Emmeryn, Mistress of Games 🏳️‍⚧️

I have only known about these for one minute and I'm about to buy twenty of them for my workplace

to writing. You should want to look at poetry and prose and lyrics and plays and scripts and articles and everything, because that's where the stories live. You are a social creature. I don't get people who want to limit themselves, that take pride in not exciting their bubble. How lonely

Your work exists within the world. You do need to read, and watch, and play, and listen, because if you aren't how can you write a world into a story? There's only so much you can manifest in absence. You need to see beyond yourself, however that may be presented, and reading is as close as possible

People's insistence that you don't need to read in order to write is technically accurate, there is nothing stopping you, but why would you willfully shortchange yourself? There is a whole world of writing to look at, to draw from, to work within and around and through. You should want to see it?

Sometimes you gotta watch someone doing wild Tony Hawk shit and get that pang of "I want to be better at this" and go roll around at the skate park until you can do an ollie

But, you know. with writing

Real shit: reading Maria Ying made me a better writer

A screenshot from itch.io dashboard showing views over the past two weeks. It jumps from around 30 per day on average to 80+ per day in the last two days.

I cannot stress enough how important it is that you recommend indie TTRPGs you like online. Someone on Reddit asked for a game rec, only like 3 out of 20 people said my game, but it made for a massive wave of visits to the Itch page. Word of mouth is real.

www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

Had a consultation for an orchi today and was disappointed to be reminded that I need not one but two letters to have it done

Said to the doctor "yeah, I'm just trying to get the ball rolling" and had to restrain myself from adding "both of them, even"

I like your sci-fi boat, it's rad and full of spheres

Some day I will actually need to learn how a boat works

Despite never sailing a day in my life, I have once again somehow written myself into another nautical story

#flowersteel

this just made it click for me: elon thinks he is the one that is going to create roko's basilisk, so to him grok must either "grow up" to become roko's basilisk, or he has wasted his life and only has the pedophilia robot to show for it

lol. lmao even

I've got another book that is narrated by a character who is cobbling together the story from interviews done after the events of the story, sometimes dramatizing events to fill gaps and writing footnotes to editorialize. She shows up in the story and it shifts to her perspective. I'm playing toys

Read more books and you'll find authors are doing ever weirder things than having the characters talk to you. Wait till you hear about first person present tense

I was considering doing the three major players in first, second, and third. The words are my plaything and you're just going to have to buck up and muscle through it for the love of the game

Seeing people who are allergic to first person is so funny. I've got a character in the book I'm working on whose sections are all in second person, and I think that would make some people's heads explode

My tenets for the editing process:
- Make it more anime
- Make it more fucked up
- Turn everything already anime or fucked up to 11
- Can't get any gayer? Make it gayer anyway

There are mechs everywhere, for those with the eyes to see them

You said the magic words! (HC prequel, more Elysium stories, Athena) 👀

I don't remember what podcast it was and it may be lost to time, but they were very understanding and gracious and we got back on track and recorded a whole episode

And yet I still remember this sometimes and feel myself slowly disintegrating from embarrassment

Have you ever been an extremely shy introvert, completely new to podcasting, slightly underqualified to appear on this particular podcast, and then inadvertently cause a fifteen to twenty minute disruption that made recording impossible?

This might have been the most mortifying thing to ever happen

The first time I ever guested on a podcast, it was scheduled to record right when my family usually ate dinner. I said okay, I'll be back in ten minutes, and saw that there was a "away" button in the app (this might have been before Skype), so I hit that

Fellas... that button played hold music

I do think there are some things worth watching (a highlight for me is how they handle Elliot Page coming out between seasons 2 and 3 by going "okay, your character is also trans now"), you just gotta get out before the last season kicks you down the stairs

It has all of the elements of things I'm down for! if it was a short story I would have been like "wow, how poignant and thought provoking"

But this was at the end of four seasons of television, using only contrivances introduced in that season, and which devoted 95% of its time to other plots

Curious, do you think that outcome was baked in from day one (what's more on the nose than making his last name White), or did white supremacy gradually become the logical terminus once the story's dominos started toppling?

I know for a fact my girl Isadora is hanging out with a buff tiger woman, so I feel like someone is already doing this with or without permission...

"You really have to do a lot of savescumming to see the Apollo boss fight in act 2, but it's fucking fire"

Stinger: beneath a tree in the park, a ring of flowers rapidly grow, one for each of our sacrificed heroes.

Yeah. That's the last shot of the show.