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NYT Bestselling Author of books, comics, & video games. PICARD’S ACADEMY out now! Brand & Content Strategy @CriticalRole . Lil butch space witch 🏳️🌈♏️ she/her
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Please donate or share as you’re able, and help my wonderful and perfect Snowshoe kitten get the lifesaving treatment she needs!!
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I just went to pick up food and a guy came up to me outside and said “What’s the guy’s name who played Thor?” And I said “CHRIS HEMSWORTH?” through my mask really loudly, and then turned around and found myself staring directly at CHRIS HEMSWORTH
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I just realized if Austin Powers was made today it would be about a dude who was cryogenically frozen in like 1992
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Imagine, a world where the woman on your poster isnt sexualized in any way and represents a kick-ass power fantasy
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People who think "cool" jobs aren't work contribute to a culture of undervaluing creatives until we all inevitably burn out or fucking starve to death.
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Thought I’d share one of my all-time worst experiences in game dev lol enjoy my makeup routine tho
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Can’t believe I’m writing the words “The Witcher has some of the best portrayals of women in genre right now” and yet here we are
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Absolutely devastated to learn this DAD ROCK album with AVRIL LAVIGNE and SUM 41 is not just a meme but is, in fact, real
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PSA: Wasp was a founding member of the Avengers and literally came up with the name “the Avengers.” The only person who’s led the Avengers longer than Wasp is Cap himself. Glad we cleared that up!!
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This is a fun piece that goes into detail about how we developed Rivet, though it’s pretty upsetting and frankly offensive that they never once mention me, given I was the lead writer and responsible for a TON of this development.
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In conclusion I’m sorry I outed you loudly on the street
@chrishemsworth
, big fan, I wrote a Marvel book that came out today, I hope you had a good wine, you rule, keep up the good work 🤗
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Mortified tbh, he did not look stoked to be loudly outed on the street and I can’t say I blame him lmao I apologized and ran away very quickly thank you so much
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OFFICIAL CRITTER STATUS ACHIEVED, I’ve joined up with the incredibly talented and kind folks
@CriticalRole
to provide them with words!! On things!! VERY EXCITING!!
(everyone pictured here is actual size; I am 6’5”)
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God if you are or were a misogynist piece of shit at my old job it must SUCK to know emails like this are going out to people like me, huh
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I have to assume this was an accidental follow but you know what, I’ll take it
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Abusers are smart. We’re told to leave if he hits you, so they find other ways to destroy you. We should all be taught about verbal and emotional abuse abuse before we hit high school. These behaviours are textbook, and once you’re in, the odds of getting out safely... not good.
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Anyways on this Marvel book launch day I have been blessed by the god of thunder
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Don’t compare how we felt in 2016 to how 🍊 supporters feel tonight. We were, rightfully, scared for our lives, for our rights, for our friends and family and all marginalized people in this country. They’re scared of being held accountable for their racism, misogyny, and hate.
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grown women: literally dress however the fuck you want
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The best career advice I ever got is this:
Be cool to work with.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
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I’m so bitter towards everyone in 2016 who told me i was overreacting, it wouldn’t be that bad, all the way through everyone when RBG died who told me I was overreacting, it wouldn’t be that bad
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After all these years, I finally get to make a BioWare game. 💜😭🙏🏼🥺
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I have left two full-time jobs in gaming because in large part of what I felt was deep and ingrained sexism and gender bias. I can speak about it because I had the ability to leave these companies before they just straight-up invented some excuse to fire me.
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Cal Kestis leads the Mantis crew on an adventure set between Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
MARCH 7, 2023 LET'S GO
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PRO HOUSE-BUYING TIP: we were NOT the highest offer on our home by a SIGNIFICANT amount, but ended up having our offer accepted because we wrote a letter telling the sellers about ourselves and how much we loved their home and they ate that shit UP.
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Some big and exciting news today: I’m writing the first ✨MIGHTY NEIN✨ comic for
@CriticalRole
&
@DarkHorseComics
!!
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This speaks to a broader issue of game devs being entirely erased from the narrative of their own work once they leave a studio. I’m not even credited as a writer on this game despite dedicating a year and a half of my life to it and creating Rivet’s personality from scratch.
