Corey Brotherson (open for new contracts/work, drop me an email)
@coreybrotherson.bsky.social
Award-winning writer / editor / narrative designer: Windrush Tales; Clockwork Watch; Butterfly Books; Magic of Myths; Deadlier Than; PlayStation; Apple; Rewriting Earth; Tales of Kenzera Zau; BAFTA. Rep: Anna Dixon at YMU.
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Corey Brotherson (open for new contracts/work, drop me an email)
@coreybrotherson.bsky.social
· Oct 17
A quick re-intro for new friends 👊🏿
I'm a Black Brit writer/narrative designer/editor in:
Games (Windrush Tales; Tales of Kenzera; PlayStation; NDA x3)
Comics (Magic of Myths; Deadlier Than; Clockwork Watch etc)
Prose & film (TBA 👀)
Kids' books (Butterfly Books)
And do talks, teach and more 👋🏿
I'm a Black Brit writer/narrative designer/editor in:
Games (Windrush Tales; Tales of Kenzera; PlayStation; NDA x3)
Comics (Magic of Myths; Deadlier Than; Clockwork Watch etc)
Prose & film (TBA 👀)
Kids' books (Butterfly Books)
And do talks, teach and more 👋🏿
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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story
So it was prob a good thing I missed #AdventureX as I wouldn't be enjoying some crunchy & colourful antibiotics for a mystery infection working its way through my veins, potentially trying to get into a vital organ or two.
Hold on.
My antibiotics are blue and yellow.
Like...the AdvenX logo?
...
Hold on.
My antibiotics are blue and yellow.
Like...the AdvenX logo?
...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
So it was prob a good thing I missed #AdventureX as I wouldn't be enjoying some crunchy & colourful antibiotics for a mystery infection working its way through my veins, potentially trying to get into a vital organ or two.
Hold on.
My antibiotics are blue and yellow.
Like...the AdvenX logo?
...
Hold on.
My antibiotics are blue and yellow.
Like...the AdvenX logo?
...
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In the Season 2 premiere of ITAV, @serknowles.bsky.social & I chat about her own Village! She tells me how she came to know co-founder and director at Sad Owl Studios @georgbacker.bsky.social playing Overwatch!
Check out Sophie’s episode right now on my YouTube😎
youtube.com/@samantha_be...
Check out Sophie’s episode right now on my YouTube😎
youtube.com/@samantha_be...
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In the Season 2 premiere of ITAV, @serknowles.bsky.social & I chat about her own Village! She tells me how she came to know co-founder and director at Sad Owl Studios @georgbacker.bsky.social playing Overwatch!
Check out Sophie’s episode right now on my YouTube😎
youtube.com/@samantha_be...
Check out Sophie’s episode right now on my YouTube😎
youtube.com/@samantha_be...
Hope y'all have a great #AdventureX2025! Debated attending, but couldn't justify it given the expense vs my immediate need for new contracts (and let's face it, I'd only be adding to an army of writers there - many also looking for work).
As it turns out, I'm sick and in pain again, anyway, so...
As it turns out, I'm sick and in pain again, anyway, so...
a panda bear laying on its back on a wooden bench .
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November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Hope y'all have a great #AdventureX2025! Debated attending, but couldn't justify it given the expense vs my immediate need for new contracts (and let's face it, I'd only be adding to an army of writers there - many also looking for work).
As it turns out, I'm sick and in pain again, anyway, so...
As it turns out, I'm sick and in pain again, anyway, so...
Swear down, the mealy mouthed horseshit they'll use to explain this ("propping up the economy" "future proofing the country" "other nonsensical bullshit") will only be rivalled by the mealy mouthed horseshit that will follow when the AI bubble pops ("we couldn't get left behind" "the *economy*")
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal. 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies while families struggle
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal.
www.thenational.scot
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Swear down, the mealy mouthed horseshit they'll use to explain this ("propping up the economy" "future proofing the country" "other nonsensical bullshit") will only be rivalled by the mealy mouthed horseshit that will follow when the AI bubble pops ("we couldn't get left behind" "the *economy*")
I'm so unwell today that my attempt at a healthy Greek yogurt, strawberries, jam and chia seed breakfast, ended up being a chia seed porridge with a splash of Greek yogurt and some indefinable red dots
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm so unwell today that my attempt at a healthy Greek yogurt, strawberries, jam and chia seed breakfast, ended up being a chia seed porridge with a splash of Greek yogurt and some indefinable red dots
Ah, we're at that time of year where all the tiny little flies emerge from the dozens of plants and flowers in every room of my house.
Which means I now randomly swat at black dots in the corner of my vision, and have to carefully check my glass before I take a drink, in case of any suicide divers
Which means I now randomly swat at black dots in the corner of my vision, and have to carefully check my glass before I take a drink, in case of any suicide divers
a man is singing into a microphone in a dark room
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November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Ah, we're at that time of year where all the tiny little flies emerge from the dozens of plants and flowers in every room of my house.
