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Lis Welch

@liswelch.com
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Award-winning writer, essayist, editor & game designer • Working with @lostincult.co.uk • Brazilian, latina, PwD, lesbian travesti author. As a necromancer, I bring back to life what should never have been lost. More: beacons.ai/liswelch/en

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 3h
Friendships between men are often quiet. In Big Walk, silent communication just isn't enough — that is, unless you're doing a puzzle where communicating with your body is the only option. New from @daytenrose.bsky.social here:
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Big Walk lights the way for non-toxic masculinity in games
Interrogating "men don't talk to each other" through a game about communication
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 2h
New EDITIONS day! Delighted to feature @finruin.bsky.social's work in the booklet for this one – she delivered a fascinating Q+A and her essay is phenomenal.
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 2h
Picture it. Ireland, 1897. The haunted corridors of Blake Manor and the disappearance of Evelyn Deane. @blakemanorgame.bsky.social ial from @spookydoorway.com & @rawfury.bsky.social now available physically on PS5 (1,000 copies) and SW2 (1,500 copies) www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/blake...
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The struggle, the cycles. It can all fade away...🌧️ Find some shelter in @rainworldgame.bsky.social : Design Works, our newest book that honours a survival game like no others. Signed Editions by the development team available only for the first 48 hours! 🔻
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sites just have to hire more non-men. It’s unforgivable how few women and nonbinary people are staff writers and editors at major sites, across the board. not just in games but games in particular has a serious problem.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 29/09/2026
Manifesting: one day I'll write a Design Works for Lost in Cult and, when that happens, I'm going to repost this to prove that I made it!
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also i hate how simple and reductive this sounds but no women or trans people having jobs also means that it's considerably harder for female and trans freelancers to get any work at all because cis men are just less likely to accept or even reply to pitches from us, whether they admit it or not
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CHOOSE YOUR HERO: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 27/09/2026
I always try to treat people with love and care, because I'd like to be treated this way throughout my whole life. I know how much easier things are when we feel loved and cared for.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"National awards & a distinguished real international award should be separated. The present Hugo and Nebula awards are only American awards. [Also,] The creation of an international theoretical/critical journal is by all means necessary." - Peter Kuczka (Hungary), Luna Monthly, Aug 1970 #worldsf
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Friendly reminder I’m a trans journalist and am available for work! I’m an investigative reporter who’s covered AI, trans topics, ICE, and more. I’ve got some powerful accountability stories right now that I’m looking to place, and I’m also open for assignments, staff gigs, and copyediting work.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 22/09/2026
Jesus, I'm rlly tired today
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 22/09/2026
DANCING QUEEEN YOUNG AND SWEEET ONLY SEVENTEEEEN OHHH YEAAAAHH
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 21/09/2026
In 6 days I turn 24, oh my god oh my god oh my god
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...
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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive
Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 17/09/2026
What doesn't kill you...
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 15/09/2026
THIS IS >SO< AMAZING
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Over 40 years of cutting edge cinema. Introducing our (Post)[Culture] premiere, Archive: Shinya Tsukamoto 🎞️ 400 pages. Limited extras. Signed by Tsukamoto himself. Only 500 signed copies available! 🔗🔻
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 15/09/2026
So tired
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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are tired of posting statements like these.
Today was an awful day at IGN. We were blindsided by the layoff of four union members and many more people across the organization who contributed years of their careers to making IGN an unparalleled voice in games and entertainment. 

With each successive layoff, core parts of IGN’s operation continue to be stripped away. Today, IGN has decided to do away with many of our talented producers, editors, hosts, and other crucial roles, both within and out of the union. How many layoffs will occur before we no longer recognize the company we work for and the content that we make? 


While we recognize the challenges the media industry is facing as a whole, it is difficult to understand how laying off valuable employees better positions us to meet those challenges. In turn, remaining employees bear additional workloads worsened by anxiety over the ever-looming threat of another layoff.

