Random thoughts from a gal named Gwyn https://shadenexus.ca/blog/ en Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:19:23 +0000 1440 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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/2023-08-15-2499492.html Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 2023-08-15-2499492 comments@shadenexus.ca 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 This blog is by Gwyndolyn Marchant, built with Zoner2000. 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 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 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 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 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 This winter, Blackle sat down and played Anthology of the Killer, one of the greatest pieces of multimedia art of the decade. Among other things, it is about Zine artists, and it felt so inspired by the experience that it decided to make a Zine of its own. It ran out of steam roughly halfway through, and left it on the coffee table with the instruction that I could add to it if I wanted to. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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