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

HNW is part of the 🏳️‍⚧️🕹️ Trans Games Zine 🏳️‍⚧️🕹️ project—a community-based platform built by the lovelies at @softchaos.games. The TGZ features interactive essays, games, and not-games from many of my favorite people. Do check out all the amazing projects in the collection thus far! transgameszine.org

Blue, blocky letters on a pink retro background: "Trans Game Zine!"

A webpage styled like a retro desktop, depicting several entries to the Trans Games Zine. Titles of works include: "(UN)TWISTING", "CHEST SIMULATOR DIGITAL EDITION", "FLESHY ESSAYS ON TITS AND TRIBULATIONS", "HOW'S NEXT WEEK?" (yay, that's me!), "MANICURED METAL", "ONLY WHAT YOU ADMIT", "TRANSISTER'S LAMENT", and "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME, BUT YOU CAN'T STAY HERE."

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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 · 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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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 26/11/2025

We document how GC forum members simultaneously deployed the rhetoric of the far right and co-opted the language of queer communities (i.e. "coming out" as gender critical) to frame their anti-trans behaviors as part of a vulnerable personal identity. Big CW for anti-trans language!!

A slide noting "key takeaways" from the article, noting that GC gropups are insulated and intimate, that they are proximate to far-right groups, that GC users perform communal readings of media texts using emergent analytical genres, rely on "peaking" narratives, naturalize "GC" as an identity, and frame themselves as martyrs and evangelists.

A slide titled "GCs regularly co-opt the language of queer communities" pointing to the ways anti-trans users "come out" as GC and describe the process of "peaking."

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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 · 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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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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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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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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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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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 12/10/2023

📚 I have 10+ published/forthcoming journal and proceedings articles, including in Games & Culture, Feminist Media Studies, Game Studies, New Media & Society, and more. 🔥 My dissertation examines the so-called unplayable and asks how trans play can abrogate and reshape media systems.

A purple banner showing the front pages of several of my articles, along with the cover for my dissertation, "Unplayable Games."

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