Come to @kpondwriters.bsky.social for a dopamine-fueled, achievement-unlocking workshop led by me and Michael Seidlinger 👾
Deirdre Coyle
@deirdrekoala.bsky.social
Writing, gaming, witchcraft, goth stuff. Columnist for @Unwinnable.com, editor for a fintech company. This is a Skyrim fan account. deirdrecoyle.com
I'm the target audience for goth solitaire and this game rules. @aftermath.site aftermath.site/email/1ab30f...
Aftermath Bonus Blog: Forbidden Solitaire's Developers Made The Opposite Of What They Planned: A Hit
Two tiny indie studios share the difficulties of keeping things slow and steady
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"Like Pomni and her cohort, we find ourselves on daily digital 'adventures' that are increasingly unpleasant and obligatory." @shirachess.bsky.social explains why The Amazing Digital Circus resonates so much with our current experiences:
We are All NPCs Now: Making Sense of The Amazing Digital Circus - Unwinnable
On the eve of a movie theater finale, Shira Chess examines The Amazing Digital Circus's place in our current moment of digital dehumanization.
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reminder that I am the Exploits books (co) editor and can be pitched on short, ~350 word book reviews! Pitch me! exploitssubmissions@unwinnable.com
I don’t really have short-form thoughts anymore, but I also don’t really have thoughts anymore.
TONIGHT, 7PM: Launch of Crown Inn Reading Series for emerging writers, cohosted by Franklin Park Reading Series! Readers: @deirdrekoala.bsky.social @jtprice.bsky.social & Wil Turner + featured authors @ellomelissa.bsky.social @sashafletcher.bsky.social. Beer specials, custom cocktails! #crownheights
🎉This Monday, May 4, 7pm: So excited for our launch! Join us in #crownheights at the Crown Inn for readings by @ellomelissa.bsky.social, @sashafletcher.bsky.social, @deirdrekoala.bsky.social, @jtprice.bsky.social, and @wil2win.bsky.social, plus 🍺specials & custom 🍹s! #Free
Crown Inn Reading Series@crowninnreadings.bsky.social · 4mo agoMONDAY, MAY 4, 7-9pm: Join us for the @crowninnreadings.bsky.social inaugural Emerging Writers Night! Readings by @deirdrekoala.bsky.social, @jtprice.bsky.social and Wil Turner + featured authors @ellomelissa.bsky.social and @sashafletcher.bsky.social. #FreeAdmission, custom cocktails! #crownheights
Very excited for this 🖤
Crown Inn Reading Series@crowninnreadings.bsky.social · 4mo agoMONDAY, MAY 4, 7-9pm: Join us for the @crowninnreadings.bsky.social inaugural Emerging Writers Night! Readings by @deirdrekoala.bsky.social, @jtprice.bsky.social and Wil Turner + featured authors @ellomelissa.bsky.social and @sashafletcher.bsky.social. #FreeAdmission, custom cocktails! #crownheights
Here are our submission guidelines for emerging writers. We look forward to reading your work!
May 4: We’re launching a new backyard reading series at #crownheights bar the Crown Inn! Cofounded by Franklin Park Reading Series curator @peninaroth.bsky.social, Crown Inn owner Zhenya Kampanets, and author @khaholi.bsky.social, we’ll host Emerging Writers readings and Poetry Nights, May-Oct.
Deirdre is cooler and better than David Foster Wallace x1 billion, thank you for sharing this and for your earlier piece
Deirdre Coyle@deirdrekoala.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt’s the 9 year anniversary of an essay I wrote that made a lot of people mad online. I wrote some thoughts about it. open.substack.com/pub/deirdrek...
It’s the 9 year anniversary of an essay I wrote that made a lot of people mad online. I wrote some thoughts about it. open.substack.com/pub/deirdrek...
For Hideous Men 🖤
I wrote something 9 years ago that's still pissing people off
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
"We care about money!" is the most honest anyone has ever been on that stage
okay the target audience for COVEN OF THE CHICKEN FOOT is me specifically
Come by the Peacock terrace and get a leaflet, or digitally spread them around online!
hello I’m here to hate-watch the game awards with you all
Are you an indie developer with a game that you’d like to promote during the Hard Drive Game Awards?(Dec 12, 7PM ET) We’d love to talk to you! The only requirement is a willingness to be silly. 🤪 Send us a DM if you’re interested. Fundraising for www.pcrf.net tilt.fyi/qKf4ZQh2b0
PCRF
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund was established in 1992 by concerned humanitarians in the USA to bring injured and sick children for free medical care they could not get locally
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"The writer is as old as the philosopher and therefore not 'new world' and in this new world of endless scrolling, conspiracy theories, and drooling remakes of franchise flicks, the act of 'thinking' or 'conjuring' is old world magic." open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...
Tooth and Naily Fights and Plenty of Laughter
A Writer Couple Conversation about Art, Love and Selfishness
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I am mildly bemused by the number of people convinced that NYC is a crime-riddled hellscape who are now convinced that a Mamdani win means NYC will become…a crime-riddled hellscape. (Yes, yes, I know, you don’t need to explain Eco’s rules for fascism, I’m just noting it.)
Had a lovely talk with @rodkam.bsky.social for @publisherswkly.bsky.social about his latest, SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz
The author best known for The Jew in the Lotus is back with a new book, Seeing into the Life of Things, about what it means to bring words to our visions and emotions.
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"There’s more value in figuring out what, consciously or not, a game says about the time period it’s set within—and what that might mean for how we imagine our present-day reality." @reidmccarter.bsky.social kotaku.com/ghost-yotei-...
Ghost Of Yotei And Other Historical Games Are Rewriting Old Myths
Ghost of Yotei, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Mafia: The Old Country each, to different degrees, complicate our vision of the past
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