PB Berge ๐Ÿ’–

@persephone.blue

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๐Ÿ”ฅ ludoarsonist ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ media scholar ๐ŸŽฎ game breaker ๐‡๐Ž๐–'๐’ ๐๐„๐—๐“ ๐–๐„๐„๐Š is out!!! Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. ๐Ÿ” trans play ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ TTRPGs ๐ŸŽฒ extremism ๐Ÿ’€ & the โœจunplayableโœจ ๐ŸŒ https://persephone.blue ๐ŸŽฒ https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week

Blue, blocky letters on a pink retro background: "Trans Game Zine!"
A training video from the Allied Network for Xenolinguistic Surveillance, recruiting new probationary field agents. Potential agents are advised of the dangers of tabletop gaming, extradimensional bodysnatchers called "Intrigants," and their ongoing schemes.
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.
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 title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.
The abstract for the article, titled "Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on itch.io."
Got my tattoo of Chaos, from the Hades games, colored in! Tattoo is on the upper bicep--pink and purple and gold and white and teal and blue.
PB in a witchy tattoo parlor, looking at my arm in a mirror and beaming!
An orange Bokoblin standing in a Shiekah Tower!
Banner for the panel "B{Ending} Trans Media Studies" featuring skulls, fire, and icons of the panelists.
An updated CV with the exciting addition: "Incoming Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design in the Media & Technology Studies Program at the University of Alberta."
Photo of the gallery for the Games for Gaza bundle. Link in post.
The front page of the article, titled "The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons."
A purple banner showing the front pages of several of my articles, along with the cover for my dissertation, "Unplayable Games."