Kate Bullock (she/her) Manic Gorgon Dream Girl
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Spicy Monster Erotica writer. Partnered with @camdon .
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I am very excited to announce that my monster erotica writing now has a patreon!
if you'd like to get a monthly monster erotica story, check out the patreon here:
#monster
#erotica
#Patreon
#WritingCommunity
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Every time sex happens at my ttrpg table, we fade to black because that's not what we're here for. But I always ask:
"What did we learn about the characters in that scene? What does the camera reveal to us about them in this moment?"
And oh boy the answers are always great.
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Would you play a
#ttrpg
where you knew your characters were going to die?
What conditions would you need to play this game? What genre would you expect it to be?
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From a local restaurant here in Sarnia, Ontario.
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When I play video games, I play them on "story" mode, or whatever the easiest setting is.
I wish there was this option in ttrpgs.
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Hey friends.
Don't let two mediocre men tell you not to make games.
Ever.
Let them die mad about your games.
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I Gen con’d. After managing 300 events, 100 gms, and a managerial staff, I am ready to not think about Gen con for a few months.
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Wanna see victims reclaiming space? People used to be afraid to say Zak’s name. The Voldemort of gaming. But here we are. Saying his name. Everyone is. It’s like we’re not afraid of him anymore. Keep it that way.
#AbuseIsNotAGame
#OSR
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Life hack: if someone says “x is racist/sexist/ableist/queerphobic” and you don’t know how it is, google it. It’s very likely the person isn’t speaking out of their ass. Save the marginalized person the labor and go research it yourself.
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Don't forget: Abusers use DARVO. Which is: deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender. If you see someone twisting an argument to make themselves the victims after they've been abusing people, this is a key sign they're still actively abusing people.
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My gamers! Are you a sensitivity editor? Are you someone who wants to be or is paid for reading games to check for -isms? If so, comment below. I'm creating a database for people so I can refer out in my own editing work, plus get you contracts for editing work.
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Unfriending predators on social media isn't an action.
Unfriending predators in real life is an action. Stop inviting them into your projects. Stop inviting them to conventions. Stop promoting their work. Stop giving them money. Stop recommending people work for them.
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@MAB_Cat
They may talk about how we learn that one character is actually in love or cares a lot, or that another is using this to make the other trust them, or is in it to try to get something out of it... we learn motivation, often, or what people are truly feeling.
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I’m Kate, the director of community relations at Magpie Games, creative director at Arterial Games, safety and sensitivity editor, developmental editor, game designer, erotica writer, and Kickstarter consultant.
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
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What continues to astonish me about
#ttrpgs
is how many games we have about explicit or lateral violence and abuse, and how much we celebrate and talk about it openly.
But talk about sex and suddenly it’s crickets. And shame. And social ostracism.
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If a company says “I thought you had more experience because you asked for a living wage” then do not work for that company. $0.03 or $0.04 a word is not a living wage. Looking at you rpg companies.
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Thanks to everyone stepping forward to volunteer as a GM!
I checked into the hotel and immediately got sexually harassed and had to be moved to a new room. It's been handled and I am safe in a new room.
I am going to eat dinner, calm down, and then tackle these emails and
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To be part of a community, there are two questions you need to consider.
First: “What is this community doing for me?”
Second: “What am I doing for this community?”
If you ask the first but never the second, you’re not participating in a community. You’re just here for you.
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Another GM has ghosted me. Leaving me with five more games that need a gm during
@Gen_Con
.
At some point or another I want to just lay down and stare at the ceiling.
Anyways if you can run a game at Gen Con LMK! Send help!
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I want more GMless, no dice, story games. Like Montsegur, Before the Storm, Fall of Magic, and For the Queen.
Whatcha got for me?
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Another GM just bailed who just didn’t bother to tell me he couldn’t come.
I may or may not be sitting on the couch crying.
