Emma
@selfemmalation.bsky.social
fallen creature spurned by god but being so brave and gracious about it actually
Dead heat tie between Armored Core and Slay the Princess. Always a Zelda girly but I was not ready for how those first two would rewire my brain chemistry.
Quote this with your favourite game from 2023 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/early access/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations/early access/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Dead heat tie between Armored Core and Slay the Princess. Always a Zelda girly but I was not ready for how those first two would rewire my brain chemistry.
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And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
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! Trans creators and activists are being targeted by the FBI. One, Tara, was told she was “propagating radical gender ideology” and “domestic terrorism.”
Rose’s analysis: the feds are targeting politically engaged trans people to find something “illegal” to “make an example out of us.”
Rose’s analysis: the feds are targeting politically engaged trans people to find something “illegal” to “make an example out of us.”
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
! Trans creators and activists are being targeted by the FBI. One, Tara, was told she was “propagating radical gender ideology” and “domestic terrorism.”
Rose’s analysis: the feds are targeting politically engaged trans people to find something “illegal” to “make an example out of us.”
Rose’s analysis: the feds are targeting politically engaged trans people to find something “illegal” to “make an example out of us.”
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Twin Peaks — twice!
January 6, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Twin Peaks — twice!
It's so good how everything people think they know about Moby Dick from culture is like 60 pages of the novel and the rest is about shit like cuddling in a bed with your harpooner boyfriend, squeezing sperm with the fellas, watching 5-6 of your crewmates all stand on the deck making soliloquies
people think moby dick is a stern adventure novel heavy on the plot. i can't emphasize how much it's not. it's supergay chaos with 3 plot points. there's an entire chapter that's just a chowder recipe. sometimes it turns into a play. the main character is covered in whale dinension tattoos.
finally reading moby dick. why didn't anyone tell me that it's good
January 6, 2026 at 5:07 AM
It's so good how everything people think they know about Moby Dick from culture is like 60 pages of the novel and the rest is about shit like cuddling in a bed with your harpooner boyfriend, squeezing sperm with the fellas, watching 5-6 of your crewmates all stand on the deck making soliloquies
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I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
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Protip: for any cis people who don’t already know, the phrase “this person” is an extremely obvious way transhobes often degender and/or misgender trans people.
you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.
you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.
July 16, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Protip: for any cis people who don’t already know, the phrase “this person” is an extremely obvious way transhobes often degender and/or misgender trans people.
you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.
you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.
Gotta be real a queer read of char adds so much to UC. Repressing identity and chronic avoidance of the things that terrify you will eventually fuck up your life -- including your ambitions for spacenoid independence AND your chances with the autistic boy you've obsessed over for more than a decade
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Gotta be real a queer read of char adds so much to UC. Repressing identity and chronic avoidance of the things that terrify you will eventually fuck up your life -- including your ambitions for spacenoid independence AND your chances with the autistic boy you've obsessed over for more than a decade
Thinking about this again and how it applies to *every* transition milestone I've ever hit. I've done more things I'm terrified of in the last couple years than the rest of my life put together and even with ceaseless existential world dread I'm still the happiest I've ever been for it
transition has been an exercise in learning that the more scared i am of doing something the more important it usually is for me to do it
January 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Thinking about this again and how it applies to *every* transition milestone I've ever hit. I've done more things I'm terrified of in the last couple years than the rest of my life put together and even with ceaseless existential world dread I'm still the happiest I've ever been for it
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let’s also not forget that a trans woman with a popular account on here just deactivated after posting pics of herself in her new years finery and having some fucking creep use grok to remove her clothes and send the images back to her. this is straight up evil technology.
Grok is not a source! Grok is not sentient! Grok is a machine woven into the fabric of a social network that made CSAM on-demand!
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
January 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
let’s also not forget that a trans woman with a popular account on here just deactivated after posting pics of herself in her new years finery and having some fucking creep use grok to remove her clothes and send the images back to her. this is straight up evil technology.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
Found a compression headwrap i look cuntier in guess 2026 is okay so far
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Found a compression headwrap i look cuntier in guess 2026 is okay so far
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It’s that time again.
![Two panels from Twin peaks: the return
Top panel: What year is it?
Bottom panel: [screaming]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3jfzwj56qsjgwkjmtf7scagx/bafkreibvrdck6fgxpjey5brda43bxb6w7trpj43oipoxrjikcl6atjs6qa@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
It’s that time again.
One week post ffs and feel a bit more myself. I've had incredible support and this has brought me and my mom even closer together. She's gotten much more reflexive about emphasizing I'm her daughter and I've been crying every day seeing how excited she is for me. I was too cynical to ever expect it.
December 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One week post ffs and feel a bit more myself. I've had incredible support and this has brought me and my mom even closer together. She's gotten much more reflexive about emphasizing I'm her daughter and I've been crying every day seeing how excited she is for me. I was too cynical to ever expect it.
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Trans folks, I would be absolutely *thrilled* if you would tell me something great that happened to you this year.
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Trans folks, I would be absolutely *thrilled* if you would tell me something great that happened to you this year.
Okay ffs recovery got hands jeeze
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Okay ffs recovery got hands jeeze
Last night before surgery. A daunting thing I'm privileged to do - that might not even be available anymore to people like me next year. Something I still couldn't have had without help. I only made it this far because so many people love me. So I will try to be brave and hopeful instead of scared
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Last night before surgery. A daunting thing I'm privileged to do - that might not even be available anymore to people like me next year. Something I still couldn't have had without help. I only made it this far because so many people love me. So I will try to be brave and hopeful instead of scared
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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survival horror is supposed to be a genre of games not a way of life
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
survival horror is supposed to be a genre of games not a way of life
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[P] There isn't a circle of hell deep enough for these weird obsessive ghouls who seem to actively want to kill children. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
[P] There isn't a circle of hell deep enough for these weird obsessive ghouls who seem to actively want to kill children. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.