stay fighting.
It's expected to feel the blow. But we stay fighting.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
"we're going to tell you that you were our second choice in an attempt to make you feel better, but it will in fact make you feel worse"
I dedicate this t-shirt to multiple PhD scholarship applications.
I dedicate this t-shirt to multiple PhD scholarship applications.
all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"we're going to tell you that you were our second choice in an attempt to make you feel better, but it will in fact make you feel worse"
I dedicate this t-shirt to multiple PhD scholarship applications.
I dedicate this t-shirt to multiple PhD scholarship applications.
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Caregiver wellbeing has very little to do with the support needs of the ppl they support. It has more to do with the social support that they receive; the attitudes they take towards their caregiving; & the services and supports that they can access. At TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2016/08/when...
thinkingautismguide.com/2016/08/when...
Autism, Aggression, Self-Injury: Medical Insights & Best Practices
Sometimes people try to get attention by doing things that look like aggression, but they are really saying, “I have a problem, I need help.”
thinkingautismguide.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Caregiver wellbeing has very little to do with the support needs of the ppl they support. It has more to do with the social support that they receive; the attitudes they take towards their caregiving; & the services and supports that they can access. At TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2016/08/when...
thinkingautismguide.com/2016/08/when...
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series
Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
schedule for this coming week! small chance Tuesday could be later as I'm out at yet more doctors appointments just before.
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
schedule for this coming week! small chance Tuesday could be later as I'm out at yet more doctors appointments just before.
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Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead.
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead.
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
this is the single best email I've ever gotten.
Dear Callie,
Apologies
Dear Callie,
Apologies
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
this is the single best email I've ever gotten.
Dear Callie,
Apologies
Dear Callie,
Apologies
I think I'm going to manage two days in a row out of the house. this has been achieved by: not getting out of bed until 5pm on the second day (rehearsal I have to attend is in the evening).
it remains possible that the PEM will hit me later in the week but I'll take it this time to feel like myself
it remains possible that the PEM will hit me later in the week but I'll take it this time to feel like myself
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I think I'm going to manage two days in a row out of the house. this has been achieved by: not getting out of bed until 5pm on the second day (rehearsal I have to attend is in the evening).
it remains possible that the PEM will hit me later in the week but I'll take it this time to feel like myself
it remains possible that the PEM will hit me later in the week but I'll take it this time to feel like myself
schedule for this week! bit different to usual as I have some extra stuff on at the start of the week, but I'm looking forward to getting back to a better rhythm. <3
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
schedule for this week! bit different to usual as I have some extra stuff on at the start of the week, but I'm looking forward to getting back to a better rhythm. <3
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this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
It also fucking sucks that so many people on the Left(s) refuse to understand anti-fatness as a system of oppression, and fat liberation as a legitimate anti-oppression movement.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
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It also implies that “Writer” is a medical condition, which would explain a lot.
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It also implies that “Writer” is a medical condition, which would explain a lot.
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports
1 Nov 2024 to 20 Nov 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...