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Why might I have specified indigenous trans men instead of just trans men or indigenous men in my post?

What is the cultural significance of long hair in indigenous cultures?

What has historically happened to indigenous men with long hair in western cultures?

What other non-white cultures place significance in hair length?

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So one of my wildest dreams came true: I worked with Evil Hat Productions to publish my game, Apocalypse Keys. Apocalypse Keys is a tabletop roleplaying game of monsters bound by fate, love, and power. You explore emotional connections, complicated relationships, unpredictable mysteries, larger than life apocalyptical threats, and the brightest hope in the darkest despair. It’s an innovative take on the Powered by the Apocalypse rules engine, using some bleeding edge tech from some of the newest PbtA games. One example is that there are no stats in the game: instead you’re rewarded with Darkness Tokens when you embody the emotional themes of your playbook. And when you roll your dice and decide how many tokens you want to spend, you hope you don’t roll to high: you’ll suffer from disastrous success and there will be no denying the monster that you are.

Apocalypse Keys is an action-packed, poetic, dramatic, over the top game of supernatural weirdness and cool. I’m really proud of it, and the final PDF just came out recently. The books are printing as we speak! You can pre-order it here and if you come across this in the future you can find out more on Evil Hat’s site about the game. Not bad for a disabled trans masc queer indie designer from the Philippines! I put so much of myself into this game, and I’m so glad it’s resonating with folks, and that I had so much support since the beginning. I think about how I started with these smol itchio game jam submissions and I honestly get a little emotional about it. If you want to keep up with my games feel free to follow me here on tumblr, itchio, or keep tabs on my website! If you want to support me and my game designer dreams you can check out my patreon!

Artists featured in the Apocalypse Keys work on this post: defenestratin, Lorne Colt, and Adrian Stone.

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.