Elizabeth Harper
@faience.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor, herder of cats. Editorial Director on Blizzard Watch. Supposed WoW healer. Also @[email protected], Faience on Twitter. She/her
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“AI is inevitable” yeah so is dying, bro. Go create something with the time you have left here
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“AI is inevitable” yeah so is dying, bro. Go create something with the time you have left here
You know, some people say they can't tell when it's Anna or when it's me writing social copy. I just don't understand that.
It's beginning to look a lot like Mid-nighhtttt...
The #WoW Midnight pre-patch launches on January 20. That means I only have a month to continue my forum campaign to reduce transmog prices before the transmog changes go live. (There's more in the patch than transmog, but I'm a one-issue voter.)
The #WoW Midnight pre-patch launches on January 20. That means I only have a month to continue my forum campaign to reduce transmog prices before the transmog changes go live. (There's more in the patch than transmog, but I'm a one-issue voter.)
The World of Warcraft Midnight pre-patch launches January 20 with void-fueled Demon Hunters and transmog updates
Get ready to roll those Void Elf Demon Hunters, because the Midnight pre-patch launches on January 20, 2026, immediately after Legion Remix ends. WoW patch
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December 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
You know, some people say they can't tell when it's Anna or when it's me writing social copy. I just don't understand that.
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A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement. n.pr/44ph9KC
Billion-dollar OpenAI deal allows users to make content with Disney characters
It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one
It's not that I'm keeping an eye on @therealnzoth.bsky.social or anything, but I'm not NOT keeping an eye on @therealnzoth.bsky.social
If we happen to need to fight any Old Gods in the future, we know who to call.
In which this week's Lore Watch Podcast is all about our friends the Trolls. Tune in for a rundown of every Troll raid we ever ran (and a lot more Troll history).
In which this week's Lore Watch Podcast is all about our friends the Trolls. Tune in for a rundown of every Troll raid we ever ran (and a lot more Troll history).
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It's not that I'm keeping an eye on @therealnzoth.bsky.social or anything, but I'm not NOT keeping an eye on @therealnzoth.bsky.social
This is an incredibly good book, and not just for people interested in Blizzard games. It's just an incredibly good book.
The ebook version of my book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment is on sale for just $4 today, or about 0.00000000482% of what it cost Netflix to buy Warner Bros.! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...
Play Nice
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for t...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is an incredibly good book, and not just for people interested in Blizzard games. It's just an incredibly good book.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
The transmog system in the Midnight beta is worse than not getting invited to Lor'themar and Thalyssra's wedding.
I SAID WHAT I SAID.
I SAID WHAT I SAID.
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The transmog system in the Midnight beta is worse than not getting invited to Lor'themar and Thalyssra's wedding.
I SAID WHAT I SAID.
I SAID WHAT I SAID.
I am too upset about transmog to even write a post about how upset I am about transmog.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am too upset about transmog to even write a post about how upset I am about transmog.
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We can't give up now. ❄️
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We can't give up now. ❄️
It’s clear no one in DC has any kind of plan to improve American healthcare. The Republican plan is to buy it yourself, while Democrats can’t organize a fight for Medicaid or the the ACA.
Medicare for All is the only plan anyone has offered, and anyone who doesn’t support it needs to be primaried.
Medicare for All is the only plan anyone has offered, and anyone who doesn’t support it needs to be primaried.
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It’s clear no one in DC has any kind of plan to improve American healthcare. The Republican plan is to buy it yourself, while Democrats can’t organize a fight for Medicaid or the the ACA.
Medicare for All is the only plan anyone has offered, and anyone who doesn’t support it needs to be primaried.
Medicare for All is the only plan anyone has offered, and anyone who doesn’t support it needs to be primaried.
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I used to think people who said "Primary all of them." In relation to Dems were being "a bit much."
I was wrong, and they are right. These people are not representing us. They are not fighting for us.
Primary all of them. Every single one that isn't willing to be a Mamdani.
I was wrong, and they are right. These people are not representing us. They are not fighting for us.
Primary all of them. Every single one that isn't willing to be a Mamdani.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I used to think people who said "Primary all of them." In relation to Dems were being "a bit much."
I was wrong, and they are right. These people are not representing us. They are not fighting for us.
Primary all of them. Every single one that isn't willing to be a Mamdani.
I was wrong, and they are right. These people are not representing us. They are not fighting for us.
Primary all of them. Every single one that isn't willing to be a Mamdani.
I looked in to what it would cost to take a train into NYC for a day trip to see the Beetlejuice musical while it’s back on broadway for a couple of months.
Show tickets are pretty reasonable, but train tickets would be $400 (coach).
So, uh, maybe not.
Show tickets are pretty reasonable, but train tickets would be $400 (coach).
So, uh, maybe not.
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I looked in to what it would cost to take a train into NYC for a day trip to see the Beetlejuice musical while it’s back on broadway for a couple of months.
Show tickets are pretty reasonable, but train tickets would be $400 (coach).
So, uh, maybe not.
Show tickets are pretty reasonable, but train tickets would be $400 (coach).
