dr. hazel 🕯️

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award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝 presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩 previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀 english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨ nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇

After talking to a young writer last night, I want to remind you all that it's okay to write without an assignment or goal. Write to explore a new technique, get an idea out of your head, or as emotional exhalation. Write for the raw joy of it. For you alone. It doesn't need to go into a portfolio

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping all-time high 60% off on Steam until August 18! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

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The only thing that will stop me writing is the cold embrace of the grave but you can keep me from the dark earth by picking up some of my stories or sending a tip! ko-fi.com/beastcutter

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I'm so glad the romances in Rogue Trader don't hinge on whether the NPC approves or disapproves of your actions. Because Heinrix would think I'm extremely dumb. However, I am nice to him, and he is pathologically attracted to that specific thing.

Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.

You could learn a whole other set of skills in the time they start rubbing the chatgpt lamp for answers because, in all likelihood, you’ve bothered to do it a few times in your life.

The bad-faith AI-booster argument about artists being “gatekeepers” is so facile that it really doesn’t deserve any air. Those are not serious people, and your time and energy for yourself are too valuable to expend on them!