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A small Hornet to help combat the horrors 🌿 #Silksong #illustration

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"Free Gaza" Spotted in San Diego, California, USA.

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Dear Bluesky algorithm, please help us connect with cozy gamers who love: 🖌️ Pixar-inspired art styles ✍️ Beautiful wholesome narratives 🐸 Frogs 🍲 soup

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The reason we make games about immigrant food is because food is is the first step in connecting with culture. People will accept immigrant food before they accept the people that make it. You can’t separate the two. We got to celebrate our game in LA this week despite the anti-immigrant assholes.

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This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

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✍️ WRITER SPOTLIGHT ✍️ Please give a great round of meows for our next writer, @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social! Their writing is the paw-sitively the cat's meow! Please look forward to what they have in store for us~ 🐈

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This rules for a lot of reasons, but especially because it dispels the myths that A.) old games were never political and B.) games like this are just stories, they aren't "about" anything. Should serve as a reminder to anyone writing about games why we should be close reading 'em.

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Flesh, Blood, & Concrete, which is set in the decaying ruins of Soviet Russia, is one of the more intriguing free-to-play RPG Maker horror games I've encountered. It’s bleak as hell, but also oddly charming in its own catastrophically morbid way. digitalfantasydiary.com/2025/05/31/f...

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It's very cool to see my essay about Tifa on this week's issue of Critical Distance. All of the essays included in the "Relational World" section, whose guiding theme is how games exist reciprocally within the world, are absolute bangers. I'm proud to be in such powerful company.

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DELTARUNE Chapter 3+4 came out. But you're not reading this because you're playing the game... right?

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"The juxtaposition between Tifa’s personality and her involvement in an active terrorist organization begs the question of how such a kind and gentle woman could become so politically radicalized. The question Kazushige Nojima asks... is much sharper: under the circumstances, how could she not?"

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What's in a word? If that word is "femininity," quite a lot! Especially if you're translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex into Japanese. Read more here for one way that could go very, very wrong: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/91a8...

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Submissions are open for our Issue 10! We will be reading until August 1st. #poetry #fiction #photography #art #litmag #digital #publishing #callforsubmissions

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The Final Fantasy VII Remake prequel novel, Traces of Two Pasts, hits surprisingly hard. I was impressed by how Tifa's struggle with medical debt deepens FFVII's anti-capitalist critique, so I wrote about it in an article for @sidequestzone.bsky.social. #FFVII 👊🌟 sidequest.zone/2025/06/02/f...

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I got my copy of @silentprincesszine.bsky.social, and it's gorgeous! The zine contributors will start sharing their work soon, and I'm really looking forward to the outpouring of love for my favorite fantasy princess.

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sketching at the museum

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"The time-traveling zombies in Crow Country don’t allow the player to displace anxieties about an inhospitable future. The victims of the coming environmental collapse are none other than ourselves. Ultimately, Crow Country is a game about climate change." Read more: sidequest.zone/2025/04/22/c...

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As pride month looms ever closer, I want to give a shoutout to all my brothers, sisters, and nonbinary cousins who are library gays instead of parade gays. I see and respect you while you sit and translate ancient texts in the long summer twilight (and I hope the handsome librarian notices you too).

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Graphic Novel Review: The horror of THE HARROWING GAME dwells in the details The eerily detailed illustrations of The Harrowing Game twist gothic stories into broken reflections of cultural anxieties.

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"We’re going to need a new kind of solidarity. One that stands for more than platitudes and posts." @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social‬ stresses the importance of solidarity in the current era of videogame and pop culture criticism:

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Please keep making art. It's helping me stay sane. Every day I wake up to new dystopian bullshit and hate the world we're wading into. But you making stuff makes it worth it. As long as we're making art, it feels like it's going to be ok.

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Long time since I last painted a character 100% digitally (Crono - Chrono Trigger)

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Princess Mononoke — Children of a Goddess

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Ben Whaley's Toward a Gameic World takes the serious cultural topics addressed in a key selection of Japanese video games and, with sensitivity and grace, transforms their analysis into an entertaining and enjoyable discussion. It’s quite an engaging read. 🎮 japaneselit.net/2025/05/26/t...

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tiny moss horse 🌿 #illustration

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『非二元的な性を生きる』を読み終わった。博士論文を書籍化したものらしく、1990年代から2010年代までの男女に当てはまらない性のカテゴリーを生きる人たちのことや言葉の使われ方が、当事者の聞き取り、FtMコミュニティや雑誌の記事、mixiのトピック、2chのスレッドに至るまで豊富な資料から調査されている。わたしとしては、最近のノンバイナリーという言葉の使われ方で、やっとそれを名乗れるようになったという実感があったけれど、それを裏付けられたように思った。「X」との距離感はすごく感じていたので。

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Yesterday, I uploaded the ISO image of one of the rarest videogames known to exist, of which a single copy is known to exist in the online world. After years of appeals, its owner finally agreed to share it with me so that I could in turn share it with the world.

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ペンシルバニア大学で日本の文学や漫画、ゲームについて教えているKathryn Hemmannさんがブログで『東東京区区』を紹介してくれています。うれしい。 japaneselit.net/2025/02/22/h...

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@kathrynthehuman.bsky.social wrote a lovely review of the Lee Lai's excellent Stone Fruit for @wwacomics.bsky.social a few years ago, if you're curious!

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT

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Quick look at and through Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics youtu.be/e4FHKKrqcwU?...

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I'm a denizen of Philadelphia who writes strange and eerie stories about the hidden mysteries and quiet horrors of everyday life. You can find my fiction collections and minicomic zines on Itchio and Etsy. 🌿 digitalterrarium.itch.io 🌿 www.etsy.com/shop/Digital...

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got a korok infestation and now my apartment is full of puzzles. not even good ones, just dreck like a rock next to the toilet. they look at me when i solve them and i have to act like i had fun because my smart fridge is a mandatory reporter.

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Comforting Japanese books about cats are enjoying a small cultural moment, and She and Her Cat is among the best of them. Naruki Nagakawa maintains the distinctive narrative voice of Makoto Shinkai’s films, and this gentleness is conveyed perfectly in translation. japaneselit.net/2025/05/17/s...

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A gaggle of ghosts 🪦 #Art | #Gravehearts

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I've been posting a lot of Gravehearts stuff so i thought i'd tell you all a little more about my plans for it! So Gravehearts is a Visual Novel about ghosts that haunt a graveyard located in the Scottish Highlands, you can help them try move on, you can befriend them and even give them lil kisses.

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Okay so maybe not 27 hours but here you go

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#BitSummit tickets are on sale! Here are some tips if you plan to attend this year. - You CAN NOT get tickets at the door. You need to book them online, get them from a convenience store (7-11), then swap them for wristbands at the door. bitsummit.org/en/ticket-2/

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Kakariko Hills 🍃 #LegendofZelda #illustration

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