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I need Maple blessings in my life. I will give her many treats.

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If you thrifted a Mediocre Magic Boy shirt, it's still a walking billboard. The way we confront this shit is we condemn its very fucking existence. Anyone who sees it can't tell the difference if you're nailbiting over the morals or not. You just look like you're not.

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I am not sure what message you're trying to send with this, but 'you don't need to like them as people to like their art' is a fucking cop-out. No one needs to consume anyone's art, and the consumption of that art cannot be differentiated as to where you got it without context.

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Whilst 'fomo' is definitively a tool of capitalism, the romance genre has pushed back against this by providing distinct warnings about what a text contains, as well as even 'eventual happily ever after' endings. This position of informed empathy is revolutionary in so many ways.

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I am actually (accidentally) studying the incredible cultural relevance of smut and romance in resisting the rise of fascism and misogynistic practices, and the role that informed consent, content warnings, and trigger warnings plays in that is huge.

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NO ONE PANIC. NO ONE PANIC *WHEEZE*

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On that note, and I am going to flat fucking say it. If you are a cis person who cannot give up a certain mediocre magic boy series, I judge you. No ifs, ands, or buts. Your ability to read a book series is not worth the pain it has caused. Fuck you.

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Pink was my favourite singer as a child. I loved her music. I listened to it constantly. It got me through a lot. It means a lot to me. I've thrown out every bit and will never consume her work again. It's not fucking hard at all. Meanwhile I am going to stream Macklemore on every device I have.

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Contemporary consumers and engaged youth are no longer accepting people who try and fence-sit or toe the line. No statement is a statement, as far as they are concerned. Sides must be chosen, and refusing to choose is a choice.

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Ms Rachel has always been an incredible voice for black and brown children in America, and has always shown support for Palestinian children and children taken by ICE. She is proof that silence has never been neutrality. There is no neutrality. There is resistance or there is complicity.

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I have been asked to give a talk on a panel, but I would love to see more industry there to show how welcoming and kind this industry is. Please come and help these wonderful developers start their careers off. Look forward to seeing you there!

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Melbourne-based game dev vets. A group of burgeoning developers have taken it upon themselves to start a small emergent game dev conference on Oct 3rd. Date: 03/10/26 Time: 10 AM - 5 PM Location: South Melbourne Community Centre Tickets: events.humanitix.com/emergent-2026

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Dear world If you use generative AI in your advertisements, I will not use your service kthnxbai~

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I am safe now. I am recovering. I have an interim intervention order but it isn't the end of the fight. I am now a single mum, and the future for me is literally the one I never wanted to be in. But I am here. She is here. And we will never give up. Quitting is never an option in this household.

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It is important to remember that some abusers aren't even aware it is abuse. Some present a public persona versus a private one. But all of them think they are in the right. Entitlement is deadly, and we need to dismantle it. I couldn't get a lot of help because there are others who needed it more.

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The idea of women being victims of domestic violence is so accepted and normalised that we don't prioritise eradicating it. We think 'Oh we can't do anything', ignoring the fact that everyone who does harm of kill their partners are surrounded by people who know them and see them.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wish I could convey to you how heartbreaking these last few days have been. I escaped a domestic situation before I was hurt, and before I was truly endangered, but because of that I must go down in priority of protection. All the services are overwhelmed. Meanwhile, a woman dies every 4 days.

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I need to say this to make it real. I am currently escaping from an unsafe domestic situation, and the way that fucks your life up, and how little the police can do until you are physically harmed is utterly mind-boggling. I am safe, for now, but I am so scared and I hate how vulnerable I am now.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SAE Australia is hosting a competition for any current or ex students and staff to showcase their game at PAX 26. Tickets, flights, accom paid for. If your team has 1 alumni or student on it, it qualifies to enter. Closes 5:00pm AEST, 16 August 2026. Winners announced 31 August 2026.

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PAX Australia Competition - SAE University College

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have discovered whimsigoth aesthetic and I am so, so scared. Mostly because I am about to make it my whole personality....

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Kym ⋅ Zigarot @zigarot.live · 04/08/2026

THIS. I'm just a streamery dude, but I've pivoted this year to try to organise more collaboration because we already have such nice friendships in this space that I reckon the rest of the world would be jealous. BTW if any devs in QLD have a game with a demo, can I can come to you to do some videos?

