Meghan Ellis Brown
@meghan0n.bsky.social
Entertainment Journalist | SFF Writer | Words & Face in: Tabletop Bookshelf, BBC Scotland, TechRadar, The Guardian, IGN, All the Anime, etc. | [email protected] 🥰
💅🏻 French fry restaurant 💅🏻
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
💅🏻 French fry restaurant 💅🏻
It's a real pain in the arse that my local bus stop and local train station are 30 mins walk from one another, meaning that if one method of transport gets cancelled I'm just shit out of luck. Glasgow disappoints me so much with public transport.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It's a real pain in the arse that my local bus stop and local train station are 30 mins walk from one another, meaning that if one method of transport gets cancelled I'm just shit out of luck. Glasgow disappoints me so much with public transport.
It's impossible to come to Fife and not get a wee chippy 😋🐟
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's impossible to come to Fife and not get a wee chippy 😋🐟
Oh this absolutely rules. I can foresee many games ahead where I scheme with my evil old cronies to take the crown.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Oh this absolutely rules. I can foresee many games ahead where I scheme with my evil old cronies to take the crown.
Excited to finally play The Old King's Crown by @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social 👑
Look how insanely good this art is already 💗
Look how insanely good this art is already 💗
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Excited to finally play The Old King's Crown by @theoldkingscrown.bsky.social 👑
Look how insanely good this art is already 💗
Look how insanely good this art is already 💗
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
froggy fancy... 🐸🍰
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
froggy fancy... 🐸🍰
Good morning from the misty fields of Fife
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Good morning from the misty fields of Fife
Weekend reading plans
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Weekend reading plans
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The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
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Good night at Waterstones tonight for the launch of @shonak.bsky.social Daughters of Nicniven and @samkhorton.bsky.social Ragwort, interviewed by @megintransition.bsky.social
Good to see a crowd out, despite hiw cold it was and train issues. (was - 5°C by time I got home from the pub after!)
Good to see a crowd out, despite hiw cold it was and train issues. (was - 5°C by time I got home from the pub after!)
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Good night at Waterstones tonight for the launch of @shonak.bsky.social Daughters of Nicniven and @samkhorton.bsky.social Ragwort, interviewed by @megintransition.bsky.social
Good to see a crowd out, despite hiw cold it was and train issues. (was - 5°C by time I got home from the pub after!)
Good to see a crowd out, despite hiw cold it was and train issues. (was - 5°C by time I got home from the pub after!)
What I thought this game was: 🐟🎣😊🍣💴🤿💖
What this game actually was: 💀🐓🐟🔫🧟♀️🍣💊🤿
(Play it)
What this game actually was: 💀🐓🐟🔫🧟♀️🍣💊🤿
(Play it)
Dave the Diver is finally on Xbox, and it’s available today.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/dive-th...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/dive-th...
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What I thought this game was: 🐟🎣😊🍣💴🤿💖
What this game actually was: 💀🐓🐟🔫🧟♀️🍣💊🤿
(Play it)
What this game actually was: 💀🐓🐟🔫🧟♀️🍣💊🤿
(Play it)
Okay, this is a curry 😋
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okay, this is a curry 😋
Ah now this is a shit with a capital S google update... plagued by AI everywhere I go.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ah now this is a shit with a capital S google update... plagued by AI everywhere I go.
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Another thing today!
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 11/18/25 "A triumph. 23 stellar tales offering creative and varied takes on the book's themes. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactf...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Another thing today!
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
I would have killed for that cake as a child
(who's kidding I want it today)
(who's kidding I want it today)
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I would have killed for that cake as a child
(who's kidding I want it today)
(who's kidding I want it today)
The Xbox 360 was formative for me. It's the first non-Nintendo console I personally owned (positive), and I was working in Gamestation during that console gen, so I experienced the horrors of aggrieved parents not realising the controllers needed batteries on Christmas Eve (negative). What a box.
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The Xbox 360 was formative for me. It's the first non-Nintendo console I personally owned (positive), and I was working in Gamestation during that console gen, so I experienced the horrors of aggrieved parents not realising the controllers needed batteries on Christmas Eve (negative). What a box.
Forgot the names of most of what I planted this year, so I'm playing a haphazard game of "Perennial or Not?" by seeing if each individual plant survives the first Scottish frosts
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Forgot the names of most of what I planted this year, so I'm playing a haphazard game of "Perennial or Not?" by seeing if each individual plant survives the first Scottish frosts
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Last week I reviewed cyan starlight for @tabletopbookshelf.com - really bleak, lonely and beautiful role playing. I had a heroic death in a starfight; what better way to go for a grizzled old interstellar scout?
#ttrpg
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#ttrpg
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READ & REVIEWED: cyan starlight
By Meghan Ellis The stars have grown quiet. The fission engines have cooled. The rage and death have ended. As the last living remnant of humanity, a solitary explorer must traverse a cold and remorse...
tabletopbookshelf.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Last week I reviewed cyan starlight for @tabletopbookshelf.com - really bleak, lonely and beautiful role playing. I had a heroic death in a starfight; what better way to go for a grizzled old interstellar scout?
#ttrpg
tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...
#ttrpg
tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...
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I feel that the British and Japanese are connected through our shared love of terrible puns.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I feel that the British and Japanese are connected through our shared love of terrible puns.
忙しい一週間の後でとても疲れたねー🥱
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
忙しい一週間の後でとても疲れたねー🥱
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
We're ready for the State of Play tonight~ 🙂↕️🙂↔️
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
We're ready for the State of Play tonight~ 🙂↕️🙂↔️