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also did not like season 2 bc it was fucking tone deaf (the fans hyping up Chris's other dimension dad who profited off of and gained notoriety from being complicit in a nazi world even though he also had the ability to travel across dimensions, calling him the goat after that stupid speech... we're lost and way too easily impressed.) but also because it reads like James Gunn just stopped caring about the little universe he had created with season 1. like, he dropped the ball on purpose? but this is coming from someone who binged season 1 right before watching season 2 in real time so the discrepancy in the personal nature of the previous season was hard to ignore.

STILL gonna write smut though because im a woman of multitudes. the left brain is for critique and analysis, and the right brain is for goon.

wanted to reflect on the things i've made this year. here goes nothing!

Games

ghost story is a point-and-click mystery made in unity as my final project for code coven's IGM course!! I genuinely think we managed a pretty solid concept and execution in two weeks, and if you like murder mysteries, this is for you!

lungs to burn is a short poem game made for the may 2023 bitsy jam, talking about wildfires, grief, and queer connection. featured in both indiepocalypse #43 and hand eye society's SUPERFestival. in general, the response i got for this one was kinda overwhelming (and a little confusing), but i'm glad it resonated with people! still very proud of it.

no postage required is another bitsy game, this time made for the trans game dev server jam. a somewhat-sequel to the end is near; or a letter to a lost love. there are definitely things i'd redo with this one but all in all, not too bad!

Zines

Kriah: a personal zine about some of my experiences with antisemitism over the years. definitely a heavy read but honestly i stand by it just as much as when i wrote it? idk as someone who has a lot of trauma from years of antisemitic harassment, this has been a WEIRD fucking year, and it's weird to revisit something i wrote at the beginning of the year that feels even more relevant now.

how to the hold the pain is a collage/web weaving zine i did for this year's blaseball zine jam, using blaseball narratives as a way to view crip theory and vice versa. i spent a LOT of time reading through articles for this (both academic and other) and every second of it was worth it. genuinely one of my favourite things i made all year.

Fic

i wrote a lot less fic this year than the previous two for a multitude of reasons but i still put out a few bangers!! here's a brief selection of my favourites:

swallow your guilt (blaseball, 13.2k), a story about the new seattle garages, the old chicago firefighters, grief, and finally growing up, all through the biased eyes of one baby "ruthless" triumphant

spectroscopy, or a snapshot of a light and that which it absorbs (blaseball, 2.6k), the coda to my bright zimmerman series. i technically wrote this in the fall of 2022 but posted it in march so it still counts.

somewhere there's a fire burning (rogue one, 1k), a character study of bohdi rook between the destructions of nijedha and scarif. my first non-blb fic! and still a banger imo

i play dead, come alive (hatchetfield, 12x100), character study of stephanie lauter during the events of npmd. now officially my most popular fic and honestly i'm good with that!!! i think it's a solid little fic.

just all of corona borealis. i did some good stuff about grief and growth this year y'all.

originally start playing COP just to wait out ID in between bloodbound, but it's the few single love interest books where i'm genuinely happy they're my love interest ???. the 30💎 scene feels earned, the characters are dynamic, mc isn't some push over baby sheep to trystan's wolf (iykwim), we don't immediately fall head over heels for them with that "🔥 desire" stuff. i'm also a sucker for the career based stories like OH, LoA etc where the career is the main aspect of the story and not just the setting