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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 15/08/2026

Delighted to see some of my work on queer play and TTRPGs show up in @lincodega.com's excellent coverage of Defy the Gods!! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎲

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 25/06/2026

You can pick up HOW'S NEXT WEEK? and a tumbler full of #ttrpgs with this bundle up on the new RPG Trader platform! rpg-trader.com/products/483...

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HOW'S NEXT WEEK? on RPG Trader

a solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 25/06/2026

🎲 Initiative rolled. The bundle is LIVE!💥 This ^EPIC^ bundle is free to claim. If you find value in the bundle and want to support the creators behind it, you can contribute any amount. Earnings shared equally amongst creators featured in the bundle.🫶 rpg-trader.com/products/102...

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Free RPG Day 2026 Bundle on RPG Trader

Over $1,000 worth of digital and print content from more than 250 creators all across the RPG Trader community.

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 03/05/2026

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

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Nonbinary Coded Games Submission Form

This is a submission form for the Steam sale event, Nonbinary Coded Games, which will be happening from July 13 10:00 AM Pacific Time to July 20 10:00 AM Pacific Time. (July 14 is International Non-Bi...

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Mona 🐀 it could happen today @monacht.gay · 26/03/2026

tried this out tonight after two CAIN nights fell through. unconventional project but if you end up not having a tabletop session for any reason this is an experience worth managing instead. gonna go out and buy a new notebook for it i think.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

STS folks, @alexross73.bsky.social & I are leading an open panel for 4S 2026 (in Toronto!) on games vs./as reactionary politics 🎮 WarGames references & re-imaginations of gamer capital galore! Submit your 250-word abstracts via the @4sweb.bsky.social system & message us with any burning questions 🔥

CFP poster featuring WarGames reference.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 25/02/2026

15 days left to support the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and pick up HOW'S NEXT WEEK and 1438 other weird and beautiful games & arts in this bunde!! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

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No ICE in Minnesota by jesthehuman and 651 others

No ICE in Minnesota: 1439 items for $10.00

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/02/2026

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D. Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D. Parlor games were feminized...

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 19/12/2025

Search your group chat for clues. Decode your friends' excuses. Deduce the nature of the transdimensional bodysnatchers keeping you from rolling your dice. 🎲 Save game night. 🪐 Save humankind. 🫡 Join the ANXS.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 19/12/2025

HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled. 🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week

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How's Next Week? by grave snail games

A solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 11/12/2025

Hi friends! This weekend, I'm planning to share deets about a #ttrpg project I've been working on for over a year now <3 In advance, I truly apologize for what's about to happen, muahahaha ✨ ❌🎲👁️

The cover for a project titled "How's Next Week?: A tragic solo-journaling anti-game for when session gets cancelled." The font of the description is in cut-and-paste blackmail letters. The cover itself is styled to look like a Discord chat, and features users going back-and-forth while trying (and failing) to schedule a session.

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Dungeons + Drama Nerds @dndramanerds.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This week, Percy and Nick discuss the politics of games and the different ways that TTRPGs have engaged with leftist and antifascist movements with a special guest: scholar of analog games @persephone.blue! listen now on your podcatcher of choice 😎 linktr.ee/dndramanerds

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 05/10/2025

Y'all, I'm so trash at rhythm games but I'm over the moon this is out in the world. Congrats @gensuta.itch.io!! 🔥🛼🎉

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 03/10/2025

🦋 Hey! Listen! @madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???" 📄🔗⬇️

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a pixel art of a blue object with a speech bubble saying listen

Alt: Pixel art of the fairy Navi from Ocarina of Time hovering and shouting Hey! Hello! Listen!

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Geneva/Styx @gensuta.itch.io · 27/09/2025

Showing Skate & Date and on an anti-panel about trans games with other folks at 4:30pm EST @qgcon.bsky.social So excited to be here!!!

A picture of me and my game Skate & Date surrounded by a colorful border. Below the pictures there's text that says: Geneva Heyward @ QGCON2025

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BRIEFS @briefsge.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Our 2025 series is out now! The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers. The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here: itch.io/b/3301/brief... You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 17/07/2025

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

A title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 14/05/2025

‼️I have a new article out this week! 🎉 From anti-game jams to fantasy console communities, I explored how ✨ speculative game design ✨ practices are a vital response to growing precarity in tech industries. Also, it's open access! Also, it won best paper at #FDG25! 🏆

The abstract for the article, titled "Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on itch.io."