Which means I now randomly swat at black dots in the corner of my vision, and have to carefully check my glass before I take a drink, in case of any suicide divers
Which means I now randomly swat at black dots in the corner of my vision, and have to carefully check my glass before I take a drink, in case of any suicide divers
For real.
When the AI bubble pops and brings about it a new and brutal recession that touches all but the 1%, we'll look back at images like this and wonder why we didn't pay heed of all the very obvious signs that Hell was in the final stages of its global takeover.
When the AI bubble pops and brings about it a new and brutal recession that touches all but the 1%, we'll look back at images like this and wonder why we didn't pay heed of all the very obvious signs that Hell was in the final stages of its global takeover.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For real.
When the AI bubble pops and brings about it a new and brutal recession that touches all but the 1%, we'll look back at images like this and wonder why we didn't pay heed of all the very obvious signs that Hell was in the final stages of its global takeover.
When the AI bubble pops and brings about it a new and brutal recession that touches all but the 1%, we'll look back at images like this and wonder why we didn't pay heed of all the very obvious signs that Hell was in the final stages of its global takeover.
Waitwaitwait, Twitter is on Cloudflare?
a close up of a man in a suit and tie making a funny face with his mouth open .
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November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Waitwaitwait, Twitter is on Cloudflare?
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How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated www.eurogamer.net/how-inkles-h...
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated www.eurogamer.net/how-inkles-h...
Winning more awards, getting to chat with Red Sonja and Reacher's EmJay Bassett, and my thoughts on Pluribus and Down Cemetery Road are some of the highlights of this week's free Patreon update:
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Downpour - 14/11/25 | Corey Brotherson - writer, editor and narrative designer
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November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Winning more awards, getting to chat with Red Sonja and Reacher's EmJay Bassett, and my thoughts on Pluribus and Down Cemetery Road are some of the highlights of this week's free Patreon update:
www.patreon.com/posts/143574...
www.patreon.com/posts/143574...
My friend in one of our WhatsApp groups has been telling us about stories from an old German fairytale book. It includes:
- The scissors man who cuts off your thumb if you don't stop fucking sucking it
- The cats who warned the girl about playing with matches (and... lol)
I'm OBSESSED, holy shit
- The scissors man who cuts off your thumb if you don't stop fucking sucking it
- The cats who warned the girl about playing with matches (and... lol)
I'm OBSESSED, holy shit
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My friend in one of our WhatsApp groups has been telling us about stories from an old German fairytale book. It includes:
- The scissors man who cuts off your thumb if you don't stop fucking sucking it
- The cats who warned the girl about playing with matches (and... lol)
I'm OBSESSED, holy shit
- The scissors man who cuts off your thumb if you don't stop fucking sucking it
- The cats who warned the girl about playing with matches (and... lol)
I'm OBSESSED, holy shit
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I didn't have the capacity to zoom up to Harrogate this weekend and then exhibit at AdventureX next weekend, so I'm going to be feeling huge Thought Bubble FOMO this weekend! Have fun everyone! Say hello to the Turkish Baths for me! Buy lots of comics!
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I didn't have the capacity to zoom up to Harrogate this weekend and then exhibit at AdventureX next weekend, so I'm going to be feeling huge Thought Bubble FOMO this weekend! Have fun everyone! Say hello to the Turkish Baths for me! Buy lots of comics!
I, too, harp for the bygone days where my only concerns were if I had enough pocket money to buy the Transformer toy I really wanted, if I could learn my times tables without getting caned by the headmaster, and wondering which racial epithet I'd hear next!
*sighs wistfully into the horizon*
*sighs wistfully into the horizon*
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I, too, harp for the bygone days where my only concerns were if I had enough pocket money to buy the Transformer toy I really wanted, if I could learn my times tables without getting caned by the headmaster, and wondering which racial epithet I'd hear next!
*sighs wistfully into the horizon*
*sighs wistfully into the horizon*
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expect beauty shots with my *NON* PAYPAL/APPLE/STRIPE/GOOGLE card machine at #ThoughtBubble
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
expect beauty shots with my *NON* PAYPAL/APPLE/STRIPE/GOOGLE card machine at #ThoughtBubble
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
It'll be the first outing of my lil guy, so if you want to come to our table and buy Artistic Erotica Made With Great Artistic Intent (alongside all my usual horror/scifi/cyberpunk comics) come to A25!
Still angry, but I've ordered cheap Asda cookie dough chip ice-cream for tomorrow's delivery, because Häagen-Dazs clearly hates life and money and doesn't do it anymore, so there's still time for my anger to get even worse
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Still angry, but I've ordered cheap Asda cookie dough chip ice-cream for tomorrow's delivery, because Häagen-Dazs clearly hates life and money and doesn't do it anymore, so there's still time for my anger to get even worse
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THOUGHT BUBBLE, IS IT?
Well Sunday @ 1.30pm I'll be presenting an early preview of the UK Comics Creator Survey results and…
Fuh. king. hell, do I have a bombshell to drop on you…!
I’ll be joined by expert panelists @dapsdraws.bsky.social @pondi.bsky.social & @markbradley.bsky.social
Well Sunday @ 1.30pm I'll be presenting an early preview of the UK Comics Creator Survey results and…
Fuh. king. hell, do I have a bombshell to drop on you…!
