new blog post: WE ONCE RULED HERE Announcement blog.dante.cool/we-once-rule... i'm writing a tabletop game.

New blog post: azhdarchid.com/slop-comes-f...

I've got a book coming out soon, and if you sign up for my mailing list, you'll be the very first to know when it comes out—and when you'll get to read about Eris, Comet Halley, and how one romance in Neptune orbit will change the fate of the Solar System forever! news.loveconquersallgames.com

If the line is “Robinson was radicalized into action because he had a trans partner” then what does that say about the madness and cruelty of American transphobia that a single moment of a cis man seeing it fully was enough to drive him to kill. What does it say that we as trans people weather it?

you can not freak out about everything all the time because you will not have energy for fights you can actually win!

hey y'all. as some of you may know, I have been unemployed for about 4 months as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you paypal.me/superboinkmp3

watched THE LONG WALK (2025) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

as we watch bluesky have yet another full-scale moderation meltdown over whether or not you're allowed to say "rip in piss" about a dead nazi podcaster, i'd like to take a moment to remind everyone who sent us death threats over cohost's moderation that you don't know how fucking good you had it

watched Osmosis Jones (2001) ⭐½ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

The evil that men do lives after them

I've got an INPRNT shop now! And it looks like there's a sale on and everything. You can put Hedwig on your wall, which I'm sure she'd enjoy

new blog post: a few thoughts on Kid Nation (2007) blog.dante.cool/a-few-though...

watched Unbreakable (2000) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

This is true! #putEggbuginSilksong is changing the world and maybe more! Wow. And they are going to put Eggbug in Silksong

All that matters is that soon, they will #putEggbuginSilksong, and it will be because of the great work of ALL the organizers! Wow, and I think we are closer than ever to seeing it.

when I started #putEggbuginSilksong , years and years ago, I dreamt of a better world, for all people. In the years since I was forced into exile, the leaders of #putEggbuginSilksong have proven themselves uninterested in that dream! Interested only in graft, and corruption, and tyranny!

the #putEggbuginSilksong movement is larger and stronger than ever before! And it seems like the powers that be are starting to listen...wow!

“Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave” is a good reminder.

bluebeard jennfrank.bearblog.dev/the-artists-...

watched High and Low (1963) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

new blog post: some updates on dante's home networking blog.dante.cool/some-updates...

Did you know? Next month I've got a science fiction girl's love book coming out! And let's be realistic: social media is kinda flakey. The best way to get notified when it's out is to sign up for my mailing list that ONLY sends anything out when there's a new release! news.loveconquersallgames.com

i'm hearing it's butch appreciation day -- please take a moment to appreciate Lalo, a stoic tightly-wound butch and one of the stars of our graphic novel The Vow. i love to put them into situations (read The Vow in print or digital)

watched Superman (2025) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

watched The Eight Hundred (2020) ⭐⭐⭐½ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

just watched Double Indemnity (1944) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

Breaking my usual bsky etiquette to say full-throatedly that if you are acting like itch is anything other than a victim in this ongoing struggle with payment processors, you are a rube, a mark, and signaling that you will eat your own at the slightest opportunity. You are an untrustworthy dumbass

Full offense but if this is the kind of shit you say about a black trans woman where even a passing familiarity with her would make this blatant attempt to scrounge up more donations insane to say I'm just going to assume you actually did not vet any of your other claims & are a bad journalist

amazing to me that people are, with no irony, still trying to act as though setting their itch revshare to 0% is some sort of radical act of rebellion or protest Like. You are taking advantage of a thing NO OTHER WEBSITE LETS YOU DO, EVER. Your "protest" is entirely at the feet of their kindness

watched Throw Down (2004) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

new blog post: The End of Death Stranding blog.dante.cool/the-end-of-d... i finished death stranding. here are a lot of words about it.

watched The Master (2012) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored! You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

watched Unfriended (2014) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

watched War of the Worlds (2025) ½ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

watched The Hidden Fortress (1958) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

new blog post: wildgate is pretty fun blog.dante.cool/wildgate-is-...

it's happening... IT'S HAPPENING... Potion Stand Story DX is available now! ✨ doodlemancy.itch.io/potion-stand... 🌈 #visualnovel #indiegame #PotionStandStory

watched The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death (2024) ⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

Saying a piece of art "promotes or fetishizes sexual violence" is the exact rationale people used to harass me, a rape survivor, off of the internet and out of this field for years while calling me a "rape apologist." It will always be used as a cudgel against people making the "wrong" kind of art

You want to help both. You have to help both, or this whole thing collapses and next year we’re having this same conversation about blood in video games. Make the phone calls now. Make them tomorrow too. I will accept no equivocations and neither should you.

This is why it is important to draw a line here now. Adult works are not lesser than art with quote unquote serious artistic merit. You cannot sacrifice some art and continue on your merry way enjoying things you’ve compartmentalized as different because it dresses its topics up a little differently

You’ve undoubtedly seen the list of banned subjects itch has been forced to add by payment services, just like other storefronts. If you’re someone who thus far has thought “well, that’s just for gross porn, not stuff I like”, think again. These rules threaten Misericorde and other future work.

If you want this to change, you have to give platforms like Itch (and Valve) *more* power to fight back against Collective Shout, not less — which means working with them to organize action even if you are frustrated or angered by the action they’ve been forced to take thus far.

if you're looking at what's going on and concluding that the enemy is the <10 employee marketplace and not the $1.2t payment processors then you are, at best, extremely credulous and should rethink your priorities

we have so many reasons to be angry and ultimately we are fucked if we keep directing that at the easiest and closest targets rather than the most powerful and impactful ones

watched Cloverfield (2008) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

new blog post: on Ethel Cain's "Preacher's Daughter" blog.dante.cool/on-ethel-cai...