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Part of what really bothers me about the RPG industry is the assumption of work without pay. Like, when I sign a writing contract, to do game design work, they are offering me somewhere between $.03 to $.10. The biggest companies I've been offered gigs from have paid the lowest.
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Please stop calling conventions who aren't cancelling yet unethical or awful. Many are stuck in contracts with hotels where if they cancel, they will go bankrupt. Take hotels and convention centres to task. Not the conventions. Stop harassing convention organizers.
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I low key want to start a TTRPG Humanity stream where I ask industry insiders personal and humanizing questions so that we start remembering that everyone in this industry is a human who deserves being treated like a person.
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The amount of men who expected me to do free work at Gen con was impressive. From “how do I redeem my company” to “can I pick your brain about Kickstarter” to “what are your thoughts on this marketing plan” to “how do I cultivate a community for this company” and beyond, I was
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Tips from a Safety Editor: don’t use a passive voice in your game. Tell them what the safety features are and how to use them. Do not make these “suggested” or “recommended.” Everyone wears a fucking seat belt or else the car doesn’t move.
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I wanna be clear: just because RPGs can be therapeutic, doesn't mean you, as a person who isn't a mental health professional, should try to use them as therapy for others. Nor does it mean you, as a traumatized person, should use your friends playing games with you as therapy.
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Repeat after me:
Kickstarter IS NOT A STORE.
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If I created a weird little discord hub, where professionals were willing to barter their skills with each other, or better yet, teach each other skills in exchange for other skills, all focused on aspects of game design, would people be interested? Like a weird gaming coop?
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The weirdest Gen con ever. We won a couple awards and then Matthew Lillard came up to shake my hand and introduce himself.
What is even happening.
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Literally any time a person apologizes publicly, without talking to the victim privately and making amends privately, means the apology is not for the victims, but is for the person doing the harm to save their reputation. If it's not about the victim, it's about the harm doer.
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I officially published my first book today.
It's live. It's out in the world.
Now I just need to convince 100 people to leave reviews on amazon to get it on their page.
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If I taught a course on designing safety in rpgs for game designers, would anyone be interested?
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If you are someone with privilege, like a straight white cis dude, and you’re not pushing back against Zak you are making victims and survivors continue to do the heavy lifting. Where are you? We’re waiting to see that you meant it when you said you cared.
#AbuseIsNotAGame
#OSR
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I have a rough week. Play a game with me?
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Using hashtags that he’s using to fuck with his message is golden. Keep doing it. Talk to those supporting him. Not to him. He thrives on engagement. Do not talk to him. Take everyone who supports him to task. Leave him with no supports. Shut him down.
#AbuseIsNotAGame
#OSR
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Pipe dream: One year there will be more women winning at the
@ENnies
than wives getting thanked for supporting the men designing.
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@Kahrash
I've played a lot of PbtA games, so like Apocalypse World, Monsterhearts, and Urban Shadows. They have mechanics or sex/intimacy moves, but they don't really tell us much about any party involves feels and we don't learn anything. So I try to make it compelling and not just sex.
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...is it just me or does the X look like an adult lifestyle club logo?
It can't be just me.
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Safety Tools are not a response to games being filled with awful things. They are a response to play culture and people playing games cruelly. These cruel people are often those who appear the most woke or compassionate.
The question is then: "How do we change our play culture?"
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My urge to respond “good boy” to men who reply appropriately is high and likely not what I should reply.
Sometimes that top energy just shines through.
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Bluestocking's Organic Gaming: The TTRPG Industry: The Sexist Price of Admission:...
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Best movie soundtrack? GIFs only.
Best movie soundtrack? GIFs only.
I don’t know that it’s “the best” but I’ve listened to it a LOT.
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My partner took me to target to remind me what has been achieved despite the people being shitty.
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Today I am your vampire mistress and you will obey.
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Safety editor advice: Do not use soft language or present your safety steps as optional. I see this constantly. "You may want to have an x-card, do lines and veils, talk about boundaries." Stop it.
Every uses the safety features or we can't play the game.
