christine ellis
@astrostine.bsky.social
Narrative Designer/Game writer. SFF writer, codexian. I think about space a lot. Gravity is my nemesis. She/her.
Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Lit
Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Lit
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christine ellis
@astrostine.bsky.social
· Oct 22
butterfly app, i keep being told to list things i love. in no particular order or organization:
🗡️ the count of monte cristo
🐉 dragon age
🚀 mass effect
👰♀️ the curse of chalion
🕴️the conjuring
🧑🚀 farscape
✍️ game writing and sffh books
fun fact: my espresso machine is named sebastian.
🗡️ the count of monte cristo
🐉 dragon age
🚀 mass effect
👰♀️ the curse of chalion
🕴️the conjuring
🧑🚀 farscape
✍️ game writing and sffh books
fun fact: my espresso machine is named sebastian.
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Alright, I’ve got THRALL ARCs burning a hole in my living room floor. Who’s ready for a giveaway?
🩸RT to enter
🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything)
🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads
🩸RT to enter
🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything)
🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Alright, I’ve got THRALL ARCs burning a hole in my living room floor. Who’s ready for a giveaway?
🩸RT to enter
🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything)
🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads
🩸RT to enter
🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything)
🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads
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Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Writing for Games was a part of the stolen data set (and copyright was registered on publication). Just in case this feels distant to you: they stole from me. They burned carbon on my words.
September 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Writing for Games was a part of the stolen data set (and copyright was registered on publication). Just in case this feels distant to you: they stole from me. They burned carbon on my words.
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Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/
August 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/
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Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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As a writer also in a field with a very high exec/top brass presence in the creative process, I can guarantee you that in 99% of cases, if the writing feels like you're repetitively being spoon fed plot and exposition, it's a directive from on high and not what the writer would do if left alone.
Before I made any assumptions, I went and read the Pc Gamer piece that is "ragging" on Veilguard.
Summary: It's not. It speaks of a phenomenon in some games of chewing out information, which Veilguard DOES do, and correctly assigns the responsibility of it to the top brass.
Summary: It's not. It speaks of a phenomenon in some games of chewing out information, which Veilguard DOES do, and correctly assigns the responsibility of it to the top brass.
We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them
Let me get lost, I promise it's okay.
www.pcgamer.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
As a writer also in a field with a very high exec/top brass presence in the creative process, I can guarantee you that in 99% of cases, if the writing feels like you're repetitively being spoon fed plot and exposition, it's a directive from on high and not what the writer would do if left alone.
this is going to be delicious and terrible
Congratulations to @lauragsouthern.bsky.social on her debut dark romantasy, FALLEN ACOLYTE, coming from Slowburn in 2027!
August 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
this is going to be delicious and terrible
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Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
July 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Placeholder Text
a game designed in 5 minutes by
Calvin Wong
You thought it would be fine to just put (make this part better later) in the draft. Surely future You can come up with something
BOOM! a portal opens in your room! Future You has traveled in time to stop your sloppy placeholder!
a game designed in 5 minutes by
Calvin Wong
You thought it would be fine to just put (make this part better later) in the draft. Surely future You can come up with something
BOOM! a portal opens in your room! Future You has traveled in time to stop your sloppy placeholder!
July 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Placeholder Text
a game designed in 5 minutes by
Calvin Wong
You thought it would be fine to just put (make this part better later) in the draft. Surely future You can come up with something
BOOM! a portal opens in your room! Future You has traveled in time to stop your sloppy placeholder!
a game designed in 5 minutes by
Calvin Wong
You thought it would be fine to just put (make this part better later) in the draft. Surely future You can come up with something
BOOM! a portal opens in your room! Future You has traveled in time to stop your sloppy placeholder!
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
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Stay to the very end.
I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman
July 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Stay to the very end.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.
Wow
This is an insanely cynical and morally abhorrent move
I feel sorry for the devs there and more sorry for the families of the folks whose gambling addictions this will nurture
www.riotgames.com/en/news/espo...
This is an insanely cynical and morally abhorrent move
I feel sorry for the devs there and more sorry for the families of the folks whose gambling addictions this will nurture
www.riotgames.com/en/news/espo...
Why We're Opening Betting Sponsorships in Esports & How We're Doing It Responsibly
The guardrails we’re putting in place to ensure competitive integrity as we open this category for esports teams
www.riotgames.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.
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We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv
June 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv
hit the iced coffee so hard this morning i gave myself brain feeze. 🤸♀️
June 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
hit the iced coffee so hard this morning i gave myself brain feeze. 🤸♀️
in 2025 two different popular SFF shows have used pregnancy/children to both remove female characters from the story and emotionally galvanize the male main character. we've gone from fridge to incubator y'all.
June 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
in 2025 two different popular SFF shows have used pregnancy/children to both remove female characters from the story and emotionally galvanize the male main character. we've gone from fridge to incubator y'all.
it is literally free to just not be a writer y'all.
So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.
I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.
Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.
Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
May 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
it is literally free to just not be a writer y'all.
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Yes, this:
"There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."
"There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."
No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Yes, this:
"There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."
"There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."
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There are so many things I loathe about AI but chief among them is that it deprives people of understanding that creativity and making art is messy and inefficient, and there is *no* getting around that. But the reward is that one turn of phrase, that original idea, that novel insight.
at least some of what’s fueled “ai” is the assumption that anyone *should* be able to write professionally. It’s obviously not true, but the work seems easy when you don’t know what goes into it. It’s specific to writing—no one thinks it’s a problem that they’re not getting a tryout for the Mets!
May 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There are so many things I loathe about AI but chief among them is that it deprives people of understanding that creativity and making art is messy and inefficient, and there is *no* getting around that. But the reward is that one turn of phrase, that original idea, that novel insight.
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Spiders are there watching you be conceived, and there when you die
Don't die without thanking them for watching over you
Don't die without thanking them for watching over you
May 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Spiders are there watching you be conceived, and there when you die
Don't die without thanking them for watching over you
Don't die without thanking them for watching over you
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Look who got their hands on a finished copy of SPECTRAL SCREAM, my official addition to the Doctor Who Universe!
If you're enjoying the new season of #DoctorWho then I hope you'll pick up SPECTRAL SCREAM, which is out in May!
If you're enjoying the new season of #DoctorWho then I hope you'll pick up SPECTRAL SCREAM, which is out in May!
May 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Look who got their hands on a finished copy of SPECTRAL SCREAM, my official addition to the Doctor Who Universe!
If you're enjoying the new season of #DoctorWho then I hope you'll pick up SPECTRAL SCREAM, which is out in May!
If you're enjoying the new season of #DoctorWho then I hope you'll pick up SPECTRAL SCREAM, which is out in May!
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And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot
Apple TV+ debuts trailer for “Murderbot,” premiering May 16
Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Murderbot,” the comedic thriller series starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.
www.apple.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot
I have not yet begun to defile myself. 🪦
April 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I have not yet begun to defile myself. 🪦