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she/they | 28 | queer gothic scholar | game designer 👩🏻‍🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC 🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC 🎓 MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC 🔗 scareoset.com ✉️ scareoset@gmail.com

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 30/07/2026
I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care”

I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.
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A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout
Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
happy (belated) doppeldäy (03 april) to the ever-growing doppelgäng (my friends who share my birthday)
meet the artist
dani (scareoset)
28; she/they; aries sun, cancer moon, taurus rising
angel of yuri, number one horse hater, queer gothic scholar, lesbian vampire expert, cringe girlfailure incarnate
scareoset.com
scareoset.itch.io
@scareoset
the background is a repeating tile of the chinese word for horse: 馬 (mǎ)
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Lady Andrea, Vampire Lord @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
reminder that posting on social media is not "activism". if you people really want to support trans women you need to become dark knights clad entirely in black and crimson armor and take oaths of fealty and pledge your mortal blood to me. girl's gotta eat
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
i miss the panera death lemonade
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
doodling again :3
a handful of cartoony-style self portrait sketches on a digital canvas
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randy "moño" randikins @JJBA era (critical) @casitamono.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
potion that makes you poop
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the treachery of "the treachery of images"
"the treachery of images" is a painting by René Magritte. it features a pipe and the text "ceci n'est pas une pipe" [english translation: "this is not a pipe"]. this painting is presented on a white slide with text annotations that read: "not a pipe!", "you thought this was a pipe but actually it's a *picture of a pipe*!", and "lmao get wrecked, nerd!"the previous slide now has an overlay with the text "you just got prank'd""the treachery of images" is presented on a white slide. beneath it is the text "this is not a painting of a pipe.""the treachery of images" is presented on a white slide. overlaid is text that fills the whole slide that reads: "this is not a painting of a pipe. this is a picture of a painting of a pipe."
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
doodles from a quiet evening shift at my retail job
miscellaneous overlapping sketches and doodles in black ink and in red ink (i was working a quiet shift at my retail job)
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
These games have been nominated for Best Student Game: @echolane.bsky.social’s BubbleBeast DigiDungeon @jackmorehart.bsky.social’s Kiloton Micah Boursier and Whalefall’s Poco @herdek.bsky.social’s Prší Syphon Software’s Sip Fisher @pesiidom.bsky.social’s SPRKLS.exe
A collage of the IGF Best Student Game Nominees, listed above.
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Studio T12 @studiot12.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Log 1....is this on? Hello! We are Studio T12, a small indie game development team out to make creepy, artistic, and narrative-focused games! Playtest demo for "Silent Numbers" is available NOW! studio-t12.itch.io/silent-numbe... #indiegame #indiedev #visualnovel #gamedev #gamedevelopment
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I forgot about my novelette 'Breaking Water', which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2016, and follows a journalist and a cook who becomes a 'dead charmer' as they grapple with the spiritual fallout of an epidemic of the undead in Kolkata:
reactormag.com
Breaking Water - Reactor
Krishna is quite unsettled when he bumps into a woman's corpse during his morning bath in Kolkata's Hooghly River, yet declines to do anything about it--after all, why should he take responsibility fo...
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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, my book, is one of the best video game history books around linktr.ee/jordanwminor
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 22/07/2025
It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you
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lesbian al-gaib 🇵🇸 @unethicalcoffee.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
hi folks 👋🏽 i'm Sara (they/she), an angry brown dyke writing political analysis of media, mostly games. my latest video, which i'd love you to watch, is "Navigating Palestine in Assassin's Creed" 🇵🇸 check my articles here: muckrack.com/sara-khan-9 & video essays here: youtube.com/@gameassist?...
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
visdev 2 part 2/2 taking these building blocks, i started iterating on a bunch of designs (my original goal was 100 logos but i ended up with 67). then i asked for feedback and critique on subsets of the logos in order to narrow down my design to two options. finally, i started playing with color
Logo Design Iteration (1).

a bunch of shapes that are being merged and divided to create 67 black and white logosLogo Design Iteration (2).

