Graeme Strachan
@gstrachan.bsky.social
Writer, Story Design, Dramaturgy, Media Critic | he/him
(Currently available for hire)
BAFTA Member
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Tall, Scottish, friendly, occasionally handsome (not actually an Alpaca)
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BAFTA Member
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Graeme Strachan
@gstrachan.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Just to let people know, I am probably going to be applying for any and all game writing jobs that are coming up for the rest of the year.
I have a hankering to get writing on a nice project with some cool people. I miss the creative banter of that process.
So hit me up if you know of anything!
I have a hankering to get writing on a nice project with some cool people. I miss the creative banter of that process.
So hit me up if you know of anything!
Did my first escapee room today.
I escaped. Pretty good fun.
I escaped. Pretty good fun.
February 7, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Did my first escapee room today.
I escaped. Pretty good fun.
I escaped. Pretty good fun.
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Ok... I fell down a BIG #SilentHill rabbit hole this week, so I've been putting my thoughts down... Please enjoy some ramblings on one of the greatest Horror franchises, while I am bored and currently haven't got much to work on.
These Silent Hills part 1: Mist, Smoke & Cinema Screens
Silent Hill – PS1 (1998) If you ask most horror fan video-gamers around my age, then there’s a pretty good chance that they fell into one of two camps. The sort who were madly into Resi…
reviewism.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Ok... I fell down a BIG #SilentHill rabbit hole this week, so I've been putting my thoughts down... Please enjoy some ramblings on one of the greatest Horror franchises, while I am bored and currently haven't got much to work on.
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If your best defence is “I’m not corrupt I’m just really really stupid” it might be time to accept that you’ve fucked it big time.
New on FT website:
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
If your best defence is “I’m not corrupt I’m just really really stupid” it might be time to accept that you’ve fucked it big time.
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A seven nation asskicking by Jack White, bravo rockstar
February 6, 2026 at 10:28 PM
A seven nation asskicking by Jack White, bravo rockstar
Ok... I fell down a BIG #SilentHill rabbit hole this week, so I've been putting my thoughts down... Please enjoy some ramblings on one of the greatest Horror franchises, while I am bored and currently haven't got much to work on.
These Silent Hills part 1: Mist, Smoke & Cinema Screens
Silent Hill – PS1 (1998) If you ask most horror fan video-gamers around my age, then there’s a pretty good chance that they fell into one of two camps. The sort who were madly into Resi…
reviewism.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Ok... I fell down a BIG #SilentHill rabbit hole this week, so I've been putting my thoughts down... Please enjoy some ramblings on one of the greatest Horror franchises, while I am bored and currently haven't got much to work on.
it is kind of bonkers that Games Writers don't have the fundamental protections that TV writers do.
(Not that TV writers have it amazing, especially in the UK)
But it boggles my brain that Video Games, an industry worth BILLIONS treats the writers like an afterthought all round. It's just plain mad.
(Not that TV writers have it amazing, especially in the UK)
But it boggles my brain that Video Games, an industry worth BILLIONS treats the writers like an afterthought all round. It's just plain mad.
I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?
February 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM
it is kind of bonkers that Games Writers don't have the fundamental protections that TV writers do.
(Not that TV writers have it amazing, especially in the UK)
But it boggles my brain that Video Games, an industry worth BILLIONS treats the writers like an afterthought all round. It's just plain mad.
(Not that TV writers have it amazing, especially in the UK)
But it boggles my brain that Video Games, an industry worth BILLIONS treats the writers like an afterthought all round. It's just plain mad.
Apropos of nothing... The ending of The Last of Us 2 is sad, not because of the violence or the cyclic cost of revenge being ultimately unpayable.
It's that Joel never taught Ellie how to restring a guitar to play left-handed. And that she never thought to learn.
It's that Joel never taught Ellie how to restring a guitar to play left-handed. And that she never thought to learn.
February 6, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Apropos of nothing... The ending of The Last of Us 2 is sad, not because of the violence or the cyclic cost of revenge being ultimately unpayable.
