Corporate Decision Silliness · Games Criticism · Gendered gaming · Rants · Sexuality in gaming

Say Anything

Remember a while back, a long while back, I wrote about a League of Legends champ named Taric and how I felt Riot should just make him gay already? A long time has passed since then (three years+, in fact). As I've written elsewhere, my feelings on Riot, on the situation itself, and on what I said back in… Continue reading Say Anything

Fan Culture · Games Criticism · Gendered gaming · Sexuality in gaming · Uncategorized

Paradoryxical

Where to begin. Although the information has been floating around gaming's social media spheres and message boards for a few weeks now, yesterday Polygon ran an op-ed by Laura K. Dale about Oryx, the titular king of Destiny's recent The Taken King expansion, being transgender. As a cis-though-not-as-cis-as-they-thought-they-were-for-30-years person, I struggled a lot with whether it was even… Continue reading Paradoryxical

Games Criticism · Games Journalism · Rants · Sexuality in gaming

Dismissed

Hi, Twitter. So I made this tweet earlier tonight, around dinner time-ish: https://twitter.com/laevantine/status/618580256325283840 I've got thoughts about both of these topics, obviously, but I've been skirting writing about them for various reasons. Some of them more professional, some silly (FF14 has eaten up a lot of my life lately), and some personal (I am scared… Continue reading Dismissed

Body Types in Games · Gendered gaming · Rants · Sexuality in gaming

Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)

So, let's talk about Cobra Club, the dick pic simulator by Robert Yang, for a little bit. Because the content of the game is NSFW -- and because I'm going to spoil some of the game's stuff -- you can find the rest of this post under the fold. I'm always in a weird place… Continue reading Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)

Corporate Decision Silliness · Rants · Sexuality in gaming

See Something, Say Something

TW for this post: homophobia, transphobia Because of the sensitive content, the remainder of this post comes after the jump: Welcome to a couple of whiplash weeks for queer representation and themes in pop culture, especially games; from Kung Jin and Bobby Drake right around to yesterday morning's fantabulous and short-lived Steam Greenlight game about killing… Continue reading See Something, Say Something

Games Criticism · Gendered gaming · Sexuality in gaming

From Purgatory: Poison, Birdo, and Trans Character Discourse

So I was looking through my blog drafts folder and noticed a few blog posts that I never actually finished, but had started writing at some point. I don't have significant time to finish most of them, but since Twitter expressed some interest in seeing them, I figured I'd do my best to bring them… Continue reading From Purgatory: Poison, Birdo, and Trans Character Discourse