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EllieAboutTown

@ellieabouttown.bsky.social

Internationally acclaimed narrative improvisor, award-winning theatre designer, amateur musician, aspiring author, former Jeopardy! contestant. Also, I read a lot. 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦. linktr.ee/ellieabouttown

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EllieAboutTown@ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Man, writing a fanfic after original work only for the last 3 years is teaching me SO MUCH about pacing & information management. People are theorizing in the comments & it’s showing me exactly where I thought I was clear and wasn’t and where I thought I’d hidden things & they found it. Its amazing!

EllieAboutTown@ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I really need people to understand that camp is not "this is stupid, yes? we're all in on the joke that this is dumb." Camp is "this is stupid and I DON'T GIVE A SHIT BECAUSE I LOVE IT". Camp has no winking. Camp is an uninhibited love for the thing expressed out loud. Thank you, goodbye.

Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So interesting 💭 "Relighting 'Nighthawks' - bit.studio reimagines Edward Hopper's classic artwork, turning the most crucial element, the 'light,' into something you can actually control!" The exhibit is held at the bit.studio gallery on the 3rd floor, Slowcombo building in Samyan, Bangkok. #art

EllieAboutTown@ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When the fandom discourse resurgence finally gets you off your ass to write the fic that’s been rattling around your brain for the last, oh, fifteen years… I had so many things to do. The plot bunnies do not give a shit.

EllieAboutTown@ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oh hey, a bunch of companies are about to figure out why the Canadian government said Meta couldn't use their news sources to make money without paying the news sources themselves and why that wasn't censorship. I hope, anyway.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 5mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wife: Please! How did my husband die? Stormtrooper officer: He fired at a Jedi and they deflected the blast back at him with their lightsaber. Wife, weeping: That must have looked rad. Officer, solemnly: So rad.

Micro SF/F by O. Westin@microsff.com · 5mo ago

There were uncountable books in the library, none of which I knew. I picked one at random and read the blurb. "A cosy fantasy?" "Yes," said my host. I picked another. "Cosy mystery?" "Yes." "Are all your books cosy?" Cthulhu shrugged. "If you'd seen what I've seen, you'd want comfort too."

EllieAboutTown@ellieabouttown.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Took a break from zombie!forest!knight story to work on magical!theater!heist story instead and had the best time. A Trick of the Light Magical commedia dell'arte troupe gets drafted into doing a jewel heist by the mob to save their playhouse, only to discover the prize will cost them everything.

A Trick of the Light The italian job x Noises off x The Mask of Mirrors They threw out the script. The show must go on.A Trick of the Light In a magical canal city of crystals, masks, and commedia, Vassa Grey was supposed to inherit a theater, not waste her gifts making lesser men look powerful from behind a desk. But after her beloved Teatro is stolen and her ailing mentor is driven from the only home he loves, Vassa is offered one impossible chance to win it all back: reunite her estranged troupe, stage a dazzling immersive performance at the Duke’s gala, and help steal the Ducal crown jewel. Only the job is a lie. The “jewel” is really the Duke’s daughter, and Vassa’s troupe was never meant to profit—only to take the fall. Now, trapped inside an island palazzo as kidnappers hunt the child through the still-running show, Vassa must rely on her stagecraft, her found family, and the woman she never stopped loving to keep the kid alive and seize control of the story before the conspirators who set them up can brand them as the villains. Because if Vassa fails, she won’t just lose the theater a second time—she’ll lose her company, her name, and the future she was finally brave enough to want.
Nome@nome.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I will die on the hill that it's inappropriate to call Easter "Zombie Jesus Day." Zombie is not a generic term for undead - it has a specific meaning. We HAVE a generic term for beings who have returned compos mentis from death in their original, physical bodies: Revenants.