Thumbnail for the presentation of the paper, featuring a pink sun, retrowave background, and the title of the article.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 03/04/2025

I'm crushed to not be at SCMS in meatspace this year, but grateful to @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social for coordinating a panel on games & political economy to kick off the conference! Should be a great conversation, and I hope the early birds enjoy my little video on fantasy consoles & anti-games 🎮🔥✨

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 14/02/2025

In our continuing Zine Month coverage, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social curated a list of crowdfunding projects by trans game designers

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Zine Month 2025: TransQuest

Paranormal body horror, cozy cat sims, and the realities of motherhood

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 01/01/2025

Started some new ink!!! Featuring my beloved Mxtress 💜✨Chaos✨💜, whose boons I'm taking into this high-heat run of 2025. (💉 Pokery & portrait of the primordial progenitor by the unrivaled Julia McKay!)

PB in a witchy tattoo parlor, looking at my arm in a mirror and beaming!

Tattoo closeup! Right bicep and shoulder. Chaos--the character from Hades and Hades II. They have a halo and are wearing a suit that warps into shifting faces. A deep purple spacey background. Mostly linework, with color to come.

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

CFP: #QueerAnalogGameStudies Special Issue! Analog games are here…but are they queer? What’s queer about analog games? What does it mean to queer tabletop, board games, or LARP? How might analog games be queered? **Essays due April 7, 2025** analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...

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CFP: Queer Analog Game Studies | Analog Game Studies

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 21/11/2024

So grateful to the one and only @michaeliantorno.com who wow'd @kenzitronic.bsky.social and my students with tales of hacked consoles, sun-powered handhelds, and emerging interventions in game labor! Up now as part of our Playful Horizons Speaker Series!! ✨🔥🕹️

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Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal! If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨ 🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event. www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...

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QGCon 2025: september 26-28, 2025 — QGCon

The Queerness and Games Conference is back! QGCon 2025 will be held on September 26-28 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada . If you are interested in presenting your work at QGCon, we w...

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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 14/11/2024

Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 11/11/2024

Yayyy the first talk in the ~Playful Horizons 🕹️🎲🌌~ speaker series is out in the world! (Hosted by @kenzitronic.bsky.social + me!) Starring the unrivaled & inimitable @thechristinet.bsky.social!! ✨📽️✨ Listen to Christine expound on livestreaming, game culture, AI, glitch, and pet interruptions! 🐕

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 11/11/2024

Welcome new followers! 👋 To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴

An orange Bokoblin standing in a Shiekah Tower!

A blue Bokoblin, dancing on a little fort by a snake plant!

An IKEA cabinet filled with tropical wilderness!

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Zhenia Puzankov @allworms.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Do you want shorter artsy games by well paid developers? Briefs, a microfund I curate, has just dropped four games united by one theme DEATH! You can play them all. All donations go directly to developers. You can tell everyone too. YOU MUST. #gamedev #indiegame #art itch.io/b/2656/brief...

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 06/09/2024

Truly the #TransStudies2024 dream team: immensely grateful to my rockstar friends @hibby.bsky.social, @wells.bsky.social, @wendiyu.bsky.social, and @madzbrutal.bsky.social for bringing this fiery panel on "B{Ending} Trans Media Studies" to (un)life. 🔥❤️‍🔥💖

Banner for the panel "B{Ending} Trans Media Studies" featuring skulls, fire, and icons of the panelists.

Hibby and Wells standing in front of a screen with PB, Madison, and Wendi. Everyone is making silly faces.

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 01/06/2024

TTRPGs for Palestine via itch charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians! Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...

This is a photo with a watermelon in the background that says TTRPGs for Palestine via itch

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 22/03/2024

So... I have some news. 🎉🎉🎉

An updated CV with the exciting addition: "Incoming Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design in the Media & Technology Studies Program at the University of Alberta."

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✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

The 🦇 D/ARC 🦇 server reached a huge milestone this week: 700 members! 🥳 So proud of this kind and wonderfully supportive community, and thrilled it continues to be found by those who need it! 🥹 Huge thanks to Dan and @iceberge.bsky.social for being the best Mod team a gal could ask for. 💯✨

A sparkly graphic featuring the D/ARC mascot, Batty, and celebrating 700 members. Visit darcmode.org for more details.

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Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

The call for ELO 2024 is up! Submit by Feb 15 for this totally online conference. #eliterature stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 27/10/2023

GAMES FOR GAZA bundle is up now-- 100% of proceeds go to Palestinian medical aid. $10 for over 250 games from incredible designers (and also me). Support if you can. 💜 itch.io/b/2120/games...

Photo of the gallery for the Games for Gaza bundle. Link in post.

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 13/10/2023

New article out today in 🎲 Games & Culture 🎲! Originally presented at #GenerationAnalog 2022, I discuss reactionary Dungeons & Dragons fans, fantasy realism, transphobia, and diabolical ~elf blood lore~! 🐲⚔🩸

The front page of the article, titled "The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons."

The hashtag #KeepGamingFantasy displayed over an illustration of the elf-god Corellon Larethian cutting out the eye of the orc-god Gruumsh.

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