Imogen Cassidy

So the Black Tapes news has made me kinda go a bit feral because there's SOMETHING IN ALL OF US that wants conspiracy fiction. It's one of the reasons X-Files was so popular, and Lost and so many other series out there. I think it's why crime fiction was so big as well back in the day.

We're all out there, fingers poised, desperately hoping for that one. good. final. reveal. Sigh.

So the Black Tapes news has made me kinda go a bit feral because there's SOMETHING IN ALL OF US that wants conspiracy fiction. It's one of the reasons X-Files was so popular, and Lost and so many other series out there. I think it's why crime fiction was so big as well back in the day.

If I can ever crack the hot as fuck older guy MC or Villain I will be so fucking rich. All my old guys are too fucking nice and actually listen to their female co-protagonists and take their concerns seriously.

LET ME SAY RIGHT NOW THIS IS MY FAILING AND NOT A FAILING OF THE HOT AS FUCK VILLAIN/VILLAIN AS MAYBE LOVE INTEREST/VILLAIN AS POSSIBLY HERO WRITERS OUT THERE.

Legit excited about this.

Also you don't have to be original in this? NO ONE IS GRADING YOU? My children are bright, effortlessly handsome, witty and cool. I'm THEIR MUM SO OF COURSE I THINK THAT.

There's two parts to the stupid as all hell "parent has to ask AI to describe their kid problem". One is actually knowing their kid (which I doubt this person does) and the other is summarising all the things they know about their kid into core traits.

Also I have an issue with the question in the first place because why the hell is the teacher asking the parent to "BULLET POINT" their kid, but that's a different problem. As a teacher any description of a kid I teach by a parent is immediately going into the "skeptical" box.

As an old school TMA fan from the depths of the twenty-teens thank you @rustyquill.com and @billielhindle.bsky.social for Alice. My absolute fave across both series.

You can keep your Jarchivists and your Martins and your Jareds and All Of The Michaels. That said, special mention to Gwen, whatever I might have expected from a relation to a previous character, Gwen... was not it, and she's glorious.

As an old school TMA fan from the depths of the twenty-teens thank you @rustyquill.com and @billielhindle.bsky.social for Alice. My absolute fave across both series.

AS AN EXTRA TO THIS THREAD WHILE I AM NOT SAD ABOUT BIOWARE BEING SHUT DOWN I AM FUCKING FURIOUS ABOUT THE LAYOFFS AND THE GENERAL STATE OF THE GAME INDUSTRY BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE DESERVE BETTER AND ARE BEING FUCKED OVER ON A ROYALLY HUGE SCALE.

I am not desperately sad about Bioware being shut down as a studio because that's been on the cards for a decade, honestly, what I'm sad about is the IDEA of Bioware, that there was a studio out there that was creating games specifically to my tastes from WHEN I WAS A TEENY GAMER TOT.

There were so many flaws in all of their games but I was willing to accept them because I could work around them with my own stories. Much as I love and adore games like Hades and Slay the Princess and Stardew Valley I don't get the opportunity to build a story the same way.

I am not desperately sad about Bioware being shut down as a studio because that's been on the cards for a decade, honestly, what I'm sad about is the IDEA of Bioware, that there was a studio out there that was creating games specifically to my tastes from WHEN I WAS A TEENY GAMER TOT.

Writing "advice" drives me bonky, ngl but I get where it comes from. There SHOULD be a magic trick to writing well but in the end it comes from reading a lot, talking to people about it and then turning around and WRITING a lot, and talking about THAT.

Was chatting with my MIL (who is about to turn eighty) yesterday and she's understandably disillusioned with politics etc as are we all but the big thing she said about one of the parties in her area was that "they never run anyone we KNOW".

And nowadays, the people my MIL KNOW are... to put it frankly, right wing nutjobs. Because those are the people that live in her area. And those are the people who are campaigning for the parties that most of the people in that area are going to vote for.

Was chatting with my MIL (who is about to turn eighty) yesterday and she's understandably disillusioned with politics etc as are we all but the big thing she said about one of the parties in her area was that "they never run anyone we KNOW".

Government in smaller towns across Australia is something that the larger parties just. do. not. get. It's personal. Because OF COURSE major parties are going to cater to what the MAJORITY want, and guess where the MAJORITY IS?