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So the next time you hire someone, and you get back something that hasn't been playtested, ask yourself: Did I pay them for their time to playtest this?
If the answer is no, you got what you paid for.
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My heart hurts. It’s been one hell of a week and not a day has gone by I haven’t had to issue an official statement of some kind. I promise you I’m working as fast as I can in every community, convention, and organization I’m in. I hope you know I love you and I’m trying. <3
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Love watching dudes cancelling their pledges on my project as I speak out against violent misogyny in the industry.
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In conversation with a friend, we're talking about ways to invert the automatic assumption that
#ttrpg
industry professionals must be designing a game.
Like if you walk into Big Bar at Origins, the first question is often "What are you designing?"
Cut that shit out.
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A lot of people are talking about the IGDN and the deeply unsettling problems of the previous administration. I can promise you the buck stops here. I’m on it. The team is on it. And we’re not stopping until we turn this ship around.
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Some of you don’t know polish chickens exist. So here. Here are polish Roos.
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The most privileged response to being told you’re hurting people is “well then I just won’t talk anymore”
Like no, fucker. This is a chance to do better and instead you’re acting like a child who needs a time out.
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Today is another day that’s going to be triggering. Do not forget to love yourself radically and self care like there’s no tomorrow. Victim care matters. Fight Zak by taking care of yourself to spite the fucker.
#AbuseIsNotAGame
#OSR
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Mom: what is the giant black box in the spare room? It’s heavy.
Me: invisible sun.
Mom: explain.
Me: *shows video*
Mom: how much was that?
Me: that’s not relevant…
Mom: what’s the hand for?
Me: that’s also unclear.
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Tomorrow I will be divorced.
I am more excited for being divorced than I was for being married.
So that's a thing.
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If you design games, published or not, you’re a game designer. If you hack things, you’re a game designer. If you analyze and modify for better playability, you are designing.
Don’t let anyone who says otherwise get in your head. Your game work is valid!
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What would be the hardest part for you if you were a vampire?
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Remember when Whedon’s wife wrote a damning letter about her ex’s abusive behavior? Remember how no one cared?
Charisma and Ray coming forward to speak about his abuse is important.
But it ultimately speaks to how no one cares about women victims until a man speaks up.
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Fat, femme, and fucking hot.
I have met many unattractive people. Zero of them were because they were fat.
who lied and told y’all fat people are unattractive???? simply incorrect
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I survived Gen con. I am only mostly dead.
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Being a community leader is unknowingly consenting to being traumatized until you step down.
I am not okay because of what I’ve endured while in positions of authority.
A lot of that was sexism. A whole bunch of it wasn’t.
Stop treating
#ttrpg
leaders as disposable.
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I can't be the only one who adored the Necromongers, right?
Where are my fellow necromongers? Reveal yourselves!
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The police came, took what I was saying seriously, found the dude on their fancy new tech. Dude will be receiving a visit to be told to stay away from me and my spaces, and to cease communication. A detective will follow up with me.
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How many times during a game, as a GM, do you deliberately use a safety tool just to show the table that it's okay to use? If your answer is 0, time to step up your game. Play culture can and will change when you engage with intention.
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In case no one's told this: You bring value to the TTRPG space. Your work matters. Someone is in love with what you're doing. Experience doesn't dictate worth. You're wonderful and important. Thank you for being here.
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To all the women and marginalized genders who didn’t win tonight, who were included in anthologies but not with your own product, I’m sorry. You are worth more than they’re telling you. You are amazing and deserve the recognition you didn’t get tonight.
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@rj_layton
As the GM, I usually do. I'll be like.
"Delilah drops the pretense of being the vampire queen and is just with Neveah, somehow more human than ever. She cares about Neveah, even though she usually acts like she's just another mortal."
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Okay. I’ve decided I want to do a series of panels at conventions:
“Surviving abusers in ttrpgs”
“Recognizing abuse in ttrpgs”
“Playing with abuse themes in ttrpgs”
“Seeing an abuser in the mirror in ttrpgs”
“Ending cycles of abuse in ttrpgs”
And:
“Fucking in ttrpgs.”
