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Gina & Christa | Fascinary Games
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Sisters making feminist, 🏳️‍🌈-centered, and accessible games and goods inspired by the natural world. Portland, OR. 🐌 Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists. Animal mating science meets party game fun. http://fascinarygames.com/mate
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5. Phalotris shawnella: Even the undead would swipe left.
Smith P, Brouard J-P, Cacciali P (2022) A new species of Phalotris (Serpentes, Colubridae, Elapomorphini) from Paraguay. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(1): 77-85.
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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4. Elusive microtegu: With that between its legs, no wonder it’s elusive.
Echevarría LY, Venegas PJ, García-Ayachi LA, Nunes PMS (2021) An elusive new species of gymnophthalmid lizard (Cercosaurinae, Selvasaura) from the Andes of northern Peru. Evolutionary Systematics 5(2): 177-187
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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3. Rhadinaea nuchalis: A chilling sight.
García-Vázquez UO, Pavón-Vázquez CJ, Blancas-Hernández JC, Blancas-Calva E, Centenero-Alcalá E (2018) A new rare species of the Rhadinaea decorata group from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico (Squamata, Colubridae). ZooKeys 780: 137-154.
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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2. Nosy Hara leaf chameleon: It’s the size of a matchstick and has a literal ghost for a dong.
Glaw F, Köhler J, Townsend TM, Vences M (2012) Rivaling the World's Smallest Reptiles: Discovery of Miniaturized and Microendemic New Species of Leaf Chameleons (Brookesia) from Northern Madagascar. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31314.
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Here are 5 spooky #reptile members that keep the WEEN in #Halloween 👻

1. Zamoran shadow snake: It even has a creepy name to match its creepy ween.
Torres-Carvajal O, Echevarría LY, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Camper JD (2015) Description and phylogeny of three new species of Synophis (Colubridae, Dipsadinae) from the tropical Andes in Ecuador and Peru. ZooKeys 546: 153-179.
October 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Some frog mating & habitat restoration info, inspired by the Portland frog protesters 🐸
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Yes, duck mating is wild. And it’s also a window into how power and adaptation work in the natural world, and why we need to look for the whole story. That's exactly why we made a party game about animal mating behavior and anatomy!

#indiegame #feminism #biology #animals
Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists rests in a bed of ferns. Its cover looks like an antique book and features two colorful mating damselflies. Text overlays the photo, saying 'Animal mating science meets party game fun.' A queer pride flag, neurodivergent infinity, and mature 17+ symbol appear in the lower corner.
September 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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In 2005, most of the folks talking about duck mating gear were scientists and breeders. Fast forward 20 years, and now everyone and their podcast knows about the corkscrew-shaped dongs of drakes and their aggressive mating techniques. Here's why...
A chart depicts the Google search trends for the terms 'Duck penises' and 'Duck vaginas.' Both lines are very low where the chart begins in 2007. While 'Duck penises' have a large spike near 2012 with sustained interest, 'Duck vaginas' remain nearly flatlined into the present.
September 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I'm in Portland, OR! The Xeres signs are popular including this older design. We also have a city-specific backyard habitat certification program so their signs are most common (though not pollinator specific).
A sign is hung in a bed of yellow flowers that reads, "Pollinator Habitat."
June 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Almost 5 years ago, we set out to make an accessible, feminist, queer-celebrating, pop science game about animal mating behaviors and anatomy. Our dream was to create something that could build community, spark curiosity, and be wildly entertaining.
How a hilarious party game is exposing biases, one animal mating fact at a time. A coral red box with a Victorian design and two mating damselflies is shown. On the cover it reads, "Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists."
May 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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On this world #turtle day, I am appreciating how charitable this #Florida softshell turtle's penis looks.

(Figure from Zug, 1966)
A Florida soft-shelled turtle in a bed of flowers peers out. Overlaid is an image showing a diagram of its member appears, showing its striking resemblance to two hands open holding a heart.
May 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Across studies on genital #evolution between 1989-2013, researchers found NEARLY HALF only looked at males, while LESS THAN 10% looked only at females. (Ah-King M, Barron AB, Herberstein ME., 2014).

#duck #blockprint by #pdx #artist Robin Corbo for our #queer #feminist #animal mating #partygame!
A colorfully shaded block print of a female duck with a corkscrew vagina, with the words 'we fight back.'
May 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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In 2020, we came upon an image of a whale threesome. Read the full story of how a random photo evolved into The Party Game for Feral Naturalists. 🐋 fascinarygames.com/the-origin-o...

#partygame #boardgame #tabletopgame #science #feminism #queer #naturelove
Many months and members later, the whale image still stuck with us—the size, the female agency, the thruple. As our fascination grew, we learned the blue whale penis has its own Wikipedia page, Iceland boasts a phallic museum, ducks hold the Guinness record for their corkscrew members, and barnacles are celebrated for penises that extend eight times their body length. It wasn’t hard to see how phallus-obsessed the discourse on animal mating is. Thanks to the work of female and queer scientists and authors, we spent 2022 exploring the vast range of female anatomy, male creatures without phalluses, and animals that defy ‘typical’ classifications.
May 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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1 week till our Kickstarter launch for Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists! 🐌🌈 Adventure into the world of #animal mating. - www.kickstarter.com/projects/fas...