67 black and white logos with two options marked with a highlight boxLogo Design Iteration (3).

turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight.  
colors are black, white, and blueLogo Design Iteration (4).

turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight.  
colors are black, white, and red
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
visdev 2 part 1/2 i wanted to focus on simple geometric designs that were inspired by the both Bauhaus design and the fascist Italian Futurist movement's ideals of speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry. i needed to create simple building blocks that felt more fluid and dynamic than squares
Logo Design Iterations.Design Methodology (1).

a single square with an arrow pointing from it to a 3x3 grid of squaresDesign Methodology (2).

the nine squares of the 3x3 grid have been spaced out and a tenth square has been added underneath them
an arrow points from this formation to a modified version of these squares where any corners on the outside are rounded.Design Methodology (3).

individual rounded square pieces from the previous slide are now being merged and/or divided to create second- and third-order composite shapes that are still relatively simple
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Ash | Wishlist Cartomantic on Steam! @ashmakes.games · 04/04/2025
The Steam page for Cartomantic is now live! Wishlisting and sharing is greatly appreciated. 💖 #godot #indiegame #tarot #roguelite #deckbuilder
store.steampowered.com
Cartomantic on Steam
Take control of fate in this Tarot roguelite deckbuilder. Wield powerful Aspects of Humanity and Divinity, weave explosive chain reactions, and collect hundreds of cards inspired by both Minor and Maj...
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/07/2025
Fantasies of Nuremberg On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU
thumbnail of youtube video. Hermann Goring with "to hang" written over his eyes," red background
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
and i’m genuinely at a loss for what to do. when does it become our duty to fight back. and what does fighting back look like?
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
been seeing some absolutely heinous shit on the news about what the current administration is doing and i keep thinking “why don’t any of the people in these systems seem to question their orders? why do they gleefully wield violence when they are supposed to be held accountable by the people?”
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
can the right to revolt be granted to the people? or is it something that cannot ever be given by the state?
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
thinking about the right to revolt and what happens when the State refuses to protect the rights of the People and instead prioritizes the wishes of Oligarchs and Tyrants.
death first to fascists and dictators. '...when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their ***duty***, to throw off such Government."it is out ~~right~~ duty to revolt.
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
taking some options and turning them into the flags of the fictional corporate/fascist military government
turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight.  
colors are black, white, and blue turning two iterations of the logos into banners, flags, and standards. option one is a sort of eye-like shape. option two is a figure eight with bullet shapes as the negative space of the eight.  
colors are black, white, and red
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Personally I think reading old books ('classics' or not) is good, actually, as is reading new books, and you can and should read both, and not make a virtue out of not reading one or the other. Art is contiguous with history, and readers/writers should have an awareness of what came before.
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
round three
twenty four more minimalist black and white logos. a fair amount have an eagle-inspired design in reference to roman/european/orthodox/byzantine/fascist iconography
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Strzyga, Flesh Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 10/08/2025
Hey btw you can hire me to do layout on magazines and rpgs. Here is just a small collection of my works. More examples in the thread to come.
A mockup of a trifold pamphlet with a bold yellow black and red cover with an industrial look about it.A spread displaying a piece timeline of events as well as descriptions of locations formatted to look like posts on a social media site.A incredibly dingy looking map and key, it looks as if it was scapbooked together with typewriter texts and torn paperA bombastic page showing bright red distorted hexagons and text describing locations
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ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
mood #yuri #yurivn
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
the design language should be pulling inspiration from futurist/bauhaus visuals as well as the political ideologies associated with those design trends (namely, italian fascism in the early 20th century) 3/3
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
the context of these icons/logos is that they are supposed to be the main symbol of the corporate-fascist military bureaucracy the player is working for in a corporate horror piece of interactive fiction. 2/3
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
the design on the bottom left is inspired in part by the Sun Microsystems logo from the 1990s (pictured here) and in part by online neo-nazi hate symbols referencing nazi war flags (not pictured here) 1/3
Sun Microsystems logo from the 1990s
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
round two some design notes to follow
tweet more black and white minimalist logos.
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
logo/icon explorations
19 logo/icon iterations in black and white. simple and semi-complex shapes made out of minimalist building blocks. some are abstract shapes. some look like flowers. some look like eyes. some look like eagle/double eagle standards.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
yay here is something very cool i can finally announce!! i’m part of a book project that explores liminal spaces in popular culture, especially horror. the book is a collection of essays. i’m talking about video games! it’s currently only being teased on instagram www.instagram.com/p/DM75ojjtlf...
a screenshot of 1428’s instagram page showing a screenshot of PT and announcing my chapter.
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NettaKnight @nettaknight.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hades style Harrow, maybe I'll do some more of these. #tlt #harrowhark #harrow #thelockedtomb #fanart
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
visdev part 5/5
[a diagram with two labeled shapes. each label says "[Description of diagram component]"]
Figure 1. Proper labeling of diagram componentsStyle Guide (5).
Print & Web Documents.
Print documents should be formatted for standard US Letter paper (8.5 x 11”) with margins of 1” all around. Web versions of print documents should be formatted as pageless documents (one scrolling page). Hyperlinks are strongly encouraged. All hyperlinks should be bolded and colored as Internal Links & References. Hyperlinks should never be underlined. 
All print documents should fit into one of two categories: Memos and Manuals. Memos are any documents delivered via the Bureau Mail Service and should be single-page or numbered single-sided pages. Manuals will be bound in a Standard Bureau-Issue Binder (Three Ring) with buff, tabbed, manila divider pages if there are sections. 
Every print document should have the Bureau Letterhead or Bureau Logo visible on each page.
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
visdev part 4/5
Style Guide (1).
Headings End With Periods.
Body text is written in complete sentences with Referenced Sections bolded and colored in dark blue (#1155cc). The body text is always justified. Any technical instructions that are rendered inline are set in the monospace typeface and are highlighted with light blue like so.
Any technical instructions in fenced code block (the markdown syntax is to be enclosed in lines with three backticks) will be printed as blocks of text:
This set of instructions will have a 0.4-inch hanging indent and does not need any highlight. It will be rendered in the monospace typeface. 
This text will not be justified. 
Style Guide (2).
Avoid widows and orphans. That is, keep paragraphs together in the same page and column. Only split a paragraph if it has four or more lines on each separated section.  
[sidebar
Sidebar Styles.
If there is sidebar text, ensure that it is bounded in a box with a background slightly darker than the page. The sidebar should be about ½ the size of the column it is attached to. The sidebar text should be smaller than the body text of the page. 
]
If a page contains less than a full column of text but is the final page in a section, it is okay to split the column into its constituent paragraphs. Try to keep the text in the left column longer than that in the right. 
[sidebar
Sidebar Location.
Sidebars should be on the outside of a page. 
]Style Guide (3).
Internal Links & References.
#1155cc
Document Backgrounds—Default.
#fafaff
Document Backgrounds—Alternate.
#efefef
Document Backgrounds—Sidebars.
#cfe2f3
Document Text.
#121517

