after being on the move for 30 hours I am in Japan and I have eaten a custard tayaki, which was immediately was worth it

managed to finish up my second (and last) WIP project before i get on a long plane tomorrow: what exactly is so compelling about playing games that overlay the real world? youtu.be/pEhK3TYfix4

i've mentioned this before but genuinely one of my favourite things i've done is get annoyed about how people were talking about [specific online phenomenon] and now the wikipedia page for [specific online phenomenon] is taken almost entirely from my article and not the more popular, wrong take 😌

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

managed to finish up my second (and last) WIP project before i get on a long plane tomorrow: what exactly is so compelling about playing games that overlay the real world? youtu.be/pEhK3TYfix4

me: making art is difficult. criticism is harsh and cruel. doctor: treatment is simple, stay away from your worst critics. go spend time by yourself me, bursting into tears: but doctor,

there's 3 games i want to put in conversation right now but one of them is under embargo, one of them is everybody's fav and they hate to see any criticism of it, and one of them i don't want to spoil for my close friends specifically. truly i suffer more than god

trying to get back into the habit of making videos again because i have Ideas; here's a warmup recreation of an Unwinnable essay I wrote on the differences in momentum in Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2 youtu.be/bMc7LcaPfxM

trying to get back into the habit of making videos again because i have Ideas; here's a warmup recreation of an Unwinnable essay I wrote on the differences in momentum in Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2 youtu.be/bMc7LcaPfxM

as far as validation goes, x reader fanfic about a character i had a narrative hand in is pretty up there

i have to keep reminding myself to not let that survivorship bias plane image stop me from doing things

DIEGO AND I ARE IN JAPAN YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO US

i have been so run off my feet lately but I should probably mention that I will be at Tokyo Game Show at the end of the month! let me know if I should say hi and/or write something for you! at SGF last year I seem to recall mostly talking about some sparrows I saw so it'll be insightful I promise!

✨timeline cleanse✨ quote this with your favorite tumblr post

anyway more broadly i am very much in a phase where i mostly do other work and will only write about games if I have something I truly want to explore which is both bittersweet and very relaxing

they followed up on this after laying off two people (that I know of!) in the 3 weeks since their first email! it is frankly very insulting!!

i told my friend i had never seen a bug furry and she said "that's nuts." there are so many experiences in the world and i think that's beautiful

i have been so run off my feet lately but I should probably mention that I will be at Tokyo Game Show at the end of the month! let me know if I should say hi and/or write something for you! at SGF last year I seem to recall mostly talking about some sparrows I saw so it'll be insightful I promise!

friends fear they are buying homeware again

had a dream I ran a marathon and was doing really well until I got lost and then when I did finish nobody saw and the symbolism made me so mad I couldn't fall back asleep

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials. My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

submitted a short story 😌

ok, i had a pretty big editing contract fall through today. luckily, their loss is your gain! i'm an IGF-nominated editor and writer, and the games i've worked on have been very well received. let's talk about what i could do to help your team tell the story you want to tell! email in my pin 💛

PEAKED

ace attorney 7 truthers are stronger than god. ask me how i know

redraws from this awesome little game Many Nights a Whisper by @selkieharbour.com .... 💤 absolutely love how the game capitalizes on its simple style to set up unique shots throughout the story, along with the environmental storytelling. 10/10, will be playing again (i missed the shot. sorry mom.)

this is how you win the time war

sideways adjacent, but i think about this (on Silent Hill 2 2024) all the time

[1000 words into the story about fucked up like monsters who are girls] goddammit this is about the power of friendship AGAIN

I haven't had reliable internet for 4 days. I have finished 3 books and am rotating between 3 others. I have sketched out an a new piece of short fiction. I have listened to, conservatively, 50 hours of podcast. as soon as I have internet again I will surely grind my teeth to dust on bad takes

love Kat's latest piece exploring the gaylor community. very insightful, shrewd rundown of the subfandom and why you can't just write it off as hyper-obsessed delulus. (nor should you ever, generally speaking, write off fans as purely hyper-obsessed delulus!) spitfirenews.com/p/gaylor-sub...

I had a dream last night I lost a really cool opportunity by making a horrific social faux pas and I'm still stewing over it. my fake opportunity :(

This is my first time writing voice-acted characters 😇 (in both English and Japanese!). Denshattack has a massive cast, so it's been a pleasure and a challenge to write so many characters! Can't wait for you to meet (and face) them all!

shot / chaser

i've picked up a habit in my fiction writing (the sudden narratorial zoom out) entirely from listening to Just King Things. I have never read a Stephen King book

just went to check the prescription I was given today because I couldn't remember if I had hit -11 in both eyes yet and found out I am in fact -12/-12.75. lol. lmao

LAST YEAR i went to the opticians and the optician SENT ME TO THE HOSPITAL because i am so short sighted that she did not know what she was looking at. THIS YEAR that did not happen, AND, for the first time EVER, my eyesight has NOT GOTTEN WORSE. those are the Ws we take here

played like 30 minutes of Herdling. nobody knows how to do Going Forward like Okomotive man

hare hare hawk

absolutely horrifying situation just occurred wherein i was trying to pull the country of bulgaria from within my brain and instead could only think "borginia," the fake country from the video game ace attorney investigations

NEW: Microsoft and Bethesda management have yet to respond to an open letter published by members of Arkane Lyon last week calling out the company's ties to the Israeli military I spoke to a worker at the studio about how the letter came to be and what comes next www.gamefile.news/p/arkane-dev...

we've started ace attorney investigations! i have a theory that is developing over the course of this season that it is, in a real sense, fanfiction. this begins with how excited devon is about it. it's a fun season!! open.spotify.com/episode/3lxM...

watching everyone watch the silksong stream

wrote a whole piece before 9am

it's happening again

played Justicar with some friends (specifically the turnabout breakdown crew, natch) and failed to save santa from going down for tax evasion 😔 forktwenty.itch.io/justicar

all i'm saying is that valnet reached out to me about a "staff" position a couple of weeks ago (scare quotes cuz i have to assume they meant permalance) and ignoring them was the politest possible response i could muster

nobody tells you that when you finish a big project and put it aside to "get distance from it" you will spend the following weeks getting absolute crystal clear lightning bolt understandings of how it is so much better and also so much worse than you previously knew

i'm not remaking this to put denshattack! in yet but as a reminder, i can also edit (or write!) on YOUR game