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@cedarchromatic.bsky.social

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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

God! This is so right. I heard and felt this when Austin made this exact case on AMCA around the boycott, but fuck, man, the world at large puts plenty of pressure on the notion that any given show or book "saved me" without him having to say it.

Excerpt from Autumn Wright's article "A Dialogue with Austin Walker," which can be found at: https://unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a-dialogue-with-austin-walker/

"I do not believe that writing a single good piece of games criticism or a good piece of film criticism or doing a great podcast about the politics of Star Wars is actually moving the needle in any meaningful way. What I heard from people was, “That’s not true. Your podcast changed my life.” Or, “That’s not true. This TV show changed my life.” Or, from other critics or storytellers, “Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I had to come to peace with this a long time ago.” And I think that that divide is pretty indicative that we want so badly for the entertainment in our lives to be capital-I Important in this other way, but I don’t think it is. What I do think is true is that a broader wave of things, an era, a generation, or an entire media channel or an entire media enterprise can, along with other similar things, shift the play space overall. I think we learn what common sense is because partly through a media ecology that we are in. The case I used on Shelved By Genre the other day was, “The Taylor Sheridan-verse of CBS shows like Yellowstone are teaching a lot of people what masculinity is supposed to be.” What’s a man supposed to be? That’s the sort of thing that gets taught to you through a huge array of media and entertainment and books and literature and everything else. Moby Dick has a lot to say about what a man is or isn’t, but it alone doesn’t help determine what the modern man is supposed to look like. It, along with Hemingway and Dickens, got into a lot of guys’ heads together to be like, This is the space of masculinity that is acceptable."

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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

really thrilled by this mysterious note I left myself a hundred years ago (read: I think I wrote it on Wednesday), can't wait to execute on this excellent insight

A screenshot of a work-in-progress, which reads: Urgency rules River House. The [don’t forget to mess with this here] born not from rumor but reality. Meredith and Camille know the river will soon arrive on their doorstep, hungry for the dead kept in its house. In town, the people call the house old. They say it’s as old as the river and"

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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

to kill some time this evening, @polterzeitgeist.bsky.social and I made a moon and some factions using Realis, it was a lot of fun 😭 we probably won't play in this setting, but going through the motions of writing sentences and thinking about worlds through this lens was good practice!

a sheet for the RPG Realis, featuring the name, Impulse, and Sentences for Vainscourge, the Moon of Eroded Horizons

Impulse: Pursue the horizon, no matter the cost.

Sentence: Vainscourge storms always leave the unprepared in ruin.

Sentence: Vainscourge flotsam can always be made useful.

Sentence: Vainscourge dreams always lead the dreamer astray.

Sentence: Vainscourge lovers always leave you yearning.

Sentence: Vainscourge navigators always seize an opening.

Sentence: Vainscourge cats always linger nearby.

a sheet for the RPG Realis, featuring the name and Sentences for the Barratmospheric Intent, a faction

Faction: The Barratmospheric Intent. The Barratmospheric Intent are the proud naval company of Boon, the Ember Moon. In spite of their extraordinary resources, they have failed to cause Vainscourge to submit.

Snetence: Intent officers always claim eminent domain.

Sentence: Intent traders always bestow offers too good to be true.

Sentence: Intent emergent-calcuators always know the score.

Sentence: Intent ships are always pristine.

Sentence: Intent world-engines always alter a moon's surface.

Sentence: Intent skyscrapers always emanate poisoned light.

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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

really squeezed in there 👀

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