mcoorlim’s Tweets

Aug 16

Me? I'm a burnt-out sff novelist who's written a dozen books, dabbled in ttrpg design, and have spent the pandemic transitioning from hobbyist game dev to serious solo game dev. Now I'm tired of self-employment and looking for studio work as a narrative designer or game writer.

Fun fact which is always relevant but more so now than ever- you can use the mute feature on a bunch of promoted tweets and content. Feel free to copy and share this info!

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Sometimes I'll run across an album, realize I know it, and be unsure if it's because I had a girlfriend that was really into the band, or if it's because I picked it up at some local show.

Oct 29

The thing people want Twitter to be cannot work as a profit driven enterprise. What they want is a public good. I don't know if this can exist under capitalism.

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Matthew R Francis

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OK, so here's what the situation is. * Twitter is now owned by a right-wing narcissist * Facebook is unusable, genocide-supporting, and basically spyware * Instagram is owned by FB (sorry, ~*~Meta~*~) and basically adware * TikTok is censorious and also spyware

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I went to sign up for cohost only to discover that I'd already signed up at some point. Follow me there. You know, as a treat.

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novelist and game dev

Hey remember when the Peter Cushing Dr Who movies?

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Doctor Who to get American makeover as Disney takes on British classic The entertainment conglomerate’s might will give show vast budgets beyond the BBC’s means Thread

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Doctor Who to get American makeover as Disney takes on British classic

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A BEASTS OF BURDEN comic for Halloween. "The View From The Hill" is an 8-pg story by me, co-creator

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, lettered by Jason Arthur. From 2011, collected in Neighborhood Watch. Hope you enjoy the spookiness. (1/9)

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I still have my Imzy t-shirt, though I think that was more of a reddit alternative.

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Matthew R Francis

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people have started a number of Twitter alternatives over the years (remember ello?), but they've all been overrun by right-wing trolls

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Oct 27

Reading an 80s Iron Man comic where he and Doom go to the far future of the 2090s to solve a problem with the remnants of the Star Wars defense platform. Stark goes to the mall to find a Radio Shack to get the parts he needs. I don't know even where to begin with this future.

The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans

Oct 27

Oh shit, November's in three days. I should come up with a NaNoWriMo idea.

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It's a massive historical problem. The majority of the lynchings of veterans were committed by cops, often in broad daylight in front of witnesses.

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The return home of African-American soldiers after war has often infuriated and terrified white America, setting the stage for reactionary aggression.

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Musk has a long history of complying with regulations and not picking dumb fights with governments so it should go fine.

New York Communities for Change

Oct 27

Note that this isn't Ben Grimm, but Sharon Venture/Ms Marvel, who was at this point "She-Thing" for complicated comic book reasons. (You can see He Thing in the back there. Unpowered, wearing an exoskeleton that looks like his powered form. For comic book reasons.)

There's an issue of the Fantastic Four where a character refers to the Deviants as the Perverts. Johnny Storm corrects them, but I'm going to call the Deviants "Perverts" from now on.

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Oct 26

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were a country they would have the 3rd largest economy IN THE WORLD. The people who got rich investing in the destruction of our planet must pay to fix it. #OccupyParkAve #TaxTheRich

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Nick Barlow

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Oct 25

The BBC have announced a partnership with Disney to "transform Doctor Who into a global franchise for UK audiences and the rest of the world" which I'm sure means Who fan spaces are all having an entirely normal one today. doctorwho.tv/news-and-featu

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Drowning. Pls send help (in the form of kitty and puppy pics).

Interested in playing

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, but the core rulebook is out of your budget? Get the free quickstart!

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Blackbirds RPG: Quickstart – Powered by ZWEIHANDER RPG - Andrews McMeel Publishing | DriveThruRPG...

The Blackbirds Quickstart is a 96-page abbreviated version of the full Blackbirds RPG, but will give you a taste of the

Oct 25

Today's Matter of Import retrogame review is of Psst for the ZX Spectrum, from Ultimate Play the Game (later to be known as Rare.) youtube.com/watch?v=TbZvi3

Oct 25

To make this easier on myself I'm writing a small program to select albums from a text list.

My current #ttrpg campaign is Feng Shui set in an apocalyptic world inspired by heavy metal album covers and van art of a wizard dunking on the grim reaper. Every session is inspired by an album I select at random, then listen to while jotting down sparse notes.

But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afraid of what our eyes have seen: For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face. - Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

By day the bat is cousin to the mouse. He likes the attic of an aging house. His fingers make a hat about his head. His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead. He loops in crazy figures half the night Among the trees that face the corner light.

As a bonus if I have an actual income it won't matter to me if it's marketable, so it's going to be weird as hell.

I stopped writing novels and started getting into game writing because the books were no longer enough to live on. I've been doing my best to get a game writing or narrative design job this year. If I swing it, I'll have the time to write another book.

If I get this job I'm interviewing for on Wednesday, I just may write another novel.

Marvel Readthrough continues. Getting into Inferno with the introduction of Genosha in the X-Men. Definitely owned these issues as a kid, wild to be catching up to myself after having started with Fantastic Four #1.