James L Sarandis

@jameslsarandis.bsky.social

He/They Writer, Cartoonist, and a big part of the creative team for EYE HAND VOICE. https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Eye_Hand_Voice/5473099/ And we have a shop!: https://ko-fi.com/26studio/shop

I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort

Oh, wow, this here? THIS is what a Cult Hit looks like. Released in 2017 to 6/10 average reviews and limited interest, but a small loyal playerbase stuck with it And then the Downpour expansion came out in 2023 (maybe the best expansion ever?). And it has gone from strength to strength ever since.

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... I just realized that Rain World's entire premise is that the planet is environmentally fucked by AI data centers running rampant trying to solve an unsolveable problem, and constantly boiling the oceans time and time again for cooling. This is not an exaggeration. It was released in *2017*.

We've learned about Persian desert-powered ice pits, now let's learn about Iron Age Persian AIR CONDITIONING. How did people live in the hottest part of the world before you could dial down the thermostat & hope your electric bill gets lost in the mail? Let's learn about 'badgirs' or wind towers.

Yazd - Badgir - Windcatcher, a tower with poles sticking out at odd angles, decorated in geometric figures atop flat roofs.
CREDIT: Alireza Javaheri
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d ago

The year is 400 BCE & you're in one of the hottest places on Earth, the Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) of Southeastern Iran. Wouldn't it be nice to have a refreshing sorbet? A =dessert= in the =desert=? Thanks to this structure, you can! Let's learn about ancient Iranian refrigerators called 'yakhchāl'.

Yakhchāl of Abarkuh, Iran
Pastaitaken - Wikimedia
Yakhchal of Yazd province

I was wondering what was happening with all the trans books and comics Lily Wachowski bought the rights to, probably foreseeable but nonetheless depressing that the answer is "nothing" cause no studios want to make them

Jenevieve F.@empressofrobots.bsky.social · 3d ago

I just learned we almost got a Cosmoknights show but Hollywood is run by a bunch of bigots so we didn't and I'm now VERY angry. Go read Cosmoknights, by @hannahtempler.com its exactly as queer and awesome as it sounds cosmoknights.space

I often find, in fact, that the rush to disavow ever having Liked the Bad Thing is counterproductive. it's more useful to sit in the messy nuance of having once deeply loved something that you cannot love the same way now. monsters aren't all immediately apparent. we will all get conned by someone

we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

An EXTREMELY selfish Kickstarter in that I'm just making the editions of these books that I've always wanted—cannot put into words how much love and care we've poured into every aspect this project!📚🩵 ...and it's no accident that @gilespink.bsky.social now has a writing credit on the Book of D'ni 👀

Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · 7d ago

Prepare for an adventure that spans Ages with a new ultra-deluxe hardcover collection of the Myst novel trilogy - available for the first time in nearly three decades. Coming soon to Kickstarter! https://cyan.com/ks/trilogygow/soc0908

An illustrated rendering of a set of three deluxe Myst novels sitting on a glittering black sandy ground. Text reads: "The Myst Trilogy 'Guild of Writers' Deluxe Collection - Coming soon to Kickstarter"

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