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Cara Ellison

@caraellison.bsky.social
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Cailleach’s horrible wife living by the river tay. I develop & write tv and videogames, and direct and cast voice actors for various different places. Part of the BAFTA Breakthrough programme 2025. My portfolio here: linktr.ee/caraellison

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 55m
additional: sex work is work, as always, and if you use derogatory language to describe anyone who does it you will also be blocked
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 1h
Perhaps anachronistic but I always read Darcy as an autistic man, particularly the way Colin Firth plays him. He has delayed emotional processing, he feels deeply, and he has a painful sense of justice that seems to direct all his attention. I love him for these reasons and because he hates parties
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 1h
the more you get upset about your lack of power over another person the more pathetic you seem. This is demonstrable in so many areas of life
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 1h
they may as well be crying and screaming ‘she’s out of my control!!! I can’t even say anything to her that would change her mind’ idk why you would think you have that power over other people. We don’t have the power to make you stfu
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 1h
100% of people who call particular women ’whores’ or even imply this meaning in couched terms are incredibly insecure and afraid about their inability to control or have access to these women who demonstrate they have agency over their own lives
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 5h
all mince pies are Christmas pies, yes. they are made of alcoholic fruits
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 5h
I need the mince pies with the icing top rn
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m sure some people would find the film wanky or even a little bit both sidesy but personally I found it to be very clearly making a point, just maybe not the point that people want it to be making if that makes sense
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Anyway! Its worth seeing in the cinema, even if you suspect it is not a Film For You
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In some ways, I feel like it might be more pleasurable?
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The film suddenly made me feel really disappointed that a lot of larger movies don’t attempt to be ambitious with what they ask audiences to do as they are watching, they just attempt to spend the most money on the visuals. Anyway, I felt my brain get a nice little jog which felt really good
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Digger was a really playful piece of cinema! It really reminded me of seeing Tree of Life or a Kubrick or something, a little bit of Gilliam. I really enjoyed it. It was a full cinema meal. It’s so rare as an audience to be asked to…. do some intellectual work
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The game tearaway (amazing!) took many years to “make its money back” due to the platform it was made for, but it was designed to use that platform in the best way it could, and it was an excellent game. So in every way that mattered it was a success. Players loved it
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Perhaps, but I am still buying and playing games from years ago, and still buying and watching movies declared ‘unwatchable’ at the time.
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it makes me feel like I’m going mad to pretend like media is going to fkn disappear after a week or a month. even if you think of it in the terms monopolies would like you to it still makes no sense to put “assets” in the bin this way. I wish they would just tax these fuckers
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
just like when games don’t immediately “make line spike” on release, it seems genuinely mad to me to declare any movie a failure *two weeks* after release. it isn’t going to disappear after those two weeks? It isn’t going to stop being on sale or revert back to the ether from which it came???
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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our early DEMO is available on Steam 👇
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
they are both p good honestly
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am in the first @continuemag.bsky.social trying my best to put the hope in your petrol tank, as I have no money for actual petrol, and a fire in your heart, as again, I don’t personally have money for combustibles, but I would like to think we can run on the fumes for a while
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Dylan Browne @dylanbrowne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Spotted @jacksonwryan.com with @continuemag.bsky.social at #PaxAus
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Zander Hulme ~♪ @zander.supertonic.au · 08/10/2026
Reading @continuemag.bsky.social and bawling my eyes out, how dare you?!
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
get continue!!!!
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🦊 Fussy Ambassador @lollie.me · 08/10/2026
The first issue of CONTINUE Magazine is here! I had the honor of illustrating the hero image and graphs for Alanah Pearce's article on the current state of the games industry. 🦊💣 @continuemag.bsky.social @alanahpearce.bsky.social
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stevi 🇵🇸 @itsstevi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
((VIBRATING)) @continuemag.bsky.social
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Robert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the transformative power of being at a goth club and having sisters of mercy come on 👌
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
maybe I haven’t been trying hard enough!!!
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anyway, I refuse to give the idea of a protest to the police brutalising innocent people. They are irrelevant. They will not be remembered. They should get out of the way
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think in the UK sometimes there is this temptation to think of a protest as temporary or as an undertaking that is supposed to be hard. The French are not doing that. The protest is part of the joy of being alive
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
also what is really cool about this organising to have a party, a meal, a drink, a rave, is that it is a signal that not only do the streets belong to you, you live there and you are not leaving
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
have a full three course meal and rave and you have already convinced people the police are pissing on a party that everyone should have
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
another thing: the french bring a lot of joy to a protest and honestly, that is the radicalising force. and they bring a full three course meal. and alcohol. the left in France is _prepared_
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
la jeunesse emmerde le front national
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is this the ”it’s raining men” storm
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I enjoy making my little things
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i'll make a proper post later BUT play the Parasensor demo ITS OUT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3722090/...
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Parasensor on Steam
When Marisol accepts a job as a telecom technician, she finds herself in a quarantine zone where civilians are mutating into insects. Connect with strangers, confront grotesque creatures, and unravel ...
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Stark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An absolute dream review for us writers; it's humbling, delightful and extremely satisfying to know people are connecting with the vibrant, bizarre, deeply human world we helped dream up: www.pcgamer.com/games/life-s... @calmdowntom.bsky.social @karlpoyzer.bsky.social @benjiswriting.bsky.social
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Nivalis Nights review
An avalanche of fascinating characters carrying an alright shop sim on their backs.
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everything Media Molecule makes works in an extremely robust manner. This shit could never
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Emmurder Killwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They sure are, Mr Lizzy! A good eventide to you Misters Draculas!
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know that Halloween vibes are here because I woke up this morning with an image seared into my brain of a horde of Draculas walking down the street towards me, an unsuspecting bystander, to the song The Boys Are Back In Town
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m such a vibes first designer I spend ages fiddling around with the playthings before deciding the ‘type’ of game I want to make, and then I have to do all the boring documentation and planning part boooooo
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 07/10/2026
why would you queue up to see the bayeux tapestry in the british museum when you could be at home watching '2 Fast 2 Furious'
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this but also video game writing
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
we were about to!!!!
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the devs of gravity well are incredibly, somewhat implausibly high craft in the making of videogames. in a less fickle world, we could have been the all-timer team
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
time to piss in the cocktails
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Teddy Dief @teddydief.com · 06/10/2026
Sad day for Gravity Well. I saw 1st-hand how well the C-suite communicated through the rollercoaster of fundraising. I've never witnessed that level of transparency & trust. I'm moving on, but I'm OK! If you see Gravity Well resumes on your desk, know I'd be happy to vouch for people. Reach out 🤍
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it’s a shame that bake off encompasses the very best people of britain because it would be great tv for someone voted off to say ‘I never liked any of you, you can all sod off you bunch of bastards’
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you did everything possible and I really appreciated the care you all took with us
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