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“But some devs... WANT to crunch” is not the spicy take I want to see on my TL
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Every time I see a “but crunch is NECESSARY in AAA” I put that studio on my list of places to avoid working for
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If Fallout can make Lucy the main character then whatever Mass Effect becomes has absolutely no good excuse for not making FemShep the main character of their adaptation. In this essay I will
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Btw a reminder to this studio that if you sue me you will be outing yourself as the place that allows a man who does shit like this to remain in charge 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 bad for the brand I assure you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Imagine being these animators, telling your bosses for years that something is a huge mistake & being ignored only to have them listen to identical consumer feedback and demand you fix everything at the last minute when they should have just listened to you in the first place
"We know you don't like the blue fur atrocity now, but what if we destroy a couple hundred animators' lives for 6 months, with no more insight or discernment then we had previously!"
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Friendly reminder that if you're bi/pan/queer but in a straight-passing relationship YOU STILL BELONG AT PRIDE AND IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY
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Seems like Mark’s GDC talk makes it sound like a bunch of this stuff sprung up from nowhere? I was one of like 4 people in the room for most of Rivet’s development. I was the one who said “We can’t call her RACHETTE.” Gadget and Rivet were me. Sucks to have my work erased.
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I guess the cat’s out of the bag:
I’M WRITING A 🌟 CAPTAIN MARVEL 🌟 MINI-SERIES for
@IDWPublishing
’s
@Marvel
Action!!
💫😺 It’s got cats. A LOT of cats. 😻And amazing art and colors by
@Sweeney_Boo
and
@br_peer
!!
Exclusive: Captain Marvel becomes a bodega Avenger in a new series from IDW.
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Genuinely DELIGHTED to be able to share that I’ve joined up with
@CriticalRole
as Senior Manager of Brand and Content Strategy!! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
After working with & being a huge fan of the CR team for years, this is truly a dream. There’s so much excitement in the works. Let’s do this!!
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The number of times I've brought these images up at various workplaces...
"She has to have a Female body shape or else how will people know she's Female"
ok jim but????????????????? what is Female Body Shape???? show me on the doll
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I love when game devs who literally don’t have to open their mouths go on Twitter and say the stupidest bad-take misogynist shit so that we all know never ever to work with them
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LET’S NOT EVEN MENTION the FIGHTS I had to get into and the EMAILS I had to send explaining why we should take the BOOBS and MAKEUP off Rivet
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Such a delight to close out the Hobbits reunion tour tonight at
@FANEXPOCANADA
!! Thank you
@DomsWildThings
@BillyBoydActor
@elijahwood
@SeanAstin
🥰🥰🥰
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🌿🌙🎉 SOME NEWS RE: ME!! 🎉🌙🌿 Today I’m joining
@insomniacgames
as Senior Writer on a new, secret project!! I’m so excited to be joining this amazing studio!!
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Please help me feel sane by telling me I’m not the only person in the world who things every single one of these “PLANS TO REOPEN _______ IN MAY” are both dangerous and foolish?????
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anyone else having an “I hate myself and I’m a massive failure” kinda day?
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Actual live footage of me watching for the FIRST TIME the trailer for a game I’ve worked on for the last year+
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“At a time where story treatments were being rapidly iterated on” — who wrote every single one of those story treatments? It wasn’t Mark! It was me, actually. I worked my ass off on this game for a long time and it’s misogynist erasure like this that makes my blood boil.
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The responses to this are uniformly:
Non-game devs: FUCKING WHAT?!
Game devs: yeah sounds right
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Given current circumstances at Hasbro and Wizards, I've made the extremely difficult decision to step out of my role with the company and pursue new opportunities in games.
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Can’t wait to finish playing the Mass Effect Trilogy so I can once again begin playing the Mass Effect Trilogy
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Thank you
@joelmchale
for helping
@BlairBroon
and I make this very important Personal Announcement today 🧡🤍💖
An important life update from me and
@SamMaggs
, graciously presented by the incomparable
@joelmchale
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Excuse the extremely millennial tweet but I just cannot process this
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DON'T 👏 TALK 👏 ABOUT 👏 BALDUR'S 👏 GATE 👏 UNLESS 👏 YOU 👏 ARE 👏 A 👏 MINIATURE 👏 GIANT 👏 SPACE 👏 HAMSTER 👏
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Almost like this is what can happen if you hire women showrunners and a diverse staff of writers and then trust them enough to allow them to make something good.......... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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The number of women I know who legally cannot share their stories because they've been wrongfully terminated due to sexism and then received settlements from the company WHICH INCLUDE GAG ORDERS SO THEY CAN NEVER TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE... it's a lot. IT'S A LOT.
