Interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of Mastodon https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/
Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors
"Usted no estš dando la batalla, esta yendo a morir y se estš dejando la salud mental por el camino".
No enlazo cosas de la red social del creador de twitter, pero este hilo con cortes de un directo de Facu Díaz es muy bueno aunque no diga que no sepamos o por lo que no hayamos pasado quienes poblamos el fediverso https:…
Today was peak cyberpunk - the good one: with raves, a whole lotta punk, and cyber, with a myriad of colorful creatures dancing in the lights, lasers and fog against technocracy, fascism and all the dystopia that is there rest of the year around us. But tonight we all were the future from long ago, tonight we were #39c3
Super Bowl 2026 Odds: Chiefs, Ravens, Lions Crater After Thanksgiving Ls https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/super-bowl-lx-2026-odds
Em um toot mais cedo o corretor trocou um "mas" por um "mais" e eu só vi agora. Vergonha me define neste exato momento rs.
Super Bowl 2026 Odds: Chiefs, Ravens, Lions Crater After Thanksgiving Ls https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/super-bowl-lx-2026-odds
Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/texas-abortion-pill-prescriber-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p112#a260127p112
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
MAJA: What?
GLYND: [In his office. He speaks into phone] Link me with Dr. Havant, Central Clinic.
HAVANT: [V.O. over comm] Doctor Havant.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/356 B7B2