the hope of a lot of different spaces, from webcomics to indie music to indie games.. was that the internet could be people's window into an alternative culture. and that sort of happened? but it also sort of didn't. so now everything's just kind of a weird amorphous blob.

expecting something to meet you exactly where you're at and be totally comprehensible to you sorta defeats the purpose of trying to understand or engage with an experience different from your own. but i think a lot of people are unwilling to ever try and make that leap

to me if you want to be "a good ally" in good faith than engaging with art and culture that is niche and different and on the margins is a big part of it, regardless of what you're being an ally for

am i a "bad game designer" if i don't want to hold the players hand? maybe i want the player to lick my boot, instead. what then

Idealizing transfeminine people—in this case, kathoey—as “more feminine than (our cis women)” is a transmisogyny classic.

We’re, at our best, good sexual playthings that perform hyper-femininity, hyper-submission, and don’t ask for the humanity that more and more modern women want.

extra extra thoughts on bocchi the rock/band stories, how they emphasize labor relationships that are obscured in traditional relationships, and why i feel the characters being more accountable to each other in fostering a positive environment make it an ideal to strive for (1/2)

You set up a charged, violent situation with high stakes, and you let it fall out however it falls out. You don't know at the outset whether it'll be heroic, pyrrhic, or tragic. It has the potential for all three, and nobody's promising you — not the GM, not the game designer — the one you want.

the author is ALIVE and WELL and HAS WATER and the AC IS ON and MUSIC IS PLAYING

happy international women's day to women and cis women

I can't disentangle the basic act of being myself from actively expending effort on participation in an ongoing ideological war. Oopsie!

the knife that dreams of being the wound

"i dont want to ever hurt anyone!!" ->

"i am a monster who will hurt anyone !!" ->

"i dont want to hurt anyone but i know in life i will, especially when i cant be something someone expects me to be"

LET 👏 GIRLS 👏 BE 👏 CANNIBALS 👏 WITHOUT 👏 BEING 👏 DOGS 👏