Mata Haggis-Burridge
Writer of video games, horror, and more. Professor of video games, bi/pan, they/he, visibility still matters.
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View full threadAnd that I need to delete some stuff to free up space
- It's 2026 and we all need to defrag. #selfcare
- I know I usually post about video games, horror, and/or writing, but... You should all watch the new The Muppet Show on Disney+. It's fricking delightful and I want them to make more. Go watch it.
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- Further proof I need a memory upgrade.
- It'll blow your mind faster than 5MB of hot RAM 😁
- I know this isn't much, but something occurred to me this week that's really helping me: Throughout history, fascism always falls. It might take years, but it always fails. It's not how people want to live. There are reckonings and rebuilding. These times are dark, but light will come.
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- Not so soothing if you're a clam.
- Daily bunny no.3212 lets it slide
- I see the bunny is not keen on ice, something many can relate to.
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- I hope you are right.
- Plea to video game researchers: stop writing "video games are more than merely entertainment". Bringing happiness and culture to billions of players is amazing. Alternative phrasing: "Video games are a unique form of entertainment and drive cross-sector technical and cultural innovation."
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- I mean... He got a majority last election and that's literally millions of people doing exactly what you just said...
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- I searched for the author names plus 'beaver' 😁
- If you were going to be teleported there and back, and could only enter one place, I’d suggest Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate Street, a Spitalfields row house refurbished to look and feel as if its 18th/19th century residents have only just stepped out for a moment. Extraordinarily experience.
- I was thinking of the same thing. Brilliant, weird little place. I went at Christmas time, so saw the seasonal variation. Highly recommended! One note of warning - it has quite limited opening hours, so check ahead.
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- Intriguing title - I can imagine a few types of content.
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- Cheaper, less grumpy, and don't make me itch too!
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- I've got a bunch of different editions... But that is very pretty indeed... 😅
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- They also work as inspiration for short stories: matahaggisburridge.substack.com/p/why-did-yo...
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- The gift we all truly want.
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- Sausages come in links, and that looks like a a retail chain, so this all tracks. Except... "Shoppe"? Is this trying to be a medieval hot dog chain?
- Fancy a peculiar 1000 word comedy horror to start your week? substack.com/home/post/p-...
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- That was my first, too! I still have it, now signed 💜
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- Fragments of a hologram Rose Kolodny?
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- Hey #HorrorWritersChat , happy new year! Join me as I post a new micro-fiction horror every week through 2026 on my newsletter: matahaggisburridge.substack.com
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- Happy new year, Hookland. Your creativity inspires me. Thank you. Picking up bits, I gather you've got a rough time going on (health thing, maybe?). Wishing you the very best into 2026 💜
- My resolution for 2025 was to polish the heck out of a novel and send it to agents - mission accomplished! On the agenda for next year: - get an agent, hopefully! - write something new (novel probably, maybe a film?) - keep writing weekly micro-fiction horror stories on my Substack. Happy 2026!
- Want to read along as I try to write something spooky every week through 2026? Join my newsletter! matahaggisburridge.substack.com
- The top 500 wealthiest people made enough money in 2025 to lift nearly half the world out of poverty. Immigrants aren't causing the world's economic problems. Source: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
- Outer Wilds is one of the most frustrating games in existence, because the incredible power of the story is entirely about the experience of unravelling it and reaching the ending yourself. It's a wonderful ending that you then can't talk about without spoiling it for someone else. Aargh!
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- I know! 😅
- With the Academy's allergy to horror, especially anything as 'simple' as vampires, and history of not giving awards to black creators, I can see this happening... (The anti-inclusion policies in the US probably add their weight on the scale too.)
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- Film of the year, for me.
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- Another person still masking here. It makes public speaking harder on the throat, and there's a real pressure to 'just be normal' in the Dutch culture, but the lack of respiratory illness for five years has been great!
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- Also non-spoiler - a friend of mine hated the game, but didn't notice the (untutorialised) computer in the ship that tracks your discoveries across loops. You probably found it, but this was just in case you missed it!
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- You'll hit the sun eventually. We believe in you. (Love this game.)
- Finally started playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, with my spouse. When we got the camera, things slowed down significantly because it then became possible to take photos of the Vatican's cats - the discovery that these images are not saved somehow did little to help progress.
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- Ha, yep, same! Except I finished a YA horror novel before Christmas and I'll be working on my cover letter. Different genres, similar tasks!
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- Statistically, unfortunately that's seasonally appropriate.
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- I have a feeling the decorations didn't manage to remain on the shelf 😻
- I'm so excited to see how this turns out! I adored Rogue Trooper as a kid. Hunky, shirtless, kind (to good people), honorable, and with a blonde mohawk - he was my role model when I was a child!
- Least surprising outcome of the year.
- App idea: something that turns clickbait headlines into old fashioned informative headlines so I can decide if I actually want to read more before I click.
- Absolutely loved #PlayingGracieDarling on Netflix. Brilliant combination of spookiness, sleuthing, and repressed emotions in an Australian town. Great cast, atmosphere, and balance of scares without being formulaic Hollywood. Great work by everyone involved.
- Another fine thread from Tom's wanderings.
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- Late night mistypes happen. Glad you're fine 💜
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- Today I learned that probation officers in England and Wales were not already being given self-defence training.
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- They should try reading the previous books we didn't get published! 😅
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- No one escapes the chilling touch of autoincorrect.
- Fancy giving thanks to people doing good work? gofund.me/c269df31d
- Maybe the uncanny unease of Hookland's lore is only considered 'cosy' because of the very visceral and visible terror of our everyday climate crisis political omnishambles Jackpot lives. Compared that, Miss Goodwin's dread about the tin sprites requiring payment in bread or teeth appears wholesome.
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