it's also like really fucking obvious. like any time someone is they/theming a woman who people in the same conversation are openly referring to as a woman and she/her, it's a really fucking loud dogwhistle. you don't see her as a woman and your discomfort is leaking through your pores! fix it!

This is a thing that happens to me a lot at GDQ People are well meaning and they don't want to misgender, so they make their new default about anyone they/them The problem is, my pronouns are not they/them, and I don't appreciate it. It feels like you realize I'm not a guy but won't go all the way

Making a thread of media I finished/enjoyed in 2026!

I took a break last year but we're back gamers, laymers, and theymers. It's 2026 media thread babey

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

💫⭐ you must survive!! ⭐💫 #ffxiv

Bringing this one from the other website Homie moving like a Treasure Co. Ltd boss from 1993

"Rowling will undoubtedly receive substantial royalties from the Fortnite skins… That money will likely be funneled into her hate campaign against trans people. "… over a third of… funding for the [U.K.] case came directly from Rowling…" www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/fort...

I had to make my way out to see her. We love the .

Innocent . How we love you and will cherish your presence here or gone. #ffxiv #ffxivart #the #art

“AI is ok as long as it’s not taking anyone’s job” and whose work is it trained on. Did you forget that it’s a bunch of stolen fucking shit? Are we moving the goalposts already? “it’s sticking around so you have to get used to it, be realistic” no I don’t. Eat my shit and hair

YOURE NOT DRAWING MISTLETOE!!! YOURE NOT DRAWING MISTLEYOE!!! THATS HOLLY!!!! THE BERRIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WHITE FOR MISTLETOE!!! THATS HOLLY!!!!! THE BERRIES ARE RED!!!!! NOOOOOOO

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

I cannot make anybody stop playing games they have a lot of time and money sunk into. But if I, of All people, with 500+ skins, who used to play this Daily, can uninstall Fortnite and the Epic Games store, you can do it too.

merry goodras, Sludge edition.

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is proof to me that AI will punch a hole clean through the entire art spectrum because as soon as it was used in something that made you feel something, 90% of so called critics went out of their way to go "well I think it's acceptable in this case"

weird anti-vax conspiracy theorist who pisses in jars and thinks women are biologically disinclined from programming will prove that games are art with his new spiritual successor to goof troop for the snes where the characters say things like "can the mirrors repair my soul?"

jonathan blow me

One of the things I'm really enjoying in Angeline Era are these little built in rest spots. I usually sit at one for a few minutes, stretch, reflect on the games themes or design or whatever, then hop on back to what I was doing. Might be one of the least obtrusive ways to suggest taking a break

Me doing Angeline Era BallySpire

Of all the writeups I've read on horses, this one feels like it's engaging with the combination of Text and Moment the most specifically, the most thoroughly. Really good read.

I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment. transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

Just go buy Horses it's $5. santaragione.itch.io/horses

We seriously cannot be allowing companies to monopolise the industry, and then arbitrarily appoint themselves the moral arbiters. A lot of nonsense over the years regarding video game censorship - but, here it is, actual full-blown censorship of art.

SONDER (2025), a short comic about a soul who leaves their body while sleeping to go explore the world 🗺️ 1/8

seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol

If you're THAT desperate for furry game, remember that there's tons of indie furry devs out there who are making them with love and passion. Don't feed the Corporation Slop.

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

Twig the Deerfox :3

kirby air riders city trial

i can't believe they have to play again today.

Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.

Why is nobody talking about this

PC Gamer just put out the 2025 edition of their Top 100 Games #7 is... Caves of Qud! www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...

have friends who will kick your ass back down to reality if you ever become so jaded you start acting like you're the only person who has good taste

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if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

📑 #furryart #furry #comics

cw: transphobia, suicide my best friend is dead — reupload, 2023 (1/2)

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

From D. L. Mayfield:

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.