Random thoughts from a gal named Gwyn https://shadenexus.ca/blog/ en Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:54:27 +0000 1440 This game was pre-ordered during the initial Kickstarter campaign, and I never expected I would actually receive it. In some ways, I wonder if it would've been better had I never. This review has also been posted on Steam and Backloggd. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-04-17-asylum.html Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-04-17-asylum comments@shadenexus.ca video games 💿 Asylum (2025) This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-08-15-2499492.html Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-08-15-2499492 comments@shadenexus.ca My friend Inumo reached out last week about a topic we had discussed a number of times before, that I haven't really seen discussed in broader roleplaying game discussion. A while ago I coined the term "player solipsism" to refer to a school of RPG design that is based around a fundamentally different set of principles from simulationism. A while ago Inumo wrote a sketch getting into these ideas, but since my thoughts on the matter have crystallized more, and Inumo desired a stronge... https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-05-27-Player-Sollipsism.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-05-27-Player-Sollipsism comments@shadenexus.ca ttrpg Today is International Asexuality Day, so i'm gonna say hello to all my fellow ace-spectrum associates: we are valid and our needs are important. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2021-04-06-ace.html Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 2021-04-06-ace comments@shadenexus.ca sexuality autobiography https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-07-06-columbo-shinano-subs-1.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-07-06-columbo-shinano-subs-1 comments@shadenexus.ca 📺 Columbo of Shinano (series) subtitles release Just a list of updates of things recently that I didn't otherwise post places: https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-07-09-july updates.html Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-07-09-july updates comments@shadenexus.ca website "Girlfriends :)" pixel art social media streaming So I was running across a kind of exhausting situation today which isn't very uncommon for me: I was going through a tutorial and had to navigate a giant HTML table in a software backend that was pseudo-sorted. By pseudo-sorted I mean it was alphabetically sorted after being sorted in some other grouping. What this often looks like is something like this: https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-02-07-addon-sortable.html Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-02-07-addon-sortable comments@shadenexus.ca Firefox extension Guess what folks, did you know that I do pixel art professionally now? What?? Guess what: Two games came out today featuring art by yours truly! This is a huge deal to me as it's some of my first work at this scope, and some of my best pixel art work to date! https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-09-25-updates.html Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-09-25-updates comments@shadenexus.ca pixel art video games "💿 Fish Fear Me (2024)" "💿 Unfair Flips (2025)" I had the great honor of being part Adult Analysis Anthology #4, which released last week on itch.io. My essay, The Erotic Circle is about how theories of play relate to eroticism, and how this can interplay with long-distance relationships. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-05-26-erotic-circle.html Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-05-26-erotic-circle comments@shadenexus.ca video games sexuality "Girlfriends :)" This post was originally made on Cohost as part of an attempt I made at writing hentai reviews. The project largely stalled out for various reasons, but I plan to return to it one day. In the mean time, here is the introduction to that blog post. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-04-24-hentai-review-intro.html Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-04-24-hentai-review-intro comments@shadenexus.ca sexuality 🔞 R18 A guarantee from a mattress company unravels. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-01-05-i-think-you-should-leave.html Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-01-05-i-think-you-should-leave comments@shadenexus.ca fanfiction 📺 I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019) This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-07-06-matisse.html Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-07-06-matisse comments@shadenexus.ca museum This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-07-16-2067526.html Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-07-16-2067526 comments@shadenexus.ca 💬 asks I fucking love RPG Maker games, and especially the era of games made in RPG Maker 2000 and 2003. Many hugely influential games were originally made in these engines, including Yume Nikki, OFF, OneShot, Space Funeral, and Ib. