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[wormdramafever]

Goodbye Volcano High nominated to Gayming Magazine Reader's Award!!!

You can vote HERE!!

And if you are wondering why GVH got nominated to a Gayming Magazine award:

[arimiadev]

Today marks the beginning of Season of Pride on Steam presented by MidBoss, IDGA, and Gayming Magazine, a festival for celebrating a variety of queer games. Two of my LGBT+ & boys love visual novels, Canvas Menagerie and Asphodelium, as part of the event.

Other queer visual novels are also in the event... like these!

Together with some friends we're celebrating queer visual novels in the festival. Check them out!

Of Sense and Soul by @forsythiaproductions ✒️

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery by @vnstudioelan 🌟

Cage of Roses by @ebi-hime 🌹

Imperial Grace by @synstoria 👑

Drăculești by @draculestigame 🍷

[forsythiaproductions]

We're thrilled to say Of Sense and Soul is featured in this year's Season of Pride Steam Sale! 🌈✨

Come celebrate over 130 Queer Games with us! 💖

A huge thanks to Midboss, IGDA, and Gayming Magazine for highlighting all of us!

If you're looking for more visual novels to wishlist, look no further than a few of our fellow Upcoming Queer VNs! ⬇️

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery by @vnstudioelan 🌟

Cage of Roses by @ebi-hime 🌹

Imperial Grace by @synstoria 👑

Canvas Menagerie and Asphodelium by @arimiadev 🎥🪻

Drăculești by @draculestigame 🍷

[ourtalechara]

Hey guys *cough* @realandhumanmanthing *cough* guess what

Neath! interview

A few things:

YES. I KNEW IT. I FREAKING KNEW THAT STUPES' LYRICS FELT LIKE LIN'S. I LOVE CONFIRMATION OF THINGS THAT I THOUGHT MIGHT BE TRUE.

Dan Ball.

[felassan]

this blog (& associated projects etc) in the [online print] news -

TheGamer: EA Says There's A "Strong Demand" For Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Ruetir: Dragon Age: The Veilguard sales forecasts are “in line with expectations” for EA: “We are seeing strong demand”

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TheGamer: EA Seems To Be Getting Ready For Dragon Age: Dreadwolf's Next Big Trailer

Game Rant: Rumor: Big Dragon Age Dreadwolf Update Could Be Coming Soon

Comicbook.com: New Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Trailer Rumor Has Fans Excited

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TechRadar: Dragon Age: The Veilguard has removed the tactical camera and won't let you control your companions

TheGamer: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Removed The Tactical Camera

TheGamer: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Forces You To Change Your Party Members More

Gameranx: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Officially Removes Tactical Camera

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Cryptopolitan [??]: Dragon Age: The Veilguard will not need the EA app to launch on Steam

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Game Rant: Fans Still Fighting to Save Dragon Age: The Last Court Browser Game

PC Gamer: EA deactivates Failbetter's Dragon Age game The Last Court

TechRaptor: Fans Band Together to Preserve Obscure Dragon Age Game

Fanbyte: Fans Rescued a Lost Dragon Age Game, The Last Court, Before It Faded

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Metro: New Mass Effect 4 artwork hints at return to Andromeda

PC Gamer: Bioware releases new artwork from the next Mass Effect

Eurogamer: Next Mass Effect teased again in new artwork

IGN: New Concept Art Revealed for Next Mass Effect Game

Rock Paper Shotgun: More artwork from the next Mass Effect has surfaced

Game Rant: New Mass Effect Game Concept Art Revealed in BioWare Book

GamesRadar: New Mass Effect art points to a return to Andromeda

VG247: Concept art for next Mass Effect game surfaces in new art book

NME: Check out new concept art from the upcoming ‘Mass Effect’ game

PlayStation LifeStyle: Three New Pieces of Art Offer Another Look at the Next Mass Effect

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Kotaku: Dragon Age: Inquisition's Ending, Explained

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SMA News Today: The Friends and Fate I Chose Thanks to ‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’

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Gayming Magazine: One thought on Dragon Age’s Zevran Wasn’t Intended To Be Bisexual

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TheGamer: Dragon Age: 10 Morrigan Memes You Have To See

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TechRaptor: "We Made It." Celebrating Ten Years of Mass Effect

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LAFWorks (Lee Feldman): I was wrong about Dragon Age II

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bonus round

GamesRadar: Mass Effect: Andromeda fans are lusting over new companion Jaal, and BioWare has responded... pretty positively

Eurogamer: Fans really want to sleep with with Mass Effect's new alien

Kotaku: Some Fans Already Want To Bang Mass Effect: Andromeda's New Alien

(..no comment and no I will not elaborate 💀)

[sweetmage]

I'm wondering if it would help to write to gaming news sites and ask them to cover this whole Wyll situation? Gayming Magazine for example has a big focus on diversity in games and writes many articles about Baldur's Gate 3. Maybe that would increase the pressure on Larian?