I’ll be joined by expert panelists @dapsdraws.bsky.social @pondi.bsky.social & @markbradley.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
THOUGHT BUBBLE, IS IT?
Well Sunday @ 1.30pm I'll be presenting an early preview of the UK Comics Creator Survey results and…
Fuh. king. hell, do I have a bombshell to drop on you…!
I’ll be joined by expert panelists @dapsdraws.bsky.social @pondi.bsky.social & @markbradley.bsky.social
Well Sunday @ 1.30pm I'll be presenting an early preview of the UK Comics Creator Survey results and…
Fuh. king. hell, do I have a bombshell to drop on you…!
I’ll be joined by expert panelists @dapsdraws.bsky.social @pondi.bsky.social & @markbradley.bsky.social
Working on my first feature film, my debut novel and on games barely alive due to lack of funding as I seriously ponder the need to go back to retail next year to survive, while AI bros and the government screech about the millions for their snake oil is fueling a very special kind of anger today
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Working on my first feature film, my debut novel and on games barely alive due to lack of funding as I seriously ponder the need to go back to retail next year to survive, while AI bros and the government screech about the millions for their snake oil is fueling a very special kind of anger today
Getting back into Critical Role has been a soothing hug at the right time. I've been literally laughing and gasping out loud during some episodes, so might have to avoid watching on public transport, though.
(Or maybe just continue, but have a wild look in my eyes as I do, so people steer clear)
(Or maybe just continue, but have a wild look in my eyes as I do, so people steer clear)
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November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Getting back into Critical Role has been a soothing hug at the right time. I've been literally laughing and gasping out loud during some episodes, so might have to avoid watching on public transport, though.
(Or maybe just continue, but have a wild look in my eyes as I do, so people steer clear)
(Or maybe just continue, but have a wild look in my eyes as I do, so people steer clear)
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AI investment and the desperate need to find *any* use for it has rotted so many damned brains in the government that they're not even trying to slap a sticking plaster on a bullet injury anymore, they're attempting to put a prawn sandwich on a decapitation wound and call it progress.
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AI investment and the desperate need to find *any* use for it has rotted so many damned brains in the government that they're not even trying to slap a sticking plaster on a bullet injury anymore, they're attempting to put a prawn sandwich on a decapitation wound and call it progress.
With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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AI investment and the desperate need to find *any* use for it has rotted so many damned brains in the government that they're not even trying to slap a sticking plaster on a bullet injury anymore, they're attempting to put a prawn sandwich on a decapitation wound and call it progress.
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AI investment and the desperate need to find *any* use for it has rotted so many damned brains in the government that they're not even trying to slap a sticking plaster on a bullet injury anymore, they're attempting to put a prawn sandwich on a decapitation wound and call it progress.
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Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
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www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
All this James Bond "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DOOOOOOO" hilarity brings to mind @patrickhwillems.bsky.social's excellent examination of the IP, and ultimately what will happen once the overthinking stops and the money people start tapping their watches.
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youtu.be/8bNXqwpm-rk?...
The Daniel Craig James Bond Era Is The Weirdest Franchise Ever
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
All this James Bond "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DOOOOOOO" hilarity brings to mind @patrickhwillems.bsky.social's excellent examination of the IP, and ultimately what will happen once the overthinking stops and the money people start tapping their watches.
youtu.be/8bNXqwpm-rk?...
youtu.be/8bNXqwpm-rk?...
A classic case of ignoring a simple answer in order to create an unnecessary problem.
It can't be overstated how much a growing reliance on nostalgia and crafting 'deep lore' and/or a shared universe for everything at the sacrifice of doing what's best for the story has stunted our creativity.
It can't be overstated how much a growing reliance on nostalgia and crafting 'deep lore' and/or a shared universe for everything at the sacrifice of doing what's best for the story has stunted our creativity.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A classic case of ignoring a simple answer in order to create an unnecessary problem.
It can't be overstated how much a growing reliance on nostalgia and crafting 'deep lore' and/or a shared universe for everything at the sacrifice of doing what's best for the story has stunted our creativity.
It can't be overstated how much a growing reliance on nostalgia and crafting 'deep lore' and/or a shared universe for everything at the sacrifice of doing what's best for the story has stunted our creativity.
Very excited to be taking part in Centerframe's Script Club Live at the Birmingham Film Festival next week alongside host Luke Foster, as we chat with writer/director @emjaybassett.bsky.social (Ash Vs Evil Dead; Reacher) about the screenplay for Red Sonja:
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CENTRE FRAME SCRIPT CLUB with EmJay Basset
EmJay Bassett will be our guest as we discuss some of the incredible films of an incredible career.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Very excited to be taking part in Centerframe's Script Club Live at the Birmingham Film Festival next week alongside host Luke Foster, as we chat with writer/director @emjaybassett.bsky.social (Ash Vs Evil Dead; Reacher) about the screenplay for Red Sonja:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-fra...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-fra...