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-05-30-easyrpg.html Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-05-30-easyrpg comments@shadenexus.ca 🎮 rpgmaker games living document FOSS video games This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-06-07-6311603.html Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-06-07-6311603 comments@shadenexus.ca 💿 Resident Evil (series) 📺 On Cinema at the Cinema (series) two things fanfiction This post is basically a compilation of posts I made to my girlfriend over roughly a week and change during the back half of Steam Next Fest. I am the kind of autistic who needs to wrap up threads in my brain, and being able to clear out mental space by wiping off part of my wishlist was really fun! And my girlfriend really enjoyed hearing my reactions to trying various games. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-03-04-demo spree.html Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-03-04-demo spree comments@shadenexus.ca video games review This post was originally made on Cohost as part of an attempt I made at writing hentai reviews. The project largely stalled out for various reasons, but I plan to return to it one day. In the mean time, here is my first review in the series. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-06-06-hentai-vipert-gts.html Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-06-06-hentai-vipert-gts comments@shadenexus.ca review 📺 Viper GTS (series) noncon demons angels sexuality 🔞 R18 This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-06-08-6328507.html Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-06-08-6328507 comments@shadenexus.ca Girlfriends :) 💚 Rezzy https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-01-17-fursona-art.html Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-01-17-fursona-art comments@shadenexus.ca website 👤 Billie Hellgnoll This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-07-08-1944841.html Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-07-08-1944841 comments@shadenexus.ca 💬 asks sexuality gender This is a proposal written by me, a white trans woman who generally finds social media works in a way that my brain finds unappealing. "Sandpaper" is a word I would use to describe experiences like Twitter, Facebook, and mainstream Mastodon. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2021-01-31-masto-fork.html Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 2021-01-31-masto-fork comments@shadenexus.ca fediverse FOSS As tagging every single bad actor on Steam who uses AI is a laborious project which simply and easily overwhelms even the most industrious weasel, I am happy to report that a good samaritan out there, seeeeew, has made a userscrupt and browser extension which automatically pops up a modal when you visit a store page with an AI disclosure. It works seamlessly and gets directly into your face, so you know you don't have to care about whatever game you're going to look at. (Since evidently the c... https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-12-03-ai-warning-steam.html Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-12-03-ai-warning-steam comments@shadenexus.ca video games extension Lo and upon ye, Steam Next Fest came and with it tons of demos, and like last time I've decided to not only play Next Fest demos but also just Demos in general from my Discovery Queue and Wishlist. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-10-22-demo spree.html Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-10-22-demo spree comments@shadenexus.ca video games review Do you use a web calendar and do you know how to wrangle an ICS feed? I asked this question on Mastodon and in a private Discord server, and if my results are indicative, your answer is probably a variant of: "No." https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-05-19-calendar.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-05-19-calendar comments@shadenexus.ca ways social media We Need To Talk About This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-06-26-6624796.html Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-06-26-6624796 comments@shadenexus.ca social media This blog is by Gwyndolyn Marchant, built with Zoner2000. Tags powered by octothorpes. You can drop me a line to comment on this post. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-06-13-manifesto.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-06-13-manifesto comments@shadenexus.ca manifesto decker This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-08-03-2337461.html Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-08-03-2337461 comments@shadenexus.ca This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-09-26-2972582.html Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-09-26-2972582 comments@shadenexus.ca English https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-03-29-what-else.html Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-03-29-what-else comments@shadenexus.ca autobiography health "the pandemic isn't over" This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-03-07-dott.html Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-03-07-dott comments@shadenexus.ca 💬 asks 💿 Day of the Tentacle (1993) video games 🎮 adventure games pixel art This review has also been posted on Backloggd and Steam. