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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 6h

The fake ads have been cracking me up. 🤣

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Rusty Quill @rustyquill.com · 6h

MAGNUS LIVE: THE HILLTOP, a new dramatic ensemble theatre production, opens in London later this month starring Shahan Hamza, Jonathan Sims, Alexander J Newall, Lowri Ann Davies and Sasha Sienna.

Five square black and white photographs of performers underneath the title: Magnus Live: The Hilltop Cast Announcement. On the top row, from left to right: Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid, an office worker; Jonathan Sims as Jonathan Sims, a trapped memory; Alexander J Newall as Martin Blackwood, a trapped memory. On the bottom row, from left to right: Lowri Ann Davies as Celia Ripley, an apocalyptic survivor; Sasha Sienna as Georgie Barker, an apocalyptic survivor.

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 6h

This week has been a parade of "plans changing for the worse." They're all manageable, but there's been enough that I kinda just want to go hide under a pile of kittens right now. Someone else can adult for a while.

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Rusty Quill @rustyquill.com · 7h

Today on #MagnusPod, we're sharing the third episode of #SheepleChase, by Sasha Sienna and directed by April Sumner!

This week Georgie and Celia investigate the case of the Lithuanian Raincoat Salesman.

https://shows.acast.com/themagnusarchives/episodes/sheeple-chase-3-episode-54-da-minister

Sheeple Chase 3 - Da, Minister | The Magnus Archives

Listen to Sheeple Chase 3 - Da, Minister from The Magnus Archives. It's not paranoia if the ARE out to get you!This week Georgie and Celia investigate the case of the Lithuanian Raincoat Salesman (and also a KGB Spy?!)Content Warnings:· government espionageTranscripts available at https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/This series is part of our Kickstarter Stretch Goals for the Magnus Protocol. You can find a complete list of our Kickstarter backers https://rustyquill.com/the...

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 20h

Finished the second season of Foundation.

Honestly, I think Bel Riose's plotine is the best the series has done with conveying the core principle behind psychohistory.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 23h

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis:

As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people?

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Wasabi Poptart / now in my Collecting the Dole era @gothsockmonkey.bsky.social · 23h

Would somebody please loan me £5 so I can commission DSB to write a sexy little scene with Borstal Boy and Lucky Lord Bonnet??? 🥹

Disaster Ship Blonde @disastershipblonde.bsky.social · 2d

Send me a screenshot of your receipt for £5 or more to the Oxfam Gaza fundraiser, and I'll write you a sexy little vignette of any OFMD pairing you like. Give me a one-word prompt and I'll spin you a little scene.

www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam-in-act...

Oxfam GB | Gaza Crisis Appeal

www.oxfam.org.uk

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 1d

I just looked up pictures of them, and 👀.

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 1d

🫂

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 1d

I did some experimenting with audio mixing before I start my first audio drama script - I need to know how it will sound before I start writing it - and audio mixing is so cool, y'all!

Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 1d

Alright! Signed up for Yuletide!

Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoWo...

Was this your dentist? 😨

Little shop of horrors - Dentist! (Old upload)

YouTube video by Entertainment Headquarters

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stitch 🔞 @stitch.bsky.social · 2d

Just about a week out from birthday and I'm only even considering a wishlist...

No pressure, no need but...

On the off chance that you want to get me anything...

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

🥰

Check out my list on Amazon

www.amazon.com

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

Me: Oh no. I've woken up an hour before my alarm. How will I ever be able to get back to sleep?

Carmen: Did someone request a 15lb weighted blanket that purrs?

Me: 😴😴😴

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 3d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

Heaven Official's Blessing volume 2

Yeah, Hua Cheng has it *bad*.

Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about this with my audio drama WIP. Which tense I use changes the story. I'm leaning past tense, and I'll have diegetic audio because of limitation on voice actors. That means that the listener will know the main character has survived long enough to make an entry.

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

I don't think there's any inherent superiority to any particular tense. BUT...

My problem with the proliferation of present tense usage (as someone who's pubbed something like half a dozen books in present tense) is twofold.

First of all, most writers aren't exploiting the strengths... 1/

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

This is a much more in-depth and well-reasoned explanation of WHY present tense for the sake of present tense falls so flat. (And, conversely, the strengths of present tense which so often go underutilized.)

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

I don't think there's any inherent superiority to any particular tense. BUT...

My problem with the proliferation of present tense usage (as someone who's pubbed something like half a dozen books in present tense) is twofold.

First of all, most writers aren't exploiting the strengths... 1/

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

I'm watching #Foundation episode 2.09, and I love Brother Day's ragged see through chainmail top so much. It's just so shitty [deliberately so]. He's raving about how he's going to avert the fall of the Empire, but he's doing it dressed like -that-.

Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 2d

That film broke my heart.

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 3d

And also it's my audio drama, so I can do what I want lol.

Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 3d

I try not to put myself down - and there are things I excel at - but I took drama classes through middle and high school, and while I learned a lot, I also learned I do not have a natural aptitude for acting.

But aptitude isn't everything.

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Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 3d

I found people interested in participating in my #Malevolent femslash+ event!

sunset.femslash.club/collections/...

(I have invite codes for those who need them.)

Malevolent New Year's Femslash+ Event | Sunset

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

sunset.femslash.club

Griselda Gimpel @griseldagimpel.bsky.social · 3d

Regarding my audio drama WIP, I have learned that I do, in fact, posses the ability to pitch my voice high. That means that regardless of who voices the main role, I can include the occasional line from another voice actor: me pitching my voice high.

I ain't Harlan Guthrie, but it's something.

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