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LONER_DOG is the most disruptive (yet humanist) piece of art I have consumed in my entire life, full stop and without competition.
Whereas the majority of current trans representation and advocacy is optics-oriented and often even apologetic, LONER_DOG unflinchingly and unashamedly yells "FUCK YOU!! LOOK AT ME!!" straight in the face of cisgender society and then spits in its eye.
Many of LONER_DOG's metaphors and lines of dialogue are unsettlingly deep-cut archetypal ideas pulled from the bottom of the collective unconscious sludge of the chronically online transfem community. At times it felt as if LONER_DOG was reading my mind, crawling through its oft-avoided alleyways and drainage tunnels and showing me grainy flip-phone photos of the long decomposed skeletons it found. In its ~5 hour runtime, LONER_DOG made me throw up two times, and cry at least four.
LONER_DOG does not ask of you to accept or even sympathize with its characters. It simply asks you to bear witness to the absurdity of lifestyles and behaviors that can occur when the world refuses to interface with you on even a surface level. In LONER_DOG's interrogation of your capacity for tolerance of the most extreme and depraved margins of the transfeminine world, it ultimately asks if you are capable of tolerating yourself. (Which you'll likely find to be quite palatable in comparison.)
There is much more to be said about LONER_DOG, but really, it speaks for itself. Stop reading this and play LONER_DOG right now. (Much like the lives of its characters, LONER_DOG is best enjoyed drunk and high out of your mind.)
From a 25 year old tgirl struggling to find a crack to fit into in the world, thank you Remilia, Blood Machine, Jane Gorelove, red_kino, and Henni for creating this piece of art that has so aggressively shifted my perspective on life.