It's that Joel never taught Ellie how to restring a guitar to play left-handed. And that she never thought to learn.
It's that Joel never taught Ellie how to restring a guitar to play left-handed. And that she never thought to learn.
Argh... the blogging bug has caught me. I was scribbling a wee 'further thoughts' about Silent Hill having seen and reviewed the new movie and it's turned into a several thousand word series of rambling blog-posts.
A'la the ones I did on the Hobbit movies and Doctor Who.
A'la the ones I did on the Hobbit movies and Doctor Who.
February 6, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Argh... the blogging bug has caught me. I was scribbling a wee 'further thoughts' about Silent Hill having seen and reviewed the new movie and it's turned into a several thousand word series of rambling blog-posts.
A'la the ones I did on the Hobbit movies and Doctor Who.
A'la the ones I did on the Hobbit movies and Doctor Who.
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Relax, bread department
February 6, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Relax, bread department
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Can't stop laughing at Keir Starmer's defence being "I asked the Prince of Darkness 'are you telling me the truth?' and he said 'yes' and now I have discovered that I was LIED to by the Prince of Darkness! The Prince of Darkness LIED to me!"
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Can't stop laughing at Keir Starmer's defence being "I asked the Prince of Darkness 'are you telling me the truth?' and he said 'yes' and now I have discovered that I was LIED to by the Prince of Darkness! The Prince of Darkness LIED to me!"
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I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?
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Kaitlan Collins: “Tulsi Gabbard’s hunt for the president's long sought but never found evidence of widespread voter fraud now extends beyond the state of Georgia—
When it comes to who exactly asked Gabbard to be there, the level of finger pointing has almost taken on a SpideMan meme-like quality”
When it comes to who exactly asked Gabbard to be there, the level of finger pointing has almost taken on a SpideMan meme-like quality”
February 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Kaitlan Collins: “Tulsi Gabbard’s hunt for the president's long sought but never found evidence of widespread voter fraud now extends beyond the state of Georgia—
When it comes to who exactly asked Gabbard to be there, the level of finger pointing has almost taken on a SpideMan meme-like quality”
When it comes to who exactly asked Gabbard to be there, the level of finger pointing has almost taken on a SpideMan meme-like quality”
Oh no... I've just had a quick shot on Ace Combat (they dropped it on PS+ this month) in VR mode and I forgot to take my varifocals off.
I haven't felt this queasy in a LONG time.
I haven't felt this queasy in a LONG time.
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Oh no... I've just had a quick shot on Ace Combat (they dropped it on PS+ this month) in VR mode and I forgot to take my varifocals off.
I haven't felt this queasy in a LONG time.
I haven't felt this queasy in a LONG time.
So, Lioness is on Netflix now. I watched the first episode an age back when I had a free month of Paramount+ but I'd forgotten how utterly flatly written the pilot is.
It's not "BAD", it's like an example you could show film students and budding screenwriters as how to write utterly 'functional'.
It's not "BAD", it's like an example you could show film students and budding screenwriters as how to write utterly 'functional'.
February 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
So, Lioness is on Netflix now. I watched the first episode an age back when I had a free month of Paramount+ but I'd forgotten how utterly flatly written the pilot is.
It's not "BAD", it's like an example you could show film students and budding screenwriters as how to write utterly 'functional'.
It's not "BAD", it's like an example you could show film students and budding screenwriters as how to write utterly 'functional'.
Kind of amazed, having looked up some of the Melania reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. There are 2 positive critical reviews. And they're not just postive, they're boot-lickingly disgusting slavish praise.
But there is BARELY an audience review that isn't 5 stars. THOUSANDS OF THEM, how sus.
But there is BARELY an audience review that isn't 5 stars. THOUSANDS OF THEM, how sus.
February 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Kind of amazed, having looked up some of the Melania reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. There are 2 positive critical reviews. And they're not just postive, they're boot-lickingly disgusting slavish praise.
But there is BARELY an audience review that isn't 5 stars. THOUSANDS OF THEM, how sus.
