Christopher Marcatili
@chrismarcatili.bsky.social
Writer. Researcher. Editor. Game designer. Restless hermit.
Weird/queer/fantasy fic
www.christophermarcatili.com
Anthropology: creativity, writing, Iceland
elsewhereanthropologist.substack.com
Games
nogoodnikstudio.com
Editing
www.ellipsis-editing.com
Weird/queer/fantasy fic
www.christophermarcatili.com
Anthropology: creativity, writing, Iceland
elsewhereanthropologist.substack.com
Games
nogoodnikstudio.com
Editing
www.ellipsis-editing.com
First ever academic publication is now out!
It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
doi.org/10.1111/taja...
#anthropology
It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
doi.org/10.1111/taja...
#anthropology
September 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
First ever academic publication is now out!
It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
doi.org/10.1111/taja...
#anthropology
It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
doi.org/10.1111/taja...
#anthropology
Reposted by Christopher Marcatili
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice.
www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real
What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice.
www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real
Ursula K. Le Guin — The Unreal and the Real
www.ursulakleguin.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice.
www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real
What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice.
www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real
#authors finishing projects: Ellipsis Editing is taking bookings for the rest of the year.
We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices.
More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style
#writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting
We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices.
More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style
#writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting
Home
www.ellipsis-editing.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
#authors finishing projects: Ellipsis Editing is taking bookings for the rest of the year.
We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices.
More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style
#writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting
We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices.
More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style
#writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting
Fan of Martha Wells or the Murderbot series?
HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity.
🪐📚💙📚🪐
#books #booksky #scifi #specfic #sff #booksale #ebooks
HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity.
🪐📚💙📚🪐
#books #booksky #scifi #specfic #sff #booksale #ebooks
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
September 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
It's true that submitting your manuscript for publication is a looong process. I submitted one today and the email says *at least* 3 months before reply.
...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅
#publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions
🪐📚 🌈📚
...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅
#publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions
🪐📚 🌈📚
September 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It's true that submitting your manuscript for publication is a looong process. I submitted one today and the email says *at least* 3 months before reply.
...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅
#publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions
🪐📚 🌈📚
...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅
#publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions
🪐📚 🌈📚
Reposted by Christopher Marcatili
April 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ooo the Blue Moutains Writers Festival program is out. There's so much cool stuff! The workshop on making historical fiction *weird* looks right up my street and a fantastic panel for #queerwriters too!
#writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books
#writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books
Blue Mountains Writers Festival Events for 2024. Buy Tickets Now. — BLUE MOUNTAINS WRITERS' FESTIVAL
Full program released 27 August 2024. Genres to be covered include Poetry, Crime, Feminism, Politics, Queer, Comedy, First Nations, History, Social issues, Environment, Fiction & Children’s
80+ speak...
www.bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au
August 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Ooo the Blue Moutains Writers Festival program is out. There's so much cool stuff! The workshop on making historical fiction *weird* looks right up my street and a fantastic panel for #queerwriters too!
#writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books
#writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books
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🧊🐈This #study of #cubism probably should be illegal to post… but the cat made me do it
@pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108
#pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies
@pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108
#pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies
August 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🧊🐈This #study of #cubism probably should be illegal to post… but the cat made me do it
@pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108
#pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies
@pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108
#pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies
Just recently finished reading #graphicnovel 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane... what a ride! The art is gorgeously intricate. The stories are nonsensically weird. I loved every page.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi
August 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just recently finished reading #graphicnovel 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane... what a ride! The art is gorgeously intricate. The stories are nonsensically weird. I loved every page.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi
Reposted by Christopher Marcatili
Reposted by Christopher Marcatili
Here's a loving reminder that 8/27 is the last day of our big publisher sale on Steam!
There's truly something for everyone in there.
☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...
There's truly something for everyone in there.
☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...
Strange Scaffold Publisher Sale!
Six Games, Two Years. The Summer of Scaffold begins!
store.steampowered.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Here's a loving reminder that 8/27 is the last day of our big publisher sale on Steam!
There's truly something for everyone in there.
☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...
There's truly something for everyone in there.
☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...
Weird sentience in the forgotten corners of the Net. Love it.
humans sealed our fate when we started working with computers to design languages more and more like our own. the computers learned our grammar, our vocabulary, yes. but they learned our rhetoric, the malleability of meaning. we gave the machines our words, and they used them to lie.
Quite A Strange.Website Indeed
Well now, seems you've found a strange and perhaps surprising website, indeed. As with all things, take and enjoy your time — after all, no one may but you.
strange.website
August 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Weird sentience in the forgotten corners of the Net. Love it.
Since it's #TrailerTuesday here's the super early teaser we put together for a game dev project, Gutterjacket - a #cyberpunk adventure game 🎮
youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE
nogoodnikstudio.com
#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames
youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE
nogoodnikstudio.com
#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames
Gutterjacket Pitch Teaser
YouTube video by Nogoodnik Games
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Since it's #TrailerTuesday here's the super early teaser we put together for a game dev project, Gutterjacket - a #cyberpunk adventure game 🎮
youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE
nogoodnikstudio.com
#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames
youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE
nogoodnikstudio.com
#gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames
Reposted by Christopher Marcatili
Congrats to @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social
and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award
locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...
and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award
locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...
2025 Aldiss Award Shortlist
The Aldiss Award, an annual award to “acknowledge endeavours in literature and gaming, specifically around world building, in the science fiction & fantasy genre,’’ has announced its inaugural …
locusmag.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Congrats to @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social
and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award
locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...
and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award
locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...
If you're into #indiegame and #gamedev check out the #devlog for Powerhoof's recently launched The Drifter - excellent #scifi #thriller point-n-click. @dave.powerhoof.com breaks down some of the learning from the game's success (it's great - play it!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...
