Ella "RATTLE ME BONES" M 💀

Game writer (most recently Baldur's Gate 3 at Larian & Plarium). Former Total War community content editor and ESL senior editor. I like TRPGs, theme parks, and spooky things. My cat is prettier than you.

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2025-06-28

My legal counsel has informed me I need to post this

A meme showing an illustration of a Bloodborne hunter holding a card with their portrait on it and the words "Monster Fucker Permit"
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2025-06-28

squek

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2025-06-28

Finally got round to playing Fledgling Manor by In Secret Places and it was cute and fun and I will be marrying Eight store.steampowered.com/app/323

A screenshot of the visual novel game Fledgling Manor. The art is mostly black and white with splashes of red, and in the middle of the image stands Eight, a tall Nosferatu-like vampire in a street fashion outfit complete with hood and mask. The text in the box below reads: "Suddenly, they start laughing."
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2025-06-27

I have just learned where all those giant fibreglass statues of food items eating themselves come from and am now sharing that cursed knowledge with you malpol-fiberglass.com/home,en.

A product photo of a giant (180cm tall) fibreglass hotdog seemingly wrapped in an American flag and holding mustard in one hand (yes, it has hands) and ketchup in the other, which it is squirting onto its own hotdog head while licking its lips. The company responsible is Malpol, "fibreglass statuary experts".A product photo of a giant (190cm tall) fibreglass cone of chips (as in fries) but it has big booted feet and a weird face on the side of the cone, which it is shoving a chip into and giving a thumbs up. The company responsible is Malpol, "fibreglass statuary experts".
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2025-06-27

no thoughts, only scritches

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2025-06-26

Cited the Episode I Visual Dictionary as part of an argument about battle droid design (AND I WAS RIGHT)

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2025-06-26

(And crucially, "woowoo" said with great affection - I have written stuff about this spectrum and where I sit on it before)

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2025-06-26

(I am probably less ✨woowoo✨ about tarot than you might expect, which is why I have included a little explanation about my perspective and approach as well as the obligatory terms and conditions that stop me from being sued for pretending to be a psychic - which I am very much not claiming to be!)

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2025-06-26

I don't really post my Ko-fi because I feel bad about it but as my job hunt continues (and continues) a kind friend proposed a solution: what if I give you a thing in return?

So TL;DR now you can toss me a tenner and I'll pull you some tarot cards!

Find out more here: materiamagica.carrd.co/#tarot

My cream British Shorthair cat Mori leaning up against a wall like a chubby little human man looking mildly scandalised (mainly because he is about to meow at me as I'm talking to him). On his side rests The Empress tarot card from the Universal Waite deck.
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2025-06-25

Watching my friends develop legitimate PTSD playing Ewok Hunt

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2025-06-25

Someone I follow on another social media platform earnestly posted this and it gets worse the longer you look at it

A badly cobbled together infographic divided into two halves (divided by a giant red exclamation mark and a vertical line).
On the left:
TOP C*NCER-CAUSING FOODS (plus a triangular yellow exclamation mark warning sign)
Margarine / Sugary drinks [the image for this appears to be the can emoji] / Microwave popcom [sic] / Deep-fried foods / Bacon / Refined carbs / Fries
TOP ANTI-C*NCER FOODS
Cruciferous Vegetables / Turmeric / Garfic & Onfons [sic] / Reishi Mushroom / Berries / Leary [sic] Greens / Ginger
[The images accompanying these do not all look quite like the things they're representing]
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2025-06-25

I was very brave, just fyi - now to see if it actually helps

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2025-06-25

Someone on Bluesky posted about this book (a collection of sci-fi stories Marks & Spencer published for Christmas 1983) and I remembered I had it and dug out my copy

The 1983 book published by St Michael Beyond the Stars: Tales of Adventure in Time and Space sitting on my cat's blanket on my deskA photo of a contents page, which includes: Escape from the Death Star from Star Wars/The Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas / Trial by Combat by Jay Williams / The Lights of the City by Garry Kilworth / Through the Moons of Mowl from Dragonfall 5 and the Super Horse by Brian Earnshaw / The Star by H.G. Wells / Johnson by Guy Weiner / The Smallest Dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey / The First Half-Hour from Round the Moon by Jules Verne / A Walk in the Woods by David Campton / Summertime on Icarus by Arthur C Clarke / Baptism of Fire from Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A Heinlein / Collecting Team by Robert Silverberg / Marooned on Splatterbang from Escape from Splatterbang by Nicholas Fisk / Terrafied by Arthur TofteA photo of a contents page, which includes: Planet-Fall on Isis from The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes / Half Life by Rachel Cosgrove Payes / Return to Peladon from Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon by Terrence Dicks / Acknowledgements
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2025-06-24

Getting a steroid injection in my fucky finger joint tomorrow so everyone had better be nice to me 😢

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2025-06-24

You never want to bite into a chocolate bar and think "hmmm, this reminds me of Ex-Lax"

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2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Reminder for my fellow Elden Ring Nightreign players with RSI (and/or those of you who play a lot of Ironeye): you can edit your controller settings in Steam to switch on Turbo mode (repeated presses of the same button just by holding it instead of pressing it repeatedly) 🎮

A screenshot of a Steam options screen - this one shows an icon of a PlayStation DualShock controller and the text:
CONTROLLER
Supports Your DualShock Controller
This game should work great with your controller
View controller settingsA screenshot of a Steam options screen - this one shows an icon of a PlayStation DualShock controller and the text:
Current Button Layout
Official Layout for ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN - ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN Official Settings
View Layout / Edit LayoutA screenshot of a Steam options screen - this one lists Buttons, Face Buttons Behaviour, and icons of the various buttons with their assigned identity beside them.A screenshot of a Steam options screen (actually two edited together for ease). On the left is the options for the R1 button, with the top entry on the menu being Regular Press. To the right is the resulting screen: Regular Press Settings. There is a toggle for Hold to Repeat (Turbo) enabled, with the standard 100 Repeat Rate.
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2025-06-23

Reminder for my fellow Elden Ring Nightreign players with RSI (and/or those of you who play a lot of Ironeye): you can edit your controller settings in Steam to switch on Turbo mode (repeated presses of the same button just by holding it instead of pressing it repeatedly) 🎮

A screenshot of a Steam options screen - this one shows an icon of a PlayStation DualShock controller and the text:
CONTROLLER
Supports Your DualShock Controller
This game should work great with your controller
View controller settingsA screenshot of a Steam options screen - this one shows an icon of a PlayStation DualShock controller and the text:
Current Button Layout
Official Layout for ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN - ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN Official Settings
View Layout / Edit LayoutA screenshot of a Steam options screen - this one lists Buttons, Face Buttons Behaviour, and icons of the various buttons with their assigned identity beside them.A screenshot of a Steam options screen (actually two edited together for ease). On the left is the options for the R1 button, with the top entry on the menu being Regular Press. To the right is the resulting screen: Regular Press Settings. There is a toggle for Hold to Repeat (Turbo) enabled, with the standard 100 Repeat Rate.
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2025-06-22

Real Nightreign discourse is arguing about who would be the most considerate lover

A screenshot showing most of the Elden Ring Nightreign Nightfarer lineup: Executor, Raider, Ironeye, Wylder, and Guardian
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2025-06-22

(Also: Goose is adorable)

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