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Mothership @mothership.blog · 13h
Adelina Cortez fell in love with Pokémon long before Pokémon Scarlet came out. Nonetheless, that was the first game where she saw herself and her community reflected in the characters and the locale. Free to read with your email:
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As a first-generation American, Pokémon Scarlet was a big deal to me
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Pokémon Trainer, of course.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 13h
@blunderchief.blather.ing thought his daughter just wasn't into action games. Then, she started asking to play as Crouton. Then, she asked to start her own save file.
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My kid hated action games — until we started using difficulty settings
South of Midnight's expansive gameplay settings opened the door to my daughter enjoying new genres
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 10h
writing about dressmaker and BODY IMAGE for tomorrow's newsletter, sign up to readdd mothership.blog/membership
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 13h
@blunderchief.blather.ing thought his daughter just wasn't into action games. Then, she started asking to play as Crouton. Then, she asked to start her own save file.
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My kid hated action games — until we started using difficulty settings
South of Midnight's expansive gameplay settings opened the door to my daughter enjoying new genres
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 13h
Adelina Cortez fell in love with Pokémon long before Pokémon Scarlet came out. Nonetheless, that was the first game where she saw herself and her community reflected in the characters and the locale. Free to read with your email:
mothership.blog
As a first-generation American, Pokémon Scarlet was a big deal to me
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Pokémon Trainer, of course.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 13/10/2026
Reporter Jason Collins chatted with Games Done Quick organizers and runners to learn what makes GD Queer so special: "Every time donations crossed a $1,000 milestone that first weekend, the stream flooded with the same two words: I'm gay."
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Games Done Queer made queerness part of the speedrun
“We’ve done a really good job as a queer community of reclaiming this word after it was being used so harmfully against us. Now it’s the entire name of the event that we’re doing here. That’s so beaut...
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 13/10/2026
Reporter Jason Collins chatted with Games Done Quick organizers and runners to learn what makes GD Queer so special: "Every time donations crossed a $1,000 milestone that first weekend, the stream flooded with the same two words: I'm gay."
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Games Done Queer made queerness part of the speedrun
“We’ve done a really good job as a queer community of reclaiming this word after it was being used so harmfully against us. Now it’s the entire name of the event that we’re doing here. That’s so beaut...
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 12/10/2026
Have you snagged your Mothership merch yet? Packages are already starting to arrive!!! www.mothership.blog/motherships-...
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Mothership's merch shop is open
T-shirts, stickers, and limited-edition art galore!
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 12/10/2026
Have you snagged your Mothership merch yet? Packages are already starting to arrive!!! www.mothership.blog/motherships-...
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Mothership's merch shop is open
T-shirts, stickers, and limited-edition art galore!
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 09/10/2026
Don't miss @sonnyross.bsky.social's original Mothership design available for only one month! mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/...
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Limited drops | Mothership's Merch Shop
The official Limited drops collection for Mothership's Merch Shop. Shop products like: Sonny Ross 'the feminine urge to drift off to space' tee, Sonny Ross 'the feminine urge to drift off to space' ba...
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 09/10/2026
Our merch shop is officially OPEN! mothership-tzk-shop.fourthwall.com
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Mothership's Merch Shop
The official merch shop of Mothership.blog.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 08/10/2026
Managing editor @zoehhannah.com plays basically all the cozy games she can find. Here are her favorites right now, free to read with your email:
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Fall 2026: Our favorite cozy games
All the games I'm playing right now that center empathy, kindness, friendship, and satisfying gameplay.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 08/10/2026
Managing editor @zoehhannah.com plays basically all the cozy games she can find. Here are her favorites right now, free to read with your email:
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Fall 2026: Our favorite cozy games
All the games I'm playing right now that center empathy, kindness, friendship, and satisfying gameplay.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 07/10/2026
In a heavy but powerful read, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social writes on don't rock the boat, the interactive fiction that shows how poor allyship, cis apathy, and outright hatred of trans folks hurts us all.
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Don’t rock the boat says trans girls are worth killing for
A must-play horror tale of transness and tentacles
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 07/10/2026
In a heavy but powerful read, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social writes on don't rock the boat, the interactive fiction that shows how poor allyship, cis apathy, and outright hatred of trans folks hurts us all.
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Don’t rock the boat says trans girls are worth killing for
A must-play horror tale of transness and tentacles
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 06/10/2026
For @dreamcastaway.bsky.social, Fabio's lust for Dietrich — whether it's sexual or envious or both — is one of the most compelling parts of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's most unexpected pair is a fascinating tangle of sex and gender
"I could adopt the form of a woman so beautiful I would shine like the moon..."
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 02/10/2026
For this week's Dear Mother advice column, Maddy Myers posits that walkthroughs, hints, and Let's Plays may be the key to finishing a game everyone's saying you *have* to play.
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Should I push through playing a critically acclaimed game when I'm not having fun?
"Somehow, Outer Wilds manages to fall on the wrong line of all of my game preferences"
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026
if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 01/10/2026
Sometimes you just need a game that’s cozy, spooky, and perfectly autumnal. Review by @zoehhannah.com
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Moonlight Peaks strikes just the right balance between cutesy and deep
It's unapologetically dramatic, it’s cute as hell (literally), and it has *magic*
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 30/09/2026
Friendships between men are often quiet. In Big Walk, silent communication just isn't enough — that is, unless you're doing a puzzle where communicating with your body is the only option. New from @daytenrose.bsky.social here:
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 30/09/2026
thrilled to have you dayten!!
