Gretchen Leigh
@gretchenleigh.zone
middleaged multimedia queer | various video game history + preservation + archaeology projects | software engineer @archive.org | ⬅️🪽 | she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Gretchen Leigh
@gretchenleigh.zone
· Nov 12
Welcome new followers! I’m Gretchen, a Bay Area trans woman working as a software engineer at Internet Archive.
This account posts about:
👾 weird video games
📚 libraries, archives, and digital preservation
👩💻computers and programming
🏳️⚧️ trans rights
This account posts about:
👾 weird video games
📚 libraries, archives, and digital preservation
👩💻computers and programming
🏳️⚧️ trans rights
This is me for like the past three years
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is me for like the past three years
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Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8
Trans Images on Film
November 17 & 24 | 11 FilmsWith the recent publication of “Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema,” Turner Classic Movies sheds light on the various perspe...
www.tcm.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8
You take one look at this game, and you're like "wow, that's a shameless Metal Slug clone." Then you listen to 5 seconds of gameplay and realize it's also the most shameless use of the Wilhelm scream in the history of media
Nintendo DS Longplay [021] Commando: Steel Disaster (US)
YouTube video by World of Longplays
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November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
You take one look at this game, and you're like "wow, that's a shameless Metal Slug clone." Then you listen to 5 seconds of gameplay and realize it's also the most shameless use of the Wilhelm scream in the history of media
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Mods are asleep. Post cursed Diddys
Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy / Original soundtrack / Kawadeka Records / 1995
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Mods are asleep. Post cursed Diddys
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To keep things organized I made another account where I'm going to post some of the non-Zelda scans I make. Because I collect for Zelda I end up with a lot of rarer stuff from the 80's and I'm finding out that people have been looking for it: bsky.app/profile/its-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
To keep things organized I made another account where I'm going to post some of the non-Zelda scans I make. Because I collect for Zelda I end up with a lot of rarer stuff from the 80's and I'm finding out that people have been looking for it: bsky.app/profile/its-...
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Every time I come across something in my research that Becky intersected with it is a delight. One of the finest folks to have ever made their way through video games.
This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Every time I come across something in my research that Becky intersected with it is a delight. One of the finest folks to have ever made their way through video games.
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How's your sanday Pop'n? are you ready for munday... #ScanlineSunday
// Pop'n Twinbee | Pop'nツインビー // Super NES | Super Famicom
// Pop'n Twinbee | Pop'nツインビー // Super NES | Super Famicom
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
How's your sanday Pop'n? are you ready for munday... #ScanlineSunday
// Pop'n Twinbee | Pop'nツインビー // Super NES | Super Famicom
// Pop'n Twinbee | Pop'nツインビー // Super NES | Super Famicom
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With the collapse of AAA games on the horizon for is time for the Sorcerian-like to return. Give me four little guys to make stand in a tidy line and go on modular adventures to pulsing synth rock. Give me a thousand options for jobs they can take during down time. Don’t worry about if it’s “good”
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
With the collapse of AAA games on the horizon for is time for the Sorcerian-like to return. Give me four little guys to make stand in a tidy line and go on modular adventures to pulsing synth rock. Give me a thousand options for jobs they can take during down time. Don’t worry about if it’s “good”
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Fiji (Golf Shiyouyo Course Data Adventure-hen, DC, Softmax, 2000)
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Fiji (Golf Shiyouyo Course Data Adventure-hen, DC, Softmax, 2000)
Please give to Rebecca Heineman's GFM if you're able. She needs all the help she can get.
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
gofund.me
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Please give to Rebecca Heineman's GFM if you're able. She needs all the help she can get.
Every trans person needs to see this movie
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every trans person needs to see this movie
Observation from around a half hour of walking around downtown: Sure are some gorgeous transsexuals here in Seattle
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Observation from around a half hour of walking around downtown: Sure are some gorgeous transsexuals here in Seattle
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I have once again forgotten to promote a video when it goes live
Please forgive, it will happen again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBq...
Please forgive, it will happen again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBq...
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I have once again forgotten to promote a video when it goes live
Please forgive, it will happen again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBq...
Please forgive, it will happen again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBq...
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White liberal cishet men stop welcoming Nazis with open arms challenge
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
White liberal cishet men stop welcoming Nazis with open arms challenge
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Nice to come to Bluesky where rich cishet white guys can lecture us about how things aren't *really* that bad
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Nice to come to Bluesky where rich cishet white guys can lecture us about how things aren't *really* that bad
Keeping a "Dick Diary" that's just a countdown of how many days my dick has left
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Keeping a "Dick Diary" that's just a countdown of how many days my dick has left
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CITY CONNECTION
NIHON MICOM KAIHATSU 1985
FAMICOM
NIHON MICOM KAIHATSU 1985
FAMICOM
February 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
CITY CONNECTION
NIHON MICOM KAIHATSU 1985
FAMICOM
NIHON MICOM KAIHATSU 1985
FAMICOM
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A new addition to the list of Games with Perfect Cover Art
September 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
A new addition to the list of Games with Perfect Cover Art
Fretting too much over passport stuff, so time to take edible and play video game
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Fretting too much over passport stuff, so time to take edible and play video game
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Hey so I'm in Seattle for the next few months while I'm waiting for my Canadian visa to come through, so mutualsssssss let's try to hang!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Hey so I'm in Seattle for the next few months while I'm waiting for my Canadian visa to come through, so mutualsssssss let's try to hang!!
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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social needs to be transfered by helicopter to a medical center where they can better treat her cancer, which means her gofundme needs $20k more. please give to support this trans game dev elder if you can!
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social needs to be transfered by helicopter to a medical center where they can better treat her cancer, which means her gofundme needs $20k more. please give to support this trans game dev elder if you can!