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Do It for Ashley Johnson: A Last of Us Playthrough
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Reading 11: I Think This Has Devolved into a Pokémon Blog, I’m Sorry Ashley Johnson
Reading 11: I Think This Has Devolved into a Pokémon Blog, I’m Sorry Ashley Johnson
So this past weekend, instead of accomplishing literally any homework, I decided to watch Griffin McElroy’s “Nuzlocke Run” of Pokémon Y…
Abigail Gervase
Apr 23, 2019
Reading 10: Once Again, Not Sure How to Relate Ashley Johnson to This Week’s Blog but She’s Still…
Reading 10: Once Again, Not Sure How to Relate Ashley Johnson to Th...
So I have to be honest, I have little to no interest in online gaming. Like, the most I have ever done in online gaming has either been…
Abigail Gervase
Apr 15, 2019
Reading 09: Ashley Johnson Doesn’t Fully Relate to This Week’s Readings but I Still Love Her
Reading 09: Ashley Johnson Doesn’t Fully Relate to This Week’s Read...
Reading about GamerGate and playing Depression Quest was really interesting this week. I don’t think I necessarily like Depression Quest…
Abigail Gervase
Apr 7, 2019
Week 8: Something Something Ashley Johnson (listen it’s been a long semester)
Week 8: Something Something Ashley Johnson (listen it’s been a long...
So last week’s reading talked a bit about imaginative play, which is where people chose to read certain characters as queer despite not…
Abigail Gervase
Apr 1, 2019
Week 7: (spoilers) Ashley Johnson’s Character is Canonically Queer
Week 7: (spoilers) Ashley Johnson’s Character is Canonically Queer
Honestly, the main thing I didn’t like about this week’s reading is that it kind of “investigated” queer gamers as though there was…
Abigail Gervase
Mar 25, 2019
Week 6: I Don’t Think I Understood This Week’s Reading and at This Point I’m Too Afraid to Ask
Week 6: I Don’t Think I Understood This Week’s Reading and at This ...
So the reading this week covered… a lot, but one thing I think was interesting was the discussion of hypermasculine characters. Burrill…
Abigail Gervase
Mar 19, 2019
Week 5: There’s definitely Fridging but At Least It’s Not Ashley Johnson, I Guess?
Week 5: There’s definitely Fridging but At Least It’s Not Ashley Jo...
So after watching Sarkeesian’s videos, I want to go back to a point in the game that I kind of mentioned as being bad but definitely…
Abigail Gervase
Feb 24, 2019
Week 4: It’s Verging on Creepy that Ashley Johnson’s Name is in All of My Blog Titles but I’ve…
Week 4: It’s Verging on Creepy that Ashley Johnson’s Name is in All...
So first of all, I totally read the wrong article for last week, but we’re gonna take another look at the graphics and visualization of…
Abigail Gervase
Feb 18, 2019
Week 3: Ashley Johnson Is Voicing a Teenager and They Didn’t Make It Creepy Thank God
Week 3: Ashley Johnson Is Voicing a Teenager and They Didn’t Make I...
This week’s reading about the sexist portrayal of characters in video games touched a lot on how female sprites in video games are often…
Abigail Gervase
Feb 10, 2019
Week 2: Ashley Johnson’s Character Saves Me with Her Switchblade
Week 2: Ashley Johnson’s Character Saves Me with Her Switchblade
This week in my The Last of Us play through, the player character Joel and the NPC Tess had to guide A̶s̶h̶l̶e̶y̶ ̶J̶o̶h̶n̶s̶o̶n̶ Ellie…
Abigail Gervase
Feb 4, 2019
Week 1: I “Casually” Find Ashley Johnson’s Character
Week 1: I “Casually” Find Ashley Johnson’s Character
For this week, I played the first few encounters of The Last of Us. Narratively, over the course of these encounters I saw the main…
Abigail Gervase
Jan 27, 2019
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