Deirdre Coyle

The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz The author best known for The Jew in the Lotus is back with a new book, Seeing into the Life of Things, about what it means to bring words to our visions and emotions.

Thank you PW. bit.ly/PWSEEINGLIFE

Tooth and Naily Fights and Plenty of Laughter A Writer Couple Conversation about Art, Love and Selfishness

"The writer is as old as the philosopher and therefore not 'new world' and in this new world of endless scrolling, conspiracy theories, and drooling remakes of franchise flicks, the act of 'thinking' or 'conjuring' is old world magic." open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

I am mildly bemused by the number of people convinced that NYC is a crime-riddled hellscape who are now convinced that a Mamdani win means NYC will become…a crime-riddled hellscape.

(Yes, yes, I know, you don’t need to explain Eco’s rules for fascism, I’m just noting it.)

The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz The author best known for The Jew in the Lotus is back with a new book, Seeing into the Life of Things, about what it means to bring words to our visions and emotions.

Had a lovely talk with @rodkam.bsky.social for @publisherswkly.bsky.social about his latest, SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Ghost Of Yotei And Other Historical Games Are Rewriting Old Myths Ghost of Yotei, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Mafia: The Old Country each, to different degrees, complicate our vision of the past

"There’s more value in figuring out what, consciously or not, a game says about the time period it’s set within—and what that might mean for how we imagine our present-day reality." @reidmccarter.bsky.social kotaku.com/ghost-yotei-...

The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️‍⚧️

Zohran Mamdani walks down a street in Queens

Mamdani won, and also Cuomo lost
aftermath.site/mamdani-cuomo-...

Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob's Barrow - Unwinnable Meet Mildred Walker, better known as Mother Mildred, the local wise woman considered by many to be a witch.

ICYMI: "[E]ven if Mildred isn’t a witch, she is wise."

@deirdrekoala.bsky.social digs into the historical context behind the witch hunt of Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow:

should I be goth pac-man for halloween

Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob's Barrow - Unwinnable Meet Mildred Walker, better known as Mother Mildred, the local wise woman considered by many to be a witch.

"[E]ven if Mildred isn’t a witch, she is wise."

@deirdrekoala.bsky.social digs into the historical context behind the witch hunt of Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow:

every time I hear his name now I can only think of Leslie Jones yelling I UNDERSTAND RIVERS BETTER THAN HE UNDERSTANDS HIMSELF

what I mean is I'm actually nostalgic for feeling alive

sometimes I feel nostalgic for the brief time when I was "good at the internet" and then remember that I'm actually nostalgic for being alive pre-2016

Same and there is no end to my disgust
First of all it is patently evil to refer to people as infectious diseaselike aliens
Secondly from a lore point the UNSC/Covenant *are the invaders.* They're the ones that showed up to a place they didn't belong and did some shit they weren't supposed to

in honor of Outer Worlds 2, I present my second-ever Bluesky post

I genuinely don't understand how people have time to. do things?

People who really care about videogames, value people working in the industry, and want a future where people get to have the enjoyment they had, should be looking for full on reform.

We shouldn't ask to trade the MBA robber barons for the fun robber barons we grew up with.

Spotify Says ICE Recruitment Ads Don’t Violate Company Policy In the past few months, a number of artists have moved to take their music down from Spotify. The list includes Massive Attack, Sylvan Esso, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, among many others. ...

Time to delete my Spotify account. Alternate streaming service recs?
www.stereogum.com/2327132/spot...

Nintendo Reveals That Kirby Is Angry in American Releases Due to Cost of Insulin Nintendo of America revealed this demeanor correctly reflects Kirby’s actual anger at the cost of insulin in the United States.

Nintendo Reveals That Kirby Is Angry in American Releases Due to Cost of Insulin

I wrote about British witchcraft laws and THE EXCAVATION OF HOB’S BARROW for @unwinnable.com’s spooky season issue

[*reaches for walker*] in my day we had to get blood on our OWN clothes for Bioshock halloween

Pitch me your weird (complimentary) video game shit!

women don't like the vehicle

vampire kidney*

*kismet but I’m keeping it

WHAT no! where!!!

🏓🖤🤍💚

I was just googling VAMPIRE THERAPIST okay

is...is this something people also ask?

🐟🎣🦦

The Right’s Charlie Kirk Cancellation Spree Has Emboldened Gaming’s Worst - Aftermath The Charlie Kirk witch hunt has led to heaps of harassment, but only a small handful of firings, in the video game industry.

love a gaming website with opening lines like "The American Right, a squirming bundle of grievances held together by supposed reverence for free speech" @aftermath.site @nathangrayson.bsky.social aftermath.site/charlie-kirk...