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The End of Evangelion (1997)

This sequence still goes so hard. You get your lil guys looking back over the prelude to their adventure and that SONG picks up? Fuhgeddaboutit.

Nite Computer™, using the computer at night; A Sexy new trend among 30-somehtings.

Top 10 American Poets of the 20th Century: 1. RZA 2. GZA 3. Method Man 4. Ol' Dirty Bastard 5. Inspector Deck 6. Raekwon the Chef 7. U-God 8. Ghostface Killah 9. Masta Killa 10. Paul Simon

Whenever I think about IF in the 2010s, I always notice that game designers were interested in retrofuturist takes on computer desktops. The first one I encountered, Digital: A Love Story, was even designed by someone who didn't grow up with the interfaces central to the game, namely the BBS.

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

It's a beautiful day to support independent criticism Consider throwing Stop Caring a couple of bucks so I can keep paying guest writers

Something about the phrase "instantly unlock Marge!"

The Gnawty, much like the horseshoe crab, is the perfect organism. After time enough for them to be on the fossil record, evolution has dictated there is no need for change.

What a great day to be a bisexual.

Bedtime Story

After months of work (between struggles because who isn't amidst them rn?), my video essay on Star Trek Voyager is finally done and OUT. You can WATCH IT. It is REAL! Please watch it? 🖖🖖 #startrek

I love how @coledone.com shows the parallels between poetic text and the ways that IF can often have both deliberate and accidental poetic language. Poetry and games is a subject that continues to fascinate me because both forms are playful.

Oh hey! I wrote about looking at video games as poems through a poem in video game form (by @ectafoole.bsky.social no less!).

Sorry I just need to alert @sleepisfort.bsky.social real quick that there's a RP alternate start for Starfield.

caves of qud

I'm once again thinking about

This @jjlofflin.bsky.social story from @smokelong.bsky.social is a wild ride. “the way he wrestled with the tiger, how he thrashed first one arm and then the other, made his disguise fall away. It wasn’t much of a disguise if I’m honest.” www.smokelong.com/stories/on-o...

New guest essay for Stop Caring is live! Please read and share! Boen Wang writes about Gran Turismo 7, how the game serves as a museum of car culture, and the ways the game omits the automobile's ties to militarism, fascism and global warning

"Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really normally and didn’t say anything weird or worrying at all."

Oh boy, more people will play Deus E-- aw man, aw man, aw crap.

[Eric Adams]: "Yeah I'm going for 'what if the Byzantine Emperor was Jewish'. Do you have anything in that vein? Maybe something I could wear again as a bathrobe?" [The best tailor in NYC]: "I have just the thing."

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

People: There's a horrible lack of mentorship in this industry. Also people: Reach out? Nah, I'm just here for the pile-on.

"He loved the antenna. He bought it for fifty cents in a Tucumcari costume shop and it paid for his entire trip up from Santa Fe. Twice, the damned thing fell off mid-conversation and he had to hightail it out of the bar" Cooper C. Wilms for @escapepod.org

"He pointed to our father, to our father’s beard, and I saw what he meant, that the beard was slashed through with gray, and our father’s once proud mane was hardly there at all..." @jjlofflin.bsky.social for @smokelong.bsky.social

everybody had fun last night everybody wanged chung last night

Oh hey look at that, @startmenu.bsky.social!

I understand it's part of the game but being told "my work is important and valid" in rejection emails is frustrating. Maybe it's me, but I think I prefer the blunt "we don't want this" at this stage because there's way less room to question "okay well if this is so important why don't you want it?"

Shout out to @trashcatlit.bsky.social for the blind bag of prompts I got for their pop-up. It's the most fun I've had writing in a HOT minute and a good portion of it was banging my head against a wall while saying "Yes but how does THIS fit in there?"

My new article is for Stop Caring is live. A short write-up on Metal Garden by @aleksandraht.bsky.social, how it made me ponder about ideas of 'escape', and how it reflects certain concerns I have about our Real World. It's one of my favorite games of the year. Definitely worth checking out.

The reason we don't see Donkey Kong JR. anymore is because he crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

i also highly recommend ecta foole's qud survival guide on the steam workshop to help you get started in joppa. it's a must-have mod for new players, imo!

In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Wario is like to live as long as Mario

Thinking a lot about digital and physical games right now. I've been primarily digital since the pandemic and, in all honesty, I feel this hollowness when I look at my library. I have a longing for the world in which these many experiences I value are present on a shelf, able to be lent to friends.

🤘🎸THE TESTAMENT OF MYRKUL 🎸🤘

the 3 wise men giving baby jesus cigarettes

"The longing for a time that perhaps never existed (and also to be Mario)."

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

She saved us from nuclear war is what she did. She was an American hero. And in this house, The Boss is a true patriot. End of story.

If Star Trek taught me anything it is that there is always something bad hiding in a nebula.

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

Just watched Star Trek Voyager S06E08, "One Small Step." Going to yap: What makes a good character story? It's demonstrating what a character 1. knows and 2. learns. "One Small Step," impressively, does this for BOTH Chakotay and Seven of Nine. Context and tangents in alt text as you go. 🖖🖖