WELCOME BACK TO THE TERRORDROME. Can you believe it’s been an entire year?

I launched this newsletter in October of last year, motivated mainly by my aversion to social media platforms. The sole platform I maintain a presence on, bluesky, was (and is) experiencing frequent blackouts as the result of being a vibe-coded mess.

But all online platforms inevitably meet the same fate, don’t they? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about resuming my print self-publishing practice.

In the meanwhile, I think the newsletter has been a good way to force me to have public, tangible work to show off every month.

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ANNA ANTHROPY PATCH NOTES: OCTOBER 2026

• On Wednesday, November 11, I’ll be giving a free online talk about shareware as part of the Public Knowledge seminar series. Tune in!

• It’s in Your House is a new collection of domestic horror micro-rpgs. It’s an expansion on The Maw, a 29-word horror game I wrote in 2023 and still one of my favorite pieces of design. I spend a lot of time at home because of my disability, and I’m fascinated by the home as a site of horror.

• Degenerates is a local (Chicago-based) magazine of (really good imo) transsexual erotic art and writing. Issue 7 – the bondage issue – includes a short story by me, The Office Faggot, excerpted below. It’s a “free use” story about the duality of being a trans woman with an office job.

• I’ve released digital copies of Five Small RPGs, the zine I created for CIGS last month. It’s a pretty good introduction to my tabletop RPG work, I think.

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THE HAUNTED GALLERY

Illustrations from It’s in Your House, created with old catalog images from the 1920s to 50s I found on archive.org. I printed these out, modified them with charcoal and white-out, and then scanned them all funny to produce the final images.

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THE OFFICE FAGGOT

"Finally, what you've been waiting for." Carrie opens the door for you. "Tah dah, the break room. Keuring packets are in the cupboard. There's a pretty long line in the morning so my advice—Oh. I see you've noticed the Office Faggot."

Hearing its name, the Faggot dumbly turns its head toward the two of you, making a muffled noise.

"The—?" you say.

"What, you haven't worked in an office before?"

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A POSTCARD I FOUND AT THE WASTE SHED

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WHAT HAVE I BEEN PLAYING CORNER

• Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists. Listen: I’m a long-time A# fan. I still have my King of Dragon Pass cd-rom. But the die-rolling system that powers this game is completely obtuse to me. I was also absolutely flummoxed that nothing about characters carries over between runs. That seems like a missed opportunity.

• Powder. I’ve been spending a lot of time in bed lately, and this Gameboy Advance roguelike – in the original meaning of that term – has been my go-to. I like how wildly different each starting character can be, and how the game encourages a certain amount of recklessness that similar games punish.

• Penguin Colony. An investigation of the intersections between Lovecraft, the Antarctic, white supremacy and penguins. I got lost so often, especially in the more closed and cramped areas, but love a lot of what the game is doing. I saw a take online that the Maori characters were the real colonizers because of their oppression of the Great Old One and had to log off.

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THE CHICAGO BEARS: WILLOW AND PEBBLE CORNER

Continuous updates on the new little guys I live with.

C recently reorganized the closet, disrupting Pebble’s previous hiding spot. As consolation, xe built him a throne of soft blankets layered on a big cardboard box. Pebble loves it, and has been living the life of a little prince.

Miss Willow has a lot of food hangups and I Get It. We recently had to switch her food from a bowl to a flat plate because she stopped eating from the bowl. She likes to do high-speed parkour laps around the apartment. Willow is a treasure and we love her.

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Year two under the Terrordrome has begun. I advise you to shelter in place. From our terrordrome to yours: Stay soft, stay strong, stay nasty.