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Thrilled to be presenting my poem "The Dawn Breach" - inspired by the environmental storytelling of Mirror's Edge Catalyst - and talk about my Fragments from the Vault series at Multiplatform 2026: Poetry in Games/Games in Poetry on 11 June (free admission in-person and online) All welcome!

Pride is about showing up as your full self and making space for others to do the same. 🌈 This month and every month, we celebrate the voices, stories, and identities that make our community stronger. Happy Pride Month from all of us at SkillsHub.Life 💙

so honored to have my short story "Redwoods Dark as Blood" published in @dominique-litmag.bsky.social ~ give it a read at the link below! dominiquelitmag.org/2026/04/04/r... tw: transphobia, family death, deadnaming, suicidal ideation

Fragments from the Vault #042: The Last Order of the Apocalypse "It would take one caustic winter and the snowmelt of an unusually balmy spring to wash bare the relic of youth, leaving a solvent-stained receipt under the vending machines to mark the last order of the apocalypse." #NightintheWoods

had such a lovely time working with an INCREDIBLE team to submit a game for this! check it out here! litchi-lovers.itch.io/celestialcur...

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Some drawings I did while watching the Artemis II mission ❤️ Quote by Christina Koch and NASA Houston Mission Control. #space #artemis #art

Fragments from the Vault #041: The Alchemist's Progress "Beyond the rain-wrapped calderas of the Caucasus Where the sky burials await in their towers of silence, Lucid and trophic, Lie the great salt flats of the horizon..." #PrinceOfPersia

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Fragments from the Vault #040: The Catfish Cabaret "The lunge of the lunar couldn't contain me, Nor the husk of the char had a song to sustain me: What the wild weave of haunts left astray..." #SouthOfMidnight

Fragments from the Vault #039: Clockwork Cut-Outs "Carousels and wishing wells And picnics in the park, Star maps twinkling through a lens Like lanterns in the dark..." #LuminoCity

One question I keep getting asked by readers is: Which book of yours should I read first?🤔📖 So, I made a short game to help you answer that question! Check it out: clarislamauthor.itch.io/which-books-... Happy playing (and reading)! #booksky #writesky #indieauthor #bookrecs #books

Fragments from the Vault #038: Hymn to the Boreal Star "Dreams are mirrors to alternate universes... In longing, threads of our being stretch across the dimensions Calling us home in communal song." #TheMooseman

Little game, big heart 💜

Fragments from the Vault #037: The Feldspar of Seasons "The rub of autumn lures a cascade..." #Morphopolis

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praemunio #super's #FFXV #GladiolusAmicitia #fanart

Fragments from the Vault #036: The Book of Hours (Officium Divinum) "The pious shepherd thus divines Which flock to field while tending Prime, Their solace roused by holy verse When breaking fast to feast at Terce." #Pentiment

#StreetArt in #Paris 20th by #Loupyestu #TheWallsAreSpeaking

📚 The Restricted Index - Ursa Minus Identify books. Recommend them. Ban them. Burn them. With limited information and mounting pressure from the authorities, every decision counts in this first-person mystery puzzle game. 🎟️ tickets.games.london

Fragments from the Vault #035: Chaos Theory (Palimpsest) "Sometimes," I tell my friend over coffee, "I travel in my sleep. It's late August, 1984. The heat should be shimmering off the canyon, but today is different. Today is the day the oasis comes alive." #PhoenixSprings

A long time ago (pre pandemic) I wrote something about moon-sighting and Islam for a zine. It was republished for another zine in 2021. Either way, I think it’s been long enough that I can share it for anyone curious 🌙

Fragments from the Vault #034: On the Banks of the Wild Dordogne "Roughly aged her mystic secrets, past and present wrought with sorrow, The restless river stirs beneath her, and saps the knowledge of the morrow." #Dordogne

Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

"Yet amidst the chaos and the grief Is that one day when, you told me, You would lay beside me in the grass for as long as it took for the pain to fade – And this is how I remember you." #Apotheon

Electric #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #nikon

Fragments from the Vault #032: Meditations (The Worlds We Dream) "The golden age of space travel has been and gone," your memory echoes, "For even the enigmatic scramble of a nebula cannot reach the poetry of our imagination." #MystVEndofAges

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...

Fragments from the Vault #031: My Name is Irenka "you did not know that our names meant compassion, or that we harboured a love for a world whose beauty lay in defiance of a raging inner monologue that will, one day, become our anthem..." #DeusExMankindDivided

The beautiful world of Japan 📸 | @subject72.bsky.social #AssassinsCreedShadows #VPSupport #VPRepost

Fragments from the Vault #030: Little Creek Massacre (from the Ballad of Sadie Adler) "From the snows of Ambarino to the marshes of Lakay, When the West was wild and America's child the lawman did defy..." #RedDeadRedemption2

I post a newsletter every Monday for patrons where I chat about what I'm up to: what projects I'm working on, what I'm reading, and sometimes snippets of new art or writing.

Fragments from the Vault #029: The Citadel "When the communes and sepulchres are laid to sleep, Know from the comedy whose spoils you reap..." #Bioshock

St. Pat's, Dublin in black & white. #blackandwhite #monochrome #photography #Dublin #stpats #st.patrick's #ireland #church #urban

Stories from My Craft IV: Cosmic Swing in Blue A revisiting of music through space and time with #GenesisNoir.

Fragments from the Vault #028: Equinox in the Time of War #GhostOfTsushima "BARREN, FROST-CAPPED PEAKS FLUSHED WITH THE VIOLENCE OF SPRING CLEANSE WINTER'S DECAY."

Here's a location from my narrative adventure #indiegame Future Ghost, finally set up as a traversable space with proper z-order and all, ready for some story and interactivity to be injected into it. The PC skips about on a longer stride due to the lower gravity on Mars, where the game is set.

"They are called the Deserters - a ragtag band of frontiers folk whose unique skills were once an asset to Edgewater - and Reed Tobson wants them back home." - Flipping the Switch: Edgewater vs. The Deserters in #TheOuterWorlds (Comes Now the Power)

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Stories from My Craft III: Shipwreck Scrapbook An unravelling of the palimpsest of time inspired by the mixed media of #WhatRemainsofEdithFinch.

Could I get some support from fellow devs and creatives? We got a negative review on Steam for AI use... despite there being absolutely *no* AI use in our game. TL;DR? Give a chance to show that AI wasn't used, or you'll be harming the very same artists you claim to be helping.❤️

If you see this, post a skeleton

"As the sun sets on Omi Lake, [Jin] must choose between laying his uncle to rest or shedding the mantle of his predecessors to embrace his final transformation into the Ghost of Tsushima." - A Thousand Deaths: A Glorious End in #GhostOfTsushima (The Tale of Lord Shimura)

Been experimenting with the galdralag meter (or at least attempting to write stuff based on it). Here's one result of my efforts: layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/m... #heathensky #pagansky

Fragments from the Vault #027: The Long Haul "I'll hear your laughter like warm sunlight on my cheeks, a thousand millivolts like the storms of paramecium." #TheLastOfUs