Leigh Alexander

@leighalexander

Award-winning writer & narrative designer (Reigns: Her Majesty/Game of Thrones, Love Island 2, others). Also extremely online post-truth futurist fiction.

Brighton, UK   
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Joined October 2008
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    Mar 26

    i wanna make interactive stories told across like 3 platforms for stoned women watching murders on their laptops while furiously thumbing their phones to check for emotional labor requests from work. that's my plan.

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    Mar 31

    a whole slew of kids who missed 2012-2014 tumblr

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    22 hours ago

    major societal problems of the 1990’s: - dogs hated mailmen, attacked buttcheeks - people were always yelling out the wrong name during sex (yikes!) - paperboy kept throwing paper nowhere near the damn porch - glasses always fogging up in presence of babes - waco massacre

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    Apr 1

    If you’re walking by a library that is open in the middle of the night, go into that library.

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  5. Apr 1

    i'm sorry to ruin everyone's d&d but i also hate horny theater bards

    Hey so what are some science fiction/fantasy tropes that you absolutely hate, not because the tropes are problematic or anything but just because you, personally, cannot stand them
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  6. Apr 1

    ‘belling the cat’ // ‘decorating the algorithm’

    Introducing Suggested poems for Gmail, a Chrome extension that replaces Gmail suggested replies with lines of poetic verse!
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  7. Apr 1

    ☝🏽✨😭🙏🏽

    (this project's second purpose is to absolutely wreck youtube's impression of your viewing habits, go wild and be free)
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  8. Apr 1

    this is gonna be my new favorite thing I can already tell

    hey i've got a new project~ ---------------> 📺 default filename tv 📺 is a youtube aggregator that serves only videos that never had their filenames edited out of the camera. they've got a VIBE. watch at
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  9. Apr 1

    'you are now letting recruiters know you are open to opportunities' joke's on u linkedin i'm not open to anything

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  10. Apr 1

    the biggest 'april fools own' i could come up with was like 'i updated my linkedin', bc i never use linkedin, but then i fucked it up by actually updating my linkedin.

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  11. Apr 1

    'here's an absurd story that isn't true, isn't that funny' 'no son, we do this everyday now' *gazes at horizon*

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  12. Apr 1

    no one wants april fools in a world where we're already gettin tricked everyday *nods sagely to myself, blows a smoke ring*

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    Mar 31

    Richard Hofmeier, designer of the unforgettably gut wrenching Cart Life (a game that earned him a cool $40 total) just came out with Typed Dreams, a Victorian typing game.

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  14. Mar 31

    it's validating to see this resonated with so many people. idk if we're still doing 'check out my soundcloud' jokes, today is trans day of visibility so why not donate to trans women of color collective

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    Mar 31

    That first film was amazing. AMAZING.

    I feel like The Matrix catches a lot of flack but folks forget how it played back then. It was blowing minds. I didn’t know a nerd who didn’t have Matrix code running across their computer screens as screen savers. And it was COOL AF.
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  16. Retweeted
    Mar 28

    Check out getting some clicks here.

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  17. Mar 30

    it's ok y'all i really suck at believing this too, i just said it because i needed to refill my Value Meter with favs

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  18. Mar 30

    look I know you are not going to believe this but your life has inherent value even when you are not being productive or especially good

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  19. Mar 30

    just caught myself struggling to recall ‘what’s her name from Friday who they always want to go away’

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    Mar 28

    So.. the baby emu has imprinted on Harry Potter audiobooks and thinks that is their parents. I listen to them too much, and had them on when checking eggs... Now if the baby hears me listening from anywhere in the house, it screams and has a fit until I bring the phone closer.

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  21. Mar 29

    having worked with kris, would def recommend you do the same!

    Reminder that I am about to wrap up my current writers' room contract and I am looking for any writing/editing gigs. I make games like this:
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