Speculative fiction critic-at-large. Queer. 🏳️⚧️ Host of @total_mass_pod
Nov 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Hey everyone let's work on our media literacy here for a second. Here's a Twitter blue account.
Here's what they're summarizing, sensationalistically
Nov 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Video game Twitter really going out with a bang, huh
Anything that isn't clear is basically exactly the same as the canonical difficult-but-rewarding English language stream of consciousness novel
Nov 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
game awards discourse seeping into twitter as locked accounts and 2FA don't work anymore, just gotta keep the machine fed
at least it's not the fucking emmys
Jun 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
what should I do with my bad mood Friday night
every vote counts, this has had three different leaders since it started
Jun 1, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
so this seems to be coming out of nowhere to some people, but I think there's actually a bit more going on here than just "bad fans are bad/bad entertainment company is cringe" that's worth looking into the what/how/why
so first the what. Reva is the lead villain of the first couple episodes of the Obi-Wan Kenobi show. she is the Third Sister of the Inquisitors, an Imperial institution of force wielders who are supposed to hunt down Jedi.
Dec 7, 2019 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
It's time for NO BOYS ALLOWED*
*but one Boi
Rowan's 15 favorite woman-fronted songs of the decade.
A quick note: I didn't keep up with music. This is not going to be a representative list. My interests from before largely folded into themselves, and only recently have they started expanding again
in other words: Lucy, Cardi, Phoebe, Lizzo, probably will make this in 6 months
May 6, 2019 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
ugh, all right, a little Game of Thrones ~discourse~ for y'all. Bear in mind that this I haven't seen tonight's episode so this is very general and not about specific decisions or portrayals on the evening.
What's up with Jon and Dany?
Jon and Dany have been the traditional heroic fantasy protagonists from the beginning of the story. Both are long-lost heirs, start from low points, have magical adventures, build their way into power to save the world and win the throne. They are Luke Skywalker or Aragorn
Apr 6, 2019 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
so for a while I've been making the argument that "gamers" are a vanguard of the internet, their cultural wars are the ones that the rest of us will be seeing in a few years.
The current battle over Steam/Epic is both exemplary and ominous.
For those who don't know games, Steam is the dominant digital distribution mechanism for computer games. I'd say it's the Netflix of games, but Netflix only wishes it had Steam's dominance. Steam has crushed every other competitor, Netflix has Hulu and Amazon.
Dec 28, 2017 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
The new Stars War would probably both be massively improved if the camera pulled back from the Republic/First Order and revealed that the rest of the galaxy just didn't care
everyone else in the universe is living their normal lives, but we've got a few thousand people doing live-ammo LARPing for no reason.
