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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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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 26/03/2026

Ahhhh!!! That means so much!! 💜💜💜🥺🥺🥺 Thank you for your vigilance, Agent!

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 26/03/2026

!!! Thanks so much!!! 💜💜💜

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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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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 24/01/2026

My students had the best time talking to you!!! 🔥 I think a handful of them were inspired to try making pngtuber avatars after, haha

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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

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

Our piece is partof a fantastic special issue on the dynamics of anti-trans content and disinformation, edited by Quinnehtukqut McLamore and @katfuller.bsky.social. The whole issue is open access and very much worth your time! 🏳️‍⚧️💖 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

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Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies

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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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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

🎉 I am so hype that this is actually, finally, really out in the world 🎉 quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

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Un-Moving Play and the End of Time: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects

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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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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 28/09/2025

I love this dream??? 👀👀👀 Also thanks so much for watching! 💜🔥✨

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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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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 17/09/2025

Oh hell yes!!! 🎉🎉😴😴👏👏

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 18/07/2025

Awhhhh that's so sweet! 🥹 I hope y'all enjoy the panel, and that the meeting went well!!!

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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

And if you would rather listen to me gush about $500 word documents, the presentation recording is up on YT! 🫡 youtu.be/vfh5oeSI0rE

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Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io

YouTube video by PB Berge

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

This is part of a bigger book project I'm developing on 🔥 the unplayable 🔥. I'm excited to share with y'all some particularly provocative, brain-melty, and "sacrilicious" anti-games. 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io | Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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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 · 03/05/2025

Oh amazing!! We'll have to same-sleeve high five next conference we cross paths! 😆

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 03/05/2025

Ahhh thank you Phoebe!! ✨

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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 · 06/12/2024

Mmm, it's risky cause SeaTac TSA is 💀💀💀, but they do post their current wait times online. If it's not too bad, you can take the light rail straight into the city from SeaTac (~45 min each way), and at least have an hour to go around and see the sights!

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PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue · 23/11/2024

‼️ Exciting!! My favorite thing! 🎲 🎭 Re: Themes, practices, where-to-starts: @jdragsky.bsky.social's blogs are 🔥 and I'm happy to send along some binders of design-inspo I keep! 📝 Re: layouts and the like, @pandiongames.com have an awesome template setup (pandiongames.itch.io/ttrpg-design...)!

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TTRPG Design Project Templates by Pandion Games

A whole project structure in a zip file

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