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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈

@midimyers.com
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Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog // email: team-at-mothership-dot-blog. Podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. Formerly of Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. she/her.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 2h
this analysis of Big Walk, through the lens of "men don't talk to each other anymore" and the cultural norms that have led us to where we are with that, is so lovely and i think will resonate with a lot of you
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Big Walk lights the way for non-toxic masculinity in games
Interrogating "men don't talk to each other" through a game about communication
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 3h
feeling cute today even though i have slept terribly for three nights running and am dead inside. however my bangs blow-dried perfect today imo
a selfie of me sitting in my office with my keyboards in the background
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 22h
when i hear AI proponents talk about how AI is improving so fast (or whatever marketing), i have to ask: why are all of the AI writing tells still exactly the same, then?
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ever notice how much harder women and non-white people have it when it comes to harassment? And how few editors and colleagues are willing to put their body in front of the blow? Ever notice how women and non-white gamers are treated as a niche and white men as the core audience?
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ever notice how outright fucking racist and sexist a lot of these seasoned journalists are? ever notice that Kotaku has had multiple women deputy editors and they all quit?
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Saoirse Victoria Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Networks of the rich and powerful have successfully fought back against attempts to demand accountability, employing DARVO…at societal scale to smear their accusers.“
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Saoirse Victoria Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Today, in 2026, the societal assumption that young women are disposable is more rampant than ever. The most powerful men in the world are implicated as potential predators, and nothing happens.”
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Saoirse Victoria Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve been thinking about this piece I wrote for Mothership today. And yesterday. And the day before. At its heart, it isn’t a feel-good story of me learning to accept myself. It’s about learning that it’s okay to say No More. To say Fuck the Town, Save the Girl.
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My 10-year journey to save Life Is Strange's Chloe Price, and how doing so saved me, too
On dysphoria, coming out, and making hard choices
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Katya Ryabova @katyar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Playing Tiny Bookshop quickly became part of my nightly routine. Wash my face, brush my teeth, put on a face mask, and load my last save." 🧡🧡🧡 @mothership.blog www.mothership.blog/tiny-booksho...
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Tiny Bookshop made me want to change my career
What happened to that girl who saw herself as an aspiring author? As it turns out, she's still a part of me
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 29/09/2026
feels like a good time to recirculate my story about the ubiquity of rape culture, unfortunately
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It's everywhere
Rape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 29/09/2026
tiny bookshop is out here changing lives!!!! this one's free to read with just your email address
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Tiny Bookshop made me want to change my career
What happened to that girl who saw herself as an aspiring author? As it turns out, she's still a part of me
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean you should listen to the ep but frankly at this POINT in the ep it was just us going "why did he DO that"
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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey, does anyone know of any good writing on how compsci & engineering teachers are dealing with the advent of vibe coding? I know how people are dealing with genAI in my field, but this is more of a mystery to me
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 26/09/2026
i understand that beef s1 is probably very good because i got halfway through and still want to know how it ends but after i found out that one guy was a rapist it became the only thing i could think about in relation to the show. and it still is. and they knew before casting him btw. and said so.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 25/09/2026
zoe and i had so much fun answering readers' questions LIVE and IN PERSON and ON VIDEO!!! check it out
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 25/09/2026
they’re available in boston too!! do it!!!!!
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...
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Digital Journalist Scheme
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Saoirse Victoria Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I always enjoy the Dear Mother releases, but this one got me in a head lock. You should read it.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 25/09/2026
today i wrote our Dear Mother advice column in response to someone struggling with their attachment to characters in a game. this happens to me all the time <3 free to read with your email address!
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How do you get over your attachment to characters when a game ends?
"The game coming to an end almost feels like grief. There is an emptiness and sense of loss that I don't know how to fill..."
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 24/09/2026
it's ME writing about WOLVERINE!!!!! for @mothership.blog which you should already be subscribed to anyway, but if you're not yet, this is a good time to join us. this game is so fucking strange and i am obsessed with it even though it's not fun to play. allow me to explain why............
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The Wolverine game may not be good but thank goodness it's weird
It's not fun to play and yet I had a great time
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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very random (but important) question: What are your favorite non-profits doing work in media, journalism, and (for my own interests) video games? Looking to get a better idea of the kind of work happening out there for a larger project. Likes and RTs appreciated.✨
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 24/09/2026
spider-man and his amazing friends is a wonderful show about young superheroes who may or may not be sociopaths
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Denis Farr @aeazel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just finished last night. Did a spit-take when I saw this from Sabretooth. Has both actual queerness and the stuff on which slash (how appropriate) is built on.
Screenshot from Wolverine.Sabretooth stares down at an offscreen Wolverine saying, "... ever ask if I wanted to come?" Resuming a previous line about Wolverine leaving and never checking in with Sabretooth.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 24/09/2026
Our EIC @midimyers.com thinks Insomniac's Wolverine is not fun to play, but as an X-Men fan, she's obsessed with the weird choices it made. Her review here:
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The Wolverine game may not be good but thank goodness it's weird
It's not fun to play and yet I had a great time
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 24/09/2026
it's ME writing about WOLVERINE!!!!! for @mothership.blog which you should already be subscribed to anyway, but if you're not yet, this is a good time to join us. this game is so fucking strange and i am obsessed with it even though it's not fun to play. allow me to explain why............
