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Writer | Science Advisor (Star Trek franchise) | Producer | PhD, Astrophysics | she/her
just an ancient tattooed 🏴 N7 Starfleet rebel pagan soul trapped in modern times
https://linktr.ee/drerinmac
Writer | Science Advisor (Star Trek franchise) | Producer | PhD, Astrophysics | she/her
just an ancient tattooed 🏴 N7 Starfleet rebel pagan soul trapped in modern times
https://linktr.ee/drerinmac
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So many new folks! Welcome! I’m Erin, I have a PhD in gravitational astrophysics and now work as a TV writer, producer, voice actor, and science consultant.
Most people know me from my work on all the modern Star Trek shows.
This is a personal social page for me so expect lots of content on: (1/2)
Most people know me from my work on all the modern Star Trek shows.
This is a personal social page for me so expect lots of content on: (1/2)
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Introducing the Undermere collection on Steam!
Strange Horticulture (currently 60% off) + Strange Antiquities are now bundled into one delightfully dark & cosy package. Whether you're new to our Strange games or need to complete your Strange collection, an extra 10% off is the deal for you.
Strange Horticulture (currently 60% off) + Strange Antiquities are now bundled into one delightfully dark & cosy package. Whether you're new to our Strange games or need to complete your Strange collection, an extra 10% off is the deal for you.
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Introducing the Undermere collection on Steam!
Strange Horticulture (currently 60% off) + Strange Antiquities are now bundled into one delightfully dark & cosy package. Whether you're new to our Strange games or need to complete your Strange collection, an extra 10% off is the deal for you.
Strange Horticulture (currently 60% off) + Strange Antiquities are now bundled into one delightfully dark & cosy package. Whether you're new to our Strange games or need to complete your Strange collection, an extra 10% off is the deal for you.
For anyone heading to #AustinFilmFestival I will be there the whole week! Feel free to come say hi if you see me around. I don't know anyone going so I'm flying solo. #AFF #ScriptSky
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
For anyone heading to #AustinFilmFestival I will be there the whole week! Feel free to come say hi if you see me around. I don't know anyone going so I'm flying solo. #AFF #ScriptSky
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Stealing from Wizards Volume 4 is coming November 4th.
Canadian misfits learning about life, love, and larceny at wizard school.
📚🪐
Preorder on amazon and Kobo now:
www.amazon.com/Stealing-Wiz...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Canadian misfits learning about life, love, and larceny at wizard school.
📚🪐
Preorder on amazon and Kobo now:
www.amazon.com/Stealing-Wiz...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Stealing from Wizards Volume 4 is coming November 4th.
Canadian misfits learning about life, love, and larceny at wizard school.
📚🪐
Preorder on amazon and Kobo now:
www.amazon.com/Stealing-Wiz...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Canadian misfits learning about life, love, and larceny at wizard school.
📚🪐
Preorder on amazon and Kobo now:
www.amazon.com/Stealing-Wiz...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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Why do seemingly well-intentioned people keep using Substack?
October 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Why do seemingly well-intentioned people keep using Substack?
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Flowers, flowers, everywhere...
‘Star Trek’ is headed to the Rose Parade. Here’s an exclusive first look at the float - LA Times | www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
‘Star Trek’ is headed to the Rose Parade. Here’s an exclusive first look at the float
Check out this first look at 'Star Trek's' float for the 2026 Rose Parade. The float celebrates the sci-fi franchises 60th anniversary.
www.latimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Flowers, flowers, everywhere...
I interrupt your regularly scheduled horrors to remind you that Fat Bear Week is still going on. Vote now in the semifinals! explore.org/fat-bear-week
Fat Bear Week 2025
Fat Bear Week 2025
explore.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I interrupt your regularly scheduled horrors to remind you that Fat Bear Week is still going on. Vote now in the semifinals! explore.org/fat-bear-week
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New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...
How Ruby Went Off the Rails
What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.
www.404media.co
September 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...
