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Jay Castello 🌻

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freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · Mar 28

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i'm Jay and i'm a storyteller in like 15 mediums:

📰 journalism & crit on media, internet culture, & fandom
📼 often available in video & podcast form
🔍 editing on books, articles, & games
🌌 published fiction author
🌒 other, weirder things

more details: jaycastello.com // jaymcastello @ gmail

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 14h

then she was like "your BIL uses it all the time. he used it yesterday to find a restaurant with vegetarian options" and I was like oh the restaurant he and my sister went to where my sister got ramen with beef in by accident and she was like yeah :)

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 14h

in japan my mum and I saw an unfamiliar black bird and so I googled it and google AI was like "could have been a waxwing." notably not black! so I was like okay well this is at least a teaching moment for my mum. so I showed it to her and she was like "no I still think those are usually accurate."

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 15h

how is the jetlag situation still THIS dire

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 1d

it's true this is me coded

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 1d

the MOST terrifying message to be sent alongside a northernlion clip

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 1d

it's not that i'm always pitching myself it's just that i do think every video game needs a good edit and about 0.01% of them get one

Jay: I've just remembered that after the Investigations collection was announced, I tweeted like eight times, “Capcom, it's not too late to let me edit this game.”

[Rho and Devon laugh]

Devon: That’s really good.

Jay: It is now too late to let me edit this game. But maybe there are other people out there making video games [laughs] who need a good editor.

Hera: Ace Attorney 7’s right around the corner.

Jay: Capcom. It's not too late.

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

i think this is by far and away one of the best things i've made this year and so i'm reposting it for no other reason than that youtu.be/RMTI6sdxBEA

The Scar at the Core of the Boy and the Heron

YouTube video by Jay Castello

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 1d

i can't tell if this thumbnail is saying "there's no AI in this video" or "they didn't have AI back then 😱"

A video called "Ways to Get Rick in the Middle Ages." There's a cheery child holding a goldfinch and the words "NO AI."

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

i think this is by far and away one of the best things i've made this year and so i'm reposting it for no other reason than that youtu.be/RMTI6sdxBEA

The Scar at the Core of the Boy and the Heron

YouTube video by Jay Castello

youtu.be

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

big agree

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

getting a good score in Buddhism, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve,

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

i have managed not to tell my poor therapist about hades II 😌

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

i told my therapist "i think this ties into some of the larger themes" today and she was like. 🤨

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 12d

need to stop thinking "wow there's a lot of symbolism here" to things that happen to me for real in my real life

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

meal one post japan: i'll make some scrambled eggs with spinach to get nutrients :)
the following 48 hours: oh god just put bread directly into my bloodstream

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

shout out to pure carbohydrates for somehow being the only thing that touches the jetlag

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

i like that it's all my fault :)

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

i look you dead in the eyes as if i'm about to tell you something of crucial importance and say "the great ace attorney 2-ness of hades 2 is what makes it ace attorney investigations 1 coded"

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

[you hear the sound of an enormous can of worms cracking open] does anyone have any good reading recommendations about a) the politics of cozy fantasy/wholesome gaming and b) the sequelification of everything

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 2d

it's so fucked up that when you have a timed appointment you can't get it over and done with. i'm literally the get it over and done with guy. let me come to your office at 6am i'm jetlagged it's efficient

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 3d

not fast enough; not fast enough; not fast enough; Not fast enough; Not fast enough; Not fast enough: Not Fast Enough; Not Fast Enough; Not Fast Enough; NOT FAST ENOUGH; NOT FAST ENOUGH; NOT FAST ENOUGH; NOT FAST ENOUGH; NOT FAST ENOUGH;

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 3d

woke up jetlagged to hell at 2am, put down 1600 words that need expanding on, still haven't even touched at LEAST half of what i want to say

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d

this is a long piece and is like 1/3rd of my overall thesis so. perhaps more to come

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 3d

whisper it but every time someone responds to my narrative critique with "fun gameplay tho"........

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 3d

it was Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson but I believe it would happem with any book

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 3d

(positive) (i think)

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 3d

i'm taking a novel writing class at the moment. we had a book to read for discussion and it's like everybody read something completely different. like i know that's how it works but all i'm learning so far is writing is completely absurd

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