In An Artist's Studio

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”   ― Tove Jansson, Fair Play _______________________________________ Reader | Runner | Writer | Gamer | Drawer | Podcast Listener | Tate Worker | London Dweller

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Writer | Elizabeth Lovatt

Elizabeth Lovatt is a writer of short stories and flash fiction currently living in London.

I don’t really post on Tumblr anymore but you can see more of my writing and zines over on my website :)

[elizabethlovatt]

there was a moka pot stand at the flea market we went to today

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Peach blossom, lotus flower, and ranunculus commish

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koi girl

[spiderways-a-vampire]

Funniest shit I've ever fucking seen

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collecting stars

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recent skies snapped in London and Paris

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Just some of my favs from Citizen Sleeper

[elizabethlovatt]

bloody love this game

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11.07.22 All-Purpose Sword 🌂

One of my fav games I’ve played this year. Playing as a bird on a mission

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Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - Intertwined (2020)

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This could be us

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Vlad Miroshnikov, ‘Old Trees’, 2019 Oil on Canvas, 110 x 110 cm

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Bruh

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[elizabethlovatt]

i made this hat

[probablyasocialecologist]

'Citizen Sleeper' Is a Game About Finding Home in a World That Hates You

Citizen Sleeper stands out as one of the best games of the year, with great writing that avoids easy outs.

Citizen Sleeper, a new narrative RPG developed by Jump Over The Age and published by Fellow Traveler, follows the journey of the Sleeper as they struggle to find a sense of self, community, and a way to survive on the harsh, but almost beautiful, space station known as the Eye. Sleepers are a copy of a person’s consciousness, sold into servitude to a corporation so the “original” person can live a happier life. It is a cruel, brutal practice.

Citizen Sleeper feels as much like a survival game as it does a visual novel. Everything on the Eye, a massive space station which experienced a semi-successful socialist revolution decades before your arrival there, has a cost, from the food you eat to keep your synthetic body fueled, to your room and board. It is a war of attrition against the weight of poverty and artificial scarcity. Above all, the most immediate existential precarity you face is your need for stabilizer.

Your synthetic body was born to exist under the thumb of a major corporation—its final fallback in the unlikely case of your escape is a brutal program of planned decay. The human mind, unfamiliar with a synthetic body, will naturally attempt to reject it in the same way it does a transplanted organ. The only way to prevent this process is to take stabilizer, which reminds your consciousness of its connection to this particular body. If you don’t take your stabilizer, your body will decay over time. As your condition drops, and you run out of food, you will receive fewer dice to start each day with, which means fewer opportunities to make the money you need to alleviate that failing condition. It is a brutal cycle.

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Citizen Sleeper is so so good please go play it

[elizabethlovatt]

I’m loving Citizen Sleeper and you can bet I’m feeding that kitty every day

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“I hope you feel seen. The movie is all about the power of the gaze. I mean, you look at the film, but the film is also looking at you. I hope you feel looked at by the film, and in the end I want you to leave the room thinking about yourself. …It’s cinema unveiling itself so that suddenly there is room for you, there is room for your own love stories, for your own souvenir — remembrance. I want you to leave the room full of this story, but also full of your story.” — Céline Sciamma