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Diandra
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Narrative Director - iwot Games She/They Formerly: Crystal Dynamics, Blizzard, Aniplex, Carbine, Riot, BioWare Co-author: The Definitive Game Narrative Guide Opinions = my own “I am the very model of a modern major general”
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · Sep 9
So it’s FINALLY HERE! Happy book birthday to us!!

We’re are super grateful to Chris Metzen, James Waugh, and Drew Karpyshyn for their amazing endorsements.

As well as the always delightful Rich Dansky for his kind forward.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · Sep 6
It’s here! We wrote a book about game writing and narrative… and it’s finally COMING OUT.

We would love for people to check it out! This is a tome for all levels as we believe that sometimes going back to basics can solve even the most complicated problems.

www.routledge.com/The-Definiti...
The cover to the book “The Definitive Game Narrative Guide” by Brian Kindregan and Diandra Anne Lasrado with a pictures of a writer in front of a typewriter. The typewriter has imaginative figures of warriors fighting, an anime femme with a sword, and two cute cats and a dog floating above it like visualized ideas.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 7h
I am a die hard Emma Frost and Storm fan. But Ilyana is also amazing and a life goal.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 7h
You are in for A TREAT
A slightly ominous looking husky in the snow framed by pine branches
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 8h
Highly underrated mutant! I did like how he was pivotal to Krakoa, it felt good to see him have some love.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 15h
Aww yes! It will be lovely to see everyone!
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 15h
Oh oh! I notice we need more for our team goal! Please help us reach it!!

afspwalks.donordrive.com/team/371158
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 16h
Hello friends!

The walk for Suicide Prevention is happening this weekend and I did not post here yet!

If you can help donate to an amazing cause I would be grateful.

This is a dear to me especially considering this year.

Glad to be here. ❤️

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Please support the Greater Los Angeles Santa Monica Walk this fall to help #stopsuicide
Please support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to help save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Donate or register to walk!
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 1d
Literally was just thinking about an EP who said he was an “Editor” but really just attended VO sessions and adjusted lines right before VO.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 2d
Friend sent a video that brought to mind this rent free thought again.

(At the time in 2023 people were very excited that the billionaire owners swinging by the studio were ‘so personable’ and ‘took time to shake hands and humanize themselves as people who cared.’)
Screenshot from Diandra’s defunct Twitter that says “Thoughts that live rent free in brain: The rich owners of your company are not your friends and will fire you to your face and sleep the sleep of angels. Work is a job.”
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Thanksgiving to my kinspeople! May yours birds (soy or real) be delicious and colors be bright and beautiful.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 3d
I realize that the biggest sign that Ms Frizzle was magic wasn’t the bus, but the fact that she had a different dress each day on a teacher salary.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
Lovely! DM me to plan!!
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
Wait you in LA RN?

But also… let me take you to better places?
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
Excellent we are JUST about at the same place.

I NEED your thoughts.

(No one else loves this mess and I’ve been D Y I N G)
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
He was NOT.

Also, Megan and Jordan… I’m not done with this portion yet but that dynamic gives me… THOUGHTS and FEELINGS
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
A mood… looking at everyone else and seeing nothing but beautiful people who are amazing.

Then looking in the mirror and wondering why you’re a weird monster.

At least I’m a kinda interesting weird monster.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
“I traded all my *griftercoin* for *anothergriftercoin*”

“Oh BRUH NOOOO!”

My soul left my body to fly away from this plane of existence for a HOT minute
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 4d
This season is incredible.

I’m so excited for ~*MESS*~
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 6d
I will never forget when my niece said “could you drop me off at… “xxx Sepool-veeda Ave.”

And I was like “Babygirl, NO”

Sea-pool??? You from the East Coast. STG.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 6d
Sepulveda
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 7d
toronto
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 7d
Explain your username:
In the olden days, people took the name of all the popular Chosen. I always thought Mesaana was underrepresented and lowkey badass in an intellectual way.
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Saul Goodman (Still Looking for Work) @sahilbajaj.dev · 7d
Explain your username:

It's my name but also my website that indicates I am a dev.
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 7d
Explain your username:

Its my name.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 9d
That’s excellent! I hope all progress with you goes well and she can have a good forever home.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 9d
Awwww poor darling. I’d she’s anything like the fuzzy doppelgänger then she’ll be a lovely cuddle bug when she feels safe.

So good your friend has her now.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 9d
Wait… this isn’t Misha is it?

How long has your friend had this dog? She’s like… spitting image of my friend’s dog, same missing eye.
Close up of Misha, a blue heeler/black lab mix who is missing her right eye, but looks like she is always winking into camera.
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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 9d
Okay so… 8 is the worst because you’ve come too far and yet there is still so much to go.

However 11 was the one that got me. Trying to figure out what I pulled BEHIND my knee >.<
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