#partygame #boardgame #tabletopgame #science #feminism #queer #nature #funny #learn #resist #community #womenowned #smallbusiness
A screenshot of the Kickstarter preview page for Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists is shown, with a pointer clicking on a button that reads, "Notify me on launch."
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Mating gear in the #animal queendom comes in all shapes and surprises! Can you guess who this one belongs to? 💉

#partygame #science
May 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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All #culture is #local. Here's a blog where we discuss a few early anthropologists' work to show that many "universal truths" are just human constructs shaped by time, place, and power.

Full post here: fascinarygames.com/all-culture-...

#anthropology
Hurston’s Tell My Horse was a mix of anthropology personal travel narrative that came out of her field work studying cultural rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.  One of the main aims of this work was to properly contextualize voodoo, which had first been written about by white authors who sensationalized and often denigrated the spiritual practice.  She showed that voodoo served a purpose within the communities she studied and was often a means of making sense of a difficult existence.  She did not judge what to her was initially an incomprehensible system of beliefs. “I did not find them any more invalid than any other religion. Rather, I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. It does satisfy millions, so it is true for its believers.” — Zora Neale Hurston
May 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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In honor of #MothersDay, we’re sharing a sneak peak of our game #art, featuring one of our favorite fem-animal icons: the #hyena matriarch.

As hunters, protectors, and leaders, they embody the multitudes contained by the moms and mom figures in our lives.
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Shoutout to our #locallibrary for access to so many #books by brilliant women and queer scientists and authors for researching Mate #partygame!

• Phallacy by Emily Willingham • Bitch by Lucy Cooke • Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross • Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden •

#booksky
A stack of 4 books lay on a table in an office, including Phallacy by Emily Willingham, Bitch by Lucy Cooke, Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross, Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
May 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Creating (and playing!) a #partygame that is hilarious, science-y, and liberatory all at the same time has truly been a joy. All are welcome to join the party: fascinarygames.com/mate-the-par...
A game box rests in a bed of ferns. The cover is coral colored with a Victorian book cover design. In the middle, there's a colorful block print of two mating dragonflies with the text, "Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists"
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hyenas have a large clitoris, sometimes mistaken for a penis. But make no mistake—it’s 8 inches of clit. Female #hyenas wield their big clit energy as dominant hunters, fierce protectors, and natural leaders.

#blockprint by #pdx #artist Robin Corbo for our #queer #feminist #animal #mating #game!
A colorfully shaded block print of a spotted hyena mom with a snarling face, protecting her small cub, with the words 'big clit energy.'
May 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We designed our queenfisher vulva fascinus to flip the script on this dusty obsession. This plucky bird reminds us that empires fall, phalluses aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, and a new era is rising.

#feminism #birds #necklace #handmade #smallbusiness #jewelry #art #castingjewelry
A silver pendant necklace hangs gracefully from the branches of a fir tree, its intricate design featuring a bird in flight, with a vulva breast, reimagining the ancient fascinus.
May 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Darwin was a #bro. Here we explore the evolution from the Roman Empire to Darwin-era naturalism to today's #Christofascism. Full post: fascinarygames.com/darwin-bro/

#darwin #patriarchy #feminism #histsci #biology #fascinus #ancientroman
You could say the Romans perfected a society utterly dominated by men. The people who gave us patriarchy also thrust the phallus into our cultural history as a symbol of power and protection. It comes up a lot in their art. It’s hard to miss it. Not surprising given how engorged they were over bro dude domination. The Catholic Church happily carried on these ideas after the fall of the Roman Empire. Patriarchal society did not change much in Europe from the fall of Rome in 476 down to 1831 when Darwin set sail on the Beagle to study South American’s biological diversity. It may have been watered down a bit, but not by much. Women held no substantive legal rights in Europe at this time. It was in this patriarchal stew that scientists began to formulate our early understanding of the biological development of the world’s species.
April 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Smash the pea-triarchy with us. 🦚 Mate: The Party Game for Feral Naturalists is coming to Kickstarter soon.

Learn more & sign up for launch alert at fascinarygames.com/mate!

#peafowl #peacock #feminism #birds #patriarchy #partygame #science #nature #wildlife
April 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Bonobos are the ultimate girls gone revelrous icons, often engaging together in genito-genital rubbing. This joyful act fosters connections, reduces stress, and makes life pleasurable.

#game #art sneak peak! #blockprint by #pdx #artist Robin Corbo for our #queer #feminist #animal #mating #partygame
A linocut illustration of two very happy female bonobos sitting down in a hug position, their bodies facing each other as they smile. One bonobo is shaded in greenish blues, and the other in coral-oranges.
April 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Adventure into the world of #animal mating! For 4-8 feral naturalists, aged 17+. Learn more: fascinarygames.com/mate.

#partygame #boardgame #tabletopgame #science #feminism #queer #histsci #darwin #sciart #nature #funny #learn #resist #community #womenowned #smallbusiness
April 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM