Olivia Montoya | Metaparadox

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material

The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Did this happen? If it's still in the works, I'd love to talk about Ace Jam and Aro Jam (the asexual and aromantic game jams I've been running for years)

The Golden Cobra Challenge 2025 is NOW LIVE!

Get your gamesss in by October 13th!

goldencobra.org

A raccoon and possum yell on the cover of a zine. the title is "everything sucks" and the racoon and possum yell "let's do something!" and between them it says "a zine by sarahmackattack"

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.

For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!

Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...

Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

Litform LARP Jam A game jam from 2025-09-01 to 2026-01-01 hosted by Metaparadox. What is LARP? If you’re not familiar, LARP stands for Live Action Roleplaying. It's kind of like tabletop roleplaying games, but you emb...

I made an itch game jam for #LARP scenarios with pre-written characters on a whim. Want to write a LARP and don't know how? Here's some resources and a deadline! Or use the jam to get eyes on an existing LARP project! - itch.io/jam/litform-...

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 56 over a background of lesbian pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a rainbow striped worm that's broken into lines like a platforming game. there are transgender pride color mario sprites throughout.

🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985.

itch.io/b/3062

Is this still open?

This isn't ideal. I wish more people could make money on LARP projects and get paid for their work. I wish LARP was more popular than it is, too. If it gets its moment like TTRPGs have, there should be room for people to participate on a hobby level or on a getting-paid-what-they're-worth level

While that concerns me that someone said that, as someone who is a pretty intensive LARP hobbyist who occasionally gets paid, the bigger issue is that there is really almost no money to be had in LARP now. LARPs can be a lot of work to organize with little $$$ return, so only passionate people do it

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

We're back! Purchasing the Queer Games Bundle for $60 (or $10+) is a direct action that you can take right now to support queer people in a life-changing way, and in exchange, you get over 600 amazing, heartfelt, fun, and radical games and artworks.

itch.io/b/3062/

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.

itch.io/b/3062/

There’s the yearly Lone Star Zine Fest in Austin and there was a Dallas Zine Fest last November

(meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology An anthology of issues 1-6 of (meta)paradox zine, including never-before-seen content!

Less than a week left to back my Kickstarter for (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology! www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...

Check out this bundle I've got 2 games in, the Disabled Creators Jamboree Bundle! The money goes directly to the creators participating! itch.io/b/3015/disab...

(meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology An anthology of issues 1-6 of (meta)paradox zine, including never-before-seen content!

The Kickstarter for (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology is now live! ~500 pages of perzine content! Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...

Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.

The Divine Remnant | July Pilowsky The visionary oracles of the Divine Remnant work together to resurrect their gods and chart a new course for their people.

My new larp The Divine Remnant is up on my larp designer website! If you enjoyed The Divine Fleet, then consider running this at a con or for your friends, because it's set in the same universe (The Oracular Cycle.)

larp.pilowsky.me/project/the-...

The plastic eggs are reusable and you can put wrapped or unwrapped candies of your choice inside. It’s possible to get chocolate eggs in the US, but not kinder eggs with toys inside, as those are illegal

The dyed chicken eggs are kind of old-fashioned. Mostly it’s plastic eggs filled with candies now for egg hunts

An excerpt from the "Ace and aro community zine", which reads: "My sense of self solidified - by every idea I've defied," signed jadziajan. Ace Space LDN's logo is in the bottom right corner.

"The unbound beauty in a world beyond the one that confines us": read the rest of my poem by downloading ACE SPACE LDN's zine, available for free since April 6th!

The zine (from £0): ko-fi.com/s/8233e5253e
Accessible version (idem): ko-fi.com/s/65ce114dbb

Visual courtesy of ACE SPACE LDN 💜

Coming soon: (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology An anthology of issues 1-6 of (meta)paradox zine, including never-before-seen content!

Within the next few weeks I'm going to launch a Kickstarter for an anthology of my text-heavy personal zine series (meta)paradox! If you want to be notified when the campaign launches, check out the pre-launch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...

I've actually discovered someone else was ace by commenting on their black ring before!

Made a zine about the practice of wearing a black ring on your right middle finger as an asexual person.

Contents Introduction (about this guide, audience, glossary, resource key) About asexuality (resources regarding asexuality itself) Asexual creators (a selection of asexual creators) Non-fiction (non-fiction texts and other media about asexuality in sci-fi) Fiction databases (compilations of sci-fi media containing asexuality) Fiction (fictional sci-fi media containing asexual characters) Writing asexuality (for creating and writing your own asexual characters) Writing sci-fi (for creating and writing your own science fiction media) [There is an asexual flag border, and an asexual flag at the bottom of the page with a black silhouette of a futuristic city overlaying it)

Resource key: Academic article Book / book chapter Comic / webcomic Course Flyer Podcast Spreadsheet Social media TV show Video Video game Webpage / single blog post Website / blog Zine [Each resource name is accompanied by a corresponding icon in purple]

As it's International Asexual Day, I'm promoting my resource guide to ace sci-fi again! Contents and resource key are below, come take a look at this link! And Happy Ace Day!
works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...

I've personally seen the years of nastiness and condescension and dismissal we've faced to get where we are now, only to be met with this latest barrage of hate from right wingers

I probably shouldn't be surprised about how vile she is any more, but I still feel sick about it because asexuality acceptance and education is something I've been screaming about since 2011

Two of Wands Zine by Metaparadox LARP, Tarot, and Finding Truth from Fantasy

I just published an essay zine about finding truth in fantasy through LARP and tarot #LARP #tarot #zine metaparadox.itch.io/two-of-wands...

...as if the asexual community didn't already have enough to deal with regarding harassment, shaming, denial of our experiences and identity, sexual coercion, and medical discrimination (which is barely acknowledged even even in queer healthcare spaces despite it being incredibly prevalent)

I hate that my eyeballs just had to see that tweet jkr made being horrific and bigoted about asexual people on International Asexuality Day, sending her audience of millions of other bigots to be hateful to another marginalized group...

All prices are determined on a case by case basis regarding what is fair. Here's my portfolio website: www.oliviamontoya.com