Intro Post! I'm Hannah; I've been at Failbetter Games for a decade and yet find it thrilling still I cover marketing, communications, PR, events, social, newsletter: all the trimmings I'm also freelance doing the same!

We're making Mandrake, a rural life sim set in a beguiling new world inspired by British history and folklore. Now we're not in the Fallen London universe (Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies), we had the opportunity to add sunshine! And trees! 😮 🧵 #wishlistwednesday

UK games people what's that fund for companies to help pay for expert advice?? I barely remember the details, was it an arts council thing? Halppp

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

There's one week left to apply for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant ⏰‼️ If you're thinking of applying, make sure you get your applications in before next Sunday in order to be considered. Grant: $15,000 USD Deadline: Sept 28th Link: grants.draknek.org

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women

Fascinated by "not thinking" being a thing people come believe is desireable. The vacant ecstacy of zombiehood. Consciousness slowly vanishes, evolved out by symbiosis with graphics cards, but mankind somehow continues. A bustling planet, devoid of mind.

"From hell's heart I stab at thee!" 🎵 here in 🎵 Duck Berg

not to make this all about my own interests, but we NEED more people to discover audio dramas not only do they rule, but they're probably one of the few entertainment mediums left that aren't mostly controlled by massive companies vulnerable to corruption/pressure the most successful ADs are indie

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

Who knows about roller skates? My kid has outgrown her pair and I found a pair but they are more like toys??? They don't have good wheels? What kind of brands are good, what should I know?

This one about bards!

We told you what would be next when they started in on trans folks, and it's me and my family They get into power, this won't be the end of it, it'll be bodily autonomy and dismantling the NHS and all the worst imports from American policy

This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage. The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal." Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community. Your struggle is my struggle.

in case you missed last week's fallen london patch notes

Sometimes Fallen London rips your heart out and sometimes you have twelve lampcats purring like teakettles and you name them all after types of tea.

Not only am I communications director at Failbetter Games, I am also available for indie games marketing help. Typically I focus on Steam store pages. Get them right, and everything else becomes easier. My services are as follows:

Not only am I communications director at Failbetter Games, I am also available for indie games marketing help. Typically I focus on Steam store pages. Get them right, and everything else becomes easier. My services are as follows:

If I didn't have to work, I would spend so much time taking care of my body

Wall-e is such a fantastic film and flawlessly delivers really strong messages against consumerism and AI, and in favour of human hard work and ingenuity it's a good job it already exists because no way in fuck it would get made now Look at what happened to Strange World

thank christ my brain has latched onto operation mincemeat. it's enough to drive out the news and all the other earworms that were keeping me awake.

if you read this you are gay lmao

America win be like, have some candy! And it's just nuggets of luminous candlewax

UKComicsCreators.org.uk, in partnership with the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, the Society of Authors and the Association of Illustrators, has launched the UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 👇 #BookSky

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

who is the nardwuar of video games

If you're a YouTuber, particularly in the gaming space, and want to chat about some weirdness on the platform lately, please feel free to DM me or email at [email protected]

@kierongillen.bsky.social idk if you'd seen this but I think worth a boost! bsky.app/profile/stre...

NO LOVE IS WASTED

frankly, it still seems like the only job AI replaces is idea guys who don't know how to make things and the investor class is just frothing at the mouth for it because they're all idea guys who don't know how to make things.

Fallen London tarot pull of the day: The Bandaged Man. You may read a newspaper, or possibly a magazine. The Stalactite. You shall inherit some improving poetry. The three of Coins. You should go mushroom-gathering tonight. You will find so many, you will be able to make jam.

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

Why call our new game Mandrake? And what's in the name Mandrake, for the people of Chandley? Here's @chrisgardiner.bsky.social to answer whether a name is ever just a name.

Trade Card of Nathaniel Longbottom, “Supplier of Skeletons in St. Thomas's Street, Southwark,” late 18th century. Longbottom would likely have had interactions with bodysnatchers (or “resurrectionists”) to help him procure skeletons for his shop. Image: Wellcome Collection

you ever dislike a season of something so much that the memory of the preceding seasons is completely wiped from your mind?

🚨BREAKING🚨Tonight live on BBC1 at 7.25pm (just before EastEnders) Sir Keir Starmer will felate a flag in front of a photo of the queen (proper one, not the alive one) while a Chas & Dave album plays.

Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.

The UK has been through all of this with Prince Philip, weird how similar it is

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I have a baseline distrust of YouTube explainers unless the person is old as dirt or looks like the went to school for the topic. Seen too many videos where the person is 25 and is describing something I was present for or have a degree in very inaccurately.

There's an error in the email newsletter I sent today so that'll be fun to consider at 3am

Finally found some time to write about KPop Demon Hunters and why Sony giving it to Netflix is a huge part of the movie's success

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search history > this too shall pass explained > when they say “this too shall pass” do they say when? > this too shall pass speedrun youtube > way out that isn’t through > alternative ways out reddit > garry’s mod we like to party

Has anyone found any KPop Demon Hunters merch that isn't going to put me into debt (no temu etc)? Everything on the official netflix store is so dear and not because it's well made, y'know

I was just going over some of the celebrity quotes I wrote for Clickhole a decade ago. Here’s a few favorites

The Candlefinder Society – London's greatest detectives - have called you in on two new cases! The Case of the Wayward Will, and the Case of the Chandler's Mask, available in Fallen London from today. www.fallenlondon.com

Listening to @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social the way the great spirits would want