keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸
@copperkeerthi.bsky.social
they | phd @ leiden | hacker-bard |
forever gm, habitual gamer, biweekly artiste
forever gm, habitual gamer, biweekly artiste
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hello! keerthi here 🌻
- phd candidate at leiden university working on untangling pastness in videogames in/and player experience
- freelance opinion writer on ttrpgs that can/will/have saved the world
- chronic yapper, baker, break-out-into-song-er
- when all the rest is done i also make music.
- phd candidate at leiden university working on untangling pastness in videogames in/and player experience
- freelance opinion writer on ttrpgs that can/will/have saved the world
- chronic yapper, baker, break-out-into-song-er
- when all the rest is done i also make music.
day one of our authenticity ouroboros workshop with no context @playfultimemach.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 9:06 PM
day one of our authenticity ouroboros workshop with no context @playfultimemach.bsky.social
it is so rewarding to do research that lets me have insightful conversations with players all over the world, but it is also so demoralizing to have people sign up to take part in a focus group, indicate their preferred timeslot, accept that timeslot, and then ghost on the day
January 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
it is so rewarding to do research that lets me have insightful conversations with players all over the world, but it is also so demoralizing to have people sign up to take part in a focus group, indicate their preferred timeslot, accept that timeslot, and then ghost on the day
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I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
kind of charmed by my weather app calling the part-sludge, part-hail, part-snow situation a "wintry mix". like a spice blend that breaks your tailbone
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
kind of charmed by my weather app calling the part-sludge, part-hail, part-snow situation a "wintry mix". like a spice blend that breaks your tailbone
gang, this will be my first and last stream of the spring semester, so if you're overdue for your dose of vitamin yap, come get it while it lasts!
we're talking lore, worlds, and what makes a good yarn this thursday over at twitch.tv/streamingthepast 🧶📚🔮
we're talking lore, worlds, and what makes a good yarn this thursday over at twitch.tv/streamingthepast 🧶📚🔮
We're back this Thursday at 15:00 with a new question: What makes game lore great to you?
Share your favourite lore, talk all about histories, backstories and characters, or discuss this week's reading.
Of course, we'll also play a fitting game to the theme: Elden Ring! www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
Share your favourite lore, talk all about histories, backstories and characters, or discuss this week's reading.
Of course, we'll also play a fitting game to the theme: Elden Ring! www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
January 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
gang, this will be my first and last stream of the spring semester, so if you're overdue for your dose of vitamin yap, come get it while it lasts!
we're talking lore, worlds, and what makes a good yarn this thursday over at twitch.tv/streamingthepast 🧶📚🔮
we're talking lore, worlds, and what makes a good yarn this thursday over at twitch.tv/streamingthepast 🧶📚🔮
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it's me. the surprise character in Avengers Doomsday is John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. I murder half the Avengers with my sick rhymes but you have to see the movie to find out which ones
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
The release of director James Cameron ’s sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash has brought the release of the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday . The first trailer was...
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December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
it's me. the surprise character in Avengers Doomsday is John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. I murder half the Avengers with my sick rhymes but you have to see the movie to find out which ones
spending christmas eve writing a call of cthulhu session to be played at midnight on new year's. i cannot beat the luckiest guy alive allegations
December 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
spending christmas eve writing a call of cthulhu session to be played at midnight on new year's. i cannot beat the luckiest guy alive allegations
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Abstract below:
![ABSTRACT
This paper considers Twitch’s 2021 “Hot Tub Meta” as a case study on how gendered public performances are regulated within game-centric platform cultures. Drawing on Zoe Sofia’s [Sofia, Z. (2000). Container Ttchnologies. Hypatia, 15(2), 181-201. https://doi.org/10.1353/hyp.2000.0029] concept of “container technologies,” I argue that Twitch’s institutional response to the Hot Tub Meta reveals how gendered place-making and embodiment are managed through a containment strategy that disciplines emerging non-digital gaming leisure genres in relation to the platform’s core gaming activities. I contribute to ongoing debates in Twitch Studies by examining how platform governance operates through discursive and infrastructural mechanisms to regulate bodies, spaces, and behaviors. Methodologically, I conduct a cultural text analysis of Twitch’s Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, Transparency Reports, and official blog posts, treating these documents as cultural texts that define the limits of propriety, play, and platform legibility. Supplemented by popular media coverage, this analysis situates the controversy around bath- and bedroom-based streaming within Twitch’s broader moderation framework. I conclude by examining how alternative approaches to platformed play, understood as a site of governance, can reshape debates about legitimacy. Such approaches move beyond the normative boundaries that currently determine which forms of play and cultural production are sanctioned within livestreaming cultures.
KEYWORDS:
Twitch, livestreaming, game studies, platforms, governance](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vthxrtkws6i4m5euwzz3wnyw/bafkreigugk6jfireyyzgqqkwhyileh5oimgh2vtkplrrytzqgmq5epdfkq@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Abstract below:
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Sorry there is no more room in the bandwagon
1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sorry there is no more room in the bandwagon
come hang out with us tomorrow! we'll be discussing digital drip and (inevitably) talking shit about dress to impress 🕺
Tune in this Thursday to talk all about style, garments, and fashion as we ask the question; What's the game with the sickest fashion? We'll go live at 15:00, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
come hang out with us tomorrow! we'll be discussing digital drip and (inevitably) talking shit about dress to impress 🕺
we're still looking for respondents on this survey! are you a player of historical videogames with 10 minutes of free time on your hands?
