Poison

side blog for gaming things he/they/it dog of many talents and little commitment

[poisondartdog]

Welcome to my gaming side blog! (main: @puppycat-boydyke)

I'm Poison the frog dog (he/they/it), and you can find my gaming content @/poisondartdog on pretty much any social media platform (Instagram is @/poison.dartdog). I'll be using social media to promote streams, talk about games, and engage with other queer gamers across the Internet.

I'll be streaming on Twitch on Sunday afternoons, and I may be adding a Thursday stream after I find my footing in the streaming realm of the web.

Give me a follow on Twitch if you:

want to support a trans queer content creator who also happens to be a really cute puppy

like vibes-based variety gaming (i.e., I'll play anything, but I might not be good at it)

appreciate a distractable streamer who can and will build convoluted dialogue trees with his auDHD yapping (and randomly pause to let verbal capacity buffer)

Find me on Twitch here every Sunday.

Subscribe to my YouTube and watch old streams here.

Join my Discord server here.

And most importantly, thank you for stopping in :) any support is deeply appreciated, and I hope to see you pop into one of my upcoming streams <3

[poisondartdog]

i started playing Outer Wilds today (for the first time) and maybe i'm crazy but i think i just really hate flying and zero g mechanics in video games. i know it's consistent and responsive and people love this game, but i do not enjoy how it feels to move around in-game so far.

[poisondartdog]

Intro: My first solo RPG adventure

what is it and how did we get here?

I’m playing a solo journal RPG and posting the resulted writings to my Substack.

Find the intro at the link above!

Monster creation comes out today around noon EST :)

[indirectcomedian]

xena gave us trans drag lesbianism as a treat

[autisticexpression2]

There are layers to this. Earlier in the episode, Xena discovers her secret while they're sharing a locker room. A woman she has got naked with turned out to be trans. It's the exact scenario terfs are always fear-mongering about, but Xena just shrugs it off.

Also, the kiss was a big deal not just because it was gay but because the trans actress was HIV positive. They wanted to show the world that you can't contract HIV just from kissing someone. Bear in mind, the AIDS crisis was still fresh on people's minds in the 90s.

Happy Pride.

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[people-eating-frogs]

(purple=me, red=transmasc friend of mine)

sometimes it is genuinely sobering to be confronted with how little the average transmasc knows or thinks about the transmisogyny present in scociety and especially in systems that have power over us.

I don't say this to dunk on or insult my transmasc friend, he's a genuiniely wonderful person, I'm just baffled by the ignorance at play here.

he describes himself as an actuvist for trans rights. he didn't know about v-coding, or about trans women being denied access to domestic and sexual abuse help services for women, he didn't know how fucking bad the state of femenizing healthcare is because like many others, he heard "testosterone is a controlled substance and estrogen isn't" and concluded from that that getting on E must be easier, no further research needed.

but the most important part? when I pointed this out to him, he admitted his bias and promised to do better. he recognized how he had been ignorant of transfem's specific struggles because of his own marginalized status and reaffirmed his support.

I am so used to being met with hostility when discussing transmisogyny that this(the bare fucking minimum) was a genuine positive surprise to me in the moment.

if you're TME and sceptical of transfemenism, i want you to think about this exchange and reflect on wether you might have been in this position before, and if so, why you didn't respond the way my friend did.

[undeadtransfeminist]

Describes obvious transphobia and then says "this is exclusive only to transmascs!" About being misgendered. Transmisogyny is not just girl-transphobia. Y'all just showing your asses posting shit like this.

[poisondartdog]

Finally launching the PoisonDartDog Discord server! Join here :)

[poisondartdog]

updated with a non-expiring invite link

[poisondartdog]

i plugged in my old iPod nano and the battery immediately exploded so there goes that dream

[poisondartdog]

Psst. Hey you. Go read my personal essay about Citizen Sleeper on Substack.

Citizen Sleeper Broke Me a Little

and then put me back together

[poisondartdog]

i love browsing the internet on my puter

phone bad, puter good

i don't think i need to elaborate

[poisondartdog]

i'm re-learning html code so i can build a website from the ground up. do not ask me why. i think maybe art is its own kind of masochism.

[poisondartdog]

Finally launching the PoisonDartDog Discord server! Join here :)

[poisondartdog]

Mid-year gaming review

Played so far this year:

Breath of the Wild - restart, yet to finish, started very early in the new year

Tiny Bookshop - yet to finish, casually return to this every few weeks

Hades II - so much, too much, all at once; once I stopped playing I really stopped playing; will revisit sometime to replay the story updates

Dead Cells - obsessed for a hot minute, made it to the final boss a handful of times but never beat it; feel like I've barely scratched the surface but fell off playing right around when I started streaming because I wanted to start off streaming games with less stressful gameplay

Coffee Talk - played right before I started streaming, finished in March, it was okay, I wanted to like it more than I did, and I think I just came to it too late for it to hit the same as it would've back when it came out in 2020

Raptor Boyfriend - first ever streamed game, finished in May, absolutely adored from beginning to end, lots of awkward teenager humor and feelsy moments

Gecko Gods - first game I've ever played on launch, streaming, not yet finished but hoping to finish soon

Arcade Spirits - streaming, still in the very early parts of the story, very cute and gay so far

Citizen Sleeper - favorite game I've played in a long time, will be writing a whole big blog post about this game because oh my god it's so good and it hit me so hard and came to me exactly when I needed it, one of the greats for me

Gaming Goals for the Rest of this Year:

Finish Gecko Gods and Arcade Spirits on stream

Play through one single-player game on DS or 3DS

Start Ocarina of Time streams

Finish BOTW main story playthrough and start DLC quests

Finish Tiny Bookshop main storylines

Streaming/Admin Goals:

Launch Discord server and share invite

Citizen Sleeper blog post/essay

Launch personal website on neocities

[puppycat-boydyke]

my favorite hobby is quitting my job

[poisondartdog]

and less than one month later i got fired for having a “bad attitude” 💀💀💀

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[the-haiku-bot]

post so nice had to

reblog it twice and force it

down everyone’s throats

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[yellbug]

i am so absolutely utterly scared that my insane grandfather in his 80s who runs miles every morning is going to leave me a bird in his will and i am especially scared he is going to leave me a large cockatoo named "captain hook". hook has been trying to make me his child bride since i was like 6 years old and every time i see him again which has only been a couple times with decades in between hook is like "you. it's always been you. ever since you were born i've known we were meant to be" captain hook you are a bird and i am a LESBIAN and i don't WANT an eternal sentinel captain HOOK!!!!!!!

[yellbug]

WAS TOLD AT CHRISTMAS DINNER THAT THIS IS INDEED REAL, AND THAT I AM IN THE WILL TO RECIEVE THE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER 👏 STOP 👏 BEINGSCARED 👏

[yellbug]

okay well that's actually even worse than i thought thank you DAD