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Happy Juneteenth! 💖💙💜✨ (Illustration for Block/Square from 2023)

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These witchy ghosties give us such gigil!

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BUY INDIE BOOKS BUY MY BOOKS BUY ALL BOOKS THEN BUY MORE BOOKS AND DEFINITELY BUY TOLKIEN BOOKS AND THEN A FEW MORE INDIE BOOKS AND POSSIBLY JUST ANOTHER TEN BOOKS FOR THE VIBES AND MAYBE YES MORE BOOKS ONE CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH BOOKS DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MAN WITH SEVENTY THOUSANDS BOOKS A LEGEND

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Cybernoir should be more of a thing.

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the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

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Shoutout to queer people who use tons of different labels to describe their experiences Shoutout to queer people who use no labels outside of queer/lgbt because none of them fit right Having labels or not does not make your queer journey any less valid!!! 💕💖❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎

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Happy Pride month! I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.

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"I just use AI to bounce ideas off of." I bounce ideas off of friends and it doesn't wreck the environment or give money to fascists.

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LOOK AT THIS SPECTACULAR LINE UP! The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is in full swing and check out this PACKED schedule of amazing things to check out all through the weekend! Please check out the livestream and mayhaps you can drop our plant, puzzler, Shards Between Us a wishlist on Steam too 🍃🌿🌱

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We're super excited to announce that Shards Between Us is a part of this year's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social !🌿🪴🍃 Catch our plant puzzler and an incredible selection of thinky games on Steam. All starting TOMORROW! Mayhaps drop us a cheeky little wishlist if you like :)

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Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)

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I was just reading an old reddit thread on r/writing asking about whether or not it's a good idea to use ChatGPT for writing outlines or plotting out the story. If you need to use AI to do basic things like structure your story, don't write. Do something you actually like to do.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

My painting MARS HILL SUNRISE

submitted 29 days ago • 161 comments

My god. I think this is the best thing I’ve ever read on the art of trying to get life down on paper. From Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

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Brief respite ✨️

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Here to say that we wouldn't exist without arts funding. Not only would 1000xRESIST not exist without arts funding, we as artists who practiced for YEARS, trying to understand ourselves and our mediums would not exist without arts funding. Fund the arts! All of them. Including games.

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Our friends at @amelore.coop just launched the kickstarter for their game A Calamity of Witches! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ame...

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I've got a pal running his first tabletop KS campaign. It's a spicy trick taking game that also doubles as a super slick standard deck of cards! Check it out here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ame...

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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. (QT @ianboudreau.com)

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writing is THINKING. Learning to write well means learning to think well.

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⏰ THIS IS IT! Last day to apply for the GAMERella Mentorship! Applications close tonight at midnight — don’t miss your chance to join the next wave of game makers! 🎮💥 👉 gamerella.ca/mentorship/en/ #GAMERella #GameDev #Mentorship #LastChance

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Being a writer is telling yourself, “There’s no way I can put this feeling into words” and then trying anyway.

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With another round of shortsighted corporate layoffs that mysteriously never include the C-suite, please check out and consider joining United Videogame Workers (CWA). Sign the We're Done Playing petition, too! Join the party and let's beat the bosses! uvw-cwa.org @videogameworkers.bsky.social

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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GOOD MORNING The Crips for eSims for Gaza Itch Bundle is live! itch.io/b/2965/crips... 200+ video games, TTRPGs, zines, comics, & more $16+ to support Palestinians surviving occupation! On sale April 28-May 20 🇵🇸✊❤️ SPREAD THE WORD!

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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a one-act play in 1911 where the protagonist catches a corrupt milk company delivering healthy milk to rich areas and adulterated milk to poor neighborhoods.

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If I wrote this for a supervillain/big bad as their "I want" speech I'd literally be told to walk it back

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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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🎮✨ Calling all emerging game makers! ✨🎮 GAMERella Mentorship Applications are NOW OPEN! Ready to level up your skills, connect with industry pros, and bring your game ideas to life? 💥 This is your moment! 🚀 Get all the info & apply here: gamerella.ca/mentorship/en/ #GameDev #Mentorship

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Mike Ambinder, Alan Shen & I are offering an online meetup session this Friday to answer aspiring/junior #gameUX folks' questions. The session will be recorded so if you can't make it you can ask your questions here and we'll answer them during the session. www.eventbrite.com/e/game-ux-fr...

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2 days til QGC proposals are due and the procrastination is kicking in hard? Have you tried body doubling? We're not even kidding. We're doing it right now and it's the only reason we were able to schedule this tweet. Wiki it. We want your proposal. 💜

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Teach a man to fish, and you'll probably get endless followup questions about technique and gear etc. Teach a man to become a fish, and you'll never hear from him again

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"There will be blood" = I sure hope so, otherwise idk how oxygen is ever gonna make it to anyone's brain

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We're looking for jammers and mentors for the 2nd Montréal Scientific Game Jam! April 18-20th at @indieasylum.bsky.social 🧪🥼🎮 Info: events.humanitix.com/game-jam-sci... #MontrealSGJ

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Sunday discourse: Years ago, the former head of a major comic imprint moving into producing told me, “why comics? It’s a lesser medium.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. I love TV. I love film. But comics are uniquely potent. There are as magic as any form of storytelling in existence.

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Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info

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A Helping Hand 🐁

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Your game studio is diverse, offers flexible work, and is building something amazing?! 👏 …But traditional business structures still holding you back? 🤔 Our Peer Accelerator offers $25K + mentorship to help studios like yours transition to cooperative models where governance matches your values.

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In case you missed @jessromarcotte.bsky.social and @squinky.me's GDC talk last month, we posted the full text here: comradery.co/softchaos/po... By the way, now that Comradery is in beta, you can subscribe to get our posts in your email for free (we still appreciate donations, of course)

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Up to No Good - watercolour and acryla gouache on board Prints on saIe btw 👀👀👀

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Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

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I wake up. I have emails to send. The stock market has crashed. I need to finish a deliverable for a freelance client. I make coffee. They are adding Sabrina Carpenter to Fortnite.

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woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.

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A world without Trans people has never existed, and it never will. More than visibility, we need safety 🏳️‍⚧️

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