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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

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 · 14h

big agree

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

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

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16h

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

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

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

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

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

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 18h

i like that it's all my fault :)

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

[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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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

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

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

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

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

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

(positive) (i think)

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

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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

oh the jetlag situation is dire

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

i kept waiting for hades 2's twist, and i wrote about what we got instead aftermath.site/hades-2-endi...

Hades 2's Story Doesn't Change The Status Quo - Aftermath

Melinoë's journey is more about acceptance than change

aftermath.site

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

it's always very nice to have a well received piece but it does make me bold about reading the comments and there's always some guy who's like 'well yeah being turned into a spider forever IS the appropriate retribution for bragging.' i wasn't talking to you i think