We are devastated, angry, and heartbroken for our colleagues.
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New on the website: "Determining a Melodramatic Sensibility in Tabletop Role-playing Games" by writer Kayla Dice. Dice presents an analysis based on based on the presence of heightened emotionality, pathos, and meaningful dichotomies in various TTRPGs.
Two dueling sailors make meaningful eye contact, highlighted in the colours red and blue, with the caption of the article "determining a melodramatic sensibility in roleplaying games"
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MOUSE: P.I. For Hire @mousethegame.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Lost in Cult x MOUSE: P.I. For Hire Official Artbook Deluxe Edition includes: 🤍 Premium hardcover 🖤 Official playing cards 🤍 4 x Acetate animation cells + background cards 🖤 4 x Art cards 🤍 30 Page R.I.P. animation flip-book 🖤 5 x Fabric patches 🤍 1 x Folded poster
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 15/09/2026
Sometimes it still hits me that Dolly Parton passed away, and I just start crying uncontrollably. We really did lose an angel.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 06/09/2026
Me: "Oh, God, finally I have some free time!" Also me: *staring the ceiling* "What if I work just a little more?"
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
To stop the world from becoming the US, we must turn the world into BRASIL
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 06/09/2026
THIS 👇👇👇
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Idea: Disco Elysium/Encanto crossover, call it We Don't Talk About Cuno
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 31/08/2026
You want more?! We'll give you more!💥 3 NEW physical games... A warm welcome to The Immortal John Triptych from @joerichardson.bsky.social, Is This Seat Taken? from @potipoti.studio and Mediterranea Inferno from @santaragione.com 🔗⤵️
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 01/09/2026
this is completely true actually. google "rockstar spouse" to learn more!
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 31/08/2026
Someone tell Trump that America is a whole continent and not just the country called the United States that he unfortunately governs.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I contributed to this! Me, Gita :)
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 28/08/2026
First, I'm in this! Second, what a pleasure to collaborate with Mothership once again, alongside a wonderful (and hilariously funny) group of writers. Now we just need to take this to the proper authorities and get this manifesto added to the federal constitutions (of every country involved).
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 28/08/2026
i don't think @zoehhannah.com and i knew what to expect when we did an open call to our freelancers for this project and the results are such a delight. poignant, silly, sweet, and serious.
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 28/08/2026
I'm in this! Always happy to contribute to Mothership. You should peruse these bill of rights, part of which I argue for the right to play with someone else, the right to ignore achievements and leaderboards, and the right to report
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Saoirse Victoria Stone 🏳️‍⚧️ @saoirsestone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
First of all, I’m in this 😊 Second, I love how countercultural the responses were. The tones varied, from nurturing, to academic, to profane, to whatever JRPG villain-ass monologue I dropped into in “the right to cheese.” But everybody envisioned a better, healthier vision of gaming.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 28/08/2026
Twelve of @mothership.blog's contributors collaborated on a gaming bill of rights, delineating "the right to replay," "the right to fucking suck shit," "the right to cheese" and so much more.
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What rights should gamers have?
A somewhat serious and somewhat silly Gaming Bill of Rights
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 25/08/2026
Oh, god, no
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 25/08/2026
Up until 6 months ago, I had almost 40k followers on Twitter and a fanbase around my work. I chose to sacrifice that over staying on a platform that was killing me. I might not be perfect today, but the improvement in my mental health is undeniable (and in my free time for actual creation, too).
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 25/08/2026
Woke up great today. Let's go do some writing! :))
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Brent Jans (he/they)💜🖤🤍 @dorklordcanada.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good morning! I am an editor of TTRPGs. I'm good at it and I love doing it. I do have a page where you can see the things I've worked on, read the kind words folks have said about my work, and hire me. But it's hard out here right now. So if you're a creator who needs an editor but is feeling...
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 25/08/2026
Big Walk. One of the best experiences I've had gaming in the past years.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 24/08/2026
Rlly hurts my feelings when someone I've cared about takes all the credit for a job that both of us did together
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What I’m seeing is: being very vocal about the damage thar hateful bigot worm person JK Rowling has done to the world in her pursuit of eradicating trans people is damaging the Harry Potter brand. So definitely keep doing that.
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 24/08/2026
Pulling three all-nighters in a row probably wasn't such a good idea (I'm fine, I think).
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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
viii - strength
Digital artwork of Howl and Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle, depicting the major arcana tarot card Strength
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Lis Welch @liswelch.com · 23/08/2026
Having faced hunger and homelessness after being persecuted in the job market (for being trans and an activist) has apparently given me a kind of trauma where I keep thinking I'm going to end up unemployed again and everything around me is going to collapse. Terrible nightmare last night.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 21/08/2026
today at @mothership.blog, it's jennifer lufau breaking down exactly what is so important and special about South of Midnight. free to read with just your email address! do not miss this game; compulsion games is indie now and both needs & deserves your support.
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South of Midnight is a master class in cultural appreciation
I’m a French Black woman whose favorite game of 2025 was not Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And how could it be, when South of Midnight was released around the same time?
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