You know, I absolutely have not thought of this! I think that could be a lovely idea, in fact, you're definitely on to something there!!💖

I don't read a lot of games journalism so I'm not familiar with a lot of sites, so if you (or anyone) could provide me with a list of sites that might cover such a thing I'll arrange a post with links to their contact/tip pages :)

Alternatively if someone else puts one together, feel free to link me to it and I'll reblog it.

[god-mouths]

Matsc dashboard simulator

🐛 mars-needs-rats Follow it’s always a huge treat when the Metatron visits hell. He enters my shop and just sort of meanders around nervously before taking something off the shelf and carrying it over to my counter like if he makes one wrong move the weird cat plushie he picked out will shatter and break. And then he tries to pay for it in coins and I have to be like No Sir This is Hell We Barter Here This Is The Fifth Time I’ve Had To Say This To You 🔁mars-needs-rats Follow

forgot how much angels in heaven are afraid of him. He’s really just some dude I promise. He’s the most just some guy in the universe, swear to ancients. Do you guys ever question the lies told to you by your government or 🔁mars-needs-rats Follow

Well we don’t treat him like a freak for one but the answer to this question is the same that it always is which is: COMMON HEAVEN L (18,782 notes)

👑 apateons-no1-fan Follow

I Loooooove being soooooo cute and awesome and amazing and lovely and awesome and cool

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🎇 beeautyqueen Follow

why’s there always gotta be something going on at Eros tower I just want to look at the latest magazines why the fuck is the front desk employee always doing some looney toons ass shit what are they paying him for 🐕 justa-little-guy Follow

he has a name

🎇 beeautyqueen Follow

oh yeah what is it then

🐕 justa-little-guy Follow

unsure but my friends and I call him peepee boy and he responds to that

🎇 beeautyqueen Follow

well can you tell peepee boy to stop fucking around and give me my magazine issue.

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😇 heavenleelove Follow can hell angels get over themselves please…. I’m soooo sorry that you don’t have a cool monarch and are taking it out on us

🎮lames-gaymes Follow

hi hell angel here! We never said we were superior to you you just think any ounce of individuality and freedom is a threat because of how you were raised. Also we have cool people down here too

😇 heavenleelove Follow ...ignoring the first part of that response. Yeah tell me about all your cool people -_- I’m suuuuuuuure you have plenty lmfao.

🎮lames-games Follow

we do. You just have the monarch but we have;

medical malpractice man

cunty showrunner

the Metatron, sometimes? Genuinely not really sure what’s happening there, actually.

front desk employee/errand runner to showrunner who always is kind of sick but we love him

diner owner who I’m pretty sure is spitting in my food whenever I order

LAIKA (ALSO SOMETIMES) 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💓💞💓💗💓💞💘💘💘💝💝💝

😇 heavenleelove Follow Who the fuck is laika 🎮 lames-gaymes Follow

wouldnt you like to know heaven boy

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💫 sparky-the-angel Follow

BEGGING hell angels to stop lying and saying the metatron """""visits""""" 😭😭😭😭I’m not against hell I bet you guys have tons of other cool stuff but please guys.

⭕ myadventuresof-hell Follow

💫 sparky-the-angel Follow

Huh

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📋 interned-demon Follow

I hate my job

🐯 bugpack-lou Follow

peepee boy has a tumblr?

📋 interned-demon Follow

man can you guys stop calling me that

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👻 nervous-attack-angel Follow

I think medical malpractice man is trying to raise someone from the dead because like guys what else would he use all those organs for

👻 nervous-attack-angel Follow

please dont yell :(.... this post was meant for hell angels sorry if it showed up on your feed. Um. No it’s not a joke we have a giant organ stealing man we don’t see him much he lives on the edge of town I think his name starts with an L or something

💌 fineprintssx Follow

. Op are you talking about fucking LUCIFER????

👻 nervous-attack-angel Follow

oh

👻 nervous-attack-angel Follow

yeah ( 54,812 notes )

🙂 doomed3fail Follow

I wonder what would happen if I just barged into the monarch’s palace and started doing a little dance

🔁 doomed3fail Follow

hopital (hell

[vikingnerd793]

This is a great interview!

So, yes,

Characters in BG3 are bi/pan. Karlach is bi/pan, dialogue shows this. HOWEVER, Sam confirms Karlach was intentionally portrayed as Sapphic, and if anyone wanted to romance Karlach anyway, great!

So, look. I am bisexual. I am touchy when it comes to bi erasure. But you also cannot attack lesbians for seeing Karlach as sapphic when that is exactly how Karlach was intentionally portrayed. It's up to you, the player, to decide what you want Karlach to be. And lesbians have juuuuuust as much right to own Karlach as bisexuals do in this case.

