developers are not forced to include diversity in their games. trust me: if they were, we’d see so much more of it. the truth is that a lot of us are just gay and not white, and everyone else who cares about the medium as an art form is tired of telling the same stories.

Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦 Sign up for updates here: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

The appropriate place to talk about stuff you don't like, if you are a fellow writer in that medium or an adjacent one, is a private group chat where you and your friends can deliver sick burns without yourself turning into the sad literary version of Nicki Minaj and Cardi B.

Tor is putting our entire mercenary librarians series on sale next month so I mean if someone I trusted wanted to ask me about becoming a 3d printing book nerd community organizer and how it feels to be tagged every time a plot point in the books come true... GREAT TIME LOL 😭😭😭

There is a reason I talk a lot about shows, games, and books I love and not about the ones I hate. Whether your feelings are broad or nuanced, best way not to get taken outta context is to avoid talking shit about stuff someone else bled for.

TTRPGs for Trans Rights Idaho is live! Get over 500 games for as little as $5 (or more, if you're able)! All proceeds benefit @tccidaho.bsky.social & @transaffirminc.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg...

I'm on Patreon! Here you will find updates on my projects, thoughts on the creative process, and other fun things I'd like to share. www.patreon.com/BrianneBattye

It is once again a hard day to not be rooting for Boston in the PWHL.

The deadline for Hugo nominations is March 28th. For short story consideration, my story Welcome to Spruceway came out last year with Augur magazine. A rundown mall, an audio tour, and finding community in the zombie apocalypse. augursociety.org/welcome-to-s...

Very seriously, when I saw the news on this, I also went, "Guelph? Like, our Guelph?"

I have a question, because I have no clue. what do people charge for serial fiction? I know that people do such things. No, I do not have a serial. It's a thought that is threatening to distract me from writing so I'm throwing it here so it will leave me alone while I'm busy

Is it shit-stirring if I, a bi writer of sapphic romance, point out that Heated Rivalry has one bi lead character, Bridgerton did a bi character this past season, and that Francesca looks to be bi as well? Can we get away from the “gay men versus lesbians” reductionism, as a treat?

Hello everyone: Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Sylvia, these process descriptions are all well and good, but what size is this Unnamed Horror Project, AKA the UHP? How long will it be?”

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

Repost for the evening crowd... Or late night... Or nearly tomorrow... Wherever you are :)

Yet again r/roadtrips is valiantly trying to save a European from their carefully planned itinerary

Looking forward (glass-half-full version) to all the new allies we're gonna get.

Hey! I'm signing at Gabi's Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, Washington on Saturday! And THEY TAKE PHONE ORDERS!!!

As women and feminists, we reject the attack on trans people's rights, freedom and healthcare access undertaken in our name. www.womenfortransrights.ca?recruiter_id...

As a lady of a certain age who thoroughly enjoyed enjoying HP with her children as they grew up: Fuck this IP and JKR for the harm she’s done with the money and socio-political capital she’s found herself with, much on the backs of the oddballs and misfits who trusted her. All the way to hell.

Gamification works well for a lot of things, but be aware of what you are allowing to gamify its experience to build a habit with you.

Device hoarding is not a thing. It's called, "This works fine and I will use it until it stops working entirely."

You have to cultivate your own opinions, I'm begging you! Intentionally pick something you would not usually prefer and see if you like it! Take a chance on someone's weird or unusual recommendation! Try a badly rated thing and see how it hits you! Your life can be so much richer than you expect!!!!

My name is Ann and I'm joining Petty AF Anonymous because I just paid $70 to a Canadian software company for a year of PDF editing so I never have to pay @adobe.com a dime because they're full of shit.

There are things that aren't for me that I decided WERE for me because they changed me as a person. There are things that aren't for me that I enjoyed as a tourist visiting once. There are things that aren't for me that I didn't like but still think the world of fiction is better for including!

one hundred percent. i also think this happens in reverse where folks will just personally not like something or maybe it triggers jealousy inside of them or something, so they think 'i dont like this THEREFORE IT MUST FUNDAMENTALLY AND OBJECTIVELY BE BAD ART' then we end up with a substack article

Very much second this.

Albertans, please sign this letter to your MLA to support accessibility and catch us up to the rest of Canada. share.nwmd.social/s/QOfW4mJJ

My coworker is really rubbing in her lack of morning meetings.

The biggest movie is about science bros and the power of friendship and sacrifice, the biggest TV show is about good people doing their best under impossible circumstances to help suffering people, even under our culture’s institutionalized greed and cynicism, people are desperate for fellowship.

Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Watched the opening 10-15 minutes of a straight-to-video 90s martial arts movie that commits the cardinal sin of having bad opening fights. I can handle a martial artist working his way through his lines as a professor in bulky clothes to hide being ripped, but the fights gotta be good, y’all.

“Well, it’s in the grown-up section of the library, not the kids’ section, but I liked those Xanth books, so surely Bio of a Space Tyrant will be up my alley.” Young Trick had some uncomfortable feelings.

Today!!

I think a lot of struggling children grow up and trade self-loathing for loathing of others, declare themselves superior to get out from under feeling inferior. The lucky ones grow a little bit more and realize *no* one has to be inferior for others to survive. It's okay for us ALL to be loved.

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

Absent functional checks and safeguards, assume any authoritative power we make possible will be used by law-enforcement agents and wealthy assholes to attack people they hold grudges against. This ALWAYS happens. "We need this power unchecked to stop bad guys," and then they stalk their exes.

Signing for BATWOMAN #1 tomorrow, Saturday 21 March, at @cosmicmonkeycomics.bsky.social in Portland, noon to 2pm! I'll be the guy behind the table with all the Sharpies!

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Almost Had One More Choice At The End That Got Cut https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-veilguard-solas-decision-ending-inquisitor-2000680649

Happy friday!!! We're closing up shop TONIGHT, which means it's your last chance to raid our supply of hex fidgets at a lovely 20% off! Thank you so much for everyone who shopped & for all the good wishes. I'm nervous but excited to have a working hand again! So grab a hex! thebrokencircle.etsy...

One of my biggest struggles is peeling the language we use to stigmatize mental health out of my language. It's so embedded in the way we react to things that feel outrageous and evil and incompetent, and that right there is reason enough to make the effort. I'm not always perfect but I try!

A friend got me into a new word game on Merriam-Webster called Reunion, and I find it interesting how, looking at my past scores (1-3 Stars), I can reliably see periods when I was stressed out by the scores being worse. "Oh yeah, that's when I was sick!" www.merriam-webster.com/games/reunion

How many layoffs can a studio do aftermath.site/crystal-dynami...

I think game devs should have the right to challenge their big AAA CEO or the shareholders to a fistfight and if they win they get to run the company

I think my favorite part of this suit is where the guy who was suing because Afroman said he fucked his wife said on the witness stand that he did not know for sure that Afroman did not fuck his wife.

Random update: I also said, "And it's kind of, I dunno, shrill or something in a funny way?" and without missing a beat, my kid, starting university in the fall, says, "Oh yeah, they played up the orchestral performances to signal the heroism as humorous," and like oh, right, he's an adult now.

Where do rainbows go when they break the law? Prism. They get a light sentence. It gives them time to reflect.

I have what I am 90% sure is the start-screen music from some game stuck in my head, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what game it is. This could be the end.

Reminder that I'll be at @bwp-eug.bsky.social tomorrow - Wednesday - signing from 5:30 to 7:00pm!