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Ashley Schofield is looking for work!🐉
@ashlikeadragon.bsky.social
freelance journalist/critic🏳️‍⚧️
wrote VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
words: Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, GamesRadar+, Rock Paper Shotgun, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Skybox, startmenu
https://muckrack.com/ash-like-a-dragon

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hey, i'm looking for work! full-time or freelance 💜

journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides

words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY

muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
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"[W]alking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it."

@chiltonm.bsky.social examines the subversion of heterosexual gender norms hidden within conformity in But I'm a Cheerleader the A League of Their Own show:
Does This Dress Make Me Look Straight - Unwinnable
Walking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it.
unwinnable.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Unwinnable showed me that my words actually meant something and I wasn't just screaming into the void <3
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December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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You ever feel creatively dead?
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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If you want to directly support a publication founded on elevating new voices and providing space to folks who otherwise might never be able to tell that story because it doesn't align with the SEO chasing overlords, subscribing to @unwinnable.com is a really easy way to do it!
Now that the holiday sales days are over, consider subscribing to @unwinnable.com! Your subscription dollars fund our writers AND keep 95% of the stories they write FREE for everyone. No logins, no hassle, you don't lose access if you cancel. We even do gift subs.

unwinnable.com/subscribe/
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December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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a whole new world to explore
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
me opening my mouth on a date
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
just remembered

woke up with a beautiful woman yesterday
chatted about underrated games, she mentioned freelancer and noted that george takei was in it (which is crazy), asking 'you know him?'

i had to genuinely restrain myself from replying "yeah! he's Masumi Arakawa in Yakuza: Like A Dragon"
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Hello. I just want to say that trans and non-binary people deserve infinite love at a time when the scant few rights they had are being so cruelly torn away.

I am so blessed to have trans and non-binary friends, colleagues, neighbours and relatives, who inspire me every day.

Love to you all.
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
it's that time of year again
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
hey, that's me again!! i had a wonderful time guesting previously, so i'll be around on sunday 7th 💜

please watch, support, and hang out for a good cause 💜
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

On Saturdays December 6th and 13th @darkfry.bsky.social and I will be hosting the first two 24 hour fundraisers with a bunch of cool guests to help me move to safety and finally marry @deviousbec.bsky.social

Oh yeah, and we'll be playing Signalis! Info below:
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Hey I wrote a little guide for you aspiring smut peddlers out there :)
Anatomy Of A Fuck: How To Write A Sex Scene And Not Have It Be Really Fucking Cringe | Ela Bambust
Get more from Ela Bambust on Patreon
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December 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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more and more people are saying pghrt.diy is really cool actually
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
signed and also read/internalise this if you somehow haven't already

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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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A hard, sustained look by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social at the Like a Dragon series’ fraught relationship with sexual violence. One of the most important pieces I read all year

skyboxcritics.com/2025/11/07/h...
Hamazaki Has To Goh - where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault?
A look at the bizarre decision to cast Teruyuki Kagawa's in Yakuza Kiwami 3, through a lens of previous re-casting decisions from RGG Studio.
skyboxcritics.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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strangely inspirational
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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once more: u gotta question whether or not any given thing u see about games is actually just marketing. especially journalism.
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
really glad to see that @robinbombus.bsky.social kept the phrase 'the world's most punchable man' in here from the girl mode ep

also just so funny to me that the most consistent criticism i've seen of prime 4 across reviews is that it treats the player like an idiot

www.inverse.com/gaming/metro...
'Metroid Prime 4' Review: A Gorgeous Shooter Trapped In A Lifeless Open World
'Metroid Prime 4' builds a gorgeous new world to explore, but buries its best parts under an empty open world and grating companions.
www.inverse.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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You know you're working in a healthy industry when you're casually texting friends like "making coffee ☺️ hope I don't get death threats for doing my job today"
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
cut my bangs this morning

for the first time in weeks my eyes are actually visible, rather than just being dark clouds of eyeshadow beneath them
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Purity culture has been staining the internet for a good while now. Everyone’s acting like fiction is a background check for morality, and it’s exhausting. It's spread like mold; turning what should be a fun time, into something people are scared to admit liking.
#blog #internet #fandom
Purity and Plague
innerspiral.lol
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
locking in with this today

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWl1...
Ninajirachi - Fuck My Computer (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ninajirachi
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Today was World AIDS Day and I didn't post the most gutting piece of AIDS-related art, Keith Haring's Unfinished Painting. You all deserved better from me.
Unfinished Painting - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
we have to keep the fire burning
every day i wake up and i swear vengeance against the scourge of learned helplessness that plagues trans people. may one day we be fully cleansed of this disease, but that day will not arise until we the afflicted choose to eradicate it by firmly taking hold of the scouring flame into our own hands.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM