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Holly Gramazio

@hollygramazio.bsky.social

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Writing, games, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”. book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly website: http://hollygramazio.net ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/ pic by Diana Patient

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · Mar 27

The UK paperback of "The Husbands" is out! Today!! May I buy your momentary attention for it with a beautiful cat

(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)

A garden with daffodils and blue bulbs, and various paperback copies of the Husbands, and a fluffy cat

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 2d

That’s not even the most settled in she’s been this morning

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 2d

THEY ARE it's honestly excessive

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 2d

a good thing about the fragmentation of the social media landscape is that it means I can post very slightly different pictures of my cats in different places

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 2d

the cats have settled into autumn

Gelato, a robust short-haired ginger cat, sits in dappled sunlight on top of a barbecue in front of a crabapple tree

Madeleine, effectively a pile of fur with eyes, sits pooled in a flowerbed with ferns around her

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 4d

yes this makes sense!! I guess I don't ever really imagine that I'll get anything meaningful done in the proper morning, and when I do it's a kind-of astonishment and a glory but not something I can reasonably expect to happen on an ongoing basis

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 4d

FASCINATING this is a 1:30 to 2:00 tickover for me

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 9d

did a big post on the Piranesi larp I did last month blog.vbuckenham.com/i-was-a-chil... - my first ever big larp, and i thought people might want to have a sense what it's like to do something like this!

I was a Child of the House

As I am writing this[1], I just got done doing my first big larp. By which I mean the first that lasted longer than a few hours, the first one I've travelled for, the first that I have slept during. A...

blog.vbuckenham.com

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 9d

I do not want to join any more discords, I do follow people on itch (but to me that feels different than eg goodreads because itch is where the thing is released, not just news of its release)

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 9d

For me social media is a kind-of light “ah this person seems interesting”, whereas a newsletter I usually only sign up for if I liked the content of the newsletter itself rather than as a way of getting news.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve only seen one in person, do you know any that are easy-ish to get to?

The Silver City Mint & Art Centre  (Home to 'The Big Picture') - Experience Broken Hill

www.experiencebrokenhill.com.au

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 10d

!!!!!! amazing

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14d

PSA: The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant application deadline is this Sunday at 23:59 PST.

The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway!

grants.draknek.org

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

Oooh yes you should consider it! Great excuse to go to a place. The Polish drivers were from Poznań this year but the website says Warsaw for next... tramwm.wienerlinien.at/en/these-are... I have ridden the Poznań tram and it's excellent and a lovely city, so if it IS there, strong recommend

These are the world’s best tram drivers - Tram WM

The first Tramdriver World Championship has been decided: the world champions come from Vienna, Austria. Drivers Elisabeth Urbanitsch and Florijan Isaku prevailed against 24 other teams around Vienna’...

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv...

cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you

The World Tramdriver Championships

Heya, Whoops, it’s been a while! But how better to start sending these again than to tell you all about the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS in Vienna, which...

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

BAFFLING to me that google is so determined to guess what I meant but so bad at going "ah yes this was written on a phone, maybe the full stops are spaces like every other time this has happened"

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

There's a short training / safeguarding session but beyond that you don't need any specific expertise, it's just about being a thoughtful adult working in a field who can talk about that. ( eg I'm not from the UK and don't know firsthand how school or uni works here but that hasn't been a problem)

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

They're often short on mentors from games! If you work in games and are based in London, Manchester or Merseyside, maybe have a look? Usually you meet up with your mentee once a month or so, chat, go to an exhibition, etc, I've done it four times and every mentee was so smart and fun and interesting

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

There's a WEEK left to sign up to mentor for @artsemergency.bsky.social - potentially get paired with a young person (16-18) who wants to work in the arts/creative industries, but who might not have the contacts or context to help them understand how to do that www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

Become a mentor

Registration to be a mentor in 2026 is now open! Arts Emergency mentors support young people in Greater Manchester, London and Merseyside who are interested in the creative and cultural industries and...

www.arts-emergency.org

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 16d

oh yeah that makes sense, thx

Screenshot result for a Google search reading:
These are results for why.do so.many people.have silksong achievements
Search instead for why.do so.many people.have silksong achievwmwnts
• Al Overview
It is likely a misunderstanding, as Hollow Knight: Silksong has not yet been released, so no one has any achievements for it. While Silksong was the most wishlisted game on Steam for a long time and highly anticipated, it did not launch in September 2025 as suggested by the current date; rather, it was delayed indefinitely.
There are achievements for the first Hollow Knight game, but these are not related to Silksong.
What happened with Hollow Knight:
Silksong?
• High Anticipation: Hollow Knight: Silksong was one of the most anticipated games, especially after the immense popularity of the first Hollow Knight game.
• The Delay: The game was delayed indefinitely by developer Team Cherry, who

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 17d

You can take part with the wholehearted vigour that's required to make it fun, but with much lower risk of injury than on land (I'm bad at catching + lots of momentum + a weak ankle). And if you miss it just splashes, which is funny, instead of rolling away and someone has to run to get it

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 17d

Oh I've done this and didn't LOVE it but quite enjoyed it! I think some of the fun of catch - not a game I really like usually - is in throwing yourself around to get the ball, diving / jumping / flopping, the unpredictable stimuli of "the ball is going HERE now" - better still in the sea with waves

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 17d

Right!!! I still kind-of need to get a ball and a lamp out whenever I need to think about “the moon looks a different way up in different hemispheres”

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 17d

This seems needlessly complicated

$Screenshot reading “The word "equinox" is derived from Latin and literally translates to "equal night". On the equinox, day and night are roughly 12 hours long - although not exactly. For example, on 22 September in London, the day length will be 12 hours and 11 minutes and in Shetland 12 hours and 14 minutes. So where does this extra length of day come from? At both sunrise and sunset, light from the Sun is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere. Although we can see the Sun, in reality its position is actually below the horizon. This means we get a few extra minutes of daylight because of this light-bending trick of our atmosphere. Additionally the equinox is measured at the centre of the Sun's disc, not at its leading or trailing edge which are used as the measure of a sunrise or sunset. It is not until a few days after the autumn equinox that we get to the point where days and nights are 12 hours long. This is known as the equilux and will occur on 25 September”$

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 19d

yeah fair! They're not, and honestly I think they benefit from a first reading when you're a teenager in a way that Leave it to Psmith doesn't particularly, the first one was a school story after all. Maybe something for if you're ever gently recovering from the flu...

Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, I have residual loyalty to the Ukridge stories as well because as a teenager I for some reason wrote a script for a musical of them (never performed, obviously), but the Psmith books have been my favourite of his since I first read them and Leave It To Psmith is so obviously the best of them

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