ohhh here she comes, she’s a bad tweeter
comics editor / author / creature
rep by
@literarywhore
game dev:
Mini Motorways, Mini Metro, MTG, Darkest Dungeon II
Getting my eyelashes done and the gal says "I can't stop reading your shirt" and I remember I'm wearing the shirt with 400 forum posts arguing about whether Revolver Ocelot is gay
Game devs are tired. Writers are tired. Comic book creators are tired. Musicians are tired. Actors are tired. Every industry that produces media you love has been ravaged by a parasitic executive class who want to starve creators to feed some shitcunt's desire for a seventh house
nobody is brave enough to make a "what's a 4chan post that's so embedded in your head that you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about" post, but this would be mine
"You'll get more conservative as you get older and start to understand how the world actually works."
#BoomerAdvice
Literally the opposite. I was a Texas Libertarian in my teens and now "the way the world works" has made me a god damn borderline tankie
Calling your partner daddy
>weird
>gendered
>makes you think about your dad
Calling your partner Big Boss
>good
>gender neutral
>makes you think about brotherhood & love blooming on a battlefield
Not even a choice tbh
Clerk at the chemist: oh my god I love your cicada. Can you write down where you bought it. Wait you have a ring too???? Oh my god IS YOUR SHIRT FORUM POSTS?
Finally I found the secret to get women to talk to me. Thank you, bug jewelry and 400 forum posts about Revolver Ocelot
I think I just scored a bunch of skincare samples because of 400 forum posts about Revolver Ocelot. I had to explain what Metal Gear Solid was in a pharmacy though so I'm booboo the fool
Financially comfortable artist Amanda Palmer raising over a mill on Kickstarter then asking a whole backing orchestra to play for free on every show of her tour which was unironically named The Grand Theft Orchestra
Heck figured out how to jump on the dehumidifier and stomp on the buttons til it blows warm air on his belly. Now we have to leave it unplugged because he wants his undercarriage blow dried 24/7
@NeolithicSheep
@KateElliottSFF
it was absolutely devastating to have our year's best NZ awards--whose slate was full of bright young queer, indigenous, immigrant, disabled, neurodiverse voices--get bundled into the ceremony that honoured fucking campbell and lovecraft.
MISSING IN TE ARO 🚨 Hector has been MIA since yesterday morning from the Tonks Grove area of upper Cuba St. He is a big orange boy cat (8.5kg) and very shy. May have a red collar on, he can slip them off. If you spot him, set out food and water and contact me on here
If you are ever designing a feature/character/dialogue/system and have to choose between style and realism, go with style every time. Yep, plenty of people will complain. They are all wrong
@Iron_Spike
I know I'm not the first person to say this, but as someone who works in both games and comics: everyone on a 30 under 30 list should have to disclose their parents' income.
This is not a gentle reminder, this is a firm reminder - it is okay to log off. It is okay to not read every article. Unless you are using the device in your hand to help another person, send money to another person, get crisis help for yourself, or an equivalent, it is okay.
A basil plant flew into my yard from somewhere in ??the sky?? this morning. Like a whole plant in a small pot? If you’re in Wellington and the wind stole your basil I am treating it well
I have no words. This is vile. These poor people. Anytime someone tells you colonialism is in the past and people should just "get over it" like it isn't still causing fresh, raw harm...
BREAKING - France tells colony of French Polynesia (pop 278,000), as
#Covid19
sharply spikes, that people must "learn to live with Covid19". They will keep keep border open to tourists.
@NeolithicSheep
@KateElliottSFF
this con HAD an awards ceremony that honoured the best and brightest futures of NZ spec fic writing and they chucked it into an 11am time slot after dead racist power hour
@AbelUndercity
@Freeyourmindkid
Yeah, I think what people who say this really mean is "you'll become a conservative once you're richer" meanwhile I grew up watching medical bid bankrupt half my friends and family instead 🤔
Landlords: We must protect these heritage houses, they are beautiful artifacts of out past
Also landlords: No, I will not replace the extractor fan or add a vent for the dryer or clean the mould out from inside the ceiling or replace the broken tiles or the missing bricks.
