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Kathryn Fedchun

@kathrynfedchun.bsky.social

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PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦 RoCCET Lab fellow 💥 Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾 https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/ Raccoon image from Lily Seika Jones 🎨

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Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @indiegamesooc.bsky.social · 16d

Night in the Woods

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Benjamin BOO! @geekworlds.bsky.social · 23h

Incidentally, we usually use the term “EDI” in Canada, as if there were any question about whose homework Poilievre is copying for this political slop.

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

"Restore the merit principle," I scream, having apparently developed selective amnesia about losing my job based on a complete and total lack of merit

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Thank you Patricia & Polygon for covering this story when so many others have dropped it. Shout out also to TheGamer, RPS, PC Gamer, Automaton, 80 Level

www.polygon.com/steam-adult-...

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 5d

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Simon Parkin @simonparkin.bsky.social · 5d

In 2014 I wrote for @newyorker.com about @kurtjmac.bsky.social, a YouTuber who began walking in Minecraft and never stopped. His quest was to reach the Far Lands, a place at the limits of the algorithmic world, where the landscape breaks apart. On Saturday, after fourteen years, he arrived:

A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft)

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SCMS Video Game Studies @scmsvideogames.bsky.social · 7d

Introducing our VGSSIG grad student rep for this year, @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social! A PhD candidate at Carleton University, she is researching the queer indie game scene(s), game bundles, and queer survival on itch. She's played 1700+ hours (yikes) of League of Legends. Indie fave: Sword & Sworcery.

Kate Fedchun
PhD Candidate @ Carleton University
VGSSIG Graduate Student Representative
Research interests: the queer indie game scene(s), game bundles, and queer survival.
Most played video game: League of Legends (over 1700 hours)
Indie favourite: Sword and Sworcery

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 16d

Photo of @qgcon.bsky.social out of context

Photograph of slide with house on fire in the sims with the subtitle Is this queer failure?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · 14d

Likewise!!! So much queer energy I'm still coming down from it all 💖 it was truly an honour 🥹

Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · 14d

Ahh thank you!!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it 🥰 and hell yeah!! We are all bundled together 🥹💖 qgcon was so amazing ✨

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Jailyn (they/them) @jailynz.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway it was an honor to talk in a panel with @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social and @princerosalium.bsky.social on Spite, Survival, and Joy. QGCon is a testament to the tenacity of queer people and I am definitely invigorated by my time there.

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Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · 16d

Still thinking about how lovely @lackingceremony.bsky.social was on Friday @qgcon.bsky.social when I showed up at the presenters dinner feeling super shy and not knowing anyone. Then I got to see her talk on TTRPG "loose, touchable design for leaky, excitable creatures" which was so fucking good!!!

Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony (@lackingceremony.bsky.social)

I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com

lackingceremony.bsky.social

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Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · 17d

Catch me tomorrow afternoon talking about part of my dissertation work on the @queergamesbundle.bsky.social !!! ✨

The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Resharing to add the Sunday #QGCon schedule of events as well!

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Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Jul 29

SO excited to be going to my first ever @qgcon.bsky.social in Montreal from September 26-September 28, 2025. I'll be pulling from my dissertation, talking about the @queergamesbundle.bsky.social as a repository of feelings that reveal truths about queer history and imagine alternative queer futures.

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Dr Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re 18 or older, and have purchased makeup or beauty products based on your fandom (e.g licensed tie-ins or fan-run brands, small businesses, etc), my friend and colleague, Suzanne Scott is looking for you to answer a short survey with an opt-in for a follow up interview.

QR code to be scanned with a question: “Do you own fandom-related makeup or beauty products

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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨 We've passed $85,000 with 18 HOURS LEFT. Today only, get 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects by 300 queer artists for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game.

itch.io/b/3062

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 85 over a background of gay men's pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.

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Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Sep 9

Went to my first physiotherapist appointment for my wrists yesterday, but also asked for a full body scan. Left with exercises for my ankles that literally do not have any stretch in them and my upper back that is so tight she thinks it's impacting my wrists 💀

Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Sep 6

Me looking out from my cave at all the new graduate students 🦝

Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · Sep 2

Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ok, tiny book shop is so good. You get to recommend people real books based on their prompts. It's like librarian role play. Soo good!! @tinybookshopgame.com

Tiny Bookshop Game

Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this ambient narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run...

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Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Sep 2

Time to kick this dissertation into high gear 🦝

Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Aug 30

Right?????? 😒

Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just got pulled over one block from our house (at the end of a six hour drive 💀) because our license plates have covers on them?? The license plate covers that have been on our car since 2011??? That were put on by the dealership????? I'm baffled.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Aug 21

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s beans all the way down.

ron toothbrushhouse 👻 @edenthecat.bsky.social · Aug 21

@hankgreen.bsky.social does the bean also have a bean inside the phone that it uses while i’m taking a break

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