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As a 6'2", bearded, skirt and dress wearing, eyeshadow painted, dangly earring wearing AMAB enby, I'd like once again to remind everyone that being enby doesn't necessarily "look" like anything. Please, when you meet someone, as soon as you see the opportunity, ask them their preferred pronouns. 💛🩵💛

Help, I can't stop and I can't *be* stopped.

I'm a retro freak - I've got an entire office setup to prove it - but there are experiences in gaming now that simply didn't exist in 2005. When the closest you get to queer voices in a library or era is from Joachim Valentine, Kanji Tatsumi, Vamp, or Hana and Rain, you start looking elsewhere.

Marlboro 100s are the best wedding party favor I've ever seen.

This was one of the best and easiest times I've had editing a piece. @otomeniki.bsky.social is an incredibly talented writer. You'd be a fool to not hire her if she's got a pitch for you. You'd better pray she's got a pitch for you.

“I see you, I hear you, but this rapists video essays are so good.”

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

Real life: spends 15 years in the closet, gets nothing but trauma and a confusing youth Silent Hill Townfall: spends 3 minutes in a closet, gets a trophy

"Level 5 is holding diamonds and spitting on them" from @seamoosi.bsky.social is the best quote I've heard in a while. My favorite studio brought to its knees by some quarter-baked-non-functioning-techbro-nonsense. Get bent. We won't be playing the new Layton.

Oi why don't the "HD Rumble" rumblers rumble during cutscenes of the new smash hit Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave? I yearn for the rumbles of yore. The rumbles of yesteryear. They call to me. *brrrrrrrrt*

The Queen

💛🤍💜🖤 Happy International Nonbinary People's Day! Remember: enby =/= androgyny. Enby comes in all shades, sizes, and presentations. Remember to ask new friends their pronouns. For some, it means the world. Support NB developers on the Nonbinary Coded Games Fest! 💛🤍💜🖤

Sam Vu Nguyen is a 21-year-old second generation Vietnamese Australian with ADHD whose new piece grapples with perfectionism, masking, and the "need to be observed as legitimate, normal, or real" through the eyes of Ava in The Game Bakers' 2026 game Cairn.

S̴C̶R̶E̴A̶M̴I̵N̶G̴ ̵C̴R̴Y̷I̴N̵G̷ ̵T̵H̵R̴O̴W̴I̶N̸G̸ ̵U̵P̶ I don't really listen to a lot of electronica or whatever you want to call Lane 8, but holy fuck do these mix tapes rip so hardddddd every season!

*chanting incessantly* screaming crying throwing up screaming crying throwing up Lovely Hellplace's (of Dread Delusion) new RPG demo had me by the fucking throat 30 seconds in. *swoons and passes away* Sometimes a developer just gets it.

Did done pulled myself the 1:48 "Secret Edition" on my first #KodakCharmera purchase. I'm only shaking a little...

Why has nobody from the game industry protested the imprisonment of this brave and innovative game designer

I cannot accurately express to you in the English vernacular how anxious it makes me every time my phone buzzes. Will that anxiety inspire me to change the settings to allow fewer unnecessary notifications? Hell no, dog, I have ADHD.

the free market was the scalper all along

I do think it's cool that whoever finalized or first suggested this book cover to her hates her fucking guts. Hey Sarah? This book cover sucks as much as you do. It's so fitting, girl. You think you eated.

Apparently ai "writers" have started using copious m dashes. I fucking love m dashes. Don't take away my m dashes, please.

There's not much better than accidentally forgetting to claim your Humble Monthly for 3 months and then going through and activating all those new games on Steam. 🤌

"Excuse me, how mayst I contact the CEO of the rebellion?"

This was a draining process and writeup. But, uh... here's my top 10!

Even ice hates ICE

It's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Writing this piece was *almost* as exhausting as the hour and a half I spent on the precipice of a panic attack playing Lumines Arise this week.

New review is up!

Went out to soak up some queer joy at Chappell Roan yesterday. 30,000 people proving to each other we're not alone. We made the right one famous.

I love mid-aughts budget translations.

Hey y'all, I have an emergency situation (info below) I could do with some help with betweenthescanlines.itch.io Please consider picking up my digizine (bundles available), or if you enjoy what I do on BlueSky and my site enough, my ko-fi.com/retrobytes and PayPal.me is paypal.me/curicuri 1/3

This is my dumpster cat. That's all.

straight people: *discover what it's like to not be represented in media at all times, immediately proceed to complain about it*

Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety

i wrote a new unhinged thing to take its rightful place in a long line of unhinged things i have written

p o y o

I'm so happy to report that my queer awakening, and the man who gave me the courage to be an "out" person so early, Brandon Boyd, is still the hottest man on earth.