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I've got two blogs simmering that I should get out over the next week, and planning to write something about ace combat on my own dime now. don't miss it: autumn-wright.com/subscribe/

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Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com · 29/09/2026

AI companies announcing their new chatbot

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

:) i love rain world so much... insane that i've gotten to work on two book length projects.

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each post varies a LOT but over 200 people read my summer commonplace and that's kinda crazy to me

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what do y'all consider good metrics for a blog and newsletter? as I'm more often telling PR I don't have coverage lined up I would love to know what data would help them actually listen to me without an editor's cc.

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd be pretty happy if half the editors and pr people I emailed actually replied to my emails 🤠

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For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026

evil shit even by the standards of the post

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Meanwhile, the New York Post is leading with his trans status and salacious allegations made by the the people who murdered him. They're trying to paint him as violent and dangerous when he was the victim who was murdered. nypost.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Exclusive | Trans NYT exec threatened to kill wife, scared their kids with chilling book before his in-laws shot him dead: docs

The trans New York Times executive allegedly murdered in a Bay Area parking lot in broad daylight by his 77-year-old in-laws previously threatened to kill his wife, according to court documents.

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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

QT because I don't want to give the NYT any air, even for this... but my god??? How do you, as an outlet, find the precise worse plausibly deniable (read:not-openly-malevolent) angle to be hostile to trans people in an article about your own employee being murdered????????

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/09/2026

Relatedly, been playing a lot of Three Houses and like how it's getting me to care about who my blorbo's girlfriend is and what their hobbies are so they will actually study this week, but looking extensively at guides because the fail state isn't really fun and the game pushes towards optimization

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/09/2026

great question!! Signalis, Norco, maybe OoT (not convinced I got much out of that in 2026). When I first played Xenoblade and Nier A I wasn't familiar with JRPGs so those were tough to grasp for a few dozen hours.

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/09/2026

people were very normal to me about it

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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 · 25/09/2026

do you think the transphobes at the Times have seen Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 25/09/2026

been thinking about this blog a lot while playing fire emblem and trying to unlock support conversations, always planning around which characters need to battle next tot each other simply cus I want them to hang

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Zoe @kermitthefrog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Zohran would never let the FBC do this to our city

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 25/09/2026

bandai can you email me back now please

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bug @evillittlebug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

heavenly algo pull

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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes, you write about games. Sometimes, you write about not playing games. Sometimes there's a game called Exhausted Man, and you do both. New from @edmondchang.bsky.social, looking back on a summer without games through the lens of ludofatigue: www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/the...

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The Summer without Games, or, Living with Ludofatigue — Gamers with Glasses

Don’t you sometimes just feel…tired? Edmond Y. Chang discusses “ludofatigue,” how it feels to live with the persistent sense that play just isn’t fun anymore, and the perennial relevance of Candleman ...

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kind of a beautiful coincidence this landed on Sable's anniversary. A pleasure as always to work with @kellymerka.bsky.social along with all the regular rogues.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 24/09/2026

"Masking in The Vampire Castle" is this anything?

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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi, the JER band performed in a produce section at a supermarket. The full video is on YouTube! Pls go like and comment, it helps a ton! youtu.be/WcQGQ0VHoKM?...

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JER BAND | MERCADITO CONCERT

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026

edited my 4 hour Xenoblade Stream wayyy down for YouTube! Got a lot of questions about the angle I take on my streams recently and I think this does a decent job showing how I am constantly investigating choices in craft while I play through a game youtu.be/5IjXm_7b0zM?...

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Writer Plays Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for the First Time

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 24/09/2026

I Big Walk, you Big Walk, we all Big Walk. Also happy anniversary Sable???? This month's Unwinnable Monthly has @kellymerka.bsky.social on Sable, plus our regulars on everything from big walking to penguins who have seen too much. Buy: buff.ly/IPrw7Fa Subscribe: buff.ly/PXHeLJe

The cover of the September 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of the main character of Sable sitting on the desert sands.

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J Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 22/09/2026

im just saying that if the project wingman team wanted to go crazy with it. pvp is washed. 4 player pve coop campaign where you record the sound you make when you die before you go into a mission is awesome

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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 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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There's two things happening here that are really interesting to me. First, I think Nathan's evaluation of what is happening on an operational level is likely 100% correct. Second, I think there is a plan but one that is boring to gamers and speaks to institutional investors.

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the new video is good. it's about why criticism is so important not only to culture but also to our ability to read the political situation. it features interviews with good people. (you can skip the sponsor) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUcy...

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How the Internet Killed Criticism

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A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplace.

what I've been reading, watching, playing, and writing this summer (moving edition):

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Summer 2026

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written for readers to gawk at 20 year olds queers like they're idiots that don't know how to run a business cus of a NOTAFLOF policy, and people are picking the one part of the assembly this online space agreed is unreasonable to feel vindicated over

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's great that voyeuristic reporting of a queer space that ties accessibility, harm reduction, gender nonconformity, and more mundane real world experiences to the polar extremes of online behavior to dismiss it all is working

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Masks are a medical device and it’s really gauche to make fun of medical devices, even if the people wearing them are annoying :)

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looking at kingdom hearts on how long to beat like maybe I should just get into atelier instead

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the top of my "manga and anime is good you just read shonen" syllabus

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all timer, cannot overstate what a masterful display of the craft every volume is

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