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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.

4 min readOct 12, 2020

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Sometimes Writing That Is Respectful Is Worse

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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?

4 min readFeb 14, 2020

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

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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.

7 min readDec 15, 2019

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

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Ruth Cassidy

The Hinterlands Is The Best Part Of Dragon Age: Inquisition

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

2 min readDec 4, 2019

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The Hinterlands Is The Best Part Of Dragon Age: Inquisition

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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.

5 min readOct 30, 2019

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

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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.

4 min readAug 25, 2019

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

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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.

4 min readJun 20, 2019

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I love Sunless Skies’s gender defying character creator.

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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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