6th October 2021|
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Cultist Simulator: Holometabolous Incipience

As you know, holometabolous metamorphosis is one of the most ghastly things in nature.

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1st October 2021|
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Why the Unterzee eats ships

The sea frightens me. I know I’m not alone in this.

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24th September 2021|
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Sept #2: SERAPEUM

The Lady Afterwards updates and BOOK OF HOURS’ music.

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10th September 2021|
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Sept #1: RHODES

A release date for The Lady Afterwards physical and digital editions and news on Enigma.

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3rd September 2021|
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The Church of Merch

Step into the church of the merch and take a pew with me.

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6th August 2021|
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The Forbidden City

While under communist dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s, dissenting Czechoslovaks arrived at demonstrations, stood in front of the police and beat each other up with vegetables. This was to save police the trouble of doing it with batons, though it also protested a violent authoritarian regime without doing enough to get arrested. All hail the subversive surrealism of European liberals!

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2nd August 2021|
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July #2: OSSUARY

Librarian resource control, our July newsletter and Skeleton Songs ep7.

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26th July 2021|
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‘The Rarer Action’

An update on the controversy of 2019, and an open letter to Failbetter Games.

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16th July 2021|
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July #1: NO PLACE

Content-heavy sprint and overflow.

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9th July 2021|
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Horse Face / Plate Face

Here is a game that will ruin your life.

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25th June 2021|
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The Confusion of Tongues

Linguistics quiz! Everyone loves a linguistics quiz.

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18th June 2021|
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June #1: LEUVEN

A meaty update on BOOK OF HOURS design and The Lady Afterwards development.

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11th June 2021|
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Trouble in the North

Philip II of Macedon invaded Greece, won a lot of fights and trembled lustily on the borders of Sparta. He sent the Spartans a threatening message asking if he should come as friend or foe. The ephors responded: ‘Neither.’

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3rd June 2021|
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‘Against Worldbuilding, And Other Provocations’: Bonus Material

Matt teaches Classics at St John’s, Oxford, where I’m delighted to say that he specialises in the study of ancient literary parody.

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29th May 2021|
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ANNOUNCING: THE LADY AFTERWARDS + AGAINST WORLDBUILDING

It’s Cultist Simulator’s anniversary weekend, so we have some big things to announce.

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21st May 2021|
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May #1: JOANINA

Book organisation!

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14th May 2021|
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Ceci n’est pas une game

I wrote the article below for Wireframe, a British game dev magazine which ‘lifts the lid on video games’. And, inexplicably, lets me have a monthly column.

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10th May 2021|
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Living with depression that isn’t yours

Loving someone with depression is a common experience. Talking about it isn’t. Here’s what I’ve learned from loving a depressive partner – it may sound familiar to you.

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