But there is BARELY an audience review that isn't 5 stars. THOUSANDS OF THEM, how sus.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
My partner and I stuck on the first couple of episodes of The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms last night.
It's great.
I read The Hedge Knight back when it dropped in the Legends anthology about 100 years ago, long before I ever read ASOIAF, and I loved it then, but my partner hasn't and they ADORE it.
It's great.
I read The Hedge Knight back when it dropped in the Legends anthology about 100 years ago, long before I ever read ASOIAF, and I loved it then, but my partner hasn't and they ADORE it.
February 5, 2026 at 1:13 PM
My partner and I stuck on the first couple of episodes of The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms last night.
It's great.
I read The Hedge Knight back when it dropped in the Legends anthology about 100 years ago, long before I ever read ASOIAF, and I loved it then, but my partner hasn't and they ADORE it.
It's great.
I read The Hedge Knight back when it dropped in the Legends anthology about 100 years ago, long before I ever read ASOIAF, and I loved it then, but my partner hasn't and they ADORE it.
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I post a lot about how I hate AI because duh.
The discover page started showing me posts from people who like AI, and they're kinda hilarious.
I used this AI agent and it didn't work so then I tried this AI and this AI 15 times.
Bro you have spent more time than just learning how to do the thing.
The discover page started showing me posts from people who like AI, and they're kinda hilarious.
I used this AI agent and it didn't work so then I tried this AI and this AI 15 times.
Bro you have spent more time than just learning how to do the thing.
February 5, 2026 at 12:08 PM
I post a lot about how I hate AI because duh.
The discover page started showing me posts from people who like AI, and they're kinda hilarious.
I used this AI agent and it didn't work so then I tried this AI and this AI 15 times.
Bro you have spent more time than just learning how to do the thing.
The discover page started showing me posts from people who like AI, and they're kinda hilarious.
I used this AI agent and it didn't work so then I tried this AI and this AI 15 times.
Bro you have spent more time than just learning how to do the thing.
In regards to the whole Mandelson scandal, in a weird way I kind of understand the logic of Starmer sending him to The US as Ambassador.
I think it was an awful idea, but I am reminded of the old Vulcan proverb.
I think it was an awful idea, but I am reminded of the old Vulcan proverb.
February 5, 2026 at 10:56 AM
In regards to the whole Mandelson scandal, in a weird way I kind of understand the logic of Starmer sending him to The US as Ambassador.
I think it was an awful idea, but I am reminded of the old Vulcan proverb.
I think it was an awful idea, but I am reminded of the old Vulcan proverb.
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For years, Starmer's critics on the left have warned that he was trashing Labour values, kowtowing to the rich and powerful while hurting the poor and the living world.
Every time, people here and elsewhere leapt up to call us "closet Tories" and "Reform enablers".
Funny how they've gone so quiet.
Every time, people here and elsewhere leapt up to call us "closet Tories" and "Reform enablers".
Funny how they've gone so quiet.
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 AM
For years, Starmer's critics on the left have warned that he was trashing Labour values, kowtowing to the rich and powerful while hurting the poor and the living world.
Every time, people here and elsewhere leapt up to call us "closet Tories" and "Reform enablers".
Funny how they've gone so quiet.
Every time, people here and elsewhere leapt up to call us "closet Tories" and "Reform enablers".
Funny how they've gone so quiet.
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"Rhe only reason we know any of this [about Mandelson] is because Epstein became entangled in the MAGA movement’s narrative.
"What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today."
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...
"What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today."
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...
Release the files - on Mandelson, Starmer and McSweeney
Sunlight is the only disinfectant to the corruption that's been revealed this week
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
"Rhe only reason we know any of this [about Mandelson] is because Epstein became entangled in the MAGA movement’s narrative.
"What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today."
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...
"What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today."
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...
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That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
So happy to have been able to contribute to this amazing collection with 117 other much smarter cooler people!
You will want to check this out when it drops!
You will want to check this out when it drops!
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February 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
So happy to have been able to contribute to this amazing collection with 117 other much smarter cooler people!
You will want to check this out when it drops!
You will want to check this out when it drops!
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