Itch.io Made a Home For the Marginalized, Then Discarded Us
Sure, call your reps, see if they answer the phone. But, first, call and email Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe. Tell them, respectfully, those customer service folks didn't do shit to you, what you want and what you will do if you don't get it.
Stop letting white suprematists and Nazis decide what artist is allowed to eat or have a roof over her head because making a phone call or writing an email is hard.
Review: User Not Found
How do they keep getting away with this?!
User Not Found is the story of a useless lesbian in a hopeless world carving out a little bit of hope, not just for themselves, but for all ‘transgressives’ by Dani Finn.
Review: Fly By Night
Dani has this peculiar ability to paint vibrant and morbid canvases with their words, then has the fucking gall to leave me feeling hopeful
Review: The Grace of Sorcerers
Note to self: don't soft announce a silly pride project, a poetry project, AND let the Steam Next Fest consume your brain all at once.
Review: Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius
Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius is a fun, hopeful love letter to the girlhood denied many trans women. It's $2. Get it or risk being hit by a van.
I Thought Way Too Much About Egg Fics!
Eggfic. What a word, a terrible one, I’m inexplicably biased against portmanteaus. But it's certainly clear in what it means. I like the idea of eggfics existing, I mean I just wrote a rather gushing review for The Dragon and Her Princess, which in itself inspired me to write this piece.
The Dragon and Her Princess
I came away from the experience refreshed, reinvigorated to interact with, for lack of a better word in the moment, good media. Media that is saying something, even if that something is as simple as monarchs are bad and dragons are cool.
That's not all there is to Vyria Durav's The Dragon and Her Princess, though those elements are certainly present. It's a short enough story that I do fear my overly verbose style will drive me to spoil it, so let me attempt brevity.