May 2013
12 posts
HOWLING DOGS CONTINUES THE SWEEP
porpentine:
howling dogs won Best Story and Best Writing in the 2012 Xyzzy Awards
and j chastain’s rat chaos won Best NPC for New Rat City
it was held in a MUD so me and j got to explore a little text world (~CYBERDATE~)
Cyborg Baseball Assassin Paid $1,000,000,000 →
I realized I missed reblogging thing and have therefore made a counterfeit tumblr for reblogs
The only gaming community site I’m interested in is the one where we collectively recall our puzzling fixation on the bodies in Super Spike V’Ball, our arousal at being shredded into chunks in Skate or Die’s “Downhill Jam,” that time we masturbated while we watched Yoshi repeatedly submit to punishment and death at the hands of Magikoopas (it was an autoscrolling...
“I think it’s like how Final Fantasy VII is the most popular of the series,...”
– thecatamites ~> http://gamejolt.com/blog/interview-the-catamites/32/
http://gamejolt.com/blog/interview-the-catamites/32/
Read this cool interview with intensely radical game maker “thecatamites”
Read it
GDC Vault - Free Indie Games: Curating the DIY... →
porpentine:
a talk i did with terry cavanagh about cool games, queer creators, diy, curation, and fuck capitalism
list of games and quotes used in talk
fanfic start Salt turns me tomato. Pepper turns me human. Salt=>tomato. Pepper=>human. Hide me in the cooler. This is how we’re getting through the police checkpoint.
“Hmm,” I thought… “I hope the police do not want to eat salad!!!!!”
I didn’t choose to be a Killer Tomato. I didn’t choose this. This was not my choice. I wept bitterly, the...
April 2013
13 posts
How to Write Jokes
Wait, that’s a question, not a statement. The humor I know largely involves taking the familiar and bumping its bits around until they’ve been ordered into something absurd and surprising. This requires a shared definition of “the familiar,” a baseline to work from which is, in effect, a consensus reality. Does it validate and reinforce that fictive “reality” to...
Comment reply formula 1.
Print this onto a sheet of white paper.
Glue it onto a sturdy piece of card stock and keep it in the buttoned breast pocket of your day-shirt.
“In light of [A], [B], [C], […], trans rights seem pretty insignificant, honestly.”
Fill sequence [A], [B], [C], […] with impressive-sounding issues you will, with relief, stop thinking about immediately...
This is my impression of you getting all social justice-y on Tumblr: THINGS AREN’T 100% OK ALL OF THE TIME. BAD THINGS ARE DONE TO PEOPLE PURPOSEFULLY. I SURE CARE A LOT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO ME AND OTHER PEOPLE. RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.
Check out my youtube for video game news and reviews
“What I believe is this: that we should all see each other equally,” he said. “Not as black or white or gay or straight or cis or trans, but as human beings,” he said. “Any grievances you might voice are already covered by that statement,” he said. “Shut up,” he said.
Fucking Trans Women →
followthebellwether:
fuckingtranswomen.tumblr.com with updates, news, and sneak peaks!
Official Strategy Guide
Phase 1: Slow gray nightmare sliding down into tar depressed darkness no no
Phase 2: Thinkin’ and thinkin’ and cryin’ up at 4am and cryin’ up at 4am and cryin’ up at 4am
Phase 3: Feeling loads better, going out, getting those constant startled “what the fuck are you” stares
Phase 4: The Future, such as portrayed on The Jetsons
Grudgingly admitting that I, in most contexts, am not a gliding bog witch, that you outnumber me, and that you can terrify me more easily than I can steal your bones to build my cottage walls.
Kinda can’t shake the feeling that the messages of tolerance I grew up with deliberately ignored that our caste systems are not enforced because of the “ick” factor of encountering the other, but that their primary purpose is to determine the distribution of resources and the “ick” factor is purposefully cultivated for use as a tool to encourage their enforcement...
Namestorming 4/16/2013
Carmen Sandiego Chastain
Cheetarah Janine O’Neill
Evelyn May SHODAN
Lucca Slash Ayla
Jennifer Dossier-Retriever
Madeline Guinevere Carrington-Technodrome
Justine Bailey
L. J. N. Chastain
Deborah Versus Godzilla
My dysmorphia hoots n’ hollers n’ screams n’ complains n’ bangs on a kettle with a big wooden spoon every time I put on these tiny-looking things and they actually fit.