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*Waves arms in 'this is exactly my point'*!

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It is to the extent that people I talk to outside of the industry are genuinely surprised by how much I say game devs would love to talk, or help, or provide guidance. Surprised when they encounter it. They are literally stunned. It's singular, and remarkable, and must be preserved.

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As a result, everyone just comes together and helps. It's so tight knit, protective, and open to discussion and understanding. Paying it back, paying it forward, bringing people with them. This is so, so so important and I wish more people could actually understand that.

There might be pockets of hostility or toxicity, sure. But it is far, far outweighed by this inherent ideology that each individual is not competing with another team or studio or individual for a job, or funding, or a placement. At most, they are competing with a version of themselves.

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My pattern recognition is 'why humans do?' with a focus on digital, and a hyperfixation on game design. But I watch the game dev industry in AU and NZ and it's just so... fucking supportive. The pay it forward mentality. The desire to see one another succeed. The feedback and collaboration.

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I need the Aussie and NZ game dev industry to realise how utterly phenomenal their collaborative and supportive nature is. How utterly singular, and precious it is, and how much it must be protected and preserved. Zero exaggeration, it is absolutely astounding how supportive the scene is.

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Listen, what if I went into politics (I won't) and basically promised everything Mamdani promised (I can't), and campaigned off of that (I won't). But what if. WHAT IF.

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days. bit.ly/4w0uow7

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Absolutely. And every game published, released, and received is fodder for the next iteration of games to improve upon. If we never have bad games or ok games that are allowed to exist, we will never be able to properly improve.

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More games need to just be unrepentantly 'ok', and we need to be ok with games that are just 'ok'. Also games need to stop being treated as money sources for the super rich for fuck's sake.

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And men are forced to either observe and resist, or participate and find themselves engaging with women in more insightful and healthy ways. Literally the trailer is so perfectly reflective of that. AHHHH love it.

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It is an amazing form of discursive resistance where women enjoy a source of entertainment that neither wants, nor asks, for patriarchal permission to exist because it exists outside the controlled channels. And in doing so, they find greater happiness in their sex lives.

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Voidra @voidrantsback.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The contrast between 'acceptable' heteronormative relationships as enshrined by patriarchal narratives, and the discursive resistance within women who stop asking permission for sexual arousal and pleasure in smut and romance.

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I am so here for it. I am SO HERE FOR IT. It's like a fucking direct allegory of what I am seeing happen on Instagram with romantasy.

Anyway. Back to our regularly scheduled existential dread.

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THEY EAT KIDS The world's run by sex traffickers that EAT. KIDS. And someone is going to take issue with my tone or my words or my crash out. I don't caaaaare. People need to be MORE MAD. I am fucking losing my mind.

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And there is a tiny part of my brain sitting here, cautioning me against saying this. You have a job to maintain, Void. You have a reputation as an academic and a burgeoning game developer and founder of a studio to think of. But FUCK that. FUCK that, honestly. WHY do I have to think of that?

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HOW IS THAT A THING THAT I, A MEDIA CULTURES ACADEMIC WITH TRAINING IN SLANDER AND LIBEL, AM ABLE TO FLAT FUCKING SAY THAT AND KNOW THAT EVERY FUCKING WORD IS, IN FACT, LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE BECAUSE IT IS TRUUUUUUE. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ONNNNNNN.

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Today, I learned that there is apparently credible evidence of there being an actual conspiracy behind the Twin Towers. In the Epstein files. Which have already revealed that the world may be run by cannibal child sex traffickers and their enablers. HOW IS THAT A THING I CAN WRITE!?? HOW???

It kind of fucks me up that all of the absolutely batshit conspiracy theories about global politics... are starting to be revealed to not be batshit conspiracy theories. Just directed at the dumbest shit. I feel like we were fucking... Palovian trained for this shit.

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WICKER | Official UK Trailer

Holy shit I have so many things to say about this, but whilst this is a funny, sexy, raunchy film, the social commentary in it is so fucking on point and I am watching it happen in real time in my own research. Oh my god I want to talk about this so much. I don't know howwwwwwww....

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YouTube video by Black Bear UK

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