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
we're still looking for respondents on this survey! are you a player of historical videogames with 10 minutes of free time on your hands?
switcheroo alert‼️question and reading* are staying the same this afternoon, but we're playing Tavern Keeper by @greenheartgames.bsky.social 💚
*Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social
*Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social
Tune in this Thursday as we ask: what's your favorite crafting mechanic in a game? We'll discuss gendered labor, optimizing creations and, of course, running our own small business. At 15:00, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
switcheroo alert‼️question and reading* are staying the same this afternoon, but we're playing Tavern Keeper by @greenheartgames.bsky.social 💚
*Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social
*Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social
such an honor and a joy to be included in this volume, talking (inter)disciplinarity in historical game studies and the importance of putting "current" methods in context. ain't no party like a @times-new-roman.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social cowriting party ‼️
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
such an honor and a joy to be included in this volume, talking (inter)disciplinarity in historical game studies and the importance of putting "current" methods in context. ain't no party like a @times-new-roman.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social cowriting party ‼️
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
it's my birthday (for 6 more minutes) so here is the cake i made and ate with loved ones after a screening of chicago (2002). all of this is a brag im the luckiest guy alive!
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
it's my birthday (for 6 more minutes) so here is the cake i made and ate with loved ones after a screening of chicago (2002). all of this is a brag im the luckiest guy alive!
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This is FATAL for the true sickos.
Brandon O’Brien | National Pray For A Bredren Month (extended)
@therisingtithes.bsky.social
· Oct 14
a ttrpg but it’s all tables. The cover is a table you roll on to determine which art is on the cover. There’s a table to determine who was its lead designer. there’s a table for who becomes the GM and instead of rolling dice it’s decided by how many snacks are present
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This is FATAL for the true sickos.
yapping like it's my job (it is my job)
October 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
yapping like it's my job (it is my job)
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every video game is just a different type of gay bar
This the kinda shit people say to me in the smoking zone outside the gay bar
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
every video game is just a different type of gay bar
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Last session is under way! We begin with @copperkeerthi.bsky.social discussing Hamlet in the Hypertext!
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Last session is under way! We begin with @copperkeerthi.bsky.social discussing Hamlet in the Hypertext!
getting weird @ #TIPC4 this afternoon, and we're streaming all of today's wonderful programming over on twitch.tv/streamingthepast! come hang out at the event of the season 🎭🎮💀
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
getting weird @ #TIPC4 this afternoon, and we're streaming all of today's wonderful programming over on twitch.tv/streamingthepast! come hang out at the event of the season 🎭🎮💀
it's been such a delightful month for my e-reader. i love when words
september reads 🍂
📖the empress of salt & fortune, nghi vo*
📖mongrels, stephen graham jones**
📖the restaurant of lost recipes, hisashi kashiwai
📖butter, asako yuzuki*
📖the kamogawa food detectives, hisashi kashiwai
📖when the tiger came down the mountain, nghi vo*
📖the vanished birds, simon jimenez**
📖the empress of salt & fortune, nghi vo*
📖mongrels, stephen graham jones**
📖the restaurant of lost recipes, hisashi kashiwai
📖butter, asako yuzuki*
📖the kamogawa food detectives, hisashi kashiwai
📖when the tiger came down the mountain, nghi vo*
📖the vanished birds, simon jimenez**
October 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
it's been such a delightful month for my e-reader. i love when words
this thursday i will attempt to hold off my deeply unprofessional tirade on crowdfunding in indie game dev for a generous 15 minutes. stream is 2 hours though so you will absolutely get to hear it
And we're back! Our first stream of the new academic year addresses the question: What game's release have you looked forward to the most? We'll also play the game Sword of the Sea. Come and join us on Thursday (yep new day!) 15:00 onward, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
September 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
this thursday i will attempt to hold off my deeply unprofessional tirade on crowdfunding in indie game dev for a generous 15 minutes. stream is 2 hours though so you will absolutely get to hear it
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I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...
www.historyrespawned.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
Reposted by keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸
Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years!
It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.
#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog
www.youtube.com/@analoggames...
It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.
#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog
www.youtube.com/@analoggames...
Analog Game Studies
The official journal of Analog Game Studies. Scholarly content about tabletop, live-action, performance, and generally awesome games. Read more at our website analogamestudies.org.
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years!
It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.
#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog
www.youtube.com/@analoggames...
It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.
#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog
www.youtube.com/@analoggames...
talking actual play, sex, and comedy futures at #GenerationAnalog2025 next week!
#GenerationAnalog2025 "PUNK" is a little over two weeks way! Thursday, July 17, 2025! Don't forget to register for this free online conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameinLab #analoggamestudies #gamestudies
July 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
talking actual play, sex, and comedy futures at #GenerationAnalog2025 next week!