So, uh, maybe not.
I feel like this a lot.
Ah, to be a stubborn baby hippo, lying on my friend's lunch after a long morning of swimming in my little baby hippo pool.
Seven videos of baby pygmy hippo Mars sitting down when zookeepers (and mom) wanted him to stand up
Watchers, it may be Monday (and thus, full of suffering), but we can still find ways to enjoy ourselves. Now, we've previously introduced Mars to our reade
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November 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I feel like this a lot.
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Look, the winter festivals are traditionally spooky times. You begin the spooky at the thinning of the veil at the start of the new year (Samhain), and you keep on scaring each other until the light comes back after the Solstice. Slap some greens on the giant skeleton and party on.
I know October is over but listen, there’s no reason we can’t extend spooky season all the way to Christmas. Who’s going to stop us? Mariah Carey? The guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly? Possibly… but we won’t know if we don’t try.
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Look, the winter festivals are traditionally spooky times. You begin the spooky at the thinning of the veil at the start of the new year (Samhain), and you keep on scaring each other until the light comes back after the Solstice. Slap some greens on the giant skeleton and party on.
Guys. GUYS.
When you're trying to talk about #WoW player housing (aka house transmog) but your co-hosts cannot stop talking about hats.
This and very much more weirdness in this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is now live!
This and very much more weirdness in this week's Blizzard Watch Podcast, which is now live!
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Guys. GUYS.
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“…taking a different approach.”?????
You guys.
Come the F on
Do better
You guys.
Come the F on
Do better
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“…taking a different approach.”?????
You guys.
Come the F on
Do better
You guys.
Come the F on
Do better
I was really looking forward to having a room wall to wall with pillows.
Accidentally hit the maximum number of items in my Midnight player home attempting to make a room full of nothing but pillows. (After making a kitchen and a dining room and two bedrooms and an indoor garden and a library and an office.) Maybe I could delete a couple of rooms and keep adding pillows?
October 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I was really looking forward to having a room wall to wall with pillows.
Blizzard: We'll keep everyone focused on testing new content by removing old portals.
Me: THE HECK YOU WILL.
Anyway, I've spent maybe a combined hour in Silvermoon and Eversong, but an uncountable number of hours in past expansions looking for anything new.
Me: THE HECK YOU WILL.
Anyway, I've spent maybe a combined hour in Silvermoon and Eversong, but an uncountable number of hours in past expansions looking for anything new.
While everyone else has been testing new content, I have been traveling all over Azeroth looking for new #WoW profession recipes for housing decor... and I found a whole lot. Here's all the decor crafting recipes that we've found in the Midnight alpha so far.
All of the housing decor you can craft with professions in Midnight (that we've found so far)
Player Housing is coming in Midnight, and with it the chance to collect decor to adorn your new home. Decor is found all over the world: from vendors, from
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October 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Blizzard: We'll keep everyone focused on testing new content by removing old portals.
Me: THE HECK YOU WILL.
Anyway, I've spent maybe a combined hour in Silvermoon and Eversong, but an uncountable number of hours in past expansions looking for anything new.
Me: THE HECK YOU WILL.
Anyway, I've spent maybe a combined hour in Silvermoon and Eversong, but an uncountable number of hours in past expansions looking for anything new.
I'm taking the money I used to give to Disney and splitting it between NPR and PBS. I canceled because of Kimmel, but it's a hard sell to go back with a price increase to boot.
Meanwhile I listen to NPR almost every day. Something's gotta give (and I guess it's me).
Meanwhile I listen to NPR almost every day. Something's gotta give (and I guess it's me).
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'm taking the money I used to give to Disney and splitting it between NPR and PBS. I canceled because of Kimmel, but it's a hard sell to go back with a price increase to boot.
Meanwhile I listen to NPR almost every day. Something's gotta give (and I guess it's me).
Meanwhile I listen to NPR almost every day. Something's gotta give (and I guess it's me).
Warcraft help needed. HOW DO I GET RID OF THIS POPUP? I DO NOT HAVE A NEW SKINNING SPECIALIZATION TO UNLOCK (that I know of). It is here whenever I log in and I want it to just stop hassling me.
September 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Warcraft help needed. HOW DO I GET RID OF THIS POPUP? I DO NOT HAVE A NEW SKINNING SPECIALIZATION TO UNLOCK (that I know of). It is here whenever I log in and I want it to just stop hassling me.
Got my Covid shot this week and you should too. I felt rotten the day after but nowhere near as bad as if I got Covid, plus I won’t give it to anyone else.
Get vaccinated if you can. Be careful out there if you can’t. (Probably be careful either way, really.)
Get vaccinated if you can. Be careful out there if you can’t. (Probably be careful either way, really.)
September 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Got my Covid shot this week and you should too. I felt rotten the day after but nowhere near as bad as if I got Covid, plus I won’t give it to anyone else.
Get vaccinated if you can. Be careful out there if you can’t. (Probably be careful either way, really.)
Get vaccinated if you can. Be careful out there if you can’t. (Probably be careful either way, really.)
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If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
September 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
August 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.