And I absolutely romance Karlach with women, because it does feel natural to me. I can see her with Wyll, too. But I get Sapphic vibes. And, well....there is a reason.

We don't need to attack each other over this in the community. Karlach literally does have two hands lol

[trinityprocessing]

alright so the VA of Malos (David Menkin) said he is gay and sees Malos as gay and in love with Jin... excuse me wHAT ... how amazing is this??

the interview was with the "gayming magazine" btw

[fictionfactorygames]

Gayming Nomination!

Thank you to Gayming Magazine for our award nominations for Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers! While we didn't win, it's an honor to be in such esteemed company. Giving LGBTQ-led games a spotlight is wonderful and we're happy we could be a part of it.

We'll keep creating games as part of the queer community! As a small devteam, we couldn't do this without their support.

Speaking of, please consider wishlisting the upcoming Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain.

Thank you so much!

[punkeropercyjackson]

Girly Hazel hcs? For me i think she’s really good at applying eyeshadow, has a stuffed animal and also knife collection, and would really enjoy gothic yet also vintage/1950s styles. I also think she’d be good friends with Silena as well as Drew post-redemption. And is really good at braiding/styling hair.

Hazel's full name is Hazel Esther Levesque,she's a trans femme autistic lesbian and she has skin so dark it can be mistaken for black the color,actual pitch black hair and big brown eyes like an angel

Light feminine despite her gothness or rather,she's pastel afrogothpunk instead of white girl goth.She's also pretty into Rainbow Academia

Hates Hot Topic for selling Harley Quinn x The Joker merch and other gross misogynistic shit like HP merch too so she actually teared the nearest one down without blowing her cover in a besties night out with Nico,Percy and Lex

Domo girlie,Blythe Dolls collector and Num Noms expert

Star-shaped afropuffs in Son,cornrows in Moa,twists in Hoh,sisterlocks in Boo,butterfly locs onward and straight hair pre-series(Marie was a good mom here so she tried to give her as little damage as possible and only straightend it out of being forced to by the white people at the time)

Stacked lobes,double cheeks and a pink nose ring for piercings(all diy'd by her beloved parents Percy and Lex🩷)

Regularly does korean heart fingers(🫰🏿 < Hey Hazel,this you?)

Pegasister and Lex introduced her to MLP!!Her favorite pony and kinnie is Pinkie Pie obviously and she's sooooo into the franchise and Percy lets her borrow her cartridge of the G3 Pinkie Pie game and she does cosplays too!!Says 'everypony/anypony' unironically from ages 13-16 and Nico makes fun of her when they grow up to her embarrasment😭Flutterdash stan too,babygirl of culture

Lowkey a misandrist.Lowkey only because she dosen't show it explicitly that often but trust me she can't stand dudes lmaoooooo

Pink and purple-coded

The regulars at Familia Jackson Beach Shack adore her and coo and gush over her,especially the abuelas!!Same for Lex due to how young they look and their similar aesthetics and they confused Hazel for theirs and Percy's actual kid💀Once they saw Sally though the assumption switched since they look even MORE similar thanks to both being darkskin while Lex is lightskin and mixed(half mainland chinese)

Her lesbian awakening was Peni Parker,either by being a hardcore Spiderverse fangirl with a gay fixation on her or in my crossover fusions you already know of

Mixed media is her favorite art form both digitally and irl!!She employs glitter,fuzzy textures,parts of teen girl magazines,etc into it but also Final Girl references/images and squishy textures🩷

Loves dresses,skirts,tank tops/crop tops,etc of all kinds and her Camp Jupiter top post-Hoo is actually a pink version of the regular one she demanded be made for her upon seeing Nico's black Camp Half-Blood one

Runs a supernatural bussiness website she coded herself that earned her secret street stred amongst the punk/alt Manhattan scene and even extends to the rest of New York and as far to Greece itself as it grows.The other Outcast Godlings help run it ofc but only when she asks as she likes feeling it's her own thing

At the Special Ed School her and Nico attend,she's the IT Girl who's universally beloved for her self-love and encouragement of and direct help to her fellow students to do the same.She created the art club there too and Percy,Lex,Nico and Sally attend all her showcases,no exceptions!

A side effect of her ressurection was gaining catlike aspects,including but not limited to a purring vocal stim,her nose twitching to emote,her pupils sliting when she's extra powered up(and not catlike but she's got gold tears when that happens too)and a love for kids sea food

She's latina by adoption so her fam threw her a Quinceañera

Gaymer Gworl🫶��✨️Cat ear with lil princess crowns headphones thrifted for her by Lex and everything and yes,she eats fritos and energy drinks when gayming(She's so Margo Kess and Gwen Stacy-coded).She's got a couple of online friends thanks to multiplayers!!