Formatting.
Text inside non-sidebar boxes will be padded 0.2 inches on all sides. Text inside sidebar boxes will be padded 0.1 inches on all sides. Any redacted text will have each redacted character replaced with an underscore in the monospace typeface, before the whole redacted text is highlighted in the Document Text color. Here is an example of _____________.
All non-monospace text will be justified with 1.15 spacing and will have a space added after the end of each paragraph. All monospace text blocks will have a 0.4-inch hanging indent and will not be justified. Additionally, all monospace text blocks will not have a space added after the end of a paragraph.Style Guide (4).
Labels & Diagrams.
Labels will have rounded corners and should appear to be capsule-shaped. If labels are attached to portions of an image or diagram, they should have a connecting line that is dashed (—·—) and has a filled in circle connector at the relevant portion of the image or diagram (see Figure 1).
Captions will have no left padding. Their text will be italicized and will not have a period.

[a diagram with two labeled shapes. each label says "[Description of diagram component]"]
Figure 1. Proper labeling of diagram components
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
visdev part 3/5
Style Guide—Typography (1).
Option A.
This option uses the IBM Plex Sans font family with technical instructions in the IBM Plex Mono typeface with a light blue highlight.
Heading [IBM Plex Sans Bold]
Body text will look like this [IBM Plex Sans Normal]. Any code segments [IBM Plex Mono Normal] will look like this[1]
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[1] Any footnotes will look like this. [IBM Plex Sans Condensed Normal]

Option B.
This option uses the Noto Sans font family with technical instructions in the Noto Sans Mono typeface with a light blue highlight.
Heading [Noto Sans Black]
Body text will look like this [Noto Sans Normal]. Any code segments [Noto Sans Mono Normal] will look like this[1]
_____
[1] Any footnotes will look like this. [Noto Sans Light]Style Guide—Typography (3).
Icon Weight & Stroke. 
Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide:
The recommended stroke weight for icons is 2dp or the regular weight (400), which includes curves, angles, and both interior and exterior strokes. Material Symbols can provide a range of weights between thin (100) and bold (700).
Complex Icons.
Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide:
If an icon requires complex details, subtle adjustments can be made to improve its legibility. These adjustments are referred to as optical corrections. Any optical correction should use the geometric forms on which all other icons are based, without skewing or distorting those shapes.
Style Guide—Typography (2).
Icons. 
All icons will either be (a) sourced from the Google Font Material Symbols[1] or (b) designed as an extension of this set of symbols.
In order to match the style guide of the Google Font Material Symbols, please refer to the Icon Style Guide or the official Material Design Icon Style Guide[2].

