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freelance journalist 🏳️‍⚧️ author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk words: Lost In Cult, VGC, Unwinnable, Polygon, GamesRadar+, PCGamesN, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Skybox, startmenu https://muckrack.com/ash-like-a-dragon banner by aurahack.ca

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · Apr 10

i'm writing a book!!!!

in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk, @sukeban.moe and @ysbryd.net, i'm writing Design Works: VA-11 HALL-A.

time to mix drinks and change lives.

Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · Apr 10

Time to mix drinks and change lives.

Announcing VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works 🍸

In collaboration with @sukeban.moe x @ysbryd.net, explore Glitch City like never before through developer interviews, concept art and more.

Ends 5 June. Pre-order now bit.ly/VA11HallA

VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works

Pre-order now bit.ly/VA11HallATime to mix drinks and change lives.Announcing VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works 🍸In collaboration with Sukeban Games x Ysbryd Games,...

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 50m

i think you have to delete your account now man

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 12h

beabadoobee beloved

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 2d

new blog post

thinking about the future, and all the strange contradictions those thoughts lead to

thanks for reading 💜

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something's gotta give

>there's only love >there's only moving through and trying your best >sometimes it's not enough >who gives a fuck, all of this will end. you know...

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jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social · 13h

things getting a little tight on food & essentials, so throwing up the link again.

managed to get somewhere stable & most of my property replaced (ty to all help <3); currently just holding out on passport processing, and I'm finally out of this place...

www.paypal.com/paypalme/jes...

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 13h

ah stop it i'll blush!! thank you 💜

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 14h

no one woke me up when september ended and now i'm here

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 15h

oh god i forgot accented cinema i'm a fraud

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 15h

jacob geller, eurothug4000, leadhead, patrick h willems, writing on games, tehsnakerer, verilybitchie, errantsignal, noah caldwell-gervais, monty zander, razbuten

no order to the list, just train of thought

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 19h

i must apologise and admit i went to cosmos coffee this time BUT i will go to ugly bread bakery next time when i actually have my appointment 🥹

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 20h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 20h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 19h

i think you are the only person in human history to ever think that but thank you 😭

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 19h

unaffordable

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 20h

so turns out i am not getting laser today because i was not told that the initial patch test and actual treatment have to be on different days!

on the bright side, i did stop in this lovely cafe to wait for my train and saw these posters in the GIC's window

spider-man at a GIC feels right

A journal and takeaway coffee cup on a cafe table. My insane scribblings are somewhat visible.

A collection of posters in a gender clinic's window, ranging from 'PROTECT THE DOLLS' to a guide to DIYing and even a Spider-Man themed poster. How apt.

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 21h

we're all trying to find the guy who did this.png

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 21h

if my editors had seen the scattered process i took to write the book's chapters i think they'd cry honestly

but i finished them!

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 22h

i finished the book and immediately pitched two pieces 😭

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 22h

consciously or not i did end up writing more personal stuff when i was burning out real bad (still am?)

i think this is partly the guilt that i cannot allow myself to relax so i must be doing Something, even if i probably should just be resting to lessen burnout

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 22h

thinking about it, an unpaid piece was very relevant to me getting the book gig itself, so you have a point

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 22h

sorting ideas in my head for various projects has always been a struggle for me since it's just kinda word soup in there most of the time 😭

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 22h

i've found that setting time aside for personal writing works better than word goals for me, but even then i struggle a lot to actually Do It

bought a journal and have only actually used it for writing (not just venting/diary) about ten times this year

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 22h

listening to some older @girlmodepod.bsky.social episodes and loved hearing talk about the importance of just making a blog/website and freeing yourself from the mental chain of 'writing must be work'

did i just manifest hearing this by complaining earlier

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Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 23h

my god

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 23h

any advice for how to not feel like you're completely wasting your time and energy writing something that isn't for paid work

i wrote that last blog BECAUSE i was finding it hard to write for work at the time and wanted to vent about the factors going into that feeling

any writing is good! right?!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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