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🏳️‍⚧️ "Critical Kate” Willært
@katewillaert.bsky.social
(WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
Okay, but when are the cowards going to drop this crop top?
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
To raise awareness that today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which closes out Transgender Awareness Week, I present to you a thought:

If Birdo doesn't lay eggs and is canonically trans, and Yoshi does lay eggs, have we considered that Yoshi is also trans?
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
And this was the final image in the series:
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
And more...

Starting in April it seemed like flipped between painted and line drawing every other month.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Kazuyuki Takimoto was comfortable working in a variety of styles. The only reason I know these are all him is that several of them credit him explicitly. Others, signed "TERRA," match his various styles, so I believe are also him (I think you'd been wondering about this @vgdensetsu.bsky.social?)
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
They continued the campaign for one year. Sometimes the ads were surreal, sometimes whimsical, always eye-catching. And rarely had anything to do with any of the games they were publishing.
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In the Feb 1985 issues of LOGiN, game publisher Bothtec tried something unusual. Instead of a typical ad that looked like a spread from a catalog, they just printed an uncolored illustration (by in-house artist Kauyuki Takimoto), a list of their current and upcoming games, and their contact info.
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
What I love about this ad is that it's like a gender-flipped equivalent to the classic Maxell ad.
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What people think making a video essay is like:
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Business Tour (1984) - Bothtec
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The rollercoaster ride this block of text just took me on.
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Adding this to my Video Dames list.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I may have made a tiny change to my hair in the last week.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The funniest detail in this cover:
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Nintendo VS System was two styles of arcade cabinets that each had two screens. Now that we know they internally pronounced it "V-S" rather than "versus," I wonder if Nintendo DS was a callback...?
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Who’s going to be the first to create a Starter Pack of quality rude people?
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sighs for hopefully obvious, admittedly complicated reasons.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Simpsons have apparently broken all of Epic's servers.

Homer: "BAAAART!"
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Billie Eilish calls out billionaires, and Colbert announces what she’s just donated:
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I don’t mean to turn this into a Dick measuring contest, but
October 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Amazed someone took the time to do this.
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Why is Bluesky like this?
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM