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Tag Archives: Roleplaying
Games Imitating Life: Rape Culture In MMORPGs?
The following is a guest post from J.E. Keep: J.E. Keep, and his partner M. Keep, write romance and erotica, administer their adult forum Darknest (a fantasy erotica site for gamers) and read simply everything. All while playing games and … Continue reading →
The Do It Yourself RPG: An Interview with Game Designer Filamena Young
Filamena Young is a game’s writer with several years of experience in the industry. She’s written for a variety of RPG properties, including White Wolf (she is a co-author of the Vampire the Requiem supplement Strange, Dead Love) Margret Weis … Continue reading →
Posted in Casual Games, General Gaming, Virtual Worlds
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Tagged feminism, Filamena Young, Flatpack, gender, interview, Roleplaying
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Clicks on a Keyboard: Dungeons, Dragons, and Trans-Feminism
What I love about “click” is that it can happen anywhere, anytime, for any reason. It can best be defined as the moment you became conscious of the personal being political, the moment you learned a social fact through … Continue reading →
Posted in General Gaming, MMORPGs
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Tagged feminism, Roleplaying, transgender, transsexual, transwomen, World of Warcraft
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Cyberfucking While Feminist, Episode II
Author’s Note: I am sorry this wasn’t updated sooner. I’ve been exceedingly busy at school as of late and I’ve had very little time to write for any of my sites. But rest assured that one way or another this series will … Continue reading →
Posted in General Gaming, MMORPGs
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Tagged erotic roleplaying, feminism, Roleplaying, sexism
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Cyberfucking While Feminist
One of the driving themes of my gaming writing has been to emphasize the fact that how we experience games is a factor of the games players forge for themselves and not just what the developers hand us. There are … Continue reading →
Posted in General Gaming, MMORPGs
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Tagged erotic roleplaying, ERP, feminism, roleplay, Roleplaying, RP
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32 Comments