Politics
"History will judge the complicit"
"It takes time to persuade people to abandon their existing value systems. The process usually begins slowly, with small changes."
Joshua Meadows
(He/Him) Writer and video game developer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Politics
Sometimes, the bad guys win
History always feels like an abstract, distant thing; something that happened then, not something you're constantly in the stream of as it happens now — until you're in the middle of it.
Pop culture has power
Cultural victories are not political wins. But that doesn’t mean pop culture doesn’t have power. “It is important to be seen on film, especially for our children, our grandchildren [...] normalizing something like this is very important,” said Hinetu Dell, who plays Abuela Alma, on the Encanto Reo Māori
The Daily Things
Antipessimism
I imagine I'll have a lot more to say in the coming days, weeks, months, et cetera, as this fascist clusterfuck revs up into full, but the despondency is the objective.
Game Development
On being a hopeful creative when the world feels hopeless
When I first started writing my videogame, my headspace was in a fairly dark and negative place. As I have moved into a healthier mentality, I found myself challenged by working on a project created when things felt much bleaker.
The Daily Things
Mirum magnum
Back in the prehistoric era of the internet, I got small-time Internet Famous™ by maintaining an online diary as a teenager living in the southern United States. Now that I'm pulling back from using social media, I've decided to do it again.