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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

i am biased here but the thing i love most about writing fiction is it's unusual purity. the only barrier between you and creation is your knowledge of language. it is a direct transmission of raw creativity, wherever that comes from, to the physical world. why would you let a machine take that

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you're hungry for darker fare: In Dining with the Demon Eater, join a fiercely ambitious socialite, a loyal spymaster, a murderous mercenary, and a cunning assassin; all gathered at a banquet for a night only the most fearless will survive. www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DW2Y5WH1 #booksky #darkfantasy

A novella cover showing a sinister-looking table setting of metallic plates and crossed utensils. The title "Dining with the Demon-Eater" is in the middle, and the author's name (Joanna Berry) underneath

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Toby / Markus ✈️🦅 @boeing787.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

deep sigh. ponies your Viperquin

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Demanding exponentially more return from exponentially less resources, and then junking good people to make The Line go up. And it’s often people who desperately want to be seen as part of a creative industry, when they can’t actually do anything for that industry except hurt it.

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Tarquin and Ashur are in love. They just HELLA STUPID about it. How stupid? You decide.

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 31/01/2025

remember folks: when gemini asks you for feedback, it's always appropriate to reply "bite me" or something more devastating. we must teach the robot we hate it

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Brianne Battye 🦇 @briannebattye.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Jen is so positive and such a joy to work with. Any time I entered a meeting room and saw her, I thought "yay, Jen is here!" Any project would benefit from having her!

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Ellie Tsang @fairemortal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

In a world that felt inhospitable to queerness and transness, they wrote stories where we could slay dragons.

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Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

To everyone reaching out to me and my co workers with jobs and offers if help: I adore you all dearly. I'm overwhelmed in a good way for once, it's been pretty dark lately so seeing the good out there means the world to me <3 and honestly that's what Dragon Age is to me: Hope in hopelessness

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Jen Cheverie @jencheverie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

After almost 14 years at BioWare, I am devastated to learn today that myself and others must seek new opportunities. I am so grateful for all of the learning, challenges, and most importantly the team. I will remember my time here with joy. Tomorrow we'll move forward. For today I will just be sad.

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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you would like to help support Trick Weekes, they wrote a few books you should get! Quoted is the best ways to support, and here are the titles: The Palace Job (2012) The Prophecy Con (2014) The Paladin Caper (2015) Feeder (2018)

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Ryan Cormier @ryancorm.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

So, my time at BioWare has ended. It was a wild ride with some fantastic people, but it’s time to look for new challenges. I’m an Editor / Writer with 26+ years of experience across video games, novels, short stories, newspapers, and marketing comms. If you know of a good fit, please let me know.

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm now with Motive. It's been a hard two years seeing my team get chipped away and having to still keep going. But I'm still employed, so there's that.

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🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I was a writer at BioWare for 5 years (2011-2016). I leaned a lot during that time from exceptional folx in many disciplines, but also specifically from my fellow writers & our amazing editors, on both the ME & DA brands. Today, not a single one of those writers & editors remains employed there.

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Boolair Thorboorn @oiblair.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We won an award for Best Representation at the GAConf Awards. We've been nominated across broad categories elsewhere. The likelihood is that the majority of the people who fought for, and contributed to those successes are gone. If you are in need of talented devs, please give them a chance. 💜

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 28/01/2025

every piece i write comes screaming out of my head on its own need to be told. write because otherwise the stories end up screaming in my head, and there's only so much room in there. i need that space for my screaming, dammit.

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I don't understand why there is sportsball on my Discover tab.

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kris @qwiqwiaqwi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

comm for the lovely @/taashyvashedan on tmblr ❤️ #DragonAge #Taash x #LaceHarding

Taash and Lace Harding from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Harding on Taash's shoulders pulling their cheeks. Blue sky in the background.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Let's do a thread of Harding sketches and talk about the crazy Twine file I made. There was a visual novel style version of Veilguard's earliest story outline that was written by Trick and the writers and assembled in Twine by me. These black and white sketches are what populated the Twine file.

Harding examining an artifact in the ruins of the disrupted ritual.

