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Ruth Cassidy

Ruth Cassidy

Sometimes Writing That Is Respectful Is Worse

Spoilers for everything in The Haunting of Bly Manor, including major reveals and lengthy discussion of its final episode.

Oct 12, 2020

Sometimes Writing That Is Respectful Is Worse

Oct 12, 2020

Ruth Cassidy

The Best Valentine’s Date For Monster F*ckers: A Ranking

Monster Prom gives us six monstrous love interests, and whether furry, floating or fanged, who would make the best Valentine’s Day date?

Feb 14, 2020

Screenshot from Monster Prom. All six love interests, and the caption: “It was clear: it had to be one of them… but who?”

Feb 14, 2020

Ruth Cassidy

A Decade Of Games In Personal Fingerprints

One game each, every year from 2010–2019, that meant something to me in the year it was released.

Dec 15, 2019

A screenshot from Life Is Strange. Chloe and Max, two teenage girls, sit pensively on the trunk of a car in a junkyard.

Dec 15, 2019

Ruth Cassidy

The Hinterlands Is The Best Part Of Dragon Age: Inquisition

I played it for 300 hours. I know these things.

Dec 4, 2019

The Hinterlands Is The Best Part Of Dragon Age: Inquisition

Dec 4, 2019

Ruth Cassidy

‘Turn Down the Explosions, Turn up the Rain Noises’, and Other Settings Made Just for Me, Actually

A surprisingly food-oriented collection of video game settings that just plain delight me.

Oct 30, 2019

‘Turn Down the Explosions, Turn up the Rain Noises’, and Other Settings Made Just for Me, Actually

Oct 30, 2019

Ruth Cassidy

Unavowed Creates the Space for Its Difficult Choices to Work

Presenting consistently difficult choices without inviting player apathy or despair is a difficult balance, and one Unavowed pulls off.

Aug 25, 2019

The poster image for the game Unavowed. A line up of four people with magic and weapons in front of a New York skyline.

Aug 25, 2019

Ruth Cassidy

I love Sunless Skies’s gender defying character creator.

RPG Sunless Skies doesn’t define narrow spaces for people to exist in, and as a butch lesbian, I am grateful.

Jun 20, 2019

I love Sunless Skies’s gender defying character creator.

Jun 20, 2019

Ruth Cassidy

Ruth Cassidy

Looser, bloggier writing from a self-described velcro cyborg. Find my full portfolio of games and culure writing at muckrack.com/velcrocyborg.

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