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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 · 23/09/2026
tis the season
picture of the legend of sleepy hollow laying open, a pressed scarlet oak leaf on one page
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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 · 14/09/2026
every line
Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people being displaced, starved and killed while the world debates which wo5rds we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether or discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.
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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 · 06/09/2026
titanium court okay button
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 04/09/2026
it's starting
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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
alas
above post with "Value Captured" written overrun the Dark Souls You Died font
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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 · 24/08/2026
The Post is not concerned with context or specificity. The world of The Post is only 300 characters wide. By replacing a mean word with a nice one, we can accomplish something! Politics can be achieved by simply adjusting our tone and adhering to an implied decorum. The only ideal we must uphold is whichever one demands we follow the same script in our particular online bubble.

If this is enough to qualify as politics, then imagine how relieved the people in power must be.
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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 · 21/08/2026
Kodacolor 100 looks GOOD
nostrand ave with midtown in background just before golden hourLight reflecting off pools of water in the sand, sandpipers on the shore, The Peoples Beach in the early eveningBrooklyn bridge park at sunset
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 20/08/2026
When I went back to the DMV for the last time, I was nervous about explaining to the clerk why my gender was different on my license and passport. Here I was, a trans Jorji, about to smooth talk a government employee because I knew that I was breaking the rules. As the border agent of Arstotzka, I was the one that held people's lives in my hands: I could save them or damn them. Randomly-generated migrants are placed in front of me trying to cross the arbitrary line dividing here from there, every one of them at my whim. If someone has false documentation but begs me to let them in, telling me they will be killed if they go back, should I pity them and take the penalty or stoically turn them away?
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 20/08/2026
big walk screenshot looking up at the big yellow hole with the flare gun
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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 · 19/08/2026
thank me later
French onion butter beans
4 caramelized onions (olive oil and butter)
Tsp/sprig of thyme, pepper 
2 cans butter beans
Beef broth (one cube)
White miso, mustard, nooch, soy sauce
Top with a firm cheese (American parm, gruyere, etc)
Toasted sourdough, rub garlic
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 18/08/2026
oh ok thanks for the update
In 2017, i closed my Atlantic essay with the words “And trans kids should know, CIA is always recruiting.” That promise has been broken. I cannot in good conscience advise LGBTQ Americans to join the CIA—and that sentence is the hardest thing I have ever written.
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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 shadowsbig walk screenshot beach in daytimebig walk screenshot beach at night timebig walk screenshot night sky and stars framed by silhouette of trees
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 16/08/2026
hang on this one kinda goes
midtown skyline from Brooklyn just after sunset, lights from street glare across the frame
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 16/08/2026
today in my summer of watching the sunset from friends roofs
Midtown skyline from BrooklynDowntown 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
2 sent emails with the subject line Press Inquiry/Request for Commentt
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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 · 10/08/2026
With Pokopia, the shadows of deforestation, climate change, pollution and the devastating impact of extractive capitalism, are made visible in our virtual refuges. Perhaps a cosy game needs to be confrontational to begin to truly represent socialist politics. We cannot truly escape, so we must work to save the world before us.
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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 nerdFields 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 · 09/08/2026
i should make a video essay
There is some angst i also feel with how airpods artificially recreate and nullify my immediate surroundings that correlates to how big tech is mediating our civic reality too and how both can get hijacked like prosthetics in every cyberpunk anime, but no one’s writing about that dang
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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
ok it's got the juice
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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 · 04/08/2026
burying @peterspittech.bsky.social at sea
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 02/08/2026
I dont even know what this means but
sickos meme
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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.
title page of Zero! by Masatake Okumiya and Hiro Horikoshi
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 27/07/2026
man I just ended up renting stuff like this (which were fun, but it has left me with a lot of homework)
Spartan: Total Warrior covertop gun combat zones coverboom blox coverbattalion wars cover
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 26/07/2026
takeout sushi and a bo4 year old bottle sparkling cider at the new place
bottle of sparkling cider and 2 whiskey glasses
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 25/07/2026
kawaii storage tubs
large stack of miniature versions of those storage bins that are black with yellow lids
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 24/07/2026
packing the Vader and Aphra comics from college while listening to AMCA
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23/07/2026
My cover story at Unwinnable this month is about air shows, the men who fanned the flames of empire, and other stories of deadly infectious disease.
Naoko Satomi painting on a hill under an umbrella in The Wind Rises
White serif font below the figure reads: The Many Faces of Naoko Satomi by Autumn Wright
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 19/07/2026
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