Leigh Alexander (@leighalexander) · DIRTY

Leigh Alexander

@leighalexander

I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al Everything is narrative design devoted homo 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

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Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· 29d

big things happening

Screenshot of a post from a Cape Cod restaurant review Facebook group, in which the poster prepares to list the “biggest things that happened” at the 99 chain Restaurant in West Yarmouth. The voluminous happenings are, of course, errors and disappointments made to the meal

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 21

update: going to Halifax was worth it

it’s a photo of Hayden Anhedönia / Ethel Cain singing “Thoroughfare” at the Halifax Piece Hall. The singer is at the edge of the stage momentously close to the photographer

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 17

yes I will absolutely take the train from Brighton to Halifax this weekend. for Her

screenshot from the poster’s Instagram story, which itself shows two screenshots of Hayden anhedönia, known musically as Ethel Cain, showing off her nendoroid figures in a YouTube video where she discusses her interest in the legend of Zelda and Berserk. According to the Instagram screenshot the poster finds it “wild” to revere an artist who is “such a weeb”

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 11

the magic of Artificial Intelligence

yet another mundane screenshot of Google proposing a grammatically absurd correction to a salient sentence

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 9

Likely checks out

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 7

MOVIES

the poster and her girlfriend performing a squat and a kneel, respectfully, with prayer hands, in front of posters of “backrooms” and “insidious” at the derelict Odeon Brighton movie theater. Their sincere expressions celebrate the liminal experience of still seeing a movie in the theater

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 5

another

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Jun 5

gay

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· May 27

Mami Tomoe from the anime Madoka, framed by the teeth of a witch very close to her head

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· May 27

Screenshot from OP’s Facebook. on this day 10 years ago: “I started writing about games bc I wanted to prove the hobby wasn't actually a playground for violent boring weirdos. I quit because you can't prove that lol”

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· May 26

sometimes I just feel like telling the world what a babe my gf is on all levels

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· May 11

peonies are just astonishing flowers. so beautiful at every stage of their lives

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 29

PLEASE fuck off i am trying to work

screenshot of the AI prompts that Google Drive now offers to users when they start any new document

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 27

I HAVE to have sent you these ones already lol

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 27

couldn’t spell it tho.

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 27

I comprehended the deep magic but not Roman numerals

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 27

my early work as a 6 year-old went hard

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 21

A few of my latest matchbooks with exceptional vibes. many are restaurants from the 1970s

Five vintage matchbooks with unique graphic design and colored heads. they are from international 1970s restaurants named “le carousel”, “Singapore restaurants”, “the sign of the dove”, “la rose”, and “the duck joint.”

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 14

ten years ago today i got the pigeon rank emblem from mgs3 tattooed on my wrist

a wrist tattoo featuring the pigeon rank emblem from metal gear solid 2. it’s a simple line drawing of a bird with a border and a greenish tint.

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 12

I want her to just kill me. with the Scythe

photograph of Hayden Anhedönia performing as Ethel Cain at Coachella 2026. She is wearing a custom Dior distressed overalls set

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 9

this is the only year ive ever wished i could go. for Mother

artist Ethel Cain's Coachella billboard. Inspired by southern church warning signs it says "Go See Ethel Cain or the Devil Will Get You", featuring a red likeness of the artist in place of the devil wielding a scythe

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 9

love this book

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 8

I also am proud to own this 1983 photo of children interacting with a robot at an electronics store in the same part of Framingham. LOOK

photo of a black and white photo from 1982. two little children participate in a demo of a small robot that looks like a trash can with a robot arm.

The certificate on the back of the robot photo says it was taken by Joanne Rathe, of three and a half year old Andrew Dennison of Natick at the Lechmere electronics store in Framingham, Massachusetts

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Apr 8

here are some that have a strong sense of place

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Mar 22

instead it was

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Mar 22

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Mar 12

some of it is very spooky for those of us working in creative industries right now 👻

a screenshot from a script. It says "With each step you take, your feet grow heavier and heavier with dry clay. The horizon grows no closer, and slowly your mouth begins to turn to dust. Surrounded by mirages of your own failure and persecution, you slowly lose your way, then your gifts, then your mind. Not even the vultures care to see you fall, your footsteps swiftly disappearing behind you.

You are dead. Your score is zero."

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Mar 10

me

A fictional YouTube screenshot with the title “senator Bernie sanders explains the ending of neon genesis evangelion (full 8/12 hours). The senator appears to be on the senate floor, gesticulating at an image of the film.

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Mar 10

#WhataGameDevLooksLike

Leigh Alexander@leighalexander· Mar 7

you are made irrelevant

a screenshot from 2013 of a virtual pet game called 'kawaii pet megu'. the user's virtual pet, a frowning blue blob with a bulb tail, stands in an illustrated backyard with a dilapidated pet house, looking sad. above its head is the message 'everything is alright'. below it, its status window includes bleak updates like 'health: super fine' 'reliability: you are made irrelevant' 'hobby: tweeting' and 'stress: being bone lazy'. the overall onscreen status message reads screenshot feels particularly relevant to OP today