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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 27/09/2026

rereading something I wrote almost 6 years ago that has aged Fine uppercutcrit.com/the-state-of...

Critical discourse following the release of Ghosts of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077, and TMW each demonstrated the ability for outlets to recognize and mainstream marginalized positionalities (and trans writers figured prominently in each of these moments).

Games writing and the writing market at large is an ambivalent ecosystem even when stable, and though there has never been anything closer to a plurality in games media, never so many staffed writers, trans critics are seemingly always at its ends.

If the predominant position of the trans critic is that of an independent – an outlet, a blog, a channel, a freelancer, a consultant – how does the trans critic figure into an industry that doesn’t recognize our multiplicity?

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23/09/2026

thinking about this lede again www.avclub.com/knights-of-g...

A tale as old as time: The miasmal assembly lines of mass-produced merchandise; a graveyard of EPCOT balls; class warfare; scavenging through the trash of a gilded theme park for scrap; rundown worker housing; and an animatronic princess, entrails spilling out of its abdomen, throwing herself from the castle tower.
No one hates Disney like Dana Terrace.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 21/09/2026

emily wilson, yesterday: emily613.substack.com/p/let-us-eat...

This is a symptom of a larger and invidious tendency to equate any kind of criticism with either “hating” or “fangirling”, to try to slot everyone and everything into pre-packaged boxes, like so many sad, pale little supermarket apples - and to treat journalism and criticism as if they were necessarily subservient to big corporate endeavors, like Hollywood and Twitter. It is a tiny instance of a poisonous trend in media coverage, to be constantly reacting to lowest-common-denominator “takes” on the internet, rather than taking up the responsibility to reframe, investigate, listen, and educate.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 16/09/2026

15 reviews later I am finding out why it's not mentioned anywhere :(

excerpt of Silicon Era's review on the lack of support conversations

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 16/09/2026

(I am currently in the middle of a yuri run in 3H)

Three Houses roster of my Black Eagles class, all of Byleth's female S supports are recruited.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 08/09/2026

Next Nintendo Direct is just this

New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts poster, 1981

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 07/09/2026

why is one of these ordinary and the other female

IGN Fire Emblem Three Houses Sylvain Guide

"Ordinarily, in order to recruit Sylvain to a house other than the Blue Lions, you will need to impress him with a high Charm Stat (around 15-20) and a high Reason Skill (around C). Getting at least a C Support Rank with Sylvain can lower the threshold to recruiting him.

However, if you are playing as a female character, you will find that Sylvain has no requirements needed to recruit him. Simply talk to him at the earliest opportunity (after your first mock battle), and he should ask to join when prompted."

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 03/09/2026

a lot of Ahmed's language here is poised to be retooled towards the entertainment and games industries promises of fun and escapism

Feminists do kill joy in a certain sense: they disturb the very fantasy that happiness can be found in certain places. To kill a fantasy can still kill a feeling. It is not just that feminists might not be happily affected by what is supposed to cause happiness, but our failure to be happy is read as sabotaging the happiness of others.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 03/09/2026

trying to read The Score but hearing the vine boom every page

PERHAPS THIS SEEMS UNNERVING, LETTING ANOTHER HUMAN being inside our heads to tinker with our goals. But this goal manipulation can be relatively safe in games. Because often in games, the goal isn't what really matters. We adopt the goal in order to experience the process. The beauty is in the struggle.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 02/09/2026

I'll at least enjoy watching the men who are left try to find the correct and appropriate words to describe this 🤪

screencap of the lost huntress in no rest for the wicked.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 01/09/2026

I swear I'm just doing this for the bit now guys look I'm not even getting traffic on my blog over it

performative heterosexual fidelity is the most generic short form video content across the internet, and while this is just a particularly effective hook on a social media round-up style blog, the result is trading in the same manufactured outrage at women being crazy. perpetuating a narrative that arrived fully formed. entirely beholden to the apparatus. recreating reaction videos in written form for the sake of seo.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 01/09/2026

one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite books is a Wendell Berry quote relaid to the author by a friend:

My close friend was deep in the throes of a book on climate change. She later wrote of hearing "the great farmer-poet Wendell Berry deliver a lecture on how we each have a duty to love our 'homeplace' more than any other." When the talk was over, she approached him for guidance. "I asked him if he had any advice for rootless people like me and my friends, who live in our computers and always seem to be shopping for a home. 'Stop somewhere,' he replied. 'And begin the thousand-year-long process of knowing that place.'"

