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Kyle Marquis

@moochava.bsky.social

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he/him. Writer and game designer. Silverworld, V:TM—Night Road, Pon Para. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is out now! https://www.choiceofgames.com/werewolf-the-apocalypse/book-of-hungry-names/

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · Oct 22

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is a horror text adventure set in the World of Darkness. Face monsters and mysteries as a werewolf determined to rebuild a shattered pack. Play the first five chapters for free!

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names

Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit who manifests as a lie that you want to believe?

www.choiceofgames.com

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 3h

It's happening.

The Vitamin.

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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am
rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I
am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the
vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all
my problems were caused by this one deficiency

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Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate
and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet
you persevered?

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 3h

Update: a fantastic opera. Fun crowd too, which is always nice. Just plowed through 4,000 calories worth of pastrami at Sarge's; time to waddle back to Massachusetts

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 6h

Absolute packed house at the Lincoln Center for the opera version of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. It's intermission right now and the lobby is a zoo.

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Kirsten @k-a-aitch.bsky.social · 9h

Lincoln Center keeps it classy

Written in tasteful, brushed chrome letters: all gender restroom. This restroom may be used by any person regardless of gender identity or expression

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of you on here need to step up and help your girlfriends' husbands

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

In New York for the day, hanging around and waiting for a show to start

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Denny @dennywhere.bsky.social · 11h

You can microwave your soup with a spoon in it if you're pure of heart

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 1d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Ted Tubi @daveprosper.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to be on NCPR tomorrow (Saturday Oct 11) presenting an Italo Disco hour for the 3:00 Special, and the chyron they chose for me is incredible

a red haired man in glasses with the chyron: David Prosper, Loves UFOs

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

"I make ballistic armor for school pets"

"And I love UFOs"

"Our budget is 13.4 million dollars"

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 4d

newly released body cam footage seems to contradict initial reports that federal agents opened fire only after a woman, who had "hulked out" and "become huge," began using "hulk strength" to smash them. gotta admit, this one did feel a little fishy when i was reporting it as fact yesterday

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

Fun to watch an action movie and entertain fantasies of badassery even for a moment, then go work out and get winded by switching the weights around (they're heavy even when you're not lifting-lifting them, what the hell)

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

This Project Gutenberg book contains what I assume is an OCR error, but I'm really drawing a blank on what it's supposed to be.

“They
had not a notion how poor people feel, still less poor people poorer
than before—or how they regard the rich who have what they have
lost. They did not understand any huftian feeling—not even the
silliness they called LOVE—a godless, mindless affair,”
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

Which runs the risk of—ok, the first time I consciously recognized awful writing was in The Dragon Reborn, where Jordan gets it into his head that the Lady Pope came from a fishing tribe, so all her internal monologue is fishing-metaphor-related, that's a risk. But it's better than generic language.

Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't written down most of it, actually—maybe I should? I'm editing a chapter right now and most of what I'm doing is, "could anyone say this? if so, rewrite it until only this character could say this."

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

oh and removing Simpsons references for people born in the 21st century, as much as it pained me to do that

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

I also have never been to therapy, but I read enough modern fiction that now I'm adding "check for therapy speak" to my list of editing tasks for my own writing, along with my unwritten list of stock-phrases-to-be-removed and a full ctrl+F for every word ending in "-ly"

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

Here's some advice: when one character asks another "why are you feeling this way?" the asked character should respond by throwing a laptop into rush hour traffic. That's much more interesting!

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

Therapy-speak is a situation where a writing habit is both annoying to me personally and just bad under most circumstances. Few stories are improved by characters who understand what motivates them.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is that therapy-speak is common among 1% of humans and like 80% of people who write for TV. You sound like freaks! You sound like Christian fundamentalists rambling about Grace and the Holy Spirit!

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who doesn't go to therapy (100% sane and normal) this stuff is agony. Not only is it only believable for a small percentage of the population, I don't like those people! And not in the way I don't like meth dealers or murderous vigilantes, they're just annoying!

rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 2d

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed, and more than this, the presence of therapyspeak tends to undergird the premise that fiction should be reassuring and redemptive. This is, itself, bullshit

rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 2d

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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