Hey folks! An Alberta animal rescue has opted to decline a donation due to the origins (there's an entire history with that business). People are already harassing the organization on Facebook for not caring about the animals, etc. If you can, please donate: tailstotell.ca/donate/

guess tanks and support classes just have to hold it same as always

We're back, and we have so many shennanigans.

"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors. Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life. www.mygrandfatherscat.ca

You know that the shingles vaccine not only keeps you from getting shingles, it reduces your dementia risk? Yeah. That's a thing. I am practically counting the days to get mine. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

So you think you're emotionally prepared enough for this level of puns? @marykirby.bsky.social 's season 1 scripts beg to differ. As our profound THANK-YOU to our supporters, you can find them on www.patreon.com/cw/NorthMist... available to our members of the "Cup o' Brew" tier and higher! ❤️🗡️🍁

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

I apologize in advance for the puns in all the scene names.* *not really.

Happy Dragon Age Day! I'll be posting some things I've made this year! Here's my second post: I've been animating the Inquisition creature codex! This one happens to feature "Tuskets", written by @briannebattye.bsky.social! Enjoy! #dragonageday #dragonage

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Should also mention that the extended cut (2hr) Tent Talk is available on Patreon, free to tier members. We go into depth about crafting narrative, stories from our careers and more about a brand new video game that may or may not exist. Mostly we just laugh a lot. www.patreon.com/posts/season...

Happily sharing the upcoming Veilguard livestream featuring an awesome cast of folks! I was writer-on-call for a bunch of @willynilly123.bsky.social 's recording sessions. He brought tons of life and care to Lucanis and Thedas!

This cover was even stolen ones by one of those T-shirt scam places! Like, this book gets hit so much, so if you could show it some love that would be great.

ANYWAY, please go and listen to THE CONCIERGE, brought to you by the real humans at @northmiststudios.bsky.social Season 2 (🎉🎉🎉) drops December 16, so you have time to catch up.

Sunday, November 23 - 10:30 AM Alberta Legislature Transgender Day of Remembrance rally “We gather to honour those we’ve lost, to uplift our trans community, and to stand united in the face of harmful legislation and escalating attacks. The UCP’s attacks won’t stand. Alberta is better than this.”

Chris Scott composed our theme song (he's also the voice of Steward!) Should check out his stuff when you get the chance. Andrew Sutherland is our other composer who did the club music, pin ball machine music and a bunch of others in there! All super talented local Edmonton folks ❤️

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Love you @scrivenerapp.bsky.social, glad you’re not buying into this shit

What a delight! Such awesome folks here!

It’s what the cool kids are doing.

You have no idea how much this made my day.

Office romances are... complicated... Do assassins even have HR? youtube.com/shorts/57IFz... The Concierge Episode 4, Written by @marykirby.bsky.social

Some lovely, and much appreciated, coverage of Malys! www.pcgamesn.com/malys/out-no...

🍂 Sharing eerie and autumnal pieces every Monday/Friday to Halloween 🎃 Facing monsters in the dark. A Grey Warden story and the start of Evka Ivo's Warden journey. You can read "The Next One" for free here: www.ea.com/en-ca/games/...

Season 1.5 continues with an exciting little update! (And some superb pinball action). "Phone Tag" written by @marykirby.bsky.social and directed by @liljbat.bsky.social Performed by Corben Kushneryk and John Battye Audio by Andrew Sutherland, Colleen Perman and Chris Scott youtu.be/BH9LMRGDTWQ

🍂 Sharing eerie and autumnal pieces every Monday/Friday to Halloween 🎃 "Each Minute Closer" throws off a daily routine as minutes count down to a convergence... Found in "Well, This is Tense: An anthology of second person present horror" from Bag of Bones Press: www.amazon.ca/WELL-THIS-TE...

Season 1.5 Episode 2 “The Concierge Post Mortem: Full Inbox”, written by @marykirby.bsky.social is out now! The Victoria Concierge makes the mistake of checking their voice mail. The Jack of Hearts gets it done… and craves donair. youtu.be/LBmpRILJIYo?...

The first of the Season 1.5 interludes, "Midnight Stroll" is now up on YouTube! Written by @sylviafeketekuty.bsky.social , performed by Lee Savage and edited by Andrew Sutherland The King of Spades calls home in this 100% Canadian Made Audio Drama youtu.be/TmEOfD2tAYw?...

💜🖤💜 Sylvia and I are writing season two of the podcast right now, too.

The thing we love about art, the connection between human beings across time and space and the sharing of emotion and expression, that's the thing the AI backers specifically hate. They just want objects to buy and sell which can't criticize or question them, or ever make them think.

Reminder: This weekend, I'm the game-dev guest of honor at the free virtual SF/F convention, @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! I'll be on a bunch of panels, and my keynote Saturday night is called, "20 Years of Accidental Self-Inserts." You can register here! flights-of-foundry.org

Vogue, I'm sorry. You can't use this thumbnail unless the actual list is: 1. Luring men to their deaths in the bog 2. Keening on the north wind 3. Cursing your enemies 4. Haunting a moor 5. Dancing around cauldrons 6. Lounging over moss-covered bones 7. Communing with spirits 8. Amazon prime

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Season 1.5 of “The Concierge: Post Mortem” begins today! With “Midnight Stroll” written by Sylvia Feketekuty. Join the King of Spades on a walk through Edmonton’s scenic parking lots- content warning in the description. shows.acast.com/the-concierg... www.northmiststudios.com

The sun is shining, autumn is here and Season Finale, Episode 6 of "The Concierge: Post Mortem" is now up on YouTube! youtu.be/K196VnidKzo

We had some technical difficulties, but now Episode 5 of The Concierge is on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnu...

And we’re now live! shows.acast.com/the-concierg... Huge thanks to the entire pile of supporters, talent and businesses that gave us their trust and embraced our nuttiness. Murder, Mayhem and Maple Syrup

It’s and insanely busy time at the studio for us- but never the less! Episode 6, the season 1 finale of The Concierge: Post Mortem drops tomorrow!

Rian Johnson really just woke up one day and said “that’s it, I’m single-handedly (with my large casts and crews) bringing back the whodunit and making it everyone’s problem”. Good for him!

1. Companies fire employees and replace with gen AI 2. Gen AI makes bad stuff. 3. Companies hire people to fix it (and pay less, because the employees are new/"just" editing/freelances without benefits). 4. Somehow this is hailed as job creation.

Care to take an audio tour of a mall during the zombie apocalypse? My latest short story "Welcome to Spruceway" is available to read for free at Augur: augursociety.org/welcome-to-s...

Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

P.J. is my favorite character. By which I mean I love writing him, but I also want to run him over with a bus.

Gardener and Tilda battle a treacherous server, Aaron "borrows" a Diamond, Mike changes careers (again), Hearty asks the 10 of Clubs for help and P.J. ...tries. Episode 5 of The Concierge: Post Mortem now live on ApplePodcast, Spotify and Acast! (YouTube is giving grief this morning... 🗡️)

My tinfoil hat theory: The area of space the Corporation Rim occupies is the interstellar equivalent of an artificial island. A whole galactic arm made of compacted trash.

I was not prepared for my tiny fan-trained tree to produce two pounds of fruit every couple days. Anybody have a good recipe for Greengages they want to share before I drown in plums?

"By far the biggest expense when making games is salaries." Whose salaries?

Age verification bills are bad for a lot of reasons. Check up on what your governments are doing, especially if it involves facial recognition, because that's a privacy nightmare.

*stares into the middle distance*