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christine ellis

@astrostine.bsky.social

Narrative Designer/Game writer. SFF writer, codexian. I think about space a lot. Gravity is my nemesis. She/her. Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Lit

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this is going to be delicious and terrible

06.08.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

03.07.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6038    πŸ” 1324    πŸ’¬ 182    πŸ“Œ 490

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a game designed in 5 minutes by

Calvin Wong

You thought it would be fine to just put (make this part better later) in the draft. Surely future You can come up with something

BOOM! a portal opens in your room! Future You has traveled in time to stop your sloppy placeholder!

02.07.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

01.07.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7400    πŸ” 1903    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 693

Stay to the very end.

01.07.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 592    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 6

Chatbots β€” LLMs β€” do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re β€œright” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19.06.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29329    πŸ” 8577    πŸ’¬ 576    πŸ“Œ 700

more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.

27.06.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1676    πŸ” 662    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 15
Purple-streaked background with the SAG-AFTRA logo in white at the top-center. Beneath it reads "VIDEO GAME CONTRACT TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED" in white and yellow lettering.

Purple-streaked background with the SAG-AFTRA logo in white at the top-center. Beneath it reads "VIDEO GAME CONTRACT TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED" in white and yellow lettering.

We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv

10.06.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3501    πŸ” 1149    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 145

hit the iced coffee so hard this morning i gave myself brain feeze. πŸ€Έβ€β™€οΈ

03.06.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

in 2025 two different popular SFF shows have used pregnancy/children to both remove female characters from the story and emotionally galvanize the male main character. we've gone from fridge to incubator y'all.

01.06.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

then perish.

26.05.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1411    πŸ” 385    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3

it is literally free to just not be a writer y'all.

22.05.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, this:

"There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."

12.05.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 724    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 6

There are so many things I loathe about AI but chief among them is that it deprives people of understanding that creativity and making art is messy and inefficient, and there is *no* getting around that. But the reward is that one turn of phrase, that original idea, that novel insight.

07.05.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Spiders are there watching you be conceived, and there when you die

Don't die without thanking them for watching over you

05.05.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7
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Look who got their hands on a finished copy of SPECTRAL SCREAM, my official addition to the Doctor Who Universe!

If you're enjoying the new season of #DoctorWho then I hope you'll pick up SPECTRAL SCREAM, which is out in May!

01.05.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Apple TV+ debuts trailer for β€œMurderbot,” premiering May 16 Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for β€œMurderbot,” the comedic thriller series starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd.

And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot

09.04.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3867    πŸ” 1165    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 581

yeah i was afraid the real time format would be a detriment but it is actually perfect for showing precisely that

03.04.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i am loving the pitt. it's so compelling. noah wyle has never been better?? he just IS robby??

03.04.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have not yet begun to defile myself. πŸͺ¦

02.04.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i've unironically love this movie, i wanted to be sharon stone’s Lady when i grew up

28.02.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graffiti at Philly’s schukyll river walk reading:

FUCK ICE 
FUCK TRUMP & MUSK
GO BIRDS

Graffiti at Philly’s schukyll river walk reading: FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP & MUSK GO BIRDS

seen in Philadelphia:

FUCK ICE
FUCK TRUMP + MUSK
GO BIRDS

04.02.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1002    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 27

everyone stop what you're doing
there is one good thing left in the universe

05.02.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wow of all the ice cold arctic takes πŸ₯Ά

05.02.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Narrative is a glass cannon. It can be powerful and yield huge results, but it's fragile. The more hits it takes, the harder it is for it to be effective.

When I play a game that I don't think has very strong writing, I don't think "these writers are bad", I wonder what they were up against.

26.01.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1284    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 18
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β€œThe value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”

- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI

30.10.2024 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4287    πŸ” 1696    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 99

idk and I've only ever experienced this phenomenon in this part of the world πŸ˜†

23.01.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

scandinavia: where any day, at any moment or hour, without warning, someone will start drilling into a wall nearby.

23.01.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i am soooo into this.

23.01.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oof.

21.01.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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