Alyssa Butler

Overall, I thought Requiem was a wonderful culmination of the series. It was an affectionate send-off, which unfortunately meant the absence of certain characters was very much felt, but that's really my only complaint, and I know it wasn't feasible to include *everything*.

I loved RE9. I've seen complaints about its back half, but I enjoyed it because there were so many different things to do. A lot of it felt like action-oriented puzzles, figuring out how to traverse areas and clear rooms. It didn't feel as tedious as the last 1/3 of Village to me.

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

This is amazing! I would love to read it!

I'm Still Not Over Losing My Book Review Gig You can still get the Humble Bundle of every book by Annalee Newitz and myself published by Tor Books for a pittance — please select adjusted donation! — and...

"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop"

I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics:

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Yay! Here's one of my favorite songs!

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

Ain't We Women, Too? For many incarcerated women, the state is their abuser, but the gender-based violence we experience behind bars goes ignored.

First up, we decided to drop the paywall on @kwanetaharris.bsky.social's piece  because it's so powerful and urgent. Kwaneta writes about how the state is her abuser as an incarcerated woman. Read for free here: 

I've known this guy my whole life

A dark and stormy Friday 13th is a perfect time to jump into Scarlet Hollow if you haven't already.

The second half of the latest episode is coming next week and I need time to go much faster than it currently is so I can see what happens.

Yesss the atmosphere is incredible! I'm so glad we're going to Scotland in the '90s as well. I'm all for SH games being in new locations as long as they capture the series' atmosphere, and they really seem to have succeeded in that.

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

a close up of a young woman wearing headphones and looking at the camera . Alt: Konatsu Kato, the Japanese voice actress for Hinako in Silent Hill f, raising her arms and cheering while wearing earbud headphones

Silent Hill Townfall looks incredible. The music! The protagonist! The monster design! The analog tech! Exclamation points!!!

Only Trump's anti-life administration could spark a headline that includes the words "repealed the bedrock scientific finding"

No problem at all! It's a beautiful zine. I'll try not to scare myself too much by reading it at night!

A photo of Hellebore magazine issue 14, the mirror issue, featuring an image of a woman facing away from two mirrors showing reflections of her face from different angles.

Got my first @helleborezine.bsky.social issue in the mail today! I had to get the mirror issue because mirrors are my biggest irrational fear and yet they fascinate me at the same time. Can't wait to dig into this!

👻Shadows of the Afterland is OUT NOW!!!👻

Carolina arrives in the afterlife, in the wrong year and the wrong soul.

A long, bumpy road culminates today, and I couldn’t be prouder of this game. ⚫✨

Would you help me spread the word?

Cross over now: https://shadowsoftheafterland.com/steam

“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!

shafer is responsible for this beautiful illustration accompanying my unwinnable cover feature, which is absolutely stunning and perfectly understood the soul of the essay

please support them however you can, even just by resharing 💜

Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit review | Adventure Game Hotspot There’s nothing dishonest about Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit. As advertised, it’s an homage to the classic Nancy Drew series, both a masterful emulation and an exciting evolution...

“The truth is, a great new detective series gets underway with a case that stands alongside the best Nancy Drew mysteries”.

Lizzie Frizzle reviews ‘Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit’ for AGH adventuregamehotspot.com/review/5808/...
#indiegame #adventuregame #gamedev

A very large black bird perched on a horizontal tree limb with more limbs in the background. Bird has its back to the viewer with head turned to the left in profile.

Do yourself a favour and take a moment to appreciate all the feather textures on display here. What an amazing creature! An uncommonly beautiful Common Raven #birds

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Underkeep on Steam Explore a dangerous fantasy world in this role-playing dungeon crawler with tactical, turn-based combat. Assemble a party of adventurers, upgrade your gear and descend into the depths of the Underkeep...

This looks so good! A throwback to '90s grid-based first-person dungeon crawlers with a really nice pixel art style. Definitely reminds me of Eye of the Beholder 👁️

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

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I was counting on my Kickstarter money to help pay my rent this month, but it’s delayed. And that means I’m behind on rent.

I hate asking for help (I’d much rather be the one doing the help), but I’m stuck in this position again.

Many thanks in advance to any helpers.

ko-fi.com/autumnwolff/...

Mongolian 2026 winter olympics uniforms

Haitian 2026 Winter Olympics uniforms

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

Mimidoshima LLM Slop Will Make Us Antisocial - Ruminations on IFComp 2025

Great new piece from @highimpactsex.bsky.social on IFComp’s rule change banning AI works:

mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Hey everyone!

Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!

But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.

I just resorted our list to put those on the top.

Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”