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Amy-Leigh Shaw
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Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Award-Winning Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️‍🌈
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Ah, my wild teenage years: carrying massive toilet rolls and locking them inside little plastic enclosures because people simply cannot be trusted with anything.
An image of a toilet roll dispenser commonly used in McDonald’s customer toilets
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Success is somebody reading a line I wrote and saying “same”.
A screenshot from the game Winter Burrow, featured in a review of the game. The player character stands in front of an NPC, a toad named Bufo, as they say “Not that anyone'd care, like. Oh no, just leave ol' Bufo under the rubble, let 'em desiccate, yeah?” The image is captioned “…Same?”
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I had the Slow Game Club explained to me recently and it’s the sweetest idea I’ve heard in a while 🥲
Forty quid for the year, you get a new game every month, and all the money goes to IntoGames, to give working class people in the UK better access to careers in game dev.

Helluva gift idea, too 👀🎄
A promo image for the new Slow Game Club from intogames, a charity for helping working class people access game development careers. It shows the logo, which has the words “Slow Game Club” against a square rainbow background, and a checkered snail design on a cream background. The intogames logo is featured in the bottom right corner, in pink. The slogan is above it, in the same pink. It reads: “The book club… but for games”
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Okay, okay, just one more
A quote from Lord Of The Rings, written in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York Mayor, reads “No admittance except on party business.”
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A sign made in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York Mayor. It is a yellow and red text on a bright blue background that bears the Lord Of The Rings quote, “despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt”
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Hey kid… Wanna see a Rick Astley Annual from 1988?
The cover of a Rick Astley Special annual from 1988. It shows a selection of photographs of him holding a microphone. The inside cover of the 1988 Rick Astley annual. It shows a montage of images of him singing. The contents page of the 1988 Rick Astley annual, showing a very stylised ‘80s set of contents and a photo of Rick Astley singing.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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He looks so much like the handsome boy I lost just a couple of months ago now. I’m so glad he has you 💛 Please give him a kiss on the forehead, a stroke on the nose, or a pat on the butt from me, if he’s into any of those things.
A photograph of Rik, a very beloved brown tabby cat with big green eyes, a white chin and a little pink nose. He’s sitting up tall and staring at the light fixture off camera, with sunlight filtering through the white paisley blinds behind him.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A few of the illustrated pages
An illustrated page from Beehive Books’ edition of Carmilla. It depicts two women in a corridor, caressing each other with barely any distance between them. A painting on the wall behind them shows a woman clutching an asp to her breast. An illustrated page from Beehive Books’ edition of Carmilla. It depicts one woman lying on her back, hair splayed on the ground around her, and another woman leaning over her face to kiss her. Their hands are entwined over the first woman’s waist. A book sits, forgotten, on the ground beside them. An illustrated page from Beehive Books’ edition of Carmilla. It depicts one woman - the vampire Carmilla - biting the neck of another woman - the protagonist Laura. Laura’s eyes are half open, her mouth parted, and her blood stretching a sticky bond between her neck and Carmilla’s lips. An illustrated page from Beehive Books’ edition of Carmilla. It depicts a shadowy figure with long, curly hair and glowing red eyes, concealed within the darkness beyond a thick red curtain and an ornate vase.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Front & back cover
The front cover of Beehive Books’ edition of Carmilla, illustrated in red and black, it shows a woman sitting in the basin of an ornate fountain, drenched in blood. In a frame above her, there is an image of her in another time, eyes closed and neck bitten. The back cover of Beehive Books’ edition of Carmilla, illustrated in red and black, it contrasts the image from the front cover, the bloodied basin of the ornate fountain now empty, and the frame that once held an image of a woman now smashed and fractured.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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It’s the perfect time of year to show off the @beehivebooks.bsky.social edition of Carmilla - it arrived a few months ago and I’ve been in love with it ever since. Illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, and well, I mean, just look at it 😍
The outer protective cover of Beehive Books’ print of Carmilla. Red, and embossed in a deeper red foil, it shows two women kissing, with blood dripping down the cheek of the woman below, and a hole in the cover at the point their lips meet, revealing a woman, neck bitten and eyes closed, on the book’s cover itself.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I have dreamed of times like these.
A screenshot of the official Zoombinis app on ios.
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Panel finished, pressure off! Time to chill!
A photograph of a Events sign for the VIVA! IP & Licensing event
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A London Underground sign that features a quote of the day. Beneath an illustration of a hare on the back of a tortoise, it reads “Never underestimate steady progress. Victory comes to those who endure.”
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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“Everything the light touches? But what about that shadowy place?”

