Marianne "Moth" Cassidy

Marianne "Moth" Cassidy

@mothshaped.bsky.social

Potential fire hazard. Writer at Remedy (CONTROL Resonant). Previously at Saber (Hellraiser: Revival). They/them 🍵🐍✶

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If you think you don't know anyone intersex, I promise you actually do. Would appreciate signatures on this.

Mitch Travis@profmitchtravis.bsky.social

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. 30 years after the first protests members of the UK intersex communities have come together to write this important open letter to the UK government: openletter.earth/open-letter-... Please do read, sign and share widely.

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I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

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Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

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please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

Every time I see the phrase "women and femmes" to mean "women and people who look like women," or worse, "women and AFAB people," I cringe. Butch non-binary people make up a large percentage of the lesbian community. "Women and femmes" does not include them.

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But also some trans guys are feminine! Same with cis gay guys! So what are we even doing here? What does "femme" mean in this context? Because it doesn't mean the lesbian butch/femme dynamic, it doesn't mean feminine, it just means "woman-esque."

Every time I see the phrase "women and femmes" to mean "women and people who look like women," or worse, "women and AFAB people," I cringe. Butch non-binary people make up a large percentage of the lesbian community. "Women and femmes" does not include them.

People can't stand that there's no good, snappy, all-encompassing, tidy phrase that communicates "women and people who have had experiences that are connected to or aligned with womanhood in some way, unless you're a trans guy."

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Very heavy news as our former studio, BioWare closes its doors today. It was a formative place for many. However, many former BioWare devs are scattered around the industry. Find them, support them. Like, follow, comment and help us prove there is still support for the types of games we make!

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BioWare closing rings the same hollow bell in my soul as WB and Paramount becoming “Skydance.” Across movies, TV, publishing, games, we’re watching decades of legacy and history being hijacked and fed to the furnace of an abyssal engine with no desire beyond the abstract concept of “More.”

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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

The reception to Sister of Mercy in Hellraiser has been so wonderful. Making one of the villains trans was something I didn't take lightly, and I was worried about how she'd be received, but seeing trans women saying how much they love her means everything to me.

She was cis when I joined the project, but I sent an essay-length message to the otherwise-all-cis-guy narrative group chat arguing for why they should let me trans her gender, and I'm extremely grateful they trusted me with it.

Most of the plot and characters were nailed down by the time I arrived, so even though I wrote a lot of the cutscenes/key character conversations and SoM's scenes were a relatively small slice of my work, she was the only one that really felt like *my* character. That's my fucken daughter.

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Kotaro Uchikoshi's next game "suddenly canceled," was to be announced with his new company "Crash Keys"

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Since NaNoWriMo blew up a few years back, the Discord for Interactive Narrative has held its own event: DINowrimo. It starts November 1st, and I'm looking for prize donors! If you're interested, please let me know ⚡️

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This is incredibly sad. I once interviewed RJ Mitte on the Southbank and he was very friendly and joyful on a sunny day by the river. He leaves a legacy of disability representation on the screen; something that is far from easy to achieve and still too rare. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

theguardian.comRJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad, dies aged 34Actor who played Walter White Jr on the acclaimed show and advocated for disability representation remembered by Bryan Cranston as ‘my sweet son’

I've somehow worked on two games where all the writing gets credited (by the players) to a perceived auteur who didn't do any of the writing, and in one case, didn't work on the game at all and whose name isn't even in the credits. That's fine. This is fine.

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reported on something that was really difficult for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons in a lot of different ways.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755