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Hello! I’m looking for work, ideally in an editor role. It’s been an honor to work with so many talented professionals, and a pleasure to meet so many amazing community members, in my 19 years at BioWare. I’m so grateful to all of you.

I'm now looking for a new writing/narrative position. It's been a privilege to work with so many amazing devs over my 20 years at BioWare, and I will cherish the memories of the wonderful folks in the community I've met along the way. Thank you all.

After almost 14 years at BioWare, I am devastated to learn today that myself and others must seek new opportunities.
I am so grateful for all of the learning, challenges, and most importantly the team. I will remember my time here with joy.

Tomorrow we'll move forward. For today I will just be sad.

So, my time at BioWare has ended. It was a wild ride with some fantastic people, but it’s time to look for new challenges. I’m an Editor / Writer with 26+ years of experience across video games, novels, short stories, newspapers, and marketing comms. If you know of a good fit, please let me know.

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Hey Bioware folks, terribly sorry to hear the news of more layoffs in this industry.

We don't have a ton of open positions at Bungie, but if you happen to see anything listed here please feel free to reach out.

careers.bungie.com/jobs

If you were affected by the layoffs at BioWare today, please feel free to reach out to me if I can review or forward a resume, make an introduction, buy you a cup of coffee, shoot things on the internet with you, or recommend you for a position at SIE.

All of you are legendary talents.

in particular, the bioware blog post rubs me the wrong way because: 1. naming their og mass effect staff is fucked up in the sense that they're effectively parading senior staff around in a blog post announcing another round of layoffs for all their (now former) colleagues 2. they don't even have the balls to announce the layoffs forthright, we're only learning the specifics on who was laid off or moved to a different studio within ea because we're semi-tapped into the former devs on social media 3. the combination of "we don't require support from the full studio" and "[becoming] a more agile, focused studio" and the focus on "innovation" raises so many red flags about them moving forward (are they just planning to hire cheaper labor, are they planning to supplement with heavy amounts of [gen]ai, etc) 4. naming their og mass effect staff is also fucked up in the sense that it reads as though theyre saying "please stick around for me5, we promise we won't include any of that woke shit from veilguard, please stick around to give us your money i'm begging you”

ranted over discord abt how painfully transparent that bioware blog post was bc it seriously got me twisted

rook's got a few animations like that which make me think of this old man without fail

i stand by my assessment 🤷

#veilguardspoilers
tangentially, i think so! i interpreted it as more of an easter egg type thing implying any potential next game would be set outside of thedas, which would connect with the executors

obsessed with this idea!!!!

a tweet that reads “september 30th” with a photo of fairbanks from dragon age absolution beneath it, followed by “october 1st” with a photo of manfred the skeleton from dragon age the veilguard beneath it.

a tweet that reads: “less than 33 days till this stops being greyed out and my personal maslow's hierarchy of needs just becomes a big purple triangle with the word ‘veilguard’ written over and over.” beneath it is a screenshot of my favorited games in my steam library with “dragon age: the veilguard” greyed out.

a tweet that reads: “the number of fda violations yall are gonna drum up in this pantry…” beneath it is a screenshot of lucanis’s room from dragon age the veilguard.

a quote tweet that reads: “me @ every veilguard companion.” beneath it are two stock images, one of someone putting on knee pads, one of someone putting their long hair up in a hair tie. the tweet is quoting a tweet that reads: “looking at the dragon age veilguard companions, can’t wait for the game to come out” and includes a photo of a desk chair with a dildo adhered to it.

a quote tweet that reads: “dodgeball mage confirmed.” beneath the tweet are two images, one of corypheus’s orb from dragon age inquisition, and one of the force mage skill tree from dragon age 2. the tweet is quoting a tweet from michael gamble that reads: “mages can also use orb/dagger (not shown in this video). this one uses a staff.”

a tweet that reads: “my only contribution to yesterday's events on datwt.” beneath the tweet is a series of images from the movie hereditary. the first is of the son with the edited caption, “my fucking god you need to shut up you human bitch.” the second is of the mother with the edited caption, “i do not care who your mother is i am a Dalish First.”

a tweet that reads: “good news: finally managed to get frosty mods to work in inquisition after four months of struggling with it. bad news: no one warned me about the cc jumpscare.” beneath the tweet is a photo of the modded dragon age inquisition character creator, with default lavellan looking like sloth from the goonies.

in memoriam 🕊️

(saving a thread of all my favorite/hit tweets for posterity before wiping my twitter account)

a year ago today, i had top surgery; in a few hours from now, i’ll be playing veilguard and adding top surgery scars to my first rook. cannot overstate how serendipitous and absolutely fucking sick that is. the grifters can cope and seethe <3