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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

oh the jetlag situation is dire

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

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 · 1d

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

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

I think they should invent a 14 hour flight that doesnt take 14 hours

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 1d

having rolled credits on the game last night, this piece provides a lot of the catharsis i was looking for and found absent in the game itself

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

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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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Hades 2's story doesn't change the status quo
aftermath.site/hades-2-ending

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

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

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

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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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 5d

Going to the Tokyo Game Show as a member of the press is a privilege--but an exhausting one that makes you appreciate life's quieter moments, writes @diegoarguello.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/article/time...

Time and the Rush of the Tokyo Game Show

Going to the Tokyo Game Show as a member of the press is a privilege--but an exhausting one that makes you appreciate life's quieter moments.

www.endlessmode.com

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 3d

Our entire catalogue for like $10, I don't know what to tell you! store.steampowered.com/bundle/6109/...

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

i know he was lying because he claimed to sleep less than you

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

he has only been bragging about how little he sleeps, how much he walks. he is very clearly lying.

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

desperately trying to understand the dynamic between this completely average man and the three younger women he's with, two of whom are flirting like their lives depended on it and one who has been entirely silent

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't wanna take a picture cuz it felt weird but yesterday I went to a shrine and the first two prayer cards I saw were like 'please give my family health and peace' and then 'Faker world champion pls'

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d

i keep thinking if I was charli in this situation it would immediately fix my impostor syndrome so I hope that's the case

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 5d

Work day is done, back to thinking about what has to be going on in your brain to hear the lyric “Why I wanna buy a gun / Why I wanna shoot myself?” and think it is a good idea to respond with “wow you’re so obsessed with me coke head, soooo horny”

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d

im hunting you down and making you buy me a red bull

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d

i got appy juice ^^

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d

day one: cold drinks on every other corner??
day 10: wish it was every corner tbh

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 5d

ever since being in Japan i've transformed into one of those theme park tycoon npcs thats like 'i wish there was a vending machine here!'

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 8d

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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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 8d

due to i’m normal, many events occur of my life

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15d

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 15d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 11d

to varying degrees everything from there through credits through postgame stuff, plus the ways side stories wrap up

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 12d

I think it just needs a bit of time for the second wave of critical reception to hit you know? (I have something in the works lol)

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