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Hey friends!
CW: Cancer, treatment
As some folks know, my family has been dealing with a medical crisis for the past several weeks. It has been exhausting and everyone is tired, processing, and in need of grace.
My partner,
@camdon
, has been sick for several weeks. After a lot
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Locking down because my abusive ex is sending more flying monkeys at me today. Two years and this still keeps happening.
I just want to be left alone.
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The latest Zak reply is boring. I was expecting better. Or well, something at least different or interesting. But here we are with the same old dull routine. The best part is, no one is talking about it. Or not many. No one cares, anymore, about this abuser.
#abuseisnotagame
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I'm still not safe.
The fact that it was "safe" for angry white men to be themselves (hateful and abusive) is why it's not safe to this day for the rest of us.
Saying you think it's safe says more about you than you want it to, boo.
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Hey friends! Mandy needs your help with legal funds against her ex, Zak.
The fight continues and she needs us to support her as she fights his lawsuit against her.
Please share far and wide!
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The number of men retweeting my question to say I’ve never heard of a game like call of Cthulhu and paranoia is both unsurprising and irritating.
I’ve been in gaming for 20 years and have run and play both.
But sure. Be a sexist prig and assume I know nothing.
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It's important to know: if an abusive man is running a smear campaign of his victim, and your response is to remain a neutral party, you are complicit in his further victimization of the victim.
It's those people I'm the most hurt by. It's those people I will never trust again.
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I spend a lot of time talking to folks in abusive relationships as a safer person who's lived through a lot of abusive relationships.
You can't convince someone to leave an abuser. All you can do is be a constant safe space for them. The constant honest but loving person is the
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We're all just one bad day on Twitter away from being ostracized, shunned, and harassed. One. Bad. Day.
Is that the world you want to live in? No?
Then stop perpetuating it.
We are responsible for reforming the industry. We are the ones who will do that work. No one else.
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What is this nonsense, Nugget?
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The TTRPG Creative Co-op is live! This is a discord space dedicated to helping share and learn new skills within the ttrpg industry and hobby space. It is for growing, sharing, and working together to create new badass designs. If interested, DM me for the link!
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Abusers specifically focus on superficial but impactful relationships. They'll buy you something, compliment you, engage with you socially, even share deep trauma just to get you to like them.
So you'll attack their victims for them later.
"but they were nice to me!!" yeah, that's something that abusers do. They're nice to a selection of people and then nasty to others. It's how they maintain their circle of power, so others can gaslight their victims into thinking they're not do bad after all.
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We're talking about mechanics and setting and moves and all sorts of stuff that requires playtesting. This means we're going to spend HOURS playtesting something we wrote for free. Because that $.03 a word sure as fuck doesn't pay for the hours spent palytesting.
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Psst. I think you’re amazing.
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By popular demand… the new bra.
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For a lot of indie game publishers, many of us are looking at "print the product and go into debt" or "don't print the product and stop producing aka kill the company"
Be kind on Kickstarters. Be kind on social. It's hard out here.
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I’m so very sick of dude game designers who are excited by old white men in the industry with shitty reputations and a constant stream of sexist bullshit attached to them. Cut that shit out. Hire and celebrate other people. People worth celebrating.
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This pay rate is really really terrible, my loves. We want gaming to be sustainable but no one wants to pay for gaming to be sustainable. Besides that big issue, there's the fact that game design isn't a per word thing. We're not creative writers who are just writing stuff.
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If you’re struggling, be it openly or quietly, I see you and I love you.
I’m struggling too.
We’re gonna be okay.
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I bought a new bra and thought you should know
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I think we really need to acknowledge when a game is flawless. When it's beautiful, tightly designed, impactful, and elegant. Playtested at length with hours of work put in. These games are rare. And For the Queen by
@muscularpikachu
is one of them.
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