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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️

@danaenight.bsky.social

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Transfemme neurodivergent immigrant, author of queer science fiction, director of level design at Arkane Lyon, & frequent conference lecturer / panelist. Gay as hell she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ Anti-authoritarian Leftist 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 BLM

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Currently writing queer speculative fiction novels and doing level & campaign design direction on Arkane Lyon's next game. I've done LD work on every Dishonored and given lectures or panels at 16 games industry events. I make great coffee. Also, very gay.

Paint-over rendering of the Clockwork Mansion from Dishonored 2. Level design by Dana Nightingale, architecture by David Di Giacomo, painting by Nicholas Petrimaux.

Cinematic artwork for "DEATHLOOP" by MK12

Cover at for SHEAM, A Quixotic Transgender Thriller, by Dana Nightingale. Artwork by Marie Najean.

Photograph of Dana Nightingale speaking at the FÍS Games Summit in 2023. Photo by Brenda Romero

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 5m

Yes. And eggs.

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 1h

Lying Cat from Saga ready to pass judgement (a lion-sized blue-gray skinned hairless cat)

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck
I love writing

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IAmThatCat @atemporalcat.bsky.social · 6h

🙂‍↕️🦆

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 12h

Yup same

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 12h

I don't understand but you're welcome?

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 20h

It took 22 minutes for a man to feel insecure about this post and try to make it my problem

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 20h

Never underestimate a man's willingness to try to make his insecurities your problem.

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 20h

I'm three months into being a vegetarian and it's uncanny how much my sense of smell has adjusted to being able to tell if meat or animal fat is in a dish nearby. Like across the table.

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MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 2d

🚨I beg you to share it

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We rely on your daily donations to provide food, water, milk for our daughter and everything we need to survive 💔🙏

Without your help, we truly can’t afford anything!!!

Please help
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@mommunism.bsky.social 😭🙏

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 1d

Yay calm cozy no stakes no pressure no obligation day at home ! but before I can relax I just need to do these few simple chores

/Five hours later/

I'm so exhausted I can't move

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 1d

The great thing about being an elder queer is that all you need to be is

1. Old
2. Queer

Piece of cake

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We Are NIM [Tactical Antifa Witch] @nixxi.mohilchock.com · 2d

I'm not good with business stuff. I don't know how to get a tax ID or do registered trademarks or establish an LLC or anything like that... I don't know how to release a game on Steam or Epic or GOG or Itch, or make money.

So, if I manage to finish my game I'm just going to give it away for free. 🤷‍♀️

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

Coming out was still one of the most difficult things I've done.

Nightingale made me brave enough.

If I believed I could be so bold as to reject my family name and choose one on the pure delight over the sound of it alone —

I was ready.

Fuck it.

Let's fucking go.

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

2021. I chose the name Nightingale, and finally came out of the closet. Pronouns she/her. The team was lovely about it. That was February.

Arkane Lyon shipped “DEATHLOOP” in September. It was one hell of a year. 19/24

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

They don't want us to know what love will teach us about what we are worth

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

Why would someone save this post.
There's nothing else coming.
Why would you need to reference later.

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

My friend, looking around at everyone gathered at our table in the bar:
"Every one of us is a porn category."

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

Aahhhh
I wasn't allowed to watch MTV while growing up so I wasn't exposed to that. 🥲

If you like animation I can't recommend the short-film music videos of SIAMÉS (Argentina) & Eve (Japan) highly enough. Each one is a masterpiece.

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

I love music videos that are short movies. Prelude to Ecstasy. Turbo Killer. Did they use to be more common?

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly between Jindosh and Emily I'm not sure who is actually the more evil. Being an empress is an inherently evil thing. There's no escaping the fundamental evil of wearing the crown at all.

Anyway that's why I'm tempted to write this. :3

But yeah fanfic fucking rules.

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

I still plan to write a Dishonored 2 "fanfic" one day where Emily doesn't electroshock Jindosh and he's revealed to be a trans man.

Still evil ofc.

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

As a closeted trans woman at the time my objective was to enable queer misbehavior. 😌

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 2d

My favorite lore piece we included in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. Very self-indulgent. I blushed as I turned it in.

A piece of lore found in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, titled 'Heart of the Abyss'

[Excerpt from a work of theatre, banned by the Abbey on heretical grounds.]

THE STRANGER (smirking insidiously)
My dear Corvid. I’ve been watching you for a long time. When you fight, when you sleep. When you… bathe. And now you’ve lost it all.

CORVID (shocked and confused)
Who are you? What is this cold and shadowy place? Have I penetrated the Stranger’s Void?

THE STRANGER (with a flourish)
There are forces in this world, forces some men call magic. Now you can bend them to your will. I am the Stranger, and this is my mark.

CORVID (studying the back of his hand)
Ah—It burns! What is this supernatural gift?

THE STRANGER (moving closer)
Oh, but I have many more gifts to give. What will you do with them, I wonder?

CORVID (admiring the young man)
Oh! What pale skin, what piercing gaze! You look more youthful than the legends say.

THE STRANGER (caressing his cheek)
Let me show you which legends are true.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 2d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 2d

October 11th. Fifteen years ago today I had my first day of work with a little game dev team in Austin, Texas called Arkane Studios. They were just gearing up full production on a new game in a new IP, called Dishonored.

I was terrified. 1/24

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