Lex taught her to make her own makeup like they did Percy but when offered to do the same for makeup styles,Hazel said no so she could test her artistic ability by coming up with her own

Special interests in gems,ghosts,horses,art,pastel things,anarchy,cats and humor

Lex and Hazel=Thee Ultimate Earthy black girl/Goth black girl solidarity.Hazel made a b-line for Lex the second she saw them in Moa when the Argo || landed out of recognizing them from her older brother's yaps of his girlfriend Percy's talk of them throught Son and they chatted as she led them to a cat cafe at New Rome and became best friends.Lex takes on the role of Hazel's mom/older sister figure as much as Percy does and that includes teaching her black fem things and helping her grow into herself with an older black woman by her side to help as everything young black girl deserves to have.Lex makes goth-y candles/products for Hazel,cooks louisiana food for her and gives her advice on sapphicisms(Lex is bi and as it turns out Percy's egg cracker)and Hazel thinks Lex is the coolest girl of all time,introduces them to goth things at the same time Lex introduces her to solarpunk/black earthy things and learned how to cook chinese food all on her own to surprise them and they drink boba and have wash day together with Nico and Percy.Their duo name is 'Earthsouls'!!

REALLY into Penny Parker,as a transfem role model and her videos/jokes are such comforts on bad days

X-Ray Spex,Meet Me @ The Altar and Mitski fan and she listens to authentic Lo-Fi beats exclusively(read:by black artists),breakcore and nu metal songs on her pink skull headphones given to her by Sally and she writes the direct lyrics to ALL her repeat songs in her Justice diary

Oh before i forget,i'm a fat Hazel truther!!No real reason,we just deserve more fat black girls that aren't turned into jokes and are allowed to be beautiful princesses'🥰

Persephone considers her an equal in power and Aphrodite thinks she's the closest you can get to a daughter of hers without actually being one and not just in looks!!

Purple hair extensions at first but gets pink highlights in Hazel-Blood courtesy

Her favorite Disney Princess is Tiana and her favorite Pokegirl is Nessa(she reminds her of Percy!🩵💙)and her favorite Batman girl is Stephanie(she reminds her of Lex💚🩷)(also obligatory to leave my lil guy out:Her favorite Atla boy is Aang as she reminds him of Nico🖤🩶)

Picked up Rachel's habit of doodling on her clothes and she pretty much always has stickers on her

Stimmy lil gyal......Can't keep still even for a microsecond.She's like a pink shark 2 me

Donuts are a safe food but specifically the super sweet ones that're double stuffed

All of Percy and Lex's female friends adopt her too!!

[wormdramafever]

Goodbye Volcano High among Gayming Magazine's LGBTQ games of 2023!

[qudachuk]

As Pride month ends, the editor of Gayming magazine assesses the state of play for LGBTQ+ depictions in video gamesOne of the falsehoods perpetuated among the more toxic sections of the gaming community is that LGBTQ+ representation and community...

[magicrobins]

Do you like queer representation? Do you like Star Wars? Maybe you even like Star Wars: The Old Republic? Well I know I certainly do!

I wrote an article for Gayming Magazine on the state of LGBTQ+ representation in Star Wars: The Old Republic - the lacking past, the growing present, and the hopeful future.

My goal with the article was to take a realistic but hopeful approach to LGBTQ+ representation in SWTOR.

We can’t deny and shouldn’t ignore both past and present problems within the game however that doesn’t mean we cannot praise and take comfort in the steps the SWTOR team at BioWare have clearly taken to improving this game’s queer representation.

“In an industry where it can often be so hard to believe better representation is coming, to feel as if we matter to the games we love, SWTOR has given us exactly what a Star Wars game should: a new hope.”

[oracleandbone]

We discussed with Stacey Henley what “A Summer’s End” means to us for Gayming Magazine. We talk about representing the Asian LGBTQ experience and the undercurrent of political tension that existed then in Hong Kong in 1986 and now. 

A Summer's End: What It Means To Release A Queer Hong Kong Game In 2020 

[tief4tief]

Your understanding of Shadowhearts character is bad and you should feel bad. Again everything you say just proves the point of the original post. Also the fact that cishet men romance Shadowheart the most doesn't mean jack shit for what her character actually is, all you're doing is pointing out that they don't engage with her character seriously and then taking it as permission to do the same. Totally unfair to tar the queer people who resonate with and have been touched by her story. For God's sake she won LGBT character of the year from Gayming magazine!! If she's so boring to you why do you feel the need to talk about her so much?

A common issue in fandom spaces is female characters ignored in favor of their male counterparts, and one of the biggest reasons I see given is that the women just aren't as interesting as the men. They're placed in lesser roles with less story impact, less personality, less character development, so of course the men get more fan interest.

With that in mind, here's 9 sets of characters who DO have comparable characterization, plot relevance/presence, and personal development -- and how many tagged works each character has on Archive of Our Own. Spoilers: it's pretty bad.