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 30/09/2026
Friendships between men are often quiet. In Big Walk, silent communication just isn't enough — that is, unless you're doing a puzzle where communicating with your body is the only option. New from @daytenrose.bsky.social here:
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 29/09/2026
"I moved into social media management, a new career path at the time. That’s where I stayed for ten years. Ten years is an accomplishment. It’s also a sort of confinement." - from Adelina Cortez's new personal essay on the game that brought her back to herself.
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 29/09/2026
"I moved into social media management, a new career path at the time. That’s where I stayed for ten years. Ten years is an accomplishment. It’s also a sort of confinement." - from Adelina Cortez's new personal essay on the game that brought her back to herself.
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 25/09/2026
Like this week's Dear Mother letter-writer, @midimyers.com feels things deeply, including emotional connections to fictional characters. Maybe, she posits, that level of empathy is a gift.
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 25/09/2026
It's tiiiime! Answers to our first-ever AMA here, featuring Mothership co-founders @zoehhannah.com and @midimyers.com doing lots of excited giggling.
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Ask Us Anything: Mothership Answers Reader Questions
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 25/09/2026
Answers here:
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Ask Us Anything: Mothership Answers Reader Questions
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 25/09/2026
It's tiiiime! Answers to our first-ever AMA here, featuring Mothership co-founders @zoehhannah.com and @midimyers.com doing lots of excited giggling.
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Ask Us Anything: Mothership Answers Reader Questions
YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 25/09/2026
Like this week's Dear Mother letter-writer, @midimyers.com feels things deeply, including emotional connections to fictional characters. Maybe, she posits, that level of empathy is a gift.
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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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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 · 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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 23/09/2026
Today's story takes us deep into outer space by way of Dani Lamorte's prose about Birth of the Federation, injury, colonization, and the systems that define our world.
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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: Birth of the Federation.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 22/09/2026
We heard you'd love to get into TTRPGs. @catbussell.bsky.social is all about lowering the barrier to entry and helping you start your first adventure www.mothership.blog/how-to-get-i...
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How to get into tabletop role-playing without inducing a stress headache
Getting into tabletop RPGs is a daunting, intimidating affair; veteran GM Cat Bussell tells you how to get past the gatekeeping, and make the medium your own.
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 15/09/2026
It's time for our first-ever AMA! Got questions for Mothership's founders Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah? Drop 'em below and we'll respond (maybe even in video!) throughout this week and next.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 15/09/2026
This AMA is part of what we're dubbing "annual retreat week," where Maddy and Zoë meet up in person to brainstorm, film, and strategize for the coming year. That means no more stories this week as we make time for our meetups. Read more about it in this week's newsletter. See you next week!
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 15/09/2026
We're happy to answer questions about indie media, video games we love, random personality questions, or anything else you can think of.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 15/09/2026
It's time for our first-ever AMA! Got questions for Mothership's founders Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah? Drop 'em below and we'll respond (maybe even in video!) throughout this week and next.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 15/09/2026
@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social has the scoop on those bedazzling TikTok videos you watch while you fall asleep — and yes, she spoke to the woman who bedazzled her entire car. This story is free to read, no account required:
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Board game bling
Bedazzling is in, and that includes your board games
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 11/09/2026
Omg thank you @mothership.blog for including this piece in today's newsletter, what a pleasant surprise!
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 10/09/2026
We've got an excerpt from @inkle.co 's Game Narrative Kaleidoscope book today, written by Elise Trinh
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A chair left empty
Storytelling gives meaning to parts of a greater chaos
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litotic (elise) @litotic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Elise here! forever grateful for having my experimental, deeply personal essay published first by @inkle.co (on real paper! alongside excellent folks!) and now on @mothership.blog along even more excellent folks
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inkle @inkle.co · 10/09/2026
In case you haven't picked up the Kaleidoscope, you can now read one of the essays in the excellent @mothership.blog
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 10/09/2026
We've got an excerpt from @inkle.co 's Game Narrative Kaleidoscope book today, written by Elise Trinh
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A chair left empty
Storytelling gives meaning to parts of a greater chaos
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 09/09/2026
Big Walk was something of a dream project for Vancouver-based @emaudible.bsky.social. It required camping in the wilderness, hiking to the top of many hills, and one of her favorite things: listening. By @zoehhannah.com:
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 09/09/2026
Big Walk was something of a dream project for Vancouver-based @emaudible.bsky.social. It required camping in the wilderness, hiking to the top of many hills, and one of her favorite things: listening. By @zoehhannah.com:
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 08/09/2026
When Amina Kayani's mother offered to help with her upcoming birthgiving, she braced for the expected tension of hosting a parent. "Instead, three days before I went into labor, my mother arrived with a smile and asked, 'Why don’t you have any good games on the PlayStation?'"
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 08/09/2026
When Amina Kayani's mother offered to help with her upcoming birthgiving, she braced for the expected tension of hosting a parent. "Instead, three days before I went into labor, my mother arrived with a smile and asked, 'Why don’t you have any good games on the PlayStation?'"
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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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Mothership @mothership.blog · 04/09/2026
How do you get yourself out of a gaming slump? Mothership managing editor @zoehhannah.com has some ideas, starting with a few rounds of I Am Your Beast...
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What games will help me heal from gamer burnout?
"Sometimes, I feel as if I've simply outgrown gaming as a hobby..."
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