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I did it. I gave a workshop at CERN and I didn't die! We did breathing, yoga, free writing, tarot exercises, branching narratives, meaningful choices & procedural generation! I referenced the work of @larianstudios @framebunker @martinpi @mtrc @iotar & more.

@viperwave store.steampowered.com/app/4396770/Sp…

If you are making a weird indie game and you have a demo you need to let me know.

@NaraeVLee Definitely "Saint of Bright Doors" by Vajra Chandrasekera - I read it last year & regularly see moments from it dancing in my mind 🙇‍♀️

@WholeTimeDavid I think “Pilgrim” by Mitchell Luthi might be right up your street

Month later I’m still thinking about Lapvona. That book was so good. What are more good “peasants starving and dying of the plague and there is a crazy lord/bishop villain character” books and don’t say mf Between Two Fires please

@kyotocosmology I only come back here to like your posts, maybe that can cancel it out 😀

ppl still ask me why I haven't left twitter. & honestly it's bc there's a longtime mutual who's never liked any of my posts & I am determined to get that like

@kyotocosmology Reading “The Wolves of Eternity” by Knausgaard at the moment and big agree - I am learning a lot about mycorrhiza!!

Most importantly put them in your work. Nothing makes me happier than reading an aside in a novel or an incidental convo in a game which is clearly the author's random fact fixation

I'm not going to post here anymore. I'm over at Bluesky now: it's pretty nice so far. I come back here now & then to check on folks who are only here, but it feels like every time I come back it's worse & more depressing. It used to be so wonderful! If you move over, add me ❤️

@NeuralBricolage It’s very nice over on Bluesky now. I only come here to check on a few people I miss these days! Maybe you’d like it there also?

You can’t be heard though this circus whatever you post , I totally give up

@tinyrevver I hope February has a lot of really delightful days for you Sara ❤️

Just emerging from a painful fug of flu, extra rough PMS, and a breakup. Hello February, what you got in store???

@kyotocosmology Also planning an afternoon lunch somewhere glorious, just to bait the hook!

@alphachar 👀

The Warburg Institute have finally opened up bookings for their tarot exhibition which is on until April (I've been checking every few days!). Mar and I will be visiting on April 4th if any London friends want to join us! It looks absolutely BRILLIANT: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/tarot-o…

@SonnyClane @writewithlaika @martinpi Sorry! But you can make your own with a tiny bit of elbow grease - I made a how-to video: youtu.be/VWnuKb2qmLg

@writewithlaika @alphachar @martinpi I just found out about LAIKA only to be struck by the terrible knowledge that she has been put down 😭😭😭

Today it's time to say goodbye to the Writers Room. AI has moved fast and furious in the last few months - & while we were able to grow our product to over 10000 users, unfortunately we couldn’t attract enough paying customers to make it economically viable.

@dirigiblebill Congrats Edwin!!

Supervisors signing off on final submission of my no-longer-endless PhD.

@Austen My aunt made us one of my grandmother's recipes this year and it was definitely the hit gift!

Christmas gift from my grandma this year: A 380-page, full-color cookbook with all of her favorite recipes she’s collected over the past 70+ years. She spent the past few years typing out her hundreds of handwritten recipe cards and taking photos of everything she makes.

New year, new edition of my game writing course at the @IrishWritersCtr! If you know anyone who would enjoy getting weird with words, send em this way 🙏

@tapir_worf Con Air!

i want to watch an epic top budget action movie - no superheroes - made between 1990 and 2010 - wife has to like it too what do you got for me, chat?

If you know anyone interested in learning about writing for games, I'm running another course at the @IrishWritersCtr after my last one sold out! The next one will be across 4 evenings, starting mid-January 🙏 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writin…

@kyotocosmology I still haven’t even read MJH’s new one so if I add that to the pile I’ll be very happy in the break!

@alphachar It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over also highly recommended by MJH & rebecca tamas, I'm going to read it over the break maybe with Empusium

Fav reads of '24 before I've read everything I want to bc I live dangerously. Full deets in alt text Danez Smith, Yuzszcuk, Khalifeh (🙏), Elle Nash, Bullwinkel, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Cordova, Isabella Hammad, Erpenbeck, Izumi Suzuki, K-Ming Chang, Ramayya, Calleja, Emily Carroll