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Ali Lanier
@alilanier.bsky.social
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Writer @ CD Projekt RED

Staff Writer @ Pajiba | Other words @ Ms, Bust, Boston Hassle, Origins, Atticus Review, + elsewhere

Video games and comics and all around sapphic shenanigans
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Very important news everyone
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Carrying on the proud tradition of utilizing the office swords as part of my Halloween costume

#SwordsBeforeLords
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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The annual village scarecrow contest is up and running!
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I originally read this as “Y2K/90s rusty skater cords in gay”

…which, also yes.
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Sure is October in a New England village
October 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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My roommate’s cat and I have developed a fun new game:

She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.
A black cat at a screen door, with a sunny porch on the other side.
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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A badge from BG3 for the “you have two hands for a reason” achievement edited to say “4 hands”
August 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Resurrecting this one from the 1950s for absolutely no reason
July 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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When you show up to your artist friend’s warehouse/studio/home for the weekend and immediately feel (1) comparatively very uncool and (2) the most easily distracted you have ever been.
A delightfully cluttered artist space with paintings of antlered creatures on the walls, realistic statues and mannequins, and a few creepy dolls An expansive space filled with of mismatched chairs and art supplies with big pieces of paper on the walls with charcoal sketches An artist studio crowded with sculpted limbs and torsos, with two busts of a woman in profile in the foreground A studio place with a yellow armchair, easel, lots of paints, and two tall windows covered in curtains
June 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The metaphor of an Americana Jenga tower is too strong today
A jenga tower in the colors of the American flag
June 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Witcher concert!!
Hella literally gilded gilded age front hallway of a theater with oil paints of cherubs along the ceiling. It’s crowded with people. A stage set up for an orchestra with a projector over the stage showing a “The Witcher in Concert” and a desaturated image of Geralt
June 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Um….excuse me??

Folks shared this in three of my servers this morning…
A discord post that says: Whoever owns the server, please run a /ban command on the following UserIDs; 1153984868804468756 = DomoAI 1288638725869535283 = Glifbot 1090660574196674713 = InsightFaceSwap 1104973139257081909 = Viggle Discord has partnered with AI companies and stealthily embedded them as invisible users in *Every* discord server and is currently scraping any and all pictures and posts.
May 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I don’t mind spring 💛
An open notebook and a pen on legs outstretched in jeans on an outdoor couch, with the sunsetting over the railing porch of the porch
April 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Well…AC Shadows. So, a lot of wanton murder. But very cool looking wanton murder 🤷🏻‍♀️
Image of a white woman wearing headphones and staring at the camera. She’s pointing up to words that say "Video games cause violence' Based on the last game ou played, what are you getting arrested for?
April 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A comic panel with Nightwing, Beast Boy, and Cyborg sitting around a big square desktop computer, staring at the screen mournfully. Cyborg says « This is hell. » Beast Boy says « well, yeah. »
April 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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WHAT DID I SAY

(Does this mean we get to go in the Criterion Closet, #filmsky?)
Janus on the other site with a caption “it’s getting warmer out…” and the same photo I just posted
March 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I can feel my toes and fingers while out in the woodshed, and that means I am back on my bullshit
A dark brown but of wood on a mandrel on a lathe, all of which need desperately to be cleaned from last year’s Christmas rush of woodworking and the associated sawdust
March 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Once upon a time @ctnash91.bsky.social posted this photo of us on the other site, and it circulates the internet still. (…today, for instance)
Instagram post of a group of four white peole in folding chairs on grass. We are giving thumbs ups in front of the outdoor movie screen with the Salò dvd menu on it and “play movie” highlighted
March 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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DLC just dropped
A cleverly disguised all black cat watching you from among a collection of boots and shoes she is using as camouflage
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Assassin’s Creed: Shadows (2025)
A very stealthy all-black cat on the prowl behind a row of mismatched books on a shelf
March 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Maybe I’ll boot up Minecraft?
An Instagram post from @thishowthingswork describing “The Uncensored Library,” a large Minecraft map created by Reporters without Borders to allow access to knowledge and reporting from around the world without censorship
March 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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In anticipation of GDC, here is my favorite moment of environmental storytelling from last year:
The GDC gift shop, where the black tray labeled “shot glasses, $8” sits empty, surrounded by a thinning supply of branded flasks
March 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Things that were not on my bingo card for my library day: musket salute outside the library windows.
A line of older white men in red and blue Revolutionary War uniforms firing muskets in a line, while a bunch of very cold tourists look on.
February 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Wife and I took a Valentine’s mini-getaway to Martha’s Vineyard, and ended up with spooky/stormy/lovely wandering and writing days ❤️😊

Take that, Everything That Is Happening Out There
A misty, gray beach with waves crashing on dark sand under a pale gray sky A silly little mallard on a sandy beach with two pale boulders to either side under a pale gray sky. He is on his way to meet his duck partner who is hanging out in the ocean out of frame
February 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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An antidote for our times.

I will not apologize for art.
Two llamas with hats on a projector
February 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM