rae mariz

This is terrible but I love Matt’s bookstore work, everyone buy a book if you can

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

But I also don't believe in powering through (anymore). It's fine to leave things if you're not feeling it. Refill the well. Depending on a person's particular flavor of neurodivergence 😇, you can always come back to it. Good luck! It's is an uncomfortable state to be in, but growing is good!

So is there something still left in that "old" project that a viewer, player, reader would also need to experience to meet me where I feel like I am now? Or want to go next? Sometimes I can hack my brain into believing that the old idea is part of the shiny new one. Find motivation there.

just getting started in gamedev, but when that happens with other long-term art and narrative projects, I try to recognize how working on that project is probably what got me and my inspirations to grow and shift. For me, all creative projects are stepping stones to the next

I read this the first time around and it was one of those pieces that stuck with me and I thought about often. I did NOT know it was published in Unwinnable! But that makes sense. I’ve been impressed with so much writing in that publication. Read and support!

The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

On sale this week for @smashwords.bsky.social Read an Ebook Week. 50% off until March 7th. It's a fun one about never knowing whether your friends are looking out for you or just trying to sell you something. You'll like it, I promise 😇

www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

If you want a book about the raw raging pressure of being a teenager in a gamified surveillance state, friendship and anarchy, then go grab The Unidentified by @raemariz.bsky.social

Watch this page for an upcoming cover reveal: possibly the weirdest book we've ever published from a brand new Latino author. If you're a fan of Latine horror, dark fantasy, and indie novellas, don't miss it!

*Wife does a fairly complex section of Tomb Raider III set in a cave housing a T-rex nest without killing the T-rex who is supposed to be a boss*

Me: "It's cool that you can do that without killing the T-rex."

Her: "She is a mama! She has babies! I'm not killing her."

Games are cool sometimes.

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

Smashwords Read and Ebook Week promotional graphic featuring vector illustration of girl reading orange book. www.smashwords.com/sale

Heads up. The Unidentified will be 50% off for the @Smashwords Read an Ebook Week sale from March 1 – March 7. Starts tomorrow, friends.

#ebookweek26 #Smashwords

I know! The first time I saw them I thought what is this ABOMINATION?! This glitch in the Matrix? This animated overlay over a perfectly normal waterfowl scene?

Now I love those feet BECAUSE they inspire that reaction in me

two images of the American coot. One of the round black bird with white beak and HORRIFICALLY proportioned oversized bluish feet. Second image is close-up on weirdly webbed feet, three round, fleshy segments on each toe

WONDERFUL! but didn’t manage to capture the horror of the coot’s feet

Weird Fishes (2022)

believe it

bookshop.org/p/books/weir...

#SFF #kanakasky

a blenny emerges from a hole in the rock. it is a blue fish poking out its little tongue. above its eyes are little fin-fringes that look like extremely expressive eyebrows currently pointing straight up

there's not an animal called a 'Blenny' that looks like this, I refuse to believe it, that's something a sci-fi writer made up in the 50s

book design mockup for The Unidentified by Rae Mariz. The stack of books shows the white and bright pink front cover, back cover copy, and book spine. Cover image: Stark white background with a 3D rendered illustration of an “unimpressed face” emoji—two white spheres make the eyes and a straight rectangle mouth between—splattered with splotches of bright pink paint.

💅 MEAN GIRLS x READY PLAYER ONE 🎮

A group of outcast friends invent ways to disrupt the power structure at their game-designed, corporate-controlled, resurrected-ghost mall school, where all acts of rebellion are just spun into the next new ad campaign.

#WSPit #YA #P #SF #POC #ND

Mood photo with hyper-saturated colors of a grown man’s hand flying a toy space shuttle. Bright orange fuel tank against a blue and turquoise spangled background. Upside-down fire emojis blasting from the engine. Text: Elsewhere, Right Now. A novel by Rae Mariz. Thanks to Matheus Bertelli for making photo free to use with cc0 Creative Commons License.

THE MARTIAN x TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW

An anti-capitalist workplace comedy about two women who need to select teams to compete in a reality TV show for a one-way mission to Mars. A fandom of teen hacker girls defy the tech-bro showrunner to keep their faves on screen.

#WSPit #Q #A #POC #ND

Mood photo with hyper-saturated colors of a grown man’s hand flying a toy space shuttle. Bright orange fuel tank against a blue and turquoise spangled background. Upside-down fire emojis blasting from the engine. Text: Elsewhere, Right Now. A novel by Rae Mariz. Thanks to Matheus Bertelli for making photo free to use with cc0 Creative Commons License.

THE MARTIAN x TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW

An anti-capitalist workplace comedy about two women who need to select teams to compete in a reality TV show for a one-way mission to Mars. A fandom of teen hacker girls defy the tech-bro showrunner to keep their faves on screen.

#WSPit #Q #A #POC #ND

book design mockup for The Unidentified by Rae Mariz. The stack of books shows the white and bright pink front cover, back cover copy, and book spine. Cover image: Stark white background with a 3D rendered illustration of an “unimpressed face” emoji—two white spheres make the eyes and a straight rectangle mouth between—splattered with splotches of bright pink paint.

💅 MEAN GIRLS x READY PLAYER ONE 🎮

A group of outcast friends invent ways to disrupt the power structure at their game-designed, corporate-controlled, resurrected-ghost mall school, where all acts of rebellion are just spun into the next new ad campaign.

#WSPit #YA #P #SF #POC #ND

5 things I like and 5 oomfs to do the same! (No pressure)

gamedev 🎮
knitting 🧶
puzzles 🧩
making things weird 😳
Indigenous sovereignty 🕸️

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The Tangle The musicians tune their instruments to call in the cows. The usual sounds of morning in the city. Voices of violins clear their throats in endlessly sustained strokes over by the bakehouse. The funky...

!! Love this one, too!

I Write Games Not Tragedies - a narrative-rhythm game about British emo/goth subcultures from the early 2000s, with original music - has launched on itchio today.

(Support it on itchio)

just added “bad at godot” to my bio. My people!

And their audio production is amazing! The most talented voice actors!!

Not a problem! Word gets around! Thanks for featuring my story here and you’re right, khōréō is a wonderful publication. They published two pretty weird stories of mine that wouldn’t have found a home or guidance anywhere else. They’re something special!