If you are feeling bewildered about the lack of NZ content at the Hugos, one of the easiest ways you can expose your eyeballs to some glorious Aotearoa SFF is this sizzling hot off the press Year's Best anthology from
@PaperRoadPress
I should probably post an official announcement now that I can? Thrilled, exhausted, overwhelmed etc to announce that A SHRIEK ACROSS THE SKY was the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award winner for best short story. You can read it here!
Hi I'm absolutely incoherent with exhaustion but figure I can drop a flex post and run away - very honoured to be the recipient of the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Short Story and Best Professional Publication!
Thanks so much to everyone who voted! 💜💜💜
After the outpouring of love and support from the international SFF community, I felt compelled to address what happened to the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Or, as I’m calling it, “the gaping New Zealand-shaped hole in the awards programming at CoNZealand.”
Locals in Queenstown petitioning the government/media to stop food aid to migrant workers. Who was it again who lobbied and begged the government to relax visa restrictions? Who said their businesses would literally die if they couldn't hire extra backpackers?
So. In the process of buying a flat, the absolute raisin brains at my American bank gave me incorrect instructions on how to pay the deposit. There was no way to fix it from NZ. So here I am, in the US, having booked a ticket with 12 hours' notice
"Basket weaving" is a common putdown used to belittle elective arts classes but given NZ's rich history of weaving and the significance of te whare pora, this tweet may as well be an Austrian MP criticising orchestra classes or a French one calling classical art nonsense
I cannot believe this budget borrows against my grandchildren’s future to fund pet projects - it is too damn serious for nonsense like funding evening classes in Basket Weaving and Gardening in the Wind!
Some dude in my cul de sac is loudly complaining how kids these days don't do DIY stuff. My dude, everyone my age pays $300+ a week for a single bedroom with only a closet for storage and until this year our landlords could legally bar us from hanging pictures on the wall
@NeolithicSheep
@KateElliottSFF
oh and i must add--we didn't know this was going to happen, so none of us even had the opportunity to address it in our speeches. we never even had a chance to object or speak up for ourselves or others
Searching for a new fantasy author to love? I’ve compiled a directory of 36 NZ fantasy authors with links to samples, free-to-read shorts, and free book downloads for /r/fantasy. Whatever your tastes, you’ll find something here:
I am afraid that the experience of having to fly 8500 miles to fix a customer service fuckup may have Karenpilled me. This is my origin story. I can feel myself transforming into just... A tremendous bitch
Sometimes
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
is bed rest & mobility aids. Gutted to bow out of my first GDC talk AND miss Mini Motorways' win at the IGF but know I made the right choice. Shout out to my fellow sick/disabled devs and the hard health calls we have to make behind the scenes 💜
MISSING IN TE ARO 🚨 Hector has been MIA since yesterday morning from the Tonks Grove area of upper Cuba St. He is a big orange boy cat (8.5kg) and very shy. May have a red collar on, he can slip them off. If you spot him, set out food and water and contact me on here
Watch how people act the first time you tell them no. Or the first time they have to tell you no. Especially if it's for something you know they really wanted.
In the year-end chaos I sorta forgot to share this. I am over the bloody moon to announce I am now represented by
@literarywhore
at J&A in the UK! We'll be taking Into the Mire out on submission so it can find a cozy home in a bookstore near you! (art: MysteryMagicPasta)
It hurts to share this since so many of you met and loved him over the years, but we lost this sweet little man yesterday. With my health & everything else still going on I'm too numb to go into much detail. Profoundly loved, profoundly grieved. You deserved more years, Theo
People say "I'm crying irl omg" on this silly website a lot, but the first launch I ever planned just debuted at
#1
on Steam, so I am, in fact, crying a lil
Can't keep up with replying to messages cause I only have two modes of existence atm: Very High or too much pain to think straight.
Still in hospital! Mostly alive! Having a bad time! Thanks to everybody who has checked in or said hi, I am real grateful but my brain is porridge
@AlasdairStuart
I can't tell you how devastating it was/is to watch the local authors I love get sidelined again and again. So many had to fight to be included on any programming. Our awards got bundled into the retro ceremony honour fucking Campbell and Lovecraft. I am furious on their behalf
Rest of the internet, I apologise in advance. New Zealanders are very repressed and we leap straight from restrained to weirdhorny at the faintest caress of a lockdown
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