No stream today, but I will be on GDQ tomorrow night for GDQueer!
Charlotte Aranea 📖✍️
@araneacharlotte.hijumpboots.com
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Writer & Tetris grandmaster. wife: @noaj-t.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@araneacharlotte
Writer & Tetris grandmaster. wife: @noaj-t.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@araneacharlotte
![Fair Warning: Discussing Rape as Mutual Survivors
Capital rapes by design; girls talk to stay alive after the "main event," rape something to prevent by discussing our abuse with each other (and the world, if we're able). Charlotte and I are both rape survivors* using Metroid as a means to codify and analyze rape prevention, doing so through that story and its heroine; i.e., as rape survivors, speaking through the Gothic hyphenation of virgin/whore. Trauma recognizes trauma, but I'm telling you (the reader) upfront to be transparent. Moreover, rape is something to revisit in ways we might control, often through games that skirt around rape in coded forms; i.e., as Metroid—a neoliberal Gothic tale repletion with penetrative moments tied to xenophobia-yet-nebulous threats of alien invasion—most certainly does: holding down victims and taking their life, dignity and/or data by force. Unless you've been there or know someone who has, you probably won't know what you're looking at; or for fascist audiences, will conflate bullying (which rape is) with strength, raping different things for the ruling class then calling it "rebellion." Fascist doesn't just make you stupid; it turns you into a rapist, doing so in different ways (e.g., TERFs, post-Radcliffe*).
*I say "post" because Radcliffe—a woman of relative middle-class privilege, in 18th-century Great Britain—wrote her novels (through a pen name) to reify and navigate rape mid-fakery: in consumable forms akin to Metroidvania, but specifically a text for those with more privilege (though still not the ruling class) to indulge in calculated risk (re: "Pieces of the Camp Map" and "Radcliffe's Tricky Tools," 2023); i.e., through material disputes, ghosts of rape used by the pirates in her stories to fleece the locals (which Scooby Doo [1969] would later capitalize on; re: "Radcliffe's Refrain," 2024): [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d2545ppta4lpznhyjvs4tl6p/bafkreibkovbtdcea2z422xcz5xs5lptp4gbruiqmfllofkonzss5pqbqwq)
![a meme image, with the text "leftism leaving people's bodies as soon as they see [blank] in fortnite" but the blank space says "crash bandicoot," with "megaman" imposed on top of it, with "sonic the hedgehog" imposed on top of that, and finally with "sora" on the top layer. the including image with the text is a blue spirit astral projecting away from another body laying on the floor.
people really need to uninstall fortnite, it's so fucking easy to play literally any other game that exists that doesn't fire its dev team to use genAI instead](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kkfvfihugf3fuq55t3aibrvf/bafkreiasi6azzomwruivwhoshux5otvmdqzjifrpqafxro6csr5rcqcode)
