Sonia Michaels
@soniaghm.bsky.social
Game Industry Educator, Speaker, & Career Coach. IndieCade Horizons "Excellence in Teaching" Award (2023). Former IGDA Board Member (2020-2023).
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Hey guys, it's great that the author is giving us, not just an alternative to Amazon, but a unionized alternative. And lots of you like that. But since there is no algorithm here, liking her post doesn't really help very much, but reposting it does.
If you are avoiding Amazon you can always get my book at Powells 📖📚✍🏾 www.powells.com/book/corpora... #booksky #blacksky #beans
Corporatocracy | Powell's Books
Reveals how corporate greed led to scandal, corruption, and the January 6th insurrection-and how we can stop it from happening again Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud and the violence of t...
www.powells.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey guys, it's great that the author is giving us, not just an alternative to Amazon, but a unionized alternative. And lots of you like that. But since there is no algorithm here, liking her post doesn't really help very much, but reposting it does.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Wonderful game! Everyone should buy it! 💕📚
Cozy Autumn Sales Incoming! ✨🍂
We’re excited to share that Tiny Bookshop will be part of the Steam Autumn Sale 2025! From September 29 - October 6, you can grab Tiny Bookshop at 15% off!
If you’ve been waiting to start your bookselling adventure, now’s the perfect time to jump in. Don’t miss it!
We’re excited to share that Tiny Bookshop will be part of the Steam Autumn Sale 2025! From September 29 - October 6, you can grab Tiny Bookshop at 15% off!
If you’ve been waiting to start your bookselling adventure, now’s the perfect time to jump in. Don’t miss it!
September 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Wonderful game! Everyone should buy it! 💕📚
This is gorgeous, and as an added bonus, is extremely @tkingfisher.com coded!
September 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is gorgeous, and as an added bonus, is extremely @tkingfisher.com coded!
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Remember, you are not alone.
Your community is out there.
Find them in quiet bookstores & noisy cafes.
Find them shambling in mossy forests.
Find them haunting crumbling castles on the coast, under the dim light of stars.
Your community is out there.
Find them in quiet bookstores & noisy cafes.
Find them shambling in mossy forests.
Find them haunting crumbling castles on the coast, under the dim light of stars.
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Remember, you are not alone.
Your community is out there.
Find them in quiet bookstores & noisy cafes.
Find them shambling in mossy forests.
Find them haunting crumbling castles on the coast, under the dim light of stars.
Your community is out there.
Find them in quiet bookstores & noisy cafes.
Find them shambling in mossy forests.
Find them haunting crumbling castles on the coast, under the dim light of stars.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
dismantling the centre till it cannot hold: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
September 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
dismantling the centre till it cannot hold: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
another reminder to Canadians and our friends in the USA that most of our easily accessible "news" sources are corporate entities that probably answer either to the guy who owns The National Enquirer or Rupert Murdoch
Please take the time to seek out independent journalists who haven't given up
Please take the time to seek out independent journalists who haven't given up
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
another reminder to Canadians and our friends in the USA that most of our easily accessible "news" sources are corporate entities that probably answer either to the guy who owns The National Enquirer or Rupert Murdoch
Please take the time to seek out independent journalists who haven't given up
Please take the time to seek out independent journalists who haven't given up
This is so beautiful. <3
Today's Love Letter is from the unstoppable @shing.bsky.social. Shing's ode to Making Little Guys is one of the single most nourishing pieces of nonfiction I have ever read. Maybe you need this one as much as I do.
Little Guys
A Love Letters Feature by Shing Yin Khor - September 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
September 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is so beautiful. <3
@tinybookshopgame.com is helping me hang onto what is left of my sanity and I am so grateful to the dev team for this lovely little surprise! 🩷
September 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
@tinybookshopgame.com is helping me hang onto what is left of my sanity and I am so grateful to the dev team for this lovely little surprise! 🩷
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Should I be a kind person?
Should I help my community?
Should I learn dark magic from dusty books in secret libraries?
Should I wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones and a raven on my shoulder to the market to buy cheese and wine?
The answer is always yes.
Should I help my community?
Should I learn dark magic from dusty books in secret libraries?
Should I wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones and a raven on my shoulder to the market to buy cheese and wine?
The answer is always yes.
September 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Should I be a kind person?
Should I help my community?
Should I learn dark magic from dusty books in secret libraries?
Should I wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones and a raven on my shoulder to the market to buy cheese and wine?
The answer is always yes.
Should I help my community?
Should I learn dark magic from dusty books in secret libraries?
Should I wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones and a raven on my shoulder to the market to buy cheese and wine?
The answer is always yes.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Do not fear the night.
You and your tattered slippers, weary bones, blurry vision, and deep desire for cheese snacks belong to the darkness.
You and your tattered slippers, weary bones, blurry vision, and deep desire for cheese snacks belong to the darkness.
September 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Do not fear the night.
You and your tattered slippers, weary bones, blurry vision, and deep desire for cheese snacks belong to the darkness.
You and your tattered slippers, weary bones, blurry vision, and deep desire for cheese snacks belong to the darkness.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Oh god, here we go.
Whew! Been awhile, hasn't it? Y'all'll find out why in a second here, so gather round, chillun. It's time for another story, the very last story, in The Ballad of Ursula Vernon! (She done go by @tkingfisher.com hereabouts but that's its own story.)
September 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Oh god, here we go.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
I'm not crying, you are!
![[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kazs6skhkhitmtlhxwq2g264/bafkreigxvcrmm3rvnlyvqvekioqbrypd2l7z4vbzsgvjkncpmfr5fx72h4@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I'm not crying, you are!
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world.
Gift link.
Gift link.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world.
Gift link.
Gift link.
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
Over the past decade, one of the major focuses of this blog has been the depiction of labour unions and the struggle for workers’ rights in science fiction and fantasy.
Let's share some articles about the subject, and talk about some works of SFF that tackle workers' rights well.
1/X
Let's share some articles about the subject, and talk about some works of SFF that tackle workers' rights well.
1/X
Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures - Uncanny Magazine
At the start of Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation, the young, gifted mathematician Gaal Dornick arrives on Trantor to accept an appointment at Streeling University. The conditions of his employment cont...
www.uncannymagazine.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Over the past decade, one of the major focuses of this blog has been the depiction of labour unions and the struggle for workers’ rights in science fiction and fantasy.
Let's share some articles about the subject, and talk about some works of SFF that tackle workers' rights well.
1/X
Let's share some articles about the subject, and talk about some works of SFF that tackle workers' rights well.
1/X
Reposted by Sonia Michaels
The emerging Republican position is that women should not be free to vote, to report so-called “sexual assault,” or to say things like “dear isn’t that your fourth, you’re driving.”
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The emerging Republican position is that women should not be free to vote, to report so-called “sexual assault,” or to say things like “dear isn’t that your fourth, you’re driving.”