rting my new zine one last time before bed because iiiii am still unemployed and i'm going to have to move soon! pay me $$$ to read about my dumb little childhood

when will steve moraff finally be brought to justice?

(my bona fides)

Shareware Made Me Trans extra: here's an low-quality photo i recently dug up of some of my old shareware disks

great video on pitfall, a genre-defining game by one of the first third-party game developers, and the subsequent decades of its strange interactions with an ever-changing games industry. content warning bobby kotick

I posted all of the posters for the Anthology of the Killer chapters on the art account to remind you to buy it for consoles thank you

eventually!

speaking of games history!!

it's because all the people who host them are alien pod people

i yearn to know that weirdo's whole deal

shareware games are just such an under-covered part of games history, despite basically creating the economy of the industry as it exists today (for bad or worse). there's @mossrc.bsky.social's excellent book of course but that's just One Book out of all the history we should have access to

and just as a preemptive thing please note the title is "Shareware Made ME Trans." if you're gonna be like "i can't believe she didn't mention Skunny Gets Top Surgery," please write your own zine. genuinely! you should

it is basically a sequel to my 2014 ZZT book for @bossfightbooks.com, so if you want to read more about the weird transitional space that was shareware gaming and the effect it had on my literal transition, you should check it out

zzt spotted

Shareware Made Me Trans by Anna Anthropy A zine about the PC games that made me a girl

out now:

Shareware Made Me Trans by Anna Anthropy A zine about the PC games that made me a girl

find Shareware Made Me Trans at the link below!

Neon pixel art of an amazon in a sleeveless leather top and miniskirt with a Y2K-style visible midriff. She has a huge blond pony updo and a big sword.

Pixel character portrait of a woman with a mess of brown hair, big, upturned blue eyes, and pursed, pouty-looking lips.

ASCII art of a a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman stretched out while a bloody dagger hovers over her midriff. She looks displeased about this.

Pixel screenshot of a woman in tattered brown rags being held between two Centurian-style soldiers while a king on a throne condemns her.

my new zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, is now out!! ~6000 words (and lots of images) on the 90s games that shaped my gender identity, including windows 3.1 amazons, sapphic crpg romances, and my own teenage fetish games.

link in reply with excerpts and free community copies for trans readers

np!

Cover, with an ASCII illustration of a hand with long pink nails holding a blue 3.5" floppy disc. The label on the disc is the trans flag. Title: "Shareware Made Me Trans."

Grid showing the layout of the 24-page zine, plus front and back cover.

"Gallery of shareware amazons" featuring images of four women warriors from various games.

As a pre-teen author undergoing the incorrect puberty, my own ZZT games circled the same themes again and again, at first with a layer of distancing irony that slowly eroded like the mountain being pecked away by that bird in Hell: they were fetish games. They revolved around captured princesses, with bare feet and torn dresses, chained in ASCII dungeons, punished and degraded, threatened with torture and hardship and peril. These were, in essence, all manifestations of the submissive woman, the painslut and pillow princess I would eventually become, but could not yet admit to wanting to be, could not yet admit that such a thing could be wanted.

everyone is currently obsessed with *checks notes* a 1997 game called Moon Child. but did you know other weird games came out in the 90s? you can read about some of them in my new 24-page zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, coming to itch next week!

castle of da wimmins

kirigami dominatrix display simulator is one of my favorite of aura's little sex games! genuinely a great piece of design. you'll look so pretty with your wings stapled together

what i'm saying is my agender boyfriend is a whimsical elf and i'm a goth girl who is always sitting down

every t4t couple (said with tremendous love and affection)

Cover, with an ASCII illustration of a hand with long pink nails holding a blue 3.5" floppy disc. The label on the disc is the trans flag. Title: "Shareware Made Me Trans."

Grid showing the layout of the 24-page zine, plus front and back cover.

"Gallery of shareware amazons" featuring images of four women warriors from various games.

As a pre-teen author undergoing the incorrect puberty, my own ZZT games circled the same themes again and again, at first with a layer of distancing irony that slowly eroded like the mountain being pecked away by that bird in Hell: they were fetish games. They revolved around captured princesses, with bare feet and torn dresses, chained in ASCII dungeons, punished and degraded, threatened with torture and hardship and peril. These were, in essence, all manifestations of the submissive woman, the painslut and pillow princess I would eventually become, but could not yet admit to wanting to be, could not yet admit that such a thing could be wanted.

everyone is currently obsessed with *checks notes* a 1997 game called Moon Child. but did you know other weird games came out in the 90s? you can read about some of them in my new 24-page zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, coming to itch next week!

Screenshot of an MS-DOS game on a handheld device. A "News Bulletin" describes how Super Mario is retiring because Jill of the Jungle is so much more popular.

replaying jillojun again

omg i love her!!

days when you feel like an autoantonym

an anna antonym

someone should pay me ten thousand dollars to write a nine part think piece about this

growing up as a closeted trans chicken nugget who felt so much shame over her feelings about pretty feet it has been truly deranged to live through an era where corporations are so eager to monetize foot content for a perceived het male audience

imo we never should have let brands know about feet