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But folks, in all seriousness
September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
But folks, in all seriousness
This entrance fundamentally changed my being (or, released something already there I guess). I have many fond memories of this film. Happy 50th and remember:
Don’t dream it. Be it.
Don’t dream it. Be it.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!
September 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This entrance fundamentally changed my being (or, released something already there I guess). I have many fond memories of this film. Happy 50th and remember:
Don’t dream it. Be it.
Don’t dream it. Be it.
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every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.
September 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.
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Euphemia Maclean - one of many women executed for witchcraft in 🏴
“Maclean was also accused of being offered and accepting pain relief during labour by a midwife”
🔥Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda🔥 #paracetamol associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
“Maclean was also accused of being offered and accepting pain relief during labour by a midwife”
🔥Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda🔥 #paracetamol associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Euphemia Maclean, Agnes Sampson and pain relief during labour in 16th century Edinburgh
Click on the article title to read more.
associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Euphemia Maclean - one of many women executed for witchcraft in 🏴
“Maclean was also accused of being offered and accepting pain relief during labour by a midwife”
🔥Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda🔥 #paracetamol associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
“Maclean was also accused of being offered and accepting pain relief during labour by a midwife”
🔥Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda🔥 #paracetamol associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Mass Effect story/lore/world
2. General relativity in science fiction
3. Lucille Ball and her impact on the television industry
#1 happens pretty regularly when I find a fellow BioWare nerd in the wild!
1. Mass Effect story/lore/world
2. General relativity in science fiction
3. Lucille Ball and her impact on the television industry
#1 happens pretty regularly when I find a fellow BioWare nerd in the wild!
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Aircraft & spacecraft disasters
2. Psychology
3. Physics & mechanics of martial arts
1. Aircraft & spacecraft disasters
2. Psychology
3. Physics & mechanics of martial arts
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Theme Park Design
2. Norse Mythology
3. The History of Fandom Culture
1. Theme Park Design
2. Norse Mythology
3. The History of Fandom Culture
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Mass Effect story/lore/world
2. General relativity in science fiction
3. Lucille Ball and her impact on the television industry
#1 happens pretty regularly when I find a fellow BioWare nerd in the wild!
1. Mass Effect story/lore/world
2. General relativity in science fiction
3. Lucille Ball and her impact on the television industry
#1 happens pretty regularly when I find a fellow BioWare nerd in the wild!
Why Mass Effect is the greatest game...
The opening segment of Mass Effect 1, even prior to engaging in combat on Eden Prime, is a (near) masterclass in introducing a player to a setting, a style of game, and *easing* the experience along.
🧵 (1/8)
#MassEffect
#MassEffectSpoilers
🧵 (1/8)
#MassEffect
#MassEffectSpoilers
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Why Mass Effect is the greatest game...
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i am begging screenwriters to stop using shitty AI generated stills to promote their spec scripts
if you can't afford to pay an artist to make you one, that's fine, but don't use a program that steals other artists' work to try to make your own work stand out
it's a huge double standard
if you can't afford to pay an artist to make you one, that's fine, but don't use a program that steals other artists' work to try to make your own work stand out
it's a huge double standard
September 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
i am begging screenwriters to stop using shitty AI generated stills to promote their spec scripts
if you can't afford to pay an artist to make you one, that's fine, but don't use a program that steals other artists' work to try to make your own work stand out
it's a huge double standard
if you can't afford to pay an artist to make you one, that's fine, but don't use a program that steals other artists' work to try to make your own work stand out
it's a huge double standard
In case it wasn't clear: Fuck ICE.
a man in a fedora is saying i hate these guys
Alt: Indiana Jones saying "I hate these guys."
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In case it wasn't clear: Fuck ICE.