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-02-11-no-man-sky.html Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-02-11-no-man-sky comments@shadenexus.ca video games review "💿 No Man's Sky" Genrenomicon generates a list of genres using quick-markov, fed from a seed list of genres which has been compiled from a handful of general indexes and numerous individual sources. This input corpus has then been hand-adjusted for maximal compatibility, iteratability, and recombination. The output is then further combed over to weed out irrelevant and unreadable results, and put through a second script of automatic adjustments (via hand-written regular expressions) to produce the clean outpu... https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-12-11-genrenomicon.html Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-12-11-genrenomicon comments@shadenexus.ca weekend project ways website social media making fediverse English Presented without further comment, here I have fully indexed the Battlefield series of video games using HATS https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-03-03-battlefield.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-03-03-battlefield comments@shadenexus.ca video games 💿 Battlefield (Series) Hellgnoll Authoritative Titling System This blog is by Gwyndolyn Marchant, built with Zoner2000. Tags powered by octothorpes. You can drop me a line to comment on this post. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-01-17-balatro mods.html Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-01-17-balatro mods comments@shadenexus.ca 💿 Balatro (2024) ways modding This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-01-26-4285457.html Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-01-26-4285457 comments@shadenexus.ca health I've started using Lightweight Music Server as my primary OpenSubsonic server for streaming my own music to my devices, and among other things one of its great features is that it allows you to download and link artist metadata using their MusicBrainz ID. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-11-07-artist-pictures.html Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-11-07-artist-pictures comments@shadenexus.ca weekend project ways website So I got super into DOOM games recently and finally went and played the legendary Chex Quest! And then I played the official second and third episode, which most people don't know about! And then I played some fan-made sequels (which were okay)! And then I played Chex Quest HD! https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2022-03-08-chex quest.html Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 2022-03-08-chex quest comments@shadenexus.ca 🎮 boomer shooters video games 💿 Chex Quest (1996) Good evening everyone! I am excited to announce that my Netrunner Alt Arts are now back in stock on MPC!! https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-10-08-netrunner.html Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-10-08-netrunner comments@shadenexus.ca Netrunner pixel art release This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-09-26-twenty-five-games.html Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-09-26-twenty-five-games comments@shadenexus.ca video games 💿 Space Funeral (2010) 💿 Myst (1993) 💿 Yuppie Psycho (2019) 💿 Yume Nikki (2004) "💿 LSD: Dream Emulator (1998)" 💿 Day of the Tentacle (1993) "💿 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993)" 💿 Doom (1993) 💿 Destiny 2 (2017) 💿 The Witness (2016) "💿 Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2004)" 💿 Cave Story (2004) "💿 Lisa: The Painful RPG (2014)" 💿 Disco Elysium (2019) "💿 Fallout: New Vegas (2010)" 💿 Echo of the Wilds (2014) 💿 Ao Oni (2007) "💿 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (2013)" 💿 Silent Hill 3 (2003) "💿 Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010)" 💿 Dicey Dungeons (2019) "💿 Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle (2006)" "💿 The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure (2008)" "💿 Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (2007)" 💿 Iji (2008) This post was originally several different posts on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2023-09-23-daemonology.html Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-09-23-daemonology comments@shadenexus.ca 💬 asks Daemonology Girlfriends :) souls 📺 Revue Starlight (series) demons This was originally written in my last year at York University for a human-computer interaction class, in collaboration with Teng Zhang and Kyra Younan. Their work was massively helpful in producing this paper. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2021-04-14-fall-guys.html Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 2021-04-14-fall-guys comments@shadenexus.ca "💿 Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout" video games review https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-08-15-rss.html Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-08-15-rss comments@shadenexus.ca social media We Need To Talk About If you haven't been following The Black Tapes or TANIS, they are two podcasts that I am thoroughly in love with at the moment. They are creepy, dark, investigative horror taking place in the Pacific Northwest. This post was part of a community debate at the r/PNWS subreddit. If you haven't listened to either podcast, I urge you to go do so. We'll try not to get too far head of you, in the mean while. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2016-07-13-supernaturality.html Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 2016-07-13-supernaturality comments@shadenexus.ca audio drama https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-05-17-blackle-zine.html Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-05-17-blackle-zine comments@shadenexus.ca zine making One of the many daily struggles of modern life is that we live in an era where even the hellspurned bigbox grocery store doesn't have an easy to use website any more. Due to not owning a car and difficulty of legging over to the grocery store every time I want produce, I use a delivery service and order a lot of my groceries online. I quite sincerely loathe this process. There used to be a bi-weekly produce box I got from a local farm co-op for many years in the pandemic, but they stopped the... https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-12-07-loblaws.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-12-07-loblaws comments@shadenexus.ca website userstyle ublock ways This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-03-07-cave-story.html Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-03-07-cave-story comments@shadenexus.ca 💬 asks "Girlfriends :)" 💿 Cave Story (2004) Submachine is a game dearly beloved by both me and my girlfriend Juniper, and with us both being transgender it was almost impossible for us to not create a T4T reading of Murtaugh and Elizabeth after playing the recent Submachine: Legacy game. This fanfiction was something I tinkered with for a couple years until it felt right, and I completed it. I hope you enjoy it. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-12-29-submachine.html Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-12-29-submachine comments@shadenexus.ca sexuality 🔞 R18 "💿 Submachine: Legacy (2023)" transgender fanfiction This post was originally several different posts made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-03-14-qa-gender-sexuality.html Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-03-14-qa-gender-sexuality comments@shadenexus.ca gender sexuality autobiography 💬 asks This post was originally made on Cohost. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-03-29-5330482.html Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-03-29-5330482 comments@shadenexus.ca pixel art body horror health 👤 Billie Hellgnoll "the pandemic isn't over" I was scrolling social media after lunch, getting packed up for a trip to my mother's for a couple days, when I notice my girlfriend Juniper asking about digital rolodexes. The problem was simple: she has met a bunch of cool people and good contacts while at a speedrunning marathon, but within a couple weeks she was starting to lose track of who was who and what their contact details were. It was frustrating, and a problem that seemed very solvable. On instinct, I responded to her saying this... https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-06-07-rolodexes.html Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-06-07-rolodexes comments@shadenexus.ca social media FOSS We Need To Talk About This blog post is a slight rewrite with additional links based on a thread I posted on Mastodon. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-04-26-logotherapy.html Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-04-26-logotherapy comments@shadenexus.ca recommendations social media philosophy health Based on walkthrough from Game Guru. This guide was written to assist JuniperTheory with speedrunning the game. It should be noted that almost all cutscenes can be skipped by pressing ESC. It is also possible to softlock yourself if you do not get each page when it is available. Make sure it shows in your inventory before moving on. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-07-22-nacah walkthrough.html Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-07-22-nacah walkthrough comments@shadenexus.ca 💿 Nacah (2001) 🎮 adventure games 💛 June video games Forewarning: This is going to be messy, and personal. This is largely about the series Revue Starlight; both the show and the movie. But it's necessary to digest, for me. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2022-03-24-starlight.html Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 2022-03-24-starlight comments@shadenexus.ca 📺 Revue Starlight (series) anime https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-09-12-netrunner.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-09-12-netrunner comments@shadenexus.ca pixel art release two things This is just, tons of straight up pornography. All 18+ content. But here is, essentially, my modlist for this endeavour, which I have enjoyed quite a lot. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2025-07-06-lustiest-lair.html Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 2025-07-06-lustiest-lair comments@shadenexus.ca "🔞 R18" "💿 Darkest Dungeon (2016)" "💿 Lustiest Lair (2022)" https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-06-30-steam-demo-fest-june-2026.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-06-30-steam-demo-fest-june-2026 comments@shadenexus.ca video games recommendations This review has also been posted on Steam and Backloggd. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2024-07-01-concluse2.html Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 2024-07-01-concluse2 comments@shadenexus.ca video games review 💿 Concluse 2 (2023) This post is adapted from my thread on Mastodon where I played a ton of demos during Steam Next Fest. https://shadenexus.ca/blog/posts/2026-03-01-nextfest.html Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2026-03-01-nextfest comments@shadenexus.ca video games review