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Anna Winterstein
@awstein.bsky.social
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Game Designer & Writer - Burnt-out raccoon
☕ Coffee Talk 2 & Tokyo 🎮 Ex-Lively Studio
🖋️ Words in LITG, F1 Manager, Anchored Hearts, BCS Mag
🥖 Baguette in Porridgeland
Trans rights are human rights, I can't believe that needs to be said.
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Going through my grandmother's documents, and I found this Japanese movie magazine from the 60s that has her on the cover (amongst family pictures, some of them as old as the 1920s...) My little former-historian soul is kind of blown away.
Cover of a Japanese film magazine from 1963 (N° 27) with a large b&w portrait of Margarita Volodina on it The inside of the magazine, featuring some writing in Japanese and stills from the movie Optimistic Tragedy
September 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The carriage itself is pretty darn cool though!
Separation between two tube carriages. The inside, in hunter green, frames the outside of the next carriage, which is bright red, and that in turn frames the next carriage with its two rows of opposing seats Inside of a 1938 tube carriage. It's all in green and red with golden wooden floors and wooden frames around the windows. A man with a tote bag is walking between seats. Outside of a 1938 tube carriage. It's gleaming red, with a No Smoking sign on the window. The door is open, the green interior is peeking through. A row of decidedly modernly dressed people (t-shirts, Vans, Converse) are seated in an Art Deco tube carriage. Wooden floors, red and green velvet upholstery, green details and wooden frame on the windows.
September 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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True message of hope here from old-timey ads (taken at the 1938 tube carriage revival)
An old-timey ad above the window of an antique tube carriage. It displays a hand pointing at you and reads in bold "You too can be a sucker" and in a smaller font "Just suck a smooth cool creamy minty chewy round slow velvety fresh clean solid buttery Nuttal's Mintoe and see"
September 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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She loves being on this cushion, despite it being very far from any hiding place or her pen 😅 Display rabbit
A little black bunny is sitting on her cushion in the middle of the living room, lording over the proceeds
August 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Guys guys! After literal months, the books, they are all in the shelves 😍📚 And they all fit! (We don't ask how, we just give praise to the bookshelf gods. We also don't ask about the remaining pockets of mess.)
A home office with a wall covered in bookshelves, which are packed with books in several rows.
August 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This one isn't strictly a sketch - it took me a fair bit longer than 1h - but yay, colours! Another drawme subreddit prompt that turned out really fun. There is a person out there who legit attached this number of balloons to her hair...
A girl in a t-shirt with a smiley and shorts is floating in a blue-and-orange sunset sky, carried by a large number of colorful balloons attached to her hair and small wings on her heels. A seagull flying by gives her a quizzical look.
August 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Already on the train back, couple more pics... Next time I'll have to stay a week or two, what a truly enchanting place!
Golden hour over a river and an old water mill in Ambleside Lush grass and bracken growing all the way to mountains on the horizon, with a tree in the foreground offering some shade A long wall running on the top of a crest, with a view on Lake Windermere to the left and Rydal Water to the right Waterfall and little house on the Rydal Hall grounds, where William Wordsworth liked to chill
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Not very nice to call me names just because I'm a bit slow...
Gate with a little sign "Please keep gate closed cattle"
August 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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First time ever in the Lake District, and it doesn't disappoint! The rolling hills, the taller peaks, the water; such a beautiful place... I get what the fuss is about.
A canoe on a lake in front of islands and mountains A black and white picture of stepping stones across a river A wide angle shot on a blue lake with mountains in the back and green slopes either side An empty row boat with a blue chair in the middle of it, floating next to a lake shore
August 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Still leaning into a looser style. I will own the brush strokes someday! I will.
Portrait in loose brush strokes of a girl with a cute, cheeky smile, hazel eyes, black hair, and a turquoise blue top
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Rougher rendering today, but I had so much fun with this, incredible style on that guy. Next goal: get a bit more creative with colours!
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Part 4289 of the burnout recovery plan: resuming sketching. Found the "drawme" subreddit, and my goal is to do maybe one per day, keeping it to ~1h to 1h30 max. Let's see if that makes me progress 😅
A black girl in her pink fursona: a long pink wig, pink cat ears, and a cute pink outfit, with very colourful bracelets and hair accessories.
August 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Little impromptu photo walk through London.
A black boy is performing a skateboard trick while an Asian girl waits for her turn in front of a tagged wall that says "Free Palestine"
July 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Me: "As a French person, I really appreciate frequent and meaningful text exchanges from early on when getting to know someone and while building up to any further relationship"

Me with my long-term French partner:

(NB: "pouic" is French for "squeak")
Exhange on Telegram that goes "Pouic Pouic Pouic Pouiiiiiic Pouique" and other variations of the word Pouic
July 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Describe your favourite movie in the most misleading way possible:

A former cop struggles with the impact AI has on his job :/
Harrison Ford in Blade Runner is comforting Rachael under the rain.
June 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Gotta love how she steps all over his sleepy face to go get food.
Bunnies are merciless 🤦🏼
June 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Reintro time, given recent changes!
I'm Anna, a French-raised, UK-based game designer and writer currently focusing on getting Coffee Talk Tokyo out there ☕🥳
I erratically post about games, words, books, bunnies, travel pics, and (when I boil over) the appalling state of human rights.
A late 30s woman (me) dressed in black and carrying a camera, walking on a stony path between trees in Japan. A screenshot from Coffee Talk Tokyo. Hendry, Jun, Ayame, and Fuku are sat at the counter. Fuku is saying "I work the front desk at a Death Door." In Tokyo Central Station, a young Japanese man in a business suit walks briskly across the room, while a girl in an elaborate kimono, seen from the back, is waiting by a pillar. Two bunnies, a black one and a beige one, are sleeping snuggled up in a little wooden bunny house.
June 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Let's go to the garden centre, they said. We'll just grab two small plants and a small planter, they said.
Half an hour later...
A bunch of flowering plants in orange and pink colours and black troughs.
May 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Me when I contemplate the state of things on an average morning.
(Natural History Museum displays)
A picture of a taxidermied small animal in the Natural History Museum, who looks like they have seen things.
May 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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There absolutely is in my life a before and after discovering Tajin as glass rimming.
Picture of a margarita cocktail in a tajin-rimmed coupe on a terrace with a fern in the background.
April 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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10h in I'm obsessed with Clair Obscur : Expedition 33!
Unsurprisingly, I love the story, but more surprisingly, I also love the combat.
Little design thread 🧵 on why I spent 23 hecking minutes beating this boss (yes, I need to learn how to parry) and enjoyed every second of it!
#Expedition33
Screenshot from the game Clair Obscur : Expedition 33. This is a Victory screen that displays a 22:43 timer on a boss.
April 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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My lilac bush is really feeling itself this spring! It smells amazing too 🪻💖
An aggressively flowering lilac bush on a balcony.
April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Caught the front of the men's race on camera, as well as some French guy having a blast 👀 #LondonMarathon
April 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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(Apologies for the delete and repost, Burt Lancaster's gif wasn't gifing - but he's absolutely who I'm here for in that movie, those last scenes when he walks through the dark streets of the town at night are perfection!)
Burt Lancaster at night looking up into the sky, distress and nostalgia on his face - from The Leopard by Luchino Visconti
April 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Found some old ink drawings while browsing photo archives.
I should find the motivation to do more of these, black ink work is just so much fun!
Ink drawing of old scales in a candlelit library. A tiny dragon is sleeping on one of the scales, skewing it to the right. Ink drawing of a girl entwined with a carp on a background of planets and stars.
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM