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amandathrows.rocksJoined May 2013

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Hello, I'm Amanda Hudgins. I'm a writer and game designer. I'm an internationally exhibiting alternative controls designer and the managing editor for

. If you would like to hire me or want to find out more about me, you can at amandathrows.rocks

Amanda with green hair and large round glasses.

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A view from above of a large board full of arcade buttons and a big blue ribbon.

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Amanda with a grey beanie and black irregular shaped glasses in front of a screen of a Amanda speaking with a grey beanie and black irregular shaped glasses and Korean subtitles.

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May 11

42. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann A recounting of the expeditions of Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 in search for El Dorado. Audiobook.

In related news, Flying J now carries Crème Shop skincare so it’s now #1.

The true midwestern road tripper experience is having an opinion on truck stops.

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I do think that if your text cannot survive spoilers it’s probably not very good, tho I do recognize that as a controversial opinion.

Today I said out loud “oh it’ll be a long dark day in hell before I care about spoilers” but I think that’s just the way editing media content has like, broken my brain.

41: the Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann The story of the shipwreck of the British ship the Wager off the coast of Patagonia and the conflicting accounts of mutiny therein. Audiobook.

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May 2

"While cisswap is a relatively new term in the fandom, it has been practiced in quite a few fandoms throughout modern fan culture mostly as genderswap."

Known under many tags (including Rule 63, genderbending, gender swap, Always a Different Sex), cisswap is an fandom device most commonly used to make male characters women.

dives into cisswap, a long-established fanfiction trope with a new name:

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Cisswap

May 2

40: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Science fiction story about a guy who is very hung up on the roads not traveled. Read for book club.

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39. She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran A girl goes to visit her estranged father in Vietnam in exchange for tuition money; the house is more than it seems.

I have fixed the recommendation algo for the med accounts I manage because now instead of updating me on conservative grifters it updates me on kpop.

Just remembering a high school production of Medea we did that ended with the I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab.

Apr 22

Guy at the comedy club said that fake boobs were dishonest like he’s never lied about his height by three inches on a dating app.

Apr 20

Also I have this date inked into my calendar so if you’re even tepidly interested this is your last opportunity.

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Apr 6

I make maybe $5 off #Society6 a year (true passive income) so with this change I’m going to shut down my site at the end of the month. If you’re interested at all, please feel free to grab it here: society6.com/barelyconcealed

A laptop sticker that says “This Industry Eats People” for $4 for a Transparent 3”x3”

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A duffle bag showing a large cat on one end and a repeated texture of the same cat. $40 for a small - 19”x 9.5”

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A laptop skin showing a scene from Mad Max Fury Road with the Doof Warrior on the back of his sound wagon with a flame roaring out. $24 for an iPad (2nd, 3rd, 4th Gen)

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Three listings showing a hot pink background with fleshy text that reads “Cannibalism is Murder.” A backpack for $60, a tote bag for $24.80 and a hand & bath towel for $24

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Apr 5

hey artist friends, if you sell on #society6 just know come May 4th, they are gonna charge you shipping fees and a subscription fee to sell on their platform on top of the enormous percentage they already take

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New Unwinnable Monthly with a new look by

@derekkinsman

! Dig in for writing on Season and Pentiment by

@sad_radio_lad

, thoughts on haunted games from

@corndruid

, and musings from our regular gang of contributors. Buy: bit.ly/38NL8BT Subscribe: bit.ly/1FjJGzq

There are two different images in this image sharing the April 2023 issue of Unwinnable Monthly and the magazine redesign coming along with it. The image on the left shows the cover of the April 2023 issue of Unwinnable Monthly that features art of a medieval man named Andreas looking at a red helmet with horns on a pedestal. The text at the bottom of the issue reads "The Future Will Forget Us" in reference to one of the features. The image on the right shows off the new title page for Unwinnable Monthly issues which shares the issue number and the title "Unwinnable Magazine" in playful serif fonts.

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Apr 19

38. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo A book about leaving the IBLP ministry from one of the daughters of 19 Kids and Counting. Very unengaging.

I am usually the person taking the photos. anyway my style got better.

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@davemakes

Apr 19

younger dave with life-sized batman statue made of LEGO

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look at this fuckin twink twitter.com/_joshslee/stat…

Sara Clemens

@thesaraclemens

It's the dawn of a new era at

@Unwinnable

Monthly! Brand-new issue design by

@derekkinsman

with cover art by Evlyn Moreau. (Peep how good it will look on your tablet tho 👀👀👀) Buy: bit.ly/3UN2JOb Subscribe: bit.ly/41osVRR

Critical Distance @ TWELVE!!! Years!!!

Oh, I’m in the new Critical Distance. That’s cool! Thank you.

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@critdistance

Apr 17

This week: underrated faves, storytelling tropes, and the CD-i: critical-distance.com/2023/04/16/apr

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37. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard A book about Teddy Roosevelt's last "adventure," a quest to find the source for the River of Doubt. Interesting, and about an exploration I know nothing about. Audiobook.

Oh damn, I can’t get into specifics but I almost had a chance to work on a sex education game and I had so many cool ideas for it.

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@VeraBurd97

Apr 14

Alright #gamedev folks, what's your "one that got away?" It can be an IP you wanted to work on, a studio you wanted to work for, anything of the sort.

John Leguizamo

@JohnLeguizamo

Apr 15

I support my trans brothers and sisters! Luv is luv ! More power to u!

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Apr 13

36. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides A psychotherapist is fascinated by a female artist who murders her husband and then does not speak. Read for book club.

Apropos of nothing, but here’s a thing I wrote for

about HP, the hard work of fan creators and a series that doesn’t understand it’s own themes. unwinnable.com/2022/11/30/ele

The conclusion of the Harry Potter series has Harry becoming a high school dropout wizarding cop who goes on to marry his childhood best friend’s kid sister and give their resulting children names that I can only really describe as “weirdly white trash for a British children’s book.” (Strong Renesmee energy.) This ending is strange in the context of the rest of the book, but only if you value established writing standards. Throughout the series, Harry is shown in direct contrast to the government. Minor antagonists include several bureaucratic government officials, jailers (who are Dementors if not prison guards), and fascism – and yet when the story concludes, Harry becomes a cop. You usually don’t see this in fan work – there definitely are Auror Harry Potter stories out there. But a large point of the Harry Potter franchise is that Harry spent seven books having him fight the very system that he, as an Auror, in a thoughtless epilogue, now mindlessly enforces.

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ICYMI: "Time is not kind to narratives, especially in an emergent media like video games, and a decade does not show The Last of Us in the best possible light."

The Last of Us is not the greatest story in video games.

explains how The Last of Us on HBO exposes issues in the original game:

unwinnable.com

The Last of Us on HBO

Thinking about those “what are you listening to” tiktoks where they ask people with headphones what they’re listening to but my answer is nautical disaster nonfiction books at 1.25x speed

We were in film club together; they were running cameras, I made gore. We met again at an Amanda Palmer concert, the day they broke up with their long term partner. We did not date for another year, but when we did I immediately knew we were going to get married.

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Inari NOT Briana .

@inaribriana

Apr 10

Couples… don’t all speak at once but… how did you meet your other half? Indulge me I’m a romantic!

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"Time is not kind to narratives, especially in an emergent media like video games, and a decade does not show The Last of Us in the best possible light."

The Last of Us is not the greatest story in video games.

explains how The Last of Us on HBO exposes issues in the original game:

unwinnable.com

The Last of Us on HBO

For

, I wrote about the sins of weak narrative game design and the Last of Us, prestige television and death. unwinnable.com/2023/04/11/the

There’s a bleakness to The Last of Us that begs the viewer (or player) to take it seriously simply because it’s depressing as hell. This is another cheap trick – it says “I’m important because I’m sad,” because narratively what could possibly be more interesting than depressing situations. This is sarcasm. Tolstoy might have written that “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way “ in Anna Karenina but that novel came out in 1878. Surely we have found ways to write happiness in compelling a way as I don’t know, cannibalistic pseudo-Christian nationalists with zero nuance.

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Apr 11

Over 30, only posting because this was a very good outfit.

Amanda in a skeleton set of overalls, silver platform combat boots, cold long duster and black fedora

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Apr 11

Dave in a loud geometric shirt under a jacket in their office

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alright 30+ people, i will participate because i got a suit jacket for a nice dinner coming up and i liked this fit. I'm in my late 30s and ok my body is kind of a wreck but at least my brain is like 3000% more chill than it was in my 20s twitter.com/_Foley_Artist/…

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