devon giehl🐀ratmaker
@devongiehl.bsky.social
local elf enjoyer
Emmy-winning Lead Writer / Producer. The Dragon Prince (Netflix). Elf novelist. Prev Riot. Personal account, unhinged unprofessional and unfiltered. she/her.
Emmy-winning Lead Writer / Producer. The Dragon Prince (Netflix). Elf novelist. Prev Riot. Personal account, unhinged unprofessional and unfiltered. she/her.
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Hello! I'm Devon Giehl, a writer/producer/creative leader sort in LA. I previously worked on Netflix's The Dragon Prince, and before that I was at Riot Games. I'm currently doing some other stuff.
I spend lots of my time writing/drawing the same elves over and over.
Hello! I'm Devon Giehl, a writer/producer/creative leader sort in LA. I previously worked on Netflix's The Dragon Prince, and before that I was at Riot Games. I'm currently doing some other stuff.
I spend lots of my time writing/drawing the same elves over and over.
today something got slightly better for me instead of slightly worse and I feel like that hasn’t happened in so, so long that I’m crashing out about it a little
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
today something got slightly better for me instead of slightly worse and I feel like that hasn’t happened in so, so long that I’m crashing out about it a little
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The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
February 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM
The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
Post a banger that isn't in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKw...
(god i could do so many, but here's my favorite jpop song ever from when i was like 13)
(god i could do so many, but here's my favorite jpop song ever from when i was like 13)
February 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Post a banger that isn't in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKw...
(god i could do so many, but here's my favorite jpop song ever from when i was like 13)
(god i could do so many, but here's my favorite jpop song ever from when i was like 13)
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Ultimately right now in video games I feel surrounded by people who are worried, all the time, about long-term unemployment and ensuing social (or actual) death and so if you seem very invested in coming up with fun uses for LLMs in games I find you despicable.
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Ultimately right now in video games I feel surrounded by people who are worried, all the time, about long-term unemployment and ensuing social (or actual) death and so if you seem very invested in coming up with fun uses for LLMs in games I find you despicable.
have been gritting my teeth and holding onto discord nitro for a while because i genuinely love how useful the platform has been for keeping in touch and collaborating with little creative micro-communities, but good fucking god, man. face scans? ID requirements? can we not have one thing stay good?
February 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
have been gritting my teeth and holding onto discord nitro for a while because i genuinely love how useful the platform has been for keeping in touch and collaborating with little creative micro-communities, but good fucking god, man. face scans? ID requirements? can we not have one thing stay good?
tales from having a two year old: kid is crying at 3am because one of the plastic halloween decorations she's become unreasonably attached to fell out of her crib, and only i can save her from this tragedy
February 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
tales from having a two year old: kid is crying at 3am because one of the plastic halloween decorations she's become unreasonably attached to fell out of her crib, and only i can save her from this tragedy
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Today is the least online we’ll ever be again. And then tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Today is the least online we’ll ever be again. And then tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
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everywhere I go, Mayor Zohran Mamdani keeps bursting from around a corner to discuss city government in a charming, accessible way. I'm sick of it, man. I don't even live in New York City.
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 5:33 PM
everywhere I go, Mayor Zohran Mamdani keeps bursting from around a corner to discuss city government in a charming, accessible way. I'm sick of it, man. I don't even live in New York City.
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I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
George Washington
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January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
I really, really tried to watch these with an open mind because I DO think this particular point in history is pretty interesting, but goddamn, they're... absolutely unwatchable.
January 29, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I really, really tried to watch these with an open mind because I DO think this particular point in history is pretty interesting, but goddamn, they're... absolutely unwatchable.
oh fuck off. notably there are a lot of armenians in pasadena / altadena who were impacted by the fires. leave our neighbors alone.
the micro-targetting of diaspora groups is genuinely getting insane
January 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM
oh fuck off. notably there are a lot of armenians in pasadena / altadena who were impacted by the fires. leave our neighbors alone.
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sorry is there games journalism discourse happening, I was busy clumsily photoshopping a sword into the pope's hand on company time for a @joshuawolens.bsky.social story
January 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
sorry is there games journalism discourse happening, I was busy clumsily photoshopping a sword into the pope's hand on company time for a @joshuawolens.bsky.social story
Morning creatures (they want a bagel)
January 28, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Morning creatures (they want a bagel)
have not had much time to mess around with housing lately but i finally got to poke at the exterior of the "deep woods farstrider lodge" type look i'm going for, wooo. i need more trees. more trees... and gravestones ... and eventually a fence ... ...
January 28, 2026 at 4:26 AM
have not had much time to mess around with housing lately but i finally got to poke at the exterior of the "deep woods farstrider lodge" type look i'm going for, wooo. i need more trees. more trees... and gravestones ... and eventually a fence ... ...
I haven't posted my awful little creatures on here in a while, so here's Ember (left) and Piper (right).
Ember is God's most anxious creature, Piper is cosmically woven from the phrase "fuck you."
Ember is God's most anxious creature, Piper is cosmically woven from the phrase "fuck you."
January 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I haven't posted my awful little creatures on here in a while, so here's Ember (left) and Piper (right).
Ember is God's most anxious creature, Piper is cosmically woven from the phrase "fuck you."
Ember is God's most anxious creature, Piper is cosmically woven from the phrase "fuck you."
this is my kid right now
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 AM
this is my kid right now
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
at least this conspiracy theory is cool. anyway we should unfreeze the leviathan
a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
at least this conspiracy theory is cool. anyway we should unfreeze the leviathan
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![VOLITION [Easy: Failure] – You wake up in your Hilton suite to a cacophony of whistles and horns. Half drunk and half hungover, you hastily throw on your tactical gear. It feels heavier than you remember. You stumble outside. The cold hits you like a brick. What are you doing here in this dismal city? Home is warm. Home is safe. Home is a thousand miles away. Tucking your shotgun between your legs, you fumble with a tear gas canister like a child learning how to tie their shoes. The gun goes off and you shoot yourself in the balls.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqh433fdh2bqhvt455e3tg67/bafkreiahrbfuw4v4so56ikp2pxf5n253bs5pd5gq37l7nqsitkwynw56hy@jpeg)
there are actually no rules in writing, just common wisdom that you break on purpose for an impact on the audience
I really love a well-placed flashback
I really love a well-placed flashback
What's your favorite writing rule to break? Why do you break it? #WritingPrompt
January 25, 2026 at 3:53 PM
there are actually no rules in writing, just common wisdom that you break on purpose for an impact on the audience
I really love a well-placed flashback
I really love a well-placed flashback
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
I helped run like six and a half hours of brainstorming and development sessions today in an office (!) and didn’t perish
January 23, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I helped run like six and a half hours of brainstorming and development sessions today in an office (!) and didn’t perish
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moral arc backwards gyre widening what do?
amplified sound rules for falconers
rough beast posture correction how?
amplified sound rules for falconers
rough beast posture correction how?
January 19, 2026 at 11:33 PM
moral arc backwards gyre widening what do?
amplified sound rules for falconers
rough beast posture correction how?
amplified sound rules for falconers
rough beast posture correction how?