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The Wolverine game may not be good but thank goodness it's weird
It's not fun to play and yet I had a great time
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 23/09/2026
i think you should subscribe to @mothership.blog in general but also because then you can read my (somewhat belated but much anticipated by absolutely everyone) review of the new wolverine game, which will probably go up tomorrow
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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this was genuinely one of the reasons why we founded @theflytrapmedia.com ! we wanted freedom to write outside of a news cycle that is increasingly controlled by rich assholes.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 23/09/2026
at @mothership.blog we can publish a personal essay about the 1999 star trek game Birth of the Federation and there doesn't need to be some sort of "timely" reason or justification for doing so and i think that's beautiful
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I am the universe
Things were neither better nor simpler for me in 1999, but it was easier to play Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 23/09/2026
yeah, this was how i came to embrace it as well. much healthier framing. i started doing it while i was still in a relationship with a man -- also, being louder & more open about also being a queer person, thereby (hopefully) allowing other people in similar situations to feel like they could too.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 23/09/2026
happy bi visibility day! after having been assumed to be straight for a lot of my life (and not bothering to correct people) and, these days, assumed to be a lesbian, it's always "nice" to annually have a chance to correct the record. we love schroedinger's sexuality don't we folks
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 22/09/2026
having a weird day where i just feel weird (emotionally) and hating it
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 22/09/2026
i have beaten the wolverine game and have lost my grip on my own brain, much like wolverine in the game and in all other iterations of wolverine. i don't know if i loved or hated this game and i may never know. i really thought i would know by the time i completed it and i sure don't lmao
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 21/09/2026
you are writing a pitch email and you think, "I should insult my idea a little bit right at the end." "STOP," a voice in your head rings out. "YOUR IDEAS ARE GOOD," it says. "DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF SMALL," it says. the voice is me!!
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 18/09/2026
i know we all moved on but i'm still playing wolverine and am kind of obsessed with how weird it is so i am probably going to write about it next week lol
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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
REPLY WITH A CHARACTER IN VIDEO GAMES THAT YOU THINK IS FAT. Do not worry about if others would agree. Just give me your video game fat characters. FAMOUS GAMES FRIENDS WHO FOLLOW ME: this is for work so RTs are greatly appreciated thank you!
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 17/09/2026
we filmed a bunch of answers to these today! we’re filming more tomorrow, so if you ask us something today/tonight, we could still get to it ❤️
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 15/09/2026
ask us anything 💕!!
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 14/09/2026
this is what i was assuming when i saw the trailers, but at the very least, most people are familiar with logan's (basic) facts from watching the extremely popular x-men films. none of that is in these games, not a remix, not even CLOSE to a remix. it's a complete & total rewrite of his life
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 14/09/2026
has anybody written yet about how strange it is that the insomniac wolverine is set in an alternate universe in which every character has experienced things they have never experienced before in any continuity? i'm only halfway through the game & keep waiting for an explanation & there ain't one yet
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 13/09/2026
we finished watching S1 of the new alex cross tv show and decided to circle back and watch the tyler perry alex cross movie for fun and are dying laughing at it (it is not a comedy) (intentionally, anyway)
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 11/09/2026
this is just @applecider.bsky.social aura farming in this Cool Guy pose as wylder. i simply had to snap the pic
apple playing as wylder standing on the sword table in nightreign with one foot balance up on a sword like captain morgan and his sword slung over his shoulder casually
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 11/09/2026
haley cracks me up so much and SHE IS CORRECT HERE
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 10/09/2026
the gamers have begun to transvestigate sheik
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 10/09/2026
it's kinda blowing my mind that the cottage industry of reactionary youtubers have managed to turn sheik's pronouns into a discussion topic of any kind. these are people who would absolutely not understand the plot of twelfth night
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 09/09/2026
for @mothership.blog today, @zoehhannah.com wrote this lovely profile of Em Halberstadt, the sound designer for Big Walk, a game in which sound is perhaps the *most* important aspect. the game (which is a must-play imo) includes a ton of real-life Australian wilderness sounds that Em captured.
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Big Walk sound designer Em Halberstadt on capturing its wild Australian soundscape
A conversation about birdsong, Wilson's Promontory, and being quiet
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 08/09/2026
today's @mothership.blog story is about mothers and daughters and it can't really be summed up in a sentence very well... i cried multiple times reading it, i'll say that much
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Sitting the month: Playing Röki with my mother after giving birth
A story of the ways long-held traditions can still surprise us and reveal us to one another
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 08/09/2026
the coolest part of ocarina is that over time, you learn the tunes to the songs in the game, and i think it's neat that the remake will let you truly take advantage of that by allowing you to hum them and have that work in-game. btw i wrote a story last year about the design of the ocarina's music:
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Sorry, Donkey Kong Bananza, But Ocarina of Time Still Has the Best Music-Playing Mechanic
Music is literally magic in Donkey Kong Bananza, so it's weird that the game's musical interludes aren't more interactive.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 08/09/2026
today's @mothership.blog story is about mothers and daughters and it can't really be summed up in a sentence very well... i cried multiple times reading it, i'll say that much
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Sitting the month: Playing Röki with my mother after giving birth
A story of the ways long-held traditions can still surprise us and reveal us to one another
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