Hey, a gal I play street fighter with @wistful-grace.bsky.social wrote for this magazine and their first issue is out. Please check it out and maybe buy a copy for yourself if it's something you're into. www.chrysalismagazine.org

sophie "published poet" grace (thank you so much chrysalis for the opportunity you can get it here www.chrysalismagazine.org)

Postmortem from Kaile: This year was maybe the most difficult roundup I've had to write out of the three I've been in charge of. Between the weekly roundups and the submissions y'all sent us earlier this month we had almost a THOUSAND articles to choose from.

really was an excellent year, i'm glad to have found critical distance and i'm honoured to be a part of this roundup

Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025! critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...

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"AVVIES" AWARD WINNERS THREAD. Woe be upon the winners! ❤️ Watch live 👇 www.twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed! Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

i finished cosmic wheel sisterhood today. cried. that game is so ungodly good and beautiful and it hurt me so much and i love it so much. i was going to write about it but now i don't think i'm able to. i couldn't experience it in any context removed from the heartbreak i feel right now

Spoilers for Horses, Santa Ragione, 2025. noescapevg.com/all-that-fuc...

signed!!!! sign this!!!!! fuck microsoft!!!

I've already been turning down covering any Microsoft-owned properties and boycotting their products, but it's nice to have concrete steps to point to as a part of the boycott. Cancel your GamePass. Don't buy Microsoft products. Don't play Microsoft games. Don't cover Microsoft games. It's so easy.

do you think i can get bluesky to repost me if i just say some slop about how i love their Discover Algorithm and Features

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

hi i'm uh highkey desperate for some Paid Work so i'm putting myself out there (freelance & fulltime OK) i can do news, features, op-eds, interviews, reviews, u want it i got it bylines @ gameblast (PT-BR), unwinnable, into the spine, startmenu muckrack.com/hiero-de-lim... [email protected]

as an albertan, i think every politician should be @emilylowan.bsky.social

okay so learning french while also voice training may be a difficult undertaking

what is to be done with danielle smith

is it weird to hashtag a post

in viewing some of the responses to the NDP's handling of this situation, i think that the party broadly made the right call, but i think don davies is a generally bad mouthpiece and the leadership race cannot come soon enough. people like to claim that the federal NDP is "doomed" but i think that

yall politics are the coolest shit ever i just watched a budget vote

This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks: critical-distance.com/2025/11/09/n...

i knew it

truly baffling metrics

also, want to doubly stress: i don't intend on covering stuff like this often, nor do i think this will make any big impact. i read about the delay and i got mad, and thought i could compile a *very* small portion of rockstar's evil and my thoughts on GTA6 as an industry force

i'm mad at rockstar for sucking shit and being evil

Grand Theft Auto VI and the Status Quo On October 30, Rockstar Games, the studio behind the upcoming, much-hyped Grand Theft Auto VI, fired over 30 employees. All of these employees were either union members already, or were attempting to organize at Rockstar. On November 6, Rockstar announced…

i get to crash out in this one

i was browsing tumblr to get my mind off of baseball and they hit me with this i fucking hate it here

This week: Sin, hurricanes, horror games, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/11/02/n...

stupid thinkpiece i wrote cause my baseball team lost

To Lose is to Care I am writing this drunk from my dorm in Calgary, after my team, the Toronto Blue Jays, lost the World Series in game 7. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 5-4 in extra innings. I don’t know what I want to say. I guess I just hate the feeling of powerlessness. I spent three series…

i hate the dodgers

why am i crying about a stupid fucking sport that has no tangible impact on my life

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT

In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see free Cambodian chicken rice porridge, kids goodie bags, and a program that allows you to buy a meal for someone at a growing chain. The full story: lataco.com/free-food-la... By Hadley Tomicki

starting to worry about this baseball world series thing. can my blue jays summon the will of god like they did against the mariners

FUCK THE DODGERS LETS GO BLUE JAYS

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I LOVE YOU TORONTO FUCK THE DODGERS

starting to get nervous about this baseball game

if the blue jays give me hope just to wrest it from my battered and beaten hands i am going to be immensely sad

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holy shit my blue jays locked in

i am a published poet with chrysalis magazine now. two poems, and maybe more to come. very happy about this!!! they're poems i've posted publicly so if you want you can just read em on my tumblr but here is the magazine anyway because it's super cool and i support it (duh) www.chrysalismagazine.org

i hate you Calgary

i love you Calgary

i think im becoming a sports fan. go blue jays go flames go raptors FUCK the yankees

falling into the saw youtube rabbit hole and then actually watching saw 1 is a culture shock. that movie is an enigma

its crazy that yesterday, october 4th, at like 12:15pm, i took my first dose of estrogen. isn't that crazy?