i am a huge fan of these remakes despite their limitations so these stories have been big favorites for me. what better way to celebrate pride month than to read thousands of words about cloud strife's sexual ambiguity lol

this is part 2 of namrah jamal's two-part series comparing the original FF7 to its two remakes. the first part was about the two versions of the honeybee inn scene (www.mothership.blog/final-fantas...), and this second part is about cloud/barret, plus a dash of cloud/sephiroth analysis too.

Any time I have something even mildly critical to say about a piece of media I consume these days there’s this voice at the back of my head like “hey at least it was made by human beings who cared about the experience they were crafting”

Nothing in that showcase even remotely proved me wrong. There wasn’t a single cool thing there that wasn’t also on a different platform and by a non-Xbox studio. Shame about Fable, but otherwise? Fucking sad.

Look, you shouldn’t be buying Xbox games. There’s a boycott with a profound moral imperative. But like…why would you want to? It couldn’t be more clear that Xbox is desperately chasing the hottest trends of 2016. You’re gonna break a boycott for the Hello Fellow Kids of game development? Really?

for cis people, “im just trying to live my life as a teen girl but the government, backed by a vast shadowy web of fanatical religious groups, is hellbent on using its full might to destroy me bc i was born special” is an outlandish YA novel plot for teenage trans girls in america its tuesday

nah fuck it, let me say one more thing. it’s exhausting. there's some new shit every day, some days it’s a law, other days it’s some random dm calling you inhuman, some days it’s just the mirror reminding you how much harder everything is. and still… you’re here, and that's not nothing.

Officially about one in five American women has survived rape or attempted rape, but about five in five are impacted by violence against women in how, among other things, we have to think about in striving to avoid it. We avoid it by curtailing our liberty. The paragraph preceding the one above:

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

I’m starting to get really excited. My book is on track for self-publication next week! It’s called Rondo of the Precipice, and it’s my attempt to make a deeply sapphic, deeply trans love letter to the giants of fantasy that I grew up with.

Probably not worth examining that Stellar Blade 1 was widely celebrated by a certain type of person as a return to sexy female character design and the next step that the studio took to grow that audience was to make the main character look like a literal child.

That Stellar Blade sequel is so incredibly close to being Extremely My Shit, but I find the character model so viscerally appalling that I’m not even considering checking it out. Why’s she gotta have the head of a child on an adult woman’s body? And who signed off on that creative decision?

Fuck, guess I’m getting back into Street Fighter

Ok yeah, they’ve got my number on Zero Company. I’ll buy that. Star Wars X-Com is exactly my shit.

Not great that two of the games I’m most interested in out of this SGF (so far) are remakes. Like, I like Code Veronica, I like Black Flag, but I promise I would like something new more!

evergreen!

RGG Studios is really speed-running the collapse of a once respected institution, huh? Fucking awful.

Look, I haven’t been keeping up with Marvel much lately. But Zdarsky and Checchetto on a lineup of Daredevil, Captain Marvel, Luke Cage, Wolverine, and Spider-Man? New Avengers was one of my gateways into comics, you know I’m absolutely gonna pick that up.

Marjane Satrapi, the author, artist, filmmaker, and activist behind the best-selling Persepolis series, has died at the age of 58.

My first ever byline at the ever-wonderful @rascal.news writing about local independent tabletop book seller Tom Gibes and @tabletopbookshelf.com ! Was a real treat to meet Tom and get to tell his story and the evolution of the store. www.rascal.news/tabletop-boo...

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

This is a real blow. Not only was I moved by Persepolis when I read it, but I had the honor of teaching the text to my students. It’s a sad thing to have such a story become viscerally relevant all over again, but I’m glad it was there to help people understand. Marjane Satrapi will be missed.

New purchases of the day: Pink Candy Kiss Vol. 5 Billy Bat Vol. 1

With SGF this week, I wanted to explore the impact of no remote events, especially as a disabled reporter. This industry thrives on in person events for making connections, but what does that look like for me? Read my first byline for @mothership.blog here: www.mothership.blog/as-a-disable...

imagine if i had a job though

People being wrong/assholes on the internet is an infinitely renewing resource. Your peace of mind is not. It requires cultivation and protection.

Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge

It’s funny, but I think this might be the first Pride where I really get it, not just intellectually, but on an emotional level. Not gay as in happy, queer as in “Fuck You.” I’ve always chosen solidarity with my radically-inclined siblings. But some time this year…I just let my anger run free.

here's a new story from @supercrip1994.bsky.social that's very relevant this week, with so many of you attending SGF in person and making great connections there, playing new demos in person, doing interviews in person... and so on. www.mothership.blog/as-a-disable...

"I miss my beautiful, tall wife, boy. Her parries and air combos were sick as shit"

need this edit immediately

Sony understanding women wanna play Deborah Ann Woll as a goddess with a sword

FAYE TOOK THE AIR COMBOS IN THE DIVORCE????

Oh my god

Marvel’s Wolverine is coming out during Virgo season, so since I’m a preeminent authority on the X-Men who is also a Virgo, somebody should hire me to write about it.

Happy Pride!🧵

Hate linking the NYT but I'm also incandescently disdainful of Scorcese using generative AI for storyboarding of all things www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

I started reading this just last week, and I’m almost caught up. It’s REALLY good, and Isaiah’s analysis of the similarities to Nana is on point. If you or someone you love has been harmed by Nana’s comphet bullshit, Green Yuri might be right for you.

This is what it comes down to: “Then the remake begins to reflect cultural patterns in mainstream media that use structural containment: queerness is increasingly shown but often carefully contained within safe, temporary sequences so as not to infect the rest of the heteronormative narrative.”

I’m so fucking tired of people telling me I’m brave. I don’t want to be brave, I just want to live.

I am very unemployed right now. I'll be applying to teaching jobs in Maryland, but I am open to other work, especially remote. I LOVE teaching and I'm great at it, but I am wildly overqualified for it. I wouldn't mind the chance to flex my other areas of expertise.

LIFEHACK: if you’re a they/them and want to get consistently gendered correctly just start telling people you’re a trans woman 👍

It’s Pride Month. I’m a trans teacher who’s having to flee Florida due to worsening transphobia. A lot of people donated to make that happen, but I still need your help to make a down payment on a car, which I’ll need to get a job. Please help me so I can keep teaching when I get to Maryland.

lgbt work group: "it's june & we're going all out this month. full spectrum is our theme this year. we know it's historically skewed toward one slice of the queer experience, and this year we're being intentional addressing that." me: "maybe a trans event?" *checks sched* it's drag queen bingo.

Yet more evidence that the one and only thing transfems have a biological advantage at is understanding video games. But joking aside, this is awesome and I’m happy for them.

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Hello. Job leads have been few and far between this year so far, and job hunting outside my discipline to make ends meet has been fruitless and demoralizing. I have not gotten a paycheck since October. I could use help making rent this month. “Thank you” - Stella PayPal: @StellaSacco Cashapp: #$SACC

Celebrate pride by sending money to trans people in need. We’re one of the poorest demographics facing some of the highest employment discrimination and public life is increasingly being placed out of reach for many of us.

I’m torn between appreciation of the restorative power of gaming, and lamentation over a world that demands so much of us that we need it.

My op-ed piece would be that the idea of a "perfect time" is misleading, especially for coming out. There's never a perfect time. That's not a real thing. You might fuck your life up a little or a lot. Waiting for a perfect time is wasted hours of incredibly meaningful, potentially ruinous beauty