"Steve Mason either learns to be the Reaper or defaults to the reaped." @jhensliterature.bsky.social draws parallels between Harvester's suburban hellscape and the American suburb's foundation of violence:

The older I get the more I loathe Fallout 4 for being one of those ultimate junk food games: an ultimately plastic sandbox that offers so much to do but little of it with meaning... a game that scrubs most of the commentary from the series and renders it toothless. The factions suck too lol

Should tell y'all my dad got released from hospital today. He's a lot better than he was... it was really scary, and he would have died if we hadn't gotten him to go. Now trying to remind myself to sleep and rest.

I don’t think it’s conspiratorial to believe this. The alternative is they’re so stupid it beggars belief.

my dad's in the ICU, please keep him in your thoughts.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

I am having the time of my life writing Mechsploitation right now, it's such a fun combo of psych horror/romance/action that just hits all the creative buttons.

Happy N7 Day to those who celebrate. ...It's a religious holiday, in a sense.

I ought to say here that I'm in a free period where I'm looking for writing work to do! DM me if you got anything :)

ICYMI: "[H]arrier’s life exists as a powerful parallel to a trans person’s process of self-discovery and change." Feature Excerpt: @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social examines how Disco Elysium's Harrier Du Bois provides a reflection of the transgender experience:

making falafel tonight to celebrate last night, and the weight the results took off me

letting out a sigh of relief that the candidate sending me "all trans are perverts" texts fucking lost big. You know, you win some, you Losesome (and she deserves to lose way fucking more what a nasty person)

Definitely a low-energy week, ugh...

Tell people you're proud of them, too! You'd be amazed how many people just.. don't hear that shit.

Was reading some really good fiction and saw the author had a Patreon and was pulling in like... jealousy level money (for someone like me) Tempted to link a Patreon to my AO3 and stuff, but... There's a natural anxiety connecting my more explorative/exploitative creative works to the critical

I’m not going to let a federal indictment ruin Halloween. 🎃🎃 HAPPY PUMPKIN DAY! 🎃🎃 Join us TODAY in the campaign office back parking lot from 12-6 for a blood drive and bone marrow registration drive. We'll be giving out Chicago dogs, ICE whistles, candy and more! 7016 N Clark St

Remember it is SAD season for my friends in the Northern Hemisphere - keep up with your Vitamin D intake and maybe supplement it to keep the cold from getting you down! (Don't take more the 1,000 IU a day tho plz)

So, I think there's two big options for me: - SOMA, not because its monsters or scares are super scary, but the setting and its implications just fester in the back of my mind. - Alien: Isolation just scared the utter shit out of me when I was younger. A perfect and still unmatched exp in tension

If you are feeling faint or dizzy all of the time YOU NEED MORE SALT PLEASE EAT MORE FUCKING SALT. ...grew up in a household where it was the devil and now that I'm on hormones I'm learning the hard way about POTS.

Finally indulging my heritage and playing through New Vegas for real, and like... It honestly makes me loathe The Outer Worlds even more, wow. Like... All of the beef I have with that game, New Vegas did sharper, narratively. I really have been missing out!

We all have to learn to become archivists - Lost Media will not just be "ooh lost commercials and children's specials" it will be art that defies the status quo and criticizes the increasingly draconian systems in power.

Also, because of this wave of censorship, you need to be archiving stuff you like. Not just porn! They're coming for weird, queer, and dark media too. Buy a hard drive or a flash drive or something, dont depend on "the cloud"(a server service somewhere), keep you favorite media safe!

This week: 31 terrifying picks on haunted houses, costumes, Blue Prince, cozy games, friction, media literacy, and much, much more: critical-distance.com/2025/10/26/o...

Cultist Simulator is such a strange game but it's also among my platonic ideals of Eldritch in Gaming... Everything feels like a mistake, a step too deep, a step away from the real.

Felt dizzy all day, not sick but just kinda... idk... The solution was my hormones were low. Did my shot just a bit early and when I tell y'all the relief was INSTANT. I hit the plunger and the dizzyness just pulled away. Human form is fucking insane and a nightmare wow

Remake culture is so fucking mind numbing. The games never look BETTER they just get the Landlord Special.

"People are voting for Zohran who haven't voted in years bc they say they don't feel like they have to vote for a lesser evil." And he goes WELL THE LESSER EVIL IS BETTER THAT's CALLED COMPROMISE YOU VOTE DEM OR YOU SUFFER that's a threat not compromise dude ...liberals...

today is the first time I've gotten to say to my dad "Actually, I'm kinda busy... playing video games for WORK." Certain nasty family members would have coronaries hearing that lmfao

"You cannot leave the memory without facing the dissolution." Unwinnable Monthly Feature Excerpt: @jhensliterature.bsky.social delves into the grief behind the Doom map myhouse.wad:

On my fifth rewatch of @jacobgeller.com's "Fantasies of Nuremberg" God, I just... Jacob if u see this ur gift with words and righteous fury is unmatched, I've cried every time I watch it.

Thinking a lot about The Outer Worlds and how cool and sharp and witty(?) I thought it was as a teen before I really started reading and engaging with leftist/ancomm lit and just... Gotta do a writeup on it soon. The title? "I don't care about Halcyon."

"i'm afraid to start HRT because it might be taken away" they've already taken it away from you by making you afraid they will make the appointment

Frankenstein Transgender

Dressing in clothes I bought as a dude that were tight and now it all just... drapes off me. Unreal. Sort of in perpetual whiplash about all of this. /pos

!!! Such a big honor to be here this go round !!! Your reminder that you gotta play myhouse.wad if you haven't, esp if you're a DOOM Oldhead - or, like me, it was nonetheless a deeply formative part of your development as a nerd/gamer/whathaveyou And if you've already played it - Halloween Awaits

Totally fair but to love "Great Books" you really also gotta get knee-deep in the weirdo shit - Hylics, Harvester, Yume Nikki, Killer7, King's Field...

Got my flu shot for the year. Perenially paranoid bc in 2023 Walmart accidentally gave me the old people vaxx (FOUR FUCKING DOSES) and my chronic illness got so bad I had to walk to my senior classes with a cane for months, lol.

Today marks one year of HRT, and one year of finally feeling like a human being.

You know, as much I love XCOM:EW and XCOM 2, I've never heard shit about Chimera Squad... Apparently I got it bundled in a sale a while back? So... Guess I'm gonna find out.

You don’t need anyone’s permission to be a girl. Pass it on.

everyone should get a 90-day free trial of the hormones of their choice and then free hormones forever after that if they want

Was playing through DOOM 64 on a whim tonight. It uh. It's got a lot of fucking strobe lights, what the fuck @nightdivestudios.bsky.social... now I've got a migraine and an anxiety attack to accompany my night.

So fucked up that the fetishization of trans people pushes us towards sex work bc it's one of the only real "reliable" things you can do financially as a trans gremlin which then furthers fetishization, so on and so forth

Keto works but damn the offboarding of it SUCKSSSS

I UH i wrote a fucking novel in 5 days this past week. my new meds have HANDS yall

Silksong is trending so here's yet another repost of my latest article, much love! unwinnable.com/2025/10/06/h...

keto flu. How tf is it hitting after 3 months and not at the start. UGgghghhhgh

"The little bugs of Pharloom seem to have some understanding that things aren’t right for them." @jhensliterature.bsky.social looks at class and religion in Hollow Knight: Silksong:

unwinnable.com/2025/10/06/h... HAHAHA, I GET TO BE THE FIRST WRITER ON UW TO GUSH ABOUT HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG. ME!!!!

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it