Utopies Selectives

@utopieselective.bsky.social

Art director & Lead Concept designer @ VIRTUOS MTL. lead Designer of Wandering Earth 2019. Space and scifi lover. He/Him. lived in CAN & China. BLM. Death to fascism

I used to collect examples of 'environmental storytelling in the real world' on Twitter. I found it gave me ideas for environmental storytelling in games and demonstrated how 'on the nose' those real vignettes can be. I thought I'd recreate the thread here in the hope that others will contribute.

Oh no 🥺 The French-Iranian artist, comic book author and director Marjane Satrapi, who became world-renowned with the graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56. She also directed Chicken with Plums (2011), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2019), Dear Paris (2024)...

PersepolisA black-and-white poster titled "AN IRON REGIME... A PEOPLE RESISTING" features a woman (Marjane Satrapi) standing in a long double-breasted coat in front of a wall covered in handwritten English text about the struggle for a free Iran.Persepolis (2007 movie)Persepolis (2007 movie)
Agence France-Presse@afp.com · 3mo ago

💭 🎬 L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a annoncé son entourage jeudi à l'AFP.

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

The rules
Iwas fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it from the right vantage looked like a cartoon heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.
Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 10mo ago

Three new short stories by Luke O’Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social)—"The rules,” “How to live,” and “Something that was once potentially good”—are excerpted here. All three appear in his new book of stories, We Had it Coming and Other Fictions, now out from OR Books. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

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Can’t believe the news, Disney shutting down the marvel. vis dev department. This teams art made them billions and billions of dollars, but it seems that paying a handful or so of fulltime illustrators is simply too much to ask these days.

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There's a guy who drives around my town with one of these from the 60's! He uses it to make firewood deliveries, and when I saw it, I instantly had to ask to take photos! He keeps a spare engine on the back, because it's that temperamental!

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