christine ellis

Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I can also see you rocking the 3 ghosts that haunt scrooge.

krampus!

yeah I think that one was my favorite too. He does all the voices really well!

aww I miss you too!!! might be time to listen to some poirot before bed again 〰️

Writing for Games was a part of the stolen data set (and copyright was registered on publication). Just in case this feels distant to you: they stole from me. They burned carbon on my words.

Photo of Deva, a white woman with straight brown hair and large black cat-eye glasses, holding a finished copy of House of Dusk and smiling.

Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

As a writer also in a field with a very high exec/top brass presence in the creative process, I can guarantee you that in 99% of cases, if the writing feels like you're repetitively being spoon fed plot and exposition, it's a directive from on high and not what the writer would do if left alone.

this is going to be delicious and terrible

Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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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!

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Stay to the very end.

Chatbots — LLMs — 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 “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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.

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

hit the iced coffee so hard this morning i gave myself brain feeze. 🤸‍♀️

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.

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

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."

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.

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

Don't die without thanking them for watching over you

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!

Apple TV+ debuts trailer for “Murderbot,” premiering May 16 Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Murderbot,” the comedic thriller series starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.

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

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

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

I have not yet begun to defile myself. 🪦