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Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social
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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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you'll have to imagine the blog i'm not going to write it
Nate from Baby Steps stands at the bottom of a curving staircase. There's a red moon in the sky. "Thank you for signing up!"
February 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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i got into a car accident today and i'm fine but it took 5 hours to get towed. i was only 10 minutes walk from my house so i ran back at one point to get lunch. which led to @diegoarguello.bsky.social kindly asking what I got to eat and me having to admit it was beans on toast
meme of someone crying saying "I'm sorry for being british it's not my fault"
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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remembering some things
jay: my brain is fried diego: lemon, it's monday jay: and i actually took the weekend off diego: doubtful jay: i mean i ran 30k on saturday and then crashed tf out on sunday what else could you want i did write like 2k words of the novel but that's unrelated
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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5 x 6km laps in 5.5 hours in the rain 🥰
my legs from knees down absolutely drenched in mud
February 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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come on man
An email headline that says "Your Media Career Doesn't Need NYC or LA Anymore"
February 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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is that good
the weather forecast. it's about 70% predicted to rain all day
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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shot / chaser
Geoff Keighley saying "in 48 hours I'll be accepting your apologies." Highguard getting an overwhelmingly negative review on steam.
January 26, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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first hike of the year
A river surrounded by trees A path through bare trees A view over the moors. There's a rock like a stack of pancakes in the foreground
January 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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that's RIGHT
Nooks and Crannies | Unwinnable Jay Castello investigates what changes–and what doesn’t–when Ace Attorney detours into walkable spaces (Further Reading: Jay’s previous writing on the Ace Attorney series).
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Ow
A screenshot from a book: "Robbie’s voice saying, “It’s a terrible business, the most heart-breaking I know.” He’s talking about free-lance writing, she thought"
January 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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oh well that's good cuz i'm the second one
"A FINAL FANTASY for Fans and First-Timers"
January 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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straight men are worrying about everything these days
Diego saying "is it gay to write an email"
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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i've also said this before but deconstructeam's crediting process blows me away. i think this should be standard everywhere. games. books. news websites
the language select screen for Many Nights a Whisper crediting Jordi de Paco and also me as the editor
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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went out for sunrise a couple days ago. sound of the summer
Sunrise over a heather bank with a large rock outcrop
December 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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the family film experience
Tweet that reads "lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" And her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"
December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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happy holidays from up here also
A long view of fields and hills from a peak
December 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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happy holidays from out here
A field hedged on the right with hills in the background
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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i.e. susan sontag on calling things cancerous my beloved
"But how to be morally severe in the late 20th century? How, when there is so much to be severe about; how, when we have a sense of evil but no longer the religious or philosophical language to talk intelligently about evil. Trying to comprehend ‘radical’ or ‘absolute’ evil, we search for adequate metaphors. But the modern disease metaphors are all cheap shots. The people who have the real disease are hardly helped by hearing their disease’s name constantly being dropped as the epitome of evil. Only in the most limited sense is any historical event or problem like an illness. And the cancer metaphor is particularly crass. It is invariably an encouragement to simplify what is complex and an invitation to self righteousness, if not to fanaticism.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"something beautiful is going to happen" graffiti from disco elysium
December 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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also,
Two lines of keysmashing in all caps followed by screaming followed by "THESE LINES HAVE DONE SOEMTBING"
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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opening reviews are looking good
"This is yucky most positive thing I've ever said in my life"
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I don't have pets but I saw some horses on a recent walk. hope things get easier for you soon!
Three white horses in a green field.
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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nvm i just do that automatically
28:40
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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pitch:
"it's about being completely sheltered and then having to go out into the world and about not being able to change how bad things are but forcing them to get better through community and it's about the dehumanisation of cancer patients. and it's about GRIEF"
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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it begins
word count: 1000
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM