by Zora Gilbert | Jan 27, 2025 | Lists, Roundtables, Video Games
Up here in the northern hemisphere, we’ve entered my favorite time of year: cold season. The Pacific Northwest isn’t known for snow, but we usually get a day or two of pillowy, soft snow that becomes sheets of horrible ice that don’t melt for a week or more. I don’t care about that. I care about the nip in the air. I care about the fact that I can layer my clothing until I look more like the Michelin man than anything. It’s tights season, baybeeee, and I am thrilled to be here. (more…)
Zora Gilbert cares a whole lot about words, kids, and comics. Find them at @zhgilbert on twitter, and find the comics they edit at datesanthology.com.
by Madison Butler | Aug 19, 2024 | Roundtables, Video Games
How much time is too much time to spend playing a game? How short can a game be while still feeling like an interesting and realized world? These questions, oriented around the subjective experience of play, are not the kind typically brought up on the website formerly known as Twitter every time a new $14.99 indie game becomes the subject of… spirited… debate. Have no fear, though: the Sidequest gang has put pen to paper and fingers to keyboard to inject enough nuance into the subject to stop it from being a debate at all.
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Madison Butler is Sidequest’s self-proclaimed jock editor. She co-founded the blog Critsumption and once got really into powerlifting via Fitness Boxing for the Nintendo Switch. She posts about fiber arts @maddilo.bsky.social.
by Madison Butler | Oct 30, 2023 | Lists, Roundtables, Video Games
Once again, October is upon us, heralding all things eerie and ominous: the wind whistling through barren trees on a rainy night; gourds, both ornamental and eaten; bony, oversized lawn ornamentation from a beloved multinational home improvement/lawn and garden center; a preponderance of frightful films, books, and games; and more. (more…)
Madison Butler is Sidequest’s self-proclaimed jock editor. She co-founded the blog Critsumption and once got really into powerlifting via Fitness Boxing for the Nintendo Switch. She posts about fiber arts @maddilo.bsky.social.
by Ennis Bashe | Nov 29, 2022 | Roundtables, Video Games
Welcome to November! Our weather here in the Pacific Northwest went straight from blisteringly hot summer to frozen ground and rain. Though the rapid climate shift left my head spinning, the cold, crisp air has me craving apple cider and pumpkin pie, which are perfectly in theme with this month’s roundtable: harvesting. (more…)
Ennis Rook Bashe is a nonbinary romance novelist, social worker, and cat dad. If you want to read books with badass queer and disabled characters who take care of each other, you can check out their Amazon author page or sign up for their newsletter. For more information about their series following disabled trans people with magical powers, you can follow them on TikTok at @RookTheBird.
by Alenka Figa | Nov 7, 2022 | Roundtables, Video Games
I’ve written pretty thoroughly about how I am a particular type of gamer. I prefer games that are story and relationship focused, and that don’t require a lot of level grinding or random quests. This includes my tabletop play style—apologies to my DM/wife who is sitting on a bunch of Kingmaker sidequests that our party has ignored! Because of my pickiness, I don’t play a lot of games, but lately I’ve been feeling like this framework of “pickiness” is unfair. Am I a gamer aberration? What makes me different from all of you? Why the heck do y’all enjoy repetitive level grinding?! (more…)
Alenka Figa is a queer librarian obsessed with D&D podcasts that have solid queer rep. They frequently tweet about them @alenkafiga. Catch their reviews of zines and indie comics over at Women Write About Comics.
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