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Year of the Femme: Katrina Elisse Caudle

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[Image description: Katrina Elisse Caudle, a mixed race femme with afro hair wearing a red and gold scarf, a white sweater falling off her shoulder and glasses, looks off to her right as she hold a jacket in her arms and plays with her fingers]  Last weekend, I stepped onto a stage to perform with my choir. I took adeep breath, filled my lungs with air, and realized as I was about to sing my first note that I was absolutely head over heels in love with forty femmes. I didn’t always identify as a femme. I came from the land of androgynous prairie dykes with bikes - which was its own kind of fun but had very little for me in the way of seeing myself reflected in the queer community. It was also ripe with biphobia and whorephobia. As a sex worker and a person identifying as bisexual, those phobias made my community a space fraught with anxiety and subtle daily rejection that fray the nerves of my being. The afternoon I started identifying as femme, I was driving with my masculine of center then-girlfriend who shared some of the queer history around femmes and sex work. I felt something in me crack just a little. Here was a piece that spoke to me, an element of queer life and history that I could see myself in beyond who I was attracted to. I felt a strong, spontaneous kinship to these unknown femmes. Seven months later when I moved to the West Coast, I was at my lowest point. I was experiencing the second wave of what would become a chronic health problem and I was running from some serious mistakes, trying to find space to heal and somehow make sense of the mess of my life. I didn’t know if I was going to survive. On a whim, I joined a new choir that was starting up. It was described as being a choir specifically for femmes of all genders. With no friends and no real anchor, it was the first tether of a few that would do the important work of keeping me alive. Every Thursday, with the exception of the weeks when I was not well enough to leave my apartment, I have invested in the slow, beautiful work of building a femme community.

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[Image description: The image is taken from the QofG YouCaring crowdfunding page entitled: “Help QofG Continue to Tell the Stories of 2Spirit & QTPOC”. On the left, the “QofG” symbol - A “Q” and a “G” interlinked together with purple line in the descender of the “Q”. The…

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A rentpunk game jam submission by Jacqueline Bryk.

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Fates Worse Than Death: Rentpunk

Brian St. Claire-King submitted this game to the rentpunk game jam. He mentioned: "Fates Worse Than Death: Rentpunk uses Fate Accelerated Edition rules to tell stories about roomies trying to make the rent in the urban cyberpunk setting of Fates Worse Than Death.”

If you’d like to check out this adaptation of a past project, you’ll need both The Game and The Character Sheet.

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by Nicole Winchester & Gary Winchester

They have names like Flemingdon Park, St. James Town, Crescent Town, Regent Park. Overcrowded and in disrepair, they’re ancient buildings, over 50 years old in some neighborhoods. The people who live in them are single parent families, immigrants, the...

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The Low Life Lot by Bryce Duzan

Hello! Bryce here. I made a tabletop RPG called “The Low Life Lot.” It’s a bit long (8 pages), so here’s the Google Doc link: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14DACS4i0QfDNnhPu4VA9uqQX8zUkN5T6eUiKM9-CbaQ/edit?usp=sharing

If you want to chat about it, hit me up on Twitter @Spincut. Thanks!

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It never gets easier. Each month more unbearable than the last. Last couple of hours you’ve been trying to make a room of suits, people supposedly paying for your expertise, actually listen to you. You don’t have a lot in the fridge — some dried...

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This is a slight exaggeration of how my living situation has been over the past few years, and deals with the strange feeling I’ve had of doing small tasks around a house as compensation for room and board while lacking an income for surviving outside the home, while wondering about what I’ve left behind. It’s a short and simple Twine game with no real challenge, just a small personal world to explore.

Thank you to Avery and Katrina for hosting Rentpunk! I look forward to seeing the next exciting projects you work on.

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Why live your life, when you can play it?

Introducing the Monotonous Lifestyle Simulator, a twine game by Hilary McNaughton.

It’s sad and funny, just like your life!

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A twine game about being in love with insomnia, tea, and also fairies. I recommend playing the whole thing over once or twice (or even thrice), and picking different options every time. Each playthrough should feel just a little different from another, because each playthrough is a coherent story, but through the magic of cyborg witches you can actually relieve the same night over and over, reliving the story in slightly different ways. There are three objects to chose, and each one will tell a different story about the Longest Night of the Year. And also now that it’s 3 am and I’m all hyper from non-stop Twining, I’m also thinking I may turn this twine into a prologue of a larger love story. But I won’t tell you anything more here!! Spoilers!! 

Massively grateful shoutout to Demiel Pepin for letting me use her beautiful song “Goddamn Thing” as the soundtrack to Longest Night of the Year. 

Thank you so much Katrina and Avery for giving me the amazing concept of #rentpunk to think about. 

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Library Friends

A Game About Anger

by Adam McConnaughey

part of the Rentpunk Game Jam

this game is dedicated to Emilie and Sara for very different reasons

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Library Friends: A Game About Anger

This is a roleplaying game for 4-6 people.

To play, you need a clock timer,...

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Here you are. I could tell you a story about how I’m sure I got

"rentpunk" wrong, but please, have the game instead! Love, _______ · Rafu · _______

Not in the Mood

An analog game by Rafu

Intro

This is a think-aloud game for one or more players. I’d play it in meatspace with a few...

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Intro. This is a get-to-know-you game that talks about class, expectations, and punk. Abstract: You try to be the person with the most Punk Points at the end of the month, and still pay rent.

You need: recycled paper {paperbags work best} —— cut into quartersheet size wrecked-tangles. pens...

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One Thousand by Eric Duncan

It’s June 1st. The tax return was gone in February, thank you rapid refund! Your unemployment was used up in March. Your internet was cut off in April, you downgraded to a dumb phone in May. You have been paying most, OK some, of the rent but the letter on the door...

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Hello,

I thought the idea behind this gamejam sounded really cool so I created my first Twine game.

It’s called “This Land of Liberty.” I don’t think it’s a particularly accurate or relevant title given how the project turned out (I’m open to title suggestions!), but there it is.

The player...

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We have our first rentpunk submission up! "The House Destruction Party" LOL

The House Destruction Party

A little rentpunk story game about letting go by tearing stuff the fuck down.

by Pete Woodworth

What You Need to Play

More than two players. This ain’t date night.

A nice fat stack of index cards, post-it notes, or scrap paper.

Sharpies. Pens work too, I...