Elizabeth Little

Painted model of a ball-shaped space pod with gripping arms and a cannon on the top. The cockpit has a red hatch. There are various small decals and a 'EFSF' logo on the side.

Added some waterslides to Round Friend (MG Ball ver. Ka)

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

If it washes out or goes a weird green, I'll complain about it on a clay tablet.

So obsessed with Ea-Nasir memes that I had my hair dyed shitty copper (I actually think it's a really nice shade and am very happy with it, but it amused me that it was called copper and that I picked it without knowing that).

I feel this. My Vampire games were usually like six sessions of extremely sad goth stuff and poignant conversations punctuated by an entire session that was doing its best impression of a John Woo movie.

Just watched this last night in a black and white double feature with His Girl Friday. Very good movie, I enjoyed it a lot.

Costume, black and purple dress with a cape and a choker. A little fake blood around the neck. Wearing a black ball mask and realising now that I forgot the tiara. Holding a prop head with a lovely pink wig of exactly the colour I would love to dye my hair but am not allowed to.

Costume! Forgot to put the black tiara on for the photo. Oh, I have to do a parents evening dressed like this. Hehe.

Going to work on World Book Day as Princess Langwidere this year. I will be happy if a single person gets it.

Book cover for Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The cover depicts Carmilla leaning her head against Laura's while she embraces her, Laura doesn't shy away from Carmillas touch but seems shy to reciprocate. They're framed by a red pointed arch, a devil and an angel and some baroque ornaments.

A crop.

Carmilla 🩸🖤

Unpainted miniature diorama of the abyssal labyrinth in a small wooden box.

Unpainted miniature diorama of the abyssal labyrinth in a small wooden box with tiny figures populating it.

Close up of a miniature Errol standing by a door, base coated but unfinished.

Close up of a miniature Errol standing by a door, wearing a long coat and a scarf with a red and green pattern.

Some work in progress pictures.

It was so difficult to resist sharing this before your birthday.

I deleted the thread on emotional crash outs because I can say it more succinctly like this:

Check on your emotionally reserved friends. A lot of us don't express distress openly and many people mistake that for invulnerability or hypercompetence. I find that especially true among trans people.

I'd potentially be interested.

Yeah, that's what I heard about him.

I haven't read it, but it was on my list. I think it was recommended to me by someone when I was looking for something as bleak as Peter Watts' Starfish. I fear that I am inclined towards nihilism. Although, from what I understand, it has taken me to a very different place than Bakker.

I have a friend who hasn't read the non-Culture ones for a similar reason. Once they're over, there will never be anything else. So he's pacing himself. I don't think I could have, but I understand the feeling.

Good choice. I know at least one other person who rates it amongst their favourites and I hold them in the highest regard.

Friends definitely know mine by now.

Simmons' politics, to be clear. Banks remains my favourite author.

Simmons'. Sorry, I should have been clearer.

I'm not really going anywhere with this. Just that I recently learned of Simmons' death and don't really know how to feel about it.

However, my later understanding of his politics made it difficult for me to recommend. In much the same way that I resonated with Ender's Game as a child and then learned that its author would not have thought much of me.

When Iain Banks passed away, I was sad about the death of my favourite author and that I would never be able to read a new book of his. There was a time when I was younger that Dan Simmons might have been my favourite author. The Hyperion Cantos is perhaps my favourite work of science fiction.

The culture resists it and I don't know that it can change while upsetting somebody important can end a career. Also, Real Criticism takes real effort and cheap shots are easy. I will, however, continue to lament that the standards for good writing in gaming spaces are so low.

'On accident' is the one that gets me. It's not a state of being, it's how something happened. It should be 'by accident' like 'by mistake'. You wouldn't say 'on mistake'.

Shigurui was a fun one.

got laid off this morning, send thoughts prayers and freelance work my way! </3

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, I meant the game. Lake Mungo is one of my favourites. Tied with Noroi as my favourite mockumentary/found footage type movies.