Willa Bloomfield-Rowe
@thewillarowe.bsky.social
Trans. Tall. Tired | Writer w/ bylines @ Endless Mode, Digital Trends, Kotaku, and more | Host @ Girl Mode | she/her | email: willa.d.rowe@gmail.com
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Come November I’ll have been unemployed for a year and now another freelance gig has dried up. Just a reminder that I am open to all freelance work (especially reviews) as well as mock review/consulting work. Also open to any other job opportunities outside of journalism. Contact info is in my bio
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Just finished replaying Life is Strange and something I really love is that the final choice is framed as "sacrifice" something rather than "save" something. Neat little bit of incredible word choice really surving the emotional weight of the finale, no matter what decision you as the player go with
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just finished replaying Life is Strange and something I really love is that the final choice is framed as "sacrifice" something rather than "save" something. Neat little bit of incredible word choice really surving the emotional weight of the finale, no matter what decision you as the player go with
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Ashley is out here running circles around the rest of us.
the new metroid prime is like alice in wonderland, i think 🐰 i spent my time with it in a fantasy forest, but not alone…
www.gamesradar.com/games/metroi...
www.gamesradar.com/games/metroi...
After 18 years, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a surprisingly magical return to Nintendo’s legendary series, and I’m all in on psychic abilities and the power of friendship
Hands-on | My 80 minutes blasting away on the Nintendo Switch 2 left me feeling one thing: good for her
www.gamesradar.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Ashley is out here running circles around the rest of us.
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Felt compelled to write about what malice, block towers, and the parakeets mean ahead of its rerelease. Had to make it into a blog. Hope people still read it.
Reading The Boy and The Heron: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/reading-the-...
Reading The Boy and The Heron: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/reading-the-...
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Felt compelled to write about what malice, block towers, and the parakeets mean ahead of its rerelease. Had to make it into a blog. Hope people still read it.
Reading The Boy and The Heron: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/reading-the-...
Reading The Boy and The Heron: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/reading-the-...
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what outlet can buy anime criticism on a quick turnaround for a certain theatrical rerelease in a few days
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
what outlet can buy anime criticism on a quick turnaround for a certain theatrical rerelease in a few days
Logically someone will always be (objectively) the biggest hater of a game. For Dispatch I genuinely think that “someone” is me
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Logically someone will always be (objectively) the biggest hater of a game. For Dispatch I genuinely think that “someone” is me
“If you think of that, like the Venn Diagram of Veep, The Bear, and Ted Lasso, we’re trying to be somewhere inside.”
Cursed Venn Diagram
(great interview from Hayes)
Cursed Venn Diagram
(great interview from Hayes)
Here’s my massive interview with Dispatch’s writer Pierre Shorrete - touching on superhero fatigue, the nature of choice in narrative games, how it started as live action, how it became a “far greater” succes than expected, and what’s next www.inverse.com/gaming/dispa...
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“If you think of that, like the Venn Diagram of Veep, The Bear, and Ted Lasso, we’re trying to be somewhere inside.”
Cursed Venn Diagram
(great interview from Hayes)
Cursed Venn Diagram
(great interview from Hayes)
If you want to read through me losing my mind over Dispatch, this thread is now complete
I'm playing Dispatch and I'm gonna make it everyone's problem
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you want to read through me losing my mind over Dispatch, this thread is now complete
Oh Morishita Masumi, you are too good to be trapped in a comic I vehemently dislike
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Oh Morishita Masumi, you are too good to be trapped in a comic I vehemently dislike
The danger in sitting in a coffee shop with unlimited refills is that I drink like 4 cups within the hour
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The danger in sitting in a coffee shop with unlimited refills is that I drink like 4 cups within the hour
Edelgard von Hresvelg
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Edelgard von Hresvelg
I got a few compliments on my name the past few days and boy does that rank up there as one of the best compliments to recieve
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I got a few compliments on my name the past few days and boy does that rank up there as one of the best compliments to recieve
Pentiment will be knocked out Round 1 which is criminal considering it should win this whole thing 😢
Vote for the greatest game of a very weird console generation www.polygon.com/best-game-ps...
Let's name the greatest game of the console generation: round 1
Vote now to determine which PS5 or Xbox Series X game deserves to be crowned the best of the generation
www.polygon.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Pentiment will be knocked out Round 1 which is criminal considering it should win this whole thing 😢
My kingdom for a good Carmilla movie
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My kingdom for a good Carmilla movie
Well that movie sure is “baby’s first Frankenstein”
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Well that movie sure is “baby’s first Frankenstein”
Guillermo Del Toro should adapt Marguerite Bennet’s InSEXts
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Guillermo Del Toro should adapt Marguerite Bennet’s InSEXts
Fit in question (I gotta be real I don’t think it’s like THAT good)
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Fit in question (I gotta be real I don’t think it’s like THAT good)
The fashion influencers at this party like my fit, am I cool now?
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The fashion influencers at this party like my fit, am I cool now?
Enjoyed the movie. But why are old movie goers always the worst? Couple next to us was on their phones the whole movie before leaving 20 minutes before the end. They left their umbrella though so I stole it. Street justice!
Seated for Blue Moon and I could not be more hyped lol
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Enjoyed the movie. But why are old movie goers always the worst? Couple next to us was on their phones the whole movie before leaving 20 minutes before the end. They left their umbrella though so I stole it. Street justice!
Seated for Blue Moon and I could not be more hyped lol
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Seated for Blue Moon and I could not be more hyped lol
Only took three days to get them to let me write about FF11
shout outs to @thewillarowe.bsky.social for killing it this week helping out the GR+ news desk for a couple of shifts
For the first time in over a decade, Square Enix is teasing a brand-new zone for its OG MMO Final Fantasy 11
Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 11
www.gamesradar.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Only took three days to get them to let me write about FF11
Geoff you know what to do for the TGAs this year
put us up there like statler and waldorf
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Geoff you know what to do for the TGAs this year
ok THIS would fix me
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
ok THIS would fix me
Ah memories <3 Feels like it was only yesterday lol
Hey! I was just laid off from Kotaku. Don't know what is next for me.
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ah memories <3 Feels like it was only yesterday lol