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Annie who lives here

@stellarine.bsky.social
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writer in chicago / co-host of @eati.games / fiction in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social / @play.date enjoyer / more at linktr.ee/stellarine / views expressed here are my own and not that of my employers

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Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
we're having so much fun in Leyndell Royal Capital and we will never die. now to climb this ladder down into the sewer... www.twitch.tv/parallelplay...
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ParallelPlayers - Twitch
Hi, we're Annie and Robin. We're very smart and funny but unfortunately we do play a lot of video games. We have opted OUT of AI training and encourage you to do the same! — ParallelPlayers streams li...
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Relatable. At this point there's a lot I'm just not going to let go of just because I know I'll wish later that I still had it. However my post-death garage sale will prob be some nerd's paradise because of it. I know my future heirs aren't going to care about the amiibo collection lmao
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Many reasons for it but on the journalistic framing side it baffles me how so many of these pieces do not bother to interview an adult child about why they cut their parents off. I have my own guesses but you'd hope the pieces would explore that side and they often barely do!
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Omg.... don't it always seem to go you don't know what you got til it's gone
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anyway you can't, since the loss is ultimately the experience of childhood itself, now over. But you CAN still have fun with a refurbished Gameboy Advance SP
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How much of adulthood is attempting to make up for the ultimately irreplaceable losses of childhood, I muse as I peruse ebay listings of refurbished Gameboy Advance SPs
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of my biggest regrets in life is selling my Gameboy Advance SP in Pearl Blue to my younger sibling for $10 so I could put the money toward a DS Lite. My dad insisted that was market rate at the time and I was in fifth grade. My sibling lost the thing immediately. I should've just gotten a job
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Time-wise, does it take more time or less time to edit what Claude generates vs. what you would have written first-draft yourself? Curious as someone who does not do data analysis
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 05/10/2026
David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy
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David Zaslav bids farewell to industry he helped destroy
In a video address to employees on the eve of the Paramount takeover, David Zaslav says it’s been an "honor" to oversee so many HBO name changes. 
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Holy crap. If they've got Winona Ryder's Dracula costumes that's wild. Eiko Ishioka won her Oscars for those
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been wondering what's actually up here for a while + you're not going to believe this but the answer is, once again, private equity. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...
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Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Details (former On Leong Merchants Association Building edition) Architects: Michaelsen & Rognstad, 1928
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's so unexpected and yet such a blessing
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Got to their B support last night and i was howlingggg
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Almost missed my exit on my commute today because I was distracted thinking about Fabio and Dietrich Fireemblem. That's how I know it's real
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's ALWAYS the freaking moon in JRPGs isn't it
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
if someone wrote an apologia piece like this about my rapist i would be utterly fucking incandescent. i'm sorry this is disgusting we do not, in fact, need to discuss the nuance of raping someone, facing no consequence, and then making tons of money over the next ten years as a public figure
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please remember that RAY GUNN by Brad Bird is a Skydance Animation project in large part because Brad still wanted to work with serial sexual harasser of women John Lasseter after he was forced to leave Pixar after the serial sexual harassment. John was then hired at Skydance by David Ellison. So.
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're like Hannigram but even goofier somehow
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's CRAZY he's got that chemical x
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omfg. Sounds like something he'd say for leveling up. Also when someone heals him he says "You're late!" and like CHILL dude. So far my favorite support has been Mikaela telling him he's too pale, needs to exercise, and then makes him run a mile while he complains about the sun. Relatable
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Right? And then poor Esmeralda is there trying to woo Dietrich which would be impossible at the best of times since he only cares about Dueling etc, but also Fabio is there.
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ooh i'm so curious about her because she seems to know more about what down with Yu Phas and there's been barely a mention of that so far in Dietrich's route!! But good to know about the lack of weirdos. Seems like Leda's bunch might have them too but i'm not there yet
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was so pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying that stone-cold weirdo. Also he has some of the cattiest lines so far
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fabio is like. TRYING to be Hannibal but nobody else in the game is in the same genre so they hear his arcane mutterings and go, anyway! And make him do push-ups instead.
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fabio Fireemblem to Dietrich Fireemblem: I would like to dissect you Dietrich: I need to duel every worthy warrior in the land or die trying but if I'm still alive after that, sure
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He and Fabio are stone cold weirdos while Esmeralda is just trying to have a Disney princess adventure and I Love the dynamic
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ugh and they might go to Netflix, where they'll help bury the theatrical experience - god. Grim
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I actually gasped
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On top of the whole world sucking real bad this week, I really miss my family dog Gus (he passed a few years ago). Wish I could hug him. That would fix things
Photo of a Keeshond (fluffy gray dog) laying in the snow
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The names that could be named here. It's blatant wage theft
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting very soon!!
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now that we remember where the hell we are and what the controls are, @robinbombus.bsky.social and I are back with Elden Ring on stream tn! See you at 7:30pm CT (in about half an hour). We're still exploring Leyndell, which surely has no horrible monsters around every silent corner:
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Hi, we're Annie and Robin. We're very smart and funny but unfortunately we do play a lot of video games. We have opted OUT of AI training and encourage you to do the same! — ParallelPlayers streams li...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just muted the voice entirely because the settings don't let me revert to the previous version
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google Maps forced an update and its voice alerts are now AI, which sucks on several levels. First, it gets stuff wrong way more often than the previous non-AI voice did (reading out placeholder variables from the backend or mispronouncing place names). Second, it has an irritatingly chipper tone
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Truly and honestly do we think Greg Brockman even knows how to write his full name
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To be clear what i mean is you play as a bird on a date with a person. Versus in hatoful boyfriend, you play as a person and go on dates with birds
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did not expect the reverse hatoful boyfriend situation in fire emblem fortune's weave's dating sim elements
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the funniest things about these consumer AI agents is that lots of people spend their entire careers trying to avoid having to manage any other employees, and yet "you get to manage your own coterie of incompetent employees!" is somehow the sales pitch they decided on for these things
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But I just did what nearly all writing about the issue does: talked about the percent of women on campus who will become victims without talking about the percent of men on campus who will become perpetrators. Most campus rape victims know their assailants.
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence during college.
The 2019 Campus Climate Survey found that 13% of undergraduate students experienced rape or sexual assault after enrolling in college.

That’s about:

• 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)

• 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%)

who experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or inability to consent since enrolling at their school.

from: https://rainn.org/red-zone/campus-sexual-violence-statistics/
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danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I need to make like $1000 this week if anyone was in the mood to hire me btw
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What they don't tell you about Dietrich von Fire Emblem is that he's actually just bishounen Captain Ahab
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm actually here but I'm just viewing while Robin suffers in the well
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For my health they should invent a JRPG protagonist who is 30 years old
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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Update, 22-year-old Dietrich Fire Emblem IS going to the club, but only to start a fight
Screenshot of dietrich from fire emblem fortune's weave saying he's going to a bar to duel people
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