Brandon O'Brien @therisingtithes@wandering.shop

Debating to do a costream of some of the E3 stuff happening on Saturday... 🤔

tfw @gregoryawilson geeking out about Knight Rider on stream suddenly inspires me to work on another thing... 🤔

Semi-random question of the evening:

Raise your hand 🙋 if you live in a place other than the US & do not have access to at least one of the popular streaming media services (HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+, Apple TV+ - you name it).

This piece is a whole vibes. 🤘🏿🇹🇹🤘🏿
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RT @amandacq
Black rock is mainstream now—but it wasn't in the 00s though we invented it. I wrote about what @TVonTheRadio meant to me, and how the racism they faced also affected BIPOC bands from Trinidad who tried to make it. 🙏 to @NylonMag & @alyssavingan. https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/in-some-countries-rock-was-always-black
https://twitter.com/amandacq/status/1403081088059203594

Also this song is kinda hard tho: https://youtu.be/T10RevSRlXY

On the one hand, this game looks absolutely rad and I definitely want to play it!

On the other hand, seeing this trailer while I'm still working on #SoundclashRPG does suddenly make me terribly anxious about the name?

https://youtu.be/QpgcmD9S2X8

as a designer & poet who likes to think about reading game text as a kind of play in the same sense of 'unlocking' & wants so badly to make/play more games where thinking abt/emotionally experiencing rules is part of playing, I really dig this thread SO EVERYONE READ IT
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RT @ehronlime
I moderated a panel about the intersections between poetry and games this week. It's a really rich topic and we could only cover so much in the time all…
https://twitter.com/ehronlime/status/1403303031752380420

turns out that Sesame Street knows that writers are just parents of word-children

(jokes aside, this is quite sweet and valuable at present for a lot of folks I reckon)
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RT @HistoryMuppet
This is awesome.

Thank you, Sesame Street.
https://twitter.com/HistoryMuppet/status/1403171037630677001

The latest @SkiffyandFanty #TortureCinema poll is live, and there may be a little in common with the selections…
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RT @SkiffyandFanty
And so it came to pass that a brand no Torture Cinema poll dropped for our delightful Patreon supporters.

These selections were chosen by mains co-host @therisingtithes to titillate your senses!

Join up if you haven't already. Otherwise, go vote!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/52357341
https://twitter.com/SkiffyandFanty/status/1403127074819215363

HE WAS NOT JOKING

I REPEAT

SOUND THE ALARMS GAMERS

YOUR THING IS HAPPENING

It's truly wild about this kickoff event how many of these promos that are either "we paid a very talented motion graphics team to make an ad that takes the same time to play as it would take for me to say the thing" or "I said the thing. That's it! No, really! No context! Bye!"

What would really win my attention about House of Ashes is if it purposely or inadvertently makes a statement about American military interventionism as an act of historical desecration… but how much you wanna bet it’s just a weird, violent monster movie kind of experience?

Things of note in the last howeverlong of the Summer Game Fest kickoff:

• I haven’t played Among Us but the sheriff role may be neat
• was that a Gungrave game?
• VtM: Blood Hunt does look cool.

What does the director’s cut of an already Very Auteur game even include? Not even bashing, but will Death Stranding include even more dialogue indulgences? Or more walking?

METAL SLUG TACTICS?! Real talk I have actually never played a Metal Slug game, but all I want is more stuff like this.

This looks like it's going to be absolute fire and I am here for it, especially if Aabria Iyengar is GMing.
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RT @CriticalRole
⚔️ NEW SHOW ALERT! ⚔️

We are THRILLED to announce Exandria Unlimited, a brand new adventure featuring new voices, and familiar faces. Join us for the premiere on June 24th at 7pm Pacific on both Twitch and YouTube!

LEARN MORE: https://critrole.com/hype-exandria-unlimited-premieres-june-24th
https://twitter.com/CriticalRole/status/1403021667073282051

ICYMI!
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RT @IntFlightPress
Announcing Can You Sign My Tentacle? by @therisingtithes! Cthulhu Meets Hip-Hop in a New Chapbook from Interstellar Flight Press, forthcoming August 20, 2021.
https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/introducing-can-you-sign-my-tentacle-by-brandon-obrien-ecd1c07880b9
https://twitter.com/IntFlightPress/status/1403020426637418505

Quick, a question for all my BIMPOC writers/editors/publishers etc.—

name one thing that you and other POC readers implicitly understand when reading a POC story that white readers have literally misjudged because they didn’t get it or weren’t bothered to look it up.

👀👀
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RT @NetflixFilm
Experience a nightmare 300 years in the making. The FEAR STREET trilogy, from director Leigh Janiak, is on Netflix this July 🪓💀🩸
https://twitter.com/NetflixFilm/status/1402664327174365187

Real talk, I need this book in front of my eyes right now. It looks absolutely brilliant.
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RT @TorDotComPub
"The children imitate razorfangs and I am without yet another night's rest." - @intelligentwat

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler.
https://publishing.tor.com/flowersforthesea-dbtmp1186529/9781250804044/
https://twitter.com/TorDotComPub/status/1402689471171203077