natasha ramoutar

Welcome to Spruceway Exhibit 1: The Source Is it… Okay. Recording. Hi.  Jules found this audio recorder in what’s left of The Source. I said she should find something with video.

Thrilled to have my story "Welcome to Spruceway" in issue 8.1 of Augur.

A huge thank you to @augursociety.bsky.social and especially @spondeee.bsky.social for being an amazing editor and champion for this piece!

Read it here and check out the rest of the issue too!
augursociety.org/welcome-to-s...

I play One Piece and it’s my first TCG, which I think makes it my fave by default?

My poetry collection Baby Cerberus was nominated for the Elgin Award! Touched to be included alongside 45 other wonderful full-length collections. 💕

Elgin Award voting for SFPA members runs from July 1 to September 15 and the full list of nominees can be seen here:
sfpoetry.com/el/elgcand.h...

PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities.

$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛

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A photo of poet Natasha Ramoutar, headlined by the text "National Poetry Month on All Lit Up: Tributaries." Natasha is a medium-skin-toned woman with long, wavy dark hair and bright red lipstick, wearing an off-shoulder top with thin stripes and standing in front of a coniferous tree. An inset photo of her collection Baby Cerberus is at the bottom left.

"I don’t think you’ll be able to get this through customs
with the forest you gathered screeching so loud"

Read from @spondeee.bsky.social's BABY CERBERUS (@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social), and our interview with the poet, in today's #ALUtributaries feature.

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Submissions — Wolsak & Wynn

I’m an acquiring poetry editor with Wolsak & Wynn and wanted to remind poets based in Canada that our submissions window is open now until March 31! I would love to see your work.✨

For more info, check out our submissions guidelines:
www.wolsakandwynn.ca/submissions

Myth Myth, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to...

This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth!

It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙

Preorders are open! Please share if you can!
houseofanansi.com/products/myt...

For those interested, the ending I got was “Leave” and I never played the original game, so this was a completely fresh, mostly unguided playthrough.

I finished my first playthrough of Silent Hill 2 Remake and why did the ending screen have to show me that I checked the map 1755 times?! My map checking habits are between me and God 😭

I’ve been listening to the Hello, Sidney podcast where the host goes through horror movies and franchises and I thought “does this exist for video games”

Does anyone have favourite video games-related podcasts they’d recommend? 👀 I want to listen to people’s cultural commentary on games - ideally horror.

Omg Lynne 🥺 tysm!!!

30 seconds into Remake and I need to know why this game is immediately bullying Aerith, leave her alone 😭😭😭 Why would someone bump into her and step on her flowers like that?!

Anyway yes I bought the Remake and Rebirth bundle, the promise of Zack Fair content in Rebirth was too good for me to pass up 😔

The way I experienced Final Fantasy 7 growing up was strangely by playing and watching all the spin-off content (Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Advent Children) but never FF7 itself

A foggy street in Silent Hill with traffic lights in the background and an illustration of an anamorphic brown dog wearing a grey sweater, rolled-up blue jeans, and red sneakers smirking

When the nurses in Silent Hill are chasing you down the street but you’re just a chill guy

Silent Hill 2 Remake has some of the best audio design I’ve ever experienced so I’m always wearing my headphones, but it also makes it so much scarier 😭

Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling Narrative in games and new media

If you are curious about game narrative and narrative design, one of the all time best resources available is Emily Short's blog: emshort.blog

LOOK! LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND @suntorya.bsky.social! 😍💜

And check out Augur's Murmurstations podcast, hosted by the inimitable @sonj.bsky.social! ✨️

I am constantly thinking about the Sephiroth trio in Advent Children 😂💕 that’s a shining review of Rebirth right there, tysm

Many conversations and many spreadsheets

If you followed me thinking I’m going to talk about writing I’m so sorry… my posts will probably mostly be 10% about writing and 90% about video games

I wasn’t gonna play the FF7 remakes (even as a big Final Fantasy fan) but the promise of more Zack Fair content and Aerith and Cloud’s VAs giving award-winning performances is 👀 intriguing me

the cryptid energy of signing up for bluesky then immediately vanishing from it (it’s me sorry, expect more cryptid sightings soon ✌️😔✌️)