Jodie aka “ballsticseal” aka “Mon1ka”

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21 | They/She/It | making ABBY MUST DIE Video Game/TTRPG/audio nerd who wears too many hats Transfemme Enby YouTuber https://linktr.ee/mon1kasenpai

I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social · yesterday

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Numerous people have already been pointing out for days that western reporting on this is an embarrassingly inaccurate game of telephone, so I'll instead reiterate that it doesn't cost that much to just have a real translator on standby to vet such reports. I know budgets are tight, but come on.

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being on bluesky sometimes feels like living in the countryside sometimes you will have travelers relay messages like have you heard? Lesbian Space Princess is causing quite the commotion back at the capital.

Studios don't belong on the stock market! Sell games, not studios! You employ humans, not money-guzzling entries on a spreadsheet! You destroy trust, functional teams & the entire industry through the normalization of right-sizing numbers—all to keep up the illusion of unrealistic, constant growth.

"Freedom of Speech," painting by Norman Rockwell.

Mothership is one of the clearest signs we need more women and queer people bc the excitement when they launched was *palpable* and has as only continued to be so. Nearly every person I've seen discover them, or who I've shared their high quality work with, has gone "where the fuck has this been?"

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · 6d ago

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

social media is a nightmare these days, but i just need to say: the way you talk about strangers’ experiences of sexual assault tells the survivors in your real life whether or not you can be trusted with their stories and their safety. and there *are* survivors in your life, so don’t fuck it up.

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com