Typewriter Monke

a genuine auteur of impeccable design insight: Grappling Gertrude's inescapable wrestling moves are sure to take down anyone who gets close!

the other characters' weapons: sniper rifles

just, an absolute design genius: offroad ophelia makes up for her slow speed and sloppy maneuvering by having no need for road quality

every single track: Rainbow Road

a master of the game design craft: Flexible Freddy can't be as good as a specialized character at any one thing, because he can do all the things

the game: a role-oriented game where the party needs exactly one of each role, and any party member underperforming is a detriment to the whole group.

incredibly clever game designer: Daylight Dave has to be balanced around how he gets automatic critical hits in sunlight

the game: a dungeon crawler where all dungeons are underground set in a world of perpetual night

very smart game designer: what Speedy Steve lacks in offense and defense, he makes up for in his unparalleled ability to cover long distances!

the game: 1v1 fights in a tightly confined box

The discursive combat chapter of #rcbg is so goddamn goof

Katherine And yet, I cannot help but notice you have chosen to bring it to my attention, rather than wield it against me. What, precisely, are your intentions here? Isaacahedron shit. Wait, you're actually like this in DMs too?? Holy

Okay so the thing about RCBG is that one moment I’ll want to cry because of Laura and Emmy’s relationship, and a page later I’ll laugh from something like this

"Cringe?" she says, the tension visibly building, bulging under her very visible skin. "You are afraid of being cringe? Even now?" "Especially now," I whimper. Katherine's hand is on my shoulder what the fuck is happening what is she doing — "Let me tell you what is cringe, Nichole." She's looking me straight in the eyes. "To allow yourself to be consumed by undue concern for the judgment of others, shrinking away out of fear, is cringe. To compromise your wishes, your morals, your self out of advance compliance with the edicts of strangers, is cringe." I reach for my phone to try to find a way out of the confrontation. "Always, Nichole, you rely on external means to avoid accountability for your own desires, your own needs. Is that not cringe? Is it only cringe when someone dares to commit fully, with confidence, to assert herself?" Shit, she's sort of got me pinned there. Rhetorically and physically, in a position I'm choosing to have no strong opinions on, I think. "Cringe festers in the half-measures, in the performance of apathy, in the need for plausible deniability to escape accountability for your own desires," she continues.

Okay but Katherine is kind of spitting truth here

My appendage... " why does she look so disgusted? "It shrivels, Nichole. Shrivels. This is the path you, too, have chosen." Wow I sure hope so. I'm unsure about my feelings about downstairs, but 'shriveling' isn't really an issue. I don't think surgery is worth it, but if it fell off unprompted? I wouldn't complain. "And because of that, you're calling me Nichole and talking like an anime villain?"

Love these goobers

"Give it up, already!" Isaac snarled, pulling me into each thrust furiously. "You are literally assuming the penetrable role in intercourse!" "Penetrability is not a determiner of sex, misogynist!" I screamed, pinching Isaac's nipples. "And yet, our patriarchal system-unf- womanizes the penetrable nonetheless!" "And I, as a male feminist ally, seek to deconstruct and defang the engendering signifiers of penetration!"

Wait, shit. How would a straight cis guy compliment another straight cis guy's boobs? I need to think of something fast. He's practically overdosed on the kool-aid of the ranked competitive breast growth community's rules, so I have to convincingly pretend I'm a guy. As much as I wish it wasn't the case, everything I've learned today has shown me that I can't really trust Daniel. "I mean your tits are downright bangin' broseph. So clearly this stuff's working for you." Judging by the face he's making I think I fucked

There he goes again. I keep telling him, I'm not fucking trans. An actual trans girl would be uncomfortable pretending to be a man who's pretending to be a trans girl to gain a competitive advantage. Implying they've even got an advantage for being trans girls is like, a faux pas or some shit, even though in this sport it's true? I mean, that's why we ban them, trans girls have an unfair psychological advantage at competitive mammogenesis, cause they get a free ride fighting the dysphoria. Not like me, who defeated it with pure gamer willpower. Willpower so strong, in fact, that I didn't even notice the dysphoria appear before I'd beaten it.

I voted a bunch of times for RCBG and A/S/L, the two best books I’ve read this year

Realizing Nichole had never kissed Katherine made me have a fucking episode. If I fumbled an autistic plural tgirl this badly I wouldn't show my face in public ever again in shame

Please help out if you can, the winter is hitting Gaza really badly right now

Yes... ha ha ha... yes!

One thing I love is having an extremely biased narrator describe something mundane and inconsequential in a ridiculously judgmental way

"Welfare fraud" is similar to the de-transition rate grift. Any time it's ever investigated it turns out only a small handful of people are actually defrauding the system and most people who get it actually need it.

I don't wanna spotlight this poster in particular (hence the crop), but this is like everything wrong with the way ppl talk about detransitioners. Yes, sure, detransitioning is tantamount defrauding Big Gender, why not. Yeah they didn't "*really* need it." UNLIKE ME!!

And if you want to help me through this time, the easiest and best way to do so is donate to my GFM - bsky.app/profile/mzak...

Cracked Ivory A podcast about the feminist discourses in academic theory and popular culture.

For now, everyone who purchased the Poison Lilies bundle can expect a novella from me in early '26 (preorders for all will also be available). You can also check out the podcast I do with @taliabhatt.itch.io on crackedivory.com - we recently released our episode on Shrier early for Patrons

As the year draws to a close, some disclosure about my writing:

I'm going to have to push the release of "Appetite" to Feb 2026. This year has not been good for me writing-wise, and that's why you haven't seen much marketing/preorders/release info from me

Reading comments on the Norwegian trans research ethics case is so fucking grim cause people will show up on the "we researched youth patients without their consent" case like "well it's experimental treatment so it's super duper important to get data!!"

So easy to get people on board with fascism.

being a Real Adult will have you going "wow I miss the pitcher that fell on the floor and shattered, because this new one has a handle that's designed so badly it causes spills"

rife-with-sapphic-intent on tumblr asks tpwrtrmnky: Ranked Competitive Milking sequel? tpwrtrmnky answers: The obvious way for a sequel to go is actually Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: World Cups.

The good thing about RCBG is that while we're not above pandering and stretching things out for sellout reasons, we do have an ending planned and have had an ending planned since we started writing together, so we can at least build to something definitive.

How to clean mouthwash out of the carpet?

what other things has Kathy researched like this? wrong answers only

Some of you utter freaks WOULD want to milk Katherine forever wouldn't you

Well he'd be scored based on growth from the point where he started

Was talking about the fact that at some point in the future RCBG has to end and went "sadly we can't milk these characters forever", THEN caught the PHRASING