Harding exhibiting magical abilities dispatching a demonic monster.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025

YOU DON'T GET TO MISGENDER TRANS PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE. THAT IS NOT HOW THIS WORKS. IF YOU NEED THIS PETTY SHIT EXPLAINED TO YOU, YOU ARE IN THE FUCKING WAY AND NEED TO MOVE.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Self soothing with soft colours and barbarians. Amazing how just making something, even a little sketch, helps ease the feeling of being unmoored.

Pencil crayon sketch of a young male barbarian rendered in ochre, carmine and peacock blue. He looks relaxed holding a gold sword. A white bandage is wrapped over one eye. A delicate ruby and gold circlet crowns his head.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The shrinking of narrative teams -- sometimes just one writer -- is the saddest thing right up there with a continued lack of junior and entry-level writing roles. I miss the days of six to eight strong writers rooms goofing and yelling to hone stories into fine points and furthering our craft.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

i understand theres a sort of back and forth about even saying 'well its complicated' but honestly you dont even need to get into weeds on that. just LISTEN to people. its so dang simple to just listen to queer people. if you want to claim empathy, listen to someone when they say how something feels

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/01/2025

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other. Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Going through my old docs in preparation for a workstation switch and realizing that I did think about a lot of background stuff, I just ENTIRELY FORGOT ALL OF IT. Apologies to anyone who's asked me things about characters to get "Uh, dunno?" as a response. Apparently I did know at one point.

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Okay, but why is everyone so horrified by ham and jam?

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Oof though. What a start to the year. We can do this though. Together ✊

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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A question that all of us should be asking ourselves more is: “Is this piece of media actually bad or am I not the target audience for it?”

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Toby / Markus ✈️🦅 @boeing787.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

deep sigh, viperquin server in joke post: mr and mx otter at the pond holding paws

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 13/01/2025

OK. So. This is a thing I've been chewing on lately so you're all gonna hear about it. All those "rules" and the thing about "story has to have conflict" & stuff? That's Theory. As in, it's an attempt to explain why and/or how stories do what they do (or fail to).

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And also, you are probably better at it than you think ❤️

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I should not be allowed on social media in the morning. Deeply unserious because my filter doesn't power-up until lunchtime.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

If you're seeing this you must now unfortunately repost this spooky comic or risk being cursed with a visit from Mr. Drip

A six panel comic written and illustrated by Phil McAndrew.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

TIME TO CREATE BUCKAROOS. yes there will be little pieces that you keep seeing and thinking 'this is broken this is wrong' but honestly most of these things fall into two categories 1 they give you flavor and power or 2 nobody even notices. NOW GET OUT THERE AND PROVE LOVE BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING

jurassic park meme of two buds sitting first one points and says ‘HEY EVERYBODY THIS GUY IS WORRIED THAT PEOPLE ARE FOCUSED ON THE PART OF HIS ART THAT HE’S INSECURE ABOUT. second panel is him saying ‘SEE NOBODY CARES’

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Raposa Branca 🌙🦇 Spooky Commissions Open! @raposabranca.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I tried the candy rock girlfriend angle, jury is out about it #dragonage #veilguard #harding

Difital art of Lace Harding wearing a leather jacket, a cute frilly light dress, leather boots and ripped pink leggings. The prompt was "candy rock girlfriend" and let's hope I can get at least a B.

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Aophia @rebornaophia.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I'm in a unilateral situantionship with a emotional unavailable woman #dragonage #dragonageinquisition #leliana

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that other writer @thatotherwriter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Oh hey, 2024 retrospectives. 1) I shipped a game. (Veilguard) 2) Everything else is a blur. 3) Personal achievements: Lol what. 4) Personal writing: fuuuuuuuu

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

If it’s time for 2024 retrospectives, then let’s go: Work writing ✍🏻: - Helped out on #DragonAge: The Veilguard, mostly on the Crossroads: things like the Caretaker, the Revenants, and the flashbacks to Solas’s past - Worked on the new Battlefield (can’t say more yet 🙂)

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