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OH YEAH... I AM MAKING A GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT QUEER LADY PIRATES WITH
@kendrawcandraw
!! !! !!
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@TheFakeGeekGal
Yes! And I had no idea why so I answered quickly and loudly and then he kind of looked beyond me so I turned around and there he was drinking some wine
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What’s the worst way you’ve ever been rejected for a job? Mine is when I auditioned to be a host for a Canadian tech giant at E3, and they called me up after and said “Great news - we found our dream host!”
And then they said “um, unfortunately you... were our SECOND dream host”
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Killing yourself for your work is not Glamorous or Cool, and it will eventually (ACTUALLY VERY QUICKLY) catch up to you and end you
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This is how like 90% of writers talk about their ~characters and it drives me absolutely up the wall
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"I'm appalled because I have a wife/daughter/mom" is my fave bc it proves you can't think of women as ppl outside of their relation to men
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I’m Sam and I’ve been game writing for nearly a decade at studios like Gearbox, Sledgehammer, BioWare, Insomniac, and Wizards of the Coast. I’m now a Narrative and Creative Lead and also a newly-minted New York Times Bestseller 😎🥳
oh and im a big d🏳️🌈ke
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
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“Someone”????? I guess I just don’t even deserve a name or the memory of having been part of senior leadership on this project for years huh
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Every “how this young person has become incredibly successful in _______ field!” story is missing one key piece of information: their massive generational wealth
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Salarians after I cure the genophage and they tell me that it’ll be my fault when the krogan wipe out their race
#masseffect3
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THE HOBBITS!!!!!!! A dream!!!!!!!!! (Yes I am shorter than them despite wearing platforms)
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I needed a good tote bag for when travel and cons are back and folks, I would like to introduce you to... Him
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bisexual mood: extremely bisexual
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Happy
#NationalComingOutDay
! Turns out, all this time, I’ve been extremely a lesbian!! Great stuff, actually! It rules!! 🧡🤍💖
It’s been a long, tough journey and I’ve gotten here pretty late in life, but it felt important to share. I’m proud about it, and I love you.
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Sorry to choose violence today but I’m not about to let a man erase and take credit for my own hard work. I’m disgusted and pretty livid.
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Mark had a massive issue with me the entire time I was on this project and consistently attempted to undermine me so I’m not surprised he’s decided to take unilateral credit for my work now that it’s been praised as successful :) this is what it’s like being a woman in games.
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I dressed up for a doctor’s appointment today. That’s where we’re at
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Keelah se’leave your fucking mask on
If Quarians can wear enviro-suits all day, you can wear a mask.
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It wasn’t my fault, I quit in November, please find someone new to blame lmaooooooo
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@Kotaku
this article sucks actually, and I like you guys. real fucking bummer to read an article that shits on research, cultural sensitivity, and all the hard work that goes into game dev. jobs are hard. cool jobs are hard. this shit's reductive and i gotta defend our work here.
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Who might have called this out as being an issue??? Could it have been me, the person literally hired to do this job ?????? Jesus
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My favorite part of T*e L*st J*di is the idea that the Force is democratizing; that it can come to anyone; that R*y is no one special. I haven’t seen the last movie but no matter what, that’s forever canon for me.
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This total erasure would make me less furious if I didn’t have the memories of SOBBING in offices for hours after fighting tooth and nail to stop Rivet from being cut from the game entirely weren’t BURNED into my brain.
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Could not be more honored and excited to be part of an INCREDIBLE team at
@AspyrMedia
to remake one of my all-time favorite games!!
This is no Jedi mind trick!
We’re bringing STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake to PlayStation 5 as a console exclusive at launch and to PC in partnership with
@PlayStation
and
@Lucasfilmgames
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i just want all the Youngsters who follow me to know that you CAN find a partner who shares equal responsibilities and doesn't make you do the emotional labor of asking. I promise. Do not accept less
Two days ago, I decided to stop doing the dishes. I make all the dinners and I am tired of having to do all the cleaning too. SINCE THEN this pile has appeared and at some point they are going to run out of spoons and cups and plates.
Who will blink first? Not me.
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What are your four “comfort movies” of any genre? Movies that you’ll never get sick of no matter how much you watch them and that put you in a better mood by watching them. Here’s mine!
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