“That’s Crinkley Bottom. You must never go there.”
A photograph of Mr Blobby’s house at the abandoned Crinkley Bottom theme park in the UK, overgrown, dirty, and eerie.
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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They should release a cut of Slow Horses where all of Gary Oldman’s scenes are narrated like Disco Elysium
Gary Oldman in costume as Jackson Lamb of the tv show Slow Horses A portrait of Harry Dubois from the game Disco Elysium
October 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
A black and white photograph of German philosopher Friedrich Engels
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“Wow, Amy-Leigh, you’re heading to the ✨Immersive Experience Network Summit✨ this month?”

“Why, yes! Yes I am!”

“Cool! Me too! Can we catch up while we’re there?”

“Hey, sure we can! You just let me know you’d like to chat, and we can grab a drink and talk all things Writing & Narrative Design!🥰”
A promotional image for the upcoming Immersive Experience Network Summit, 2025, taking place on the 21st and 22nd of October at Woolwich Works, London.
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Told you.
A horseshoe, painted a pale grey-pink with dark pink dip at the ends and in a band across the top. It’s detailed with ivy vines and leaves.
October 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A group of little mushrooms growing close to some old stone. They’re small and close to the ground, with flat, silvery caps that look almost like fish skin. The underside of a group of small, silvery capped mushrooms. Their gills are long, thin, white and uniform.
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A photograph of a mushroom growing through a carpet of dead leaves. It has a cap shaped like a large spiral, various shades of brown on top, with long, thin pale brown gills.
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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If you’re around Farringdon on the 23rd of October and you’d like to hear me and quite a few other very lovely people in gamedev talking about how to handle IP in games, good news! You’re in luck! You can catch that and more at the Viva! IP & Licensing event 💛
A promo image for the Viva! IP & Licensing event in Farringdon on the 23rd of October. It shows a photograph of Amy-Leigh Shaw, a writer & narrative designer who will be speaking on a panel at the event.
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A photograph of a mushroom protruding from green grass. It has a glossy, crimson cap, which is darker at the centre. A photograph of a mushroom in a patch of green grass, side on. It has a shiny crimson cap, thin, flat, uniform white gills, and a stem that, from bottom to top, fades from purple to white.
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A photograph of a large mushroom in the grass. It has a wide, rounded, orangey-red cap with small protruding white splotches at the rim, and a long white stem with a frilled skirt. A photograph of a mushroom from underneath. It has a frilled skirt on its long white stem, and tightly packed, thin flat white gills. The cap is orangey red.
September 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A photograph of two mushrooms poking up through the grass. One only has a small, rounded, dark brown cap visible, while the other has a visible rounded orange-red cap with protruding white splotches at it’s rim. It appears to be white beneath the cap, and has a relatively long white stem.
September 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A photograph of a mushroom poking up through the green grass. The cap has been half eaten away, but it is glossy and dark red. It is darkest at the centre and gets paler towards the edge, with small pale ridges around the rim. A photograph of a mushroom poking through the grass from the side. It has been so eaten away at that the side view provides a cross section, showing it to be white throughout, beneath its dark red cap. A close up of a mushroom’s gills poking through the grass. The cap’s surface is dark red, but the gills are pale and labyrinthine.
September 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM