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I encourage everyone to poke around the document I've been working on attempting to compile and sort a body of links on worthwhile game writing. I'll likely create a thread of some of the most interesting ones I have found, and feel free to share additions to be made! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

successful first therapy session very glad to have taken the step

my latest is out for skybox!!! 💜 the casting of teruyuki kagawa in yakuza kiwami 3 is not only disgusting in itself, but also ridiculous in its hypocrisy considering rgg's past recasts and the series. i feel, and write, very strongly about it please read, i think this is some of my best work 💜

For our first November article, @lucafisher.bsky.social wrote a personal essay about @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xResist, his mother, cycles of abuse and domestic violence, and letting go of emotional baggage.

the Western Yakuza fanbase continually fails to reckon with these multi-million dollar, star-studded rehashes of TV and movies for what they are. imagine an American star with similar accusations being cast in a new game. there'd be a crazy backlash!

my latest is out for skybox!!! 💜 the casting of teruyuki kagawa in yakuza kiwami 3 is not only disgusting in itself, but also ridiculous in its hypocrisy considering rgg's past recasts and the series. i feel, and write, very strongly about it please read, i think this is some of my best work 💜

don't worry about the tags still being on but i bought new clothes for once

accessing gender affirming care in the UK

okay minor setback on the passport but it is temporary and i will live freaked out in the office but everything will be okay

sometimes you hit your deadlines and sometimes they hit you

excited for one of the hardest weekends of my life right after one of the most stressful weeks of my life

Literally just regularly check in on trans people you know about how they are doing with everything happening to us in the world right now. You’d be surprised to learn a lot of people (friends, family) never check in at all. It really helps to feel like someone genuinely cares.

Support the trans people in your life. Tell the government to fuck off. I don’t know.

anyone know if there are any Jobs

new blog post 💜 what a week, huh? not sure how to condense this one into themes or ideas; there's just a lot. i guess that is the theme, actually thank you for reading ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/a-few-big-st...

added 'critic' to my bio and now i'm wondering if i can truly be called that or a journalist in the first place fun wednesday thoughts

and somehow, on top of everything else, unbeatable is tomorrow

1000xRESIST is a masterpiece that deserves to be enjoyed by anyone that can experience it. I will carry it in my memories forever.

new blog post 💜 what a week, huh? not sure how to condense this one into themes or ideas; there's just a lot. i guess that is the theme, actually thank you for reading ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/a-few-big-st...

Zohran says you’re trans now

Disco Elysium Dance 🕺🕺✨

choosing to live and get better is so expensive man

Good morning. Choose hope together today and every day hereafter

why the fuck am I nervous about a mayoral race for a city I don't live in

My eyes are not predator or prey coded. They already look dead.

Happy Halloween🎃 #va11halla

it's crazy how much i've been thinking about mamdani considering i live in fucking derby, england my best friend living in nyc is a factor but still it just feels pretty important to see a leftist candidate with actual policies, principles and shits given doing well

i have many thoughts on this and i am excited for them to be published soon some of my best work

i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to move i want to m

made the first step towards therapy and booked the (horrifyingly expensive) appointment for my new passport today i will live

for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying

No I understood your wavedashing reference but frankly I'm insulted that you would clock me as someone who knows what that is

i've almost exclusively been reading things that hurt me in a mostly good way recently and i'm not sure it's conscious or not

my essay on The Evil Within, sex, and violence makes an appearance in this week's roundup, alongside incredible pieces by talented writers that you should also read

I love a like a dragon bread style animation that completely fucks you up and seems very hard to do technically.

finished final fantasy vii remake

in other news i worked very earnestly to revise the UI in game2 from "it sort of exists" to "it looks roughly like a video game" and i have made some killer progress actually

what's up with everyone in this field being in new york man

happy halloween - this one is a bit more gnarly than usual www.endlessmode.com/article/will...

remembering that i served a couple dressed as james sunderland and FUCKING PYRAMID HEAD last night and trying to reassure myself that it did actually happen and wasn't an insane dream best couple's costume of all time by the way poor girl said the head itself took her weeks (it was incredible)

Happy Halloween. I made a video about how I'm Afraid of Death youtu.be/CWrNVntg1CI

🌸NEW VID🌸 Silent Hill f almost drove me insane with how much there is to talk about. EVERY detail led to a rabbit hole of research, but what I kept coming back to is how it's a game about the curses in our blood... curses both supernatural AND societal. youtu.be/F1oc4_hP3IQ

really testing myself with this one always worried i'm utterly in over my head

have once again been reminded of hanif abdurraqib's 'on seatbelts and sunsets' so i must share because it is probably the most powerful personal essay i have ever had the pleasure and pain of reading thank you @dietdeitz.bsky.social www.triangle.house/hanif-abdurr...

i often talk with small games media folks (often also trans/queer/minority) about this, and how worker-owned collectives popping up like weeds aren’t the solution either — sharing around the same five dollars again and again just isn’t tenable. everyone is drowning in a sea of voices at this point

no costume but no one can tell me i didn't bother (doing slightly more than the standard transsexual cateye)

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

thinking about ryu ga gotoku studio makes me so fucking mad and upset nowadays