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Valentine Powell

@valentineirl.bsky.social

Queer nerd who makes stuff for video games (they/them). Current: Wizards of the Coast. Formerly: Crop Circle Games, Playable Worlds, Blizzard. Opinions posted here do not reflect the opinions of my employers either present or past.

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I need a cooking show where the judges are kids that are picky eaters. The chefs have to make meals that the kids will eat, and halfway thru the cooks the kids are changing their mind about what they want.

02.03.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your worship strengthens me, thank you everyone for celebrating my day.

15.02.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ever since the stuff went down with the DFEH investigation around Activision, I’ve steadily become more and more wary of him.

14.02.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wondering how long it will take for people to come around to my dislike of Gavin Newsom. It feels like every week I find a new reason to distrust him.

14.02.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Three panel comic. Panel 1: baby monkeys in overalls jumping on a bed, having fun. Panel 2: one of the monkeys falls over the edge of the bed, reaching out as he falls. Panel 3: one of the other monkeys, now looking super buff and badass, grabs him by the arm to save him heroically. β€œMonkey Stronger Together.”

Three panel comic. Panel 1: baby monkeys in overalls jumping on a bed, having fun. Panel 2: one of the monkeys falls over the edge of the bed, reaching out as he falls. Panel 3: one of the other monkeys, now looking super buff and badass, grabs him by the arm to save him heroically. β€œMonkey Stronger Together.”

13.02.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 21233    πŸ” 5304    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 65

Super exciting that we get two Friday the 13ths back to back, and also that my move in date for my new house (wild saying that) is likely to be Friday the 13th

13.02.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

TFW you are in mid-escrow and you see that the Phillipines just made it legal for same-sex couples to own a house and you're just like: Oh fuck, I hope my country doesn't just arbitrarily decide I can't own property with my husband soon. πŸ™ƒ

12.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Age verification? I was there when the commercial of mog interviewing monsters for ff3 premiered.

11.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really need people to stop referring to every gay ship they are suddenly noticing as β€œheated rivalry in x universe.” There are a ton of different ship tropes, and not all of them are enemies to lovers. Learn your ship types and do proper comparisons please.

10.02.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you read the name Casey Wasserman in the next few days, just be aware he was on the AB board during the time the DFEH investigation was happening.

10.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So anyway, it’s now come out that several of the board members of Activision Blizzard during the time of our walkouts around the treatment of women were all heavily featured in the Epstein files. This is my not shocked face.

10.02.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

AWS appears 225 times in the Epstein files. It’s always your heroes that let you down.

04.02.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Protip: if you don’t want Google suggesting what you are trying to search for, start your question with β€œwhat the fuck…” β€œwhy the fuck…” or β€œwho the fuck…”

Example: β€œwhat the fuck does apple of my eye mean?”

27.01.2026 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I really enjoy is that a lot of exp you get is just based on how curious you are about the world and people around you. Talking and reading things is a primary exp driver.

24.01.2026 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I was reading the Mistborn series I often wondered what a game about the mental allomancy skills might look like. Playing The Thaumaturge right now and it feel pretty close to the spirit of that type of game. Enjoying it a lot.

24.01.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also a fan of the idea that hey, maybe queer people are just more likely to want to join Starfleet.

24.01.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just as a heads up, I am loving Starfleet Academy. I'm pretty sure the amount of queer characters exceeds the amount of het characters. Its wild just how effortlessly they integrate queerness as a normal part of life in the show.

#starfleetacademy #spoilers

24.01.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"THEY ARE KISSING" "sorry bro I just dont see it, I feel like maybe you are reaching"

#ragebaitthehomophobes

24.01.2026 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just start demanding the same level of explicit canonization as homophobes do. Don't accept tropes or insinuations as canon. Make them put together a 30 minute edit to prove it to you.

24.01.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was watching the new Starfleet Academy and husband saw a guy and a girl having angry tension and he was like "they are gonna end up together." I whipped out the "gawd, why cant girls and guys just be friends anymore, stop trying to force het relationships into everything."

#flipedscript

24.01.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fine with it being one sided (even tho every single encounter was framed as a romantic trope, so fuck you queerbaity brothers). Not fine with the casualness with which they dismissed his feelings.

24.01.2026 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is just to say
If you've loved someone for almost your whole life
If you have pined them for almost a decade
You don't just suddenly stop loving them
Over the course
Of a single
Episode

#strangerthings #byler #StopLettingStraightPeopleWriteQueerCharactersChallangeImpossible

24.01.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really need people to stop using the word bromance to describe actual queer male couples. It’s not a bromance, they are dating.

21.01.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wills coming out scene felt like it existed to make straight people feel better about themselves rather than empowering gay people.

27.12.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, Damocles by Sleep Token.

26.12.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any of my followers good with music theory able to help me with something? In Damocles there’s a vocalization at about 1:15 that I believe is a 1 4 6 4 2 in f sharp major. Is that correct? Also, are there any other songs out there that use this same progression in any key that you are aware of?

26.12.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The comphet crew will jump through any hoop to justify homophobia.

25.12.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump really treating these file drops like it’s season 5 of a Netflix show

24.12.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In* ffs autocorrect

23.12.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0