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Catherine: Full Body’s Successes Make Its Reductive Gender Tropes Sting So Much More
“It’s aged nicely, with a sensual flavour, not unlike a fine wine,” purrs Trisha in Atlus’ Catherine: Full Body while sipping a glass of red, describing the “program” on the analogue TV on the bar next to her.
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Banned From The Chinese Internet, LGBT Fanfiction Writers Find New Home On U.S. Website
In China, writing fanfiction can be dangerous. In the country, creating fanworks can sometimes come with significant legal consequences, especially if what you’re writing is homoerotic. That’s why Chinese users are flocking to Archive Of Our Own, a fanfic site that allows broad free expression to fans who want to write fanworks, including LGBT fans.
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The New Queer Tropes In Video Games Series Is Tired, But Sadly, Still Relevant
For the sake of making their games more realistic, video game developers have done extensive research on all sorts of random or mundane things: parasitic fungi, game theory, gun sounds, paleobotany, and breast physics are just a few. Some of these subjects no doubt required expert commentary, academic research, and a genuine dedication of time…
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Iceman’s Finally Tapping Into Its Potential To Tell A New Kind Of Queer Coming-Of-Age Story
For all the fuss that was made about Marvel’s Iceman series featuring the newly out Icemen (two Bobby Drakes), the book’s been a rather dull rehash of the kind of narrative beats you’d expect from so-so queer YA fiction. This week, though, the series finally did something dynamic with its characters that it should have…