Ahhhh!!! That means so much!! 💜💜💜🥺🥺🥺

Thank you for your vigilance, Agent!

!!! Thanks so much!!! 💜💜💜

tried this out tonight after two CAIN nights fell through. unconventional project but if you end up not having a tabletop session for any reason this is an experience worth managing instead. gonna go out and buy a new notebook for it i think.

CFP poster featuring WarGames reference.

STS folks, @alexross73.bsky.social & I are leading an open panel for 4S 2026 (in Toronto!) on games vs./as reactionary politics 🎮 WarGames references & re-imaginations of gamer capital galore!

Submit your 250-word abstracts via the @4sweb.bsky.social system & message us with any burning questions 🔥

15 days left to support the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and pick up HOW'S NEXT WEEK and 1438 other weird and beautiful games & arts in this bunde!!

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

My students had the best time talking to you!!! 🔥 I think a handful of them were inspired to try making pngtuber avatars after, haha

Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.

Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.

Parlor games were feminized...

Blue, blocky letters on a pink retro background: "Trans Game Zine!"

A webpage styled like a retro desktop, depicting several entries to the Trans Games Zine. Titles of works include: "(UN)TWISTING", "CHEST SIMULATOR DIGITAL EDITION", "FLESHY ESSAYS ON TITS AND TRIBULATIONS", "HOW'S NEXT WEEK?" (yay, that's me!), "MANICURED METAL", "ONLY WHAT YOU ADMIT", "TRANSISTER'S LAMENT", and "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME, BUT YOU CAN'T STAY HERE."

HNW is part of the 🏳️‍⚧️🕹️ Trans Games Zine 🏳️‍⚧️🕹️ project—a community-based platform built by the lovelies at @softchaos.games. The TGZ features interactive essays, games, and not-games from many of my favorite people.

Do check out all the amazing projects in the collection thus far!
transgameszine.org

Search your group chat for clues. Decode your friends' excuses. Deduce the nature of the transdimensional bodysnatchers keeping you from rolling your dice.

🎲 Save game night.
🪐 Save humankind.
🫡 Join the ANXS.

How's Next Week? by grave snail games A solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled.

HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled.

🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week

The cover for a project titled "How's Next Week?: A tragic solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled." The font of the description is in cut-and-paste blackmail letters. The cover itself is styled to look like a Discord chat, and features users going back-and-forth while trying (and failing) to schedule a session.

Hi friends! This weekend, I'm planning to share deets about a #ttrpg project I've been working on for over a year now <3

In advance, I truly apologize for what's about to happen, muahahaha ✨

❌🎲👁️

I'M NOT OK ABOUT IT

Our piece is partof a fantastic special issue on the dynamics of anti-trans content and disinformation, edited by Quinnehtukqut McLamore and @katfuller.bsky.social.

The whole issue is open access and very much worth your time! 🏳️‍⚧️💖

bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

A slide noting "key takeaways" from the article, noting that GC gropups are insulated and intimate, that they are proximate to far-right groups, that GC users perform communal readings of media texts using emergent analytical genres, rely on "peaking" narratives, naturalize "GC" as an identity, and frame themselves as martyrs and evangelists.

A slide titled "GCs regularly co-opt the language of queer communities" pointing to the ways anti-trans users "come out" as GC and describe the process of "peaking."

We document how GC forum members simultaneously deployed the rhetoric of the far right and co-opted the language of queer communities (i.e. "coming out" as gender critical) to frame their anti-trans behaviors as part of a vulnerable personal identity.

Big CW for anti-trans language!!

📄 Pub alert! ✨

My piece with @madzbrutal.bsky.social is out in the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies @transstudies.bsky.social 🦇

We analyze how gender critical forum users on Ovarit and Mumsnet were radicalized through anti-trans media literacy and storytelling practices.

doi.org/10.57814/wjd...

This week, Percy and Nick discuss the politics of games and the different ways that TTRPGs have engaged with leftist and antifascist movements with a special guest: scholar of analog games @persephone.blue!

listen now on your podcatcher of choice 😎

linktr.ee/dndramanerds

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Yes yes yessssss!!!!!! Amazing!!! 🎉🔥

Y'all, I'm so trash at rhythm games but I'm over the moon this is out in the world. Congrats @gensuta.itch.io!! 🔥🛼🎉

🎉 I am so hype that this is actually, finally, really out in the world 🎉

quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

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🦋 Hey! Listen!

@madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!

Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???"

📄🔗⬇️

I love this dream??? 👀👀👀 Also thanks so much for watching! 💜🔥✨

A picture of me and my game Skate & Date surrounded by a colorful border. Below the pictures there's text that says: Geneva Heyward @ QGCON2025

Showing Skate & Date and on an anti-panel about trans games with other folks at 4:30pm EST @qgcon.bsky.social

So excited to be here!!!

Our 2025 series is out now!

The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers.
The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here:
itch.io/b/3301/brief...

You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!

Oh hell yes!!! 🎉🎉😴😴👏👏

Awhhhh that's so sweet! 🥹 I hope y'all enjoy the panel, and that the meeting went well!!!

Ahhhh I'm so glad!! 🔥

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Thanks so much, Aasa! ✨

AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...

A title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