Stuck on the phrase “catastrophic femme failure” since yesterday and fighting the urge to use it as a Prompt. A color wheel and a range of aesthetics: one’s filled with dead zones ‘cause of my deficient cones, one’s filled with dead zones ‘cause of my dead follicles. I am, as ever, working through the blind spots and trying to make the outcome look deliberate.
A: I just don't understand why it bothers people so much.
B: Because they, if only unconsciously, recognize us as a threat to the stability of systems which, through generations, reproduce male, cis, and hetero privilege, and they fear the consequences of a resultant shift in the distribution of power along the axes of gender and sex (probably accurately grasping that greater balance would strip them of privileges they presently enjoy.)
20 minutes pass
A: But why does it bother people so much? It's none of their business.
B: Because they, if only unconsciously, recognize us as a threat to the stability of systems which, through generations, reproduce male, cis, and hetero privilege, and they fear the consequences of a resultant shift in the distribution of power along the axes of gender and sex (probably accurately grasping that greater balance would strip them of privileges they presently enjoy.)
March 2013
9 posts
Check out Anna Anthropy's interview in Gamasutra
life-in-neon:
Anna Anthropy mentions Reset in an interview with Gamasutra
LA: What do text games do that other games can’t, and what do you think traditional developers should learn from the current IF community?
AA: How about: Don’t be such fucking cowards. While mainstream games like Spec Ops: The Line and Hotline Miami are tiptoeing up to the idea that maybe violence is something we should...
electro primitive girl →
sloaneshutup:
here is a little twine game i made about a mecha girl. experimenting with coding and things for Prism Stalker~
Best Picture, 1991
It’s 1999 and I need an identity so I declare I’m really into film when I mean to say “I want to make video games” or “I want to be a cartoonist.” A vision of my future self is dying and I can’t admit what it is or why, the impassioned artist and activist, queer, poly kink chick turning a sickly pale purple in her bassinet The most violent and...
Good Sexual Erotica: Force Fed by Police Drones →
porpentine:
goodsexualerotica:
The sun bounces off of an empty bag of potato chips and into my eyes. I wake up to the sound of the LAPD’s remote targeting system locking onto me, which can only mean one thing. Time for cake. I lift open the crisp clean white cardboard cake box and dig my filth encrusted fingers through a…
celebrating this with audiobook version
listen to ‘Force Fed by Police...
“I react the wrong way. I’m never myself. I get nervous and then I’m...”
– I wrote about this last July, when it felt like a permanent part of my life. It doesn’t happen anymore.
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porpentine:
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FUTURE SPORTS FICTION
TESTOSTERONE TERROR CW: VIOLENCE, MISOGYNY, HYPER-MASCULINITY
February 2013
29 posts
ohnoproblems:
stationlost:
This Song is...
3 months on HRT
Nothing to do but
keep existing
and
rolling forward to the next day
and
rolling forward to the next day
and
so on.
I was alone in my room for a while and I didn’t draw or write much.
I’m tired of not drawing or writing, but I’m also tired of being alone and in my room.
It is amazing and it is a relief, but it’s bought me time and space to safely ponder “why...
If you’ve been idolizing someone to an inappropriate degree, you will eventually discover that they are, in fact, your evil doppelganger.
For the record, porpentine is pretty much my... →
spanglypants-mcfuckyou:
Her work completely subverts, inverts and retrofits just about every aspect of femininity in a way that’s radical, gloriously violent and supremely empowering because, not in spite of, its being feminine. She shoves her glittercoated spandex-clad postfuturistic cyborg grubmother identity down your throat, and you will love it.
Yet I’ve never seen her trying to shove...
I ALWAYS PICKED THE GIRLS WHEN I PLAYED VIDEO...
julianahuxtable:
-JULIANA HUXTABLE FOR LIFE IS JUICY, AN EXHIBITION OF WORK BY STEWART UOO
My face and scalp skid clean off against the asphalt floor of the cavern, strewn with fast food trash and mossy rocks hiding jellied clusters of amphibious eggs. I look 19 again.
animatedscreenshots:
Pleasuredromes of Kubla Khan
💖 ALL I WANT IS FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO BECOME...
jchastain:
porpentine:
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hey if you didn’t play this yesterday
click on it
HEY. You’re SUBHUMAN SCUM who WROTE A BAD THING. THIS IS NOT OK.
It is not your right to do the bad thing.
It is not your right to say the bad things.
It is not your right to make the bad things happen and post bad things on Tumblr.
YOU SHOULD NOT DO THAT.
I AM POSTING in ALL CAPS to EXPLAIN THIS to you, because EXPLAINING IT will CORRECT the problem.
The PROBLEM being that you are...
