WELCOME TO THE TERRORDROME. It is lovely to have you.

TERRORDROME DISPATCHES are sent out once a month, and are a great way to keep up with my lovable misadventures.

(I’m also on Bluesky as @cyborgurl.)

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LIFE UPDATE:

Landlord is selling the condo I live in and boyfriend and I are looking for a place. It Is Ass. Apartment-searching as a chair user is always a huge pain; in Chicago, only modern buildings are accessible, and modern buildings are expensive. The city requires a percentage of units in modern buildings be set aside for affordable housing, but they get snatched up very quickly because everyone needs it. What if they simply built more of it? Friend, they will not.

I love living under modern feudalism. If you have a lead on affordable accessible housing in Chicago, let your girl know.

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ANNA ANTHROPY PATCH NOTES: MAY 2026

• I finally, finally launched my new portfolio site at Triple-A-Games.biz. I explored a lot of the website-generating tools, hated them all, and finally resigned myself to writing the site myself in HTML. Give me a job.

• I put together an “art book” (digital pdf only) collecting my pixel and tile art from a decade ago. I tried to represent an artistic practice, including commercial work, non-commercial work, experiments in form, typography and lettering, and porn. A lot of porn. You can find several blog posts with bonus artwork on the itch page.

• Finished a piece of contract work that I am really happy with. You’ll hear about it when it’s live!

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In those carefree days before Jeff Bezos' online bookselling venture really took off, the Amazon was primarily a creature of fantasy. (And a river.) She was a woman warrior, nominally inspired by Greek legend but the modern version drew equally from the "white jungle queen" trope of racist 1940s pulp, a benevolent colonizer who protected The Jungle and its indigenous inhabitants. In contemporary fantasy, she might appear as the prototypical Strong Female Character, as a feral femme with a loincloth, spear and titties, or as some potently messy combination thereof. Xena: Warrior Princess. Jill of the Jungle. Your quintessential Tall Girl.

Shall I tell you of the weight the Amazon held in the imagination of a 12-year-old me? The individual amazon implied the existence of the culture that would have produced her, a society of women warriors existing outside of patriarchal society, with their own laws and traditions and erotically charged internal struggles. An amazon might spar with her rival using a blade she forged herself, not to gain power or position, but simply to see the other woman humbled. Although she lays humiliated on the ground, the loser grins; both women are covered in dirt and blood. Later they will kiss.

—Shareware Made Me Trans

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WHAT HAVE I BEEN PLAYING CORNER

• Mario Bros.: Specifically Mario Bros. Classic (1993) for the European NES. Probably the most "slapstick" game I've ever played, especially with two players. I used to play the 7800 version with my mom when I was little. You could teach an entire class on systems-based game design from this game.

• The Legacy: Realm of Terror: A 1993 attempt to combine Eye of the Beholder-style dungeon crawling with Seventh Guest puzzle-horror themes, it's frequently called an early survival horror because resources are so limited and you spend more time running from monsters than fighting. I found it interesting, but the survival gets in the way of the exploration more than I'd like.

• Red Pearls of Borneo: A very straightforward attempt at creating a visual interface for a Type Help style of game, created while the Roottree people work on their own. Red Pearls is about British colonizers (sympathetic, flawed) being displaced by another colonizing force, Japan (villainous, evil). While Type Help is basically a factory for producing "a-ha" moments, Red Pearls is unfortunately almost completely lacking in them.

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And that’s this month! From our terrordrome to yours: Stay soft, stay strong, stay nasty. And stay cool.