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 27/08/2026

if you are wondering why this "boycott" demands mainstream coverage while even specialist publications cannot cover similar actions, here is an excerpt of The Message I think about All The Time

"It is the journalists who decide which sides are legitimate and which are not, which views shall be considered and which pushed out of the frame. And this power is an extension of the power of other curators of the culture—network execs, producers, publishers—whose core job is deciding which stories get told and which do not. When you are erased from the narrative, you do not exist. Thus, the complex of curators is doing more than setting pub dates and greenlighting—they are establishing and monitoring a criterion for humanity." -Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message (148)

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 26/08/2026

putting my $800 lego next to my decorative cutting boards. poking the edges out a little paste the edge of the cabinet. what could go wrong.

promotional image of lego's super star destroyer.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 26/08/2026

nodding along furiously while also enjoying the hell out of splatoon raiders rn

Numbers going up in videogames is boring. It is pervasive and a hamster wheel. Receiving text in games is what makes them worth playing due to their potential to move me and speak to me in ways numbers could never.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 22/08/2026

when eastern parkway is an open street leading to the farmers market during peak tomato season

How to increase Happiness in Civilization 7
Keep your population happy to avoid unrest

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 19/08/2026

It's BPM's birthday and Jacob just published a video talking about Helicopter Story so I think this gets a reshare today

In Armored Core as in “Helicopter Story,” mechanized war machines are the realization of transhumanist imagination under corporation, under empire, under capitalist realism. You could forget there’s a body in there. You could forget there was ever a body at all. The pilot becomes a combat umwelt. Fisher: “Work and life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions."

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 17/08/2026

oh no they're taking in game photography again

big walk screenshot yellow maze walls and angular shadows

big walk screenshot night sky and stars framed by silhouette of trees

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 16/08/2026

today in my summer of watching the sunset from friends roofs

Downtown skyline from Brooklyn at sunset

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 15/08/2026

the narrative/ludic/aesthetic cohesion, the depth that just grows as you go on, and the CUTE LITTLE OUTFITS delivers on all the things I felt bananza could've done a bit more with, so im hooked. look at these lil guys!

splatoon raiders victory screen 2 squids cheering on top of a treasure chest

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 14/08/2026

not the point but love the idea that "at least cointelpro used warrants" (it notably did not)

Mike German, a former FBI agent and civil liberties advocate, said it was striking that DHS was leading the investigations when typically the FBI would spearhead operations targeting potential “terrorist” activity. He said it was also notable that DHS was using administrative subpoenas, which don’t require judicial authorization, to obtain records.

The government, German said, also appeared to be relying on theories of “guilt by association” to justify surveillance instead of narrower investigations focused on specific alleged criminal activity. German, who previously served as an undercover agent, further scoffed at the notion of undercover agents spying on what appeared to be accessible, community events.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 13/08/2026

been a minute since people were selling promises that you too can survive nuclear war to the masses, that's been a millionaire fallout bunker community beat for like 40 years anyways www.lostincult.co.uk/lockon

Lock On 07 description: In Death Stranding, Kojima Productions presents a vision of the future which in many ways feels disturbingly prescient. Join Autumn Wright to explore America’s murky infatuation with the nuclear apocalypse, and the ways in which we try to reconcile fiction with horrifying fact.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 09/08/2026

maybe romantasy wouldnt get such a bad rap if it all looked like a shojo gba rpg

Fields of Mistria screenshot, Celine blushing because she's a nerd

Fields of Mistria Screenshot, Juniper projecting a lil bit saying "I wasn't expecting to spend my hottest years in this podunk town, but her I am."

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 06/08/2026

hey yeah quick question what just happened

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 04/08/2026

*bill wurtz voice* you could make a religion out of this

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 02/08/2026

I dont even know what this means but

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/07/2026

in addition to diving into the titular novel by Tatsuo Hori (and the Valery poem each quotes), I also read Jiro Horikoshi's own writing published in 1956 -- there is one copy of it in the Brooklyn Library system and they had to get it out of storage which was very fun for me personally.