We are recording our episode on IB tomorrow! Please send in your questions about psychotic artists, curious little girls, and RPG Maker games to [email protected]

If you are one of the many valuable workers callously laid off for corporate interests today, please consider applying to our hardship fund.

Popping a reminder here that I'm looking for work! I'm a thoughtful and thorough journalist and critic, and an engaged and considerate editor. DM or email me at contact (at) graceinmachine (dot) com! muckrack.com/grace-benfell

This is a really lovely one... Please send in your questions!

We wrap up our issue on Forget-Me-Not with a contribution from @gracemachine.bsky.social on video game dolls, agency, and labor.

Don’t Be Stubborn, Everybody’s Doing It #art

Hey Chicago! Chicago! CHICAGO! OVER HERE! Whatcha doing next Wednesday at noon? Wanna eat lunch while I talk on your computer about the ICE collaborator trying to buy your parking meters? AND what you can do about it? Because you can do something about it! Register: bit.ly/iceparkingmeters

Salem’s sister has been here for 2 days and it has caused us to learn the gaps we had in our preparations. We’re seeking another $270 for URGENT meds (direct donation links in next post), as well as household supplies and shower supplies. Please boost! www.gofundme.com/f/providing-...

One of the things that is extremely lovely about @tier-review.com, as a project, is that whatever the industry's turmoils and trials, we can continue humming along, basically uninterrupted.

"How can a doll represent new life or intention? Perhaps in the way a plant can."

just sent the email ending the lease at my apartment of 4 years to move next month AND got word I'm losing my part-time editing job that's covered my cost of living for 3 years so uh hey who needs a copy editor?

zero parades: for dead spies /// july 2026 /// @bpmonthly.bsky.social

Wrote about the awkward and strained TNG "gay rights" ep, which weirdly hits way harder now than it probably would have in 1992. Being a woman... good actually who knew.

We’re at $1068 — a huge thanks to everyone who has supported us thus far!! We’d still appreciate help and boosts on this in the meantime, but it definitely takes some of the initial pressure off 🫶

Screaming forever.

We have 4 days left before my partner’s little sister, who has been in the same house as her abuser for years, will be coming to stay with us. We could really use help at least hitting $1000 in the GFM today to receive its payout by the day she visits. Please boost!! #MutualAid gofund.me/63a1847d9

Trying not to talk like Sephiroth about it, in part because the reasons why Marathon is not a smash hit are multitudinous and self-evident, but god everything about it makes me so sad.

Phoenix digs deep into Forget Me Not's genre roots and comes away with some rich treasures...

Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year Sama'a has struggled to feed and shelter her family. She has lost people, suffered injuries and illness, endured cold, heat, vermin, and unimaginable trials. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/1575...

This Date Everything update came across my steam tl and it kind of startled me how even the game's plastic edges got sanded down... We have to remove one character being mean to others because it made some people uncomfortable...

reviewed the gothic remake for Wand... first time touching this game and it really won me over. Grimy broken fantasy gaming of the most profound order.

btw I guess I just don't think it would be THAT professionally devastating if one person who got face time with Asha Sharma this weekend expressed concerns about Xbox being a BDS target and asked if they were doing anything to get off that list.

@gracemachine.bsky.social's essay is v much on my mind as i read some of these new marathon lore entries

Appreciate this from Edwin, as the arguments around the boycott have so often been along these facile lines, worth noting that even those arguments hold no water.

Wrote about why I think Marathon is a) good and b) not really a Concord or Highguard in the making.

$165/300!! Reaching the rest of our goal would really help us out for the rest of the week, particularly with getting some necessary toiletries and gas for upcoming appointment! Every repost really helps us out! #MutualAid

Got this ready right on time! Here is my latest entry in my battle pass series detailing my experiences with the first season of Marathon www.jackdoeseverything.com/blog/2026/5/...

Btw I will never stop writing about how killing people/dying in video games is kinda like sex and if that makes me a pervert then so be it.

ANOTHER BANGER

"Dying might be a protracted process for some, but the moment of death is instant for all. Death turns one into many: the organism’s machine dissolves into its constituent parts." Today on ergot.: 'A Corpse Which Moves' by Perry Ruhland perryruhland.com www.ergot.press/authors/Perr...

Two months of Marathon draws to an end. Charlotte wonderfully sums it all up: "There is a galvanic quality to this game to those who have witnessed its electrical currents. It has beaten the Concord 3 allegations with its...repulsive sandbox where success is measured in net worth and acquisition."

I promise you that if you watched those cartoons you would like the movies/shows even less 😭

I think this is a solid pod, let me know what you think!

Episode 45: Faith: The Unholy Trinity www.abnormalmapping.com/the-safe-roo...

We talked about satan and whether or not he is scary.

My girlfriend Salem is sick and having a lot of trouble keeping down the food we have at home. We’d really appreciate $200 so we can get some food and medicine. Thank you! #MutualAid #TransCrowdfund

If we can double the amount Bullet Points gets on Patreon, there will be full, live playthroughs of the entire Quantic Dream catalogue. We'll also do one of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and settle a debate that has long threatened to tear the site asunder (Reid thinks it's good, I don't)

"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...

I keep thinking about how much weirder and more ambitious my Marathon piece got to be because it was at @bpmonthly.bsky.social and not, well, basically anywhere else.

"If I merely doze off then death is the one that grabs me, drags me to her abyss beyond the world; go to sleep quickly and soundly where she can't reach me. Silently, so she can't find me." Pierre Guyotat in Idiocy

Marathon has been eating my brain and I was so happy to have the space to write something weird and ambitious about it

As ICE has returned to swifter arrests across Chicagoland, internal alerts & stats collected by public defenders show courthouses have become a honeypot. Sightings near county property have continued this week, & feds abducted 1 person from Pullman court today. More from @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

sorry to keep asking, but we need to move out in a month and every place is asking hundreds of dollars to apply, and thousands on signing even with three people we're burning all our savings just to get considered any help with moving costs would be appreciated www.paypal.com/paypalme/sie...

"The Runner is from an empire, of a kind, but of no nation in particular. Home is nowhere." @gracemachine.bsky.social on Marathon, up now. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/13/o...

We're making @badsavingthrow.bsky.social defeat all the bosses of Dark Souls 3, and you can donate money to keep him from leveling up. It's PREPARE TO GIVE, and it's benefitting abortion access again! Mark your calendars!

new pod. Pure worker owned union made farm to table safe sex socialist bean to cup curated free range comics podcasting

happy Mother's Day <3