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Kate Gray

@hownottodraw.bsky.social

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I write games and jokes. Sometimes both. 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇦 ⌛ past: games journalist & critic @ ONM, OXM, Nintendo Life, Kotaku, The Guardian, GameSpot, Xbox, Minecraft, etc 🔮 present: games writer @ Moonstone Island, Owlchemy, & Hello Kitty Island Adventure

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 3m

I think to be a celebrity is to have your humanity denied. You are treated like a god, as if your thoughts are gospel, and your mistakes sacrilege. The money sounds nice. I don't think it's worth it to never have normality again. That's a vastly more interesting topic than your boyfriend's dick imo

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 7m

I don't feel sorry for celebs most of the time, but in the same way I think having a royal family is psychologically inhumane to the people within it, I think celebrity is not good for a person's wellbeing. I wish we heard more about it, even if it might come across as "poor little rich girl"

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 7m

I sometimes wish I could be a Hot Ones-style entertainment journalist where all I do is talk to celebrities about how fucking weird it is to be a celebrity. What aspects of life are forever closed off because of fame? What's it like to get famous post-30s? Are they numbed to incredible experiences?

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 7m

I often think about how celebrities must have interesting stories to tell, because their lives are so inaccessibly different to ours. Somewhere between rap god bragging and vapidly attempting to relate to "normal life" are the lyrics I wish Taylor Swift had wrote in her latest album

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
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“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 19m

I was thinking an eight-year-old's birthday party. except I'm not allowed jelly or ice cream unless they're the protein kind

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 20m

I would not be sane enough to be leaving reviews

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 22m

leaving my gym a 2⭐ review because the PTs are amazing but their workout playlist includes 'Celebration' and 'Come On Eileen'

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 23m

oh. I thought you meant sexy feelings. because of a new sexier pikmin. I'm now mildly disappointed

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 18h

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 22h

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Hades II comic
Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful)
Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 21h

make game about one coin, earn back several coin. that's pretty good returns imo

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은민 @em913em.bsky.social · 1d

당도 높은 주둥이를 담가서 흑당밀크티를 타요

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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 1d

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1d

you're just livin that life

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1d

this got recommended to me by YouTube, and it deserves to have one billion views, so I'm showing it to you in the hopes that you will also watch it and share it, because it is so lovely

youtu.be/bV-2KfJtthE?...

Steve, Socks, and Spleen Surgery - An Animated Story

YouTube video by william snekspeare

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1d

you are a lot shorter than I imagined

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1d

NOOOO

Jilly Cooper was the smut QUEEN. 50 Shades for the 80s. I spent so much time smuggling her books into my teenage bedroom so I could read about the scandalous and horny lives of fictional polo players who were shagging their maids behind their trophy wife's back.

ilu 5eva Jilly ❤️❤️❤️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent has confirmed. The author, whose 18 novels include Riders and Rivals, “defined culture, writing and conversation since she was first published over fifty years ago,” said her agent Felicity Blunt. “You wouldn’t expect books categorised as bonkbusters to have so emphatically stood the test of time but Jilly wrote with acuity and insight about all things - class, sex, marriage, rivalry, grief and fertility.” Continue reading...

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