Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈
@midimyers.com
Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog // email: team-at-mothership-dot-blog. Podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. Formerly of Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. she/her.
today's story is free to read with just your email address and very much worthwhile. it convinced me to play The House in Fata Morgana but also it made me think a lot about museums and the entire concept of historical 'fiction'
The House in Fata Morgana and what comes after
How a game that evokes history, rather than merely reproducing it, gets closer to a human truth
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i have a feeling today's story from @redfernbarrett.com will resonate with a lot of you <3
All the choices I made in games until I could finally be non-binary
My childhood self could never have imagined a game where they got to create a character who was neither a man nor a woman
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Incredibly grateful to the wonderful team at @mothership.blog giving me space to share a personal journey of pain and blood in Mortal Shell 2, and real life too.
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈@midimyers.com · 2d agoin which @spoonienet.com analyzes Mortal Shell 2 through the lens of endometriosis (because it just makes sense)
in which @spoonienet.com analyzes Mortal Shell 2 through the lens of endometriosis (because it just makes sense)
Grieving my mortal shell
My endometriosis diagnosis had nothing on Mortal Shell 2
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been reading Dykes To Watch Out For (not for the first time, although i don't think i've ever sat down and read it all in order before). enjoy this 1987 echo through time
You, too, can look as cute as our writers do in their Mothership merch: mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com
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Wallace@exalclaw.com · 3d ago@mothership.blog merch goes hard
yayyy an excuse to replay one of my favorite games yayyyyyyy! if you've never played this game... CHECK IT OUT IMMEDIATELY
Christine Love@christinelove.bsky.social · 3d agoLADYKILLER UNLEASHED, our massive DLC expansion pack to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ladykiller in a Bind, is NOW AVAILABLE on Steam and Itch! Seduce new characters and learn new sides of old favourites! store.steampowered.com/app/5127290/... loveconquersallgames.itch.io/ladykiller-u...
it's TRUE!!! @mothership.blog has a merch store now and we have an exclusive wonderful design from the one and only @sonnyross.bsky.social <3 so excited to get to work with sonny again and feature this extremely good design. like honestly go check it out even if you aren't putting it in a cart lmao
🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞@sonnyross.bsky.social · 2w agoHello, I made a cool t-shirt for @mothership.blog Great way to support an excellent blog! Big thanks to @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com for having me on for this! Grab one here: mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/produ...
it's TRUE!!! @mothership.blog has a merch store now and we have an exclusive wonderful design from the one and only @sonnyross.bsky.social <3 so excited to get to work with sonny again and feature this extremely good design. like honestly go check it out even if you aren't putting it in a cart lmao
🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞@sonnyross.bsky.social · 2w agoHello, I made a cool t-shirt for @mothership.blog Great way to support an excellent blog! Big thanks to @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com for having me on for this! Grab one here: mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/produ...
Managing editor @zoehhannah.com plays basically all the cozy games she can find. Here are her favorites right now, free to read with your email:
Fall 2026: Our favorite cozy games
All the games I'm playing right now that center empathy, kindness, friendship, and satisfying gameplay.
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New piece @mothership.blog from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social This is an absolute powerhouse of a read, just an absolutely exceptional piece on a fascinating game. Make sure to check the content warning though, it gets rough.
Don’t rock the boat says trans girls are worth killing for
A must-play horror tale of transness and tentacles
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For @dreamcastaway.bsky.social, Fabio's lust for Dietrich — whether it's sexual or envious or both — is one of the most compelling parts of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's most unexpected pair is a fascinating tangle of sex and gender
"I could adopt the form of a woman so beautiful I would shine like the moon..."
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It's fall sale season once again. A perfect time to cozy up with a good book, or perhaps a series of visual novels about a nun who got stuck in the pear wiggler store.steampowered.com/bundle/71001...
Thank you everyone for the many shares and vouches and nice words. Made a sizable dent in the total and I’m feeling a lot more buoyant than I was two days ago. I’m sure you know how I feel about asking for this kind of help so I won’t repeat it, but the response has meant a lot to me.
Stellbound: Stellraiser II@antlervel.vet · 3w agoHere’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.
I am confident in one thing: the outpouring of support Stop Caring and myself have received in the last few days have made it clear the publiction will continue, hopefully for many more years. Worse comes to shove, we WILL make something work. Now's a great time to support: www.stopcar.ing
Stop Caring
A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.
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catching up on my Stop Caring today and i really loved this one
artemis, scary boss of stop caring@stopcar.ing · 4w agoSomehow, @mads.haus convinced me to publish a Sonic essay on Stop Caring. Please read/share this beautiful essay on Sonic the Hedgehog, its ecological themes, and how Sega's current and future actions might potentially jeopardize its own environmentalist messages. www.stopcar.ing/never-give-u...
i'm glad that today at @mothership.blog we can share a review of the game Moonlight Peaks by @zoehhannah.com. this game is adorable and sweet and a little bit deeper than you might expect
Moonlight Peaks strikes just the right balance between cutesy and deep
It's unapologetically dramatic, it’s cute as hell (literally), and it has *magic*
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Hey everyone. Things have been tough around here and they are about to get worse. I’ll probably need to make a bigger ask soon, but right now I’m asking for some help covering essentials. Next post has what I’m trying to cover. PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc No Venmo
this analysis of Big Walk, through the lens of "men don't talk to each other anymore" and the cultural norms that have led us to where we are with that, is so lovely and i think will resonate with a lot of you
Big Walk lights the way for non-toxic masculinity in games
Interrogating "men don't talk to each other" through a game about communication
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when i hear AI proponents talk about how AI is improving so fast (or whatever marketing), i have to ask: why are all of the AI writing tells still exactly the same, then?
Ever notice how much harder women and non-white people have it when it comes to harassment? And how few editors and colleagues are willing to put their body in front of the blow? Ever notice how women and non-white gamers are treated as a niche and white men as the core audience?
Ever notice how outright fucking racist and sexist a lot of these seasoned journalists are? ever notice that Kotaku has had multiple women deputy editors and they all quit?
“Networks of the rich and powerful have successfully fought back against attempts to demand accountability, employing DARVO…at societal scale to smear their accusers.“
“Today, in 2026, the societal assumption that young women are disposable is more rampant than ever. The most powerful men in the world are implicated as potential predators, and nothing happens.”
I’ve been thinking about this piece I wrote for Mothership today. And yesterday. And the day before. At its heart, it isn’t a feel-good story of me learning to accept myself. It’s about learning that it’s okay to say No More. To say Fuck the Town, Save the Girl.
My 10-year journey to save Life Is Strange's Chloe Price, and how doing so saved me, too
On dysphoria, coming out, and making hard choices
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"Playing Tiny Bookshop quickly became part of my nightly routine. Wash my face, brush my teeth, put on a face mask, and load my last save." 🧡🧡🧡 @mothership.blog www.mothership.blog/tiny-booksho...
Tiny Bookshop made me want to change my career
What happened to that girl who saw herself as an aspiring author? As it turns out, she's still a part of me
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feels like a good time to recirculate my story about the ubiquity of rape culture, unfortunately
It's everywhere
Rape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators
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tiny bookshop is out here changing lives!!!! this one's free to read with just your email address
Tiny Bookshop made me want to change my career
What happened to that girl who saw herself as an aspiring author? As it turns out, she's still a part of me
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i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
