I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

the stars as your guide #super's #FFXV #fanart #comic

Alan Wake 2 #ThePhotoMode #VirtualPhotography #AlanWake2 @remedygames.com @samlakewrites.bsky.social

Welcome to Stories from My Craft, a collection of visual art inspired by videogames. We journey the wild frontier with influences from #Firewatch, #KentuckyRouteZero, and #TheLongDark.

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Welcome to Stories from My Craft: A gallery of artworks inspired by videogames and other media.

December 2025 Writing Update A bunch of things have happened during December, so I figured I'd summarize them here very quickly. If you want more in-depth info, well...subscribe to the newsletter! Same Author, New Newsletter! I announced in mid-November that I moved newsletter platforms from…

Fragments from the Vault #019: Storm Song "I could not fathom the acuteness of your being, Or the seismic quell of your love As you dreamt in the elemental forage of our season, Cracking my chest to traverse your dimensions With an awe that the sea, in its wake, couldn't match." #LifeIsStrange

A few people have shared this here today, so I thought I’d post it.

Revisiting moments of light amidst the darkness: A Celebration of #Pride Featuring guest writers and virtual photographers Craig (Jacob) and Elvira (Judy, Kassandra, Lady Dimitrescu) #LGBTQA+

This is how the pursuit of profit and power ends. This was all preventable, this was all avoidable, but our hubris was inescapable. #Starfield

This sounds amazing. "The project will “contain no sponsorships, product placement, or generative AI, and it will be free to listen, with no predatory pay scheme and no login required.” " They do have a Patreon if you want to show support.

Fragments from the Vault #018: The Long Con "Evenings like this hang by a thread of mutability: When fate plays trickster, you just never know who's gonna step through that door." #TheWolfAmongUs

Oh, hey, I wrote an essay about resisting the rhetoric and logic of apocalypse. It’s about weather, and Texas and lettuce and blue bonnets and poetry and stars, too. kenyonreview.org/piece/alyssa...

"'Remember this silence,' the echoes of INLAND EMPIRE leech out a sinister warning to him. 'The lady is dangerous. People suffer around her.'" - When Mercy is Futile: Klaasje's Fate in #DiscoElysium

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Dream Sequence No. 2 "I was swimming in a sky speckled and concave; I could inhale wet charcoal behind my tongue, and the pavements felt soft and rank as they crumbled out sodden ash. The clouds had dilated to release the rain so I invoked the long walk home." #Papo&Yo

Folk horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that uses elements of folklore to invoke fear and foreboding. Typical elements include a rural setting, isolation, and themes of superstition, folk religion, paganism, sacrifice and the dark aspects of nature.

What Shepard embodies transcends the mantle of leadership, evolving the construct of the epic hero from the traditional singular figurehead into a unity of beliefs, convictions, and revelations of which she becomes a living symbol." - Fetch Quest Journeys Special: The Paragon (#MassEffect)

I have so much #VirtualPhotography that I haven't posted yet from this game, there'll be enough to last until my next replay... 😅 #ACVPThursday #AssassinsCreedOrigins #AssassinsCreed #VPRepost #VPSupport #CreedScholarsVP #blackandwhite

Fragments from the Vault #016: The Shepard's Lament (from Song of the Rachni) "And it was then when our joy became vassals of mourning, As though the magnitude of your love became so fierce It shook the lost vaults of Ilos itself..." #MassEffect

Day well spent: went to the #Met in #NewYorkCity #NYC and got to see many cool art pieces, including a special exhibit on painting in Siena, Italy. I ended my tour with my VP muse, #Hekate #sculpture #pottery #AncientGreek

"If the mission is successful the Inquisition will secure an alliance with Thedas' most formidable fleet: The Qun." - In the Name of Sacrifice: Save the Chargers or the Dreadnought in #DragonAgeInquisition (Demands of the Qun)

different views of the orion nebula from hubble 🌌

Fragments from the Vault #015: Midnight Chambers "Her mouth on the cleft of The dew in the heaves of our curves, Frothing and lacerated With the throb of the switch." #ResidentEvilVillage

I don't know if I can be more obvious...

#1979RevolutionBlackFriday is an interactive story which documents the lives of young protestors in Iran. It takes on a different approach from the Western narrative, and understanding the series of events presented is critical to understanding what is happening today.

I've always thoroughly enjoy creating Jurassic Park miniature scenes, I have so many here's just a few...

Fragments from the Vault #014: Invitation to A Winter's Tale "And let us call upon Our hale-hewn hero of Akatosh On the wind-swept sails of Kyne's reverie, Unravelling our meagre thread Of season unending." #Skyrim

Oh hey #PortfolioDay I always forget to join in on this, so hi! I’m Laci, planetary astrophysicist turned space artist. My art is rooted in my science background—sometimes technical, sometimes whimsical. I love painting planets, moons, nebulae, and cloudscapes. ✨ beacons.ai/stellerarts

"We ask 'What is consciousness?' debating the nature of the soul and straddling the distinctions and similarities between the two." - Turning Out the Lights: Consciousness and Existential Grief in #SOMA (Simon of Omicron)

TikTok refugees flooded in Redbook (Xiaohongshu) 😂 Actually it’s a haven for indie devs. Giving it a shot and say hi! In fact, someone might already be recommending your #indiegame, even if you don’t have Chinese localization yet. Quick examples: @calligramstudio.com @alamodegames.bsky.social

Fragments from the Vault #013: It All Goes to Hell at Prospector Saloon "And should I rise from the swell of the corrugated fortress To the quake of a Death Claw you'll know that I've found The tall gates of reckoning..." #FalloutNewVegas

A spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii 🐙 🦞 Some fantastic fishy onlookers too! House of the Geometric Mosaics. On display Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

"Felix is a fraudster, after all - what if Fiona and Sasha were his long-con? Time for the student to usurp the master and let the pyrotechnics work their magic." - Honour Among Thieves: The Felix Dilemma in #TalesFromTheBorderlands (Zer0 Sum)

Fragments from the Vault #012: Of Moonlit Glade in Fever'd Nocturne's Throes (Sonnet VII) "The winsome wraith hath never so bewitch'd One afear'd as I within yonder shade, Yet I thirst for sweet death upon your lips Of which the orchid and the bee doth crave..." #TheWitcher3

Rost 🎮- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered 📷- In Game Photo Mode 🎨- Unedited #HorizonZeroDawnRemastered #HorizonZeroDawn #BeyondTheHorizon #HZDRemastered #VirtualPhotography #VPSupport #VPRepost #VPinBW

"From one gig economy to the next, delivering packages for Cloudpunk is an exciting and lucrative trade but it comes with a caveat: Extreme danger." - Gig Economies and Suspicious Packages Don't Mix in #Cloudpunk

MOODY #ACFirstCivVP #TheCapturedCollective

Fragments from the Vault #011: Goodbye to Jig-Jig Street "The Tyger won't get off my back / Though I cull their bitter feast - / It's been undone and all but won, Goodbye to Jig-Jig Street." #Cyberpunk2077

546. BIOSHOCK: FROM RAPTURE TO COLUMBIA (BioShock. De Rapture à Columbia) 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/bioshoc... #Bioshock #Bioshock2 #BioshockInfinite @thirdeditions.bsky.social @mehdielkanafi.bsky.social @nicolascourcier.bsky.social @raphaellucas.bsky.social #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames

"But for the characteristically reserved Michonne, her gesture of reassurance is a turning point... of her transformation into someone who stands at a crossroads in her life and hasn't completely given up hope." - The Sum of Her Purpose: Choosing Hope in #TheWalkingDeadMichonne (What We Deserve)

Look who it is! www.pcgamesn.com/myst/point-a...

Fragments from the Vault #010: Kassandra to Myrrine "The wild winds of western climes Will cast their seal on Naxos skies, And home will be your name." #AssassinsCreedOdyssey *Dedicated to our mothers.

Super excited to have joined my friends at Autoscopia Interactive! We’re working on a game called Forgotten, a family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. We just made a Steam page and it would mean a lot if you could wishlist & share the game to help us gain visibility!

"Their hopes, fears, and unconditional commitment to one another are at the core of what all sentient beings share in common: The intrinsic desire to live in peace and safety with their loved ones." - Anything for Alice: A Family's Future in #DetroitBecomeHuman (Battle for Detroit)

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame! Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago! It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet. Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

Fragments from the Vault #009: Inscription on a Catacomb, Origin Unknown "In the Third Age I rose from the low-roofed dock-houses, Groaning and gargantuan, swamped on our shores - Like a lost ark. And when it ended I became the writhing desert, Lashing its tail." #TombRaider

The exquisitely beautiful Happisburgh handaxe. A utilitarian tool worked from glossy black flint half a million years ago! Found in 2000 by a man walking his dog on a Norfolk beach. 📷 Norwich Castle Museum www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/collections-... #Archaeology

"If Night City had a heart it would be the heart of a merc: A violent and chaotic playground that revels in the absence of conscience. Yet empathy and compassion still hold purpose in this increasingly isolationist world." - The Cost of Freedom: Empowering the Sex Workers in #Cyberpunk2077 (Pisces)