The Drifter - Dev Diary 17 (Launch Post Mortem)
YouTube video by PowerhoofTV
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
If you're into #indiegame and #gamedev check out the #devlog for Powerhoof's recently launched The Drifter - excellent #scifi #thriller point-n-click. @dave.powerhoof.com breaks down some of the learning from the game's success (it's great - play it!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...
I've been a #writer for a while now. For the first time I'm writing for a video game, not a novel or short story. It is *mind bending* to have to think in terms of plot, character, AND player agency. Fun, but challenging.
#bluesky #videogames #gaming
#bluesky #videogames #gaming
August 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I've been a #writer for a while now. For the first time I'm writing for a video game, not a novel or short story. It is *mind bending* to have to think in terms of plot, character, AND player agency. Fun, but challenging.
#bluesky #videogames #gaming
#bluesky #videogames #gaming
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Hi I made an open source game dev webring for the #indieweb. If you make games and run a website please feel free to join. gdt.fireye.coffee
Game Devs Together
An open source game developer webring!
gdt.fireye.coffee
August 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Hi I made an open source game dev webring for the #indieweb. If you make games and run a website please feel free to join. gdt.fireye.coffee
Extremely excited to announce that my brother Luke and I are recipients of Screen NSW's Development fund to develop Gutterjacket, a #cyberpunk adventure #videogame
Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist.
More: nogoodnikstudio.com
#indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing
Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist.
More: nogoodnikstudio.com
#indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Extremely excited to announce that my brother Luke and I are recipients of Screen NSW's Development fund to develop Gutterjacket, a #cyberpunk adventure #videogame
Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist.
More: nogoodnikstudio.com
#indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing
Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist.
More: nogoodnikstudio.com
#indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing
Lately I've been thinkin of the backrooms to reality. Y'know, where the dreams of modernity go to die?
Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta
#anthropology
#digital
#culture
#liminal
#thecaretaker
#culturaltheory
#weirdstudies
#writers
#ideas
#blog
Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta
#anthropology
#digital
#culture
#liminal
#thecaretaker
#culturaltheory
#weirdstudies
#writers
#ideas
#blog
Dancing with Ghosts
Field Observations from the Backrooms
open.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Lately I've been thinkin of the backrooms to reality. Y'know, where the dreams of modernity go to die?
Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta
#anthropology
#digital
#culture
#liminal
#thecaretaker
#culturaltheory
#weirdstudies
#writers
#ideas
#blog
Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta
#anthropology
#digital
#culture
#liminal
#thecaretaker
#culturaltheory
#weirdstudies
#writers
#ideas
#blog
Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for US #literature. Did you know she was also an #anthropologist?
Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack
#booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston
Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack
#booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for US #literature. Did you know she was also an #anthropologist?
Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack
#booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston
Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack
#booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston
Congrats to the #shortlist #writers for the Neilma Sidney short story prize!!
I've read a couple and they're all great. Worth a look for sure.
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstory
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
I've read a couple and they're all great. Worth a look for sure.
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstory
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Announcing the 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist - Overland literary journal
Congratulations to these ten writers who form the shortlist for the 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize!
overland.org.au
March 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Congrats to the #shortlist #writers for the Neilma Sidney short story prize!!
I've read a couple and they're all great. Worth a look for sure.
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstory
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
I've read a couple and they're all great. Worth a look for sure.
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstory
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Colleagues interested in #creative #methods and #anthropology or #environmentalism #ocean #audio need to check this out:
sailingsonicsea.com/how-to-contr...
sailingsonicsea.com/how-to-contr...
Call for compositions!
Call for compositions! Sailing the Sonic Sea is a unique event that will take place in June 5–8, 2025 in Victoria, BC, and on the Salish Sea, the traditional territory of numerous Coast Salish Nati…
sailingsonicsea.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Colleagues interested in #creative #methods and #anthropology or #environmentalism #ocean #audio need to check this out:
sailingsonicsea.com/how-to-contr...
sailingsonicsea.com/how-to-contr...
A little teaser I made of my most recent #shortstory Grief for Others. Read the full piece: overland.org.au/2024/11/grie...
#writingcommunity #booksky #writers #amwriting #stories #books #dark #specfic
#writingcommunity #booksky #writers #amwriting #stories #books #dark #specfic
March 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
A little teaser I made of my most recent #shortstory Grief for Others. Read the full piece: overland.org.au/2024/11/grie...
#writingcommunity #booksky #writers #amwriting #stories #books #dark #specfic
#writingcommunity #booksky #writers #amwriting #stories #books #dark #specfic
#MarchWorldbuilders 25/3: MC + ethical dilemma.
In #TrickstersWake Evelyn Blackbriar is obsessed with understanding the deadly trickster creatures that bend the earth at will, and kill in the wilds outside the city. Why is she so sympathetic to these monsters??
#writingcommunity #SFF #fantasy
In #TrickstersWake Evelyn Blackbriar is obsessed with understanding the deadly trickster creatures that bend the earth at will, and kill in the wilds outside the city. Why is she so sympathetic to these monsters??
#writingcommunity #SFF #fantasy
March 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#MarchWorldbuilders 25/3: MC + ethical dilemma.
In #TrickstersWake Evelyn Blackbriar is obsessed with understanding the deadly trickster creatures that bend the earth at will, and kill in the wilds outside the city. Why is she so sympathetic to these monsters??
#writingcommunity #SFF #fantasy
In #TrickstersWake Evelyn Blackbriar is obsessed with understanding the deadly trickster creatures that bend the earth at will, and kill in the wilds outside the city. Why is she so sympathetic to these monsters??
#writingcommunity #SFF #fantasy