Icon Corners.
Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide:
Corner radii are 2dp by default. For the outlined style symbols, interior corners are square, not rounded. For shapes 2dp wide or less, stroke corners shouldn’t be rounded.
For the rounded style symbols, both exterior and interior corner radii are rounded and for the sharp style symbols, both exterior and interior corners radii reduce from 2dp to 0dp.

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[1] Available at: https://fonts.google.com/icons.
[2] Available at: https://m3.material.io/styles/icons/designing-icons.
Style Guide—Typography (3).
Icon Weight & Stroke. 
Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide:
The recommended stroke weight for icons is 2dp or the regular weight (400), which includes curves, angles, and both interior and exterior strokes. Material Symbols can provide a range of weights between thin (100) and bold (700).
Complex Icons.
Per the Material Design Icon Style Guide:
If an icon requires complex details, subtle adjustments can be made to improve its legibility. These adjustments are referred to as optical corrections. Any optical correction should use the geometric forms on which all other icons are based, without skewing or distorting those shapes.
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
visdev part 2/5 i have added Bauhaus and International Style as referenced design/architecture styles
Mood Board—Visual Direction (3).
Control
Henry Dreyfuss
Marcello Nizzoli
Olivetti
Ettore Sottsass
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
SCP Foundation
Brutalism
Functionalism
Streamline Moderne
Art Deco
Futurist & Futurism
Bauhaus
International Style
Style Guides.
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
visdev part 1/5
Visual Direction.
Corporate Horror Game.Mood Boards.Mood Board--Visual Direction (1).
[image of a folder from the Federal Bureau of Control from the 2019 video game Control]
[promotional art for the 2019 video game Control featuring the title of the game and the main character]
[image of the Oldest House from the 2019 video game Control]
[Divisumma 14 Printing Calculator designed by Marcello Nizzoli]
[Divisumma 24 Printing Calculator designed by Marcello Nizzoli]
[Rotary Telephone (model 302) designed by Henry Dreyfuss]
[the SCP Foundation logo]Mood Board--Visual DIrection (2).
[Enorme Telephone designed by Ettore Sottsass]
[Preliminary Project for Microenvironment, Element for Landscape Home designed by Ettore Sottsass]
[Preliminary Project for Microenvironment designed by Ettore Sottsass]
[The Mercury train designed by Henry Dreyfuss]
[Summa 19 Calculator designed by Ettore Sottsass]
[unidentified train in the Streamline Moderne style]
[the Chrysler Building]
[rendering of the interior of a coach car on the Mercury train designed by Henry Dreyfuss]
[unidentified Greyhound station in the Streamline Moderne architectural style]
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
i'm working on a prototype of a game about corporate horror, fascism, and bureaucracy. here's some preliminary visual direction and style guide documentation
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Cara Cadaver <3 @dirtlord77.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game. It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.
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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally
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Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Now on bluesky: the ✨game design wiki✨! It includes: 🌱 The career progression of a game designer 💼 How to hunt for game design jobs 💡 Detailed run through of the game design process 🖼️ Many handy resources And more! rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Available to download for free, Full Spectrum Resistance is the radical’s guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize against the fascist creep and fight against the increasingly militarized industry of repression. sevenstories.com/blogs/377-fr...
FULL SPECTRUM RESISTANCE
FREE EBOOKS
VISIT SEVENSTORIES.COM TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE COPIES
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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
got called a “yuri angel” today at my bookstore job because i was determined to get yuri in the hands of the people
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
here’s a small curation of games that exist outside the urge to be understood. “Digital art: I want to be confused. I don’t want to understand. I want to see something for the first time again. Rarely a game does that, and when it does it’s a precious thing.” www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/not...
nathalielawhead.com
Not Quite A Game (Games that go beyond the need to be understood) – The Candybox Blog
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
"Your life should not be a museum." "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."
An image of three screenshotted tweets. The original from user @hell_doe: "Thinking about the girl who bought me coffee from Texas and joked that I would have to ration it out for special occasions. My friend, I do not save my good things. Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets." 

User Mike Hamilton, RIV tweeted a screenshot of the original tweet to say: "being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" fundamentally altered my brain." 

User Oliver Darkshire quote tweeted Hamilton to say, "Ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but "my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died and I don't want this stuff" has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum."
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