rae mariz
@raemariz.bsky.social
storyteller. saboteur. author of Weird Fishes and more. SFF. Hawaiian diaspora in Sweden. joyfully bad at godot. pathologically persistent. https://raemariz.com OUT NOW: The Unidentified (new expanded edition) https://books2read.com/b/bpJdnq
A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org
The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition
Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.
azhdarchid.com
July is International Zine Month! Check out this article quoting IC cofounder Mariame Kaba:
Gen Zine: DIY publications find new life as a form of resistance against Trump
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections
theguardian.com
Our Kickstarter campaign has ended, with 346 backers pledging $17,835! Thank you all SO MUCH for donating, shouting, helping us over the finish line—it means the world 🧡
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
You all are awesome. khōréō Year 6 is fully funded. There are 6 hours left if you still want to get in on the good stuff. I love to see projects like this get the support they deserve!
rae mariz@raemariz.bsky.social · 2mo agokhōréō mag’s fundraiser is up until July 15! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... i gifted a special edition of my latest zine to the 50+ all-volunteer members of @khoreo.bsky.social staff. you can get a copy of your own with a generous donation to khōréō!
Wow! @khoreo.bsky.social is so close to reaching their funding goal! Thanks to everyone for sharing and supporting. Only 3 days left to bring it home! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
kickstarter.com
#ScreenshotSaturday Added spring physics to make my squid guy squishy, which I find VERY satisfying. I also finished setting up the interaction components so a button press executes an action, but that's not anything you can see in the screen recording YET. Maybe next week! #gamedev #godot
Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
kickstarter.com
7 more days left for khōréō’s fundraiser. If you’re tired of me banging the drum about this, please help spread the word so I don’t have to! I’m now emotionally invested in this project getting fully funded 📢📢 It’s great to see how much support they’re getting! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
kickstarter.com
rae mariz@raemariz.bsky.social · 2mo agokhōréō mag’s fundraiser is up until July 15! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... i gifted a special edition of my latest zine to the 50+ all-volunteer members of @khoreo.bsky.social staff. you can get a copy of your own with a generous donation to khōréō!
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
bangordailynews.com
khōréō mag’s fundraiser is up until July 15! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... i gifted a special edition of my latest zine to the 50+ all-volunteer members of @khoreo.bsky.social staff. you can get a copy of your own with a generous donation to khōréō!
This issue is a 36-page collection of 5 personal essays reflecting on being Hawaiian in Sweden and in publishing. It includes a reprint of an essay first commissioned by @sarahgailey.bsky.social—now with cute photos of my grandparents in Hilo! stone-soup.ghost.io/feeding-futu...
Feeding Future Ancestors | "Spam" and Rice Bowl
A Personal Canons Cookbook Feature by Rae Mariz
stone-soup.ghost.io
First Nations creators tell Indigenous stories through video games
From Call of Duty to Dreamtime: These designers are lighting up video games
As part of NAIDOC Week, we meet the Indigenous creatives who are re-shaping Australia's video game industry.
abc.net.au
10 days left, my dudes. If can, can.
rae mariz@raemariz.bsky.social · last mo.2 weeks left and a little over halfway to khōréō’s fundraising goal! Please support these folks! They published TWO of my unconventional Indigenous Futurisms stories, and encouraged me to make them even more weird and structurally strange www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
10 days left, my dudes. If can, can.
rae mariz@raemariz.bsky.social · last mo.2 weeks left and a little over halfway to khōréō’s fundraising goal! Please support these folks! They published TWO of my unconventional Indigenous Futurisms stories, and encouraged me to make them even more weird and structurally strange www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
an all-timer of a story!!
rae mariz@raemariz.bsky.social · last mo.fiction editor @timesnewrowan.bsky.social suggested we make this more of an interactive fiction piece art director @artofelaineho.bsky.social made sure both EPUB & web versions worked audio director @lianxiarose.bsky.social found TWO talented voice actors www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
if you’re able to be generous, support this team of people who have been consistently generous with their time, skills and talents and who make sure writers, voice actors, and illustrators are compensated for their work www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
kickstarter.com
2 weeks left and a little over halfway to khōréō’s fundraising goal! Please support these folks! They published TWO of my unconventional Indigenous Futurisms stories, and encouraged me to make them even more weird and structurally strange www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
kickstarter.com
2 weeks left and a little over halfway to khōréō’s fundraising goal! Please support these folks! They published TWO of my unconventional Indigenous Futurisms stories, and encouraged me to make them even more weird and structurally strange www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
kickstarter.com
Stefon on SNL: “This book has EVERYTHING… the ancient embodiment of rot, an animal-hoarding old woman, a sullen girl with a knife trapped in the woods by 5000-year-old mind-controlling tree, an irreputable wolf, a bear who lost a bet, two herds of bison, three happy endings…” #UnhingedPit #A #F #CS
::taps mic:: this on?? Hey friends! I'm so pleased/astonished to tell you that my short story, "Bone Harp Hair," will be published as part of Issue #52 of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06...
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
khōréō mag’s fundraiser is up until July 15! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... i gifted a special edition of my latest zine to the 50+ all-volunteer members of @khoreo.bsky.social staff. you can get a copy of your own with a generous donation to khōréō!
someone already claimed the signed copy of Weird Fishes 😲 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING KHŌRÉŌ, ANONYMOUS BENEFACTOR!
rae mariz@raemariz.bsky.social · 2mo agoI donated some reward items for this khōréō kickstarter, but ensuring that this group of pros can continue to make speculative fiction from diaspora writers available in beautifully designed digital publications & free to read online & in exquisitely produced audio versions IS THE REWARD IN ITSELF!
I donated some reward items for this khōréō kickstarter, but ensuring that this group of pros can continue to make speculative fiction from diaspora writers available in beautifully designed digital publications & free to read online & in exquisitely produced audio versions IS THE REWARD IN ITSELF!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
I have NO IDEA what, if any, kind of game this could be. The “fun challenge” I gave myself was to not use any imported assets or keyframe animations and just see what I could do only with Godot. Play around. One “how could I do this?” puzzle leads to another… #gamedev #godot #ScreenshotSaturday