I have seen the value in being a horror weenie and writing a horror feature script. However, the anxiety and stress I feel after every writing session is off the charts! I'm really pacing myself on finishing this draft, mostly just so I can manage my own headspace! 2 pages a day...steady.
a man from schitt 's creek says he 's feeling this like deep aching sense of dread
Alt: David Rose from schitt's creek says he's feeling this like deep aching sense of dread
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I have seen the value in being a horror weenie and writing a horror feature script. However, the anxiety and stress I feel after every writing session is off the charts! I'm really pacing myself on finishing this draft, mostly just so I can manage my own headspace! 2 pages a day...steady.
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Planning a new Star Trek Adventures campaign? Check out Jim Johnson’s latest blog with tips on building seasons, character arcs & blending original and published content. 🖖
Read it here buff.ly/7G3sZQF
#StarTrek
Read it here buff.ly/7G3sZQF
#StarTrek
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Planning a new Star Trek Adventures campaign? Check out Jim Johnson’s latest blog with tips on building seasons, character arcs & blending original and published content. 🖖
Read it here buff.ly/7G3sZQF
#StarTrek
Read it here buff.ly/7G3sZQF
#StarTrek
I. CANNOT. WAIT. for this game. This is so entirely my jam.
🚨NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER
Get new insights into Daedalic Entertainment’s upcoming #StarTrekVoyager game ‘Across the Unknown’, with its just released gameplay trailer!
#StarTrek
Get new insights into Daedalic Entertainment’s upcoming #StarTrekVoyager game ‘Across the Unknown’, with its just released gameplay trailer!
#StarTrek
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I. CANNOT. WAIT. for this game. This is so entirely my jam.
Damn. FOUNDATION is so good. Like, absurdly excellent science fiction and storytelling. I was gripped through every episode this season.
September 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Damn. FOUNDATION is so good. Like, absurdly excellent science fiction and storytelling. I was gripped through every episode this season.
Pennsylvania! Our short film, "Long Away" is playing at the Skate or Die Festival in Pottstown on the weekend of Oct 3-5 (our block is on Oct 4!).
It's a film festival! At a roller rink!!
More details and tickets available here: farsightedblog.com/2025-skate-o...
It's a film festival! At a roller rink!!
More details and tickets available here: farsightedblog.com/2025-skate-o...
2025 Skate or Die Schedule
The time has come, the 4th annual Skate or Die Film Festival is here! The schedule is below and please be sure to support our incredible sponsors: Lehigh Valley Apparel… Continue reading
farsightedblog.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Pennsylvania! Our short film, "Long Away" is playing at the Skate or Die Festival in Pottstown on the weekend of Oct 3-5 (our block is on Oct 4!).
It's a film festival! At a roller rink!!
More details and tickets available here: farsightedblog.com/2025-skate-o...
It's a film festival! At a roller rink!!
More details and tickets available here: farsightedblog.com/2025-skate-o...
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This is going to be my vibe in 2026:
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is going to be my vibe in 2026:
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The Bi Visibility Week Mega Bundle is officially LIVE, and BLOODY SPADE (ft. my snarky pansexual cat-eared MC) is just one of the many books you'll find inside! 💗💜💙
itch.io/b/3263/bi-visibility-week-mega-bundle | #BookSky #WritingCommunity
itch.io/b/3263/bi-visibility-week-mega-bundle | #BookSky #WritingCommunity
September 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The Bi Visibility Week Mega Bundle is officially LIVE, and BLOODY SPADE (ft. my snarky pansexual cat-eared MC) is just one of the many books you'll find inside! 💗💜💙
itch.io/b/3263/bi-visibility-week-mega-bundle | #BookSky #WritingCommunity
itch.io/b/3263/bi-visibility-week-mega-bundle | #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Happy bi visibility day. Everything is terrible but I’m trying to find little joys. 🫶🏻
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Happy bi visibility day. Everything is terrible but I’m trying to find little joys. 🫶🏻
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it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...
It's official: My next book is about Battlestar Galactica!
Long ago, the gods decided my fate, and I have embraced it: I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica!
I made it official at the Creation convention that took place in New Jersey this past weeken...
www.moryan.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...
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Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson.
If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.
If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson.
If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.
If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.