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Meghan Ellis Brown
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Entertainment Journalist | SFF Writer | Tabletop Bookshelf, BBC Scotland, TechRadar, The Guardian, IGN, All the Anime, etc. | me@meghanon.co.uk 🥰
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meghan0n.bsky.social
Good morning from the misty fields of Fife
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Weekend reading plans
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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charalanahzard.bsky.social
The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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remotecore.bsky.social
Good night at Waterstones tonight for the launch of @shonak.bsky.social Daughters of Nicniven and @samkhorton.bsky.social Ragwort, interviewed by @megintransition.bsky.social
Good to see a crowd out, despite hiw cold it was and train issues. (was - 5°C by time I got home from the pub after!)
Argyle St Waterstones events space. Meg McDonald, a white woman with long dark hair on left, hosting event. On right, authors Shona Kinsella (white woman with dark hair) and Sam K. Horton (white man with red hair). Standing to the side, D (non-binary person), introduces the event and runs through safety guidance. Shona reads from her book Daughters of Nicniven. Sam reads from his book Ragwort. Meg asks a question while Shona and Sam listen intently.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
What I thought this game was: 🐟🎣😊🍣💴🤿💖

What this game actually was: 💀🐓🐟🔫🧟‍♀️🍣💊🤿

(Play it)
videogameschronicle.com VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d
Dave the Diver is finally on Xbox, and it’s available today.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/dive-th...
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Okay, this is a curry 😋
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Ah now this is a shit with a capital S google update... plagued by AI everywhere I go.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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bethkesh.bsky.social
Another thing today!
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 11/18/25 "A triumph. 23 stellar tales offering creative and varied takes on the book's themes. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactf...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
I would have killed for that cake as a child

(who's kidding I want it today)
coolboxart.bsky.social Cool Box Art @coolboxart.bsky.social · 3d
Game Boy cake / Print ad / Sainsbury's / 1993
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
The Xbox 360 was formative for me. It's the first non-Nintendo console I personally owned (positive), and I was working in Gamestation during that console gen, so I experienced the horrors of aggrieved parents not realising the controllers needed batteries on Christmas Eve (negative). What a box.
A side-on xbox 360 console
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Forgot the names of most of what I planted this year, so I'm playing a haphazard game of "Perennial or Not?" by seeing if each individual plant survives the first Scottish frosts
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Last week I reviewed cyan starlight for @tabletopbookshelf.com - really bleak, lonely and beautiful role playing. I had a heroic death in a starfight; what better way to go for a grizzled old interstellar scout?

#ttrpg

tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...
READ & REVIEWED: cyan starlight
By Meghan Ellis The stars have grown quiet. The fission engines have cooled. The rage and death have ended. As the last living remnant of humanity, a solitary explorer must traverse a cold and remorse...
tabletopbookshelf.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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dominictarason.com
I feel that the British and Japanese are connected through our shared love of terrible puns.
spacecoyote.com nina matsumoto 🍂 @spacecoyote.com · 8d
love me some hebi metal
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
忙しい一週間の後でとても疲れたねー🥱
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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reki.gay
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
We're ready for the State of Play tonight~ 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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matthewseiji.com
The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
I cannot WAIT to play Lumines Arise. The original games were just so fundamentally part of my should-be-studying-instead-I'm-gaming university experience.
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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mattreyn.games
It’s Monday. You know what that means
October 21, 2024 at 8:34 AM
meghan0n.bsky.social
Here's me over at @tabletopbookshelf.com talking about cyan starlight 💙💫 - a lonely but intriguing solo TTRPG experience 🚀
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
meghan0n.bsky.social
An old work colleague of mines is releasing a board game and I'm SO thrilled for him and the rest of the team. Look at this, wow!
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 12d
The Old King’s Crown is a grab bag of concepts from all sorts of other board games, each given a loving polish and shape to fit it into a greater whole, wrapped in the most amazing eye candy, creating a unique package.
The Old King’s Crown Board Game Review
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM